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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.
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“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
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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.
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