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The Battalion
Vol. 92 No. 50 (8 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M Since 1893’
Friday, November 6, 1992
THINGS TO COME
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RESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
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Plans for presidential library
on schedule, Mobley says
By GARY P. CARROLL
City Editor of THE BATTALION
President George Bush's un
successful bid to be elected for a
second term will not affect plans
to build the presidential library,
Texas A&M University President
William H. Mobley said.
However, Dr. Perry Adkisson,
executive director of the Bush Li
brary Center at A&M, said the
processes involved with the con
struction of the library may
quicken.
"I think it may affect it a lit
tle," Adkisson said. "Once
(Bush's) schedule is a little more
flexible, that probably will speed
(the construction of the library)
up."
Many people are concerned
with the fact that Bush's failure
to be re-elected will put in
creased pressure on the Univer
sity and the Bush Library Center
to build the library, but Mobley
said that simply isn't the case.
"We're proceeding right on
schedule," and fundraising ef
forts will continue as planned,
Mobley said.
According to the Texas A&M
Center for Presidential studies,
the design and construction of li
braries is not based solely upon
the number of terms the presi
dents for which they are being
built served.
Only one president - Ronald
Reagan - in the past 30 years has
served two complete consecu
tive terms. The presidential li
braries of recent single-term
presidents, including Presidents
Richard Nixon and Lyndon B.
Johnson, were completed on
time; and Mobley said the
process of building the Bush li
brary will maintain an even keel.
The Bush library and muse
um is currently scheduled to be
completed in mid- to late 1995 at
an estimated cost of $42 million,
said Shirley Joiner, assistant ex
ecutive director of the Bush Pres
idential Library Center. To date,
only $1.8 million have been
raised from private donations.
Despite Bush's defeat, and the
relatively low level of funds
raised so far, Mobley said the
level of urgency surrounding the
construction of the library has
not changed.
The lack of political backing
for Bush may actually help fund
raising efforts by allowing peo
ple to show their support for
him in other ways, said Mobley
and Joiner.
"In some ways the whole
process has been simplified" due
to Bush's failure to be re-elected,
Mobley said. "I think people
can now re-direct their support
for Bush in the form of dona
tions."
Adkisson said the plans for
the library have not yet been
drawn up, but design proposals
for the library have been in the
works for quite some time.
CRSS Constructors, Inc., a
Houston-based firm, has been
working on the preliminary de
signs, but no contracts have been
awarded to any construction or
design firm.
Robert Long, Class of '88, of
CRSS, said he isn't sure what the
status of the project is.
"I'm not sure what all has
been done thus far, but he (Bush)
has contacted the project director
recently," Long said, "and I
know we're not under contract."
Adkisson said his office won't
be awarding contracts for the de
sign and construction of the
Bush library for quite awhile.
"That's way down the line -
we're probably looking at about
18 months," Adkisson said.
Tom Robson, Class of '71, ex
ecutive vice president of archi
tecture for CRSS and project di
rector of the design team for the
Bush library, was unavailable for
comment. Michel T. Halbouty,
Class of '30, and president of
the Bush library committee, was
also unavailable for comment.
U.S. announces tariffs
on European imports
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The Bush
administration, seeking to force
trade concessions for American
soybean farmers, announced
Thursday that it was imposing
punitive tariffs on $300 million
worth of European imports.
The move would effectively
triple the import price of a bottle
of European white wine, and it
threatened to set off a full-scale
trade war between the United
States and the 12-nation European
Community.
U.S. Trade Representative Carla
Hills announced that effective
Dec. 5, the tariffs on a 750-milli-
liter bottle of white wine from Eu
rope would rise from seven cents
to 200 percent of the prices paid
by importers.
American consumers would
not likely feel the effects of the
higher tariffs until January be
cause many importers have stock
piled shipments in anticipation of
such a move.
Several importers said that if
the tariffs take effect virtually all
European white wines would dis
appear from American store
shelves because the importers
would cut off orders, rather than
risk being caught with expensive
inventories they can't unload at
triple the current price.
U.S. officials released a two-
page list of 240 wines that would
be hit with the higher tariffs. The
United States imported $270 mil
lion worth of white wine from Eu
rope last year, with France supply
ing $125 million of that amount.
Other big suppliers were Italy, $98
million, and Germany, $35 mil
lion.
Wines from Spain, Portugal
and Greece were also targeted for
the new 200 percent tariffs.
In an addition to $270 million
in white wine imports. Hills also
announced that 200 percent tariffs
would be imposed on $30 million
in imports of wheat gluten, pri
marily used as a binder in pet
food, and in rapeseed oil, a cook
ing oil.
Germany is the principal Euro
pean exporter of wheat gluten and
rapeseed oil to the U.S. market.
Hills said that she was delaying
the effective date for the new tar
iffs to allow negotiators time for
one last-ditch effort to resolve the
underlying trade dispute involv
ing American soybean sales to Eu
rope.
"We have demonstrated extra
ordinary patience and we are
open to further negotiations in the
30 days before the duties become
effective," Hills told reporters.
"However, given the trade harm
the United States is suffering, I
must proceed with a compensato
ry trade action."
The administration claims the
unfair subsidies cost American
producers $1 billion a year in lost
sales. Hills expressed the hope
that talks over the next month
would succeed but also issued a
new target list of $1.7 billion
worth or other European prod
ucts.
She said the administration
would broaden the tariff targets
beyond the original $300 million
unless the negotiations succeed.
The new list included industri
al exports, as well as farm prod
ucts in an apparent effort by the
United States to spread the threat
ened economic pain beyond farm
ers as a way of forcing conces
sions.
Officials of the European Com
munity gave no hint they planned
to back down. EC officials have
vowed to retaliate by boosting tar
iffs on American products if Euro
pean goods are hit.
Hills briefed President Bush
and other members of his Cabinet
on Thursday.
Bush insisted the United States
was trying to resolve the trade
dispute in a way that would be ac
ceptable to U.S. interests.
"No trade war. Just looking af
ter the interest of world trade,"
the president said.
In Little Rock, Ark., President
elect Clinton echoed a statement
he made Wednesday that foreign
governments need to realize that
during the two-month transition.
Bush was still president.
Speaker focuses on African heritage
By TANYA WILLIAMS
Reporter of THE BATTALION
The MSC Black Awareness Committee welcomed
nationally known lecturer, the Rev. Clarence E.
Glover, at their meeting Wednesday night to discuss
the rediscovering of African identities.
The two-hour program focused on the connection
of African-Americans to their African heritage.
Glover opened the program by asking the crowd to
allow themselves to really listen and understand the
theme.
"Not only hear something, but also feel some
thing," Glover said. "For as a people of our descent,
beliefs of not only just reason and logic, is a deep
sense of feeling."
Glover likened the searching of African-Ameri
cans for their African heritage to a pilgrimage and
asked the crowd to begin that pilgrimage Wednesday
night.
"We must shift our minds out of the traditional
frame of reference," Glover said. "The greatest
weapon that the oppressor has is the mind of the op
pressed."
Glover said the search for one's African heritage is
a journey that African-Americans must take together.
"Dr. (Martin Luther) King once said, T cannot be
what I ought to be until you are what you ought to
be, and you cannot be what you ought to be until I
"We must shift our minds out of
the traditional frame of reference.
The greatest weapon that the
oppressor has is the mind of the
oppressed."
-Rev. Clarence E. Glover,
nationally known lecturer
am what I ought to be.'"
Glover told the audience that they must under
take a sense of "educational militancy" and educate
themselves about African culture and history be
cause the education that African-Americans and oth
ers have received is from a Eurocentric viewpoint.
Glover, an African studies lecturer at Southern
Methodist University, has previously spoke at Texas
A&M at the annual Southwestern Black Student
Leadership Conference in January.
Campaign to raise
Bush library funds
By GARY P. CARROLL
City Editor of THE BATTALION
The $42 million needed to
build the George Bush Presiden
tial Library is being raised as a
part of the Texas A&M University
"Capturing the Spirit" campaign.
The campaign has a minimum
goal of raising $500 million by Au
gust 31, 1996 and has already
raised $221,986,906 - almost half
of what it planned to raise since
beginning the drive two years
ago.
The "Capturing the Spirit"
campaign funds come from pri
vate donations and are not intend
ed to replace state funds.
Funds raised will go toward
the following programs:
• The Sterling C. Evans and
Medical Sciences Libraries
• Student programs such as
scholarships, honors programs.
Corps of Cadets, MSC and leader
ship programs
• Faculty programs such as fac
ulty chairs and fellowships; inter
national programs,
• University Press, research en
hancements, computing enhance
ments and institutional and ad
ministrative support
• Association of Former Stu
dents
• Bush presidential library
• Athletic Department and
12th Man Foundation
BILLY MORAN/The Battalion
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