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PLO official
ambushed
in Lebanon
United Press International
A force of 30 unidentified men
with rifles and rocket-propelled gre
nades ambushed and killed the com
mander of 10,000 Palestine Libera
tion Organization guerrillas in Leba
non’s Bekaa Valley, a PLO spokes
man said today.
Abu al-Walid, a senior PLO mem
ber whose real name was Saad Sayel,
died late Monday in al Mouasat Hos
pital in Damascus, where he was
rushed for treatment, the spokesman
said.
Yasser Arafat’s mainline Al Fatah
organization, of which Walid was a
central committee member, said the
killing was by “the Zionist murderers
and their criminal agents” who “will
not escape punishment.”
In Washington, U.S. officials said
the last of Israel’s troops in west
Beirut were expected to pull out to
day or Wednesday, clearing the way
for 1,200 U.S. Marines to complete
the trinational peace-keeping force.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minis
ter Menachem Begin’s Cabinet was
expected to set up a full-powered
judicial panel to investigate “every
thing” related to the massacre of
Palestinians in Beirut by Israeli-
backed Christian militias, Israeli tele
vision said.
Walid was critically wounded while
inspecting Lebanese leftist and Pales
tinian forces Monday afternoon in
Riyaq, near the upper Bekaa Valley
town of Baalbek, inside Syrian lines.
British Broadcasting Corp. radio
said about 30 unidentified men using
rifles and rocketpropelled grenades
staged the ambush.
An estimated 10,000 Palestinian
troops and 25,000 Syrians are lined
up in the eastern Bekaa Valley region
in front of tens of thousands of Israeli
troops and Christian Phalangists.
The United States has called on all
foreign troops to leave Lebanon. But
both Syria and Israel have said they
will not leave until all other foreign
troops have left the country.
U.S. envoy Philip Habib Monday
left Jordan and flew to Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, for talks with officials on the
“outlook for withdrawal of all forces
from Lebanon and (President)
Reagan’s peace plan,” Reagan’s depu
ty press spokesman Larry Speakes
said.
Habib met Monday with Jordan’s
King Hussein to discuss Reagan’s
Middle East peace plan, which calls
for a Palestinian self-government
linked with Jordan in the I raeli-
occupied West Bank.
College Station, Texas •
Tuesday, September 28, 1982
Personnel appointments
highlight regents meeting
by Denise Richter
Battalion Staff
Within 30 minutes, Texas A&M
University received a vice presi
dent for operations, a dean of the
College of Science and a chancel
lor emeritus as personnel appoint
ments were announced at today’s
meeting of the Texas A&M System
Board of Regents.
Charles R. Cargill, associate vice
president for business affairs, was
named vice president for opera
tions — a position created by
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver as part of a reorganiza
tion of University administration.
Under Vandiver’s plan, the
duties of the vice president for
business affairs will be divided be
tween the vice president for opera
tions and a vice president for fiscal
affairs.
The University is conducting a
search for a vice president for fis
cal affairs.
Cargill has served as associate
vice president for business affairs
for three years. Before assuming
that position, he served as director
of business affairs for three years.
Dr. John P. Fackler was named
dean of the College of Science — a
position that has been vacant since
Dr. Thomas Sugihara resigned in
1980 to accept a similar position at
Charles R. Cargill
Oregon State University.
Fackler, professor and former
head of Chemistry at Case West
ern Reserve University, will
assume his new position January 1.
Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert, who
resigned June 30 as chancellor of
the Texas A&M System, was
named chancellor emeritus. His
two-year term as chancellor ended
Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert
almost a quarter century of service
to the University and the System,
“a time marked by strong leader
ship and great vision in guiding
the Texas A&M Unviersity System
through a period of growth and
changing programs,” Board
Chairman H.R. “Bum” Bright
said.
The position represents “the
profound respect in which Dr.
Hubert is held by the regents of
the Texas A&M University Sys
tem”, Bright said.
Hubert now serves as special
assistant to Chancellor Arthur G.
Hansen.
In other business, a new home
for the Association of Former Stu
dents came a step closer to reality
when regents approved a request
to seek legislative approval for the
leasing of part of the original
campus.
The proposed 20,000-square-
foot building will be located on
3.24 acres at Jersey and Houston
streets.
Special legislation is required
because state law now forbids leas
ing any part of the original cam
pus. This is the law that killed a
proposal by a group of Houston
developers to lease property for an
on-campus Hilton hotel.
To allow for the future leasing
of land, the proposed bill states
that the Board of Regents may
grant, sell or lease property — in
cluding the original campus —- to
“non-profit organizations that
have as their primary purpose the
support of the programs, goals,
objectives and operations of Texas
A&M.”
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — As many as
51,000 people in North America
may have died in 1980 from illnes
ses caused by sulfur pollution, like
acid rain, a congressional study
shows.
The toll would be nearly 2 per
cent of total deaths for the year in
the United States and Canada, and
the number of deaths could climb
if pollution is not curbed, the study
says.
If sulfur emissions remain con
stant, they could account for as
many as 57,000 premature deaths
by the year 2000, according to an
interim draft report by Congress’
Office of Technology Assessment.
But if sulfur dioxide emissions
— mainly from coal-fired electric
power plants — are reduced by 30
percent by the turn of the century,
the number of deaths could be re
duced to 40,000, or 1.4 percent of
all North American deaths, the
draft said.
Air-borne pollution, much ot it
from the U.S. industrial belt, is car
ried to earth in New England and
eastern Canada by rainfall. The
chemical waste has been blamed
for killing lakes and harming trees,
other plants and soil.
Canada has been pressing its
southern neighbor to ease the
damage caused by “acid rain” by
cutting down pollution thrown
into the air by U.S. firms.
The Reagan administration is
resisting efforts to toughen air pol
lution controls and environmen
talists concede it would cost mil
lions of dollars to establish what
should be done to prevent pollu
tion-related deaths.
The sulfur study, prepared to
help members of Congress review
ing the Clean Air Act, is to be
issued in final form late in Octo
ber. The draft version recieved lit
tle attention when it was released
in July.
The portion of the report on the
health effects of pollution was
based on studies of death rates
from respiratory diseases in Cana
da and the United States.
Calculations in the study were
adjusted to account for such fac
tors as smoking and economic
status.
Alan Hill, chairman of Presi
dent Reagan’s Council on En
vironmental Quality, said last week
that the administration opposes
further air pollution controls until
a scientific basis for the causes of
acid rain has been established.
Clements discusses proposals
by Beverly Hamilton
Battalion Staff
During the opening session of the Texas Associa
tion of Regional Councils conference Monday,
Gov. William P. Clements Jr. previewed upcoming
legislation, discussed past legislative activity and
praised the regional council program.
The three-day conference, hosted by the Brazos
Valley Development Council, is being held at the
Brazos Center.
Clements discussed his plans for the 1983 ses
sion of the Legislature and cited what he said were
the main achievements of the 1981 session.
High on the 1983 agenda will be funding for
higher education, health and human services, and
prisons, he said. All of these issues are under study
by either task forces, legislative committees or spe
cial study groups.
Clements said he will recommend that the Legisl
ature take action on measures that will evolve from
the reports of more than 17 task forces he will
appoint. These task forces will examine such topics
as traffic safety, higher education, small businesses,
and industrial, agricultural and tourist develop
ment.
Legislative redistricting and the review of several
major state agencies, including the Public Utility
Commission, the Texas Employment Commission
and the Railroad Commission will be included in
the 1983 legislative session, Clements said.
Water — another issue facing the 1983 Legisla
ture — will present a more serious problem than
energy, he said. To help solve this problem, a long
term plan will be presented to the Legislature as a
constitutional amendment, Clements said.
During the 1981 legislative session, he said, 14 of
16 sections of his anti-crime/anti-drug package
were adopted. The sections enacted included a new
law that permits wire-tapping to fight drug traffick
ing in Texas.
“We’re going to get the drug pushers off our
streets, away from our schools and off the play
grounds,” Clements said. “We’re going to put them
exactly where they belong — and that’s in jail.”
In 1981, Texas became the only state with a
criminal justice program that funds crime-fighting
projects at the local level, he said.
Other previous legislative action includes steps
taken to abolish the state property tax.
Eliminating this tax would save Texas taxpayers
about $1 billion, he said. Citizens will vote on this
amendment to the state constitution in November.
Clements, who has worked with regional councils
for 3!/2 years, told council association members that
he feels the increase in state funds to regional coun
cils has been a significant achievement.
State assistance to councils was increased this
year from $1.7 million a year to $2.3 million a year,
the first increase in that appropriation since 1971,
he said.
Clements expressed appreciation for the coun
cils’ support of legislation requiring standard
guidelines for bringing in contract management by
state agencies.
As a result, he said, the legislation was passed and
the guidelines were developed by regional councils
and state agencies.
Clements said he favors local review of both state
and federally funded projects and wants the con
tinued involvement of regional councils.
“We’ve got to eliminate duplication, increase
efficiency, expand where expansion is necessary
and cut where cutbacks are necessary,” he said.
Lawmakers to return after election
Congress facing
13 spending bills
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress tack
led a full plate of key government
appropriation bills Monday, aware
that it will have to face in November
the leftovers it fails to deal with this
week.
The controversial social issues
have been shelved for the year, but
several special interest bills also re
main on the calendar before the anti
cipated weekend recess to give mem
bers time for campaigning.
The House and Senate leaders had
hoped to avoid a post-election session,
but as time slipped away it became
obvious that one would be necessary,
and President Reagan nailed it down
by demanding at least some approp
riations bills instead of another re
solution to extend current spending
levels.
Senate Republican leader Howard
Baker and House Speaker Thomas
O’Neill have agreed to recess no later
than Saturday, but the date for their
return has not yet been set.
O’Neill wants to return Nov. 14
and take a break for Thanksgiving,
but Baker wants to return Nov. 29,
after the holiday.
Thirteen regular appropriations
bills are necessary to provide funds
for government departments and
agencies for fiscal year 1983 that be
gins Oct. 1. The House has passed
only four of them, and the Senate has
not acted on any.
Senate filibusters over anti-busing,
anti-abortion and school prayer legis
lation — all three now dead for this
year — complicated the normal proc
edures for the money bills which, at
best, are difficult to complete.
On top of the need to enact some of
the appropriations measures this
week, the Congress must send the
president a continuing resolution to
finance the government until it re
turns.
Baker wants final Senate action on
the four money bills passed by the
House — Housing and Urban De
velopment, military construction,
Transportation and Agriculture —
and also hopes to complete an anti
crime pacakge Reagan is pushing.
In the House, 27 bills are on the
calendar for today under a special
procedure called “suspension of the
rules,” which limits debate on a bill to
40 minutes with no amendments, but
which requires a two-thirds vote for
passage.
Board secretary to retire
from System in January
Robert G. Cherry, secretary to the
Board of Regents and vice chancellor
for public affairs, will retire in Janu
ary, after a 39-year association with
the Texas A&M System.
H.R. “Bum” Bright, chairman of
the Board of Regents, announced
Cherry’s decision at today’s Board
meeting.
Cherry, who also serves as secret
ary to the Board, “has gained the re
spect and admiration of many mem
bers of the Board who have passed
through her,” Bright said. “We regret
to see him go.”
Cherry, 68, cited age as his primary
reason for retiring.
“Unfortunately, rationality does
not always prevail over emotional
feelings,” Cherry said. “I still do not
find it easy to walk away from the 13
parts of the A&M System.
“The good Lord has blessed me in
allowing me to spend most of my
adult career in the best type of en
vironment— the community of high
er education.”
Cherry also serves as System liaison
to the Texas Legislature.
The Board is expected to hire two
people to fill the position now held by
Cherry — one to serve as secretary to
the Board and one to serve as legisla
tive liaison.
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