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Texas A&M Battalion World Cup /# % % #/ West German victory celebration ends in deaths See Sports, Page 7 Tuesday, July 10,1990 |fol.89 No. 169 USPS 045360 8 Pages College Station, Texas ctpummit opens to Soviet aid, subsidy questions By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff HOUSTON — President George Bush main tained his hardline approach Monday of not giv ing the Soviet Union direct financial aid despite disapproval by several other world leaders gath- ered here for the 1990 Economic Summit of In dustrialized Nations. Bush, along with the leaders of Great Britain, Italy, France, West Germany, Canada and Japan, conducted the first meetings on Monday af ternoon of the three-day economic summit at Rice University. Opening ceremonies for the summit also were Monday in front of Lovett Hall at Rice. “Houston’s Hot,” the summit’s slogan, re mained an appropriate one Monday, but the world leaders beat the midday-Houston heat by gathering on an air-conditioned platform for the opening ceremonies. The main topics of the 16th annual summit are world trade, aid to the Soviet Union and the environment — all issues which separate Bush from several European leaders. Terrorism, the drug war and other issues also • Poor nations gather/Page 3 • Subsidy question rankles summit/Page 3 • Democracy leader speaks out/Page 4 • Americans react to Soviet aid/Page 5 • Spouses tour Texas/Page 5 are on the summit agenda. Bush refuses to give the Soviet Union direct fi- nacial aid until it moves to a more open, freer economy, and it cuts off aid to Cuba. It presently supplies Cuba with more than $5 billion a year. “Further economic reforms and spending f >riorities in the Soviet Union are necessary be- ore direct aid is justified,” White House spokes man Marlin Fitzwater said Monday. Bush prefers providing technical assistance to the economically beleaguered Soviet Union. He also believes technical assistance is a better long term answer to the country’s economic woes than a quick loan, Fitzwater said. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President Francois Mitterrand, who re portedly received a direct plea from Soviet Presi dent Mikhail Gorbachev to lobby for direct aid, proposed a $15 billion aid package from the Western nations. Fitzwater said Monday that Bush wants to work out a technical assistance program with the other Western nations during the summit, but he wants to leave the issue of direct financial aid up to each country. Bush also is at odds with several European leaders over whether to cut agricultural subsidies and move to a more open agricultural trade mar ket. The United States is seeking liberalization of agricultural trade, but most European countries are not in favor of it. U.S. trade representative Carla Hills said she believes the American farmer will be better off because of the increase in competition, and de veloping nations that depend on agriculture ex ports also will benefit. The seven world leaders dined Monday eve ning at Bayou Bend, a mansion which is now a museum in the River Oaks section of Houston. China and the Soviet Union were among the top ics expected to be addressed during the working dinner. Talks continue today on the same issues, espe cially environmental issues, with the highlight be ing a speech from U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III. Photos by Thomas J. Lavin (Above) President George Bush greets Great Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in front of the Bayou Bend Collec tion of Fine American Art for Monday’s working dinner at the Economic Summit. The Collection, part of Houston’s Museum of Sine Arts, is housed in the former home of Houston philanthro pist Ima Hogg. (Middle) The seven heads of state that have gathered for the summit plan to meet in the Bayou Bend dining i)om for a meal that includes grilled red snapper and cornbread iticks. (Far Right) Bush and West German Chancellor Helmut CoWtry to accomodate photographers looking lor pictures. orbachev secures power struggle Pro-reform Communists will control new party "thSl MOSCOW ( Ap ) — President Mik- "■ail S. Gorbachev won a critical »’ MiJr )vver stru ggl e Monday for a vir- s | jually new Communist Party Polit- "jHuro expected to champion his re- ’Tlbtms and loosen central controls on te ‘ ~ the 15 republics. , M The 28th Communist Party Con- 6 M ress vote< t that the Politburo must se,i " include the general secretary, his P u '■eputy and the heads of the 15 re- , publics’ parties. 76 fl change guarantees that the owm ■mall group of primarily Russian ?cum men who traditionally ruled the So- ,Hiet Union will be replaced by largely r .f c e t pro-reform, non-Russian Commu- f mists. Edition, most of the new Polit- nd "i buro members will not live in Mos- bw, helping Gorbachev’s long-term plan to transfer power from the arty Politburo to the government e heads as president. The majority of the republics’ arty leaders want political sover- fignty, a market economy and a oser union of states. Eight of the 15 republics have submitted plans for a new confederation, according to Lithuanian officials. I Gorbachev is expected to be re flected general secretary by the con- i Faculty Senate ' continues gress, despite hard-line criticism of his political and economic reforms in the past week. The congress is expected to elect a new Central Committee and a dep uty general secretary, a newly cre ated post that some delegates said would be filled by a Gorbachev pro tege. Gorbachev told delegates that the Central Committee could elect two to six more members of the Polit buro, in addition to the 17 named in the new rule adopted Monday. That would bring the total to 19 to 23, or nearly double the 12 voting mem bers on the current Politburo. He said the new structure would allow the 15 republic parties “to act independently, and to really influ ence the Central Committee and Po litburo.” Gorbachev’s victory comes at a party congress dominated by hard line Communists furious at the par ty’s loss of authority. A weary-looking Gorbachev took the floor Monday afternoon after hammering his proposal through four hours of what he called “heated” committee discussions. He slurred his words in explaining the changes. After making his announcement, Gorbachev sat down next to the tem porary chairman of the congress, Anatoly Lukyanov, and urged qui etly, “Let’s vote.” The key vote on changing the Po litburo membership to include the republic leaders was 3,325-839. Decentralization would give the republics more power over their own affairs. Most republic leaders also believe their areas will fare far better under a market economy than under con tinued central planning, which they blame for taking their republics’ re sources and giving little in return. Gorbachev also could use the new plum of membership on the Polit buro as an incentive to draw the Bal tic Communist parties back into the fold. Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov said Monday he favored an almost complete turnover in the mem bership of the Politburo. “Fresh forces should be brought in, preferably, people of a younger age with a future,” Ryzhkov said. “For all my respect for Comrade Gorbachev, it’s a bad thing that in such a large party, we do not have another leader who would enjoy as much prestige as Comrade Gorba chev,” Ryzhkov said. “So we need younger people to give them time to work and to become known to the country, to grow and come into strength.” He also said varying views should be represented on the Politburo. The current 12-man Politburo has only two non-Russian members: Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard nadze from the republic of Georgia and Ukrainian President Vladimir Ivashko. There is just one non-Rus sian, Latvian Boris Pugo, among the seven candidate members of the Po litburo. A&M pursues grant for science education By SEAN FRERKING Of The Battalion Staff Corps inquiry )W! By SEAN FRERKING P The Battalion Staff ■ H A member of the Texas A&M Haculty Senate proposed a continua- Bon in the Senate’s inquiry into the role of women in the Corps of Ca dets. fl Senator James Rosenheim, an as- jBstant professor in history, made the Broposal during Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting. I Dr. Bill Stout, speaker of the Sen ate and a professor of agricultural ei gineering, said he had drafted a *emo to the committee on discrimi- iation on campus discussing the Batter of women in the Corps. I Stout said he will meet Wednes- fcy with President Mobley. The out- Bme of that meeting would deter- Bine if the drafted memo would be sent to the committee. “The president’s response to the matter was not very satisfying,” «outsaid. “We will continue looking iiito it until the matter is settled.” _ The announcement that Mobley H)id rejected a committee that would advise him about female integration Bid sexual discrimination in the See Senate/Page 8 These little pigs stayed home Neil Williams, a sophomore animal science/ani mal industry option major from Lancaster, stops Photo by Sondra Robbins to pet some baby pigs after feeding one of the fe male swines at the Swine Animal Science Center “We are in a race between educa tion and catastrophe. ” — H.G. Wells In response to President George Bush’s call to make American stu dents first in math and science, Texas A&M is leading the quest to gain a grant possibly worth $10 mil lion from a new “hot spot” program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The NSF will choose from four to eight states to participate in the new initiative which is intended to im prove math, science and engineering education at all levels. Each designated state will receive between $1 million and $2 million per year throughout the five-year program to correct the deterioration of the present educational system. The foundation will select the participants of the program based on areas where the most can be done, or in the “hot spots” of educa tion. Gov. Bill Clements chose A&M as the lead institution for Texas on April 19. The governor designated the University as a guide in the pre paration of a proposal for the new NSF program. Dr. Dean Corrigan, A&M Presi dent William Mobley’s deputy for educational leadership, said Clem ents chose A&M because of the Uni versity’s close ties with other educa tional and technical institutions across the state. He also said A&M was selected be cause the University had taken a leadership role in the area of educa tion. “Under the president’s direction, Texas A&M has become the national leader in producing math and sci ence teachers,” Corrigan said. A&M’s Commitment to Educa tion, a committee established in the fall of 1989 at the request of Mobley, also was a major reason for the gov ernor’s selection, he said. “By the time the NSF had decided to develop this program, A&M had established a definite desire to im prove the state’s and nation’s educa tional systems,” Corrigan said. After the governor’s choice, A&M established an advisory committee which then was divided into two sub committees. Corrigan said the two groups were asked to identify leaders from various groups which are concerned with math, science and engineering. He said these groups also were re quested to develop initial proposals within the state. “We are trying to work very clo sely with the leaders in the areas of education and industry,” Corrigan Official: Education continues to decline By SEAN FRERKING Of The Battalion Staff The nation’s education system is in a state of near collapse, and if quick measures are not taken, the United States might fall perma nently behind the industrial world, an official with the Na tional Science Foundation said. Acting on President George Bush’s request to improve Ameri can education, the NSF devel oped a new grant program ad dressing the nation’s educational problems in math and science. According to a September 1989 study used in developing the program, the average student in Japan scores higher on college preparatory math exams than the top 5 percent of students in the United States. Also according to the study, nearly a million students, or 25 percent, annually drop out of U.S. secondary schools. An average of 3,800 students drop out of high school each day. Every class of dropouts costs the nation $240 billion in lost earn ings and taxes. The dropout rate in Texas is approximately 30 percent, almost 50 percent for minorities, with a cost to Texas of $17 billion per class. See Decline/Page 8 said. The task force’s main purpose is to focus on coordinating activities that will support innovation and ex- cellance in math and science in the state. “This new intiative is grass roots based,” Corrigan said. “What we are trying to do at A&M is serve in a leadership role for the rest of the state.” Corrigan said A&M is working with universities, public schools and businesses in Texas to improve the state’s education. See Science/Page 8