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College Station, Texas
Thursday, June 3, 1982
Both sides expect
assault in Falklands
United Press International
British troops, probing close
enough to watch their enemy fixing
lunch, exchanged artillery fire with
Argentine forces entrenched in the
Falklands capital of Stanley in a pre
lude to the deadly assault both sides
now expect.
“We shall repossess these islands,”
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
said late Wednesday, warning omi
nously, “I am afraid there will be a
very considerable battle for Port
Stanley.”
President Lepoldo Galtieri said
Argentine troops — their backs to the
sea and cut off from the mainland by
Britain’s air-sea blockade — would
defend their hold on the South Atlan
tic archipelago.
Hundreds of British troops were
reported moving up in mist, snow and
rain around the already secured
heights of Mount Kent overlooking
Stanley, loaded with equipment for
the battle.
Thatcher said if the Argentines
agree now to withdraw from the is
lands in the next two weeks “there
would be no need for battle.” But, she
said: “I am not very optimistic.”
Britain warned before today’s
U.N. Security Council meeting it
would veto a resolution calling for a
cease-fire because it did not also re
quire Argentina’s forces to withdraw
from the islands they invaded April 2.
Galtieri said Argentina would
accept aid from “whoever extends it,”
including Moscow, and dispatched
Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Men
dez to Cuba to make an appeal for
support today from the “nonaligned
movement.”
News reports from the front said
Argentine troops answered British
artillery harassment and air strikes by
shelling Mount Kent Wednesday, in
what was believed the first British
contact with the Argentine main
force.
There were no reports of British
casualties and Argentina reported
only minor skirmishes.
“The mud has become a major
problem for the heavily laden soldiers
moving across rugged terrain,” said
one war correspondent’s dispatch,
to give up
although the mist provided cover
from Argentine air attacks on the
advancing columns.
News dispatches said advance Brit
ish patrols from Mount Kent had
come so close to Stanley they could see
through field glasses the Argentine
defenders “making their lunch.”
A tough-sounding Thatcher said
in a nationwide broadcast interview
she did not expect the estimated
7,000 Argentine troops, dug in along
a horsehoe defense line,
without fighting.
“We’ve got very close in and we are
beginning to apply the pressure to the
main enemy positions around Stan
ley,” the British Falklands land forces
commander, Maj. Gen. Jeremy
Moore, said in an interview broadcast
in London. “We’ve got to expect a
battle.”
Defense sources said it could be
several days before Britain had every
thing in place for an all-out assault on
Stanley. More than 7,000 British
troops are estimated to have been
landed on East Falkland Island.
Touse party leaders return
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Senior Jake Allbritton, a microbiology
major from College Station, spends a
day out in the sun telling drivers to
park at their own risk in Parking Lot 7.
Allbritton’s employers, Van Wall
staff photo by Peter Rocha
Urethane Contractors, are putting
urethane on the roof of the Reed
McDonald Building. The urethane can
permanently stick on car paint and the
contractors do not want to be blamed.
Reagan starts meetings
at economic summit
i
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Repub-
ans and Democrats, having given
drying to write a budget plan joint-
called separate meetings today to
aft their own respective spending
oposals.
The House, which just last week
lied a bevy of fiscal 1983 spending
ans, will slug it out again next week
er the pending new packages.
Wednesday, Republicans rejected
Democratic offer to split the differ-
rce between two previous partisan
ans in order to reach a compromise
ackage.
Afterward, Rep. James Jones, D-
kla., chairman of the Democratic-
ominated Budget Committee, said
he would use President Reagan’s ini-
lal budget plan “as a budget resolu
tion vehicle.”
The high-deficit Reagan budget
would be voted on only if two alterna
tives — Democratic and Republican
versions — lose in prior votes. The
much-criticized Reagan budget
would thus act as an incentive to pass
an alternative.
Wall Street is anxiously watching
the battle. Financial experts say there
will be no economic recovery until in
terest rates come down. That will not
happen, they say, until and unless
Congress passes a deficit-cutting
budget.
Reagan, in his weekend radio
address, blamed the House Democra
tic leadership for the failure by that
chamber to pass a budget proposal.
Earlier this month, the Senate
approved a plan backed by the presi
dent.
Jones had proposed the comprom
ise under which the differences be
tween the GOP and Democratic plans
would be split. But the Republicans
flatly rejected it.
The GOP plan called for deep cuts
in social programs, while the Demo
cratic version sought higher tax in
creases and reduced military spend
ing. Both would produce a deficit of
about $110 billion.
Jones, following a closed-door
meeting with Democratic members of
his committee, told reporters: “We
generally concluded we will have a
(Republican Rep. Delbert) Latta sub
stitute Republicans can support and a
substitute I will help put together that
Democrats can support.”
United Press International
PARIS — President Ronald
Reagan, facing opposition from U.S.
allies that could burst into the open at
their economic summit, begins his
series of meetings with European
leaders today to create a “regrowth of
unity and purpose.”
Reagan arrived on his first pres
idential trip to Europe Wednesday
night accompanied by his wife Nancy,
who held a plastic umbrella over his
head as they hurried off the runway
at Orly Airport in a driving thunder
storm.
He was scheduled to confer today
with French President Francois Mit
terrand in the first meeting of a 10-
day trip that begins with the Versailles
economic summit, and takes him to
Rome, London, Bonn and Berlin.
As he left the White House for the
eighth annual economic summit and
the sixth gathering of NATO heads
of government, Reagan said, “It has
been a near decade of troubling
events and uncertainties among the
allies and ourselves, but today there is
a regrowth of unity and purpose and
I hope this trip will contribute to
that.”
But advance statements from the
leaders of the seven largest industrial
democracies set the stage for dis
agreement this weekend when
Reagan and the leaders of England,
France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and
Japan sit around a circular table in the
luxurious palace built by Louis XIV.
The meeting will determine
whether it will be a massive falling
out, or just an agreement to disagree
on the causes for the economic de
cline afflicting all the major industrial
democracies, excluding Japan.
At Versailles, the pressure will be
on the United States since it has the
world’s largest economy and because
the U.S. administration’s economic
policies are blamed for many of their
troubles by its six industrial partners.
Reagan has been rigidly adhering
to his economic policy at home and
aides indicate he has no intention of
deviating from that line when he
meets the other leaders at Versailles.
U.S. officials say there will be three
major areas of open disagreement:
—Europeans see high American
interest rates dragging down the rest
of the free enterprise system.
The Americans view high interest
rates as regrettable, but something
that will be cured when more impor
tant problems, such as inflation, are
dealt with by the Europeans.
—Europeans are becoming in
creasingly worried that free trade is
breaking down and the Japanese and
Americans are not playing by the
agreed rules.
The Americans believe differences
on trade can be worked out in the
existing framework of GATT (Gen
eral Agreement on Trade and
Tariffs). But Europeans, in the words
of one high European Economic
Community official, fear “the system
is about to burst.”
—The United States believes the
Soviet Union should be denied credit
terms that have the effect of subsidiz
ing the Soviet economy.
The West Europeans say credit is
sometimes necessary to keep their
factories operating and that Euro
pean unemployment, higher than in
the United States, threatens to tear
apart the social fabric of the conti
nent.
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Med school
graduation
Saturday
J Dr. Frederick Robbins, a Nobel
prize-winning physician, will address
^graduating students of the Texas
A&M College of Medicine at 2:30
p.m. Saturday in Rudder Theater.
I Robbins shared the 1954 Nobel
Prize in Medicine with Dr. Thomas
Weller and Dr. John Enders for their
work cultivating poliomyelitis virus in
Issue cultures. This work led to the
polio vaccine.
f He is currently president of the
Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences.
This year’s class is the second to
raduate from the medical school,
lost of last year’s 32 graduates are
now involved in residency training.
I The graduates will take a licensing
exam in Austin later this month, Dr.
|Sam Black, head of the Department
s of Microbiology, said.
I They will then begin three to five-
wear residencies in family medicine,
nternal medicine, pediatrics, obstet-
icsand gynecology at various institu-
ions throughout the country, he said.
VJ
These foals opted for a nap rather than stand one
more minute of the hot, muggy weather. Their
Let sleeping horses lie
mothers stand guard over them at the Texas A&M
Horse Center on Jersey Ave. Animal science
students work
course work.
Staff photo by John Ryan
with the horses as part of their
SSO to appeal if new trial motion denied
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
Gay Student Services Organization
members Wednesday night unani
mously voted to appeal Judge Ross N.
Sterling’s dismissal of their five-year-
old lawsuit against Texas A&M Uni
versity if their attorneys’ motion for a
new trial is denied.
“Higher principles are involved
than just this organization,” one
GSSO officer said.
GSSO filed the suit in 1977 be
cause it claimed members’ First
Amendment rights were violated
when the group was denied Universi
ty recognition.
Sterling said he dismissed the case
because he found the group to be so
cial in nature, not service-oriented.
Therefore, he said, Texas A&M was
legally able to deny University recog
nition of GSSO.
Larry Sauer, an attorney for GSSO,
said the evidence presented in the
trial showed GSSO is a service organi
zation.
Patrick Wiseman, another attorney
for GSSO, said the defense for Texas
A&M never mentioned that Texas
A&M does not allow sororities and
fraternities on campus. He said this is
a technical point in GSSO’s favor.
“Appeal is the traditional route for
these kind of cases,” Wiseman said.
He said most civil rights cases of this
nature lose in the trials but win on
appeals.
Wiseman said he has already filed a
motion for a new trial. But he said
there is only a five percent chance for
the motion to be granted.
Sauer said the motion for a new
trial would go to Sterling. He said it
will probably take two to eight weeks
for the judge to decide on the motion.
If Sterling denies the motion for a
new trial, GSSO has 30 days to file for
an appeal, Sauer said.
The case would be appealed to the
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
New Orleans. Wiseman said the
appellate process could take 15 to 18
months to be completed.
No new testimony would be intro
duced if the case goes to the appellate
court, Wiseman said. The court
would review the case’s previous testi
mony and make a decision based on
that testimony and briefs submitted
by GSSO and Texas A&M.
“I think that the chances of win
ning on appeal are 50-50 at this point
based on previous decisions of the
courts,” Sauer said.
“An injustice is being done to these
students because of their sexual
orientation,” Sauer said. “Any per
son, no matter what their sexual
orientation, has a right to express
their views, and that right is being
denied them.”
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