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College Station, Texas
Thursday, March 4, 1982
hadafy rattles his sword,
hreatens war with U.S.
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Libyan lead
er Moammar Khadafy angrily
Ihreatened war if American warships
kiter the disputed waters of the Gulf
>f Sidra where U.S. warplanes
lowned two Libyan jets last year.
“The United States is the enemy of
[he Arabs, Islam and the East,” Kha-
lafy said Wednesday in Tripoli.
[American President (Ronald)
leagan has nothing on his mind ex
cept Libya.”
Khadafy, dressed in military uni-
[orm, warned in a wideranging fore-
gn policy address if the U.S. 6th Fleet
enters the Gulf of Sidra on Libya’s
Mediterranean coast it w ill mean “war
because it entered our territory.
\ “War in its full meaning wall flare
up between us involving the air force,
the navy and missiles — everything,”
said the mercurial leader who seized
power after a bloody coup in 1967.
Libyan and U.S. jets last summer
engaged in a dogfight over the Gulf
of Sidra after Libya alleged the planes
violated its territory. Tw'o Libyan
planes were shot down. Washington
does not recognize Libya’s territorial
claim.
khadafy made the angry declara
tion to Libya’s Popular General Con
ference, a governing forum of labor
groups and popular committees. Ear
lier they had voted on a Cabinet re
shuffle of the foreign affair and oil
ministries, two key departments.
In his second broadside against the
United States in tw'o days, Khadafy
said, “America cannot defeat 1 mil
lion Libyans unless it used the atomic
bomb, but it would be conquered as in
Vietnam by traditional weapons.”
Khadafy, a staunch opponent of
the Camp David peace accords with
Israel, madeConciliatory remarks ab
out Egypt, Libya’s eastern neighbor,
and Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak.
“We had no intention to trigger a
war with anyone in Egypt and Hosni
Mubarak had a chance to save the
Egyptian people from the humiliat
ing agreements” of Camp David,
Khadafy said in the speech reported
by the state-run Libyan New s Agency.
The Libyan leader, a Soviet ally on
Middle East policy, accused Saudi
Arabia of creating an oil glut “to
switch all clients from buying Libyan
oil” in the hope it would topple the
Libyan regime.
urors in Brown murder trial
till deadlocked over decision
United Press International
GALVESTON — Despite a jury’s
|3-day-old reported hopeless 11-1
deadlock and stressful state, a judge
las ordered deliberations to continue
jin the capital murder trial of a Texas
brison inmate in the drowning of his
varden.
The panel was ordered to return to
ihe courtroom this morning to try
ind reach a verdict in the case against
convicted robber Eroy Brow'n of
Waco in the state’s first case of an
linrnate charged with killing a warden.
District Judge Henry Dalehite told
jurors after 21 V2 hours of deadlocked
deliberations Wednesday evening
that he would not discharge them as
they requested and they must “decide
the case if you can conscientiously do
so.”
He asked them io return to the
motel where they had been seques
tered and think about the case “with
out the pressure of deliberating.”
Brown, 31, serving a 12-year rob
bery sentence, admitted killing Texas
Department of Corrections Ellis Unit
Warden Wallace M. Pack, 54, but said
he acted in self-defense.
Also killed in the April 4, 1981,
incident was Ellis Unit Farm Manager
Billy Max Moore, 49. No trial date has
been set in Moore’s death. Brown
claimed Moore threatened him not to
tell Pack that the farm unit manager
was involved in a tire-stealing scheme
with other TDC employees.
The prosecution contends Brown
killed the prison officials in a rage
over a denied furlough.
The jury Wednesday sent five
notes to Dalehite saying it was hope
lessly deadlocked. Jury foreman Joet-
ta Warden said in a note to Dalehite
that the situation inside the jury room
was “VERY stressful for everyone
and definitely a hopeless one.”
Prosecutors had said if a mistrial
was declared, they planned to retry
the case but in another county. The
trial had been moved to Galveston
from Huntsville because of pretrial
publicity.
Regents
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staff photo by Eileen Manton
What a blast
James Huffine of the Houston A&zA Cleaning Company
water blasts the bricks of the old animal husbandry
building in an attempt to clean out imbedded sand and
dirt.
Group OKs flood study
*5 T
Regent John B. Coleman, left, of Houston
and Clyde Freeman, executive vice
chancellor of administration, survey the
model of the proposed addition to the
photo by Diana Sultenfuss
Halbouty Geosciences Building. Plans for
the addition were studied at a meeting of
the Planning and Building Committee
Wednesday.
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
A $40,000 appropriation for a
study of flooding in the Zachry En
gineering Center basement was
approved Wednesday by a committee
of the Texas A&M University System
Board of Regents.
The Planning and Building Com
mittee also approved a $235,000
appropriation for a detailed design of
the Halbouty Building expansion.
All committee recommendations
are subject to final approval by the
full board which will meet on campus
March 23.
The campus drainage proposal
was the most controversial item dis
cussed. Regents are considering
drainage improvement because
heavy rains have repeatedly flooded
the Zachry basement.
Regent H.C. “Dulie” Bell of Au
stin, committee chairman, said
Zachry’s flooding problems stem
from the construction of the Skaggs
shopping center on University Ave
nue, without adequate provision for
storm water runoff.
The System staff recommends im
proving drainage from Zachry, south
through the University golf course,
with care taken to disturb the course
as little as possible. The proposal also
includes a series of drainage ponds on
the golf course, so that water chan
neled south toward Jersey Street will
not overflow storm sewers during
heavy rains.
However, Regent Royce Wisenbak-
er of Tyler questioned the necessity of
the plan. He said the same results
could be obtained at a lower cost by
running a dragline through the storm
lines, clearing out air and debris trap
ped in the channels.
After a testy exchange between
W’isenbaker and Bell, the committee
moved on to other matters.
Earlier in the meeting, the commit
tee approved funding a detailed de
sign for the Halbouty Building exten
sion. In September, regents approved
$100,000 for a preliminary design of
the extension, which will be northwest
of Halbouty. The site is now a parking
lot.
Goldman and Rolfe Architects, the
firm designing the extension, pre
sented that preliminary design
Wednesday. After questioning the
architects at length, the committee
approved their plan and recom
mended paying $105,000 for a de
tailed design.
The extension will provide more
office and laboratory space for the the
geology and geophysics departments.
Its completion is expected by summer
1984 at a total cost of S7 million.
In other action, the committee
approved funding the detailed design
of the Physical Plant and Grounds
Maintenance Facility on the west cam
pus. The board will pay $28,000 for
the design, in addition to the $20,000
already appropriated for the initial
study.
The committee also approved a
series of improvements at Tarleton
State University. Prairie View A&M
University, the Texas Forest Service
and various facilities of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station. .
The committee reconvened at 8
this morning to consider other items
on its agenda, including a new sign
for Olsen Field, the renovation of cer
tain dormitories and a report on a
power sale proposal from the City of
College Station.
—Lock Up and Look Out increases residents crime awareness
RHA security program successful
by Randy Lemmon
Battalion Reporter
The Residence Hall Association
Lock Up and Look Out securitv
awareness program has ended, and
RHA officers say it was a great success
that should have lasting effects.
“The dorms deserve a lot of credit
for pulling through and making the
Lock Up and Look Out program the
success it was,” said Tracy Moy, RHA
director of facilities and planning.
At Wednesday night's board meet
ing. officers discussed and judged
programs and activities of the 27
dorms that participated in the two-
week program. Names of the two win
ning dorms w ill be released March 1 1.
Residents of the winning men’s
and women’s dorms will receive an
all-expense paid dinner, and also a
mixer at the Quonset Huts March 23.
A junior industrial engineering
major from Houston. Moy proposed
the security awareness format. Moy
also serves on the Student Affairs De
partment’s security task force com
mittee.
“I’ve worked with the other RHA
executives to develop a format ... to
promote dorms to work bv them
selves to become aware of the security
problems and what RHA could do to
promote the project,” Moy said. “It
took on like wild fire.”
Moy worked with RHA executives
to pair dorms and make the program
into contest.
“The dorms didn’t just participate
in the program to win a free mixer, in
fact they have become more aware of
security problems the University
has,” Moy said. “The students took
the initiative, instead of someone else
doing it, and followed up w ith innova
tive programs.”
Underwood Hall sponsored two
programs on self-defense and high
way safety. Residents of Legett
viewed a film on rape and also had a
speaker discuss self-defense.
College Station police officers vi
sited with residents of Hughes Hall to
discuss local security problems.
Law Hall residents sponsored an
escort service for female students who
have to walk on campus at night. Law-
residents have participated in a prog
ram to register bicycles, as did the
residents of Aston Hall.
“Each women’s dorm was paired
off with a men's dorm and attempted
to work together w-ith ideas." Moy
said.
Not all of the activities associated
with the Lock Up and Look Out prog
ram were preventative measures. For
example, Haas and Mclnnis halls
sponsored a hot dog cookout and
donated the proceeds to the Brazos
County Crime Stoppers.
“There have even been parties w ith
themes such as ‘Put a Freeze on
Crime’ and a Jailhouse Rock party,”
Moy said.
Some residents from Haas and
Mclnnis had joint dorm jogging as
did some residents of Moses and Cle
ments halls.
Since the beginning of the two-
week program, police have reported
fewer attacks, less vandalism and few
er book thefts from the Commons
and Sbisa dining halls, Moy said.
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