The Battalion Bill Hi Serving the University community 75 No. 171 USPS 045360 14 Pages College Station, Texas Thursday, July 8, 1982 srael blocks supplies, Beirut United Press International ■srael maintained a near total Bckade of food shipments today in attempt to starve out PLO- A tBitrolled west Beirut. Israeli artil- / Ky pounded Palestinian neighbor- Rds in southern sections of the yed it, thai'Aanese capital. >t Sample, B With its Navy’s ships only two >r the ballt'Mirs from the Lebanese coast, the ' his head.lBited States Wednesday renewed its ■er to escort the estimated 6,000 ;er Don Ziirfiestine Liberation Organization suggestion liei rillas from Beirut. Wright ski But peace talks appeared bogged nter field. Im as the Palestinians again in- 'e going loled Israel pull back to allow a PLO Sample?" Ihdrawal to its refugee camps. Billy just Isneli Foreign Ministry Director Ineral David Kimche, in Beirut to , lifer with U.S. envoy Philip Habib, ■ n g lea "■■ usec | of Sample,]" j(t\ proposal that would allow any i i* ®vl0 presence, political or military, in id I m notakB, r j r i i . . ■ , , »tanon and would not agree to an nnd berau J „ , , r • h ■enm pull back or its army. •\lthough it restored strictly tan Buddv Bioned water and electricity to west tis hittingstlirut in the past 24 hours, Israel re- it double it L I to let food through to hospitals to advance Id the general civilian population, antes. Bell jumbering about 500,000. tokie Dave ■Troops let one consignment his 12th Bough Beirut port to the Palesti- : the gameailn-controlled western sector — 23 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, he food blockade, now in its fifth , left Moslem west Beirut totally hout fresh vegetables, fruit or Kimche told Habib Israel rejected oronto this s, who enn even victori tings, tookal ond on out double I at ' Bread was scarce because of a y Larry Par# 111 aud fuel shortage. ■Limited quantities of canned food pd frozen meat were available, but liyfrom stocks in west Beirut before 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 picks 3ach Brezhnev: Keep ', in 1976.1 1 J.S. troops out of Lebanon s as adminis ; became tor in Febi tied the Stei •quent yeari her Pittsbui artain” defl „ . , „ . . , * ifc‘ United Press International e team to mjoSCOW — Soviet President mpionshipsjLyH^ Brezhnev warned President irs as a^larran today to keep U.S. troops out les, a g ia I Lebanon. e, was respo® Referring to a White House state- trative tasbl nt ^ M ar i nes may be sent into the teamvMpjt, Brezhnev said, “If this in fact being in' p| ace) t he Soviet Union will con- se and spl-uct its policy in accordance with pis fact.” 1 The White House had no immedi ate comment on the Brezhnev mes- ]urreiiN e - rfl ^ ot a sin S le responsible states- Pjjfftn, not a single honest person on Earth can remain indifferent to the Jlls of those who are perishing in NDS ~ : Lebanon at the hands of the Israeli by their VK«, ac | erS) ” t B e T ass news agency i from W" quoted Brezhnev as saying in a per- lid notdiniH|) na | messa g e to R ea g an . me Smith® . . c | I he message gave no indication ol !'■ Wimhle# at ste P s t * ie S° v t e,;s might take to ! h minion' COimter the presence of U.S. troops in on p Qll Ibanon, but it contained a dear ' il t] |j,warning of danger the conflict could ic first roint cala,e if u - s - troops were used, mpetitionj failed to " | i | United Press International 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. sp< ;d i rs irren cruise 1 ' id Rosalynf' then Cut 1 :ve Dentoit icn’s double 1 lown Billy 6-2. i — Bryan >823 Automotive Center" Brakes IcPherson ts Replacen* ig Service ican Cars Honda r ota /ISA Accepted) 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. inside Classified 8 Local 3 National 9 Opinions 2 Sports 11 State 3 What’s Up 3 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.