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Ip ram m discusses issues
at annual B-CS banquet
Senator stresses
great importance
of budgeting
By Lee Schexnaider
Staff Writer
he United States should con-
iVe tirnue the quest for a balanced budget
: aid move to push back the borders
' r of communism, Republican Sen.
Phil Gramm said Friday at the an
nual Bryan-College Station Cham
ber of Commerce Banquet.
IttHThe Texas senator said that Presi-
, dent Reagan’s time in office has
THen a success economically, but that
k there is work yet to be done.
■“I think we need a vision beyond
mt the Reagan vision,” Gramm said.
^fe need a new agenda as to where
. we are going to go in America.
,eK Cleaily part of the new vision for
America is completing the old vision
. . . balancing the federal budget.”
■ Gramm said the Gramm-Rud-
K ^man-Hollings Act is helping to bal
ance the budget, but he criticized
some of the actions taken to meet the
law’s specifications.
H“I quite frankly didn’t think a
whole lot of the agreement that was
worked out to meet the Gramm-
Rudman targets this year,” he said.
“I thought with the instability of the
Itock market and the ecomony that
k could have — and should have —
done a lot better.”
B Constraints that would have cut
across the board forced
spending
| Congress
ngress to act, Gramm said.
■ “It was not a very happy marriage
between the president and the Con-
Wess,” he said. “It was not a mar-
Inage of love or convenience that
brought everybody together at the
altar to work out this deal. But it was
Pmarriage of necessity. And while I
think we could have and should have
done a lot better, we did a lot better
| than we have done in the past.”
9 Gramm also supports a change in
the relationship between the United
Phil Gramm speaks.
States and the Soviet Union.
“You can always take the position
that maybe we ought not to be mak
ing agreements with the Soviet
Union, and I think one could make
that case,” he said.
But Gramm praised the interme
diate-range nuclear forces treaty
signed last month by Reagan and So
viet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, call
ing it the best agreement we have
made in the post-World War II pe
riod. To take effect, the arms reduc
tion treaty must be approved by two-
thirds of the U.S. Senate.
Gramm said the people of the
United States should not be content
with simply making sure none of the
free world has fallen to the commu
nists.
Instead, he said, the nation should
strive to spread democracy.
Photo by David Elmer
“Our goal is not an unstable stale
mate,” Gramm said. “The whole
world belongs to us. We need to
have a goal to roll back the borders
of communism and extend the Iron-
tiers of freedom.
“There can’t truly be peace on this
earth until all the world is free, in
cluding the people of the Soviet
Union, and that’s got to be our goal.”
Gramm said the United States has
been able to negotiate with the So
viet Union because of its strength.
He said the United States has rebuilt
its conventional and strategic forces
and is stronger today than it was in
1980 when Reagan took office.
“We’ve brought the Russians to
the bargaining table not because we
were weak or because we made con
cessions, • but because we were
strong,” he said.
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Soldier arrested
after disturbance
at Dixie Chicken
By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
College Station police arrested
a 19-year-old U.S. soldier Satur
day night in front of a Northgate
bar auer he attempted to flee
from an officer and attacked two
employees, a police report said.
Nearby crowds outside busy
Northgate establishments saw the
5-foot-8-inch, 180-pound man —
identified by the police as
Thomas Gifford of Arkansas —
dart away from Police Sgt.
Johnny Campbell while Campbell
and employees of the Dixie
Chicken tried to obtain identifica
tion from Gifford and two men
who were with him.
Employees of the bar had
called the police to pick up the
three men after they entered the
club and appeared to be intoxi
cated, said Don Ganter, owner of
the Dixie Chicken.
The police report said bar em
ployees chased Gifford, who is
enlisted in the Army, and caught
him. The report said that as they
escorted him back to the police
car, Gifford attacked them. Gif
ford, who was shouting obsceni
ties at Campbell and the crowd of
onlookers, had to be restrained
by the officer and the employees
to be handcuffed, the report said.
It said that when Campbell
tried to place Gifford into the
back seat of a police car, Gifford
put his legs through a space be
tween the front seats of the car
and kicked the police radio and
gear lever.
Ganter, who witnessed the
events unfolding in front of his
nightclub and restaurant, said
Gifford “went berserk and was
tearing up the police car.”
“He resisted the police officer
in a horrible fashion and created
a scene,” Ganter said.
According to the police report,
Campbell suffered some pulled
muscles in his left ribcage while
trying to restrain Gifford.
Campbell eventually was able
to subdue Gifford by calmly talk
ing to him, the report said.
Gifford was charged with pub
lic intoxication, resisting arrest
and criminal mischief with dam
ages under $20, a misdemeanor
offense. Bail was set at $812.50.
As of 7 p.m. Sunday, Gifford still
was being held at the Brazos
County Jail.
$850 of property
taken from homes
in CS burglaries
Both an A&M student and an
A&M assistant professor Friday
night were victims of burglaries in
which property valued near $850
was taken.
The two College Station homes in
the 200 block of Richards Street
were entered between 7 p.m. and
11:15 p.m. Friday and an estimated
$850 in property was stolen, accord
ing to police records.
A .22-caliber rifle and two tele
vision sets were taken from one
home. One television set valued at
$450 was taken from the other home
during the burglaries, the records
show.
Both the professor and the stu
dent were in town at the time of the
burglaries. However, neither of the
victims were at home at the time of
the crimes.
Habitation burglary tends to rise
in College Station during the
Christmas holidays because most
A&M students leave their residences
to go home, said Lieutenant Todd of
the College Station Police Depart
ment.
“When lots of people leave their
homes, the burglars come out,”
Todd said.
Todd also said that this situation
makes it harder for the police to find
any suspects because the crimes are
usually not discovered until the stu
dent returns.
Contenders vary in religious beliefs
NEW YORK (AP) — The con
tenders for the 1988 presidential
nominations reflect a melange of re
ligious adherence, including three in
religiously mixed marriages.
All the major candidates are
Christians, but one has a Jewish wife,
and two who are Protestants have
Roman Catholic wives.
In denominational affiliation,
four candidates are Baptists, two Ro
man Catholics, two Episcopalians,
two Presbyterians, and one each
Methodist, Lutheran and Greek Or
thodox.
The presidential race “is likely to
be the fourth one in a row in which
religion and church-state relations
play an important role,” Albert J.
Menendez, associate editor of
Church & State, writes.
Menendez, of Washington, D.C.,
compiled the candidates’ religious
profiles for the monthly published
by Americans United for Separation
of Church and State.
The seven Democrats include
three Baptists, a Roman Catholic,
Greek Orthodox, Lutheran and
Presbyterian. Of six Republicans,
two are Episcopalians and the re
mainder a Catholic, Baptist, Meth
odist and Presbyterian.
Most of the Democrats have indi
cated opposition to tax aid for
church and private schools and to
constitutional amendents to restrict
abortion and allow organized prayer
in public schools. Most of the Repub
licans have supported such steps.
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