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If no* ike some prf le East confet to the withdri- from Kuwait, urn in a diplf makov said, viet Union wa! a request fro! send troops! :ountry front >ion. aid the Gort on wanted K i between Cuba. ■rested as * ! jecoming a e said. “In tit aachingagre e to its relatioi ates.” Vol. 90 No. 16 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Monday, September 24,1990 Hats off to the Aggies Photo by Fredrick D.Joe Offensive tackle Matt McCall’s helmet exhibits the forces of impact at Saturday’s UNT game. De Klerk arrives at White House WASHINGTON (AP) — South African President F.W. de Klerk ar rived Sunday for talks with Presi dent Bush on ways in which the United States can help that country bring about a peaceful transition to a non-racial system. But the visit, the highlight of which will be a lengthy White House discussion on Monday, has been clouded by an upsurge of violence that has claimed more than 750 lives in black South African townships in recent weeks. Still, Bush’s encounter with de Klerk is something of a milestone in U.S.-South African relations. No South African head of state has vis ited Washington since 1945 and the two countries were barely on speak ing terms as recently as a few years ago. De Klerk said on arrival Sunday he was bringing a message of hope for the future of his country and for all of southern Africa. “We are proceeding irreversibly on the road to a new South Africa, where justice, the guarantees of con stitutional democracy and the rule of law will bring lasting peace and pros perity to all our people,” de Klerk said. His stay here ends Tuesday night. A senior administration official who briefed reporters on Friday said the invitation to de Klerk recognizes the “bold leadership” he has pro vided in seeking a way out of the apartheid era in South Africa. During the talks, Bush will ex plore “what role the United States can play in helping to promote the negotiating process in that country,” said the official, speaking on condi tion of anonymity. “Our interest is to promote a peaceful transition, through nego tiations, to a post-apartheid, demo cratic, non-racial South Africa,” he said. Congress has approved $10 million to give impetus to the nego tiating process. The official said the visit was not designed to bring about an end to the economic sanctions the United States imposed against South Africa in 1986. South Africa has fulfilled some but not all of the requirements the legislation imposes for the sanc tions to be lifted. Battle over BU begins FORT WORTH (AP) —Fun damentalist Baptist leaders, in censed by a decision to remove Baylor University from denomi nation control, vow to put up a fight to get the school back. Conservative Fort Worth pas tor Rev. Joel Gregory, immediate past president of the state con vention, said he expects all legal avenues to be explored to reverse the Baylor trustees’ decision to re move the 145-year-old school from control by the Baptist Gen eral Convention of Texas. The trustees voted Friday to create a separate governing body for the 12,000-student school in an effort to insulate itself from a feared takeover by fundamental ists. The world’s largest Baptist- supported university, located in Waco, now will be governed by a Board of Regents independent of ■ the convention. Previously, the state conven tion elected 48 trustees who were charged with running the school. Under the new charter, the trust ees will appoint six members of the 24-person Board of Regents. The remainder of the board will be elected by the sitting regents. A&M student-parents express need for campus day-care plan like UT’s By LIBBY KURTZ Of The Battalion Staff Many Texas A&M student-par ents hope A&M will follow the lead of the University of Texas at Austin in opening a campus child-care fa cility. UT’s day-care services, which will open next fall, will be available to students, faculty and staff. David Fisher, director of UT’s stu dent child care association, says the university realized it needed a larger facility with more flexible hours af ter a child care committee presented UT President William Cunningham with a detailed report of its findings. “Our current day-care center is for students only and can accommo date up to 40 children,” he says. “We’re open only in the evening.” The new on-campus center will be able to accommodate 120 children. Organizers say it will be open during the daytime. Lisa Robinson, assistant director of the association, served on the committee and looked at the many problems confronting student-par ents. “Students need day care services during the day, especially in the morning when they have classes,” she says. The center will be located on the inner UT campus, unlike the pre sent one which is in portable build- “There’s a lot of pressure from local day care facilities in town. They don’t want the competition.” — Tim Sweeney, Married Student Apartment Council ings along the outskirts of campus. “It will be more convenient for ev eryone,” Fisher says. Jaqui Freund, director of the child placement center in College Station, says A&M is in dire need of a child care facility, but doubts one will open anytime soon. “Local day-care merchants would go up in arms if A&M offered child care at cost to students and faculty,” she says. Tim Sweeney, adviser for the Married Student Apartment Coun cil, agrees with Freund and says E lans for a child-care facility have een placed on the “back burner.” “There’s a lot of pressure from lo cal day care facilities in town,” he says. “They don’t want the competi tion.” Dan Vrudny, president of the graduate student council, says the council looked at the child-care issue two years ago. “We conducted a survey about the need for on-campus child care and found a very low response among students,” he says. Robinson, however, questions the validity of the survey. “We (UT child care committee) looked at the survey during our re search of other universities’ day-care facilities,” she says. “My impression of the study was that it didn’t take into account the students’ needs and it was done rather quickly. I question how much investigating they did.” Vrudny says the council would be willing to conduct another survey if See Day care/Page 12 Faculty member gives views on U.S., Iraqi motives in crisis By KATHERINE COFFEY Of The Battalion Staff The U.S. government became involved with the Kuwait crisis because it wants to maintain firm control and domination of the Middle East, a Texas A&M professor said. Dr. Nabil Safwat, an urban and rural planning development professor, spoke Friday at a grad uate study seminar. Safwat, who is from Egypt, discussed the United States’ and Iraq’s motives in the Kuwait crisis. The purpose of the study-seminar was to chal lenge 20 retired A&M faculty members. Safwat said he has no political experience but wanted to define his views about the real motives of the United States and Iraq. One motive for the U.S. government is its greed for oil and energy control of the world, he said. “The U.S. government has the desire to re draw the political map in the Middle East follow ing the changes in Europe,” he said. After giving his explanation of why the United States became involved in the Iraq-Kuwait situa tion, Safwat got a negative response from the au dience. One retired faculty member in the audience said Safwat’s developed theories were oversimpli fied and weak. The audience member said the real premise for the United States is to stop Iraq before the country destroys the economic basis of the world. Safwat disagreed and said if the United States was against aggression, they wouldn’t have sent troops to Saudia Arabia. Safwat, who said he is not supporting Iraq, Is rael or the United States, listed possible motives of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. “One of the motives of Saddam is to settle the problem of overproduction of oil by Kuwait and Saudia Arabia,” he said. “This resulted in the de crease in oil prices which was hurting Iraq.” Hussein’s other motives in the invasion of Ku wait are the border dispute between the two countries resulting in Kuwait owing Iraq $2.4 bil lion and Kuwait not responding to his demands, Safwat said. “One motive for Iraq’s supremacy is to satisfy an old desire to capture Kuwait ... and for the leadership in the Middle East,” he said. Even though he does not trust or support Hus sein, Safwat explained why he thinks the United States is getting involved in the Kuwait crisis. “The U.S. wants to maintain firm control and domination of the Middle East as well as ... to push the whole area (Middle East) into another war,” he said. Safwat said the U.S. government wants to re draw the political map in the Middle East follow ing changes in Europe. He said the United States also wants to support and protect Israel and to weaken the military power in the Persian Gulf. A&M receives $1.5 million for 150 scholarships By MIKE LUMAN Of The Battalion Staff Next semester Texas A&M will have 150 new scholarships a year for students with financial difficulty, due to a $ 1.5 million endowment left by a Houston couple. One of the largest grants of its type, the money comes from the James H. and Minnie M. Edmonds Foundation, a scholarship trust fund handled by NCNB Texas. The fund now is being dissolved in accordance with the will of the late Houston couple. Vice President for Development Robert L. Walker said that while other scholarships are given for aca demic achievement, Edmonds fund distribution will be based on an ap plicant’s financial statement. “We’re interested in getting every scholarship we can for deserving stu dents,” he said. “The first question you ask a student who’s applying is, ‘Do you need the money?’ ” Jack Falks, scholarship adminis trator for the financial aid depart ment, said 150 students a year will receive about $ 1000 each by next se mester. He said the 150 awards account for almost a 10 percent increase in scholarships given by the depart ment. “The little ones are nice, the en dowments that give us one schol arship a year, but this is a tremen dous boost,” Falks said. NCNB is turning over the fund, $12.5 million in all, to 16 Texas uni versities. A&M officials, including Walker and University President William Mobley, received the money from NCNB representatives Sept. 10 at a luncheon in the Clayton Williams Alumni Center. Walker says endowments are not unusual, but this was one of the larg est intended solely for need-based scholarships. The Edmonds were involved in construction and real estate. They had no children but were interested in helping young people obtain a college education, a NCNB rep resentative said. The University of Houston down town campus received the largest al lotment — $2 million. A&M, the University of Houston at University Park, Baylor Univer sity, Rice University and the Univer sity of Texas received $1.5 million each. The following universities re ceived $265,000 each: Angelo State, East Texas State, North Texas, Pan American, Texas Southern, the Uni versity of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at El Paso and West Texas State. Representative returns to University as regent Editor’s note: The Battalion will fo cus on members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents during upcoming weeks to better ac quaint students and faculty members with the System’s leaders. By BILL HETHCOCK Of The Battalion Staff After serving in the Texas Leg islature for 20 years. Bill Clayton has turned his attention to the Texas A&M Board of Regents. Clayton was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1962. He served in the House until he retired from the state po litical arena in 1983. In 1975 Clayton was elected Speaker of the House by his col leagues and served four terms in that position. Governor Bill Clements ap pointed Clayton to the Board of Regents in 1989. Clayton is a member of the Executive Com mittee, the Committee for Aca demic Campuses and several ad hoc committees. Besides serving on the Board, Clayton is president of Capital Consultants, a political and busi ness consulting firm in Austin. He also maintains sizable farm ing interests in Springlake, his hometown. Clayton is a Class of ’50 A&M graduate with a bachelor of sci- Bill Clayton Battalion file photo ence degree in agricultural eco nomics. In 1988, Clayton served as president of the Texas A&M As sociation of Former Students. He has received many service awards and honorary titles, in cluding the Distinguished Service to the People of Texas Award and honorary doctor of law de grees from Texas Tech Univer sity and and Texas Wesleyan Uni versity. In 1979, he was recognized by A&M for outstanding service and named Distinguished Alumnus. Clayton is a 33rd degree Ma son and a deacon in his church.