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ol. 75 No. 170 USPS 045360 10 Pages
Wednesday, July 7, 1982
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a high-scoftVASHINGTON — Unless Presi-
er looked jpt Reagan intervenes, a crippling
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The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Jigineers union and the industry
Warning arm, the National Railway
tbor Conference, say it is unlikely
Jntract disputes would be resolved
Wore the 12:01 a.m. Sunday strike
Ipdline.
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ffjxIctP-day “cooling off’ period and
"^■bpoint an advisory board that would
iport to him with recommendations
for settlement.
There is no indication as to what
Reagan will do, but an industry
spokesman expressed hope the presi
dent would move to avert a walkout.
“We’re on hold,” union negotiator
Virgil Davis, speaking from Cleve
land, said Tuesday. “They (union
members) are in a state of readiness
for July 11.”
He said: “Unless the president
appoints an emergency board, the
employees will proceed to withdraw
their service. It would be pretty devas
tating.”
All U.S. rail traffic, with the excep
tion of Amtrak, the government-run
national passenger service, and Con-
rail, the quasi-government freight
and commuter system in the North
east, would be subject to the walkout
by the locomotive engineers and
firemen.
The union estimated 35,000 mem
bers would be involved in such a
strike.
Although Amtrak’s and Conrail’s
services, concentrated in the North
east, may sustain only minor disrup
tions, the walkout would paralyze
freight shipping in the rest of the na
tion.
Roland Quinn, executive secretary
of the National Mediation Board said
the board is preparing a recommen
dation to Reagan regarding designa
tion of an emergency board.
“I think that we would apprise the
White House of any input that we
have before the end of the week,”
Quinn said.
To date, 14 of 16 unions that nego
tiate with the National Railway Labor
Conference have reached agreement
on new contracts, leaving only the
Locomotive Engineers and the Un
ited Transportation Union without
pacts.
The conference represents 117
railroads.
The last nationwide rail strike
occurred in 1978 when the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks union called a
work stoppage to emphasize its dis
pute with Norfolk & Western
Railway.
Among the contract disputes is the
industry’s refusal to grant any in
crease in special allowances that sup
plement basic wages, especially addi
tional pay for engineers operating on
runs of more than 100 miles.
Under the current agreement, en
gineers doing rail yard service — ab
out 45 percent of the membership —
get $ 11.41 per hour for an eight-hour
day. Though freight engineers doing
over-the-road work on four-unit
diesels get $10.86 hourly, but switch
to 79 cents per mile when they hit 100
miles.
PLO
rejects
U.S. aid
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Israeli jets bombed west Beirut to
day for the first time in four days and
hopes for peace dimmed with the
PLO rejecting a U.S. offer to send in
Marines to evacuate 6,000 Palestinian
guerrillas from the besieged
Lebanese capital.
Shattering a 24-hour ceasefire,
Israeli tanks and artillery in east
Beirut opened fire Tuesday on PLO
forces in the west. Witnesses said
Israeli troops followed up with
machine-gun fire.
Later, Israeli warplanes swooped
low over the Fakhani section of west
Beirut, striking areas and dropping
flares around the headquarters of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Under world pressure, Israel ear
lier restored water to Palestinian-held
west Beirut. Lebanese televison said
the Israelis also promised to restore
electricity — but by midnight Tues
day the city was still without normal
power.
The PLO accused Israel of starting
an intensive artillery exchange Tues
day that caused heavy civilian casual
ties.
President Reagan said Tuesday he
had agreed to contribute “a small con
tingent” of American troops to a
peace-keeping force to help evacuate
Palestinian guerrillas from Beirut,
“subject to certain conditions.”
Reagan, speaking to a group of loc
al officials in Los Angeles, said the
Lebanese government had not for
mally requested U.S. troops be sta
tioned in the capital, adding: “Ob
viously there is still much work to be
done.”
PLO chief Yasser Arafat rejected
the evacuation plan in an interview
today in The New York Times.
“Definitely I will not accept it,”
Arafat said. “We are not in need of
American help. The weapons and the
6th fleet that helped kill my women
and children cannot protect us.”
Arafat, however, did not reject
U.S. participation in an international
peace-keeping force to disengage
PLO guerrillas and Israelis around
Beirut — something desired by Israel.
But a senior official in Jerusalem
said the plan would be acceptable to
Israel, and would involve the U.S. 6th
Fleet and two battalions of U.S.
Marines and French soldiers — if
eventually approved by Lebanon and
the PLO.
The official said U.S. envoy Philip
Habib introduced the plan in his
mediation efforts in west Beirut the
past few days.
Reports from Cairo said the PLO
guerrillas initially could be taken by
ship to the Syrian port of Latakia. La
ter they would be split up, with diffe
rent groups sent to Iraq, Syria, Alger
ia and Egypt.
But the PLO issued a statement to
day saying it would not agree to leave
on American ships because they carry
“the flag of a party to the ongoing
massacres” — a reference to U.S. sup
port for the Israeli invasion forces.
Deputy White House Press Secret
ary Larry Speakes said it would “serve
no useful purpose to comment” on
the PLO rejection.
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Houston—a 43-year-oid heart
tansplant patient probably will have
take a new anti-rejection drug for
crest of his life, an associate to Dr.
enton Cooley said.
Cooley and a team of surgeons
erformed the transplant early Mon-
a y morning using a new drug, Cyc-
•sporin-A, which helps the body
foid infection by suppressing the im-
lune system.
The recipient spoke with his wife
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’otnan for the hospital said.
“He’s doing very well,” Hazel
1%, of St. Luke’s Hospital, said.
He has been awake, spoken with his
tfe and is alert.”
One of Cooley’s associates said the
3tient will probably have to take the
fug for the rest of his life.
The names of the recipient and his
onor were not released. The trans
ant was the first of an estimated 35
lerations Cooley, Dr. Barry Kahan
d Dr. O.H. Frazier will do at the
ixas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s
ring the next two years.
The heart transplant patient, who
is brought to Houston for the oper-
ion,had been hospitalized last week
suffering from heart disease. He has
had heart surgery in the past to cor
rect his problem at another hospital,
but Frazier said his case was terminal
and he has been bedridden for quite
some time.
Frazier described the patient as “a
young man who had a lot of hope and
a lot of courage.” Other than heart
disease, the patient was in good
health, he said.
The donor, who also was not from
the Houston area, was located and
brought to St. Luke’s Hospital at 2
p.m. Sunday. The recipient was given
the drug Cyclosporin-A and eight
hours later surgery began. By 2:30
a.m. Monday, the heart was pumping
in the recipient’s chest.
Within 12 hours of the operation,
doctors removed the patient’s tubes
which had been assisting him with his
breathing.
Doctors at Stanford University in
California have used the new drug in
80 kidney transplant patients over the
past year. More than 80 percent of
those patients are still alive, Kahan
said.
Since November 1981, 27 heart
transplants have been done at Stan
ford, and Frazier said 24 of those peo
ple are still alive.
Economic crisis attacks
College of Agriculture
by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
Food crops are getting bigger and
better. Agricultural technology has
advanced to the point that diseases
which once destroyed crops and
threatened herds of cattle are
almost nonexistent.
But some say American agricul
ture hasn’t been in worse condition
since the Great Depression.
And the Texas A&M College of
Agriculture is feeling the effects of
this economic crisis, as are other
agriculture colleges across the na
tion.
The Texas A&M college has suf
fered a 34 percent decrease in en
rollment since 1976.
Ironically, the more agriculture
suffers in the current economic cri
sis, the more it’s going to need for
mally trained managers in the fu
ture, H.O. Kunkel, dean of the col
lege, said.
According to a national manpow
er assessment study by the Office of
Higher Education of the United
States Department of Agriculture, a
shortage of trained professionals is
expected by 1985 in several areas.
Kunkel agreed.
“Serious manpower shortages
could become acute before the end
of the decade if the current trend
continues,” he said.
In 1976, 5,399 undergraduate
students were enrolled in the Uni
versity’s College of Agriculture, as
compared to 3,563 enrolled today.
This semester, only 10 percent of
the students enrolled at Texas A&M
are agriculture majors, while the
1976 enrollment in the college com
prised almost 20 percent of the Uni
versity enrollment.
In contrast, University enroll
ment has increased by 22 percent
over the same period.
University enrollment for 1976
was 27,547. In the spring semester,
35,146 students were enrolled.
Kunkel said that in the late 1960s
and early 1970s, agriculture enroll
ment was so high that the college
couldn’t handle all its students — a
sharp contrast from today.
But while undergraduate enroll
ment is slipping, graduate school
enrollment is increasing.
Sophomore agricultural econo
mics and animal science major Jeff
Underhill said advisers in the col
lege are encouraging students to get
graduate degrees. ‘T hey (advisers)
say farming is a business that isn’t
paying off right now,” he said. “You
just can’t afford to go into agricul
ture. We’re encouraged to hang on.
They say there’ll be plenty of jobs
later.”
Kunkel said that by the time 1982
graduates receive master’s degrees,
the agricultural job market should
be clear of depression.
“If it doesn’t (clear), we’re going
to be awfully short of food,” he said.
Twenty percent of the college’s
1981 graduates went to graduate
school or professional school.
High interest rates, high produc
tion costs, bumper crops and declin
ing retail prices are main causes of
the depression, Kunkel said.
Congressman Charles Stenholm,
D-Stamford, agreed.
“The enrollment problem is a di
rect result of a decline in the econo
mic condition of the average Amer
ican farmer,” he said. “W'hen a far
mer is struggling, his son or daugh
ter isn’t going to want to pursue the
same career to possibly face the
same thing.”
Kunkel said in many cases the pa
rents can’t afford to send their chil
dren off to school.
“A large number of our students
come from rural areas,” he said,
“and if the rural areas are economic
ally poor, they’re not going to send
their students away to college.”
For the second straight year in
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Partly cloudy,
hot and humid. High today of 95.
Low tonight of 75. Highs and lows
continuing the same through
Thursday.
almanac
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Today is Wednesday, July 7, the
188th day of 1982 with 177 to
follow.
The moon is full. The morning
stars are Mercury and Venus. The
evening stars are Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn.
On this date in history:
In 1898, President William
McKinley signed a joint resolution
of Congress authorizing the anne
xation of Hawaii by the United
States. Hawaii formally became the
50th state on Aug. 21, 1959.