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College Station, Texas
Thursday, July 8, 1982
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■srael maintained a near total
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attempt to starve out PLO-
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■er to escort the estimated 6,000
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suggestion liei rillas from Beirut.
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tis hittingstlirut in the past 24 hours, Israel re-
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to advance Id the general civilian population,
antes. Bell jumbering about 500,000.
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his 12th Bough Beirut port to the Palesti-
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na, now wisof food ordered by the Lebanese
the Raneenl'emment. But they blocked sup-
^esdestined for UNWRA, the U.N.
ency for Palestinian refugees,
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Sir blockade.
As diplomats struggled to reinstate
a cease-fire called Monday and
broken by Israel Tuesday, Israeli
gunners shelled Palestinian neigh
borhoods at dusk Wednesday in the
south of Beirut and dropped flares
over the city.
The Red Crescent, the Arab
equivalent of the Red Cross, put the
number of dead, wounded and mis
sing since the invasion began June 6 at
35,000.
Despite the apparent stall in nego
tiations, a Western diplomat familiar
with the talks was optimistic.
“There is a difference between the
PLO’s public statements and what is
actually going on behind closed
doors,’’ he said, requesting anonym
ity. “We are encouraged by the silent
diplomacy.”
A source close to the negotiations
said the PLO was pressing for an in
ternationally patrolled “buffer zone”
to precede an eventual disengage
ment between Palestinians and
Israelis.
Lebanese Prime Minister Chefik
Wazzan appeared indirectly to en
dorse the proposal Wednesday night,
calling for an international force to
start work in Lebanon before a Pales
tinian withdrawal.
After meeting Palestinian leaders,
including PLO Chairman Yasser Ai~a-
fat, Wazzan suggested, in a statement
read on national television, “the role
of these (international) forces should
begin before the withdrawal of the
Palestinians.”
A secret PLO document on the
state of negotiations obtained by re
porters made no mention of with
drawal from Beirut. It said the PLO
was willing “in principle” to move its
headquarters from Beirut and discuss
the size, location and armament of its
guerrillas with the Lebanese govern
ment.
On the road again
Lisa Moulder, a senior agricultural engineering major
from Dickinson, chocks her car full of clothes as she
gets ready to leave for the rest of
plans to return for the fall semester.
staff photo by John Ryan
the summer. Moulder
Reagan likely to avert rail strike
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being in' p| ace) t he Soviet Union will con-
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WASHINGTON — President
Reagan will likely use executive pow
ers to avert a nationwide railroad
strike scheduled to begin Sunday,
administration officials say.
They said Reagan probably will
order a 60-day “cooling-off’ period
during which a walkout would be ban
ned and a presidential board would
study stalled contract talks and re
commend a possible settlement.
A spokesman for the Association
of American Railroads said if there is
a strike, nearly 38 percent of inter-city
freight shipments would be affected.
The walkout would involve 35,000
rnembers of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers union and be
nationwide in scope, not just against
selected railroads, said union spokes
man Virgil Davis.
The United Transportation Union
also has been unable to reach a new
agreement, but it is not free to strike
until July 30. That union has indi
cated it might engage in strikes
against only selected railroads.
Before Reagan acts, the National
Mediation Board must issue a report
on the potential impact of a strike,
which would cripple all rail traffic ex
cept Conrail, the quasi-government
freight and commuter system in the
Northeast, and part of Amtrak’s pas
senger service.
Deputy press secretary Larry
Speakes said in Santa Barbara, Calif.,
Reagan “was briefed on some of the
issues ... and some of the ramifica
tions of the rail strike.”
He said Transportation Secretary
Drew Lewis and Labor Secretary
Raymond Donovan have reported to
Reagan on the potential impact, “par
ticularly in farm areas.”
No negotiations to reach a contract
agreement are scheduled before
Sunday.
“We have notified our representa
tives on all the major railroads in the
United States, except Conrail, there
will be a peaceful withdrawal from
servicejuly 11 at 10:30 p.m., unless in
the intervening period the president
... appoints an emergency board
under the Railway Labor Act,” union
spokesman Davis said.
He said pickets would be erected
along Amtrak lines where the govern
ment has contracted out operations to
a private system.
The major issue holding up an
agreement is wages, with an addition
al pay clause for working on runs of
more than 100 miles the principal
roadblock.
So far, the United States has only
offered officially to use its forces to
help the trapped 6,000 Palestine
Liberation Organization guerrillas
evacuate Beirut. The troops would
remain in the city for several weeks at
most.
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Speakes was quoted in Wednesday’s
Washington Post as saying, “The spe
cific mission of such an international
peace-keeping force, if agreed to,
would be to assist Lebanese armed
forces in the orderly and safe depar
ture from Beirut of armed (PLO) per
sonnel and in the transition of author
ity to the Lebanese government in
Beirut.”
An earlier Tass statement said the
Soviets had resumed arms shipments
to Syria, which lost tanks and planes
in the first days of the fighting in
Lebanon.
Tass also said five heavy artillery
shells hit the commerical office of the
Soviet Embassy in Beirut in the third
Israeli bombardment of Soviet build
ings in Beirut this week.
Shut down or wait for strike breakers?
British Rail seeks solution
United Press International
LONDON — British Rail called its
executives together today to decide
between saving money by shutting
down the rail system completely or
keeping it open in hopes more union
defections will break the engineers’
strike.
But only a few engineers returned
to work, and British Rail’s stalling tac
tic failed to bring any dramatic
change in rail service for more than a
million passengers weary of the five-
day strike.
“There has been a nominal in
crease in the number of drivers re
turning to work,” a British Rail
spokesman said. He said the network
expected to run more trains than
Wednesday, when 1,689 out of
17,000 scheduled services managed
to roll.
Police said peak-hour car traffic
into London choked streets and pack
ed buses made little headway. Subway
trains came into central stations
crowded with frustrated suburban
passengers.
The British Rail executive board
planned to meet later in the day. Clif
ford Rose, BR industrial relations
chief, said Wednesday, “The view is ...
it is worthwhile to keep it going.”
British Rail hopes to break the
strike by keeping the skeleton services
going and attracting more drivers
back to work.
The normally solid ranks of the
20,000-strong Associated Society of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
were broken on the first day of the
dispute — Sunday — when several
hundred engineers showed up for
work. The number has been increas
ing daily, although only a fraction of
the rail network is working.
British Rail ran 1,670 trains
Wednesday — about 25 percent more
than Tuesday, but still only 10 per
cent of normal services.
The dispute about introducing fle
xible hours to replace the firm eight-
hour day is costing the railways
around $15.3 million a day, including
$27 million in a weekly government
subsidy that was cut off.
Revenue is minimal because the
trains that do run are almost empty.
Passengers will not wait for trains that
may never arrive.
Keeping the railways open another
week in the hope engineers will re
turn is a gamble because the company
has to pay for 200,000 others — con
ductors, ticket collectors, porters —
who turn up even if there are no
trains.
The strike is the culmination of 18
months of wrangling about introduc
tion of flexible work schedules of be
tween seven and nine hours instead of
a constant eight hours, to improve
productivity.
Nobel winners, superstars
wanted for A&M faculty
by Terry Duran
Battalion Staff
Though plans are vague and
mg-range now, Texas A&M admi
nistrators are seeking Nobel Prize
miners to add to the University fa
ulty.
When Board of Regents Chair-
nan H.R. “Bum” Bright spoke at
Temple Muster April 21, he
spoke of looking for faculty “super-
stars,” especially professors who
Jiave won the Nobel Prize.
| “We have no Nobel Prize winners
ow,” Bright said. “The University
of Texas has two and Harvard has
ight. We are trying to get one right
tow. We are targeting our short-
omings.”
One possibility is Dr. Sheldon
71ashow,a 1979 Nobel Prizewinner
nd holder of the Higgins chair of
physics at Harvard University.
Glashow shared a Nobel Prize for
physics with two other men for con
tributions to a unified theory of in
teractions, which deals with forces
like gravity, electromagnetics and
the forces which bond atoms.
Sharing the honor were Steven
Weinberg, now at the University of
Texas, and Abdus Salam, a native of
Pakistan teaching in London.
Glashow, a theoretical physicist,
visited the Texas A&M campus in
April to present lectures on prob
lems in high-energy physics. When
he starts a year-long sabbatical in
September 1983, he may come to
Texas A&M as a visiting professor.
In a telephone interview Wednes
day, Glashow emphasized he is “still
thinking about it” — no decision has
been made. The move “has not real
ly been discussed” with his family,
he said; a big factor in any decision
will be schooling for his four chil
dren, ages seven to 15.
Glashow said whatever decision is
made will wait until the end of the
summer because of his busy acade
mic and lecture schedule.
Robert Tribble, head of Texas
A&M’s Department of Physics, also
emphasized the uncertainty of the
negotiations.
“We’d certainly like to work it
out,” he said, “but it’s a long way
from being reality.”
Tribble said Texas A&M has no
theoretical physicists now, but that
that area has been “targeted for ex
pansion,” regardless of whether or
not Glashow comes to Texas A&M.
University officials say they know
of no other specific candidates being
considered at this time.
‘Convoy college’
to tour America
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — A 54-year-old
biology professor with the citizens
band radio handle “Pika” is leading a
“convoy college” on a 5,000-mile trip
across America, using the CB to lec
ture and campfires for classroom
meetings.
The convoy of seven cars, trucks
and vans pulled out Wednesday to
begin a 30-day biology and geology
field trip, but only after some last-
minute scrambling prompted when
Dr. Maynard Yoes and his 27 students
found themselves one vehicle short.
A last-minute cancellation forced
the group to frantically search for
another vehicle needed to bring back
samples to replace those lost when
Sam Houston State University’s geos
cience lab was destroyed in a Feb. 12
fire. Fortunately, the school had a
vehicle to lend.
The group spent its first night near
Amarillo, then planned today to
travel to New Mexico, Colorado,
Wyoming, Montana, make a short
trip into Canada to fill up with 87-cent
per gallon gasoline, down to Utah and
then return home.
Yoes, who said his handle comes
from his resemblance to the small
mountain rodent with the same
name, planned to use the CB to lec
ture to each vehicle in the convoy.
“It’s especially good on the inter
states,” Yoes said. “We drive and talk.
Then we gather around the campfire
by Coleman lantern to reinforce notes
and help those who may have been
driving to catch up on their notes.”
The students, who must be at least
at junior level, pay about $350 each
for the field trip that is so popular it is
quickly filled. The cost includes a re
gistration fee of $125 for the eight
hours of academic credit — “Special
Topics in Geoscience” and “Special
Topics in Biology” — that the stu
dents receive, plus a share of the gas
and camping expenses.
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Partly cloudy,
20 percent chance of rain today.
High today of 97. Low tonight of
75. Highs and lows continuing the
same through Friday.