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Vol. 75 No. 119 USPS 045360 20 Pages In 2 Sections
College Station, Texas
Thursday, March 25, 1982
More dead on West
Bank as Israel jails
Palestinian dissidents
United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli offi
cials, waging the most significant bat
tle in Israeli history against bloody
protests convulsing the occupied
West Bank, jailed hundreds of Pales
tinian dissidents, Israeli television
said.
Officials Wednesday placed the
toll at five Palestinians dead and 20
wounded since violence sparked by
the Israeli dismissal of a West Bank
town council erupted a week ago
today.
At least nine Israeli soldiers and
civilians were injured. Most were hit
by stones but one soldier was stabbed,
the officials said.
At the United Nations, 22 Arab
nations demanded the Security
Council condemn Israel for brutal
attacks against Palestinian protesters
in the occupied West Bank.
A tentative Arab resolution did not
seek sanctions against the Jewish
state, but sought condemnation of its
attacks on West Bank demonstrators
and repressive measures against the
Syrian population of the Golan
Heights.
Despite official Israeli contentions
the protests were petering out, the
disturbances were the worst in a week
and the bloodiest in six years of Israeli
occupation.
Nicaragua offers peace
outline to U.N. today
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Heads Up
Freshman Steve Koch uses his head afternoon. Koch is a general studies
during his PE class Wednesday major from Houston.
Guatemalan leader denies
United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — Nicar
agua, warning of U.S. invasion plans,
took a peace proposal for war-torn
Central America to the U.N. Security
Council today and said its success de
pends on Washington.
Diplomatic sources emphasized
the atmosphere had changed since
junta leader Daniel Ortega sent a
strongly worded request for an
emergency session because of an im
minent U.S. invasion, and he was ex
pected to concentrate today on prom-
Regents
officials
by Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
Along with Tuesday’s appointment
of a new r Texas A&M University Sys
tem chancellor came the reassign-
oting negotiations.
In Mexico. Foreign Minister Jorge
Castaneda announced earlier the Un
ited States and Nicaragua would meet
soon in Mexico City to try and resolve
their differences.
“Our proposal isn’t going to be a
magic force,” Ortega said before leav
ing Managua Wednesday to present
his plan to the United Nations. “It’s
the attitude of the American govern
ment that is going to determine” what
happens.
On their arrival in New York, his
Foreign Minister Miguel D’Escoto
said “happily, for the first time they
(the Reagan administration) have re
sponded to our pleas to talk.”
Ortega did not give details, but
junta member Rafael Cordoba said
his peace proposal was similar to one
made Tuesday by Honduran Foreign
Minister Edgardo Paz in Washington.
Honduras suggested all Central-
American nations disarm, sign an in
ternational accord to stop the flow of
weapons into the area and set up reg
ular talks to reduce tensions.
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within System
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United Press International
GUATEMALA CITY — A rightist
politician who advocates total war
gainst leftist rebels said he helped
dissident military officers oust Presi
dent Romeo Lucas Garcia but denied
Washington had advance knowledge
°f the coup.
“Movements such as this cannot
place without civilians,” Lionel
Sisniega Otero told UPI Wednesday,
°f his involvement in the Tuesday
Cou P against the Lucas regime. “I was
° n e of the civilians who took part in
die movement.”
Sisniega’s admission was the first
^olid indication of the political beliefs
°hhe Young Officers Movement now
controlling the Central American na-
to>n of 7.2 million.
During a frustrated bid for power
,n the March 7 elections, Sisniega’s
Fny — the staunchly anti
communist and far-right National
•aneration Movement — urged all-
out war against some 4.000 leftist re
bels fighting the regime.
Sisniega, a vice presidential candi
date during the allegedly fraudulent
elections, said he helped plan the
military ouster with Gen. Jose Efrain
Rios Montt, head of Guatemala’s new
three-man military junta.
The New' York Times reported in
today’s editions U.S. officials acknow
ledged they knew of the plans for a
coup as early as January.
The Reagan administration, which
had hoped to strengthen ties with
Guatemala to help it battle a burgeon
ing leftist insurgency but also had de
manded fair elections, did not issue
an immediate comment on the re
port.
But Sisniega, whose party charged
the ousted regime with rigging the
vote in favor of the government can
didate and winner Gen. Angel Anibal
Guevara, denied the Reagan adminis
tration had advance knowledge.
“The first reaction of the United
States was surprise," Sisniega said.
“Even their intelligence service did
not know of it (the coup).”
At a reception in the capital by
some 200 supporters, Sandoval Alar
con said he plans to forge ahead with
a coalition with the Christian Demo
crats to bring new elections for Guate
mala. Sandoval Alarcon is a former
vice president.
The three-man junta Wednesday
filled eight Cabinet posts with offic
ers, suspended the constitution, ban
ned all political activity, dissolved con
gress and purged three top opposi
tion generals. But the future role of
rightist politicians such as Sisniega is
unclear.
Military aid to Guatemala was
halted in 1977 in a dispute over the
Carter administration’s demand for a
better human-rights record, but the
Reagan administration had hoped to
restore arms supplies to fight the lef
tist guerrillas.
Dr. Daniel C. Pfannstiel
ments of two other key System offi
cials.
Dr. Alvin I. Thomas, president of
Prairie View A&M University since
1966, will become the executive vice
president for facilities and develop
ment of the Prairie View A&M Col
lege of Nursing in Houston, effective
June 1.
That move was approved by the
System Board of Regents along with
the reassignment of Dr. Daniel C.
Pfannstiel, director of the Texas
A&M University Agricultural Exten
sion Service since 1976.
Pfannstiel will head a new docto
rate program in Texas A&M Univer
sity’s Department of Agricultural
Education. He will assume this posi
tion Sept. 1.
Thomas’ reassignment came after
he requested the Texas A&M System
Board of Regents to reassign him. In
a letter to the regents, he cited health
and personal considerations as his
reasons for wanting to step down
from the office as of June 1.
“Dr. Thomas will not be responsi
ble for the academic part of the nurs
ing college, but will manage the facili
ties there," said Dr. C.A. W<x>d, dire
ctor of information for Prairie View
A&M.
Wood said a search committee will
be formed soon to find a permanent
president for Prairie View A&M. He
said the search will probably be com
pleted by September.
Regents appointed Dr. Ivory V.
Nelson, current vice president for Re
search and Special Projects at Prairie
\ iew, to serve as acting president un
til a permanent president is found.
The new doctorate program in
agricultural education to be headed
by Pfannstiel is set to begin in the fall.
T hat program will be coordinated by
Dr. Earl H. Knebel.
Dr. Alvin I. Thomas
Knebel said the proposed program
has been approved by the regents and
is now awaiting final approval by the
Coordinating Board, Texas Colleges
and Universities.
“We are optimistic that it will be
approved in the next few months," he
said.
Deadline to reserve
dorm spaces Friday
Voting drive on to
students in Brazos
‘"urlents who live on campus have
Jr >til Friday to reserve residence hall
’Paces for Fall 1982. However, stu-
en is need to check with their resi-
advisers to make sure their hall
° es not have an earlier deadline.
Thomas R. Murray, central area
Co °rdinator, said head residents and
Jyident advisers received residents'
Rising reservation cards earlier this
I'cek. and the sign-up piocess has
All residents’ cards must be turned
" l, > the head resident bv Friday.
Murray said head residents will
turn in their completed rosters, in
hall room changes and residents'
cards to the area office Monday. The
area offices will turn in the cards of
students who will not live on campus
next fall to the housing office
Tuesday.
On Wednesdav. personnel in the
four area offices w ill meet and make
hall changes. Murrav said.
Confirmation cards will be sent to
students Thursday to let them know if
requested hall changes were
approved.
Student Government’s annual vo
ter registration drive, which runs
! through Wednesday, will encourage
students to register in Brazos Countv,
the drive chairman savs.
Chairman Fred Billings said the
I drive will run in conjunction with the
| March 30 and 31 student elections in
I an effort to promote voter awareness
among students.
Registering to vote in Brazos
j County presents several advantages
for students. Billings said. It ma\ be
difficult for students who are regis
tered to vote in their home counties
because the election might not coin
cide with a time when they are home.
Billings said.
Also, since students spend nine
months a vear or more in College Sta
tion. candidates elected here prob
ably will affect them more than those
elected in their home county.
Billings said voter registration
cards are available in posters in build
ings, on kiosks around campus, and in
register
County
the student government office. 216C
MSG. Posters also will be available at
the student government election
polls.
A student must re-register if he has
changed his address or if he has not
voted in two years. To change his vo-
ter registration to Brazos County, a
student can mail in a card and his
registration will be transferred auto
matically.
Billings expects between 3.000 and
6,000 students to register during the
student government drive this vear.
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Classified 6
Local 3
National 9
Opinions 2
Sports 13
State 6
What's Up II
forecast
Foday’s forecast: Overcast and
humid with drizzle and dense fog
becoming winds and cooler this
afternoon. Today’s high should l>e
in the upper 60s a low tonight in
the low er 40s. Friday’s forecast calls
for cloudv skies with a high in the
mid-60s.
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