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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.