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College Station, Texas
Friday, October 30, 1987
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
bnt Reagan, making good on his
romise to pick another hardline
bnservative, nominated federal ap
pals court Judge Douglas H. Gins-
jirg to the Supreme Court on
lursday, risking a second confir-
lation battle in the Senate.
j Reagan praised Ginsburg as an
Ivocate or judicial restraint and a
iliever in law and order. He said
linsburg “will take a tough, clear-
'ed view” of the Constitution
rhile remaining sensitive to the
[fety of our citizens and to the
roblems facing law enforcement
rofessionals.”
If confirmed, Ginsburg would be
le of the youngest justices ever to
it on the court. He is 41. A former
arvard Law School professor and
:ad of the Justice Department anti-
ust division, he also would be the
irst Jew to sit on the high court since
e resignation of Abe Fortas in
169.
Seeking to head off the lengthy
[bate that led to Bork’s defeat, Rea-
pn said, “If these hearings take
lore than three weeks to get going,
the American people will know
what’s up.”
Ginsburg was reported to be the
choice of Attorney General Edwin
Meese III, while White House chief
of staff Howard H. Baker Jr. was
urging the appointment of federal
appeals court judge Anthony Ken
nedy of Sacramento, Calif., who
would have been a less controversial
choice.
On Monday, Baker sounded out
five key Republican senators about
13 or 14 potential nominees and,
according to Republican sources,
half of those named drew at least
some opposition — and Ginsburg
was among those whose name drew
objections.
Sources familiar with the struggle
said that the chances for Kennedy’s
nomination collapsed when Sen.
Jesse Helms, R-N.C., threatened to
filibuster a Kennedy nomination on
the grounds he was not conservative
enough.
Ginsburg and Kennedy, along
with federal appeals court judge
William W. Wilkins Jr., were sum
moned to the Justice Department on
Wednesday night for interviews with
Baker, Meese, William Bradford
Reynolds, an assistant attorney gen
eral, White House counsel A.B. Cul-
vahouse and deputy chief of staff
Kenneth Duberstein.
Reagan’s challenge to the Senate
to begin confirmation hearings
quickly was seen as an effort to cor
rect what White House officials say
privately was a tactical error in hand
ing the Bork nomination — allowing
opposition to develop in the weeks
between the nomination and Senate
hearings.
“It is up to all of us to see to it that
Senate consideration of Judge Gins-
burg’s nomination is fair and dispas
sionate, and above all, prompt,” Rea
gan said.
Ginsberg joined the Reagan ad
ministration in 1983 as a deputy as
sistant attorney general in the Justice
Department’s antitrust division, and
then moved over to the Office of
Management and Budget as admin
istrator for information and regula
tory affairs.
Ginsburg returned to the Justice
Department as assistant attorney
general for antitrust and held that
position.
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MOSCOW (AP) — The super-
wers agreed on a summit agenda
|d cleared the way for Soviet leader
jjkhail S. Gorbachev to meet Presi-
|nt Reagan in the United States
ler this year, a Soviet spokesman
id Thursday.
To date was announced, but one
icial said privately that the Soviets
proposing the two leaders meet
first week in December.'
.S. officials, also speaking on
dition of anonymity, said the
d meeting between Reagan and
rbachev could be arranged for
November or early December,
oreign Ministry spokesman Bo-
D. Pyadyshev told reporters the
iders would sign a treaty to scrap
;ermediate-range nuclear missiles
discuss cuts in long-range strate-
arsenals.
e said they also would discuss
its on developing the proposed
space-based missile defense
gram known as “star wars.” The
[viet-U.S. dispute over the system
prevented agreement on a summit
date during Secretary of State
George P. Shultz’s visit to Moscow
last week.
Foreign Minister Eduard A. She
vardnadze, carrying a letter from
the Soviet Communist Party general
secretary to Reagan, was to arrive in
Washington on today for further
talks. The Soviet official said the let
ter contains the proposal for a sum
mit date.
Shevardnadze was in Prague,
Czechoslovakia, Thursday to meet
with Warsaw Pact foreign ministers.
Pyadyshev said, “Presently, we
have an understanding that together
with the agreement on medium-
range and shorter-range missiles,
questions relative to strategic offen
sive weapons and the ABM (anti-bal
listic missile) treaty will be thor
oughly discussed at a summit
meeting.
“This is sufficient for a summit to
take place this year.”
He said a summit “is fixed for the
end of this year.”
In Washington, Reagan said the
date of the summit had not been set
and said the timing would have to
wait for the talks with Shevardnadze.
Pyadyshev denied there had been
any change in the Soviet position
since Friday, when Gorbachev re
fused to set a summit date. But he
said U.S. and Soviet officials accom
plished “good and constructive
work” after Shultz’s meetings last
week with the Soviet leadership in
Moscow.
During his meeting with Shultz,
Gorbachev said he was not yet satis
fied there had been sufficient pro
gress on the star wars dispute to war
rant another meeting with Reagan.
The president’s determination to
proceed with star wars, the proposed
shield against nuclear attack called
the Strategic Defense Initiative, and
Soviet opposition to the program
scuttled agreement at the Reykjavik
summit a year ago.
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Local churches complain
of vandalism of bar-goers
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By Jamie Russell
Reporter
In the United States, an ong-
loing debate is the relationship be-
Itween church and state, but on
INorthgate the ongoing debate is
Ibetween church and bar.
I Vandalism has caused concern
lover the operation of various
|drinking establishments located
■close to churches on Northgate.
j In January, an 8-foot brick col-
lumn and two sections of a fence
Iwere destroyed at the Wesley
■Foundation by one of Rocco’s
■customers.
| Northgate didn’t have conflicts
■with churches before Rocco’s
Ropened, says Richard Benning,
Howner of Duddley’s Draw. Roc-
Ico’s, formerly Rita Street, hadn’t
|properly addressed problems
vith church officials in the past,
ie says.
Employees from Duddley’s
)raw and the Dixie Chicken pick
ip trash and sweep the church
lots around the bars, he said, es
pecially after Thursday, Friday
md Saturday nights. They try to
lave the church grounds cleaned
for Sunday worship services, he
says.
Lack of communication also
tas been a source of conflict be
tween Rocco’s and churches, a
conflict Rocco’s new manage-
lent, which has owned it for
about a month, hopes to resolve.
“I want to have a working
relationship with the churches,”
says Eddie Henson, the restau
rant’s new owner. “Let’s cure the
problem before there is some
and of legislative action. We can
^ave taxpayers’ time and money.”
The biggest problem the
forth gate churches have with the
garea bars is vandalism, says the
Rev. Mel Brinkley, of A&M
Methodist Church.
“The whole problem stems
from lack of planning by the
city,” Brinkley says.
The law states that a bar’s front
door must be at least 300 feet
from the front door of a neigh
boring church. Although there
may be 200 feet between a bar
and a church, the distance be
tween front doors is 300 feet, so
all the Northgate bars are in com
pliance with the law.
Jim Calloway, director of plan
ning for College Station, says the
problem is a technical situation
“I want to have a working
relationship with the
churches. ”
— Eddie Henson, bar
owner
between the churches and the
bars. They both are attracted to
the same location because of the
high concentration of students,
Calloway says.
Ron Stone, Texas Alcoholic
Beverage Commission’s assistant
district supervisor for Bryan, says
there must be legal grounds for a
protest, and no laws have been
broken in this situation.
The only answer to the prob
lem, Brinkley says, is for the bars
and churches to promote a neigh
borly relationship.
But Rev. Leon Strieder, of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, says his
church’s argument is specifically
with Rocco’s. The clientele Roc
co’s attracts is different from the
“good ol’ boys” at the Dixie
Chicken and Duddley’s Draw,
Strieder says.
“They (crowd at Rocco’s) are
kids with an attitude problem,”
Strieder says, “yuppies who give a
flip about nothing . . . (and) drive
BMWs, Porsches and Mercedes.”
Although Strieder isn’t op
posed to the existence of bars or
people having a good time, he
says, he is opposed to the kind of
crowds certain bars attract.
Rocco’s has been in operation
for a little over a year. Both as
Rita Street and Rocco’s, Strieder
has had problems with its neigh
boring establishment.
Strieder says St. Mary’s didn’t
have vandalism problems before
the restaurant opened.
“We live on the church prem
ises, so it’s our home being sub
jected to ludicrous behavior,” he
said.
The vandalism includes de
struction of the volleyball poles,
loud talking, screaming and cus
sing at late hours, urinating on
the priest’s house, tearing up
shrubberies and littering.
“We’re an entity that exists —
the catch all,” Henson exclaimed.
“The churches have someone to
blame now. The clientele Father
Leon generalizes is the people he
preaches to on Sunday. Our cli
entele is his flock.”
Rocco’s has a good clientele,
Henson says. There is no trouble
and little damage inside the club,
and Henson would like to estab
lish a working relationship with
St. Mary’s.
“I’m willing to open negotia
tions with him (Father Leon),”
Henson said.
Henson said he is willing to fix
damages caused by vandals com
ing from Rocco’s. Henson said he
is willing to handle his end of the
responsibility and be a good
neighbor.
Mustang band officials angered
by WFAA reporter’s commentary
By Hal L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
A news story about the Southern
Methodist Unversity band playing at
the Texas A&M football game Satur
day, which originated at a Dallas
television station and was picked up
by local station KBTX has made the
rounds, and Mustang Band officials
are not happy about it.
The story started at WFAA
(Channel 8) in Dallas Wednesday
night, when WFAA reporter Jerry
Oher did a story previewing the
Mustang Band trip to Kyle Field.
Most of the complaints from the
band were about Oher’s closing
statement.
He ended the story with, “If you
think the Aggies are offering this in
vitation just put of kindness and sin
cerity, think again. It’s more out of
necessity. Because Louisiana Tech
isn’t bringing its band to the game
Saturday.”
Louis Dorfman, an administrative
assistant for the Mustang Band, con
tacted The Battalion by phone
Thursday to express his apologies
for the band about the incident.
Dorfman said, “What we did was
something real, real positive. What
Channel 8 did with it was a slap in
the face to A&M.”
Dorfman said the statement
downplayed the generosity ex
tended to the Mustang Band by
A&M officials, including Aggie
Band Director Col. Joe T. Haney
and Athletic Director and Head
Coach Jackie Sherrill.
Sherrill said the story did not dis
turb him very much, attributing the
story to the station trying to sensa
tionalize a story.
“I don’t have a problem (with the
story)”, Sherrill said. “They’re the
ones with the problem.”
Dorfman said,“Our hats are off. It
was a real class thing for A&M to do.
“It wasn’t necessary to invite the
SMU band. I know the Aggie Band
didn’t need to do it to share half
time. ... I don’t want to be coming
down to A&M having (the Aggies)
thinking we’re a bunch of ingrates.”
Jerry Oher, in a telephone inter
view, said he had received no com
ments on the story from the Mus
tang Band, and he said he did not
mean any slight against A&M’s gen
erosity.
“No malice,” Oher said, “I was just
bringing up a point.
“I just did the story. I know for a
fact one of the reasons the SMU
band was invited to play was because
Louisiana Tech wasn’t bringing their
band.”
He said he realized that the Aggie
Band was used to playing halftimes
alone but not during conference sea-
“(The Aggie Band doesn’t play
alone) when you play SMU, and this
was the SMU weekend,” Oher said.
“I don’t want to give the impres
sion that SMU was invited just to fill
a slot.”
Mustang band member Rich Ca-
wood was not pleased with the story,
however. He said he thought the
story was presented the way it was
because that’s the way Oher wanted
to do it from the first.
“They showed up wanting to do it
that way,” Cawood said. “The inter
views (that ran in the story) came af
ter rehearsal. He did the finish be
fore. ...
“It was awful nice of (A&M) to in
vite us. We’re going down there, and
we hope (the Aggies) win.”
Nicaragua refuses to talk
if U.S. Contra aid continues
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)
— Nicaragua will never talk di
rectly or indirectly with Contra
rebel leaders and will not declare
an amnesty as long as the U.S.-
backed insurgency continues, the
ruling Sandinista National Liber
ation Front said Thursday.
The Sandinista communique
appeared to eliminate hopes that
a Central American peace
agreement would be put into ef
fect by Nov. 5, a deadline reaf
firmed by five Central American
foreign ministers Wednesday af
ter a meeting in Costa Rica.
“As long as the platforms of ag
gression against Nicaragua con
tinues in neighboring countries,
as long as the counterrevolution
is not ordered to quit its war
against the legitimate govern
ment of Nicaragua, the Esquipu-
las agreements will not be ful
filled,” the Sandinistas said.
The peace pact is known as Es-
quipulas II, after a town in Guate
mala where the presidents met a
little over a year before signing
the agreement Aug. 7 in Guate
mala City.
The communique from the
front followed relay Wednesday
of a request from the Contras to
have Cardinal Miguel Obando y
Bravo arrange talks with the gov
ernment to end the 6-year-old
war.
Obando y Bravo, who heads
the National Reconciliation Com
mission formed under a Central
American peace plan and has
been one of the most vocal Sandi
nista critics, met Saturday in New
York with rebel leaders.