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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.
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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
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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.”'