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ifol.75 No. 121 USPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, March 29, 1982
U.S.-supported Salvadoran
party claims election win
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
Leftist guerrillas attacked the main
military barracks in San Salvador to
day as the U.S.-backed moderate
Christian Democrats claimed victory
in crucial elections to determine El
Salvador’s future.
The attack began at 5 a.m. and
gunfire crackled for more than two
hours around the San Carlos garri
son, the principal armed forces bar
racks in the capital. Military sources
said government forces called in heli
copters and armored personel car
riers to reinforce the troops who came
under attack.
There were no immediate reports
of injuries or damage.
Vote counting continued, but the
Christian Democrats led by ruling
junta of president Jose Napoleon
Duarte, appeared to be ahead in
heavy voting Sunday. An alliance of
the right raised the possibility of a
government that would dash Reagan
administration hopes for modera
tion.
Between 1.2 million and 1.5 million
Salvadorans were eligible to vote and
thousands of them, ignoring rebel
violence that killed 74 people, cast
ballots for a 60-member constituent
assembly that hopefully can end a vi
cious civil war in which 30,000 people
have been killed in three years.
The heavy turnout in many regions
of the country kept voting stations
open several hours past the official 6
p.m. closing time.
With 83 of 4,559 voting stations
counted, the Christian Democrats —
staunchly supported by the United
States — won 9,339 votes or 36.4 per
cent of the total.
The Nationalist Republican
Alliance (ARENA), led by cashiered
Maj. Roberto D’aubuisson and linked
to rightist death squads, had 6,274
votes or 24.5 percent; the far-right
National Conciliation Party held
5,473 votes or 21.4 percent; and the
moderate right Democratic Action
won 1,836 or seven percent.
Two other rightist groups, the
Popular Orientation Party and Salva
doran Popular Party, shared the rest
of the votes. Ten percent of the votes
were nullified.
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Target 2000 groups to meet,
hold panel talks on lectures
Working in the mud
Sophomore Mark MacFeron, an electrical engineering
major from San Antonio, spends a sunny Sunday
afternoon doing detail work at Parson’s Mounted
Cavalry’s stable.
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
The committee studying the Texas
A&M University System’s next 20
years is meeting on campus today and
Tuesday.
The Target 2000 Project, estab
lished by the Board of Regents last
year, begins registration at 12:30 p.m.
on the second floor of Rudder Tower.
All three project task forces — acade
mic, agricultural and engineering —
are meeting simultaneously.
At 1 p.m., all task forces will meet
in 601 Rudder to hear Victor Arnold,
former director of the Texas 2000
Committee, discuss the implications
of that committee’s report for Texas
A&M.
Texas 2000 was established by
Gov. William Clements to study the
problems Texas can expect in the
next two decades.
A four-man panel discussion will
follow Arnold’s speech.
The panel comprises George P.
Mitchell, Target 2000 chairman, and
the chairmen of the three task forces:
Jack M. Rains, academic task force;
Jay Pumphrey, agriculture task force;
and Kenneth Montague, engineering
task force.
The academic task force focuses on
problems at the System’s academic
campuses. Agriculture task force
members concentrate on the agricul
tural extension service, the agricultu
ral experiment station and the Gol-
lege of Agriculture. The engineering
task force discusses the College of En
gineering, the engineering extension
service, the engineering experiment
station and the Texas Transportation
Institute.
Each task force is further subdi
vided into work groups, each of which
is limited to discussion of a specific
area, such as clientele or resources, or
a specific institution, such as one ex
tension service or experiment station.
At 3:30 p.m., the committee will
break up into work groups and dis
cuss their proposals.
“They’ve all made some progress,”
Target 2000 Director Robert E.
Shutes said. “Now they’re into the
hard work, the nitty-gritty. They have
to see what they’ve done, what they’ve
discussed, and decide whether they
really meant it.”
Dr. D.B. Varner, former president
of the University of Nebraska System,
will speak on “Critical Dimensions of
Great Universities” at 8:15 p.m. at the
Ramada Inn. A panel composed of
university presidents, deans and
chancellors from around the country
will discuss Varner’s ideas immediate
ly after his speech.
Target 2000 resumes its meetings
at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Task force
w’ork groups will spend the morning
discussing their areas’ problems; in
the afternoon, work groups that cross
task force lines will meet for the first
time.
Task force responsibilities overlap,
Shutes said, and Tuesday’s meetings
are designed to mesh reports coming
out of the various work groups.
Each task force will hold a final
wrap-up session at 3 p.m.
Work groups will forward their re*
ports to the project’s executive com
mittee. That committee will consider
the reports and then submit their fin
al recommendations to the Board of
Regents by December.
Controversy surrounds proposed campus hotel
Editor’s note: This is the first of a
two-part series on the proposed Uni
versity Hilton: its effects and com
munity reactions to it.
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
Motorists who catch their first
glimpse of the Texas A&M campus
from the intersection of Texas Ave
nue and University Drive eventually
may have their view interrupted if a
Houston-based hotel chain gets its
nay.
Sunbelt Hotels, which operates
four hotels in Houston, wants to build
a 10-story hotel, under franchise
from the Hilton Hotels Corp., at the
southwest corner of the intersection.
The site is on the north side of the
polo field.
Sunbelt asked the Texas A&M
I'niversity System Board of Regents
at its March 22 meeting for a lease on
sw acres of land on the corner.
The request already has generated
some controversy — the Student Sen
ate passed a resolution against the
proposal Wednesday night. But local
hotel operators have reacted more
cautiously, and none have said public
ly that they entirely oppose the idea.
Regents Chairman H.R. “Bum”
Bright of Dallas appointed a 10-man
committee to study the request; the
committee comprises four regents
and six University officials. Many re
sidents have said they prefer to wait to
discuss the hotel until the committee
reports its findings.
Eric Hilton Jr., senior vice presi
dent of Hilton Hotels, presented the
idea to the regents. He said the new
hotel, to be called the University Hil
ton, would include a 10-story main
building with 20 rooms per floor and
a cabana with an additional 75 rooms.
Also in the plans are a faculty club,
a 4,000-square-foot ballroom and
2,000 square feet of meeting space.
The six acres he is requesting would
allow ample room for parking and
hotel expansion, Hilton said.
However, the Hilton chain would
not own the hotel.
Instead, Sunbelt Hotels would
negotiate the lease with the Universi
ty, would own the buildings and
would be responsible for the opera
tion of the hotel. The chain would
have to meet Hilton standards to keep
the Hilton name on the hotel.
Bright said the University should
have some say in running the hotel, so
that “no activities detrimental to the
University’s image” take place in the
hotel. He also said the design of the
structure should be compatible with
University architecture.
But the hotel controversy centers
around two questions: Does Bryan-
College Station need another hotel?
And if it does, should it be built on
University land?
Local hotel operators contacted be
lieve the area could support at least
one more hotel. Many also feel the
addition could help their own hotels
in the long run.
Some, however, refused to com
ment.
Joe A. Ferreri, owner of the Rama
da Inn, which is directly across the
street from the proposed hotel's site,
has issued a written statement on the
subject. However, he refuses to allow
it to be excerpted or paraphrased in
any way. He also refuses to allow any
reference to its substance.
And Charles Shaddox, manager of
La Quinta Motor Inn, said any state
ment will have to come from La Quin
ta’s marketing department in Dallas.
See HOTEL, page 8
Site of the proposed Hilton Hotel, on the
campus corner of University Drive and
photo by Peter Rocha
Texas Avenue under consideration by the
Board of Regents.
Campus to elect new student leaders
by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
Voting begins Tuesday in the elec
tion of student leaders to serve during
the 1982-83 school year.
Texas A&M students can vote be
ginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday for some of
more than 175 student candidates.
Polls will open both days at the
Academic and Agency Building,
Zachry Engineering Center, the
Memorial Student Center, Helden-
fds Hall, Harrington Classroom Cen-
tft. Sterling C. Evans Library and Sbi-
« Dining Hall. In addition, polling
“ill be done at the Veterinary Medi
cine Complex Tuesday only, and at
the Kleberg Animal Center Wednes
day only.
All polls will open from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. both days, except the library site,
which opens Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1
a.m., and then 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday.
All University students, including
graduating seniors, are eligible vo
ters.
A student must show his identifica
tion card to an election commission
member, who explains the voting
process. Election Commissioner
George Crowson said.
Then the student consults a ballot
listing all candidates, and he votes by-
coloring in numbered spaces on a
computer form similar to those some
times used in exams, he said.
A student doesn't have to vote in
every race for his ballot to be counted,
he said.
After voting, the ballot is returned
to an election commission member
who punches the student's identifica
tion card to show he has voted.
If a student wishes to vote for can
didates not listed, he should write the
candidate's name and position on the
back of the ballot. If elected, write-in
candidates must meet all candidate
requirements for their office, accord
ing to election regulations.
Votes will be collected twice daily
and counted using student govern
ment's new computer system. Crow-
son said. Senator Bill Price will be in
charge of tabulation.
Senators and yell leaders are
elected by plurality vote. That is, the
designated number with the most
votes win. For example, seven candi
dates are seeking three sophomore
engineering senate seats. The three
getting the most votes will be elected.
All other positions are decided by
majority vote.
Results will be posted outside the
Student Programs Office, 216 MSC
Wednesday night, Crowson said. Re
sults also will be published in The Bat
talion Thursday.
In each race between more than
two candidates, the two with the most
votes will participate in a run-off elec
tion, unless one candidate has more
than 50 percent of the votes cast. If
two candidates tie for second place in
any race, they would both be in the
run-off with the top candidate, Crow
son said.
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