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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, June 23, 1982
New president
meets leaders
of Argentina
No dumb waiter
staff photo by David Fisher
Feedbacks
Simpson,
coffee on
Electrical
Texas at
Genesis P101 model robot serves Doug
a representative of Feedback Inc., a cup of
command. Dr Bill Jiles, the chairman of the
Enginering department at the University of
Arlington, watches Simpson demonstrate the
robot’s functions. Feedback Inc. manufactures
engineering technology equipment and is at Texas A&M
University as a exhibitor in the American Society of
Engineering Education conference. The displays are in
Rudder Exhibit Hall.
Baby moved to palace home
United Press International
LONDON — With fireworks light-
the London sky, Prince Charles
d Princess Diana carried their in
lint son home to spend his first day
Jpday at Kensington Palace where the
iture king will grow up.
“Isn’t he lovely? Just adorable,”
Doed onlookers as Charles and a
parkling Diana gave the public their
rst glimpse of their son a mere 21
ours after his birth.
The princess, just eight days shy of
ler 21st birthday, blushed as the
rowd waiting in the rain Tuesday
light for the couple to emerge from
It. Mary’s Hospital burst into ap-
lause.
The prince, who was carrying the
baby bundled in a white shawl, hand
ed his charge to his wife and they were
driven off to Kensington Palace as
someone with a portable record play
er struck up “Land of Hope and
Glory.”
“Everything is marvelous,” Charles
told reporters earlier. “My wife is fine
and so is the baby.” He added with a
smile that his heir “is looking more
human.”
The yet-to-be-named prince spent
his first night in the newly converted
nursery at Kensington Palace on the
western edge of Hyde Park and Kens
ington Gardens.
No matter what his name, his
popularity is established. Only 1-day-
old and he had already received more
than 2,000 gifts and 700 telegrams
and letters at his new home.
The proud father was no help in
the' guessing game over the name of
the second in line to the throne, tell
ing reporters: “I’m not going to let
you know now.”
Royal infants customarily carry the
names of past monarchs, making
George, James, Henry and Edward
likely choices.
London’s bookmakers quoted odds
of 400-1 against Jason or Kevin while
offering just about even odds on
George, 7-2 on James, 5-1 on Charles
and 8-1 on Albert, Arthur or Louis.
The royal infant was born at 9:03
p.m. on the longest day of the year,
and weighed 7 pou ds, 1V2 ounces. In
the hospital, he was visited by his
grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, and
by Diana’s jubilant parents.
With both his grandmother and
father ahead of him, he is unlikely to
become king of England until well
into the next century — the latest in a
line of 40 monarchs stretching back to
1066, the most enduring royal family
in history.
United Press International
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina —
Argentina’s new military strongman
sought support today from the navy
and air force for an army “coup d’e
tat” that seized the government from
a combined armed forces junta.
After three days of unsuccessful
efforts by the junta to choose a new
president in the wace of defeat in the
Falkland Islands war, the army said
Tuesday it was taking over the “poli
tical direction” of Argentina and
appointing retired army Gen. Reynal
do Bignone as president.
The navy and air force immediate
ly withdrew from the military junta
that has ruled the South American
nation since President Isabel Peron
was toppled in 1976. President Leo-
E ldo Galtieri resigned last week fol-
>wing the defeat by Britain.
“This boils down to being a coup
d’etat,” said an Argentine diplomat
who refused to be identified.
Bignone quickly scheduled meet
ings for today with air force comman
der Basilio Lami Dozo and the com
mander ofthe navy, Adm. Jorge Isaac
Anaya, and with representatives of
Argentina’s 15 political parties, which
have repeatedly called lor immediate
return to democracy.
Bignone needs support for his
transitional government scheduled to
take office July 1 and rule until early
1984, when the army says it will turn
over the government to civilian rule.
But there were persistent questions
whether Bignone, 54, a little-known
military administrator regarded as a
political moderate by Argentine stan
dards, would ever be inaugurated.
The gray-haired, bespectacled Big
none is the fourth army general to
serve as president since 1976, but the
first not to serve as chief of the army
at the same time.
The army’s move Tuesday came
one day after both Lami Dozo and
Anaya threatened to resign from the
junta if the army attempted to name
one of its generals as president.
Lami Dozo, the most popular of
Argentina’s military leaders following
the daring and effective Argentine air
strikes of the Falklands war, said he
would only accept a civilian as Argen
tina’s next president.
“The Argentine army is assuming
responsibility for the political direc
tion of the national government,” said
an army communique, signed by
army chief Gen. Cristino Nicolaides
and read over national radio and tele
vision.
Immediately after the Army’s
announcement, the air force and the
navy issued their own communiques,
declaring their withdrawal from the
government.
The air force, the only branch of
the services to enhance its prestige in
the Falklands war, said it was “discon
necting itself from the political
leadership,” although Lami Dozo
would meet with the army to discuss
military matters only.
Citing the lack of unanimity in the
choice of Bignone, the navy said it
had decided “to end its participation
in the leadership of the regime.”
Closed roads open
as traffic solution
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look.
New cease-fire
holds
after attacks
today
United Press International
Israel’s latest unilateral cease-fire
appeared to be holding today after a
day of intense air and land attacks
on the battered Moslem half of
Beirut where 6,000 Palestinian
guerrillas are trapped.
On Tuesday, for the first time in
10 days, Israeli warplanes bom
barded the capital, hitting Palesti
nian and non-Palestinian neighbor
hoods and spreading panic in one of
the heaviest assaults of the 16-day
Israeli invasion.
Israeli artillery on hills overlook
ing the coastal plain south of Beirut
leisurely laid waste to whole rows of
houses and apartment blocks. Fields
were pitted with craters.
Beirut’s leftist media said seven
people were killed and 73 wounded
Tuesday before the attacks were
halted by a new Israeli cease-fire
urged by U.S. envoy Philip Habib.
Israeli planes also bombed Syrian
positions along the Beirut-
Damascus highway in the moun
tains east of the capital while Israeli
troops and tanks advanced on Pales
tinian and Syrian positions in an
apparent bid to capture the highway
linking the Lebanese and Syrian
capitals.
Responding to the renewed
Israeli shelling, the U.S. embassy
told American citizens its services
were being “terminated” and urged
them to leave Beirut. The U.S. fleet
in the Mediterranean, partly be
cause of NATO exercises, was at its
greatest strength since the 1973
Middle East war.
Israel has stated its forces will not
invade West Beirut, but Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon was reported
pressing for a thrust into the be
sieged Moslem sector. Extra Israeli
forces were reported moving on
Beirut.
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion leader Yasser Arafat, trapped
in the besieged city, invited Senator
Charles Percy, R-Ill., chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, to see how U.S. weapons are
used to “kill thousands of innocent
Lebanese and Palestinians, destroy
Palestinian camps and Lebanese
cities and villages.”
Earlier Tuesday in Washington,
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin faced unusally critical ques
tioning from the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee over his conduct
of the war, particluarly his army’s
use of cluster bombs.
“I think it fair to say that in my
eight years in Washington I’ve never
seen such an angry session with a
foreign head of state,” Sen. Paul
Tsongas, D-Mass., said.
“The excess, especially the loss of
civilian lives in Lebanon, has crossed
the line,” he said. “And I for one do
not want to go across that line and I
think in this country that distinction
is being made.
As Begin testified, Israeli war
planes were attacking Palestinian re
fugee camps and neighborhoods
and bombing a Lebanese army bar
racks well away from Palestinian
quarters.
Despite the cease-fire today, ten
sion remained wire-tight in the
capital in anticipation of an Israeli
entry to destroy the leaders of the
PLO.
Reporters saw hundreds of
Israeli ambulances and medical
supply trucks moving up the coastal
highway to Beirut Tuesday. They
also reported a convoy of howitzer
artillery guns and close to 200 small
tanks designed for high maneuvera
bility in cities.
Japanese
linked to
electronics
IBM theft
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Six Japanese
businessmen have been arrested for
contracting to buy stolen information
about new IBM computers and war
rants were issued for 12 others in
what may be one of the biggest indust
rial espionage cases in history.
Authorities said the mammoth
Hitachi Ltd. of Japan also may be
charged with joining the alleged con
spiracy.
In a complaint filed Tuesday, the
government said agents of Hitachi
Ltd. and Mitsubishi Ltd. had separate
conspiracies to assist the Japanese
corporations in the development of
computers and other associated hard
ware.
The FBI charged four employees
of Mitsubishi Electronics America
Inc. with recruiting an undercover
FBI agent to have documents stolen
from IBM for transport to Japan.
One has been arrested so far.
During a five-month period, be
tween January and June 1982 the FBI
agent allegedly was paid $26,000 to
pass documents from IBM to the
Japanese in a sting operation carried
out with the cooperation of IBM.
In the Hitachi operation, some
$622,000 in payments were made to
the undercover agent for computer
items and manuals voluntarily pro
vided by IBM to snare the alleged
conspirators.
In Tokyo, Hitachi declined im
mediate comment until officials read
the official charges, but Hideo Ota,
director of Mitsubishi, said the
charges were “groundless. I’ve not
heard of the transfer of such a big
money, which ought to be approved
in advance.”
In a separate complaint filed in the
U.S. District Court, U.S. Attorney
Joseph Russoniello said five em
ployees of Hitachi Ltd. were arrested
for allegedly carrying out a scam simi
lar to Mitsubishi’s against IBM. War
rants were issued for 12 other people,
all residents of Japan.
by Hope E. Paasch
Battalion Staff
Closing several streets on the Texas
A&M University campus and con
struction of a parking garage are
being considered as solutions to park
ing and traffic flow problems, the
vice-president for planning said
Tuesday.
Vice-president Charles Samson
said no formal recommendations
have been made by the Master Plan
ning Committee. But for several
months they have been exploring
alternatives that might relieve the on-
campus traffic problems.
A committee report should be
made within a month, Samson said. It
will probably include recommenda
tions for the street closures and an
intensive study on the feasibility of a
parking garage.
The streets being considered for
partial closing are: Spence, from the
old Animal Husbandry Building to
the old Agriculture Building; Lub
bock, in front of the Corps Quad
rangle; and Ross, in front of Sbisa.
“Closing the streets would elimin
ate through traffic on campus,” Sam
son said, “but would maintain the
accessability of parking lots.
“If the streets are closed, there
would be two considerations. First, we
would have to maintain access for
emergency vehicles. Second, if there
is ever any shuttle system for
peripheral parking, the buses would
have to have access.”
Texas Transportation Institute
conducted a limited study on traffic
problems at the University several
years ago, he said, and recommended
the street closures. In the same study,
TTI examined the feasibility of a
parking garage, but did not recom
mend building one.
Since state funds can not be used
for construction of parking facilities,
Samson said, financing a garage
could be difficult.
“A problem with the parking gar
age is that it’s extremely costly,” he
said. “It’s several times the cost of
pavement parking lots. Since it must
lie financed from other than state dol
lars, the question is raised of if the cost
could be borne by those using the
facility.”
Exactly who would be allowed to
use the garage is undecided. The pos
sibility of using either all or part of a
garage as short-term, hourly parking
has been discussed, Samson said.
“It (short-term parking) is definite
ly an alternative worth looking at,” he
said. “We might actually be able to pay
for a parking garage if it were used.”
The Master Planning Committee
will most likely recommend that a
consultant, either TTI or an outside
firm, be hired to conduct an intensive
study.
Seminar aims to educate
beginning business people
by Terry Duran
Battalion Staff
A seminar for budding business
people will “hit the high spots of man
agement” Thursday at the Ramada
Inn.
The Service Corps of Retired Ex
ecutives is sponsoring the day-long
workshop in cooperation with the
Bryan-College Station Chamber of
Commerce to assist people who want
to start businesses in the area.
William E. Eckels, president of
SCORE’S local chapter, said Tuesday
many small businessmen have no for
mal training in business and there
fore operate on a hit-or-miss basis. He
said the workshop is aimed at educat
ing small businessmen and prospec
tive owners and managers in business
management techniques.
SCORE, a group of about 35
volunteer retired business people, is
sponsored by the federal Small Busi
ness Administration.
The organization, which operates
in 16 states, is staffed by volunteer
retired executives like Eckles. Eckles
retired in 1966 from Texas A&M,
where he was the assistant dean of the
business college and director of ex
ecutive development.
“Most of the people I contact (to
work with SCORE) don’t want to do it
when I first approach them,” Eckles
said. “But once they get into it, they
love it because they’re helping
people.”
Subjects to be covered at the
Thursday seminar include:
•Success and failure factors.
“Businesses wind up doing things that
drive away customers sometimes and
hurt themselves,” Eckles said, “and
then wonder why. We can tell them
why.”
•Business records, including those
for tax and insurance purposes.
•Financial factors. “If manage
ment can’t interpret financial re
ports,” he said, “they won’t be able to
control their business. A manager
should be able to take the business’
financial statements and determine
what is happening in his company
and why.”
Other mini-classes will cover
sources of capital, tax regulations,
and insurance requirements.
The workshop will be held from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. in Room D of the Rama
da Inn at Texas and University Ave
nues.
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Partly cloudy.
High today in the low 90s. Low
tonight in the mid 70s. Highs and
lows continuing the same through
Thursday. Slight chance of show
ers and thundershowers con
tinuing.