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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, December 15, 1981
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srael annexes land;
yria ends cease-fire
United Press International
JSyria has charged that Israel’s anne-
|ion of the Golan Heights was a dec
ation of war and demanded the U. N.
burity Council meet and revoke the
iion.
Jlhe United States, apparently taken
, Isurprise, expressed its deep concern
ir the Israeli move Monday. Egypt
led it a blow to the peace process and
|‘challenge to world opinion.” The
lO condemned it.
After a stormy six-hour debate
jotted by many opposition mem-
the 120-member Israeli parlia-
|nt, or Knesset, voted 63-21 Monday
kpply the law, jurisdiction and admi-
Itration of the State of Israel to the
la captured in the 1967 war.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin,
although confined to a wheelchair after
a hip fracture, left the hospital Monday,
called an emergency Cabinet session to
approve the law and rushed it through
the parliamentary process in one day. It
usually takes weeks.
In a statement from Damascus, Syria
said, “The Israeli decision cancels the
cease-fire between Syria and Israel
(signed after the 1973 Middle East war)
and means the annexation of Syrian ter
ritory and launched war against Syria.
“The Syrian government will not
spare any effort to defend its territory
and national interest. Syria reserves the
right to take suitable measures against
this gross and flagrant violation of the
United Nations covenant.”
Defense Minister Ariel Sharon told
parliament’s Foreign Affairs and De
fense committee before the last of three
votes required for enactment that, “The
Israeli army has taken all the necessary
measures to meet any eventuality. ”
Although eight opposition deputies
broke ranks and supported the bill, Be-
gin’s coalition did not unanimously
approve it. The important Agudath
Israel religious party followed orders
from its Council of Torah Sages to ab
stain.
Begin said the urgent legislation was
necessitated by Syrian President Hafez
Assad’s recent declaration in a newspap
er interview that he will not make peace
with Israel “even in 100 years.’
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n Oct. 5 the high temperature for
| day in Bryan-College Station was
■ Winter — a fout-month season of
ny cold and a few hard freezes — was
|11 a month and a half away.
■And not many had thought about
Iwood for Christmas.
■On Oct. 5 the high temperature for
|e day in Detroit was 58. Winter — a
|month season of ice, snow and slush
■was just around the corner.
t Everyone was wondering if there
uld he any firewood for Christmas.
The winters in the Snowbelt states
cold and hard. Attitudes are getting
't way, too. And jobs are as easy to
as a warm place.
he Snowbelt snow makes the Sun-
t look all the sunnier. The South in
northerners to its warm hospital-
and Bryan-College Station is
acting snowbirds like flies,
nd the snowbirds are nesting here
[permanently.
ryan-College Station has the charm
y other sunbelt city has: eight months
arm weather, four months of almost
B weather, an expanding economy —
id jobs.
put this community also has a univer-
growing in enrollment and research
gaining recognition nationwide as
[above-average institution of higher
ning. The county offers natural re-
rces to encourage industry, and a
mfortable niche between Houston,
m Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth,
ankees looking for a sunbelt spot
1 pick Bryan-College Station over
uston or Dallas because the town is
[all, said Dr. R.L. Skrabanek, demog-
pher with the Texas Real Estate Re-
irch Center.
Although Bryan-College Station is
the fastest growing Standard Metropoli
tan Statistical Area in Texas and sixth
fastest-growing SMSA in the United
States, with a population of 93,487 it’s
small compared to Houston or Dallas.
An SMSA is a metropolitan area with a
population of at least 50,000.
The number of Yankees who move to
Bryan-College Station is not known,
Skrabanek said. But they are coming he
said because this is “where the action
is.”
And the northerners who move to the
area are generally highly-educated.
They take jobs that pay well, and they
earn their keep.
Skrabanek, also a professor in Texas
A&M University’s Department of
Sociology and in the Department of Ru
ral Sociology in the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, said that the
Bryan-College Station area attracts
northerners because of the lower taxes,
the warmer weather and the greater
number of jobs. But the University is
the biggest attraction, he said.
“Nationally, Texas A&M is recog
nized as a good school,” Skrabanek said.
“It’s where the academic action is.”
While enrollment at other colleges,
especially colleges in the snowbelt, is
decreasing, enrollment at Texas A&M is
increasing. A growing university “is a
desirable place to come,’ he said.
Dr. Michael A. Abelson agrees.
Abelson, an assistant professor in the
Department of Management, moved
from Pennsylvania one year ago. As a
doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania
State University, he was involved in re
search.
Texas A&M “supports the necessary
time to teach, and provides the re
sources for research,” Abelson said.
The management department as well
as the University’s other business de
partments are “starting to receive na
tional prominence,” Abelson said.
Dr. Marietta Tretter, associate pro
fessor of business analysis and research,
moved here in June. She was a professor
of management at Penn State.
Tretter’s interest is in the computer
industry. She moved because here, she
said, because there’s a lot of oppor
tunity.
“In Pennsylvania, the economy is de
pressed,” she said. “Resources are
drying up, and there’s not a lot of money
— not compared to here.”
Tretter said the computer industry is
growing in the South while it’s stagnat
ing in the North.
Dan Mizer moved from Ball State
University in Muncie, Ind. At Texas
A&M, he’s an assistant area coordinator
for the Commons housing area on the
University’s south side.
Mizer, who moved here in July, took
a job at the University because he was
intrigued with the school itself. A friend
who also works for the University got
him interested in the school.
He said he’s been fascinated with
Texas since he was 5 and although he
doesn’t know exactly what the attraction
is, he says Texas seems to be the place to
go.
Push factors, such as high taxes and
unemployment, bring a lot of North
erners south, Skrabanek said. And pull
factors, like no state income tax and
jobs, get Yankees to Bryan-College Sta
tion.
Lesli Meyers has a job at Reagan’s, a
clothing store in College Station. She
See YANKEES page4
Georgia Chiles, a senior elementary education
major from Sugarland, Texas, is caught in the
reflection of a mirrored wall. Chiles was taking
a study break in the MSC.
to Poland will continue,
but future U.S. aid suspended
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United
States, in it most substantive response
yet to the Polish crisis, suspended fu
ture aid to that nation’s government
pending further assessment of the mud
dled situation.
U.S. food already being sent to the
Polish people will continue, however,
the administration stresses it does not
want to take any punitive action against
the populace.
Secretary of State Alexander Haig,
upon his return Monday from a NATO
ministers’ meeting in Brussels, told re
porters:
“Humanitarian relief already in the
pipeline will proceed, but at a time like
this we are going to hold, in abeyance,
decisions to further aid the government
of Poland until the situation clarifies.”
Said Haig, “We want to tread a fine
line between taking positions that will
incite violence and bloodshed, on one
hand, and avoiding positions which
w'ould acquiesce in repression, on the
other.”
Administration officials admitted that
the United States lacks sufficient infor
mation about the weekend crackdown
against the Solidarity labor union and
University Center has new schedule for holidays
Dining
schedules
evised
DAY:
DATE:
Students, faculty and staff members
[lanning to eat any meals on campus
is week may find themselves in alter-
[ate dining halls operating on revised
hedules.
Three campus dining halls and other
ning facilities will close and reopen on
following schedules.
DUNCAN DINING HALL will
lose after the evening meal Thursday.
Duncan diners can eat breakfast Fri-
.y in the Commons.
COMMONS DINING HALL will
lose after the breakfast meal Friday.
Duncan and Commons diners can eat
inner and supper at Sbisa Friday,
j SBISA DINING HALL will close
J fter the evening meal Friday. Sbisa,
hmcan and Commons will reopen for
dpt 1111 ' Teakfast Jan. 18.
/itiesfr COMMONS SNACK BAR will close
trara^ ft 1:30 p.m. Friday and reopen at 4
|>.m. Jan. 17.
woffl 1 * [ SOUPER SALAD wall close at 1:45
i-m. Friday and reopen at 10:45 a.m.
-\oon i; an - 4 -
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD will
\ ilose at 2 p.m. Friday and reopen at
10:45 a.m. Jan. 11.
l° ne - : VET SNACK BAR will close at 2p.m.
Friday and will reopen on its regular
ichedule Jan. 4.
GOLF COURSE SNACK BAR will
>e open during regular hours each day
Jlandft luring the holiday season except
jjrai# Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New
and E dear’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Tues.
Dec. 22
Wed.-
T^urs.
Dec.23-24
Fri.,Sat.,
& Sun.
Dec.25-27
M,T,W,
T,F Sat.&Sun.
Dec.28-Janl Jan.2-3
M,T,W,
T,F
Jan.4-8
Sat.
Jan. 9
MSC Building
Open
7 AM -
5 PM
7 AM -
11 PM
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11 PM
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Tower Building
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7 AM -
5 PM
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Craft Shop
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Association of
Former Students
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Beauty Shop
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a pm
Bowling and
Games
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TF5
Braley Travel
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Browsing
Library
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Food Services
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:. 7 pm
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5 PM
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MSC Guest Room
Close 2 PM
OPEN 24 HRS
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MSC Box Office
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1®T
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MSC Snackbar
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P.0. Lobby
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.
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■’
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Student
Programs
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Room
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Visitors Info.
Center
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8 AM-12 NOrW 12:30 PM -
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Thurs.
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Friday
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Saturday
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Sunday Monday
Jan. 17 wTan. 18
*Enter this area thru south entrance on Joe Routt Blvd. across from G.Rollie White
Coliseum on days MSC is closed.
CD On 1/4/82 Food Service opens at 7 AM.
University Center facilities will operate on this revised schedule during the four-week holiday period.
imposition of maritial law to take much
action.
The basic policy, as long as there is no
direct intervention by the Soviet Un
ion, is one of watching and waiting and
trying to assess the extent of repression,
stability and Soviet involvement.
Concerning America’s response to
possible Soviet intervention. White
House spokesman Larry Speakes said:
“It is our hope the Polish people will
be able the settle these matters inter
nally without outside interference.”
Blast destroys
Iraqi embassy
in west Beirut
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A massive ex
plosion ripped through upper floors of
the Iraqi Embassy in west Beirut today,
killing at least 11 people and wounding
many others, police said.
“According to our preliminary re
ports, at least 11 persons have been kil
led and 22 others wounded . The casual
ty figure is not final and the death toll
could very well be much higher,” a
police officer said.
“The cause of the blast is still not
known. The five-story building is de
molished with many people still in the
rubble,” he said. “At least four other
buildings in the vicinity have also been
badly damaged.”
Police said they were not sure if Iraqi
Ambassador Abdel Razzak Lafteh was in
the building at the time of the blast, but
a Western diplomat said “the ambassa
dor’s car was in the embassy parking
lot.”
A reporter at the scene said: “Each of
the building’s ceilings are packed on top
of each other.” “A section of the con
crete and stone building immediately
over the blast area is flattened. ”
As reporters and photographers
rushed to the scene of the blast, Iraqi
Embassy guards opened fire to keep
them away. No one was hurt.
The building, in the waterfront Ram-
let al Bayda neighborhood of west
Beirut, was soon cordoned off by Syrian
troops of the Arab peacekeeping forces
as ambulances and rescue teams rushed
to remove the casualties, witnesses
said.
While police investigated the cause of
the blast, one unconfirmed report said a
car packed with explosives crashed
through the embassy gate and exploded
under the building.
Police had no immediate confirma
tion of the report.