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TexasA&M_ 1 j ^ The Battalion Vol. 82 No. 140 CISPS 045360 12 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 21,1987 Court denies Linnas’ plea to stay in U.S. Accused Nazi camp leader faces Soviet death sentence WASHINGTON (AP) — Karl Linnas, facing a Soviet death sen tence on charges of supervising Nazi concentration camp execu tions, was deported to the Soviet Union on Monday after the Su preme Court and the Justice De partment turned down his bids to remain in the United States. Linnas, 67, was taken from his New York jail cell by federal agents and put on a Czechoslova kian airliner to Prague, where he will board another flight for the Soviet Union on Tuesday, officials in New' York and Washington said. “What they’re doing right now is just a murder and kidnapping,” Linnas shouted to reporters as he was being hustled into the police station at John F. Kennedy Inter national Airport. Linnas was the last person to board Czechoslovakia Airlines Flight 601 at 6:20 p.m., New York officials said. He was escorted by five police officers. The plane left at 6:55 p.m. CDT, said Elizabeth Holtzman, the Brooklyn district attorney. As the plane was taking off. Su preme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected a bid from Anu Linnas, one of Linnas’ daughters, for a temporary stay blocking the deportation. A friend of the Linnas family, Rein Olvet, 43, of Queens, was in the boarding area because Linnas’ ' daughters had asked him to wit ness the departure. “It seems they wanted to punish him through any means possible,” Olvet said. “That’s wrong. I’m not saying he shouldn’t go on trial. “If he did what they say he did, he should be punished.” Standing on the steps of the Su preme Court building after the stay was rejected, Anu Linnas vowed to “prove to this country and the world that he is innocent.” “I’m going to try everything I can to save my father,” she said. She told reporters her father was being “wrongly deported to die.” 'Oil Aid' bash set to raise Texas' spirits MIDLAND (AP) — Texans knew how to whoop it up during thp oil boom and the bust hasn’t dampened their spirits — they’ve issued invitations nationwide for Oil Aid, billed as the state’s big gest bash ever. “There’s not enough money in the national debt that if it were turned into hard cash, it could offset the losses we’ve Suffered,” organizer Dennis Grubb said of the oil industry’s woes. “We’ve been sick of hearing it. We said enough is enough. Let’s have a party.” If Houston and Oklahoma City have been hurt badly by the oil slump, Midland and its sister city of Odessa, the heart of the oil- rich Permian Basin, have been devastated. The bash is aimed at the petroleum industry’s white- collar class, Grubb said. “Everybody talks about the poor oil field worker, the rough neck, but what about the geolog ists who are mowing lawns and sacking groceries?” said Grubb, who with five other partners had to shut down his drilling com pany more than a year ago for lack of business. Grubb, Tom Roberts and a dozen other Midland and Odessa oilmen decided to stage Oil Aid. Grubb said the event, scheduled for this weekend, is not for profit. A concert Saturday, featuring rock singer Roy Orbison, is open to the public. Tickets sell for $13.50 advance purchase and $16 at the door. Roberts said the ticket money should cover Orbi- son’s $12,500 fee plus the cost of two bands. “If my father isn’t shot immedi ately, the Soviets will stage one of the llashiest show trials the world has ever seen,” she said. She added that, “Hitler’s and Stalin’s ghosts are probably having a nice toast right now.” The deportation came hours af ter the full Supreme Court re jected Linnas’ bid for a delay while his lawyers hunted for another country that would accept him. The U.S. District Court and the LLS. Court of Appeals in Washing ton subsequently also declined to grant a stay. Linnas’ daughter, according to family attorney Larry Schilling, had hoped to make a personal ap peal to Attorney General Edwin Meese III for more time to find another country willing to accept Linnas. Meese, however, did not have time to meet with her, and he au thorized the deportation to pro ceed. Linnas has been held at the New York City jail since April 1986. A retired land surveyor from Greenlawn in Long Island, N.Y., Linnas has lived in the United States since 1951. He became a U.S. citizen in 1959. Immigration officials in 1979 charged that he entered the coun try under false pretenses. He was stripped of his U.S. cit izenship in 1982, and has been fighting deportation siqce. Linnas is accused of running a World War II concentration camp in the city of Tartu in Estonia, now part of the Soviet Union. Some 2,000 people were killed in the two years he ran the camp, 1941 and 1942. Linnas was tried in absentia in the Soviet Union in 1962, and was sentenced to death. Monday’s action by the Su preme Court was taken over the dissenting votes of Justices William J. Brennan, Harry A. Blackmun and Sandra Day O’Connor. m Lj- ■■ y-JL! Da Do Run Run Members of the Texas A&M men’s cross country team practice at the Frank G. Anderson Track and Field Complex behind Olsen Field. Al- Photo by Dean Saito though the spring track season has not yet ended, team members are preparing for next fall’s cross country season. Court rules in state's favor in beachfront case GALVESTON (AP) — The Su preme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a couple seeking com pensation from the state for prop erty they lost during Hurricane Al icia. In making its ruling, the court al lowed the state of Texas to convert private beachfront property into a public beach after the storm caused erosion and shifted the natural line of vegetation. Last May, a Texas appeals court ruled that the common law allows state officials to grant public access to property owned by Robert and Anne Morgan Matcha. The Matchas had a frame house on a plot of beachfront land on Gal veston Island’s Sea Isle subdivision that was heavily damaged by Hurri cane Alicia on Aug. 18, 1983. The natural line of vegetation on the beach before the storm had been between the home and the Gulf of Mexico. But after the storm, the re mains of the house were located be tween the sea and the vegetation line because the storm caused a shift in the natural vegetation line. When the Matchas began to have soil hauled in and to rebuild the house, state officials got a court or der banning the repair work. The state attorney general’s office said that the public had a right to the beach area where the house had stood because of the shifting vegeta tion line. Whatever right the Matchas had to the property is subordinate to the public’s right to the beach, the state said. “It is gratifying to know that fu ture generations will be able to enjoy the beaches,” Texas Attorney Gen eral Jim Mattox said Monday. “The concept of a rolling easement will prevent development from taking over our beaches when Mother Na ture pushes back the line of vegeta tion.” Texas courts said the Matchas must remove the beach house, sand piles, plantings and any other ob structions to the public’s use of the beach. Expert: Tariffs won’t hurt U.S.-Japan relationship OISO, Japan (AP) — New U.S. tariffs on some Japanese products should not affect the overall relationship between the two allies, American trade representative Clayton Yeut- ter said Monday. He said imposition of the duties last Satur day was not a protectionist act and the U.S. trade deficit will not be eliminated by solving individual issues, but he urged Japan to in crease imports and drop quotas on foreign goods “as a matter of principle.” Yeutter said the new tariffs imposed by the Reagan administration represent “a relatively small blip . . . on the screen of economic relationships between the two countries” and should not be permitted “to cloud the much more important economic and political relationship.” He spoke at a privately organized meeting of Japanese and U.S. government and busi ness leaders at Oiso, a seaside city southwest of Tokyo. Earlier Monday, Yeutter told Foreign Min ister Tadashi Kuranari that Japan’s stimula tion of its domestic market has been “insuffi cient” and declared: “Frankly speaking, we need action rather than debate.” The United States wants Japan to stimulate its domestic economy so the market for both foreign and Japanese products will expand. At a meeting with Agriculture Minister Mutsuki Kato, Yeutter and Agriculture Sec retary Richard Lyng asked Japan to import rice and end quotas on beef and citrus prod ucts. Yeutter arrived Sunday, a day after the United States imposed tariffs worth $300 mil lion on selected Japanese goods in retaliation for Japan’s alleged violation of a 7-month-old agreement on trade in semiconductors. Washington accused Japan of selling com puter chips at unfairly low prices in third- world countries and of failing to open its semiconductor market sufficiently to Ameri can products. Japan denied the charges and has asked the United States for consultations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. “The action that was taken on semiconduc tors last week is not protectionism,” Yeutter said. A&M enrollment to reach 38,500 in Fall 1987 Education, liberal arts, business colleges to be hardest hit by increase By Olivier Uyttebrouck Senior Staff Writer After five years in the doldrums, enrollment at Texas A&M is ex pected to swell to 38,500 students in Fall 1987 — 2,000 more than this year — and this strong growth rate is expected to continue well into the 1990s, A&M officials say. In fact, A&M will be home to 45,000 students by fall 1991 if the es timates of the Office of Planning and Instituional Research hold true, says Director Glenn Dowling. To what does A&M owe this new round of rapid growth? The ghost of the World War II baby boom is upon us, Dowling says. Over the next four years, the number of high- school graduates produced by Texas schools is expected to swell by 20 percent and historically, about 4 per cent of them come to A&M, he says. The number of new freshmen and transfer students A&M has al ready accepted for Fall 1987 is up 30 percent over last year’s figure uni versity-wide. Certain colleges — no tably liberal arts, education and busi ness administration — will be hard hit by the sudden onslaught of new students. Nearly 10,000 freshmen have been accepted into A&M for Fall 1987, but typically only about 70 percent of those accepted in fact turn up for classes in the fall, Dowl ing says. “It’s going to stress our resources quite a bit,” he says. Charles M. Stoup, senior aca demic business administrator to the dean of liberal arts, puts it in more urgent terms. “Across the colleges we have to add 20 faculty in a hurry,” he says. “We don’t know if we’ll be doing this, if we do it at all, until late July or early August,” he says. The big point of doubt, Stoup says, is the Texas Legislature. Al though the Senate recently passed a budget bill according A&M a sub stantial budget increase, Gov. Clem ents has vowed to veto the bill. Since it is uncertain when the budget will finally be approved and how much A&M will receive, it’s impossible for A&M administrators to prepare for the expected leaps in Fall enroll ment. The biggest stress points will be freshman composition and modern languages, Stoup says. The English department is contemplating as many as 100 new sections of English composition, requiring between 12 and 15 new instructors and about 7 Student Acceptances for Fall 1986, Fall 1987 CO CD 2500 - O d CO 2000 - a. CD o o < 1500 - o CD sa 1000 - E =: Z 500 - □ 1986 ra 1987 I Business Admin Education Colleges Liberal Arts new modern language professors will probably be needed for the fall semester, he says. Administrators are considering several scheduling tricks to help deal with higher enrollments, Stoup says. Adding one or two additional stu dents to existing sections is one. And to deal with the limited classroom space, early morning, late afternoon and evening classes can be added, he says. Among the Colleges, the clear winner in enrollment growth is the College of Education. The number of freshmen and transfer students accepted into the college for Fall 1987 is 102 percent larger than a year ago. But for the College of Education, the problem goes far beyond simply finding enough classrooms and lec turing professors. Education majors must fulfill student teaching require ments, and college administrators are having to reach farther and far ther afield to find classrooms for their student teachers. “It’s reached the crisis point,” says Dean C. Corrigan, dean of the Col lege of Education. The Bryan and College Station school systems have long since been saturated with A&M‘ student teachers who are now being placed as far away as Houston and the Woodlands, Corrigan says. The number of student teachers grew by more than a third between Spring 1986 and Spring 1987 — from 213 to 317, Corrigan says. Ed ucation departments in most Texas universities have declined in recent years. A&M now produces more tea chers than any other school in the state and also trains more math and science teachers than any university in the country, he says. “The further out you send stu dent teachers, the more expensive it becomes,” he says, explaining that A&M must employ faculty at every student teaching site. “I’ve had to ask for additional part-time help but you can only rely in part-time people so long before the quality of your program starts to decline.”'