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iBEL AVIV, Israel — Palestinian
ta winnin£|uerrillas retaliated against an Israeli air
t personlc jtriki by pounding northern Israel with
jphy of w 159 Soviet-made rockets in the heaviest
venifmy ihellling against the Jewish state since
a it. Somev'fJje 1973 Middle East War. Three civi-
icrsonhas'iahs were killed and 27 injured,
atisfied woBhe guerrilla artillery and rocket har-
and the* age Wednesday hit a 30-mile arc of
. Hcli towns and settlements, Israel’s
ofwinniteiiilitary command said today. It said
e coache Jiree people were killed and 27 injured.
ot by anyPalestinian gunners rained 169
ffering i iaiet-made 122mm Katyusha rockets
or by prtfl 50 artillery shells on Israeli towns
caching st^md settlements south of the Lebanese
‘j Btier, the military command said,
tryingtonaB’he state-run television called it the
?s a winnnHst shelling since the 1973 Middle
e the dif 'iast War.
fair and jusBVorst hit were the coastal Mediter-
Ban resort town of Nahariya and the
3 Blominantly immigrant town of
■ v B'nt Shmona, 30 miles inland, the
nilitary command said.
M Hlii Nahariya, tv.'o motorists and a
Bor driver were killed. In Kiryat
ihmona, a rocket smashed into an
^Btment building, injuring 10 people,
he television reported. It was not im-
" Pu!® iatel y known where the other 4
’j i ’■pie were injured.
; by EasierKatyusha crashed into my home,”
i elected loB one Kiryat Shmona woman as her
• SchmidtItBhter was treated for injuries at the
;e Parker )cal first aid station. “We didn’t know
d, Joel ,ow to get out. The girl was in the chil-
s followec rens room. Everything caved in.
treal’s Gar here was smoke. I finally took her and
innings id jn the bathroom.”
lOiner.
Dave ?■ i e 8 in > w h () accepted a presidential
for theAI..' omi| oitio n to form a new coalition gov-
1in overt!: rn P len h said, Israel will continue
:he seventli.r a yk*ng the Palestinians so that people
t by CoutBFyat Shmona won’t leave that front
pitcher toP 6 ! This is our goal and we will not
whopitd °andon it. We are doing everything we
Oakland' an ! so there won’t be any Katyushas. "
touchedforii#kc Palestinian rocket attack came
ings, wastli^f a heavy Israeli air strike Tuesday
Hich Gos» a b ls t guerrilla bases south of Beirut in
I the davfB^ a Syrian MiG-21 was shot down,
hough, alijl^dicial sources said a tiny guerrilla
hits in jjffyter group headed by Ahmed Jibril
Bthe heaviest hit by the air raid and
2 empty B believed to have unleashed the
une, \vhiof.H et attack in reprisal,
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” " IRA refuses
~ued Cross
prison visit
United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Bri-
ain invited the International Red Cross
^inspect Maze Prison today and talk
, vith hunger strikers, but the IRA im-
TWf nediately objected to a visit unless it
'»/ breed British concessions.
Britain's Northern Ireland Office
wMW innounced Wednesday night it was
w W accepting a long-pending Red Cross
4k j |>fFer to send a team from Geneva today
Il° “aspect the facilities.
U Jf d Prisoners in the Maze, including
^ /7L:ight IRA convicts on hunger strike,
vere informed of the visit Wednesday
light — just hours after the funeral for
j he sixth Irish Republican Army hunger
1 itriker to die in an effort to attain politic-
il prisoner status.
.*0 While Martin Hurson’s funeral took
ClllbC ilace in the village of Galbally, one per-
item ion was injured in an IRA bomb explo-
.« lion at the Wellington Park Hotel in
ine ielfast. In Londonderry, where about
alioa 1,000 people turned out to mourn, a
/outh was struck in the leg by a plastic
45-2611 Hillet during skirmishes with police.
Northern Ireland Secretary Hum-
ihrcy Atkins, who described the Maze
Jpthe most humanitarian prison in the
■■BB^vorld, agreed to the inspection after
he protesters said last week the
changes should apply to all Maze in-
L nates, not just IRA members.
T,“The government deeply regrets the
unger strikes are continuing and has
aturally been considering further what
Steps it can properly take to persuade
hose concerned to end their action,”
.Atkins said.
Atkins urged the Red Cross to pub-
ish its normally confidential findings,
f But Jerry Adams, vice president of
he IRA’s political voice, Sinn Fein, said
he visit showed “the British govern-
« i.ihent is once again trying to abuse an
JSK6P “temational organization for its own
•Jens.”
DpiCy PlTf the Red Cross puts pressure on
* JJiVgjhi British government to concede to
vJUu'Jhese just demands, Sinn Fein would
welcome their intervention,” he said.
[Otherwise we see no useful purpose
Jeing served by their visit.”
| Mediation efforts earlier this month
3y a Catholic group from Dublin, the
lish Commission for Justice and Peace,
T" iroke down with its members accusing
Britain of backing away from promised
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Library association speaks for employees
Some ideas
like notepads
help workers
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
Members of the Texas A&M Li
brary Staff Association have found a
way to lessen expenses in the Sterl
ing C. Evans Library.
Acting Chairman Carol Jones said
association members came up with
the idea to use sheets of scratch pap
er to make them into note pads.
Jones said she collects the paper
from the various sections of the lib
rary, then she takes it to the printing
center in the library basement.
There, Kayvan Jahedkar, a student
worker, cuts, glues and packages the
paper into scratch pads.
The project has been in operation
about a week, she said, and response
from the library staff has been good.
Jones said the main reason the pro
ject was initiated was that “it seemed
an awful waste to use the pretty pads
when the paper is going to be thrown
away. I think a lot of people feel they
same way I do. ’
Jones stressed that the scratch
pad project is in-house. “I wouldn’t
want to give the impression that
we re taking orders, but we aren’t
the only ones on campus who have
this kind of project. I think some of
the departments do the same thing.
In addition to this project, Jones
said the association also arranges so
cial functions for the library staff,
such as the annual Christmas party.
She said they also “act as a sound
ing board for staff members in the
library.” For instance, when stu
dents were parking their bikes on
the library concourse, the associa
tion brought the problem to the lib
rary administration.
She said they contacted the Uni
versity Police and asked if there was
some way to ticket the bikes and let
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
The Texas A&M Library Staff Association has come up with a way to association works within the library. Other functions include social
turn old paper into notepads. The house project is one of the ways the functions for the staff, such as the annual Christmas party.
students know that the concourse is also responsible for posting the signs
for pedestrians and handicapped that prohibited bikes on the con-
people. She said the association was course.
All library employees, including The library has approximately 40
student workers, are allowed to join faculty, or professional librarians and
the association, Jones said. 120 classified employees.
Strip-mined land may not
need special care
Strip mine owners may be spending
thousands of unnecessary dollars in the
process of reclaiming some depleted
mine sites, says a Texas A&M Universi
ty landscape architect.
Dr. Harlow Landphair, associate
professor of landscape architecture,
said under the right conditions many
strip mined sites will revegetate with a
minimum of help from man.
Predictions are that a million acres of
Texas land will be stripped in the next
40 or 50 years for the lignite coal de
posits that lie beneath the surface.
Skipping breakfast these days?
Don’t.
That’s the advice of Dr. Dymple
Cooksey, a foods and nutrition specialist
on the home economics staff of the
Texas Agricultural Extension Service, a
branch of the Texas A&M System.
“Breakfast is important to properly
equip us for the day’s activities,” she
said.
“And when people don’t eat break
fast, they’re more likely to resort to
skimpy, high-calorie, low-nutrition
snacks by mid-morning,” she said.
A better idea is to try “Time-Saving
Breakfast Breakthroughs,” she said.
“Breakfast Breakthroughs” are Cook
sey’s answer to the “no-time, no
morning appetite” syndrome, she said.
“One main thought behind them (the
breakthroughs) is that with a little im
agination and advance planning, ho-
hum breakfasts can turn into extraordi
naire,” she said.
The main key is to prepare part of
your breakfast menu the night before,
as in these menu suggestions.
— Beat and refrigerate eggs for
scrambling the next morning.
— Assemble ingredients for pancakes
and waffles, measure them and set them
aside.
— Wash, peel and cut up fresh fruit
or melons the night before. Combine
these in your blender jar and blende
then refrigerate. In the morning you’ll
have a cool vitality drink for a very diffe
rent breakfast treat.
— If you’re getting back to basics with
grain, make whole-grain muffins and
breads ahead of time. Divide them into
meal-size portions and freeze. On the
mornings you want these “Breakfast
Breakthroughs,” just heat them.
— If you’re one of those people who
must be coaxed out of bed by the aroma
of fresh coffee, then fill your coffee mak-
Landphair said the natural revegeta
tion process should be considered only
for land that is not good for farming like
the Claypan region.
In the study of old unreclaimed strip
mines in this country and in Europe,
Landphair discovered that sites receiv
ing sufficient rainfall had begun to sup
port a substantial amount of vegetation.
Unlike sites that are replanted only in
grass, the unreclaimed sites showed a
natural diversification of plant life, he
said. Several varieties of grass including
Johnson and Big Blue Stem were among
the plants Landphair found along with
er with water and grounds, plug it into a
timer the night before and your cup of
enthusiasm will be ready when you are
in the morning.
— Chop up cooked meats, fish, poul
try or ham the night before and add it to
your omelet for breakfast the next
morning.
trees like cedar elm and live and post
oak.
There are several problems with
landscaping a mine area and replanting
it in solid grass, Landphair said, includ
ing the expense — about $2,000 to
$3,000 an acre for coastal Bermuda grass
— and the thwarting of Mother Nature.
He has estimated that the natural pro
cess of revegetation would cost about
$400 to $500 an acre.
Public reaction to strip mines re
planted in grass is good because of their
appearance.
If you’re a peanut butter fan, crumble
cooked bacon and mix it with peanut
butter for a spread on toast the next
morning.
— Grate up some of your favorite
cheese the night before and top English
muffins with it — or some other favorite
topping. Muffins can be put under the
“People like that; it’s pretty,” he
said. “To my way of thinking, it’s a false
solution. Mother Nature doesn t do it
that way.
“It would tend to generate a land
scape somewhat reminiscent of the land
you would see in the Cross Timbers area
of the state,” he said.
“Scientists will tell you that you can t
put it back the way it was. You’re start
ing all over from day one from the ecolo
gical standpoint. The idea of trying to
put it back to original contour is wrong. ”
He said the new shape of the land is
broiler with the fresh topping and
served in minutes.
“With these Breakfast Break
throughs’ as a start — and depending on
how imaginative you are,” she said,
“breakfast can be a great time to wake
up your taste buds and prepare yourself
for a better day every day.”
different, “but different isn t necessarily
worse.”
Landphair already has received fund
ing for his research from the University
and intends to apply for additional
money from the National Science
Foundation and the Office of Surface
Mining.
“They (the government) have come
up with the answer (mining laws) before
they’ve asked the right question,” he
said. “If we could learn how to give
Mother Nature a hand, wouldn’t that
system be more stable and cost us a lot
less in the long run?”
Engineers
to assemble
at University
Improved productivity through
engineering will be the theme of a
national conference expected to
bring about 3,000 visitors to Texas
A&M University in 1982.
The American Society for En
gineering Education (ASEE) has
announced it will hold its June con
ference on the campus of the largest
engineering college in the nation.
Dr. Robert H. Page, Texas A&M
dean of engineering, said the session
is designed to bring industry, gov
ernment and education together to
stimulate fresh ideas related to re
search in the critical areas of produc
tivity.
“The lack of productivity has re
sulted in a spiraling inflation and the
loss of America’s competitive edge in
many industrial areas that at one
time were totally dominated by our
nation,” Page said. “Engineers will
bear much of the responsiblity for
devising ways to increase America’s
productivity.”
Page and others from the College
of Engineering, including Dr. James
Earle, coordinator of next year’s
gathering, attended the 89th annual
ASEE conference held earlier this
summer at the University of South
ern California at Los Angeles.
Earle said engineering educators
and industry representatives will be
at Texas A&M for five days, holding
meetings on a variety of engineer
ing-related topics and hearing 100
presentations.
Assisting Earle in preparing for
what is expected to be the largest
conference ever held on the campus
for this length of time are Drs. Ed
Red, William Ledbetter, Tim Cop-
pinger and Robert Parent.
Advance planning makes it easy
Breakfast can be tasty and quick
Staff photo by Greg Gammon