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The Battalion Serving the University community ros Vol. 75 No. 169 USPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, July 6, 1982 e’ve been air game plan! ?one runatati »nes, who repl in right fieldl in each oftiisl W10, BLUEjj ronto, Richie lir of two-run jwens went d-i| hit attack haky Israeli ease-fire holds WHITE SOI lis, Tim Lam ino doubled ce in a three- United Press International A shaky cease-fire held today fol- wing Israeli advances in the most * to a ■ tens j ve fighting in 10 days and U.S. d rtoioircM vo y Philip Habib pressured Israel ir >i tllift its total blockacie of Palestinian- Von Hayespjy west Beirut e k with twoB i srae ii g Un boats and artillery shel- un-scoringdoBj B e i ru t Monday as Israeli tanks and. Riled onto the two runways of the pital’s international airport. Israeli forces moved to within 500 rdsofBurj Barajneh refugee camp, JteyPLO stronghold, under cover of id Bobby ( djyy ar tillery, smoke bombs and first major-l6i ortar fire< te^ • T The PLO said it halted the advance 5, ANGELSP 1 ^ a i r P ort > killing 15 Israeli sol- BiHy Sample diers. The Israeli military command -run homeriipd t l' ree °f i ts troops were wounded ■ ninth inninil die airport and another was ers the victonB ounc ied by Syrian sniper fire east of ALS0-Atir irut ' Rudi knodJ AI1 fl g htin g stopped soon after the hckey Hendr announcement °P a cease-fire at 4 support of! P m local time Monday, shutout oil war pushed into its ■cond month with no end in sight, Brael ignored Sunday’s call from the ), I ANKEESB.N, Security Council to end the jornian Thoiaockade of the capital’s Moslem ctor. he game, t he 12th ini e. RollieFin| ■d in the seva u Witnesses said two Israeli troop irriers moved into the port of Beirut ibday, sealing off access to the west id tightening the blockade. The ort was partially open during the Irsttwo days of the siege, but only for Ivilian traffic. “The siege now is air tight,” a banese government official said. Lebanon’s prime minister said the toff of food, water, electricity, edical supplies nd telephone lines ad paralyzed U.S. mediation efforts In avert a bloody battle in the city. “The situation is becoming desper- to prevent.! ate," Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan offensive Aid at a news conference in his office rom page i ressed the serious dele in west Beirut. “I call on the world to wake up to the realities of this crimin al siege.” Beirut radio said Habib was in touch with Washington Monday to coordinate efforts to lift the 3-day-old siege of some 6,000 Palestine Libera tion Organization guerrillas trapped in west Beirut with 500,000 civilians. Habib also held a round of un announced meetings with Israeli De fense Minister Ariel Sharon in Israeli- held Christian east Beirut. Sharon was accompanied by Fore ign Ministry Director-General David Kimche for the talks with Habib, who has spent three weeks trying to end the fighting and get the PLO to leave west Beirut as Israel demands, Israel Television said. President Reagan made it clear to all sides in the conflict that it is “essen tial” that fighting cease and negotia tions proceed, a White House spokes man said Monday. Lebanese sources said the Israelis took immediate advantage of the cease-fire to strengthen their armored positions in the hills east of Beirut and to move more tanks to one of the two main crossing points from east to west Beirut. PLO leader Yasser Arafat said Monday he was surprised by a Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy’s call to commit an honorable suicide rather than agree to Israel’s terms. In a cable to Arafat and the other Palestinian leaders over the weekend, Khadafy said, “I advise you to commit suicide rather than accept shame. Your blood will be the fuel for the revolution.” Arafat, according to the Palestine news agency WAFA replied, saying, “I was surprised at the tone of despair with which you expressed yourself. Since we first took up our guns, we decided that it shall be revolution un til victory.” To cool a pool photo by Octavio Garcia A new irrigation system, built and designed at Texas A&M University, cools the temperature of Wofford Cain Swimming Pool by about 15 degrees. The sprayer will help prevent over-heating for the long-distance swimmers and the Texas A&M University Swim Team during practice. The water temperature approaches 100 degrees on a usual summer day. portantforl game realizu re part of I Longest lunar eclipse since 1736 Clouds mar studies of eclipse you keep f those breai way,” Slocii i ring this til his duties is A&Msopp ; United Press International ular styles | FORT DAVIS — The Earth stole i the light from the moon early today, and Arkansftut for many Texas star gazers, the nilar in tJeal thief was the weather, youcanthrtl And the clouds that stretched little bit tooiouthwestward from north central say SMU a#exas robbed scientists at the Univer- ith the lity of Texas McDonald Observatory Tit togethei P Fort Davis of more than a glimpse tringtofatt I 1 the most spectacular lunar eclipse he not os * the 20th Century, e tendenof I “We’ve been socked in here all he team t ftight.” said David Doss, a staff mem ber at the observatory in far west Rexas. “There were several projects lyve’d hoped for. It’s a disappoint- tnent.” Doss said astronomers had hoped take advantage of the longest visi- )le lunar eclipse since 1736 to study itars normally obscured by the noon’s glare. rs ach cam ternational illas Cowln ne Stalling r to bee® Birminglit Jnited SD : now that o all his Bombs black out Honduran capital urned to it I had a' 1 said. “ le of days 51 fore wefl^ He said scientists also planned to shoot laser beams at retro-reflectors left on the moon by Apollo astronauts as a means of measuring the distance from the moon to the observatory. Though the laser beams are routinely directed at the lunar reflec tors, the eclipse provided astronom ers with the best conditions for pre cise measurements, Doss said. The eclipse began about 12:30 a.m. today. The Earth’s shadow fell com pletely across the moon at 1:30 a.m. and remained until 3:24 a.m. By 1 a.m., however, sky watchers at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Planetarium had given up. “We’ve packed up our telescopes and we’re going home,” said Mark Matney, a staff member at the Fort Worth planetarium. “I’m kind of de pressed. I got up in the middle of the night to see something spectacular.” Matney said about 75 enthusiasts showed up on the museum parking lot with telescopes in tow. He said the group got some consolation from the fact that another lunar eclipse will be visible in the pre-dawn hours in late December. The National Weather Service re ported the cloudiness was the result of normal summer heating and abun dant moisture in the air. Far east Texas, coastal areas and much of the Panhandle were clear. “It only takes one shower to cause a lot of clouds,” a NWS spokesman said, “and only one cloud to block out the moon.” In other parts of the country, a crowd in Boston watched Earth’s shadow block out the red-hued moon to the strains of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. nspinng astronomer Jay M. Pasachoff at Wil liams College in Williamstown, Mass. — home of the nation’s oldest obser vatory. “The moon was quite bright. It was a full moon and it grew gradually dar ker and more and more stars became visible without the moonlight. The moon went almost totally dark.” The eclipse was one of the darkest in history because of a cloud of volca nic dust from Mount St. Helens and recent eruptions in Mexico and In donesia, and it was the longest visible in the Western Hemisphere since 1736, said Dr. William A. Gutsch, an astronomer at New York’s Hayden Planetarium. “It shows you the power of volca noes and their ability to effect the en tire earth’s atmosphere,” Pasachoff said. “Things like this show you we really do live on ‘Spaceship Earth.’” United Press International TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — -eftists blacked out most of the capit al until at least Wednesday with ex- 1* ilosions at two power stations to pro- htaftertax est Honduran troops helping Salva- with offiff iorans fight rebels on their common m franctojiorder. “It’s a real mess,” a U.S. Embassy bandasal 1 ipokesman said late Monday. There topp* m a buying rush in groceries on iread and other items and no water 3r gasoline available since electric pumps were out of service, he said. The embassy official and Hon duran authorities denied reports of deaths or injuries in the blasts Sunday that rocked normally peaceful Tegu cigalpa.- The previously unknown leftwing Froylan Turcios Revolutionary Com mand sent a communique to the only capital radio station still broadcasting to claim responsibility for exploding about 20 bombs. The group, named after a de ceased leftist writer, said it wanted to dramatize demands for the withdraw al of some 2,000 Honduran soldiers now helping the Salvadoran army battle leftist guerrillas. “The army of Honduras will be im placable against the communists who try to destabilize the country,” Armed Forces Commander Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez said Monday in re sponse to the bombings. A U.S. Embassy spokesman Mon day said electricity cannot be restored until some key parts that control vol tage at two bombed out power sta tions arrive from the United States. The parts are not expected before Wednesday, he said. Telephone service to the capital also could end today because dry cell batteries powering the system are weakening, the spokesman said. National Electric Energy Company Manager German Aparicio said it would take at least a week to fully restore service. Meanwhile, a small plant generated emergency power for about 20 percent of the capital, he said. Military patrols were stepped up around the capital, with 200 men posted at two unharmed power sta tions, but authorities said there were no reports of new violence or looting. U.S. considers supervising PLO evacuation United Press International LOS ANGELES — The United States is considering a proposal to send troops to Lebanon on a limited basis to supervise the evacuation of PLO forces from Beirut, but reports of an actual deployment of troops are still premature, presidential aides said today. Reports of an agreement for de ployment of U.S. troops in the Mideast are “premature” but such a proposal is under consideration, an aide with the presidential party in Los Angeles said. “I wouldn’t steer you off, but (the reports) are premature,” the aide said. Under the proposal, aides said, U.S. troops would be in Lebanon for an “extremely limited time of perhaps a few weeks” to supervise the final stages of the evacuation of the Pales tine Liberation Organization forces. There are some 6,000 PLO troops under siege by Israeli forces in West Beirut. “It (an agreement) keeps slipping,” one aide said. “The proposals were made over the last few days.” The aides said that there were “lots of other terms” to the proposal but declined to reveal what they were. When told of the reports that U.S. troops would be ordered to Lebanon and that the U.S. Sixth Fleet would be used to evacuate the PLO troops, an aide said, “That might be a possibility ... one of extremely limited time ... a few weeks. All would be contingent on a final agreement to supervise the final stages of a PLO withdrawal and implementation of a cease-fire.” The aides said they would not dis cuss details of the proposal until it was “signed and sealed.” Israel Radio said the United States is ready to send 1,600 Marines to take up positions in West Beirut and that French troops also would be involved in policing a cease-fire. It said units of the Sixth Fleet would be used to eva cuate the PLO troops to several Mideast countries. President-elect urges unity of Mexico United Press International MEXICO CITY — President-elect Miguel de la Madrid urged unity to heal Mexican political wounds but one opposition party responded by demanding new elections in two states where voting was marred by violence. “Let us all unite for Mexico,” de la Madrid, the overwhelming winner in Sunday’s Mexican presidential elec tions, said at a victory rally Monday. The Federal Electoral Commission said it would release no official results before midweek, but Commission Chairman Enrique Olivares Santana declared de la Madrid the winner by “a wide margin.” De la Madrid’s Institutional Re volutionary Party (PRI), which has won every important elected post since 1929, said its candidate cap tured 19 million votes — 63 percent of the 31.5 million eligible voters. The conservative National Action Party (PAN) received 2.3 million votes and the Communist-dominated Unified Socialist Party (PSUM) got 1.7 million, the PRI said. No figures were released on four other minor party candidates. Social Democratic Party leader Luis Sanchez Aguilar told the news paper Excelsior he will press for new elections in Nuevo Leon and Puebla states because voters and opposition poll watchers were beaten by police. “Local television transmitted scenes of violent clashes with police and we have photographs of violence that made the city of Monterrey tense,” Sanchez told Excelsior. President Reagan sent de la Mad rid a congratulatory message saying he hoped the “excellent relations” be tween the United States and Mexico could be strengthened, the Mexican government news agency Notimex said. De la Madrid has pledged to con tinue the foreign policy of outgoing President Jose Lopez Portillo, which at times clashed with Washington over how to deal with leftist revolu tionary movements in Central America. But the president-elect, who served Lopez Portillo as budget and planning minister, also is expected to continue Mexico’s policy of selling most of its oil to the United States and expanding trade with its northern neighbor. De la Madrid, 47, has said the first order of business when he begins a six-year term Dec. I will be to attack government corruption and restart Mexico’s stalled economy, wracked by deep recession and 50 percent infla tion. Mexico’s next president holds a masters degree in public administra tion from Harvard University. Finals, registration roll around again Final examinations for the first sum mer session and registration for the second session are both scheduled for this week. Important dates and times to re member include: Today — Final exams from 7 to 9 p.m. for classes meeting 2 to 3:30 p.m. July 7 — Final exams from 8 to 10 a.m. for classes meeting 8 to 9:30 a.m., final exams from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for classes meeting 10 to 11:30 a.m., and final exams from 3 to 5 p.m. for classes meeting 12 to 1:30 p.m. July 8 — Registration for the second summer session. July 9 — Beginning of second ses sion classes. Dallas Til 5 today it ad agrei sals by Si reserva 11 ng the $ ; camp Experts debate need for scholarship services he Cov/S d coacb 1965-71' i on I jbama- by John P. Lopez Battalion Reporter Companies that sell information about available scholarship money for college students have experts on both sides arguing whether or not the services really are beneficial. Mary Ann Maxin, executive dire ctor of Scholarship Search, a scho larship service based in New York, said her service has many advan tages for a student. “You get the most updated sources,” she said. “We update our sources through a computer con tinuously. If I find out about a scho larship this week, where are the peo ple going to find out about it without the service?” Maxin also said the sources found in a public library can be out of date since the researching and printing of books in a library are time con suming. Scott Campbell, a freshman anthropology major, disagrees with Maxin. He said a student has a bet ter chance of getting financial aid if he researches on his own. Campbell carries a grade point ratio of less than 3.0 and has attended Texas A&M on a full scholarship for the past two years. “I’ve never thought much of a service like that,” he said. “I feel that all you’re doing is hiring somebody’s secretary to run your name through a computer to find out what you’re eligible for. “For the most part, through fami ly, fraternal organizations and church groups a student should be able to come up with enough infor mation on his own to find some kind of aid.” Campbell said he gets most of his financial aid because he constantly works at finding new sources of money. He said he approaches the process like a job. “You have to be pretty diligent and systematic,” he said, “I find dif ferent organizations and almost put together a set letter that I approach them with. I send out about 60 let ters and probably qualify for about 20 scholarships. Of those, I hope to acquire three or four.” Maxin said Scholarship Search eliminates the need for students to research on their own. “We fulfill the need for lazy peo ple,” she said. “We supply them with up to 25 sources.” However, Maxin also said most students get about 18 sources. Campbell and Maxin both agreed that the services do expose a student to some lesser known scholarships. “We received a letter from the Stauffacher Foundation in Switzer land,” Maxin said, “saying they wanted to give $10,000 to an Amer ican student that was of Austrian heritage, a member of the Jewish faith and majored in genetics. We found a young lady and she is now getting $10,000 a year. Now I don’t think that scholarship is listed in any library.” (See SCHOLAR page 8) inside Classified Local. . . . National. Opinions Sports. . . . State 9 8 3 5 2 9 3 forecast Today’s Forecast: Sunny, hot. High today of 95. Low tonight of 75. Highs and lows continuing the same through Wednesday.
