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The Battalion Serving the Universily communily ol 75 No. 181 USPS 045360 8 Pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, August 3, 1982 sraeli forces tighten grip on PLO United Press International Israeli forces moved at least 200 ks to the edge of west Beirut and fva|ned civilian residents to “flee be- : it is too late,” but an angry Presi- Ju Reagan demanded an end to the |ence in the war-torn city, frying to avert a bloody assault on st Beirut, U.S. envoy Philip Habib Isented a new plan Monday for [citation of the 6,000 Palestine [eradon Organization guerrillas pped by a tightening circle of laeli troops. Tphe tension around Beirut, where an edgy cease-fire was maintained to day, stretched to the White House in Washington, where a U.S. official re ported Monday “open, deeply felt irritation with Israel.” Israel refused to allow U.N. obser vers into Beirut Monday, and said it needed more time to decide whether the United Nations should be permit ted to monitor the cease-fire — the ninth in nearly two months of war. A grim Reagan, who, U.S. officials said, was angered by a devastating 14- hour attack on Beirut Sunday that kil led 165 people, met Monday in Washington with Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Though Shamir described his talks with Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz as “friendly,” Israeli reporters called the encounters “tough.” “He (Reagan) was firm in saying his opinion in very clear terms,” an Israeli official said. “He believes the exchanges of fire there (in Beirut) have to stop.” Witnesses said at least 200 Israeli tanks, some pulling field cannons, took up positions Monday on the east ern side of the demarcation line be tween PLO-controlled Moslem west and Christian east Beirut. Beirut Radio heightened the fears of a new attack, reporting Israeli com mander Amir Drori warned west Beirut residents to flee “before it is too late. We can do nothing for those who remain.” The center of Beirut was relatively quiet Monday although Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters fought spor adic artillery duels by Beirut Interna tional Airport on the southern edge of Bourj Barajneh refugee camp. Administration officials said Habib’s mediation efforts with PLO leader Yasser Arafat had reached an “intricate stage” in which Israel’s “in discriminate shelling” of Beirut was harming the chances for success. A Lebanese political source said Habib gave Lebanese Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan a proposal calling for a first group of guerrillas to leave Lebanon, without a stopover in the Bekaa Valley as sought by the PLO, before a multinational force arrives in Beirut. The PLO has demanded the force arrive before it moves its fighters, and that the Israelis pull out of Lebanon simultaneously. The U.N. Security Council, which voted unanimously Sunday to call for a cease-fire monitored by U.N. obser vers, pressed Israel for a quick deci sion on the matter. The Lebanese government and the PLO announced their agreement within hours, but Israel indicated the decision must be made by the Cabinet, which will not meet until la ter this week. ran trying :o push out adical leaders United Press International |The president of Tehran’s Sup ine Court reportedly quit in a purge pf religious extremists meant to ease pb fears of Islamic expansionism, Iranian forces kept up an inten- bombardment of Iraqi cities in lie Persian Gulf war. The Supreme Court head re- jrteclly quit in the beginnings of a Jler struggle to push out radical Members of the Islamic government, Id Iranian gunboats bombarded cities from the disputed Shatt \rab waterway. I Despite attacks Monday from land, und air, neither side appeared to |ve budged from positions held over Ipast three weeks, with Iranian in- Ision forces perched on a beachhead Inns id e Iraqi territory. [In Tehran, political sources re- [rted major shuffles were under ly to ease out radical members of |e fundamentalist Islamic regime ttdtone down its religious radicalism at has sent shock waves through the [rsian Gulf. [Supreme Court President Ayatol- h Abdolkarim MahdaviKani res- ned in one of the first moves of the lakeup apparently designed to re- pce fears of Iranian expansionism, picularly feared by oil-rich Saudi jrabia, they said. [Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Jhomeini will dispatch a team shortly Ito reassure Arab states the Gulf War gainst Iraq is not aimed at the over- feow of their regimes, the sources [id. Iran invaded neighboring Iraq two leeks ago in a dramatic turn of the |3-month-old Persian Gulf War, vow ing to topple Baghdad’s secular Presi dent Saddam Hussein. Underlying the conflict is the rival ry between Iran’s dominant Shiite sect, pitted against Iraq’s Sunni Mos lems. About half of Iraq’s largely Moslem population is Shiite, and Iran hasTapenly urged them to oust Hus sein. The bombing Sunday of Iraq’s Planning Ministry, in which the Greek ambasador and two Greek Embassy staffers were seriously wounded along with a number of Ira qis, may have been linked to Iran’s efforts to topple Hussein. No group publicly claimed respon sibility for the explosion but Iran is suspected by its Persian Gulf neigh bors of training Moslem terrorists for action against other regimes in the region. “Brave personnel of the Iranian navy opened heavy artillery fire on enemy positions on the other side of Arvandrud (Iran’s name for the dis puted Shatt al-Arab waterway),” a Tehran communique said. “Combatants of Islam are now de fending their positions effectively,” said the communique. Iranian artillery attacks killed four civilians and wounded eight others in Basra, Khaneqain and Panjvin, an Iraqi military communique issued in Baghdad said. The Baghdad communique said Iraqi helicopter gunships retaliated by attacking Iran’s front-line posi tions just east of Basra, a vital oil port and Iraq’s second largest city, “scor ing direct and effective hits.” The Iranian attacks originated from the disputed Shatt alArab wa terway, recently captured by Iranian forces. France mourns over bus crash United Press International CREPY-EN-VALOIS, France — A shocked nation urged immediate gov ernment action to cut highway deaths and help ensure no repetition of the funeral today for 44 young victims of France’s worst traffic accident. President Francois Mitterrand, cutting short a vacation in the small village of Latche in southwestern France, was attending the burial ser vice in a demonstration of his resolve to fight France’s staggering highway death toll. The mass funeral ceremony for the children — who left their small farming village north of Paris Friday in two buses for a vacation in the Savoy Alps — was to be held in their hometown basketball gymnasium to day. The victims ranged in age from 6 to 15. Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy also will attend the funeral. Saturday’s 10- vehicle road accident, the worst in French history, took 53 lives, includ ing seven adults and two other chil dren in a passenger car. After the service the 44 little oak coffins are to be buried in 14 tombs in the nearby cemetery of Compeigne. Only six of the caskets bear the name of a child. The rest of the bodies were charred beyond recognition. CSISD petitions appraisal review photo by Craig Murphy Ten cent shower A water main behind the old Chemistry Building burst Saturday offering a free drink or a cool pit stop to anybody who might pass by. The water spewed for 30 minutes before Physical Plant workers Raymond Schultz and Arthur Saenz shut it off. The pipe was dug up an hour later and is being replaced. leport outlines his situation by Hope E. Paasch Battalion Staff College Station school board trus tees voted Monday night to petition for a review of property appraisals made by the Brazos County Appraisal District. The petition states that the Appraisal District erroneously appraised the value of certain proper ty and charges that property was not assessed at market value. “I am appalled at this totally ine quitable tax policy,” trustee Joe Tem pleton said. During discussion over whether or not the school district was legally bound to file a petition, trustee Bill Wasson said: “We have a moral, if not a legal obligation, to appeal to the Appraisal Review Board.” Board members voted unanimous ly to file the petition. Wasson said he had received a let ter on Monday which incorrectly stated the amount of taxes owed on a piece of property he manages. In re searching, the appraiser had appa rently gone back to two years ago, when the lot was vacant. Also during the special session, board members voted to authorize their attorney to pursue preparation of litigation concerning faulty con struction at A&M Consolidated High School. Don Henslee, representing the Au stin law firm, asked the board to allow him to hire consultants to help in the preparation. The board approved his request. The consultants will also review all school district buildings to determine if they are within city fire safety and building codes. In other action Monday night, the board appointed community educa tion director Danny Stribling as prin cipal at Oakwood Middle School. Charles C. Harter, an assistant prin cipal at Stephen F. Austin Junior High in Bryan, and Thomas Stolt, a former assistant principal from Arkansas, were appointed as assistant principals at the high school. Hinckley should stay confined Department division i; United Press International WASHINGTON — Presidential fittacker John W. Hinckley should be lonfined in a mental hospital because is dangerous — especially to Jodie Toster, the actress with whom he has been infatuated for years, doctors bncluded. In a report submitted Monday by St. Elizabeth’s Hospital to U.S. Dis- Irict Judge Barrington Parker, who presided at Hinckley’s trial, the doc- ftorssaid Hinckley suffers from major depression and schizotypal personal ity disorder, marked by bizarre fanta sies and social isolation. They found Hinckley also shows characteristics of other disorders in cluding narcissism, commonly de scribed as a grandiose sense of self- importance and a constant desire for attention, the Washington Post re ported in Tuesday’s editions. Hinckley poses a particular threat to Miss Foster, the St. Elizabeth doc tors said. The psychiatric report, sealed from public view by Parker’s order, will be weighed at a release hearing scheduled for next Monday. Hinckley was found innocent by reason of insanity June 21 of shooting President Reagan, White House press secretary James Brady, a Secret Ser vice agent and a District of Columbia policeman in March 1981. The verdict by a seven-woman, five-man jury in Parker’s courtroom sparked cries of outrage in some quarters and immediate steps in Con gress to change the insanity plea. Hinckley was ordered confined to St. Elizabeth’s, where he underwent a battery of tests and interviews by medical experts to determine his mental status. His family and his lawyer said at the time of the verdict they would not seek his immediate release. Hinckley indicated later in a newspaper inter view, however, he wanted to leave the institution. Under the law, St. Elizabeth’s was required to file a report with Parker within 50 days — by Monday. The release hearing set for next Monday could reverse strategy by both the defense, which had argued Hinckley’s insanity at his trial, and the government attorneys, who had argued his sanity. Now that the gov ernment wants Hinckley to remain in custody, it will be required to prove he is insane. wil be considered The Texas A&M University Academic Council will consider today a proposal to split the Department of Sociology and Anthropology into separate departments of anthropolo gy and sociology. The division of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has been recommended by the council’s curriculum committee and academic programs council. Approval of candidates for gradu ate and undergraduate degrees and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine de grees to be conferred August 13 and 14 also will be considered. This approval is necessary for a student to receive a degree. Changes in the curricula for bachelor of science degrees in radiological protection engineering and nuclear engineering also will be discussed. The council will meet at 2:30 p.m. in the Rudder Forum. Hospital plans rejected; official upset by Rebeca Zimmermann Battalion Staff A Bryan Hospital administrator and a member of the Central Texas Health System Board expressed dis satisfaction Tuesday in a press con ference with the denial of Bryan Hospital’s plan for expansion. A hearing officer for the Texas Health Facilities Commission rejected the proposed $11.9 million expansion. F “We’re convinced a mistake has been made,” said Bob Morgan, a Bryan Hospital administrator, t The proposed expansion in cludes plans for an obstetrical unit and a trauma service. St. Joseph’s Hospital now has the only obstetric al and trauma units in the area. The commission hearing officer, J. Kay Trostle, recommended approval of $8.4 million expansion for St. Joseph’s and a $1.9 million Surgi-Center to provide an outpa tient surgery facility for the area which is disassociated from the area hospitals. The proposed facility is a joint venture among Dr. Stephen Stephenson and six other investors. Trostle said expansions were not needed in both facilities. Morgan said St. Joseph’s opposi tion to the Bryan Hospital project “couldn’t help but play a part” in the expansion’s denial. “We’re just as convinced that the project is good as we were days and weeks ago,” Morgan said. The commission, which must approve hospital expansions or else licenses to operate a hospital will be denied, will consider the project in its meeting Friday. Morgan said he hopes the com mission will look at the area’s popu lation growth and increase in prac ticing physicians when it considers the expansion. For example, five physicians will begin practicing in the community within the next six months, he said. Morgan said the hearing officers recommendation to deny Bryan Hospital’s request was based on population estimates which were too low'. Morgan said he believed a shor tage of hospital beds could occur in the future as a result of the expan sion’s denial. Irma Benivides, a representative to the Central Texas Health System Board for the Bryan/College Station area, said she thinks the hearing officer’s recommendations have a chance to be overturned by the com mission. Usually the board on which Be nivides serves also makes recom mendations on proposed projects. But, a quorum was not present when the board was to consider the Bryan Hospital project. Benivides said if the project had been considered at the board meet ing she would have made a strong plea for the proposed Bryan Hospit al expansion. “I think this decision is entirely unwarranted,” she said. She said the hospital expansion was needed to give women and doc tors a choice on where a woman has a baby. Currently, if a woman wants to be sterilized after the birth of a baby, she must be taken by ambu lance from St. Joseph’s Hospital to Bryan Hospital for the procedure; St. Joseph’s doesn’t usually perform sterilization procedures. The proposed expansion of Bryan Hospital would have in cluded a trauma service. All acci dent victims are now taken to St. Joseph’s, but Benivides said if a vic tim was conscious, a choice should be available. “I think we need a choice,” she said. Morgan said community mem bers should use their right to ex press their opinions on the subject and call the commission’s office in Austin. The number is 512-475- 6940. inside Classified 8 National 8 Opinions 2 Sports 9 State 3 Whatsup 5 forecast Partly cloudy with highs near 100; low in the upper-70s. Wednesday’s forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and high temperatures again.