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Wednesday, June 9, 1982
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Iraeli invasion troops controlled
It of southern Lebanon, crushing
■ last Palestinian resistance and
jilting air and tank battles with Sy-
Bts that raised fears today the con-
, . Jcould escalate into a fifth Middle
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a/!»ly tw ' ce ebeir expected pace, an
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Mediterranean coast city of
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t the United Nations Security
ncil, the United States Tuesday
a resolution condemning
jel for ignoring a cease-fire call.
$ vote was 14-1, with only
ihington opposed,
he Palestinian Liberation Orga-
don sought Soviet and Arab help,
id Iran said it was prepared to send
troops. Cuban President Fidel Castro
called on members of the Non-
Aligned Movement to “mobilize all its
forces” to aid.
Israel today held 50 miles of coast
south of Beirut and appeared to con
trol nearly half the country, which is
only 130 miles long and smaller than
Connecticut. Israeli forces today were
mopping up resistance from the PLO
army, estimated to number at least
6,000.
Israeli military radio reports said
Tuesday their forces appear to have
advanced north to about the east-west
DamurZahle and Damascus-Beirut
highways that cut the nation roughly
in half. Severing the road to Damas
cus would isolate Syrian troops in
Beirut.
The Israeli army said by early to
day their total casualties were 32
dead, 144 wounded, seven missing
and one captured. The total Palesti
nian losses were not known, but were
far higher.
A military spokesman in Tel Aviv
said Israeli forces Tuesday captured
the port of Sidon, Lebanon’s third
largest city 23 miles south of Beirut,
and were clamping control on the
area between Sidon and Jezzine, 13
miles to the east.
The spokesman said 50 to 60 rebels
died in Sidon, while sources said hun
dreds of Palestinian rebels and an un
specified number of Syrian soldiers
were captured in that fighting.
Launched Sunday and called
“Operation Peace in Galilee,” the in
vasion is designed to crush forever
the PLO’s ability to bombard north
ern Israel from Lebanon.
Israeli forces also fought tank bat
tles with Syrian troops Tuesday and
shot down six Syrian MiG fighters.
Syria has 25,000 troops in Lebanon,
some of them only 7 miles from the
Israeli forces.
Two of the Soviet-built MiGs were
shot down over the Galilee Panhandle
— the first time Syrian jets have been
downed over Israel since the 1973
Arab-Israeli war, the military com
mand said.
The escalating combat raised fears
of another all-out Middle East War.
PLO leader Yasser Arafat, his
forces left in disarray, urged Moscow
and Arab nations to come to their aid.
Iran, offering to mobilize its “politic
al, military and economic resources”
against Israel, was given permission
to use Syria as a staging point.
Secretary of State Alexander Haig
said Arafat’s call was viewed with
“grave concern.” He said U.S. milit
ary supplies to Israel will continue
pending a decision on whether the
Begin government violated U.S. law
by using U.S. arms.
icurity Council tries to condemn Israel
U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution
United Press International
|NITED NATIONS — The Un-
ed States vetoed a Security Council
Solution that condemned Israel for
;aoring two cease-fire calls in Leba-
J), and Arab leaders immediately
light an emergency debate today in
ii General Assembly,
llhe vote on the resolution late
Tuesday night was 14-1, but the sole
negative vote by the United States
automatically killed it under U.N.
rules that give major powers the right
to overrule the majority.
“This resolution ... is not suffi
ciently balanced to accomplish the ob
jective of ending the cycle of violence
alcony collapses;
spection follows
by Hope E. Paasch
Battalion Staff
liter a water-soaked balcony col
led late in May, university officials
Jinvestigating the structural condi-
tfn of the remaining College Avenue
tried student apartments.
The balcony fell while four men
life standing on it, and although no
me was seriously injured, two sus-
ained severely bruised elbows and
i pulled a muscle in his leg.
| The apartments, which house
rried students, have been a prob-
I since they were constructed about
^ears ago, Maintenance Foreman
nneth Melson said.
|“The roofs don’t have any over-
Ing and rain water just runs down
[side of the building. We’ve always
1 a problem with those apartments
ing when it rains,” Melson said.
iHe also pointed out that using un-
jeaied yellow pine to construct the
■conies was a mistake to begin with.
ITf we replace all the balconies,
ve’ll use treated wood and possibly
|tal,” Melson said.
}reg Powell, one of those who had
In on the balcony, said: “It could
k been a lot worse than it was. I’m
ly concerned that it doesn’t happen
|in.” Powell lives in the apartment
Jere the balcony fell from.
|‘We had never noticed any prob-
iis with the balcony before, not
ven any creaking or shifting,” he
■Apartment Manager Frank K.
icolas issued a letter to all residents
lith similar balconies warning them
p to go out on their balconies.
■Powell said he thought the notices
should have been distributed before
the accident, since Nicolas told him
! weak balcony supports had been
known about for two years.
The problem has existed for sever
al years, Nicolas said. Since last Au
gust, he has been working with the
Physical Plant to come up with possi
ble solutions.
Before the incident, Nicolas said,
some of the balconies had been rein
forced with angle iron or 4x4 posts.
Powell’s apartment was not one of
those.
The extent of the damage is not yet
known, Associate Director of Busi
ness Services Gerald Smith said.
“We inspected every balcony,”
Smith said. “I haven’t seen the official
report, but I understand that we may
take all the balconies down. We would
have to remove some of the siding to
make a more thorough investiga
tion.”
Physical Plant Director Joe Estill
said:
“We’ll have to actually vacate and
strip down one of the units to deter
mine how serious the problem is.”
Possible solutions to the problem
may include extending all the roofs,
installing gutters, replacing all the
balconies or any combination of
those, Nicolas said.
Ed Kozlowski, associate director
for maintenance and modification at
the Physical Plant, recommended that
all the balconies be removed. Financ
ing any major renovation of the
apartments could be difficult, since
they are not state-supported. Most re
pairs and maintenance are paid for by
rent, but rent income may not be
large enough to handle a major mod
ification.
Sources for raising the necessary
funds might include private contribu
tions, issuing bonds or raising the rent
at the apartments.
and establishing the conditions for a
just and lasting peace,” U.S. Ambassa
dor Jeane Kirkpatrick told the council
after the vote.
Apparently referring to U.S. en
voy Philip Habib’s current talks in
Israel, she said: “my government is
currently engaged in every possible
effort to bring the violence to an end.
We shall continue to do so.”
Arab League Ambassador Clovis
Maksoud immediately said the Arab
states would meet today to call the
U.N. General Assembly into an
emergency special session to debate
the war.
Vice President George Bush, head
of the administration’s special situa
tion group, officially was to make
“just a courtesy call” today on Secret
ary General Javier Perez de Cuellar
and General Assembly President
Ismat Kittani, but he was expected to
discuss Lebanon.
After attempting in private to draft
an acceptable resolution throughout
the day, the Security Council went
into a late-night public meeting and
Spain’s Ambassador Jaime de Pinies
immediately submitted the resolu
tion.
It condemned Israel for ignoring
the council’s two cease-fire calls
adopted unanimously over the
weekend, demanded all hostilities in
Lebanon stop within six hours and
reiterated its demand Israel withdraw
from Lebanon.
After the vote, Zehdi Labib Terzi,
representative of the Palestine Liber
ation Organization, said again “the
United States has chosen to- be a
minority of one in its support for mass
murder, a campaign of genocide, and
the annihilation of a people.”
Terzi accused Washington of being
“a party to the aggression against
Lebanon.”
British, Argentine
forces renew battle
United Press International
Britain said it was in firm control
today of two more coastal settlements
near the Falklands capital of Stanley
following a day of deadly air and sea
battles. Argentina damaged three
British ships.
Instead of the expected attack on
the island capital, the clear skies Tues
day brought a British assault on the
communities of Fitzroy and Bluff
Cove on Fitzroy Bay, an inlet 15 miles
southwest of Stanley.
“There is no obstacle in the way of
Argentine withdrawal except the
Argentines,” Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher told Parliament. “We
shall now have to take by force what
the Argentines would not give up.”
At the same time, the first major
air and sea battle in the Falkland Is
lands in eight days erupted, but Bri
tain refused to say if the Argentine air
attack was aimed at a seaborne inva
sion of the small towns.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense said
the frigate Plymouth and two landing
ships unloading supplies were dam
aged in the Tuesday evening air
strike. But Britain said today it had
downed six Argentine jets, including
at least four Mirages, and damaged
staff photo by David Fisher
The only way to travel
Myron and Norma Wiles, from La Crescent, Calif., are touring
the country for five weeks on their motorcycle. If they get
tired, all they have to do is pull over and climb into the tent
they pull behind them. They stopped at Texas A&M to help
graduate student Billy Cornelius, from Wichita Falls,
demonstrate interviewing to his English 104 students.
Reagan campaigns
against Marxists
four others that were unidentified.
Argentina said its troops smashed a
British attempt to form a new beach
head in the Fitzroy area, causing
heavy casualties and destroying most
of the supplies landed. The Joint
Chiefs of Staff said a British frigate
and two landing ships were sunk and
a fourth ship was disabled.
“We can say that this moment is a
decisive one,” Gen. Oswaldo Garcia of
Argentina’s South Atlantic theater
said.
But British Defense Ministry
spokesman Ian McDonald said late
Tuesday elements of Britain’s recent
ly landed 5th Infantry Brigade of
3,000 men “are now firmly estab
lished at Fitzroy settlement and Bluff
Cove.”
McDonald said five wounded ser
vicemen from the Plymouth, which
carries 235 men, were transferred to
another ship and were undergoing
medical treatment. He said the land
ing ships Sir Tristram and Sir Gala-
had also suffered some damage.
The break in the lull in major fight
ing came shortly after the navy said
Britain has landed nearly 9,000
troops on the islands, building for the
final battle for Stanley.
United Press International
WINDSOR, England — President
Reagan is urging the West to join a
“crusade for freedom” in a struggle
against the Marxist world, but admits
“we must be cautious about forcing
the pace of change.”
Reagan made his appeal for a
“global campaign” to sell democracy
in a historic address to the British Par
liament at Westminister Tuesday, de
scribed as a “triurnplk’ by Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The president was meeting
Thatcher over breakfast at her No. 10
Downing Street residence today to
conclude his three-day pageantry-
filled visit to Britain, which included a
royal banquet at Windsor Castle
Tuesday night.
In Britain, Reagan became the first
American president to address the
House of Commons and the House of
Lords, and the first to be a guest at
Queen Elizabeth II’s 900-year-old
Windsor Castle outside London.
Reagan was scheduled to fly to
Bonn where in a speech later today to
the German parliament he proposes a
mutual reduction of NATO and War
saw Pact troops to 700,000 on each
side.
Regents to discuss
planning, building
Items for discussion with the Plan
ning and Building Committee are ex
pected to highlight this month’s
Texas A&M System Board of Regents
meeting beginning today.
Appropriations to be considered
include $65,000 to supplement an
earlier appropriation of $15,000 fora
detailed design of the system chancel
lor’s residence at the University.
Members of the Planning and
Building Committee will also consid
er construction requests for modifica
tions of the Veterinary Medical Com
plex and a new chemistry building on
the Texas A&M campus as well as
several requests for other branches of
the system.
Regents are also expected to con
sider a feasibility study for the expan
sion of Easterwood Airport at the
meeting.
Committees scheduled to meet to
day are the Campus Hotel Commit
tee, the Committee for Service Units,
the Committee on Mineral Leases and
the Planning and Building Com
mittee.
The combined board will convene
on Thursday and Friday.
'ost Oak Mall competes with area businesses
By Terry Duran
Battalion Staff
espite the increase in competition
Dm stores in the relatively new Post
ftkMall, Bryan-College Station mer-
lants aren’t about to throw in the
towd.
■ In fact a large number feel that the
»s of business they’ve experienced is
■nporary and the eventual result of
le mall will be added prosperity for
le entire area, including many non-
Ipst Oak stores.
■ Post Oak Mall, at the East Bypass
lid Highway 30, is the latest effort by
Itrepreneurs to keep area residents
■om fleeing the area to shop for re
jail goods. As the third major multi-
lore conglomeration with more than
just a handful of facilities, it is by far
le largest: Post Oak’s 90 businesses
under one roof more than double
lulpepper Plaza’s 40 stores on Texas
Avenue in College Station and Manor
East’s 36 at Texas and Villa Maria in
Bryan.
Post Oak’s Feb. 17 grand opening
included about 700,000 square feet
divided among 82 businesses, includ
ing four department stores — Beall’s,
Wilson’s, Sears and Dillard’s. Recent
openings have increased the number
to 90.
Although the new mall has in
creased competition for many
businesses in the area, those affected
say the damage isn’t terminal by any
means.
Susan Daly is the marketing dire
ctor for Culpepper Properties, which
owns Manor East, Culpepper Plaza,
University Center (including Skaggs
and Plitt Theaters) and Sulmar Cen
ter, a smaller complex in Bryan.
“Of course it affected us (when
Post Oak opened),” she sai
. “It affected all retail in this area.
When you drop a million square feet
into a market, it’s got to do something.
“It’s affecting our Saturday sales
more than anything, though,” she
said, “which is kind of understand
able. If you have four or five hours to
shop, you’ll go to the mall because it’s
nice and new and because of the
atmosphere. On weekdays we (Cul
pepper and Manor East) are closer,
more convenient.”
The clothing stores have been hurt
the worst, she said, because of the
abundance of clothing stores in Post
Oak: 26 of Post Oak’s 90 stores sell
mainly apparel.
Jewelry stores have also been hurt:
the new mall added eight new shops
to the B-CS area, which already had
15 such businesses.
For instance, both the Manor East
and Post Oak malls have Zale’s stores.
Manor East Zale’s manager Robert
Dale said sales at his store have drop
ped 20 to 25 percent since the open
ing of the new Post Oak Zale’s — but
he said he thinks the worst is over, no
place to go but back up.
“We’ll have to reevaluate our mer
chandise,” he said, “reevaluate our
customers, and get back to the basics,
which are services to the customer.
“Sales for other businesses here in
the mall (Manor East) have been hurt,
too. I don’t think it will ever be the
same again — not for a while — at
least a year or two.”
Managers of most other stores in
Manor East declined to comment on
their sales figures. Most agreed they
had been hurt, but not irreparably by
any means.
Manor East Mall manager Paul
Zuelky said asa whole, the new mall
had not been a problem. A few stores
have even experienced increased
sales, he said.
“Our sales are going to increase
again,” Dale said. Stores which did a
large volume of business previously
have found that people don’t always
want to go out to Post Oak, “especially
the ones that live closer to Manor
East,” he added.
Beall’s also has a stores in Manor
East and the manager there, Bob Bin-
ford, tells a familiar story:
“We were hurt pretty bad at first
(in February), but we started coming
back in March. We had pretty much
turned around within 30 to 45 days,
and now we’re not off very much
from our sales at this time last year.”
Both Beall’s stores offer basically
the same merchandise at the same
prices, in accordance with
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Sunny and hot
today, high of 95. low of 72. Same
through Thursday. 20 percent
chance of rain through Thursday.