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und the answr ^ p ore j gn Minister Eduard A. Shultz said there was “some pro-
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College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 17, 1987
superpowers report
progress at meeting
Severe winds, rains
?n w :ause heavy flooding
^nkir>n University campus
By Elisa Hutchins
Staff 'Writer
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i—or the hea: Heavy ra i n s and high winds
dl is deads tk rdfesday night caused severe
en’s tennis. Hpig in buildings, damaged cars
’7, has won ! lever al parking lots and activated
and )11 mil » and intrusion alarms around
ian in tennish npus, including one for the presi-
also rlie be«< u’s house. Boh YV'iatt, director of
he men s ton- urity and traffic, said,
avc helped h:: Unofficial rainfall statistics at
i ^K-TV, Channel 3 in Bryan, es-
, who starttt! tated rainfall at the station at 1.76
pen strealin hes between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
S4, then went hwhul gusts around 40 knots,
is not won a G:: Six to 7 feet of water filled staff
He lost his N rking lot 57 next to the Zachry
in 1985. ilding at N. Bizzell Street and
says l^cndls ised a three-car pile up.
mn apart. r , . .
st more n !! ^ ne ° t ^ ie car owners involved,
McEnroe said or 8 ( Brown, an industrial engi-
11 in the quar^m,F^te student, said his
vholc life He ^ Chevrolet Impala floateu
id off the cour [ i ^ 1S, ,he Parking lot wall.
,c ertainty in Lr ^fe 1981 Volkswagon Rabbit re
ship status most °‘ n 16 damage, he said,
c r , f i y . n chinkJPP ec * U P next to mine and then
,.,;n JSOS Mercedes Benz floated on
> of the hood.”
Brown said no one was hurt and
■ft' and the Rabbit were water-
■ ■ ged and towed from the lot.
j I Mpl Two chemical engineering stu-
I ■ nts, Richard Hess and Naynesh
#ai, swept out water from the
ched to shorti: >und floor level of the Zachry
d he had pli Uding. Hess said there was no
mage to equipment and that the
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Most of the ground level rooms in
the Blocker Building were flooded.
Academic Computer Center man
ager Larry Bowles said, “Water came
in from the front doors. People were
cleared from the center around 8:15
p.m. because although only a small
amount of water was on the floor at
the center, there was a possibility of
electrical shock.”
Center student-worker Rick
Troth said there are 130 micro-com
puters valued at $1,500 each and a
main frame computer valued at
$300,000 in the center. None of the
computers was damaged by the
flooding.
Elsewhere in the building, a
seven-member crew began clean-up
at 10:30 p.m. in 14 classrooms that
received extensive water and mud.
Troth said water came in through
the front because the drain clogged
with leaves and water built up in the
low lying area.
Another student-worker said the
Tower levels of the building flooded
last year, but that this was much
worse.
Bowles said, “We had a lot of help
from workers who barricaded the
center doorways so water wouldn’t
damage the computers. They were
quick thinking and saved a lot of
equipment.”
Tony Lapaglia, area maintainance
foreman for the Physical Plant, said
they would be cleaning up the water
and mud all night so that the build
ing will be usable in the morning.
discussing all these questions more
constructively than previously.”
They met for nearly five hours
over the day, with talks ranging over
Afghanistan, the Middle East, the
Iran-Iraq war, human rights and
other issues.
“This is a step forward,” Shevard
nadze said in describing their talks
on nuclear weapons. He said he was
“looking with optimism” upon pros
pects for a summit meeting between
President Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
In Moscow, meanwhile, the offi
cial news agency Tass quoted Gorba
chev as saying that a treaty eliminat
ing medium-range nuclear missiles
could be worked out this year by the
superpowers, and an accord to cut
strategic weapons was possible early
next year.
Gorbachev said a treaty eliminat
ing U.S. and Soviet medium- and
shorter-range nuclear missiles is
“possible and realistic.”
“The Soviet Union is proceeding
from the premise that a relevant
treaty could be worked out before
the end of the current year,” he said.
Gorbachev made the upbeat
statement in an article released
shortly after midnight Wednesday as
Shultz and Shevardnadze met to
work out the details of an arms
treaty.
Cautiously, however, Shevard
nadze also told reporters “there are
some points we have to work on a
litde more” before a treaty to ban
U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range
missiles is nailed down.
“It is, for the time being, difficult
to speak about results,” he said. “We
are engaged in a very serious, pro
found, businesslike discussion of
very urgent issues.”
The talks are expected to wind up
sometime after noon today. Shultz
will then hold a news conference at
the State Department. Shevard
nadze scheduled a 4:30 p.m. session
at the Soviet embassy.
The State Department spokesman
declined to say if any of these goals
were met.
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Sign of the times
Freshmen cadets of Squadron 3 hang a spirit sign
outside Dorm 1 for the upcoming football game
between the Aggies and the Washington Huskies.
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
Brad Fuqua of Houston handles the top of the sign
while Jack Sile, left and David Scanlon, right, both
from San Antonio, check the bottom.
fork defends position on Watergate in hearings
tens that thenu WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court
in this casethflPff 66 R°bert H. Bork, parrying attacks
s to bemydadii integrity by Democratic senators,
“rests of the d# Wednesday he acted honorably and le-
hat this happen ^ * n 1973 when he fired special Water-
te prosecutor Archibald Cox.
In a dramatic retelling of what Bork
led “an enormous governmental crisis,”
n -J, said that as soon as Cox was dismissed, “I
L hi promptly act to safeguard the special
osecution. I understood from the begin-
iletic Conlerer l 8 tny moral and professional lives were
e would misst*t' line if something happened to the
■rival NewMet ^ prosecution force ”
ment released
Questions on what has become known as
the Saturday Night Massacre marked an in
terruption in attacks — soon to resume —
on Bork’s political and judicial ideology as
opponents sought additional grounds to
defeat his confirmation.
Until his nomination last July, Bork was
best known by the general public for his ac
tions the night of Oct. 20, 1973.
That Saturday night, Nixon ordered Cox
fired when the Harvard professor insisted
the president surrender White House tapes
to the special prosecutor’s office. In quick
succession, then-Attorney General Elliot
Richardson resigned, his top deputy, Wil
liam Ruckelshaus, was fired after refusing
to dismiss Cox, and Bork, the third-ranking
Justice Department official, carried out the
president’s order.
Bork, noting he has frequently explained
his role in the Cox firing before, revealed
Wednesday that he rejected a White House
request in the summer of 1973 to resign his
Justice Department post of solicitor general
to become Nixon’s chief defense lawyer.
He said he persuaded then-White House
Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig that “I
was not the right man for the job,” — and
that Nixon indicated he harbored no hard
feelings about the rejection.
Bork acknowledged, as some critics have
charged, that he did not “instantaneously”
move to replace Cox with a new special
prosecutor.
He said that initially he and others in the
Nixon administration thought Cox’s dep
uties could do the job of pursuing the Wa
tergate investigation.
“We realized the need to appoint a new
one because the American people would
not be mollified without one,” he said.
Responding to pointed questions from
Democratic Sens. Howard Metzenbaum of
Ohio, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachu
setts and Judicary Committee Chairman Jo
seph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, Bork denied
he ever weighed any actions that would
abort the Watergate investigation.
Bork said that White House officials
were taken aback by the resignations of the
top Justice Department officials and the
public outcry that followed.
State funds
of $21 million
recovered
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an unfortunate AUSTIN (AP) — State officials
ry sorry for ' announced Wednesday that all of
wrong, and I«$21 million in state money
3 get intoasiiC'-tat. was improperly deposited in
ansecured accounts in a British
iVest Indies bank has been recov-
sred.
Attorney General Jim Mattox
aid Texas American Bank of
fort Worth, trustee for the Texas
Housing Agency, had assumed
esponsibility for the final $2.8
million that was still unrecovered
ind had deposited that amount in
S 6 FvicC agency’s account.
; “We don’t want this to happen
Jgain,” Mattox told a news con-
ierence. “State money cannot be
risked and foreign business
jhould not be allowed to profit
Tom Texas taxpayers’ money.”
The wayward $21 million came
Torn bonds issued by the housing
regency for use in home loan pro-
Kpims. The agency had intended
^ :or the money to be invested in
riSfeltificates of deposit in various
Rollins, M. Jan Antonio financial institu-
oore,M.D.,F v ions
Instead, the money was depos
ed; with Equity Continental Bank
-tdi of Montserrat, British West
ndies. Not all the agency’s
oney was secured while it re
ed with Equity Continental,
ials said.
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LSG addresses laws affecting University
Legislative group lobbies for students
By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
With enrollment exceeding
39,000 this semester, the students of
Texas A&M make up a sizeable in
terest group in Texas.
Every student is affected by legis
lation that comes out of Austin, but
determining what laws are in stu
dents’ best interest can be difficult.
This is what the Legislative Study
Group at A&M attempts to do.
The LSG, comprised of student
volunteers, represents A&M stu
dents in the Texas Legislature by
identifying important student issues
and lobbying positions advocated by
A&M’s Student Senate.
During the last session, which
lasted from Jan. 1 to May 31, the
LSG got involved with the following
legislative issues, succeeding in five
of the six positions it supported:
• Student government Working
in cooperation with the Texas Stu
dent Lobby — the representative
group from the University of Texas
— the LSG lobbied for the defeat of
a bill that would have allowed college
students to vote every four years on
whether to abolish their student gov
ernment.
The bill, which died without a for
mal hearing in either the House or
Senate, would also have made cer
tain student service fees optional —
including, for example, the fee allo
cated for the production of a student
newspaper.
Carolyn Foster, administrative di
rector of the LSG, says the group’s
position against the bill was “in the
interest of student government,” as
well as “for self-preservation.”
• Tuition rates The LSG also
worked for the defeat of a bill that
would have taken the authority to
raise the tuition at Texas colleges
and universities away from the Leg
islature and put it in the hands of the
governing boards of the schools.
The final version of the bill signed
by the governor allowed the govern
ing boards to set graduate tuition
rates, but not undergraduate rates,
which remain at the discretion of the
Legislature.
Foster calls the compromise “a
major accomplishment.”
She says tne authority to set tu
ition should be in the hands of
elected officials, not with board
members who are mostly upper-class
and are sometimes out of touch with
students.
The LSG still believes the power
to set all tuition rates should not rest
with the governing boards, Mark
Browning, the group’s director, says.
The group is looking for ways to
get the graduate tuition authority re
turned to the Legislature, Browning
says.
• Hazing A bill backed by the
LSG, which later became law, spells
out exactly what is considered
hazing and stiffens penalties for
those participating in or failing to re
port a hazing incident.
According to the law, consent by
the person being hazed is not a de
fense in a hazing incident.
Foster says this law clears up un
certainty in the definition and treat
ment of hazing incidents.
• Student services funding The
LSG also lobbied successfully for the
removal of an amendment from a
bill that would have prohibited
funding from student service fees
for groups advocating the passage or
defeat of legislation.
Had this amendment not been re
moved, A&M and other higher edu
cation facilities in the state would not
be allowed an official student rep
resentative group in the Legislature.
•Student security deposits Testi
fying before the Senate Jurispru
dence Committee, the LSG at
tempted to have legislation passed
that would have required landlords
to keep security deposit funds in an
account separate from general oper
ating funds, preventing them from
being used to satisfy debts in the case
of bankruptcy.
This legislation was initiated by
the LSG after a 700-unit apartment
complex in Bryan-College Station
went bankrupt in 1984.
Some students living in the com
plex were forced to wait several
months for the return of their secu
rity deposits.
The bill was passed by the Senate
but died in the House.
The LSG originated and began
lobbying for issues it deemed rele-
vent to A&M students in 1979 and
officially became a part of Student
Government in 1982.
It receives about $300 a year from
student service fees, most of which is
used to cover office expenses,
Browning says.
The LSG also gets a stipend from
the Association of Former Students
of between $500 and $1,000 a year
to cover traveling expenses.
Foster says the objective of the
LSG is to be “a constant voice in Aus
tin relevent to students’ everyday liv
es.”
The LSG works closely with state
legislators and student groups from
other universities.
It also may testify before House
and Senate committees.
Although the LSG spends a good
deal of time lobbying for issues,
Browning says this is not the pri
mary work done by the group.
“Research is what it’s all about,”
he says.
Before any lobbying is done, the
issues are thoroughly researched
and sometimes ideas are solicited
from political science professors on
how best to present a position to the
Legislature, Browning says.
The members’ work can involve
talking with legislators, helping
groups from other universities with
presentations or giving testimony
before legislative committees, he
says.
The LSG must receive authoriza
tion from a state representative to
advocate a position before the Legis
lature, Browning says.
Usually the group looks to local
state legislators for support, he says.
The LSG currently has eight
members, but hopes to get about 15
more this semester, Foster says. Most
of the group’s past members were
political science majors.
This semester, the LSG expects to
look into income contingent loans
for students and a law that requires
education majors to work full-time
one semester as unsalaried student
teachers. The law doesn’t allow edu
cation majors enough time to take
other jobs to help pay school ex
penses, Browning says.