Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1987)
, if* L; ‘ • •- -1 ' * Monday, February 9» 1967/The World and Nation F * Memo says U.S. sought arms deal with radicals Qlftel «• , »orCori * •rmH 16 LUNCH FA1 11 Under The Ave. South 696-0376 WASHINGTON (AP) — An I* eft official told Vice President eorge Bush last July that deah tot e sale of VS. arms were being atght with Iranian radicals, a secret says, contradicting claims by Reagan that the ad mm is eah onlv with so-called “We radical i r first tng with the most . . .* the Israeli told ted in Sunday’s edi- ■ Repot tr tions of the Washington host “They can deliver . . ; that’s for sure. . . . We’ve learned they can deliver and the moderates can’t.” The memo, written by a Bush aide, said Israeli contacts with Iran were aimed in part at freeing Amen- caas held in Leoanon And it shows a more active Israeli role than Jerusa lem has acknowledged in the U.S.* Stephen Hart, a spokesman for Bush, would not comment on the memo beyond saying it is authentic * In other news related to the sale of U S arms to Israel and the diver sion of the proceeds to the Nicara guan Contra rebels • William Catey. the former di rector of the CIA. was closely in volved with Lt. Col. Oliver North the fired National Security Council adviser, in efforts to supply military help to the Contras while such assis tance was harmed by Congress, according to a report in Sunday's Miami Herald. • North met several tunes with a wealthy Connecticut woman who bankrolled at least part of a pro- Contra lobbying drive, the woman. Barbara Newington of Greenwich. Conn., said. The meetings suggest a dose link between North and the ef forts of Newington's friend. Carl "Spsu” Channel, to put together a costly public relations Mtu Channel, through a network of conservative groups he controls, fi nanced «pr,*kjfiK trips by Nicara guan rebels and a television ad cam paign of at least $1 million that targeted congressional opponents of President Reagan’s plan to give $100 million in military and ocher aid to the Contras. The source of the fund ing has coir gressmnsl and fa den examining a repert m d (Mama.) Sun that North profils from Iraaiaa arms mAas for the campattfn The secret vides details of a wfa^aijr 29 meeting be- , ~ lAr.’iar- ronsm advioor SO Shwnoo Peres, then the Israeli priass aunisser, hold at the Ring David Hose! in Jevuse- Marbn Fkxwater Bush’s af man at the time of the vise dent’s meeting wsth Ntr illi that *t«R- . __ moderates in Tehran. In his I the Union address Joss- 27, th dent for the first < ‘ a Unk between da and the America “Gdrtaaniy it was not widng So try to secure freedom for os in barbsnc capeavity." SMILE *29 CLEANING, EXAM * X-RAYS For Agpohdmsnt, Msg. $44 Loss QmB Otaooyf o OongM Inouranoo AooopSod o Emsrgoncy Walk Ins We* • Bvenfog Appo.nsfhonts AveHabta o Nitrous Q».oe AvailaOis • Complosa Family Oontoi Cara • On Bhuais Bus Rosas MEDICAL/DCNTAL C6MTCR 696-9578 o o s BWPstkwor ss-r 60-day truce terminated £ in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A 60-day truce with Communist rebels formally expired Sunday without hope of extension, and the government sasd it would step up military patrols while pursu ing peace talks on a regional level. A rebel umbrella group urged as members to **wage militant and unremitting struggles on all fronts. ” Some groups have said they opposed regional talks ' The head of the committee that monitored compliance with the cease-fire urged President Coraaon Aquino to intervene to prevent a civil war. The truce had paved the way for peacoMlks pi JaOMkFlU kuf'b* ns were suspended in- on Jin HO after the re bels accused the government of acting m bad faith The government responded by saying it would not agree to an extension of the cease fire unless the rebels agreed to resume “sub stantial negotiations to end the 1$ year insurrection The rebels said new talks would be fruitless because the new constitution, approved last week, imposed too many kmita- t ions on what is negotiable. In announcing the end of the truce, chief government negotia tor Teoftsta Gumgona blamed “a hardline posture of a few Com- Weinberger presses phased deployment for ‘Star Wars’ project WASHINGTON (AP) — Secre tary of State George P Shuks said Sunday a decision on early deploy ment of “Star Wars” would not come soon, although his remarks were as Defense Secretary Caspar repaated his po lo deplay k. I be mad r W W for phased Weinberger continued to press based deployment of the anti- r shield as quickly as possible Shultz, speaking on ABC-TV’s “This Week with Dav.d Brinkley.” said the sophisticated defense system should not be started ‘until vou are dear and confident about what ' — where you’re going.” you “So that’s where we stand,” Shultz sasd. “And so there isn’t any early deployment decision in the ofting." Shultz said President Reagan’s sition on early deployment “k’s net possmie so asahe u—j ■■m decision this year or next year ” Shultz said he was echoing remarks made by Weinberger in a taped in terview with the British Broadcast - ingCorp However, Weinberger's com ments in the BBC interview ap- to refer to the actual phased rment of Scar Wars, not the decision on early deploy- pea red deploy n ■picinr “We don’t really know,” the de fense secretary said, when asked about a timetable “We know we can’t do k now. We know we can’t do k next year. But we also know that k takes a fair amount of time to plan want to dcplay k. I wants to just as soon aa we can.** Shultz defended a broad interpre tation of the 1972 And-BaBlatir Mis sile Treaty with the Soviet Union as necessary for forther Star Wars test ing, which is needed for deploy However. Senate Armed Services Ca.. reiterated his warning that a unilateral reinterpretation of the treaty by the Beqgan wotud jeo ^>a r d i ze Weiiroerfler, in the BBC intrr- United States is not yet ready to make a final decision Dur- he said the being able to ment **He told the BBC that, following the presidential decision, the first phase of Scar Wars, formally known as the Scrasagac Defense Initiative, could be deployed “somewhere in the 1993 1994 range ” Star Wars is an effort to develop lasers and other types of exotic weapons that r—nhf be deployed in space or on the ground to shoot down nuclear missiles fired at the 1 uited States or its allies CAPITOLIZE ON YOUR fW spring break ■* ' *■ , .i.i m Washington D.C for $350 includes transportation, lodging & some meals r’vA jt. » *J- / i March 14-18 first deposit S2lO by Feb. IO ■r. % M A ^ Call , njjr MSC Political Forum sds-isis 1 T '■■fir i •>#. Proposed cuts in education blamed on college dropouts ■ WASHINGTON (Al*) — Edt non Secretary Wilkam Bennett, de fending plans to make major budget cuts in higher education, claims that mBrgn ace unproductive because half of all college students drop out But educators call his criticisms misleading and inappfopriaf-. and there appear to be no stahmri that etttirefy support Bennett’s daim “We are concerned about produo tivky.” Bennett told a House Appro priations subcommittre last Wednes- “ Almost half the students who en ter four-year programs ... do not complete those four-year pro grams.” be said “We think that’s a A day earlier, after ma me point to the House the Bttfort he asked. “What kind of e is k we’re running that people to leave halfway through'" by the de partment's Office of Educational Re search and Improvement indicates that 50 percent to 60 percent of stu- . dents who started four-year pro. J grams in 1960 graduated at the end of four years, with others presu mably finishing their degrees later. A consultant hired to analyse the same data found that 42 percent of students who started two- and four- year programs in 1960 finished them in four years — compared with 51 percent in 1976. And 26 percent had drepped out in 1964, compared with 19 percent in 1976 Jay Noel, a program analyst in the department’s planning ana evalua tion service, said chose numbers show a “deterioration of coBege at tendance, graduation and comple tion” that concern Bennett. However. Noel did not have num bers just for the four-year programs Bennett mentioned to Congress. Noel also said Benm been thinking of anoti nal research office nudy — this showing that there were 1.9 first-time college e nr o Bees in 1960 and about halfthat ma degrees awarded four y The ratio backs up Bt PROHIBITION sF\ on February 21,1987 tuaMy the i “Fa told this cause k has h for 90 years. Nod sa Educators like so che another edu cational research office study, this one of 1972 high school who entered college and finished The November 1966 study found that 49 percent finished in four years and another 27 percent in five. The rest took six so 11.5 vents to t' ’ * Application deadline extended to February 14 U.S. ‘careless’ in keeping WASHINGTON (AF) — Despite a flurry of serial vents, the VS. _ about the nation’s most sensitive to a new oongres- im far more harsh than ■ report last yesw, found “a _ ■aeter" and caBrd for ma jor overhauls reaching deep into the to be proved, Ohio, tl * said Rep. Louis Stokes. D- * new chairman of the com “We hope the executive branch will dean up its act." U.S. Mandatory Meeting: p . y^r**** ">» * - 'TL,'* hk-a * • . * f- , - . -. ) * « - A/Ml • [Vi V.<* V 4 V |P ^^ < : ! - . ‘ „ 3ft .. *■ , ■ ■ Tuesday, Feb. 10 7:00pm Rm 701 Rudder " ^ ^ ’ . * • ^ . Mu* ^ ♦ * i jt'*** ■< ». *■„ » r * •■‘•sv ■?* . » sum Bar | Howard de- Among the panel’s findHMp • Carelessness in hiring for five intelligence posts F the CIA lured Edward spate “aa extensive history of using hard drugs.” Howard seriously dam aged the agency’s operations in Mon- cow 1>n giving secrets to the Soviets • Fauurr to tahr seriously the im plications of the arrests of 27 U-S. dftiaeus for spying from 19S4 to 1966. o A relaxation of strictures chat f* Top Of uni > CHTsiriiOA t few spies having i I Wednesday, Feb. 11 7:00pm Rm 601 Rudder •O I