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Vol. 75 No. 140 USPS 045360 34 Pages In 2 Sections
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 23, 1982
sjj British a day from South Georgia island
Britain’s fleet commander Rear
Adm. Sandy Woodward said the 40-
ship armada would go on full war
footing — including ‘round-the-clock
manning of battle stations — at 11
p.m. EST today when it draws within
range of Argentine warplanes.
“I think they would be very ill-
advised to take us on,” Woodward
said. “They would inevitably suffer
severe losses. Inevitably there would
be losses on our side too, but in the
end I think we would win.”
United Press International
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Thursday the fleet would attack the
remote island of South Georgia, de-
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In London, Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher told Parliament the
idea of force cannot be ruled out at
any point of the negotiations now
under way in Washington.
British Foreign Secretary Francis
Pym met for four hours with Secret
ary of State Alexander Haig in
Washington to discuss a three-point
British proposal for averting war with
Argentina.
“There is much work to be done
and we are dealing with a very diffi
cult problem,” Pym told reporters af
ter the meeting. He scheduled meet
ings later today with Haig and Presi
dent Reagan.
The British peace proposals, which
have not been released, were said to
call for complete withdrawal of
Argentine forces and creation of a
joint British-U.S. interim administra
tion.
Britain also wants an election by the
1,800 islanders to decide their own
future and joint Anglo-Argentine use
of the oil and other possible resources
on the islands.
With time running out on the
peace bid, Argentina’s President
Leopoldo Galtieri reviewed the
10,000 troops dug in on the Falklands
with tanks, jets and armored carriers,
urging them to fight until the last
drop of blood.
As the British fleet steamed within
800 miles of South Georgia, Harrier
jump-jets scrambled Thursday for a
second straight day on the carrier In
vincible to chase off an Argentine
Boeing 707 spying on the warships.
U.S. intelligence sources said the
aircraft carriers Hermes and Invinci
ble were spearheading the drive to
ward South Georgia and were ex
pected to be within striking distance
by Saturday.
Argentine soldiers captured a Brit
ish scientific base on the glacier-
covered island April 3. South Georgia
is 900 miles east of the main 200-
island Falklands archipelago.
United Press International
YAMIT, Israeli-occupied Sinai —
The town of Yamit gradually dis-
“appeared back into the desert today
with Israeli troops evicting the last
squatters and demolishing remaining
buildings in preparation for Sunday’s
return of the Sinai to Egypt.
Kin Cairo, U.S. Deputy Secretary of
State Walter Stoessel called talks to
day with Egyptian and Israeli officials
in!a final bid to resolve a border dis
pute threatening to mar — but no
longer stall — Israel’s historic return
of land captured in 1967.
y Israeli troops, some weeping,
swarmed onto roofs from ladders
Thursday and evicted nearly 3,000
Jewish squatters from Yamit, the
Sinai town built only seven years ago,
which is being plowed into the
ground before its return to Egypt.
I Eleven protesters led by Tsahi
Hanegbi, son of ultranationalist law
maker Geula Cohen, barricaded
' themselves atop an 82-foot war
memorial. Another group, followers
of Rabbi Meir Kahane, remained bar
ricaded inside a nearby bunker.
I Defense Minister Ariel Sharon,
who supervised the eviction from a
helicopter, said he expected the re
movals to be completed by the onset
of the Jewish Sabbath in the after
noon.
I Observers said the battle was the
most violent between Israeli soldiers
and civilians they could remember.
possibly in the state’s 34-year history.
But the military said there were no
casualties in the operation, code-
named “Red Dove” and involving an
estimated 20,000 troops.
Israel decided to destroy Yamit
when negotiations with Egypt on a
price for the structures fell through.
The 5,000 settlers were paid $250
million in compensation.
Stoessel, on his fourth visit to Cairo
in nine days, was to be accompanied
by David Kimche, director-general of
the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Egypt’s
representatives were Foreign Minis
ter Kamal Hassan AH and his assis
tant, Butros Ghali, the state minister
for Foreign Affairs.
The disputed border region is a
770-yard stretch of desert at Taba,
near the Israeli port of Eilat on the
Gulf of Aqaba. An Israeli tourist com
plex is located there.
Although Egypt appeared anxious
to settle the problem quickly, diplo
matic sources said the Israeli decision
to complete the withdrawal on sche
dule has taken the heat out of the
crisis. The two countries have ample
time to narrow their differences, be
fore or after the pullout.
Outside Cairo, the armed forces lit
two “peace torches” at the grave of
assassinated President Anwar Sadat
and gave them to relay runners to
take to the Sinai in a tribute to the
man who launched the peace process.
Hobby defends
Texas from
other states
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers
from Midwestern and Northeastern
states are working to change alloca
tion formulas in the New Federalism
program to channel money away
from states like Texas that have a
sound tax structure, Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby told Texas’ congressional de
legation Thursday.
Hobby said Texas is at a disadvan
tage because some lawmakers are
trying to channel more money away
from states with high tax potential but
relatively low tax collections.
“Texas is one of only five states
that does not tax income,” Hobby said
in an address to the lawmakers in a
House office building. Texas taxes
consumption, not income.
“We are part of a happy minority
of states with a sound tax structure,
and we don’t intend to change that,
and we don’t intend to be punished by
the federal government for it.
“It is clear that if the state and local
governments are to accept the re
sponsibility for programs, we must re
ceive revenue resources adequate to
implement them.
“If you give us the wagon, then give
us the horse to pull it,” Hobby said.
Hobby said the biggest losers
under the scheme would be Texas,
Wyoming, Nevada and Alaska. He
said the big winners would be New
York, “Taxachusetts,” Rhode Island
and New Jersey.
Hobby said he was not asking for
more federal aid and involvement,
but he urged the congressmen to
make certain the state is not penal
ized.
staff photo by Eric Mitchell
Paying attention to detail
Philip Mitchell, a graduate student from Houston, checks
out some preparations for the electron microscope in
the Biological Science building.
Forums, councils help college
deans, students communicate
Cloud of ash
creating strange
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by Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
While all the deans of the various
lieges at Texas A&M University
maintain open-door policies in re
gard to student problems and are will
ing to answer students’ questions,
some have established more formal
vehides for student input,
i The College of Engineering holds
an open meeting once a year lor stu
dents to ask the deans questions about
enrollment policies, curriculum,
exam policies and other such ques
tions.
; Dean Robert H. Page addressed
engineering students April 14 on cur
rent developments and policies in the
college and future plans. He and sev
eral deans and the head of the mecha-
ngineering department then
;d students’ questions.
nical eng
answered students’ questions.
“The crux is you,” Page said.
“Without students, we’d be nothing.”
Page said this open meeting is a
regular college procedure and that
student attendance is usually low,
considering the enrollment of more
than 12,000 students in the engineer
ing college.
Although the other colleges don’t
use a forum as a communications link,
they have developed other channels.
In the College of Business Admi
nistration, the Business Student
Council serves as a means of student-
faculty communication. Dean Wil
liam V. Muse said he meets with rep
resentatives of the council on a regu
lar basis.
Each department in the college has
a society or club which elects repre
sentatives to the council.
“I think the open forum idea (of
the engineering college) is good,”
Muse said. “I’d like to look at some
thing like this for our college.”
The College of Agriculture main
tains communication through stu
dent representation on the Ag
Council.
Each academic department in the
college offers a bachelor of science
degree and is authorized to have a
technical club. The president of each
club and one representative attend
Ag Council meetings once a month,
serving as advisers to the dean’s
office. Each academic department
also has two representatives.
The Ag Council coordinates such
programs as the Ag Convocation, an
annual event held in the spring where
a prominent person in agriculture
addresses students.
“Students have not indicated that
Ag Council has not met their needs,”
Associate Dean D. A. Suter said.
“We’ve been pleased with this setup.”
In the College of Architecture,
Dean Charles M. Hix Jr. maintains an
open door policy and meets on a reg
ular basis with students to discuss any
problems they may have.
A more formal channel of com
munication is available through the
College of Architecture’s assistant
dean for academic affairs, who meets
regularly with the officers of student
See FORUM page 18
United Press International
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A
stratospheric cloud of ash from a vol
cano in Mexico is drifting over parts
of the Northern Hemisphere —
creating blue moons, purple twilights
and green rings around the sun.
The monster cloud could cut the
amount of sunlight reaching Earth,
causing a drop in temperature and
shortening the growing season, scien
tists at the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration’s Ames Re
search Center said Thursday.
The strange phenomena can be
expected for months throughout
much of the hemisphere, the scien
tists said.
The cloud was formed from ash
shot into the stratosphere by the
eruption at El Chichon in southern
Mexico where at least 22 people died
and thousands were left homeless.
The latest calculation estimates the
cloud contains 10 million tons of de
bris — the largest amount suspended
in the air since the 1912 eruption of
Alaska’s Mount Kaimai and more
than that shot into the air by the
Mount St. Helen’s eruption.
“That’s a lot of stuff,” said Brian
Toon, an atmospheric specialist at
NASA’s Ames Research Center.
The cloud was discovered 18 miles
above the Pacific by a NASA U-2 pilot
flying as high as he could 3 miles be
low it. The pilot found he could look
at the sun through the cloud without
injuring his eyes.
By Thursday Toon said the cloud is
moving westward from Mexico to
Saudi Arabia. Another vast haze,
sheared off the top of the first, was
moving in the opposite direction and
was temporarily lost somewhere over
Africa. At high altitudes jet streams
move in opposite directions.
These monster clouds were much
larger than the “mystery” cloud re
ported in January, later discovered to
have resulted from a volcanic erup
tion in the South Pacific. That cloud
has dissipated.
Parking violations amount to big bucks
by Greg Trest
Battalion Reporter
If you have only one unpaid park
ing ticket at Texas A&M University,
the University Police won’t track you
down immediately, but the director of
security and traffic says eventually
they will.
“We don’t go to great extensive
efforts to track you down for one tick
et, although you are In violation,”
Thomas R. Parsons said.
If a ticket is issued, a person has ten
days to either pay the fine or appeal it.
Students with three fines can be
blocked from registration, or even
have their car towed, he said.
Gross violators of the regulations
who are sent notices or blocked from
registration and still refuse to pay are
referred to the Department of Stu
dent Affairs, Parsons said. Student
Affairs then holds a hearing about the
violations, and the student either is
suspended, put on probation or pays
the fines, he said.
Last year, $467,000 was collected
from parking tickets. The depart
ment expects to collect more this year,
he said.
During the day, 27,700 cars have
^£ermits^to^O£erate^or^campus^where
there are only 18,100 legal spaces.
Parsons said. This is a ratio of three
cars to two spaces. Compared to the
University of Texas which issues
21,115 permits for 8,788 spaces, the
Texas A&M ratio is excellent, he said.
Texas A&M has more parking
spaces available than any other uni
versity in the state, but also has the
most tickets issued, Parsons said.
Parking fines were raised three
years ago from $5 to $10 in an
attempt to cut down on the number of
violations. Parsons said. However, the
increase in fines has not helped the
jDroblem^hesaid
The money collected from parking
permits and tickets is placed in a park
ing facilities reserve, Parsons said.
The reserve is administered by the
Vice President for Business Affairs.
Salaries of University Police em
ployees are funded from the parking
reserve. In addition, the Grounds
Maintenance department also gets
money from the reserve because they
are responsible for the upkeep of
campus parking lots, he said.
The biggest expenditure from the
reserve is the construction of new lots
such as the one behind the Zachry
Engineering Uei
million, he said.
Multi-level garages would be one
solution to parking problems, but
they also cost more, Parsons said. A
surface lot costs $1,500 a space to
build, where as a garage costs $5,000 a
space, he said.
Construction of a multi-level gar
age had been planned for behind the
Reed McDonald Building. However,
that space now will be used for the
expansion of the Cyclotron Institute
and the hew Physics building, Parsons
said.
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Cloudy with a 60
percent chance of rain; high today
in the mid-50s; low in the upper
40s. Saturday’s forecast calls for
cloudy skies with a high in the 70s.