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■LONDON — Queen Elizabeth to-
■ygot her first glimpse of the blue-
led son born to Prince Charles and
lincess Diana and Britain rejoiced
liver the birth of its future king.
The queen, in a pink dress, joined
[veral family visitors to Princess
ana’s bedside in St. Mary’s Hospital
ijwest London at midmorning.
An ecstatic Prince Charles was the
tong the first of a stream of visitors
[eluding Diana’s mother Frances
BandKydd and her sister, 24-year-
J Lady Jane,
of classic™ “She looks radiant, absolutely
1st of wcBdiant, and the grandson is every-
g on sudilng his father said he was last night
to two. la lovely baby,” Mrs. Shand-Kydd
evestheslBkl after visiting her daughter,
d foraB An official proclamation on the
r art piBckiron gate at Buckingham palace
estate wasBad: “Her Royal Highness and her
otheRev.Bn are both doing well.” 500 well-
Unifrapshers waved Union Jacks and sang
od Save the Queen.”
For Diana, the 20-year-old former
[ndergarten teacher from a blue-
Jooded English family, her 16 hours
in labor ended three hours before
idnight Monday, with Charles at
toredinal IP side.
London bookmakers were busy
cepting bets on what the baby
auld be named, but got no hints
TP) om r °y a l couple. Charles con-
JU | ssed he and his strong-minded wife
id “a bit of an argument” over the
line already.
Charles witnessed the birth, and
nen — looking somewhat dazed but
very happy — was mobbed by teary-
I'ed wellwishers outside the hospital,
ne young woman dashed forward
jnd planted a kiss on his cheek.
“I’m sorry you all had to wait so
ng,” the 33-year-old heir to the
rone told the 600 who waited
roughout the day. They drowned
Km out with choruses of “For He’s a
Jolly Good Fellow.”
I “We rejoice,” said George Tho-
las, speaker of the House of Com
mons, when news of the royal birth
tas announced to cheers in Parlia
ment.
London bookmakers accepted
idds on the name of the child who will
ie the 43rd British monarch since
Villiam the Conquerer invaded Eng-
and in 1066 — Edward? Louis?
ieorge? James?
The London gambling firm, Wil
iam Hill, made George co-favorite
vith James at odds of 7-2. But Louis
vas another favorite because Charles
^ I Q evered his uncle Lord Louis Mount-
r I 7 ratten, a English hero murdered in
B 1979 by a terrorist bomb in Ireland.
" Charles, with his typical modesty,
>aid his 7-pound 1 'A-ounce, blond-
maired son “is not too bad.” Then he
■evealed something about himself.
It’s rather a grown-up thing, I’ve
found,” Charles said of being a
father. “It’s rather a shock.” But his
reaction to the birth was “obviously
elieved, delighted, marvelous.”
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his state of mind.
Legal experts said the innocent
verdict by the jury of mostly blue-
collar and clerical workers is sure to
trigger a new controversy over the use
of the insanity defense.
Eight of the twelve jurors who deli
vered the verdict, bringing an end to
Hinckley’s 42-day, $3 million trial,
were mum about what went on in four
days of deliberations and sought to
resume their private lives.
Most declined to even take tele
phone calls and at least three did not
immediately return home.
A ninth juror, Virginia Smith, 61,
wife of a retired city police officer,
told reporters the panel considered
all the evidence and concluded that all
psychiatric experts at the trial agreed
Hinckley had some kind of mental
disorder or illness.
One thing was certain: The jurors
accepted at least some of Hinckley’s
defense that he was driven by delu
sions about winning the love of actress
Jodie Foster and the movie “Taxi
Driver” when he fired on the pres
idential party on March 30, 1981.
Court officials had identified Roy
Jackson, a retired bluecollar worker,
as the jury foreman, but Lawrence
Coffey, 22, passed the verdict to the
judge.
“We made a decision,” Coffey told
reporters awaiting his arrival home,
then walked out of the room.
Merryanna Swartz, daughter of a
Milwaukee surgeon who has twice
held jobs working with emotionally
disturbed teenagers, repeated “no
comment, no comment” as she
rushed into her home.
At the White House, President
Reagan declined immediate com
ment.
“We’re just not going to make any
comment,” Sarah Brady, wife of
White House press secretary Jim
Brady, who was shot in the head in the
attack and suffered crippling brain
damage, told United Press Interna
tional.
Secret Service agent Timothy
McCarthy and Washington police
officer Thomas Delahanty, both
wounded by the exploding “Devasta
tor” bullets Hinckley fired from a
crowd as Reagan left a Washington
hotel, also declined comment.
The psychiatrists who testified in
Hinckley’s defense said they were
gratified at the outcome and relieved
that the 27-year-old loner will receive
treatment.
At 6:50 p.m., the gruff voice of
U.S. District Judge Barrington Par
ker bellowed, “Not guilty by reason of
insanity,” sending hushed gasps
through the the courtroom.
Hinckley, standing facing the jury
with his hands clasped, looked at the
ceiling, then at the floor and finally
wiped tears from his eyes as the judge
read the final counts.
Hinckley’s father, Jack Hinckley, a
wealthy Evergreen, Colo., oilman,
put his hand on his head and his jaw
dropped open. Then Jack Hinckley
bowed his head.
Hinckley’s mother, JoAnn, burst
into tears and embraced her husband.
Hinckley, the first would-be pres
idential assassin to be acquitted by a
jury in 150 years, will undergo
psychiatric examinations pending a
hearing within 50 days as is required
by District of Columbia law.
Israeli artillery pounds
Beirut through night
United Press International
Israeli artillery pounded neighbor
hoods of Beirut throughout the
night, deepening fears that last-
minute political maneuvering today
could not save the Lebanese capital
from a bloody Israeli invasion.
Lebanon’s Council of National Sal
vation called another meeting in
search of an elusive Israeli-
Palestinian compromise. But leftist
leader Walid Jumblat said he was
“very pessimistic” about avoiding an
Israeli military entry into Beirut.
Israeli troop convoys were re
ported heading north toward Beirut,
where Yasser Arafat and his 6,000
Palestine Liberation Organization
were trapped and vowing to fight any
Israeli attack.
The second straight day of Israeli
shelling escalated shortly after mid
night but began subsiding at day
break. It was aimed primarily at Pales
tinian neighborhoods, but police
sources said several nonPalestinian
areas were also hit.
The Palestine news agency WAFA
said “numerous civilians” were killed
or wounded in today’s round of
shelling.
In Washington, President Reagan
urged Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin Monday to with
draw his troops from Lebanon “ex
peditiously.” The talks were de
scribed by a U.S. official as “frank,
bordering at times on direct and even
blunt.”
But Begin gave no indication he
would withdraw until the PLO leader
ship is destroyed.
Israeli Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon, the main architect of his na
tion’s 3-week-old invasion of Leba
non, warned that guerrillas have no
immunity from attack and Israel
would continue to fight them “with
full force.”
Sharon’s troops bombarded wide
swaths of West Beirut on Monday,
scoring 13 direct hits on a Palestinian
hospital where six people recovering
from earlier wounds died, including
three children.
The Monday shelling, the heaviest
since Israel’s “ceasefire” with the
Palestinians June 12, killed 20 people
and wounded at least 75 others. Two
Soviet diplomats were injured when a
shell fell in the garden of the Soviet
embassy.
Arafat, angrily blaming the United
States for the Israeli attack, predicted
that Israel was preparing for a “big
battle” in Beirut and rejected any no
tion of surrender.
“We are saying revolution until vic
tory,” Arafat told ABC news. “Not
until death.”
Calling it “the American invasion,”
the PLO leader said Washington has
“already destroyed all your interest in
this area by this stupid, shameful and
dirty work.” 3
The seven-man Lebanese Council
of National Salvation, which met for
the first time Sunday, reportedly
sought to avert a battle for Beirut by
forcing Israeli troops back some 6
miles from Beirut in return for Pales
tinian surrender of heavy weapons,
an old suggestion that would be hard
to implement.
staff photo by David Fisher
Rock steady
Employees from Reed Drilling Bits had to elevate their
truck to keep it still enough to drill through granite.
Dale Ellis crawls up the back of the truck to adjust the
rig while a member of the American Society of
Engineering Education conference examines one of the
drill bits. The bits are used in oilfields and mining
quarries. The exhibit, in conjunction with the ASEE
conference, will be here until Friday.
Britain reviews defenses
in wake of Falklands
United Press International
Military analysts expected today’s
British defense review to propose cuts
in the navy, despite the vital role Bri
tain’s seapower played in retaking its
far-flung colonies in the South Atlan
tic from Argentina.
The review also comes well in adv
ance of the findings of a top-level in
vestigation into the causes of the con
flict that Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher is establishing.
The aftermath of the war created
an open crisis in Argentina, with the
military junta in a fourth day of in
tense efforts to choose a new presi
dent following the ouster of Army
strongman Leopoldo Galtieri last
week.
In Buenos Aires, a military official
said some 9,000 Argentine prisoners
of war returned by Britain to the
southern base of Puerto Madryn were
undergoing a “period of adaptation”
before returning to their families.
The British transport ship Norland
delivered about 2,000 prisoners
Monday.
The British said they will hold ab
out 1,000 Argentine officers, includ
ing the Argentine commander on the
Falklands, Gen. Mario Menendez,
until Argentina formally declares an
end to the war on all fronts.
In London, Defense Secretary
John Nott was expected to present to
Parliament a series of proposals for
cuts in the Royal Navy, which lost two
frigates and two destroyers to Argen
tine warplanes in the battle for the
Falklands, 450 miles off the Argen
tine coast.
The defense ministry’s review of
Britain’s armed forces had been de
layed because of the Falklands war,
but military analysts said they ex
pected Nott would still propose big
cuts in the Royal Navy’s surface fleet.
The move would be certain to an
ger the nation’s defense lobby and
right-wing members of Thatcher’s
ruling Conservative Party.
Engineering faculty shortage creates problems
by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
A shortage of engineering faculty
at American universities is causing
problems, John W. Ceils, executive
director of the Engineering Faculty
Shortage Project, said Monday.
The shortage is resulting in
heavier teaching loads for individual
professors and in an increased re
liance on teaching assistants and part-
time teachers, he told more than 300
members of the American Society for
Engineering Education in Rudder
Theater.
Ceils said the nine-month-old pro
ject has found that the shortage may
have several causes. He emphasized
that the problem, its causes and possi
ble solutions are still being studied
and that all conclusions reported
were preliminary.
One cause for the shortage might
be that fewer people are getting mas
ter’s and doctoral degrees, he said. In
1970, 3,500 doctorates in engineering
were awarded; in 1980, only 2,500
were given.
Poor faculty salaries may also
account for the shortage. Ceils said.
Holders of doctorates usually enter
teaching as assistant professors, he
said, and surveys of engineering edu
cators show that assistant professors
made about $22,474 last year.
But at the same time, engineers
with undergraduate degrees in pet
roleum engineering were offered an
average salary of $30,432.
Faculty mobility could be another
factor affecting shortages, he said.
More engineers left teaching posi
tions for industry than vice versa, and
those that did leave industry for
teaching preferred private over pub
lic universities.
Dr. Robert K. Armstrong, repre
sentative of E.I. du Pont de Nemours
Co., said that not enough U.S. citizens
are enrolled in graduate programs.
Better fellowships are needed to
attract them, he said, since foreigners
currently receive almost half of the
engineering doctorates given by
American universities.
The speakers proposed some solu
tions to the teacher shortage.
Ceils suggested improving com
munication between industry and
academia.
“It’s not enough for industry to just
give money,” he said, “they must get
real communication going.”
He suggested contract team
teaching, in which a company teaches
one to three courses in its field at a
university for two or three years.
Ceils also suggested improving
teaching technology by making use of
video teaching and microcomputers.
But Armstrong said cooperation
wasn’t going to be easy. Industry and
academia have different missions.
“Companies have a lot of things on
their mind to keep them busy such as
increased productivity and hiring
problems,” he said.
Local gas prices heading up, up, up
by Hope E. Paasch
Battalion Staff
Gasoline prices in Bryan and Col
lege Station are rising steadily and
will continue to do so for the next
few months, a local station manager
said Monday.
Bill Roberts, assistant manager of
Piper’s Gulf in College Station, said
although prices dropped more than
15 cents a gallon during spring, they
are climbing again.
“Prices are going up as fast as
they came down, and they’re going
to keep going up,” Roberts said.
Self-service regular gasoline at
the station is now $1.21, almost as
high as it was before prices dropped.
Gasoline in the tanks at the sta
tion is owned by the distributor,
Roberts said, which means the
wholesale price of the gas is affected
immediately when price increases
are announced.
“Our price on the pumps goes up
when the distributor calls and tells
us,” he said. “We pay for the gas as
we sell it.”
Although no shortage exists, an
allocation system was started two
weeks ago by the Gulf distributors,
Roberts said. Piper’s was allocated
more gallons than it has ever sold.
“They just wanted to get the (allo
cation) program started,” he said.
L,eon Sevcik of Sevcik’s Texaco in
Bryan, said his station is also on allo
cation -- 100 per cent of last year’s
sales plus up to 25 per cent more.
Sevcik said the price of gasoline is
highly dependent on the amount of
driving people do. He said the price
per gallon went up 2.5 cents Memo
rial Day weekend, the largest single
increase at his station.
“If people will conserve by driv
ing less, maybe it (the price) will level
off,” he said. “If the demand goes
up and the supply goes down even a
little, you can expect the price to go
up.”
“They (oil companies) are trying
to use up reserves to get prices and
production back up again,” he said.
“Our price has been going up about
a cent a week. I expect that it will
continue to for at least the rest of the
summer.
Ronnie Fox, owner of Aggieland
Service Station in College Station,
agrees that the price will go up as
demand does.
“History teaches us that at this
time of year, people drive more and
the price of gas goes up,” he said.
Gasoline in the tanks at his station
is owned by the distributor, but Fox
said his prices don’t necessarily go
up every time the distributor calls.
“We’re hoping to take up the
slack in volume,” he said. “We want
to increase business by giving the
consumer a break.”
Fox’s station, a Mobil Oil Co. affi
liate, is not under an allocation
program.
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: High today in
the mid 90s. Low tonight in the mid
70s. Highs and lows continuing the
same through Wednesday. 40 per
cent chance of rain today, decreas
ing to 30 percent chance tonight
and 20 percent chance Wednesday.