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Battalion/Page August 18, The Battalion Serving the University community 75 No. 188 USPS 045360 34 Pages In 2 Sections College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 25,1982 .S troops arrive in Beirut United Press International The first of 800 U.S. Marines mar- leij into Beirut’s port today to help ire a Palestinian pullout despite iwed heavy Fighting in eastern and the cancellation of a ed overland withdrawal by guerrillas. the second Marine force in 24 arrived in Lebanon, the distant of machine-gun fire and iso explosions could be heard, a re- ider of the difficulty of their mis- | in a country racked by war since ckie Thon une 6. third when TbsKDespite the land evacuation snag i single, advancllhe fifth day of the Palestine Liber- ferry Puhl’s sinjMi Organization pullout, a Penta- scored on a srMspokesman said within two hours by Ray Knight. fthtMarinelanding“thenexlincre- has just beentr« ir leadoff spot,'I i short stop, started on the I lany games. He I erything that p ive asked him to k ■ i ft, United Press International s said: Wearei|| E xiCO CITY — Mexico’s gov- easfarastheperJjl,)^ 0 ii company soon will sharp- oncerned," 0 ibonst petroleum exports to the U.S. re are a lot oljilliegic reserve emergency storage lity to help repay its $80 billion Sign debt, a spokesman said. Blero Rodriguez, spokesman for ■state oil monopoly Petroleos Mex- 1^ f^f^T)P 0S > Tuesday said oil sales to the IX.V/V jJp. reserves, currently 50,000 bar- 1 U a day, will be increased to about "I ' 30,000 barrels daily beginning in I phnl^ *■ V-/ |le said that by Jan. 1, sales to the ■tegic reserve, a U.S. Energy De- Btment emergency storage facility, Mo Harris ofTe hll rise 150,000 on Jan. 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Hours are 8 a.m. to noon ind 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. f Other important dates: •Aug. 27 — End of delayed re- istration, and last day for regis- ering or paying fees without a late Charge. •Aug. 30 — Fall semester classes legin. •Sept. 3 — Last day for enroll- ig in the University for the fall ment of PLO evacuees (by sea) will begin.” Tuesday, 577 guerrillas — plus 15 women and two children — left for Yemen on the Cypriot ferry Sol Ex press. A total of 2,673 guerrillas so far have been sent to Iraq, Jordan, Tuni sia, Yemen and South Yemen. Witnesses said the first Marines came ashore at dawn — a day ahead of the schedule originally worked out by U.S. envoy Philip Habib in weeks of tense negotiations. In Washington, Pentagon officials said the first two waves, comprising 435 Marine officers and men, were met by Habib and landed without in cident. The U.S. force, from the 32nd Amphibious Unit, will number 800 men when fully deployed later today. It will be responsible for security in the port and on a section of the “Green Line” dividing Christian east and Moslem west Beirut. Also at the port to meet the Marines were the French and Italian ambassadors in Beirut, whose troops are also taking part in the peace keeping operation. French para troops landed Saturday and the Ita lians were arriving later today. The French soon started pulling out of the port area they had secured since Saturday, heading in a convoy of trucks toward new positions along the “Green Line.” The overland evacuation today of 2,000 Palestinians to Syria was de layed — reportedly because the fight ers feared an attack by Christian Pha- langists under the control of Leba non’s president-elect, Beshir Gemayel. The PLO asked instead to leave by sea to the Syrian port of Latakia, Israeli news reports said. Fierce battles were reported Tues day off the Beirut-Damascus high way, running through eastern Leba non’s Bekaa Valley, where some 25,000 Syrian troops and thousands of guerrillas who escaped the Israeli siege of Beirut are stationed. At some points on the highway, Israeli tanks and infantry reportedly were stationed less than 200 yards away from the Syrians, who were summoned into Lebanon as a peace keeping force at the end of the 1975- 76 Lebanon civil war. to get more Mexican oil 190,000 barrels a day in September 1983. Washington last week agreed to advance Mexico $ 1 billion for further oil imports to help the country out of a major financial crisis, sparked by problems in paying off its foreign debt, the world’s largest. The increased sales to the strategic reserve will push Mexico total exports to the United States up from the cur rent 700,000 barrels a day to 840,000 barrels a day. “The price will be the prevailing international market rate, with a floor of $25 per barrel and a ceiling of $35,” Rodriguez said in a telephone interview. Rodriguez said final contracts have not been signed but both sides have agreed to the figures. He added, however, that the figures could still be changed somewhat. Mexico in May replaced Saudi Ara bia as the largest supplier of oil to the United States. The Saudis sell appro ximately 600,000 barrels of oil daily to U.S. clients. Mexico currently exports about 1.7 million barrels of petroleum a day but is planning to raise its sales. International banks agreed in a meeting in New York last week to a 90-day postponement of Mexican payments on its foreign debt. The peso has suffered three major devaluations this year, partially be cause of the foreign debt and the flight of dollars out of the country. Trading in the dollar remained stable in Mexican banks Tuesday. The major banks sold dollars at the rate of 100 pesos to $1 and bought dollars at a rate of 90-1, the same as the last three days. The third devaluation of the peso last week has already triggered stiff price increases in consumer goods, mostly food, the Federal Consumer Agency said. Mexican inflation has been running at 70 percent in 1982. The third devaluation was expected to push the rate to over 100 percent by the end of the year. mportant dates fall semester or IS semester; last day to add new courses; and last day for students who registered during delayed re gistration to pay fees at the Fiscal Department. •Sept. 10 — Deadline for ap plying for December degrees. •Sept. 14 — Last day for drop ping courses with no record. •Oct. 1 — Last day for dropping courses with no penalty (Q-drop). Officials in Heaton Hall announced that senior rings have arrived and are available for pick up there through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Officials said ring pick-up would be moved to 224 MSC Mon day because of the high amount of student traffic expected in Heaton Hall on the first day of classes. Rings can be picked up Monday in 224 MSC from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. After Mon day, the rings will be moved back to Heaton Hall. El Salvador war, poverty continue lettuce, e salad. Another baby boom Dredicted for 1985 5ese, id. llT! United Press International EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new aby boom will begin about 1985, a ichigan State University marketing expert predicted recently. William Lazer, a professor in the University’s Graduate School of Busi- liess Administration, made the fore cast as part of an address to the World Future Society Conference in Washington. D.C. The baby boom, he forecast, will come not from women having more children but from more women of childbearing age having one and possibly two chilren. One economic result, he said, will be a boom for manufacturers of baby clothes and furnitute. United Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador is broke and at war. The economic collapse is most apparent in the capital city. The war is fought almost solely in the countryside. There have been no battles in San Salvador in recent months, but the signs of war are everywhere. The downtown area is a city with out windows. Some 150 factories have shut down in the past 2 1 /2 years, a business leader said. Dozens of stores have closed. Those stores still open have their plate glass display windows bricked over, a reminder of the urban bomb ings and firefights that erupted in the first two years of the civil war with leftist rebels. Street vendors, many of them war refugees, have taken over the side walks, selling basic food stuffs and cheap household goods, including plastic war toys for children. “Officials should understand that there is no work in the country and someone should try and create jobs— real jobs — because here in the street there is no future, you can only sur vive,” said a former construction worker who now survives as a street vendor. The Salvadoran civil war began in earnest in the second half of 1979, and 34,000 people have been killed in the fighting. Both the Marxist- dominated rebels and the U.S.- backed government have pledged to end the economic and political injus tices of previous regimes. El Salvador is getting $185 million in U.S. aid this year and is hoping for $128 million more — the third high est recipient of American assistance in the world. But officials conservatively put the unemployment rate at 30 per cent. That percentage would be dou bled, according to researchers at the liberal Jesuit-run University of Cen tral America, if people working below their job potential were taken into account. Unemployment in some of the richest agricultural provinces such as San Miguel and Usulutan has climbed to between 60 and 70 percent. A U.S.-trained gastrologist recent ly said there is virtually no disease- free food or water in the country. Typhoid has been reported, as have malaria and dengue fever. Unknown flu-like epidemics sweep the entire country without ever being isolated, he said. Provincial cities have been hit har der by the war than the capital, parti cularly those in the east such as San Miguel, the third largest in the coun try which is 82 miles from San Sal vador. During a two-year campaign against the electric power system, the eastern four of the country’s 14 pro vinces have been without power and water about 50 percent of the the time, according to a power company spokesman. The interruptions, along with crop sabotage, truck and bus burnings further crippled industry, particular ly shrimping that requires refrigera tion all the time. “The smart money left four years ago,” said one businessman. In the countryside, especially in the east, everything off a paved road is dangerous. Many dirt roads are mined and booby-trapped, so that peasants are afraid to try to reach their fields. inside Classified 6 National 8 Opinions 2 Sports 17 State 3 forecast Partly cloudy with a high in the mid-90s; low in the mid-70s. Thursday’s forecast calls for a slight chance of rain. Rabies, though declining, still major U.S. problem United Press International WASHINGTON — The annual number of cases of rabies in Americans has declined to only one or two a year over the past three decades, but an infectious disease specialist says rabies is still a serious problem in the United States. Dr. Robert Fekety, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, said more than 30,000 people in the United States receive rabies vaccinations each year. This was particularly serious until two years ago be cause the rabies vaccine then in use, obtained from duck embroys infected with the virus, produced relatively fre quent and serious side effects even if the person had not been exposed to rabies. A new vaccine derived from virus grown in human cells was licensed for use in the United States in 1980. Fekety said it is remarkable for its effectiveness and appa rent freedom from serious side effects. He said the availability now of that vaccine should greatly reduce the real and psychological dangers of exp osure to potentially rabid animals. But he said it is unlikely that rabies will ever be elimin ated as a problem because it is so common in wild animals. Fekety said in a typical year in the United States some 4,000 domestic animals are found to have rabies — 2,000 in cattle, 1,000 in dogs and a slightly lower number in cats. In contrast, approximately 15,000 wild animals annually are found to have rabies. Skunks, foxes, bats, raccoons, coyotes and bobcats are the most significant wild animal sources of rabies in the United States. “In cases of exposure to one of these wild animals, the animal should be regarded as rabid until proven negative by laboratory tests, and prophylaxis should be begun immediately,” Fekety said in a rabies status report in the magazine Drug Therapy. On the other hand, he said rodents are not considered important sources of rabies infection for humans, and people bitten by mice, rats, hamsters, chipmunks, squir rels, rabbits, shrews and moles need not be vaccinated unless the rodent has been shown to be rabid. Gone! staff photos by John Ryan John Whittington, a freshman business major from Conroe, experiences one of the most popular of Corps traditions, the first haircut. Jim Hall, a barber at the Memorial Student Center, is the man who turns Whittington from a non-reg into a cadet.