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Battalion Vol. 75 No. 12 16 Pages Serving the Texas A&M University community Wednesday, September 16, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 High . The Today Weather Tomorrow . . 85 High .. .87 Low. . . . 63 Low .. .68 Chance of rain 20% Chan ce of rain . 20% errorists plant bombs n American air base i! United Press International IMNKFURT, West Germany (UPI) Terrorists planted two bombs today | rail line used to supply the U. S. Air e’s Rhein Main Air Base in the |st attack against Americans, a West nan justice spokesman said. The were defused. be spokesman said the attack, the | on Americans and American instal- gypt-Soviet ik nears ifa/ break United Press International |A1R0, Egypt — Egypt and the et Union were close to a complete kdown in relations today with the Ision of the Soviet ambassador and ther Russian diplomats, but Cairo it does not want to sever all ties. Ike Egyptian government, retaliat ing mist what it said was a Soviet plot President Anwar Sadat, Tues- ordered sweeping expulsions of let diplomats, journalists and tech- I. Bns and sharply downgraded diplo- Yfc relations. > But Egyptian officials said they did ant to break all lines of communi on with the Kremlin, despite ges Soviet Ambassador Vladimir akov personally directed the plot |nst Sadat. The officials predicted Moscow Id stop short of breaking diplomatic ions with Cairo because it is eager 3ep Egypt as a listening post in the Idle East. nlyakov and six members of his assy staff were given 48 hours to e the country Tuesday after being ictmsed of abetting civil and religious Kst and recruiting Egyptians as Soviet spies. he aim was to implement a Soviet [gn against the regime and the na- unity and social peace of the coun- the Egyptian Cabinet said in a nnent. le Cabinet also ordered the expul- ofa Hungarian Embassy official and Soviet journalists and canceled the acts for all Russian technicians ing in the country, addition, Egypt abolished the |tary attaches in the embassies of countries and ordered a cutback of iloyees at the Soviet Embassy in o to the same level as the Egyptian assy in Moscow. Jhe Cabinet statement accused pet spies of posing as diplomats and [aging in subversive activities “with lligence services and embassies of a hber of Eastern Bloc countries as I as local Communists and interna- al Communist movements. ” t said Soviets stirred up “seditions etalta aJ conflicts” between Moslems and if unit fey Coptic Christian minority that led to )laybaCWafs crackdown on religious fanatics control® political opponents, including the iffjMst of 1,536 people. lations since Aug. 31, was designed to disrupt rail transport to the American air base. It came one day after an attempt to kill Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army in Europe. The West German interior minister said terrorists have marked Americans as their main targets and security offi cials had expected the ambush of Kroesen to be followed by more attacks. The bombs, with time fuses attached, were in 13-pound fire extinguishers placed on the tracks on a rail line about a mile from the American base, the spokesman said. They were discovered at 8 a.m. and disarmed about 30 mi nutes later. Intelligence agencies have received reports terrorists were planning to dis rupt the U.S. Army’s two-week annual fall manuever in Germany that began Monday. Documents found in hideouts also disclosed plans for attacks on Amer ican installations. Interior Minister Gerhart Baum said in an interview in the Bild Zeitung newspaper he was warned months ago Americans and American installations would be the key target of terrorists. His statement was believed to reflect internal reports of West German intelli gence that the Red Army Faction, the main German terrorist band, is plan ning new attacks on Americans. “I don’t know who is responsible,’’ a relaxed Kroesen told a news conference after the attack. “I do know there’s a group that has declared war on us and I’m beginning to believe them . They are making the job less than fun.” He referred to the Red Army Fac tion, which still exists although its founders, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof are dead. Meinhof killed her self in a Stuttgart prison in 1976 and Baader committed suicide a year later in the same top-security prison. Police said if the badly damaged Mer cedes-Benz of the 58-year-old U.S. European Army commander had not been armored it would have been almost totally destroyed. The general and his wife were cut by flying glass. The terrorists carried out their care fully prepared plot at 7:20 a.m. as the general’s car stopped for a traffic light on its customary 15-minute route from his suburban home to his headquarters in Heidelberg. The West German federal prosecu tor’s office said its preliminary investi gation showed at least one Russian- made anti-tank grenade was fired from about 200 yards away in a wooded slope on the edge of Heidelberg. “The material of which the launching apparatus was made and its construction point to its Soviet origin,” a spokesman for the prosecutors office said. Speech Forum begins today By PHYLLIS HENDERSON Battalion Staff Student Government wants students to speak out on issues that concern them, and it will provide them with a forum to do so. Free Speech Forum begins today at Rudder Fountain and runs from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. The open forum will be held every Wednesday throughout the rest of the fall semester. Student Government is sponsoring the forum in order to give students an opportunity to air their views, said Dale Collins, coordinator of the event. “It’s going to be an open forum for students and organizations to voice their opin ions on different issues,” he said. The hours between 11 a.m. and noon and between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. will be reserved for individual students to ex press personal views. Each student will have 10 minutes to discuss issues such as University policies, political views and religious beliefs. Students do not have to register be fore they speak; however, each person speaking must be a University student and will be required to show the proc tors of the forum a Texas A&M I.D. card. The hour between noon and 1 p.m. will be reserved for student representa tives of University organizations. They also will be restricted to a 10-minute discussion. Organizations must register the Mon day previous to the forum at which they’d like to speak in the Student Gov ernment office in order to reserve time during this hour. If organizations do not reserve the entire hour, the remaining time will be thrown open to individual students. Student Government will not control the topics discussed at the forum, Col lins said, but it does reserve the right to stop one group from sending up diffe rent representatives every 10 minutes. “We don’t want to have one group of people hogging all the time,” he said. Collins said Student Government hopes to continue the forum in the spring. “We re on a trial period now,” he said. “We’ve only got the fountain reserved for the first (fall) semester.” He said the senate expects the forum to start off slowly, but “we expect it to pick up.” The idea for an open forum was intro duced in a bill to the senate last fall by Tim Cavell, a graduate liberal arts sena tor. This bill was sent to the Rules and Regulations Committee and was re molded into Free Speech Forum. Staff photo by Greg Gammon The A&A Building features modern architectural opened in June, is the largest classroom building designs including suspended arches and skylight on campus. It has 44 classrooms, 539 faculty and windows. The $15.4 million building, which staff offices and 24 seminar and conference rooms. Building has 44 classrooms A&A among busiest facilities Students waste 1,000 pounds of aluminum cans each week By SHELLEY EMSHOFF Battalion Reporter Each semester Texas A&M stu- |ents and staff throw away about ,000. _ Three quarters of an ounce of alumi- |>im, the nation’s second most impor- fant industrial material, is wasted ev- y time a top is popped on a beverage n and the can is thrown away. Twenty-four cans make up one Ound of aluminum and Russell Han oi Coca Cola Distributors said ab- |ut 25,000 cans of soft drinks are ught on the main campus in an aver se school week — bringing the total luminum waste to about 1,000 ounds each week. In dollars and cents, this means University students and staff may just s well be donating a sum of nearly 240 to their nearest trash container ach week since the cans can be recy- |led for about 24 cents a pound. Yet, what lurks at the bottom of pose trash containers is virtually an mtapped fund-raising source. Dr. James Fletcher, adviser for the texas A&M Recreation and Parks Hub said, “Recycling cans not only ielps to conserve energy, but also is a ;ood way for clubs to make money that »uld go toward scholarships. The main reason that no one saves ans is because of the inconvenience, ” >e said. When the recreation and parks de- lartment was located in Goodwin Hall he department set up aluminum can receptacles to raise money for the club treasury. But, recreation and parks is moving to Francis Hall, and Fletcher said he doesn’t know whether or not the de partment will continue to collect cans once they are relocated. O.O. Haugen, manager of custodial services, said his department would set up aluminum can receptacles if a club is interested in using this as a fund raiser. He said the club would need to notify him and identify the organization on the container. Several places in Bryan/College Station will purchase aluminum cans for recycling. Coors Distributors, lo cated in the Industrial Park on FM 2818 buys cans Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Bryan Iron and Metal, located on Finn- feather Road, buys cans from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Safeway grocers began a recycling program Sept. 6, purchasing cans from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. There is a counter where cans are weighed by an employee and cash is given in return. Payment at these recycling centers vary from 20 cents to 24 cents a pound. “Things are picking up after the first week,” Jerry Howard, a manager Safeway in College Station said. But mostly families and children wanting to earn spending money are selling cans rather than Texas A&M students, he said. BY STEPHANIE WILLIAMS Battalion Reporter With over 2,000 students walking to and from the Academic and Agency Building every class period, Texas A&M’s newest facility is one of the busiest buildings on campus. The A&A Building — which opened in June — is also the largest classroom building on campus. The building’s up- to-date facilities were designed to accommodate 3,700 people. It has 44 classrooms, 539 faculty and staff offices and 24 seminar and conference rooms. Kotter, Tharp, and Cowell of Hous ton, an architectural firm, designed the building. And in 1979, BFW Construc tion Co. of Temple began construction on the project that cost $15.4 million upon its opening three months ago. The modern architectural design fea tures suspended arches and skylight windows. And walls on each floor are painted a different color; for example, first floor is blue, second floor is red. John Merchant, construction divi sion manager for Texas A&M, cited sev eral reasons why the A&A Building is located on Ireland Street, on the north side of campus. “One reason is because there are not many buildings on that side of campus that can help facilitate students.” Merchant said University officials also wanted to tear down the old bar racks that were located in that area. And still another reason the location was desirable is because its immediate access to University Drive and the main campus make it convenient for faculty and students, Merchant said. Staff members in the College of Busi ness Administration have posed no ma jor complaints about their relocation from the Old Hospital Building, Wil liam V. Muse, dean of the business col lege, said. Before moving into the A&A Build ing in July 1981, the faculty of the busi ness department were housed in three different locations and classes were held in several buildings. “Not all the business classes are pre sently held in the A&A Building, ” Muse said, “because the department has almost doubled in size since the idea to put our department in the A&A Building.” Other departments located in the building are English, finance, manage ment, marketing and business analysis. There are also several agencies who have offices located in the spacious building such as the Texas Real Estate Research Center, the Texas Transporta tion Institute and the Texas A&M Re search Foundation. “The building was designed to fit the specific needs of the departments who were going to use it,” said Muse, “and we are going to take advantage of the type of space we have.” The large classrooms are conducive to class discussions and the good media facilities make courses more interest ing, the dean said. “The A&A Building is a very fine building for the business school and is a big plus for communications between all students who use the building,” he said. Writing lab moves to A&A Building BY STEPHANIE WILLIAMS Battalion Reporter The writing lab, formerly located in a small red-brick building, moved on to the bigger things in life last summer when it relocated in the new Academic & Agency Building on Ireland. The lab’s former home was in the English Annex on Ross Street. “My staff was very happy to move into the small building four years ago,” said Dr. Ray Leighman, writing lab di rector. “Anything was better than the barracks where we had been located.” But after a while, both staff and stu dents made fun of the annex building, Leighman said. A standard joke Leigh man said he told visitors, was that they could easily recognize the English Annex because it was the only vine- covered building on campus. The dire ctor said the building was designed in early vegetarian. “There are cracks in the building big enough to throw a cat through, ” Leigh man said. “I would tell the gardeners not to pull the vines out because the building would fall apart. “In a way, we miss it (the annex),” Leighman said. “There was sort of a charm to that building.” The annex was built in the early 1920s and was once the fiscal office for the University. Before the writing lab moved into the annex the Radioactive Safety Office was located there, Leigh man said. The math department has housed graduate students in the English Annex, Leighman said, since the writ ing lab was re-located in the Academic & Agency Building in July. Charles McCandless, assistant vice president of academic affairs, said the annex will not be torn down in the near future; however, he said the building is not in good condition and eventually it will have to be razed.