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Israel offered to let Palestinian
erffllas leave besieged west Beirut
th their “personal weapons” if they
it Lebanon for good, but a PLO
ftcial declared his organization
idy for bloody all-out street
hting.
In Christian east Beirut, the pow-
Ful Israeli-allied Lebanese Front re
ted Palestine Liberation Organiza-
n Chairman Yasser Araf at’s prop-
rl to integrate some of his 6,()()()
errillas into the Lebanese army be-
evacuating the rest from
banon.
Israel earlier had demanded the
errillas surrender their weapons to
; Lebanese army and leave under
d Cross supervision for Syria or
y other Arab state.
Despite the new Israeli proposal
dthe cease-fire holding a fifth day,
re was little evidence U.S.-backed
plomatic efforts had narrowed the
ferences between Jerusalem and
: Palestinians trapped in the
banese capital.
A U.S. government survey released
Washington indicated nearly half
of the 3 million people in war-torn
banon are in need of some kind of
Imanitarian aid.
I “We are getting more and more
tin impression the negotiations are
no; advancing as they should at this
■ge,” a senior Israeli official said.
■ Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
■gin, winning approval from parlia-
pm to continue the siege, Tuesday
lliierated his demand the Palesti-
Kans leave Beirut.
B Referring to Arafat, Begin said:
■hey don’t deserve mercy, particu-
Blythat one with the stubble on his
Be, the despicable murderer of chil-
drm.”
■But Begin added, “We don’t want
to! umiliate them (the Palestinians)...
«n criminals are human beings.
B“We are ready to let the terrorists
Icp their personal weapons .”
■“Patience,” Begin told the Knesset,
■hey he Palestinians) will leave
jirut in a day or two.
A PLO official in Moslem west
m birut said the guerrillas were pre-
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“We’re ready for it,” the official
&id. “They actually believe once they
ill the bandleaders the hand is dead.”
.-.Jibe offidaL claimed one-third of
Bead CM* }e executive committee of the PLO is
|ially outside Beirut, so even a suc-
sful attack on Beirut would not li-
[uidate the'PLO leadership.
In rejecting Arafat’s proposal to
tegrate the PLO into the Lebanese
Itiy, Lebanese Front spokesman
Irre Yazbek told United Press In-
Inational: “No way. This is a ridicu-
Itis. It is a maneuver to implicate the
anese army which has so far
iyed out of things.”
l The rejection came before
Ibanese Prime Minister Che fie Waz-
huddled with Arafat Tuesday.
Iro high-ranking PLO military com-
anders also met with Lebanese
(my intelligence chief Johnny
y Staff photo by Diana Sultenfuss
Today is Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert’s last day as chancellor of the Texas A&M University System. See related stories and photographs on pages 6 and 7.
Shuttle’s belly facing sun to dry tiles
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The
shuttle Columbia circled the world
with its bottom side facing the.sun
early today to bake out any water still
in its heat-shield tiles from a pre
launch Florida downpour.
Mission Control said the decision
to maintain the “bottom sun” position
instead of conducting a long tail-to-
sun thermal test was to make sure all
the water is gone from the fragile tiles
before Sunday’s return to Earth.
Officials said chances are good the
tiles are completely dry from 10 hours
of earlier solar baking, and the latest
sun-soak was just a precaution.
“There is no potential for catas
trophe,” Thomas Moser, a specialist
on the shuttle’s heat shielding, said
Tuesday.
Moser said the worst that could
happen would be the surfaces of some
tiles might pop off due to ice in them
turning to steam during the searing
heat of re-entry.
Columbia was hit by a gale-force
hailstorm on the launch pad Saturday
night while waiting for Sunday’s lif
toff. The hail jabbed some 400 tiles,
allowing water to soak into them.
The winged spaceship has moved
past the 1 million mile mark and was
operating beautifully on mission No.
4 — better than ever, said one flight
director.
Astronauts Thomas “Ken” Mat
tingly and Henry Hartsfield also were
doing well. Both were reported in
good health and excellent spirits as
they neared the midway point of the
seven-day mission.
One of Hartsfield’s main jobs to
day was to add to the biological find
ings that have delighted scientists who
want to make medicines in space.
Mattingly had a variety of chores
including more operations of the sec
ret Pentagon payload in the cargo
hold, tests to see if the ship’s radiators
work as well folded down as they do in
their normal position and a star track
ing exercise for navigational pur
poses.
The space drug processor de
veloped by the McDonnell Douglas
Co. in St. Louis operated for nearly 7
hours Monday and proved the pro
cess of electrophoresis works far bet
ter in weightlessness than on Earth in
separating biological materials from a
solution.
“We are very, very pleased with
both the performance of the machine
itself and also the performance of the
astronaut crew,” James Rose, the
McDonnell Douglas project manager,
said after Monday’s run.
Three solutions were processed
Monday containing a material the
company will not discuss because of
its potential commercial value. To
day’s samples, however, were
straightforward mixtures of complex
egg and rat proteins called albumins
mixed in slightly acidic water.
The aim of today’s runs was to
demonstrate the machine’s ability to
separate large concentrations of
materials. On Earth, the machine can
handle only very weak solutions be
fore gravity fouls up the. electric field
separation process.
Tuesday was the busiest day in
orbit for Mattingly and Hartsfield.
They completed operation of a pollu
tion monitor around the spaceship as
well as numerous tests with the ship’s
robot arm. Flight director Harold
Draughon said the crew worked “like
gangbusters.”
“It got kind of hectic there for a
while but it all seemed to come out
pretty good,” Mattingly said before
the crew turned in shortly after 8 p.m.
“We think you guys really did a
super job,” replied George Nelson in
Houston control. “We got everything
we planned plus a lot more done
today.”
“Who knows what we might get
done tomorrow,” Mattingly said.
Reagan to hold
conference tonight
M
United Press International
| WASHINGTON — President
eagan faces the nation tonight in a
Revised news conference that likely
focus on two Cabinet members
M the war in Lebanon.
Reagan is expected to be pep-
:red with questions about the
brupt resignation of Secretary of
ate Alexander Haig and a special
vestigation that found no grounds
indict Labor Secretary Raymond
'onovan.
The nationally broadcast news
nference, the 11th of Reagan’s
Residency and his first since May
3, is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
*DT.
Aides said before Reagan steps
efore the cameras, the White
louse may issue a statement on the
eport released Monday by the spe-
|al prosecutor who examined alle-
9tions that Donovan had under
world ties.
Special Prosecutor Leon Silver-
>an concluded there was “insuffi-
ient credible evidence” to return
ny indictments. But, he said, the
umerous allegations linking Dono-
an to mob figures “must occasion a
Used eyebrow.”
White House spokesman Larry
peakes has said the White House
ould read the report and said:
We’ll pass judgment.” There has
been no firm word from the White
House on whether Donovan would
remain with the administration.
While Reagan has been updated
on the Donovan matter this week, he
has also been receiving reports from
Middle East mediator Philip Habib
on negotiations between the war
ring factions in Lebanon.
Speakes told reporters: “We’re in
close and constant touch;” but he
said because the talks were of “ex
treme sensitivity,” no progress re
port would be forthcoming from the
White House.
His statements have been con
fined to expressing pleasure that the
cease-fire in Lebanon has been
holding.
Thus far, the White House has
refused to say what triggered Haig’s
resignation last week, although spe
culation persists it was seeded in sev
eral clashes over policy and person
ality conflicts.
Haig’s selected successor, former
Nixon Cabinet official George
Shultz, is making the rounds on
Capitol Hill in preparation for his
Senate confirmation hearing.
Speakes said the date of Haig’s
departure had not been formally
worked out, but he appeared to be
preparing for an exit by the end of
the week.
Think tank to take fresh
directions with new leader
by Terry Duran
Battalion Staff
The head of an industrial economic
research group says he hopes to point
his 35-year-old think tank organiza
tion in new directions — and maybe
make a profit.
Dr. Stan Madden heads the In
dustrial Economics Research Group,
a part of the Business and Technolo
gy Research Division of the Texas En
gineering Experiment Station. The
IERG is a research group with a small
staff nucleus that “can draw on facul
ty expertise to solve any particular
problem,” Madden said.
Madden is the first person in the
College of Business to head the
group, which was formerly in the
Center for Strategic Research, also a
part of TEES. The group had always
been headed by a staff member of
TEES before Madden’s appointment
by Dean of the College of Business
Administration William V. Muse.
Madden took over the group in late
spring under an agreement between
the business college and TEES.
Simultaneous administrative re
shuffling pulled the research group
out of CST’s jurisdiction and estab
lished links with the College of Busi
ness, while remaining part of TEES.
Now that those links have been
established, Madden said, the group
will concentrate on specific areas,
rather than the “scattergun
approach” taken earlier.
“(The group) had done a lot of dif
ferent things, depending on leader
ship and current constitution of the
group,” Madden said. “There was no
specific direction — it was hard to tell
people just exactly what (the IERG)
did. They just hammered on whatev
er worked ... mostly fact books, input-
output studies and similar stuff.”
IERG research associate Marilyn
Green says fact books are publications
done for cities that analyze and cata
log resources and conditions in that
area.
Green thinks some part of the
group will probably continue to pro
duce the fact books for communities
that request them. Each fact book
costs the recipient city between about
$5,000 and $25,000, depending on
what the community wants, its size
and its location. The fact book for the
Bryan-College Station area is normal
ly updated every two years.
Green said the group worked with
the Texas Water Resources Depart
ment on an input-output study to de
termine how much water the state
and industry would need in the near
future.
Another project the IERG under
took was an industrial park proposal
for the city of Big Spring. The U.S.
Air Force decommissioned Webb Air
Force Base in 1977, and the research
group recommended land use plans
for some of the facilities and sug
gested a reorganization of the city’s
industry-recruiting organization.
Big Spring City Manager Don
Davis said Tuesday that the reorgani
zation had been accomplished, but
that the land use recommendations
were still untouched, even though
“everyone was satisfied with the
work.”
Davis said Big Spring was not yet
large enough to require develop
ment, but that the gist of the plan
would probably be used when the
time came.
Madden said the new directions he
envisions for the research group will
probably make the organization
financially self-supporting to some
extent.
Madden’s plans include:
— Expanding involvement in
strategic planning for cities and local
governments in general — for exam
ple, how to attract industry to a cer
tain area.
— Increasing involvement in mar
ket feasibility studies. The group
already has a bid in to look at the
feasibility of building a series of low to
moderate income housing by a local
developer; the developer wants to
know the best way to develop so the
market will absorb his project.
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