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me BaTTanon Serving the University community ^ W. 75 No. 161 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 16, 1982 sraeli troops advance east previous; Beyond ities oftlf motiv'd® ry about xencewini al adult n are ever ad theE.1 ults, wtictll*. E’T., ptrtf: i.'.; United Press International e keptalivtl Israeli tanks were only 2 miles from dity. $yr ian positions along the reportedly ny of theoBied Beirut-Damascus highway to- ly quite res|ay and fought through the night hildren’sntHh Palestinians at the southern gates ce.” Tliekofihe Lebanese capital, raising fears id intKKfftrenewed full-scale war. e LittlePtirB The moves to tighten Israel’s serve to iifcnglehold on Palestinian forces lestined loitrapped in west Beirut followed an all ages;ac|raeli announcement Israeli and Sy- tetimes knap tanks battled east of the airport and at Jesday. apparently breaking the 5- g. It iseJa -old cease-fire between the two tovieshoiik be one o(i : hits in vd nines. Israel, which sent the Syrians an matum to leave Beirut, said the ting broke out after the Syrians their Palestinian allies opened on Israeli forces. A Palestinian spokesman said eli troops, pushing toward the meter of the airport, battled lestinian guerrillas and their leftist f'O pbanese allies, but did not mention V^/iJ Brian involvement. ■The reports of fresh fighting came " ■Prime Minister Menachem Begin ie ~~ sil wived in New York on a six-day U.S. ie t.tna: |ji t t0 see k support for the Israeli t this first(M as j on 0 f Lebanon, wouldbetB i n an interview aired on Israeli ore wa)St| e |t v i s i ori 'L ue sday, Begin said Israel had no intention of capturing Pales tine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat — trapped with most of his forces in west Beirut — or seizing the Lebanese capital. Lebanese military sources said an Israeli armored column, moving east on the Beirut-Damascus highway, stopped in Jamhour late Tuesday, just 5 miles from the Capital and 2 miles from Syrian encampments. Lebanese state radio reported Tuesday night the Syrians, to streng then their position along the highway, mined sections of the road to prevent the Israelis from moving east. Syrian troops Tuesday refused an ultimatum by Israeli troops to get out of the capital and “its surroundings.” The deadline of the ultimatum, con veyed to the commander of the Syrian troops in Lebanon, Brig. Sami Al Khateeb, was not disclosed. Arab analysts feared collapse of the truce if the Israelis moved closer to the Syrians. A Syrian government spokesman said, “Syrian troops are in Lebanon under the dictates of the Arab League and a Lebanese government decision and are there to defend the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples by all possible iots shake iuenos Aires e group iladelphiai the first' nship will backers, »£ tked mar? United Press International icdtheyW Britain basked in its triumph in the heir own. Iklands but Argentine President j undent) opoldo Galtieri, with 10,000 riot- in was ategg Argentines demanding his over- ou can o»wow, vowed “sooner or later” you can'tfirgentina will retake the islands, point, tht® Britain, now holding some 16,000 tides sonwrgentine prisoners of war from the an IBC.” Ittles on the desolate South Atlantic Jslands, asked Argentina to confirm deliberijijg 74_ c j a y war was over _ issippi oM a mob of 10,000 Argentines, bitter it three at the sudden end to dreams of taking grip onfthe British colony, shouted at the Ifesklential palace Tuesday night: arna otb "It’s over, it’s over — the military dic- > recenu)'l|t ors hip j s going to fall.” fdance.™ Massed in the Plaza de Mayo — U.S. sanjlhere two months ago 200,000 aill P as jlrgentines cheered the junta’s April and sigaf'l seizure of the Falklands — the de- Honstrators clashed with riot police , yielding night sticks and tear gas. that ^ I “y ou killed our sons in the Malvi- itional n 1 ' jj as (Falklands) and now you want to ,ind has yj us ” sev eral middle-aged women vith the ■ shrieked at p 0 ii ce; during the riots 1 f° r .Mat left downtown Buenos Aires in on ' '■ambles. re appr 0 | Bands of youths smashed store h a statWyvindows, knocked down street signs t pegjf and set fire to piles of trash. Crowds more, jset fire to three buses and barricaded [Streets with cars. | The privately owned Noticias Argentinas news agency said police arrested 200 people in the riot, dub bed the worst since a 1976 military coup overthrew President Isabel Peron. Galtieri went on national radio and television after the riots, refusing to admit defeat or surrender in the Falk lands and vowing “sooner or later” the Falklands will belong to Argen tina. The army general said if London proceeds with “restoration of a colo nialist regime ... there will not be a definitive peace” on the 200-island archipelago controlled by Britain since 1833. In his only reference to the United States, Galtieri said the Argentine troops “faced, with more courage than armaments, the overwhelming superiority of a power supported by the military technology of the United States of North America, surprisingly enemies of Argentina and its people.” A Marine Guard at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires reported Argentines angry at U.S. support for Britain in the Falklands war were call ing to demand Americans leave the country. Galtieri, now fighting removal for his lost gamble in the Falklands, warned that “defeatism will be treason” and vowed the brief Argen tine unity over the invasion of the Falklands will not be spoiled by “an unqualified minority.” Play practice perfection staff photo by John Ryan Chris Warren, as the maid in A Shot in the Dark, shares a moment in the inspector’s office with her lover Benjamin Beauveous, played by Brian McKensey. The MSC Dinner Theatre production of the mystery comedy will run from June 16 through June 19 with show time beginning at 7:45 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. Light bulb? Sounds like a good idea to investigate INVENT to benefit students by Rebeca Zimmermann Battalion Staff Texas A&M University students and the proposed University-owned industrial park may benefit from the newly formed Institute for Ventures in New Technology, a division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Sta tion. The institute, which was approved by the Texas A&M Board of Regents in committee meetings June 10, will be an interdisciplinary program to study feasibility and marketability of new products. It will involve business, engineering, psychology and educa tion disciplines. “Virtually everybody will be called upon to participate in the program,” said Dr. W. Arthur Porter, TEES di rector. The program will bring new re sources to Texas and help create in dustries and jobs because it will help support product ideas and develop ment. It will also provide learning experi ences and work opportunities for Texas A&M students, he said. Stu dents will be able to participate in the technical development and market ing of new products. Porter said the institute will prob ably play a major role in the develop ment of the industrial park, which will be a high technology industrial re search park to support research in fields such as robotics and biomedical engineering. Porter said the idea of INVENT preceded the idea of creating a Uni versity industrial park. He said there would be a natural connection be tween the institute and the industrial park. “We would hope that the institute would serve as a natural catalyst for the industrial park as well as serving the state,” Porter said. “The need for the institute has been obvious in my mind for five years at least.” The institute may also be beneficial to the proposed College Station in dustrial park and future industrial developments around the state, he said. Porter said a search is underway for someone to head the institute, which should be functioning in 12 to 18 months. The person chosen will structure the organization and re ceive requests for support from pri vate individuals. People with product ideas will con tact the institute and if institute mem bers feel the idea is marketable and technologically feasible, INVENT will invest resources in the product and develop a prototype. Then, if the product seems to he a worthy venture, an investor who wants to start a new business will negotiate with the investor, inventor and INVENT about sharing future profits, Porter said. He said the investor would face lit tle risk in the venture because testing and feasibility studies would have already been conducted by the insti tute. “I would hope this would light a fire on campus ... for students to pur sue their own ideas,” Porter said. He said he did not expect the insti tute to be an overnight success, hut rather a long-term project. The institute was recognized by the Governor’s Texas 2()0() Commission on Research and Development as an example for other groups to follow in development of new industrial capa bilities and organizations. >r Lite JON 846-382 Illegal immigrants have right to free education \M ?? d ost Oflit* United Press International WASHINGTON — The Sup reme Court, in a historic constitu tional test of the rights of illegal aliens, ruled 5-4 today children of inch immigrants have a right to a iree public education. The decision has far-reaching mplications for illegal aliens teyond the specific issue of public education and could boost their laims to other types of state and ederal programs, including food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. The justices declared for the first ime that the Constitution’s “equal protection” clause — a basic tenet of American law — applies to illegal aliens. The clause has been interpreted to mean there can be no discrimina- ion in the enjoyment of personal liberty, acquisition of property and application of the law. Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan declared, “What ever savings might be achieved by denying these children an educa tion, they are wholly insubstantial in light of the costs involved to these children, the state and the nation.” Leading the four dissenters, Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote, “Were it our business to set the na tion's social policy, I would agree without hesitation that it is senseless for an enlightened society to dep rive any children — including illegal aliens — of an elementary educa tion.” But he charged that the Constitu tion does not give the high court power to “strike down laws because they do not meet our standards of desirable social policy, wisdom or common sense.” He was joined in dissent by Jus tices Byron White, William Rehn- quist and Sandra Day O’Connor. The ruling was a major victory for the Mexican-American Legal De fense Fund, which challenged a Texas law that had cut off state funds to local school districts for the costs of educating children of un documented aliens. The statute allowed districts to re fuse to admit such children or to charge them tuition. Since most illegal aliens are poverty-stricken, a tuition requirement effectively pre vented their enrollment. Area schools unaffected by ruling on illegal aliens Illegal alien children can not be charged tuition to attend Texas public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The ruling will have little effect in the Bryan Independent School District, Assistant Superintendent Travis Nelson said. Bryan schools have never charged tuition for illeg al alien children, he said. Fannin Elementary School prin cipal W.B. Davis said: “In my opinion, it’s not going to hurt the Bryan school district be cause we don’t have very many (illegal alien children).” College Station schools won’t be affected much by the Supreme Court ruling, South Knoll Elemen tary School principal B.B. Holland said. Assistant Superintendent H.R. Burnett agreed. “We don’t know of any un documented aliens in the district,” he said. LULAC president says Court ruling is ‘great victory’ United Press International CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (UPI) — The president of the nation’s old est and largest Mexican-American group called Tuesday’s U.S. Sup reme Court ruling requiring free education of illegal alien school chil dren “a great victory for the Hispa nic community.” Tony Bonilla, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, urged Gov. Wil liam Clements to make state funds available to educate the illegal alien children. He also called upon Con gress to ensure impact aid to affected districts. Bonilla said his group admits there is a possibility that today’s landmark ruling could boost claims by illegal aliens to state and federal benefits such as food stamps. “To the extent, this opens up the possibility and probability of un documented aliens receiving be nefits, we have no quarrel to that because for all these years un- documenteds have been paying into Social Security without receiving any benefits, and been paying taxes at the city, state and federal govern ment levels without receiving any benefits,” he said. LULAC had filed a “friend of the court” brief in the illegal alien school children case. “It’s a great victory for the Hispa nic community in America,” Bonilla said. “And we in LULAC are proud to have been part of this great vic tory. This comes at a particular point in time in our history when we do not have a friend in the White House in the form of President Reagan. “This administration has been very insensitive to the Hispanic com munity and will make up for some of the losses we’ve suffered under this administration.” He said the ruling also assures un documented children an education and will eliminate the “child slavery we’ve had in this country for so many years” because children who could not afford tuition were forced to work in the fields. He said LULAC asked Congress for legislation that will provide im pact funds for districts affected by the decision. inside Classified 8 Local 3 National 6 Opinions 2 Sports 9 State 3 What’s Up 7 forecast Today’s Forecast: Partly cloudy today with a slight chance of show ers. High today in the high 80s. Low in the high 60s tonight. Highs and lows the same Thursday.