Battalion/Page 5
November 19, 1982
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Editor’s note: This is the third of
a three-part series written by
several members of the
Lebanese Student Association to
commemorate Lebanese Inde
pendence Day on Sunday.
Please see related editorial, page
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February 1975 marked the
beginning pf a war that des-
an entire country, left
more than 5 percent of its peo
ple dead or maimed and almost
one-third of its population
homeless. More than two-thirds
of its land is still occupied by
foreign armies.
This is what the press has
been calling, naively, the
Lebanese Civil War.
The war in Lebanon was the
result of several related internal
and external conditions.
The internal conflicts were
the initial spark, and the exter-
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nal factors were the catalyst that
set the process of confrontation
into motion and triggered a set
of events already in the making
that awaited only the proper
time and place.
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limped in the midst of hungry
wolves.
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among the Lebanese over the
problems of others had soon be
come the war of others in Leba
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cities have been destroyed, tens
of thousands of people have
been killed and a whole nation
has been destroyed.
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Gemayel as Lebanon’s new pres
ident coupled with the dispatch
of a multi-national force to
Beirut gave new hopes that the
nightmare soon would be over
and that normality would return
to the nation.
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by Stephanie Fondy
Battalion Reporter
Proposals are being prepared
for the College Station City
Council to turn the old city hall
property at Northgate into a
public park and community
theater.
The Parks and Recreation
Department held a public hear-
ingThursday night in city hall in
conjunction with its monthly
park board meeting to discuss
the development of a one-half
block park. The proposed park
include landscaped area,
half-court basketball courts and
possibly a gazebo, said Andrew
Czimskey, assistant director of
parks and recreation.
“The public is encouraged to
give suggestions for the park,”
he said.
There will be one more pub
lic hearing and then the park
board will present the proposal
at the City Council’s last Decem
ber meeting or first January
meeting.
The board has a $30,000
budget for the park which is
funded by the Park Land Dedi
cation Fund. Money in the fund
is donated by residential de
velopers in the park zone.
Stage Center, a community
theater in the old Bryan Coun
try Club House at the Bryan
Muncipal Golf Course, wants to
build a theater seating 220 peo
ple and use the old city hall
building as a supporting facility.
Stage Center president Jim
Wilson said the group met
Texas briefs
Calvert ruckus
United Press International
CALVERT — Calvert’s
fourth school superintendent
since 1979 has denied accusa
tions he permitted students to
eat food tainted with weevils and
used the word “niggers” to de
scribe students.
But Harold Loewe, 52,
Wednesday said he is not opti
mistic he can remain as superin
tendent because of the charges
raised by the Robertson County
parents who attended a school
board meeting Monday.
The complaints, including
calling students “niggers” and
mocking minority accents, were
told to the board of trustees,
which formed a committee to in
vestigate the complaints.
Houston success
HOUSTON — New York
City officials, impressed with the
statistics from Houston’s
Crimestoppers program, visited
the Sun Belt city to survey the
rewards for tips program.
“The interest is in the statistics
revealed by other police depart
ments,” New York Police Lt.
Robert Mclnerney said
Wednesday.
Since it started in January
1981, tips through Houston
Crimestoppers have helped
solve 1,400 felony crimes. The
program has paid out $250,000
in rewards and some 963 people
have been arrested and indicted.
UIL to appeal
AUSTIN — A University In
terscholastic League official said
it will ask the Texas Supreme
Court to reconsider its dismissal
of four appeals on the grounds
that the UIL was not a state
agency.
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DEATHTRAP
“AN ABSOLUTE KNOCKOUT”
A Paramount Theatre Production
John M. Bemardoni. Executive Producer
Presented by
MSC Town Hall/Broadway
Sun., November 21,1982 at 8 p.m.
in Rudder Auditorium
Tickets:
Zone II $ 9 50
Zone III s 8 50
For more information call the MSC Box Office
845-1234
many respects, but the job is far
from complete.
Israel is still in control of the
south, while Syria and the PLO
are in control of much of the
north and east.
Lebanese sentiments can best
be summarized by the following
quotations:
“Once more, in the name of
Lebanon, I say here to the
world: Let my people live. Let us
have peace, security and a re
storation of confidence in hu
manity and a better world
order.” Such was the appeal
made by Lebanon’s permanent
representative to the United Na
tions on March 17, 1978.
“The Lebanese people deeply
appreciate and will never forget
your gracious and decisive
efforts to help bring an end to
the suffering of my country.” So
the new president of Lebanon
told President Ronald Reagan
during his visit to Washington
Oct. 16, 1982.
Would the American people,
in their devotion for peace, sup- ’
port Reagan’s commitments to
rid Lebanon of the invaders and
to help the Lebanese in rebuild
ing their country?
Many Lebanese view the in
ternational “presence” not only
as an expression of concern for
their fate or assistance in their
struggle for survival against all
odds, but rather as a challenge-
JESUS
IS
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Sunday Services:
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Morning Worship 8:30 a.m.
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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Thursday night with a City
Council committee that is study
ing alternate uses for the prop
erty. He said the purpose of the
meeting was to finalize the prop
osal to be submitted to the City
Council.
Wilson said Stage Center will
have to raise $250,000 to con
struct a new building and reno
vate the old city hall. It would
take about a year to raise the
money, he said, and the project
would be finished in two to three
years.
The old city hall building was
used for community organiza
tion meetings until the College
Station Community Center
opened last spring. The facility
also was used as a polling place
during the Nov. 2 general elec-
Susan Zinn said the refusal
Wednesday would have no
effect on the league’s ability to
regulate public school athletic
and academic contests.
Labor unrest
HOUSTON — A labor-
management lawyer warns of
labor unrest as early as next
spring if economic conditions
improve and companies start
showing profits.
“I have seen it, I have sensed
it,” said Stephen J. Cabot of Phi
ladelphia, who has been called to
Houston by clients targeted by
an AFL-CIO Sun Belt organiz
ing campaign. “This frustration
is going to bob its head.
“As soon as the economy im
proves, workers will begin mar
shaling forces and going after
management with or without
labor’s help^” he said Tuesday.
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