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75 No. 101 USPS 045360 18 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, February 22, 1982
eftists battle
Military drive
H United Press International
AN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
list guerrillas staged lightning
cks in eastern El Salvador to divert
;esirom a 1,000-man government
mlve backed by artillery and
.-supplied helicopter gunships,
ly commanders said.
G|errillas Sunday killed at least
tsoldiers on an island off the coast
Usulutan province in a surprise
ick, to counter a 1,000-man milit-
sweep 20 miles to the west, army
cers in the port of La Victoria said.
They said army reinforcements
e rushed to the island by boat and
hed the rebels to the other side of
'island after all-night combat.
Col Sigfrido Ochoa, directing the
|§man military drive near the city
>an Vicente, 36 miles east of the
B, said his troops killed 20 rebels
wo days of Fighting.
Bee U.S.-supplied UH1-H Huey
icopters fitted with machine guns
ifed the hills north of San Vicente,
miles east of the capital, while army
artillery pounded guerrilla positions,
residents said.
Ochoa said one of the rebels shot
Saturday was believed to have been a
Cuban mercenary, but he said the
man died while being flown to San
Salvador for medical treatment.
A guerrilla bomb early Sunday rip
ped out the side of a bridge on the
coastal highway outside the city of
Usulutan, capital of the province,
officials said. However, single-lane
traffic was still able to pass over the
crossing, they said.
In the capital, Monsignor Arturo
Rivera y Damas, head of the San Sal
vador archdiocese, said March 28
elections for a constitutional assembly
“can become a beginning for a solu
tion” to the country’s political vio
lence.
“If there isn’t any mechanism that
once and for all can make sane this
systematic violation of human rights,
the discontent will continue in much
of the population and w 7 ill generate
the field for new rebellions,” he said.
Taking advantage of a good day
staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
Keith Saathoff, a first year Veterinary Medicine major
from Hondo, studies his medical physiology book while
getting a sun tan outside his dorm. Sunday’s sunny
weather was a pleasant change after a rainy Saturday.
“It’s pretty hard to study when the day is so beautiful,”
Saathoff said.
Governor appoints Vandiver
to defense, technology council
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
Gov. William P. Clements has
appointed University President
Frank E. Vandiver to an advisory
council on defense and technology.
Vandiver was one of more than 20
people appointed last week to the
Texas Aerospace and National De
fense Technology Council created by
Clements in September.
The governor gave the group sev
eral specific tasks, which include
promoting research in Texas, bring
ing aerospace and defense firms to
the state and persuading Congress to
maintain and expand Texas military
bases.
Terry Young, a public relations
officer for the council, said Friday
that when the council was formed, it
was expected to concentrate on
attracting new research and defense
contracts to the state.
However, he said, members say
Texas faces a shortage of engineers
and scientists and training new ones is
one of the state’s most pressing needs.
So the inclusion of prominent educa
tors on the council was the logical
move, he said.
The council’s executive committee
already has visited Washington to
brief the Texas congressional delega
tion on its activities, Young said. The
full council will meet for the first time
in March.
A spokesman said Vandiver had
just learned of his appointment and
wanted to become more familiar with
the council before discussing it.
Paul Thayer of Dallas, chairman of
the board of the Vought Corp., chairs
the 37-member council.
Hot checks
Class to counsel first offenders
staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
Tecton ophysics
Gary Robbins, a graduate student and geology
department faculty member, collects some rock samples
lying behind the Geosciences building for the Geology
320 class which he teaches.
by Robert Curlin
Battalion Reporter
To combat hot checks in Brazos
County, the county attorney’s office
now requires that all first offenders
who wish to avoid prosecution attend
an eight-hour class.
Classes offered by the National
Corrective Training Institute are de
signed to help people understand
why they write bad checks and how to
avoid doing so in the future, said
Joyce Lewis, regional coordinator for
the Institute.
If an offender fails to pay the
store’s bad check fine, the store store
can turn the check over to the county
attorney who can then prosecute.
With the NCTI program, a first
offender must repay the store where
he wrote the bad check as well as any
required fees, including the $35 fee
for the class, Lewis said. The county
attorney’s office halts prosecution
efforts after the offender has
attended class.
The program not only helps the
offender, but also reduces the back
log in the attorney’s office, Lewis said.
Class members participate in indi
vidual projects and group discussions
prompted by questions such as “What
is a criminal?” Lewis said discussions
are often detailed because none of the
participants see themselves as cri
minals.
“Writing bad checks is like a ‘closet
crime,”’ she said. “If you write a bad
check and you know it’s bad, that’s
stealing.
Another class project is a small
group discussion about why indi
viduals write a bad check in the first
place.
“Very seldom is it for something
they need, but for something they
want,” Lewis said. “Each individual
tells what it cost them to write the bad
check, as far as restitution and fees.”
Lewis said class members then try
to define the risks and benefits of
writing a bad check.
“The only benefits are free goods
and services for a short period of
time,” she said. “The risks highly out-
weigh the benefits.”
Lewis said most participants start
out angry. They are often under quite
a bit of stress and feel they are there
because of circumstances beyond
their control, she said.
Group discussions help offenders
realize they are not the only ones who
have a problem with hot check writing
and their attitudes usually change,
Lewis said.
One or two classes are held each
week at the Brazos Center, depend
ing on the number of offenders they
have, Lewis said.
The Institute also has a program
dealing with multiple bad check writ
ing offenses as well as one covering
shoplifting, Lewis said.
Courses in different culture to enrich education
.
Program to offer ‘Camp’ in Italy
by Julie Farrar
I, Battalion Reporter
pThousands of freshmen become
’riented to life at Texas A&M Uni-
ersity during Fish Camp sessions
lelri each summer in Palestine,
Texas. This summer some freshmen
fffl learn all about Aggieland during
i four-week program in Italy,
i Sponsored by the College of Liber-
il Arts, the program will offer a uni-
|ue Fish Camp experience and at the
^ lime time allow students to earn six
lours’ credit while touring the Italian
’ ttuntryside.
i“lt should give them an enriched
co^\
20^
educational background to prepare
them for the remainder of their stu
dies in a way that most of their peers
have not been prepared,” said Dr.
Candida Lutes, associate dean of the
College of Liberal Arts.
Each student will register for two of
several courses to be taught by Texas
A&M faculty, she said. Courses are
world literature, western civilization,
art history survey, introduction to
philosophy and philosophy of reli
gion.
Students will attend classes for the
five-week period and live in dormi
tories at the Italart Study Center near
Florence, Lutes said. The center, sur
rounded by hills and vineyards, is a
former monastery now used only by
foreign study groups.
“The center has been taking stu
dent groups from the United States
for the past 10 years,” she said. “Right
now, a group of Texas A&M environ
mental design students is there.”
In addition, plenty of time will be
set aside for tours, sightseeing and
cultural exchange, Lutes said. Trips
to Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice
are planned, she said.
While touring these cities, students
will visit historical and architectural
sites including homes of several re
nown philosophers, she said. Many of
the tours will be conducted by native
Italians with advanced degrees in art
history and other related subjects.
Students also may travel some on
their own, Lutes said. Transportation
will be provided so students can visit
surrounding areas to shop, sample
the cuisine or simply enjoy the Italian
culture.
Estimated cost of the trip sche
duled for June 21 through July 23 is
$2,000.
Student killed
Michaeljohn Freeman, aTexas A&M
University sophomore, was killed and
three others were injured Sunday
morning in a two-car, head-on colli
sion on FM 60.
Freeman, 20, from Groves, was
returning home following a dorm
party off FM 2818 when he crossed
over from the eastbound lane of FM
60 and hit an oncoming car driven by
Ivan Ira Issac, a freshman from Fort
Worth, in the westbound lane.
Issac, 19, is listed in fair condition
in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph
Hospital. A passenger in F’reeman’s
car, John Edward Buckle of Houston,
is also in fair condition at St. Joseph.
A passenger in Issac’s car, Dana
Rao, 20, from Dallas, was treated and
released with a sprained ankle.
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forecast
Today’s forecast: Sunny and warm
becoming clear and cool tonight
with a high today in the upper 80s;
low tonight in the mid-50s. Tues
day’s forecast calls for pardy cloudy
skies with continuing warm tem
peratures.