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WASHINGTON — President
Reagan’s surprise decision to withhold
shipment of four F-16 fighter-bombers
to Israel is unlikely to lead to a further
cutoff of U.S. arms, administration
sources say.
On Wednesday, Reagan suspended
“for the time being” the pending ship
ment of the F-16s after concluding
Israel may have committed a “substan
tial violation” of a 1952 weapons pact by
using other American-made F-16s to
attack the Iraqi nuclear reactor near
Baghdad on Sunday.
The Israelis were due to get the new
planes Friday.
Reagan’s action marks the first time
the United States has announced a sus
pension of arms for Israel. There was a
delay in delivering F-I5 fighters in 1975
because of Israel’s actions in Lebanon,
but it was not announced.
In a letter to Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee Chairman Charles
Percy, R-Ill., Secretary of State Alexan
der Haig said Reagan was acting under
terms of the 1952 Mutual Defense
Assistance Agreement.
The act states that U.S.-made
weapons sold to Israel will be used sole
ly for “legitimate self defense” and not
for “any act of agression against any
other state.”
The Israelis used eight F-16s and six
smaller F-15s to carry out their air strike
in Iraq.
The “entire matter” is undergoing a
complete administration review, Haig
said. He said Reagan will weigh Israeli
claims that the raid was necessary for
self-defense because the Iraqis in
tended to use the reactor to produce
atomic bombs that would be used
against Israel.
A final decision, reached in concert
with Congress, could result in con
tinued suspension of the F-16 sale or a
delay of other arms in the Washington-
Tel Aviv pipeline area.
Sources said, however, “it is highly
unlikely” there will be any additional
moves to cut off Israeli arms shipments.
And a senior State Department offi
cial told reporters, “No decision has
been made on anything but the four
aircraft. ”
During the following three and one-
half months beginning in July, Israel is
scheduled to receive “a number of ma
jor equipment items,” with deliveries
set to continue until 1982.
The deliveries include the remaining
15 of 40 F-15s Israel ordered from
American manufacturer McDonnell
Douglas. They were to be turned over
to Israel by September.
Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Evron
said he deeply regretted Reagan’s deci
sion, calling it “unjust because Israel
acted in self-defense against an implac
able enemy whose president declared
time and again that his objective is to
destroy Israel.
“It is particularly regretful that the
administration’s punitive action was
taken against an ally while Iraq, which
has severed diplomatic relations with
the U.S., has actively subverted and
opposed America’s objectives in the
Middle East.”
Israel has 75 F-16s on order. Fifty-
three have already been delivered.
On Capitol Hill, Percy said he prob
ably will hold hearings Wednesday or
Thursday of next week. “This is a grave
matter,’ he said, “and has obviously
deep impact on the United States and
the role it is playing in the Middle
East.”
Speaker asks universities’ help
in solving world food problem
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Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Sally Wade, a professional portrait painter,
takes on a new twist to her old trade, painting
signs. The sign identifying the new Engineering
Laboratory Center, which is under construction
on the corner of Ross and Bizzel streets, was
vandalized last semester. Wade submitted the
low bid to Allen Cambell Construction Co., the
general contractor, for the repainting.
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MSC Council to meet in first
t! of special
summer sessions
» The MSC council will meet Saturday
|o finalize committee appointments,
Bouncil President Doug Dedeker said.
I Also on the agenda is a request from
| the MSC Hospitality committee to real-
‘CRS their budget. “They don’t need
Tnymore money,” Dedeker said, “they
just need to reallocate their funds.”
He said the council will also approve
SCONA speakers for the fall program
and finalize a list of “who does what.“.
At the start of the spring semester,
the council reorganized its executive
structure, increasing the number of
officers from nine to 25.
In addition to the June 13 meeting,
the council will hold two more summer
meetings: July 11 and Aug. 8.
The first summer meeting will be
held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Council
Conference room (216T MSC).
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
A member of an international agricul
tural organization urged a group of high
er education administrators Wednesday
night to view the world food problem
not as an abstract, but as a realistic prob
lem needing immediate attention.
Peter McPherson, adminstrator of
the U.S,,. Agency for International De
velopment (AID), was originally sche
duled to speak at the three day confer
ence held on the Texas A6cM University
campus. However, McPherson was un
able to attend since he is in Washington
acting as an aid to President Reagan.
In his place, Glen Taggert, a staff
member of the Board of International
Agricultural Development, delivered
McPherson’s speech to approximately
100 members of the Association of U.S.
University Directors of International
Agricultural Programs.
Taggert expressed a concern about
“reading someone else’s speech” and
said an attempt was made to set up some
“electronic communication” to transmit
McPherson’s speech to the group.
However, this was not possible.
In requesting cooperation from uni
versities, Taggert said, developing
countries need to substantially improve
their agricultural endeavors in the next
20 years.
The demand for food and fiber in
third world countries is increasing be
cause of an explosion in population, he
said.
The key to fighting these problems,
Taggert said, is in science and technolo
gy. These two areas could help resolve
the constraints on agricultural produc
tion and resource productivity.
In order for these two factions to
succeed, he said, it’s necessary to train
farmers and scientists, “strengthen
(communication) between the interna
tional network of agricultural sciences
and give special attention to institutions
engaged in (agricultural) research.”
Taggert said it is important for agri
cultural universities to help train scien
tists and technicians in developing
countries to increase their agricultural
productivity.
“It is clear that we enjoy a compara
tive advantage in the U.S. because of
the institutional resource,” he said.
“As a result of university involve
ment we have a significant number of
people in developing countries have
been trained, and indigenous institu
tional capacity developed and streng
thened.”
Taggert said this involvement has
helped such AID countries as India,
Tunisia and Thailand to solve their own
problems.
But to keep the developing countries
on their feet, Taggert said, AID needs
to rely more upon universities to con
duct research in agriculture and tech
nology.
“A preliminary finding ... suggests
AID will demand from 120 percent to
200 percent of current levels of univer
sity support in the next few years.”
Taggert expressed a concern that uni
versities “have not been as responsive
to these increasing program demands.”
He said this results from constraints
within universities; however, AID is
not blameless. “I recognize that the
cause of limited and inadequate univer
sity response to AID program demands
are as much a result of failures and prob
lems in AID ... ”
Taggert said the long-term support
and involvement from universities “at
some specified level, subject to the
availability of funds” will be solicited.
“We have the resources to signifi
cantly improve the welfare of ou r fellow
human beings — to help them become
more self-sufficient, productive and
contented people in our increasingly in
terdependent world.”
Focus now
included
in summer
Between pages six and seven of
today’s Battalion you’ll find some
thing new — a summer Focus.
But this section takes a little
more effort than the Focus you’re
used to.
It’s a fold-your-own Focus.
To read your Focus, simply: 1)
open to the center of the issue; 2)
pick up the Focus, 3) turn it side
ways and 4) fold it. Then read
away. (Make sure you have it
right-side-up.)
Appearing as a 16-page enter
tainment and television supple
ment during the regular semester,
Focus is now a four-page enter
tainment section without televi
sion listings. Focus will come but
each Thursday throughout the
summer.
It still has movie and music
listings for the weekend, and fea
tures and articles about what’s
going on around your world.
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By JENNIFER WAYMAN
Battalion Reporter
I The 14-year-old girl stood in front of
the mirror, shocked. The 87-pound,
Imaciated body, bones protruding,
jpreasts diminished, skin severly dried
Jnd hair falling out, could not be hers.
ss than a year before, the 5-foot-2-
|neh, 140-pound teen had decided that
he needed to go on a “little diet.’
“I had no concept of how much
eight I was losing,” said Marilyn
aulkenberry, a Texas A&M graduate
Indent.
Today, seeing the healthy, 120-
)ound, mother of twins, one would nev-
“You look in the mirror and
you’re not skinny — you’re
not. I mean your bones are
sticking out, but you’re not
skinny.”
er believe the she was once a victim of
anorexia nervosa, a psychophysiological
disease that causes a person to starve
himself.
Anorexia nervosa occurs most com
monly among white upper-middle class
women between the ages of 12 and 30,
the most critical age group being the
years between 12 and 18. It rarely
occurs among men or blacks. The Diag
nostic amd Statistical Manual of Amer
ican Psychiatric Association states that
about one out of every 250 people in the
critical age group has anorexia nervosa.
Among the symptoms of this disease
are weight loss of at least 25 percent of
normal body weight, loss of hair, severe
drying of the skin, amenorrhea (the abs
ence of menstrual periods) and a dis
torted body image which causes victims
to believe they are grossly overweight,
although they are actually dangerously
thin.
“You look in the mirror and you’re
not skinny — you’re not. I mean your
bones are sticking out, but you’re not
skinny,” Faulkenberry said. “That’s
why I think it’s a neurosis. You lose your
real sight.”
Many anorexics experience deep de
pression, often withdrawing themselves
from a normal social life. “It’s such a
negative thing—your whole outlook on
life is just so negative ,” Faulkenberry
said. “I just isolated myself from every
thing.”
She said that she quit going out with
her friends when she had had anorexia
because “they just wanted to go out and
eat.”
The word anorexia means Toss of
apetite, ’’ but this is not necessarily true
in all cases. Dr. Barney Davis, a local
psychiatrist, said that he believes there
are two types of anorexics — those who
experience very little hunger and those
\yho experience a pattern of binge eat
ing followed by forced vomiting and
sometimes overdoses of laxatives. The
binge eaters, he said have been found to
be more disturbed then the others.
After these binges, in which an anore
xic may eat anything and everything in
reach, she may lapse into a deep de
pression, fast for several days and re
sume eating even less than she did be
fore the binge.
Faulkenberry, who never experi
enced the binge eating and vomiting
cycle, said that she tried to eat as little as
possible and usually ate only what she
was physically forced to eat.
“ My mother would make me a lunch
of two slices of diet bread with one of
those skinny pieces of lunch meat in
between and a small apple, she said. “I
would throw away the bread and eat the
meat, and I would give the apple to a
friend.”
Most anorexics are obsessed with ex
ercise, doing so constantly to burn for
bidden calories. On6 18-year-old would
exercise every night religiously, doing
hundreds of sit-ups and jumping jacks,
often to the point of collapse.
The causes af anorexia nervosa vary
with the patient but most doctors agree
that the condition has deep emotional
roots, often with the patient being a
perfectionist, feeling that she cannot
live up to her own or her parents’ expec-
tions.
Many psychiatrists believe that the
anorexic is rebelling against overly strict
parents and her starvation is a desperate
cry to assert herself. She feels that she
cannot control her life so she reaches
out for someting thet she can control —
her eating.
Faulkenberry said that her case was a
rebellion against her parents.
“It was my way of controlling my
life, ” she said, “it was my way of saying
you can’t make me eat, you can’t make
me be too fat.
Many doctors believe that American
society may encourage anorexia nervo
sa, Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the
A.P. Beutel Health Center, said he
finds patients sometimes take the image
of a fashion model too seriously and diet
to try to look like one, but don’t know
when to stop.
“You hear the saying that you never
can become too rich or too thin,” he
said, “but you certainly can become too
thin.”
Diets that lead to anorexia nervosa
are often started by a casual remark ab
out the person’s weight. Faulkenberry
said that one of the things that started
her rigorous diet was her brother calling
her “cow legs.”
Because the home environment is
often the root of the problem, doctors
recommend that treatment to include
family members.
Dr. Kerry Hope, a counseling
psychologist at the Personal Counseling
Service, said she believes a combination
of treatments is the best way to handle
anorexia nervosa. She suggests family
therapy, behavioral treatment, indi
vidual or group counseling and medical
treatment in severe cases.
“The one thing which is important is
for the woman not to be embarassed
that she has anorexia nervosa,” she said.
“We are not here to give her any heavy
duty judgements, we just want to help
her. ”