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Jumping the gun
Some freshman cadets thought Saturday’s game had
already ended and rushed onto Kyle Field to carry off
the yell leaders. But they found they had a problem:
one second of play was left. The field had to be
cleared to let the Mavericks run one more play. See
Octavio Garcia
Monday, September 20, 1982
Israel held
responsible
for massacres
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, expressing “outrage and re
vulsion” at the massacre of Palestinian
refugees in Lebanon, Saturday held
Israel ultimately responsible for the
violence and demanded immediate
Israeli withdrawal from West Beirut.
Reagan called the killing of hun
dreds of Palestinians in two refugee
camps by unknown gunmen, appa
rently Christain militiamen, a “bloody
trauma” and said he was “horrified”
to hear the news.
Reports from Beirut Saturday said
that hundreds of men, women and
children were massacred in two re
fugee camps on the outskirts of city,
apparently by Lebanese Christian
militiamen given control of the camps
by the advancing Israeli army.
United Press International repor
ters who visited the camps said the
death toll could exceed 1,000.
Israel, Reagan said, “claimed that
its moves would prevent the kind of
tragedy which has now occured.” He
also said that Israel has assured the
United States it would not occupy
West Beirut.
After Secretary of State George
Shultz summoned Israeli Ambassa
dor Moshe Arens to the State Depart
ment to demand an Israeli pullback,
the Israeli Embassy released a state
ment expressing “dismay and shock
at the killings in Beirut.”
The Israeli army was not in contol
of areas where there were killings, the
statement said. “As soon as Israel be
came aware of the killings, the IDF
(Israeli Defense Forces) immediately
entered the camp and stopped the
killings and evicted the Christian mili
tiamen.”
The Israeli forces moved into West
Beirut following the assassination of
Lebanese President-elect Beshir
Gemayel on Tuesday in a bomb blast
at his Christian party’s offices in the
capital. Reagan sharply protested the
Israeli occupation of Moslem sector
Wednesday.
In a statement released at the
White House and State Department,
Reagan said, “We strongly opposed
Israel’s move into West Beirut, both
because we believed it wrong in prin
ciple and for fear that it would pro
voke further fighting.”
Engineers strike U.S. railways; traffic crippled
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Thousands of
locomotive engineers struck the na
tion’s railroads Sunday, crippling
U.S. rail traffic. The Reagan adminis
tration demanded a quick end to the
strike after contract talks collapsed.
Transportation Secretary Drew
Lewis and Labor Secretary Raymond
Donovan warned if there was no set
tlement by today, the administration
would propose legislation to end it.
“If the collective bargaining pro
cess does not produce a settlement by
tomorrow morning, we are prepared
to discuss the matter with the presi
dent and to propose legislation to the
Congress to prevent the threat of an
extended strike,” their joint state
ment said Sunday.
Talks to settle the walkout col
lapsed about seven hours after the
strike began at 12:01 a.m. EDT.
LTp to 28,000 members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers union walked out, affecting
much of the nation’s freight service
and some passenger lines. There was
scattered picketing.
Every major freight railroad was
involved except Conrail, the North
east carrier.
While Amtrak, the national rail
road passenger line, was not included
in the contract talks between the un
ion and National Railway Confer
ence, some Amtrak service was
affected.
Amtrak service in the Northeast
corridor between Washington, New
York and Boston continued, but
there was no service south of
Washington, south or west of Chicago
or along the West Coast. Some com
muter trains were affected this
morning.
John Winston, spokesman for the
Federal Railroad Administration,
said Amtrak was “running nationally
at roughly 50 percent capacity, and
100 percent in the Northeast cor
ridor.”
“The bulk of the freight railroads
are running very well, from 30 per
cent to as high as 75 percent of nor
mal, using management personnel,”
he said.
Dan Lang, a spokesman for the
Association of American Railroads,
said the industry believed it would be
able to provide “some essential ser
vices for a good while.”
But union president John System
said the strike was “complete: the rail
roads are tied up all over the nation.”
He said the main stumbling block was
the industry’s insistence on a no-strike
clause.
“We are striking for the right to
strike,” he said. The industry demand
for a “no-strike” clause in the 39-
month contract is similar to provi
sions in contracts with the other 12
rail unions.
During the period of the agree
ment, the clause would prohibit the
union from calling a strike for re
negotiations of additional pay dif
ferentials for engineers when crew
sizes change.
In the 1975 and 1978 agreements,
the industry granted waivers to the
strike moratorium on the issue of ad
justing wages of engineers, but has
been steadfast in trying to eliminate
the waiver in this year’s negotiations.
The strike was called the minute a
60-day “cooling off’ period imposed
by President Reagan expired, spread
ing across the nation time zone by
time zone.
In all, from 26,000 to 28,000 active
BLE members in the United States
were affected, a union spokesman
said.
Lewis and Donovan said they asked
Kay McMurray, director of the Fed
eral Mediation and Conciliation Ser
vice, and Bob Harris, chairman of the
National Mediation Board, to bring
the parties back to the negotiating
table.
U.S. Army says
soldier defected
A&M tries again to get
money for faculty leave
United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S.
military command said Sunday that
Army Pfc. Joseph T. White, who cros
sed the demilitarized zone into North
Korea last month, defected and was
possibly influenced by communist
propaganda.
Roland J. Aars, chief spokesman
for the command in Seoul, said the
United States is still seeking a face-to-
face meeting with White, but North
Korea said last week “further discus
sion of the matter is meaningless and
waste of time.”
• The spokesman said White, ot St.
Louis, Mo., was “an average soldier
with a clean military record” who had
no medical, drug or alcohol prob
lems.
But the spokesman said a consider
able amount of North Korean prop- '
aganda materials were found in
White’s personal effects left behind,
indicating political motives might be
ihe reasons for the soldier’s action.
; According to the spokesman,
White shot the lock off his guard post
fence and ran across the DMZ into
North Korea in the early morning
liours of Aug. 28.
White, the spokesman said, was can
midnight to 6 a.m. duty to man a
bunker with an American soldier of
Korean descent at guard post “Ouel
lette” inside the Korean DMZ.
Guard post “Ouellette” is less than
2,300 feet from the border line and
about the same distance from the
truce village of Panmunjom, where
officials of the American-led United
Nations command and North Korea
meet to discuss possible armistice
violations.
In the northern side of the DMZ,
White was heard to call out in Korean,
“I am coming; help me,” the spokes
man said.
At around 7:30 a.m., about fiv.e
hours after White’s disappearance
from the guard post, he was seen
escorted by North Korean soldiers in
the northern sector of the DMZ, the
spokesman said.
White was the fifth American sol
dier to defect to North Korea since
the Korean armistice was signed in
1953. The last American defection
took place in 1965.
by Denise Richter
Battalion Staff
When Dr. Donald Fraser tells
students in his Finance 460 class
about financial problems facing
the British, his information comes
from more than graphs and statis
tics.
Because he visited England on a
faculty development leave last
semester, he can tell them he saw
hamburger selling for $4 a pound.
He can tell them he met university
graduates making $7,000 a year.
He can tell them he watched a
country’s standard of living de
cline.
“A development leave gives you
a new perspective,” Fraser said.
“But students benefit the most. Ev
erything I learned over there flows
directly into the classroom.
“If A&M wants to be a disting
uished international university, it’s
got to get its faculty around the
world. Expanding the faculty de
velopment leave program would
do the University, the faculty and
the students a great deal of good.”
Last year, only four professors
— 0.19 percent of the 2,100-
member faculty — were granted
development leaves, known in
most states as sabbaticals. And
University and System officials
agree the program needs to be ex
panded.
The Texas Legislature also has
given its support to the program,
calling development leaves “a well-
recognized means of improving a
state’s program of public higher
education.”
Unfortunately, this type of
program can’t be run on praise.
Money — lots of it — is required
for faculty development leaves.
Public colleges and universities re
peatedly have asked the Legisla
ture to fund the program. The
Legislature repeatedly has re
fused. Now public colleges and
universities, including Texas
A&M, are trying again.
When legislators meet in Janu
ary, representatives of the Coordi
nating Board, Texas College and
University System — the gov
erning body of institutions of high
er education — will request state
funding for faculty development
leaves.
Dr. Walter Guttman, a member
of the Coordinating Board, said
the Board will request each institu
tion be given development leave
funds equivalent to 1.25 percent of
the total the state allocated for fa
culty salaries in the 1982-83 Fiscal
year.
The state allocated $57.5 mil
lion for Texas A&M faculty salar
ies in 1982-83. If the Legislature
approved the Coordinating
Board’s request, the University
would receive about $720,000 for
development leaves.
Similar requests have been
made in the past and have failed.
But this year, the importance of
faculty development leaves is
being stressed more than ever.
“The institutions we visited
during the legislative budget hear
ings placed development leave
funding in a relatively high posi
tion of importance,” Guttman
said. “They obviously felt strongly
about this, and Texas A&M was no
exception.”
During System budget hearings
Sept. 1, Chancellor Arthur G.
Hansen said: “Development leaves
are absolutely prime. If we want
the universities in Texas to be rec
ognized as first-class, this is some
thing we’ve got to have.”
Under the University’s develop
ment leave program, a tenured
member of the faculty is eligible to
be considered for a leave if he or
she has been a full-time employee
for at least five consecutive years.
Development leaves are
granted for two semesters at one-
half the employee’s regular salary,
or for a semester at full salary.
Such regular employee benefits as
insurance continue while the em
ployee is on leave.
But Dean of Faculties Clinton
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Tourists drawn by equestrian events
Oklahoma horse industry booms
United Press International
OKLAHOMA CITY — White fences have
joined drilling rigs, cattle and wheat combines
as the symbols of Oklahoma industry.
“You can’t drive anywhere in Oklahoma
without seeing white fences,” says Connie Gol
den. “You can be sure somebody’s expensive
horses are behind those fences. They don’t put
cows behind white fences.”
The Norman, Okla., resident and founder
of Speed Horse Magazine says horses are as
much an Oklahoma natural resource as oil, cat
tle and wheat. And when it comes to tourism,
there’s no contest.
“People don’t come here to fish and ski,” she
said. “People come here for horse events.”
Around the world, Oklahoma is known for
its horses, she said.
“It’s so widely known throughout the world,
but Oklahomans don’t seem to realize that,” she
said.
Jodahl Golden, no relation to Connie, says
demand for a directory of Oklahoma horse
breeders which she compiled for the state De
partment of Agriculture surprised officials.
“We’ve got orders we haven’t been able to
fill,” she said.
The Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce,
which has dubbed the city the “Horse Capital of
the World,” says the city hosts more major
equestrian events than any town in the U.S.
The National Finals Rodeo, held in Oklaho
ma City 17 straight years, draws almost 120,000
people, probably half of whom are from outside
the state, said Stanley Draper Jr., director of
metropolitan activities for the chamber.
About 13,000 people go to the annual World
Championship Quarter Horse Show in Oklaho
ma City to see more than $50 million in horses
on display.
“That show will bring in people from all 50
states and several foreign countries — and an
awful lot from Canada, as does the National
Finals Rodeo,” Draper said.
A study funded by the Oklahoma Horse
men’s Association indicated about $3 billion is
invested in Oklahoma horse operations. Okla
homa horsemen valued their more than one-
half million horses at almost $600 million dol
lars, the study said.
According to the report, the number of
horses in the state will top 1 million by 1985.
As prevalent as horses are in Oklahoma, the
state would become a new mecca for the indus
try if parimutuel betting was allowed, horse
owners say. A controversial proposal to allow
parimutuel betting on a county-option basis will
be voted on Tuesday.
Opponents claim horse racing is legal, and
that allowing betting would draw organized
crime to the state. But horses must race and win
to earn their keep, supporters of the proposal
say.
“They’re bred to run,” Connie Golden said.
“They must race or they’re not worth the hay
they eat.”
Robert Standish, general manager of Herit
age Place, a plush Oklahoma City horse auction
barn, said there is a horse sale every weekend
somewhere in Oklahoma.
In four years about 50,000 horses have been
sold for about $40 million at Heritage Place.
Oklahoma horsemen also consider the state
as the kingdom of the quarter horse industry,
with the central Oklahoma town of Purcell the
“capital.” x .
Champion quarter horses pour out of the
state, they say, pointing to Easy Jet, the Oklaho
ma-bred world-beater syndicated for $33 mil
lion.
“Most people don’t realize horses are bought
and sold for this kind of money,” Connie Gol
den said.