9 compiled by Maureen Fleming The Michigan Daily-Sunday, March 22, 1981.-Page 7 Executives won't give up siX-di git sa&larie s Fires plague Texas Christian FORT WORTH, Texas-The atmosphere at Texas Christian University is one of a war zone. Charred buildings dot the oak-lined campus and grim-faced firefighters patrol the streets around, the clock. There were five deliberately set fires last week on campus and nearby areas, and investigators believe more than one arsonist set the fires. No one has been injured-with the exception of some trained laboratory rats killed in the science building. But the fires have caused more than $1 million in damage. A 24-year-old TCU student failed in a lie detec- tor test after the first two fires, but he was in police custody when a Baptist church burned. The fires erupted in the campus science" building, the art and music building, and the Baptist Student Union. Across the street from campus, fired burned the University Christian Church and University Baptist Church. Although the university's. 6,000 students are on spring break this week, the campus security for-, ce has been more than doubled, Federal agents and citizen volunteers guard buildings on and off campus, and identification is required on cam- pus after dark., Dorm visitation has been suspended and lights burn all night in academic buildings, which are locked at 5 p.m. Posted in every building are signs offering $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the arsonist. Iarrnrd has lon g (dl tnce problem CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-New England Telephone is investigating an "out of the or- dinary" number of incorrectly billed phone calls originating from Harvard University in recent months, a telephone spokeswoman said last week. A Harvard student who asked not to be iden- tified said recently that-college students across the country, including many enrolled at Har- vard, are using a telephone credit card number that is not theirs. The source added that most charged about $30 to the number. The source estimated that at least 100 Harvard students are involved. "I personally know ten who have used the credit card number," he ad- ded. Several students, who asked not to be 'iden- tified, said that a credit card number was cir- culating on campus last December and that many people used it to make free calls. A student who was involved said he hopes the telephone company will -be satisfied to get its money back. "It was only a prank, really. I realize how it was a stupid thing to do. We have all learned our lesson," he added. Safety problem at Uir . of Texas AUSTIN, Texas-With the number of assaults on the University of Texas campus rising at about 12 percent annually, self-defense is becoming an increasingly serious concern for students. "Students should be aware that they will likely be the victim of some type of crime in their four years here. It may be an assault or a robbery or a theft, but it is going to happen," said Sgt. Lyn Croshaw of the UT Police Department. A UT junior recently attacked in the parking lot of an Austin bar carries a can of Mace in her purse and has learned how to shoot the .38 caliber pistol she now keeps in her home. A May 1977 survey conducted by students in the Department of Journalism concluded 22 per- cent of all UT students owned a gun. Most of the students were male.. Tear gas is popular among university women. Every month, The University Co-op sells ap- proximately 140 cans of Paralyzer, a brand of tear gas. Kristin McMahon, a sophomore in ar- chitecture, carries a canister of Mace on her keychain when she walks across campus late at night. "Being a girl, I wouldn't want any weapon that could be taken from me and used against me. " One senior carries a set of "nunchaku" in his knapsack. Nunchaku, or nun-chucks, are weapons used in the martial arts. They are two. foot-long pieces of hardwood connected by a 4- inch metal chain and are illegal on the UT cam- pus. "The only reason (I have them) is because I walk home from campus every night at 2 a.m. Where I live there are a lot of bums," he said. Another student keeps a 3-foot steel pipe in his car because "You never know what's going to come out of the dark," he said. A history graduate student keeps a .38 caliber revolver under the front seat of his car. "I believe you can't rely on the state for protection, so you have to be ultimately responsible for your own protection," he said. The student alsokeeps a semi-automatic pistol and rifle in his North Austin apartment for protection. He said he would use a gun only against an attacker who threatened him with deadly force. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Top executives of the new public Synthetic Fuels Corp. are defying President Reagan's order to roll back their six- digit salaries and fringe benefits, Rep. Toby Moffett (D-Conn.) said yesterday. "The only way to control them is to nominate a Synfuels Corporation board that will either fire them or take away their lavish compensation," Moffett warned in a letter to the president. SUCH ACTION IS necessary, he wrote, because the law prevents the president from firing the executives outright, and former corporation chairman John Sawhill promised them. high salaries and fringes through legally binding contracts. Moffett informed Reagan that the corporation executives, drawing salaries ranging from $95,000 to $150,000 even without the fringe benefits, responded to his Feb. 25 rollback order by seeking a legal opinion on the mat- ter.. Arnold & Porter, a prestigious Washington law firm, said in its opinion former President Carter approved the salaries Sawhill recommended and Reagan had no right to review the other benefits. THE SYNTHETIC Fuels Corp. was created by the 1980 Energy Security Act to foster the development of a private synthetic fuel industry by providing $20 billion in loan and price guarantees to private companies. One of the executives has insisted on receiving his $140,000 salary, while the other six, pending a review by a new seven-member corporation board, rolled their salaries back to Cabinet secretary pay of $69,630. REAGAN FIRED Sawhill and the rest of the Carter-appointed board, but has not yet replaced them. Sawhill was receiving $175,000 as chairman, but sources have indicated the replacement Reagan picks may accept a lower salary. The salary flap developed when cor- poration general counsel John McAtee complained to Moffett's Government Operations Committee subpanel that he was making a considerable personal sacrifice working for the public at $150,000. McAtee's agreement with Sawhil.l also provided him with a fur- 'nished Washington apartment and a limousine. McAtee told Moffett's panel he ear- ned at leust twice as much money as a Wall Street lawyer. "WE ARE CONFIDENT that you do not intend to countenance this move on the part of the officers of the Synthetic Fuels Corp. to retain the excessive compensation packages the former chairman illegally promised to them," Moffett told Reagan. "We view this position by the officers as contrary to the mandate of Congress and to the directive of the president," he wrote. "It lends credence to a belief often expressed during the debates on the creation of this corporation that it would be a publicly funded corporation over which the public had no control." Moffett said in addition to high salaries, Sawhill promised the executives "extended living expenses, long term commuting expenses, ex- tremely generous moving expenses and one furnished apartment." Suypport the March of Dimes BIRTH pEFECiS FOUNDATION ' LSA T G RE TestPreparation How do you prepare for these important tests. Get the facts no cost or obligation t 32466 Qldc Fra3nklini c'X tfl' FarmingtcNHills, f48 / Lucahonal'(:313) 851-2969 l. '& . (all cr IlecG) Please send me your "What Are The Facts" brochure - Name . --_---____ Adress _ _ . _ Phone __ Test: LSAT Q GMAT Q GRE"© POLICIES R ATED HIGHER THAN PERSONNEL: Conservatives laud Reagan WASHINGTON (AP)-The Reagan administration received generally favorable reviews yesterday from con- servatives who rated it better on policy than on personnel. "Unless we are chronic complainers it has got to look very good to us," said William Rusher, editor of the National Review. RUSHER WAS one of four par- ticipants in a discussion of the new ad- ministration at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Rusher described Reagan as a "movement conservative," meaning that the new president has worked for years for the same goals as the participants in the conference Reagan addressed the meeting Friday night and received an en- thusiastic reception from an audience he referred to as "fellow conser- vatives," Reagan defined more clearly than ever before the overriding goal of his economic program, a goal more ideological than economic. "WE ARE NOT cutting the budget - - simply for the sake of sounder financial management," 'said the president. "This is only a first step toward retur- ning power to the states and com- munities, only a first step toward reor- dering the relationship between citizen and government. "We can make government again responsive to people, but only by cut- ting its size and scope and thereby in- suring that its legitimate functions are performed efficiently and justly." AT ANOTHER panel discussion, Terry Dolan, director of the National Conservative Political Action Caucus, which claims credit for the defeat of several Democratic senators in the 1980 election, predicted Republicans would gain six more Senate seats and would win control of the House in the 1982 elec- tions. Dolan called the 1980 election results "a complete repudiation of liberalism . .:The American people long ago deserted the policies of the Democratic Party." At the earlier discussion, M. Stanton Evans said Reagan has put in "a vir- tuoso performance on the domestic side and also, I think, on the foreign policy side." HOWEVER, HE expressed less en- thusiasm for some of the people Reagan has appointed to administration positions, particularly in the State and Defense Departments. Howard Phillips, who served in the Nixon administration, called Reagan's election "a second chance" for America. Phillips described Nixon's election in 1968 as the first opportunity to move the nation in a conservative direction. That opportunity failed, he said. - Phillips said he would be happier if Reagan had proposed a balanced budget "right now" rather than as a goal for 1984. RUSHER acknowledged having been somewhat dissatisfied with Reagan's early choices for administration jobs but he put part of the blame on conser- vatives who he said were not ready with lists of names for the new ad- ministration. In his first public address since taking his White House post, Reagan's security adviser Richard Allen told the conference, "Europe is confronted with an economic crisis every bit as dangerous as that which followed World War II." THE NORTH Atlantic alliance has been weakened because of the in- flationary ravages that occurred because "we have lacked the will to discipline social programs," Allen told a breakfast meeting of the Conser- vative Political Action Conference. He said that throughout Europe deficit spending on "uncontrolled social programs" have insulated Europeans from the realities of an economic system being eroded by inflation. Allen said the alliance's future will be "bleak" if the nations which comprise it fail to gain control of their bu'dgets- and halt the rise of inflation. And he said President Reagan found no serious disagreement when he made that point in a series of recent meetings with top European leaders. ALLEN NOTED the desire of many in Europe to seek an opening to the Soviet bloc as a way of promoting peace and regional stability and cooperation. He said that policy has resulted in progress, but progress of a kind which is being used by some European elements as a "justification for disar- mament." . Allen said pacifism is apparently on the rise and cited as an example a recent split in the British Labor Party aver basing nuclear weapons in Europe. And he said if nuclear theater disar- mament negotiations in Europe should fail, the West would be in a far stronger position for having deployed modern weapons than it would have been otherwise. gellevo's ' P"rom Gowns- * Complete Wedding : Apparel 'Our emphos s s " pelOsio n No 17 FDresest e 455-4445 . V Keep Yourself Out Of The Dark by Reading Il Midji t ian EI ai1 KKK rally leads to violence (continued from'Page 1) ' Against Racism who had paraded to the' nearby police headquai'ters with other anti-racist groups. While the Klan was inside the building, members of the mostly white Committee gave speeches, one of which. urged the largely black and Hispanic crowd to "unite against the Klan, the Nazis, the politicians and all the rest of the Rockefeller group." OTHER ANTI-KLAN demonstrators included members of the Progressive Labor Party from Boston and the 'su I Amateur and Con KODAK Re p When you pay for three, the fourth is free. SPECIAL OFFER Stop in for com Offer ends M 764-0558 Revolutionary Socialists League from New York. Other groups, including the NAACP and the Inner City Exchange from Har- tford, marched to the police depar- tment as planned but avoided the Klan rally. A local NAACP leader had warned parents to keep their children home because of possible violence. ACTING POLICE Chief George Caf- frey tried during a private meeting to convince Wilkinson, head of the Louisiana-based Klan, to call off his photo rnmercial Photofinishing march. 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