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Friday, February 23 1990
| had no inkling’
eagan affirms innocence
videotaped deposition
/VASHINGTON (AP) — Former Presi-
Ronald Reagan testified in a video-
- —.pH deposition released Thursday he
I »er “had any inkling” his aides were se-
| |tly arming the Nicaraguan Contras dur-
| ing a congressional ban on military aid.
d Ovenl f 11 testimon y f° r l R e upcoming trial of
° I ■' n P°' n d exter < the former president also
| Id he remained unconvinced there had
I len a diversion of Iran arms sale money to
■■■■|| the rebels — until prosecutors confronted
■n with the report of the Tower Commis
sion he appointed.
Reagan said he would have expected
lindexter, his former national security ad-
er, to inform him of any diversion of
funds to the Contras “unless maybe he
tught he was protecting me from some
thing.”
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Reagan’s testimony was taken in Los An
geles last week and made available in Wash
ington. The former president was jovial
and testy by turns during eight hours —
winking at Poindexter as he took the stand
and talking amiably with the judge but also
answering in abrupt fashion when Iran-
Contra prosecutor Dan Webb said he wasn’t
addressing a question.
He said at numerous points that he
couldn’t recall a date, a name, whether
someone had told him something or not.
Reagan said decisively that he agreed
with a letter Poindexter sent Congress say
ing the White House was complying with
the ban on help for the Contras — a letter
that forms part of the basis for one charge
Poindexter faces.
But he also said, when told by prosecu
tors, that he was learning from them for the
first time that former National Security Ad
viser Robert McFarlane, Poindexter’s pre
decessor, had pleaded guilty to misleading
Congress in the affair.
Reagan testified, “It was my impression”
that National Security Council aide Oliver
North’s assistance to the Contras was lim
ited to “communicating back and forth ...
on the need for the support of the Con
tras.”
“I guess that I had never ... had any ink
ling that we were guiding their strategy in
any way,” Reagan testified under question
ing by Webb.
Asked what he thought North was doing,
Reagan said that “you have to have people
that can be available to make contact with
the leaders of the Contras.”
Itudents flock to health center for vaccine
PC jBy KATHERINE COFFEY
^he Battalion Staff I
Ux>ut 100 students rushed to the A.P.
utel Health Center Thursday to receive
jimmunization shot in fear of being af-
Ited with measles. Most of these students
le informed by their professors that
|y might have been infected in class by a
Idem who contracted the disease this se
mester.
)ver 600 students who had classes with
I ol n Carroll, a sophomore accounting stu
nt who got the disease, were encouraged
[their professors, who were informed by
[health center, to get vaccine shots,
director of the Beutel Health Center
jr Kenneth Dirks said the students were
Imunized in an effort to stop the spread
of the contagious disease at A&M.
Junior Allison White, who has Theater
Arts 101-501 with Carroll, said she called
Friday to get a vaccine shot and the health
center was charging everyone $26. White
said she decided to get a shot because her
mother called her from Dallas and told her
to get a vaccine because cases of measles
were also present there. But by this week,
the health center decided not to charge
students who get immunized, she said.
Dr. Dirks sqid the health center asked
the Texas State Health Department if they
could provide free shots for primary con
tacts who had the same classes as Carroll
and also any of his friends or relatives.
People, who did not have direct contact
with Carroll but think they should get a
shot anyway, will have to pay the fee in or
der to pay for the extra vaccine immuniza
tion medicine, he said.
Everyone is receiving a MMR (measles,
mumps ahd rubella vaccine) combination
shot, he added.
“I encourage everyone who thinks they
have come into contact with someone with
measles to get immunized in order for the
disease not to spread,” he said.
Being the first person to be diagnosed at
A&M since 1971 as having measles, Dr.
Dirks said, Carroll is already well and was
discharged from the health center Thurs
day.
Carroll was out of the health center just
in time to celebrate his 20th birthday that
night.
Photo by Jay Janner
Christie Seay, a senior electrical engineering major from Houston, gets
blasted by a gust of wind outside Rudder Tower Thursday.
TASP test takers risk tardies
iy using Texas Ave. Saturday
| JULIETTE RIZZO
The Battalion Staff
Students taking the Texas Academic
ills Program (TASP) test 8 a.m. Saturday
Harrington Classroom Building may
d to leave a little earlier to ensure arriv
al the test on time.
(aren Stowe, test coordinator, said that
ause the Eighth Annual Texas Straight
t race will close Texas Avenue to
ough traffic at 7:45 a.m., students may
d to find an alternative route to campus,
tudents need to make sure they are on
eor they will not be admitted to the test,
idi starts promptly at 8 a.m., Stowe said.
Tie TASP test, required by state law
(House Bill 2182) as of Fall 1989, is admin-
red to all incoming freshmen and edu
cation majors (prior to student teaching) to
■ess students’ basic skills in reading, writ-
Rand mathematics.
Warn Kibbler, professional counselor for
the Academic Skills Program, said the pur-
|)se of the test is to ensure that students’
iknesses are identified prior to course
listration.
I'The purpose of the test is to make sure
students get any developmental work they
Tsd before entering into college course
Jrk,” she said. 'Tf students receive less
Bin the minimum score of 220 in a specific
pject area, by law they have to be placed
in developmental courses at the University.
“The test is a positive action toward stu
dent retention at universities and promot
ing student success,” she said.
Stowe said she only hopes that the 300
students registered to take the test Saturday
are able to get there on time.
Tony Scazzero, Straight Shot director,
said the race should not pose a problem un
less students plan to cross Texas Avenue af
ter 7:45 a.m.
Texas Avenue will be closed from East
29th Street in Bryan to FM 2818 until ap
proximately 9:35 a.m. Scazzero said inter
sections may open after runners pass
through them. The Corps of Cadets will as
sist in traffic control.
Scazzero suggests that students coming
from the south take Texas Avenue to FM
2818 and make a left continuing to Well
born Road, which leads to campus. He rec
ommends that students coming from the
east take Highway 6 to the University.
Roads will completely reopen at 9:35
a.m., leaving roads clear for students leav
ing the test in the afternoon, he said.
The test will be administered again on
April 28. Students may pick up registration
materials in the Measurement and Re
search Services Center located in 257 Biz-
zell Hall West or in the Academic Skills Pro
gram Office in 242 Blocker Building.
Communist regimes’ fall leaves extra funds
Governors dispute ‘peace dividend’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most governors say they expect the
fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe to produce a “peace
dividend,” and they want it used to reduce the federal budget defi
cit rather than designated for their own states’ needs.
“There’s no question there’s going to be a dividend if you’re us
ing that term in the sense that the defense budget will come down,”
said Republican Gov. William Clements of Texas, a former deputy
defense secretary.
• Clements discusses drug war/Page 4
Arguing that any such savings should go toward reducing the
deficit, Clements said, “The proliferation of our domestic pro
grams is a no-no as far as I’m concerned.”
Gov. Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, a Democrat, predicted the
savings from reduced military spending could total $100 billion
over the next three years.
“The thing that can help Louisiana the most is to lower the def
icit,” he said.
“Any peace dividend should go primarily to balancing the bud
get,” said Democratic Gov. George Sinner of North Dakota.
While there was widespread agreement with their view among
governors responding to an Associated Press survey, there were a
few dissenters.
“As billions are pared from the Pentagon budget, it’s time for
the federal government to return a substantial portion of that divi
dend to the states,” said Democratic Gov. Robert Casey of Pennsyl
vania.
Casey singled out mass transit as an area where federal funds
were needed. He said the budget proposed by President Bush in
cluded no money for the Philadelphia area transit system, which
was receiving $27.4 million this year.
The governor’s views on the possible peace dividend were solic
ited as the state officials prepared for their annual meeting open
ing this weekend in the nation’s capital.
The federal budget, education and drugs were the principal
items on the National Governor’s Association agenda. Bush will
meet with the governors Monday at the White House.
Nearly all the governors said they were confident there would
be budget savings as a result of the swift changes occurring in East
ern Europe, wherq communist regimes have toppled and the So
viet-led Warsaw Pact has lost its status as a military threat.
Bush has brushed aside suggestions that a substantial “peace
dividend” was in the offing.
“Many speak of the peace dividend. Few discuss the short-term
cost of peace,” he said in an address to the Commonwealth Club in
San Francisco earlier this month.
UT
I here’s no question there’s going to be a
dividend if you’re using that term in the sense that
the defense budget will come down.”
— William Clements,
governor of Texas
“There will be costs as we cross the bridge to a better future,”
he added.
In an introduction to Bush’s 1991 budget, Richard G. Darman,
director of the Office of Management and Budget, said people
were over-estimating the dividend. He portrayed members of Con
gress as devising spending plans that would total “about ten times
the over-estimated dividend.”
"orps hosts military weekend
A full military review will highlight
'exas A&M’s annual Military Weekend,
?hen members of the Corps of Cadets
lost representatives of military institu-
lons from around the nation.
Joining A&M cadets are 23 cadets
epresenting the Citadel, West Point,
iorth Georgia College, the Virginia Mil
ary Institute, the Air Force Academy,
he U.S. Merchant Marine Academy,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Norwich University and the
lew Mexico Military Institute.
The weekend will include meetings
nd soc ial events.
Activities began this morning with a
ound-table discussion on freshmen
dentation where cadets will review
cays the various institutions welcome
lew members. Other discussions are
chedtiled throughout the day.
The Corps will have a run at 5:30 p.m.
day, followed by a “Combat Basil’ to-
ight at Lakeview Club.
Saturday's events include a perfor-
ance by the Ross Volunteers, the
orps’ honor unit, and a 1:30 p.m. re-
ew on the Simpson Drill Field. A tnili-
ry banquet and ball conclude festivities
turday night.
A&M’s Corps Development Council, a
oup of former students and friends
at supports Corps activities and schol-
rships, will meet in conjunction with
"Htary Weekend activities.
Videos educate students about rape
By STACY E. ALLEN
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Department of Student
Affairs purchased three videos dealing with
rape and acquaintance rape to increase stu
dent awareness about the topics.
The videos, titled “Someone You Know,”
“Rape Prevention: Trust Your Instincts”
and “It Still Hurts” can be shown to student
groups that request a presentation.
Dub Oliver, a graduate assistant in stu
dent affairs, said the videos were purchased
because rape and date rape are issues con
cerning college students, and more stu
dents want to be educated about the topic.
“We want to make sure we have re
sources available for the students so that we
can do effective programming for them,”
Oliver said.
Oliver said “Someone You Know” is an
awareness-raising video that deals with ac
quaintance rape.
According to a brochure given out by
student programs, 65 percent of all rapes
are committed by men that the victims are
familiar with.
Oliver said the video is a 30-minute pre
sentation during which women and men
who have been raped talk about the experi
ence.
“This is a good film because it gives you
an understanding of the kind of effects
rape has on women and also confronts the
attitudes that are prevalent among men,”
Oliver said.
“Rape Prevention: Trust Your Instincts”
is an 18-minute video that gives practical
ways women can protect themselves.
Oliver said the video gives women infor
mation about how to say no with force, how
to be assertive, how to tell if you’re being
followed and how to get out of a situation
you don’t want to be in.
Oliver said the last video, “It Still Hurts,”
is a dramatic representation of what a
woman thinks about and goes through after
being raped. The film is shown to resident
advisers during training sessions.
“We want to equip the R.A.s with effec
tive strategies for students that might. be
dealing with these problems, because we
know it happens on campus, and it’s some
thing we should all be aware of,” Oliver
said.
According to the Uniform Crime Report,
no rapes occurred on the A&M campus in
1986-87, four occurred in 1987-88 and
three occurred in 1988-89.
Oliver said you can multiply these figures
by 10 to get a more accurate estimate of the
number of rapes that occurred at A&M.
“Rape is the most under-reported of all
crimes,” Oliver said. “Statistics indicate that
only one in every 10 rapes are actually re
ported, so it’s hard to get a handje on how
bad the problem is at a particular place, be
cause you can’t see the whole picture.
“We do know, however, that it occurs at
A&M, and that is why we do program-
We want to make sure we
have resources available for the
students.”
— Dub Oliver,
graduate assistant
ming,” he said.
Oliver said any student group can call the
student affairs office and schedule a pre
sentation of the films. A representative
from student affairs will show the films and
direct the discussions that take place af
terward.
Oliver has been encouraged so far by the
feedback the videos have received from the
halls that have seen them.
“If by doing , this, we prevent someone
from having to go through the trauma and
emotional experience of rape, then we will
have made a difference,” Oliver said.
Correction
The Battalion incorrectly reported
how measles victim John E. Carroll II
contracted the virus. Carroll did not get
the virus from his children, (he has no
children).
The Battalion regrets the error.