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Gramm survives challenge See page 4 Locker room laughter See page 9 The BaiTcmon Serving the University community ol. 75 No. 146 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Monday, May 3, 1982 British sub torpedoes Argentine cruiser United Press International \ British nuclear submarine torpe- bed an Argentine cruiser off Tierra I Fuego in the first eruption of hting outside the 200-mile war te around the Falkland Islands and th nations today dismissed a Peru- n cease-fire proposal. British helicopters today sank an gentine patrol boat about 90 miles ide the war.zone around the Falk- id Islands, hours after a British clear submarine torpedoed Argen- a’s only cruiser, the Ministry of De- ise said. The British navy Lynx helicopters ik one patrol craft and damaged other, the ministry said. The sinking of the patrol boat me a day after a British submarine rpedoed and severely damaged the battle cruiser General Belgrano, the nation’s second largest ship, just out side the 200-mile war zone around the Falkland Islands. “At about 4 a.m. London time to day, two armed Argentine patrol craft-type auxilliaries fired on a Royal navy Sea King from the HMS Hermes,” the Defense Ministry state ment said. “Two Royal Navy Lynx helicopters from ships of the task force then engaged the ships with missiles. “One of the ships was sunk and the other was certainly damaged.” The ministry said: “The engage ment took place north of East Falk land and some 90 miles inside the tot al exclusion zone.” The outbreak of naval battles be gan Sunday when the nuclear- powered British submarine attacked the 10,800-ton cruiser with several torpedoes, the Defense Ministry said. The General Belgrano was “severe ly damaged” by at least one torpedo fired from a British nuclear-powered submarine patrolling the periphery of the blockade zone imposed Friday around the disputed islands, British officials said. As the battle for the Falklands en tered its third day today, diplomatic efforts in Washington, the United Nations and Lima, Peru, failed to re solve the crisis over the 149-year Brit ish colony seized by Argentina April 2. A British defense spokesman said the Argentine warship was hit “just on the edge, outside the exclusion zone.” Argentina, acknowledging its only cruiser was “damaged” by a torpedo, said the General Belgrano was attack ed just off Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America. In a communique, the Argentine Joint Chiefs of Staff said several ships were dispatched to the scene of the clash near Staten Island, 30 miles from the mainland, to help the cruis er “in case it is necessary.” “The cruiser posed a significant threat to the British task force,” the British spokesman said, adding the torpedo attack was self defense. The submarine was not hit, the spokesman said. The General Belgrano carried sur face-to-air missiles. Acquired from the United States in 1951, the 10,800- ton Brooklyn-class cruiser was laun ched in 1939 as the USS Phoenix and survived the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Just hours after Argentina’s Presi dent Gen. Leopoldo Galitieri vowed never to raise the white flag of surren der, the military junta in Buenos Aires rejected a Peruvian-sponsored cease-fire plan. In New York, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Francis Pym said Secretary of State Alexander Haig earlier Sun day had discussed “some ideas” prop osed by Peru but “there was no ques tion about either rejecting or certainly accepting any plan.” Pym, scotching reports from Peru of an imminent cease-fire, said, “The wrong that they have done by invad ing the Falkland Islands has got to be put right.” Pym met early bunday with Haig on President Reagan’s offer of milit ary assistance to Britain and then flew to New York to confer with Perez de Guellar, who also met with the Argen tine ambassador. Argentine warplanes screamed over the wind-swept South Atlantic Sunday but reporters aboard the 60- ship British fleet off the Falklands said they showed no willingness to en gage in hostilities. Aside from the submarine attack, no other fighting was reported in the South Atlantic Sunday, with both sides apparently regrouping after a day of fierce “cartwheeling dog fights” over the British fleet and air attacks on the Falklands. Vlish regime ifts curfew United Press International VARSAW, Poland — The Solidar- underground, emboldened by a ssive weekend show of strength, eel for Poles to stage anti- ernment rallies today in direct de ice of a ban by the nation’s com- nist rulers. The Solidarity union, suspended :ethe imposition of martial law last :. 13, issued the call for more pro- :s during anti-government May demonstrations Saturday .nded by tens of thousands of es. iSpokesmen for Solidarity, whose der Lech Walesa is still jailed, [ed Poles to gather at churches af- special masses and mark today h more anti-government rallies. (Today was a double national holi- ’ honoring a 1791 constitution of and and the feast of Mary, revered Poland’s Roman Catholic popula- i. The first day of a two-day session of liament opening today also gained mtion although it was not clear if Military chief Gen. Wojceich Jaruzels- ki would deliver the keynote address. Security in Warsaw was at levels un seen in weeks. Police and steel- helmeted soldiers with automatic rifles — some with fixed bayonets — patroled. Military and police vehicles were parked around the city and police cars slowly cruised downtown. Although thousand of security forces backed by water cannons and anti-riot gear allowed Saturday’s de monstrations, mostly in Warsaw and Gdansk, to proceed, authorities warned they would not tolerate furth er displays of opposition. An Interior Ministry communique, while confirming the lifting of the martial law curfew Sunday, warned unauthorized demonstrations and marches still were banned. “The military council ordered the, state organs to firmly counteract the violation of the existing martial law regulations,” it said. “Persons violat ing ... regulations will be brought to account under summary or speeded up procedures.” ioard votes sale )f Aggie acreage Texas A&M System Board of Re nts decision made Saturday poss- y will make the System $8.51 mil- n richer. The regents voted to sell 42.56 resat the Texas A&M Research and tension Center near Dallas to the ambridge Cos. Inc. of Dallas. The le price is nearly $200,000 an acre. - The board also decided to sell an Iditional 6.58 acres at the center. [ Regents chairman H.R. “Bum” pright of Dallas said the System does |)tyet have a firm offer for the land, hit he said he expects little difficulty n selling it, now that Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert has the authority to execute the sale. The regents set a minimum sale rice of $6 a square foot, or about 261,000 an acre, on the land. At that price, the 6.58-acre tract would bring in about $1.7 million. The Board made no immediate de cision on the use of the money. The next regular meeting of the Board of Regents begins June 9. At that meeting, the Board will consider a report from the committee studying the on-campus hotel proposal and will oversee the annual System bond sale. staff photo by Peter Kocha Freeze-frame Graham Mallett and Megan Yarborough, front, class of ’79, both of Houston, take time out to snap a picture of Sullivan Ross. They had driven to College Station for the day to visit the campus. Begin government drops settlement guarantee plan United Press International JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Menachem Begin — lacking national agreement — settled for a policy speech today rather than formally asking parliament to bar future gov ernments from ever again uprooting Jewish settlements. Begin’s Cabinet decided against submitting a resolution to the Knesset and instead decided Begin would pre sent a speech on the propfflfal today, Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor said after Sunday’s cabinet meeting. “In any future negotiations on the signing of a peace treaty between Israel and its neighbors, any proposal to remove a settlement in which Israeli citizens or Jews live, will be re jected,” Israeli television said in para phrasing Begin’s planned speech. Israel has established more than 90 settlements on the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and the annexed Golan Heights. The settlement proposal, initially made by Education Minister Zevulun Hammer of the National Religious Party, followed the violent evacuation and razing of the town of Yamit pre ceding Israel’s final withdrawal f rom the Sinai. The opposition Labor party, however, told Begin Friday it would not support the resolution because of fundamental differences with the government over settlement policy. In a radio interview last week, Be gin spoke of submitting the idea in the form of a resolution, which, though not legally binding, would carry grea ter weight. The prime minister probably could have pushed the resolution through the Knesset by a slim majority without Labor’s support, but the vote would not have achieved the broad national consensus he wanted. MSG Council to hear 24-hour teller update The MSC Council, in its final spring meeting, will hear a report from the Building Studies Committee on the progress of the proposed installation of 24-hour teller machines in the Memorial Student Center. Council President Todd Norwood said that after six to seven months of negotiation, contracts should be signed soon and the machines should be available for use in the fall. The Recreational Programs Study Committee will discuss the Council’s fall Welcome Back Picnic. Norwood said the format of the program is under consideration. The goal of the picnic is to promote teamwork among the students, faculty, and staff in volved directly with the MSC organi zation, he said. The picnic will be held the second or third weekend of the fall semester, Norwood said. The Council also will consider budget revisions for two council com mittees — MSC Camera and MSC Aggie Cinema. In addition, the Council will discuss further its assignment of cubicles in the MSC Student Programs Of fice, as some Council members felt adequate allotments were not given to some groups requesting space. Norwood said the Council plans to meet once a month during the sum mer sessions. Clements concerned about lack of uniformity Task force proposes system by Rebeca Zimmermann Battalion Staff The structure of the higher education system in Texas may change if the governor’s task force on higher education has anything to say about it. “Because of the substantial number of insti tutions with separate governing boards, effec tive coordination of higher education is diffi cult,” said a report, adopted by the governor’s task force April 20. The report states that fifteen boards of re gents, whose members are appointed by the governor, now govern 37 state institutions; five of those boards oversee multi-campus systems. The state also has sixty community junior col leges governed by 47 locally elected boards of trustees. Jim Raster, legislative aide to Gov. William P. Clements Jr., and liaison between the task force and the governor, said the task force was formed because the governor felt the current state university system structure lacked unifor mity and was somewhat “helter-skelter.” The purpose of the task force, he said, was to “step back and look at higher education.” John M. Lawrence III, a Bryan attorney and a member of the task force, said the group was instructed to look at how the state’s higher edu cation should be structured in the immediate future and how it should be structured as the next century approaches. Lawrence said the task force members, 29 of whom were appointed by the governor and two by other officials, have studied the state’s higher education system for almost a year. The task force recommended combining the senior institutions outside the University of Texas or Texas A&M University systems into four regional systems with programs to serve regional needs. Raster said this is the most feasible plan because it would create four new regional sys tems and leave the Texas A&M and UT systems unchanged. Each region would have unique programs, would cut out duplication among the various institutions’ programs, and would allow each school to excel in its best areas. The task force recommended that the re gional systems should be in West Texas, south of San Antonio, the upper Gull Coast region and North and East Texas. Lawrence said Texas A&M and UT would be world-class universities. “The other four would include some out standing universities and some more designed for more moderate types of education,” he said. “We’re ... trying to stress that this wasn’t downplaying any part or relegating any school to a backseat. But frankly, it’s pretty well under stood that the two existing major systems (Texas A&M and UT) are the world-class type alteration inside universities.” The report uses the term “flagship universi ties” to decribe the role of Texas A&M and UT in the state’s higher education system. Texas A&M System Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert described a flagship university as the centerpiece for a system. Classified . Local National. . Opinions . Sports. . . . State What’s Up B 3 5 2 17 5 7 “It’s the complete university in terms of the span of offerings from freshman level work to doctoral level work,” he said. “It’s also an insti tution which has the resources, which ... should be protected to enable that institution to be a university of the first class.” Three other possible reorganization plans were rejected by the task force. One proposal placed institutions into five systems, with Texas A&I going into the Texas forecast Today’s Forecast: Partly cloudy and warm through today and Tuesday with a slight chance of rain on Tuesday; high today will be in the low 80’s and the low tonight will be in the low 60’s. See STRUCTURE page 7
