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Wednesday, July 21, 1982
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)NDON — Police warned Bri-
s; )s to be alert for more Irish Repub-
o acellatvfi Army attacks and Prime Minis-
*largaret Thatcher ordered an in-
1 ®ve search for guerrillas whose
mbs killed nine soldiers and
Inded 52 other people.
shall not rest until they have
■n brought to justice,” Mrs.
Htcher told Parliament on
Hsday.
|She called the bombings, the
■diest terrorist attacks in London
learly eight years, “callous and co-
■dly crimes committed by evil and
■al men who know nothing of
|The IRA took responsibility for
two separate blasts Tuesday
d at a mounted cavalry parade
a band concert that left bleeding
|ses and bits of flesh scattered over
ents and Hyde parks,
lance-corporal in the Household
— .jvalry seriously wounded in Tues-
j'jM’s explosion in Hyde Park died in a
spital today, bringing the death toll
ine, a Scotland Yard spokesman
id
dotland Yard confirmed it had
ed a “general alert” 10 days before
blasts, warning public figures
ight to be possible targets a new
orist offensive might be in the
- n S-
he IRA’s campaign of terrorism
force the reunification of Northern
Jland with the Irish Republic had
:n relatively dormant in Britain for
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almost a year and was overshadowed
recently by the Falkland Islands war.
Police, fearing the blasts heralded a
new upsurge of violence, called on the
public for vigilance. A close watch was
put on all air and sea routes leading
out of the country, particularly to Ire
land.
“I appeal for everyone to be on the
alert and urge them that if they see
anything suspicious to get in touch
with us at once,” said Cmdr. William
Hucklesby, head of the anti-terrorist
branch.
Officials declined to say what led
them to issue the alert 10 days ago.
But Dublin police sources said they
expected some form of retaliation af
ter the conviction of IRA explosives
expert Gerard Tuite last week.
Tuite, sentenced to a 10-year jail
term, was the first Irishman ever
found guilty in his own country of
crimes committed in Britain. Police in
London dismissed the theory as “spe
culation.”
Other sources said the IRA wanted
to attract attention from Mrs. Thatch
er’s Falklands triumph and timed the
attacks to coincide with a U.S. visit of
Secretary of State for Northern Ire
land James Prior.
In a message claiming responsiblity
. for the blasts, the IRA referred to the
war to keep the Falklands, saying the
people of Northern Ireland deman
ded the same right of self-
determination Britain wanted for the
islanders.
Happy Birthday Diana
staff photo by David Fisher
Surprise birthday parties aren’t that unusual but not many their mutual friend Diana Steelman (behind table in
get thrown on Kyle field complete with punch and cake, striped shirt). She is the new accompianoist for the Singing
Sandra Robertson, Stella Wright and the Super Summer Cadets. Robert Boone leads the group in ‘Happy Birthday’
Singers got together Tuesday and threw a surprise party for while Diana recovers from the shock of the surprise.
Ideas offered for PLO, Israel
Wish leader says
ctivists to be freed
Reagan meets with Arab envoys
United Press International
iVARSAW, Poland — Polish leader
n. Wojciech Jaruzelski said Tues-
I ly he will release most of the 2,000
led Solidarity union activists but he
leked Pope John Paul H’s planned
krimage to his homeland until later
khe year when martial law might be
I In Vatican City, Polish primate
[chbishop Jozef Glemp later said
[at the pope himself had decided not
[visit Poland in August for the 600th
Iniversary of the country’s holiest
tine, the Black Madonna.
I “The majority of internees will be
teased, including all women,”
ruzelski said in a speech broadcast
[e on military radio. He did not say
hen they would be released and
nether Solidarity union leader Lech
[alesa would be among them.
Jaruzelski, the Polish premier and
pfense minister who had imposed
lilitary rule last Dec. 13, told Po
land’s Parliament that if conditions
Here correct he might lift martial law
by the end of this year.
“If favorable changes take place
without any return to tensions, if the
situation will become calmer and the
internal situation is normalized, the
military council will ask Parliament to
suspend martial law,” Jaruzelski said.
“The enemy has not given up his
counterrevolutionary attempts,” he
added, in a rebuke to the resistance
movement.
Jaruzelski said he was postponing
the pilgrimage that John Paul had
hoped to make.
The visit would have coincided
with the second anniversary of the
legalization of the Solidarity union,
and martial law authorities had fre
quently expressed reluctance to allow
the Polish-born pope to visit his
homeland for fear of antigovernment
demonstrations.
“The intention of the military
council is to make conditions for sus
pension of martial law ripe by the end
of this year,” he said.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan is hinting that there may be
reason to hope a solution to the crisis
in Lebanon is closer.
“I think so,” he told reporters who
asked if progress had been made in
the various Middle East negotiations
Tuesday. Moments later, he crossed
his fingers, adding, “I hope so.”
Reagan met with a pair of top Arab
envoys Tuesday, and an administra
tion official said they offered him
some “helpful” new ideas for dealing
with the tense situation in west Beirut,
where Israeli forces have trapped re
mnants of the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
But an administration source at the
White House denied a report from an
aide to Yassar Arafat that the PLO is
ready to approve an amended United
Nations’ Security Council resolution
that recognizes Israel’s right to exist.
“Such a message has not been
brought to the president,” the White
House aide stated, deflating the possi
bility it may have been given to
Reagan when he met with the foreign
ministers.
The aide said Reagan would be
passing the information of his Tues
day meeting along to Philip Habib,
the U.S. mediator on the scene. Depu
ty White House press secretary Larry
Speakes said, “Communications
which go forward to Habib have the
personal imprint of the president.”
Prince Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Ara
bia and Abdel Halim Khaddam of
Syria, the foreign ministers of their
nations, had a 70-minute meeting at
the White House, speaking candidly
with Reagan and Secretary of State
George Shultz.
Saud told reporters the Arab world
feels the “withdrawal of the aggressor
Israel” from Lebanon, and not reloca
tion of the PLO, has top priority for
ending the crisis.
“The issue from our point of view
primarily is the independence and
territorial integrity of Lebanon,”
Saud said.
After Israel pulls out, he said, it
should be the “decision of the
Lebanese government and the
Lebanese people” whether the PLO
should leave. He added, PLO leaders
have stated “they were willing to go.”
An administration official said the
meeting between Reagan and the two
Arab representatives produced
“some new ideas that will form the
basis of further discussion.”
“I think it adds a new element of
possible movement in the right direc
tion,” he said, but would not be more
specific. “We talked about some new
ideas that will be helpful, we’re sure.”
“The president reiterated a re
newed commitment to making prog
ress within the framework of the
Camp David accords,” he said. “The
other side reiterated their well-known
concerns on the Palestine issue and
Lebanon.”
Saud described the talk in the
Cabinet room as “very good and
frank and friendly.”
The Saudi foreign minister de
clined to say if other Arab nations had
agreed to accept the 6,000 PLO fight
ers trapped by Israeli troops encirc
ling West Beirut. News reports from
Beirut said Iraq and Algeria have
offered a haven.
'ool hours shortened
Suntanning and socializing at the
Wofford Cain pool will be cut short
|his weekend.
The Wofford Cain pool will be
:losed from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday
ind all-day Saturday and Sunday due
o the Texas A&M swim team’s spon-
Mitsui charged with conspiracy
sored Gulf Swim Committee Cham
pionships.
The indoor pool will be open regu
lar pool hours (1 p.m. to 8 p.m.) dur
ing the weekend for recreational
swimming.
The outdoor pool will reopen
Monday.
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — One of
Japan’s largest and most respected
financial conglomerates, Mitsui 8c
Co., has been charged in a federal
grand jury indictment with defraud
ing the U.S. government in a steel
dumping conspiracy.
The indictment handed down
Tuesday was the third blow to
Japanese-American trade relations in
less than three weeks. Hitachi Ltd.
and Mitsubishi Electric Co. have been
indicted on charges of trying to steal
computer secrets from IBM.
U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello
said the objective of the alleged con
spiracy was to avoid provisions of the
Anti-dumping Act of 1921 and the
“trigger price” mechanism of the
Treasury Department, which moni
tors the price of foreign products sent
to the American market.
The government alleged that dur
ing the course of the conspiracy, cre
dits and secret rebates of some $1.3
million were provided by Mitsui, its
employees and unnamed coconspira
tors to the American steel customers
of Mitsui to lower the prices listed on
invoices to the actual prices secretly
agreed to between the firm and its
customers.
The steel-dumping investigation
surfaced in December, 1980, when
some 40 customs agents conducted
simultaneous raids on the New York
and San Francisco offices of Mitsui &
Co. (USA) and carried off hundreds
of boxes of documents.
A special federal grand jury was
convened to study the documents and
consider Customs Service allegations
Mitsui was submitting false customs
declarations on the prices of its steel.
A spokesman for Mitsui noted the
indictments were filed following a
year and a half investigation concern
ing disclosures of information on cus
tom entry forms.
“Mitsui (USA) has a strict policy of
full compliance by its employees with
the laws of the United States. We
hope we will be able to reach an agree
ment or a settlement with the United
States’ government to resolve the case
promptly,” the spokesman said.
Various schemes of kickbacks, cre
dits and secret rebates were used to
accomplish the goals of the alleged
conspiracy, Russoniello told a press
conference in San Francisco.
The trigger-price mechanism is
used to determine whether foreign
steel firms are selling their products
in the United States at unfairly low
prices, undercutting domestic sup
pliers.
If a foreign firm sells its products
for less than what the U.S. govern
ment determines is a “fair market”
value, a duty tax of the entire differ
ence is added to the product.
Two criminal cases stemming from
the investigation have been filed in
U.S. District Court as a result of the
investigation, charging American
firms with filing false reports with the
U.S. Customs Service.
The American defendants —
Ralph A. Falk and his company, Paci
fic Steel, of San Leandro, Calif., and
Supply Co.; and VSL Corp of Los
Gatos, Calif. — have all pleaded guilty
and were assessed fines by the U.S.
District Court.
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Binge, purge habit can destroy health
Editor’s note:
Carol and Martha are fictitious
names for two Texas A&M students
who wanted to tell of their experi
ences with the condition of bulimia
and alert others to the condition’s
dangers. Their names were
changed to protect their privacy.
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
It sounded like a great way to lose
ten pounds and control weight to
Carol. She saw an article that men
tioned purging as a way to lose
weight but the article didn’t mention
side effects.
Carol was trying to lose weight so
much that she tried any method she
could find.
She tried so hard she developed
what doctors call bulimia (or buli-
marexia). Bulimia means “insatiable
appetite.” People who have this con
dition go on food-eating binges.
They will eat whole packages of
cookies, gallons of ice cream and
anything else they can find.
After a binge, bulimics will usual
ly feel guilty and critical of them
selves. Both binge eating and purg
ing set up a cycle of guilt, says Dr.
Fran Kimbrough, a counseling
psychology intern at the Personal
Counseling Service.
Bulimics may induce vomiting,
take laxatives, use diuretics, take
amphetamines or exercise to purge
themselves of the “binged” food.
Some starve themselves.
“It’s a vicious cycle,” Carol says.
“You punish yourself by making
yourself eat and throw up.”
Bulimia is an ancient practice. In
the age of the Roman Empire it was
an accepted practice to gorge one’s
self and then induce vomiting.
But, recognition of bulimia as an
illness is recent. According to the
Nov. 2, 1981, issue of “Newsweek,”
the American Psychiatric Associa
tion identified bulimia as an eating
disorder separate from anorexia in
1980. Both eating disorders are re
sults of an obsession with thinness,
but they have distinct differences.
Kimbrough says there can be a
fine line between anorexia and buli
mia. The anorexic shys away from
food and people, she says, and may
stop menstruating as a result of ex
cessive weight loss.
The bulimic, she says, usually
maintains a normal weight and nor
mal body functions. They eat nor
mal meals between periods of binge
eating and purging. Frequency of
the binge eating and purging varies
from person to person.
Bulimia can cause scarring in the
esophagus and throat, hernias, rup
tured blood vessels, eroding of the
teeth enamel from acids, heart
roblems and emotional scars, Kim-
rough says. Sometimes the action
of vomiting becomes so habitual that
the bulimic no longer has control
over it.
It also can cause depression and
carries a high risk of suicide.
“This isn’t an answer to a diet aid;
it doesn’t work,” says Carol, who has
scars in her throat and blood sugar
problems from binge eating and
purging. “Don’t do it; it can take
over your life.”
Carol is a 19-year-old student at
Texas A&M University. At one
time, she was so under the control of
this sickness that she went on binge/
purge sprees four times a day.
“I was totally out of control,” she
says. “The whole thing is a blur.”
She said she was eating so few
calories a day that she couldn’t think
clearly.
Carol had been binge eating and
purging herself for about a year and
was contemplating suicide when she
came to the Personal Counseling
Service for help.
“It’s kind of like being gay — com
ing out of the closet,” she says. “Peo
ple are repulsed by it.”
Carol felt guilty about her pa
rents’ sacrifices for her education.
When she was considering killing
herself, she says she got out her cal
culator and figured out that a funer
al would be cheaper than staying in
school.
Kimbrough and Dr. Kerry Hope,
a counseling psychologist at the Per
sonal Counseling Service, have
started a therapy group for bulimics
at the Personal Counseling Service.
Individuals interested in attending
the meetings should call the Person
al Counseling Service (845-4427)
for information. All services are
confidential.
Martha, another bulimic, says:
“Realizing I’m not by myself has
helped.” By meeting other girls who
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