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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-
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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,
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) or on Jw-pd a c i ass ma y do so beginning
i concussion i:i Kday. Students must first see their
mod of »* a j or d e p ar t ment advisor and
to 1 ampa Bay a drop/add schedule revi-
ning camp f 10 |ji on f orm signed by the advisor,
will traveltorlo* These schedule revisions are to
:1 watch the L turned in at drop/add head-
:-season game n Lj-fers i n q Rollie White Col-
st, General Matf L um Students must have their
zeg said lues ^ p ee reC eipts and class sche-
e said the moved) u | es yellow copy) with them
filers wereanit ^ or der to drop/add.
the veteran oftec jf g ev ; se d schedules may be pick-
d up the following day at G. Rollie
Vhite. 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
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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
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Another baby boom
Dredicted for 1985
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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.
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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.