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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
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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
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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.
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Illegal immigrants have
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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.
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