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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.
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