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)er The Battalion Serving the University community J lot 76 No. 65 USPS 045360 20 Pages College Station, Texas Thursday, December 2, 1982 ‘>ve to belli obablyin anting i| the eJ 9s not bn lower nieCourtiij >K r up issiw : ie lower Paul Steii in and 1| ailed their ‘a llagram he court’s) T OUtbfilsI ing extep e mistakes, e;ist an 11 he strict: violence proper ('.ales' ey of Chi use also e for the good-lailk Christian, Moslem leaders call for strike in Beirut United Press International The heads of Lebanon’s feuding religious groups called for a strike to day to protest an assassination attempt against the leader of the country’s Druze Moslem community that killed six people and wounded 39 others. Lebanese authorities said Wednes day they had no suspects in the attempt Wednesday to kill Druze leader Walid Jumblatt with a bomb that ripped through Beirut’s crowded Hamra commercial district. Jumblatt suffered minor head wounds in the blast Lebanese Presi dent Amin Gemayel Blamed on “those who do not like to see Lebanon restore its security and stability.” Prominent Christian and Moslem leaders visited Jumblatt’s home Wednesday and called for a public strike today to express the nation’s anger over the incident. There were no details of strike plans. The attack came a day before Jumblatt was to have represented the Druze in talks on ending two months of bitter sectarian fighting in the Shouf mountains east of Beirut. Security sources said Jumblatt sur vived because of his bulletproof car, but he and his wife, Genevieve, were among 39 people wounded in the bombing that also killed six people. U.S. envoy Morris Draper was holding talks with Lebanese officials two blocks away from the scene of the Beirut bombing. The U.S. diplomat was unhurt. U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib, seeking, to negotiate a with drawal of foreign forces from Leba non was in Rabat, Morocco, Wednesday. In Brazil, on his five-day Latin American tour, President Reagan said the United States/ might send more Marines to Lebanon to bolster force the tri-national, peace-keej now numbering 4,100 soldiers, “We’re discussing how the multina tional force can enable the Lebanese to get control” of their territory, Reagan said. Lebanon is now two- thirds occupied by 40,000 Syrians, 10,000 Palestinian guerrillas and 30,000 Israeli soldiers. In Washington, Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “It may be necessary for the United States to consider joining with other nations in an expanded multinational force.” Staff photo by Irene Mees is coupon. IK 7 diyi • WNt i.m. to 10 pm epared Cadet ready for inspection, sir Phil Barnes helps Rocky straighten his hat before inspection. Barnes, a former student from Copperas Cove, is selling Christmas tree ornaments in the MSC Craft Show Wednesday and today at Rudder Fountain, and brought Rocky along. Instead of hiding Barnes’ Corps of Cadet uniform in the closet after graduation, Nancy Tobin, Phil’s fiance, made the life-sized doll to show it off. Herpes not unusual at A&M, director of health center says k’anel denies Manson parole s til at ;tte ;ity imas ■rites acos United Press International VACAVILLE, Calif. — Mass mur- erer Charles Manson was denied his fifth parole request at a hearing he efused to attend and his prosecutor :alled Manson “a law unto himself” ivho would direct others to kill if ever released. The three-member state parole ranel denied Manson parole during a )5-minute hearing in which Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay of Los Angeles County, who prosecuted Manson in 1970, said he had no doubt Manson was still dangerous. Manson, imprisoned for ordering the ritual murders of pregnant ac tress Sharon Tate and six others, boycotted the hearing in apparent Dessimism about his prospects for reedom. He also refused to allow a lawyer to represent him. His sixth parole hearing was sche duled for December 1985 under a new law that allows a maximum inter val of three years. “I've no doubt that if he (Manson) were let out he’d be leading other people to commit murders again,” said Kay, noting Manson’s motive in the Tate-LaBianca killings in 1969 was to trigger a race war. “Charles Manson believes he can do anything he wants whenever he wants.” Frank Coronado, chairman of the parole panel, said Manson’s direction of the Tate-LaBianca killings and two other murders was “cold-blooded and senseless.” “Manson thinks he’s the No. 1 cri minal in America and feels he must live up to that reputation,” he added. A prison psychiatrist’s report re commended Manson be pulled out of the psychiatric ward because he is no thing more than a “psychiatric curios ity or oddity.” Parole has never been a reasonable possibility for Manson because none of his followers convicted in the Los Angeles murders has received a re lease date. The state Board of Prison Terms has consistently referred to the nature of the crimes as grounds for denial. At last year’s hearing, Manson, 48, said he believed himself unsuitable for parole, telling officers: “I ain’t got no mind, man.” Manson was sentenced in 1971 to die in the gas chamber, but the sent ence was reduced to life imprison ment when the California Supreme Court overturned capital punishment the following year. by Beverly Hamilton Battalion Staff Herpes, a veneral disease that has reached epide mic proportions in the United States, isn’t uncom mon here, the director of the A.P. Beutel Health Center said. “It’s certainly not rare,” Dr. Claude B. Goswick said. “If you consider that colds are super common, I would say herpes is somewhere between uncom mon and common.” Herpes viruses cause such diseases as chicken pox and mononucleosis. Herpes simplex virus Type D causes labial herpes, or cold sores on the mouth. Closely related is HSV Type II, which causes most cases of genital herpes. Cases of Type I genital herpes, which result from oral-genital sex, also are reported here. , Genital herpes is an incurable viral infection that usually appears two to 10 days after direct contact with an infected partner. Fluid-filled sores appear on or around the genit als. During the primary outbreak, there may be fever, swollen glands and general flu-like symp toms. But a person can sometimes be contagious without having any symptoms or lesions. The first attack is often painful but recurrences usually are milder and of shorter duration. Type I recurs less commonly in the genital area than Type II. “When students come in we explain the nature of the infection and tell them there is no real treat ment,” Goswick said. The health center provides an ointment called Acyclovir that can alleviate the symptoms of herpes and shorten the course of the initial occurrence, he said. However, the ointment is not a cure and can not prevent recurrence of the infection. The infection lasts from about a week to 10 days, Goswick said. After the sores heal, the virus retreats to the nerve endings near the base of the spine and lies dormant until the next attack. Some factors that may trigger recurrences are emotional and physical stress, poor nutrition or menstruation. Recurrences usually occur once or twice a year but people may have an initial attack and never be bothered again. Most patients with recurrent herpes experience itching, burning or tingling at the site of the original infection before the next lesions begin to form. “We’re probably not seeing people who have re currences, so we don’t really know in how many people it recurs here,” he said. Students think they don’t need to come to the health center if they can’t be treated, Goswick added. To avoid spreading infection, it is necessary to avoid all intimate contact during the active infec tious stage and until the blisters are completely healed. Sally Miller, nurse practitioner and clinic mana ger of Planned Parenthood of Brazos County, said that when people who have herpes come to the clinic, they are referred to a physician. The Brazos County health center and most physicians will treat people with herpes, she said. “It is absolutely a dreadful disease to get,” she said. “It’s uncomfortable and it recurs.” According to statistics in an article in a recent Time magazine, Miller said, people who have herpes usually are not of a lower income status. Academic council approves panel to integrate University governance by Elaine Engstrom Battalion Staff The .(Academic Council approved a request Wednesday that an ad hoc committee be appointed to design an integrated system of governance for Texas A&M University to include the Academic Council and the proposed Faculty Senate. In a vote on Nov. 9, 59 percent of the faculty approved the proposed Faculty Senate constitution. Universi ty President Frank E. Vandiver approved the Senate proposal and Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen and the Board of Regents will be asked to approve the senate at their March meeting. The unicameral senate would be Correction A photo in Wednesday’s Battalion [incorrectly identified Russell San ders’ hometown. Sanders is from Abilene. The Battalion regrets the error. inside Classified 12 Local 3 National 11 Opinions 2 Sports 17 State 5 What’s up 16 forecast Today’s forecast: Chance of rain, cooler temperatures expected for weekend. / i lie uiuuaiuci cii Saudi king, U.S. discuss peace plan the only university-wide representa tive body for faculty involvement in University governance. The elected members of the Academic Council will be removed, reducing the size of the Council to 90 non-elected mem bers. Senators would be elected from each college and the University lib rary and serve three-year terms. Vandiver said the ad hoc commit tee would be composed of members of the faculty senate steering commit tee, which directed the faculty vote on the proposed senate on Nov. 9; elected faculty members on the Academic Council; and ex officio or non-elected members of the Acade mic Council. The committee will present Van diver with background information and make recommendations about the relationship between the existing system of governance — which in cludes the Academic Council, the Academic Programs Council, the Academic Operations Committee, and the University President — and the newly-created Faculty Senate. If the Senate is approved by the regents, the name and bylaws of the Academic Council as well as the Ob jectives, Rules, Regulations of the Texas A&M University System, Chapter II, Paragraph B, will be re vised. The current goal is that the Faculty Senate be in full operation by the be ginning of the Fall ’83 semester if approved by the regents. Vandiver said that elections for the Senate probably would take place in April. In other business, the council approved charging the present com puting science program in the De partment of Industrial Engineering to a separate department in the Col lege of Engineering. The council awarded a post humous Master Of Science degree in poultry science to James Walter Lee who had completed all requirements except the final oral examination. Lee, 27, of Houston, was killed in a car accident on Sept. 11, 1982. United Press International U.S. envoy Philip Habib met pri vately in Morocco with Saudi King Fahd amid reports the Palestine Liberation Organization is seeking Egyptian and Saudi support for its quest to represent itself at Middle East peace talks. In Beirut, security sources said Wednesday that Israeli forces occu pied the town hall of Jeb Jennin, a Bekaa Valley village, freeing 20 pris oners from the building’s jail. Lebanese forces later recaptured the freed prisoners. In Cairo, the A1 Ahram newspaper quoted Saeed Kamal, a member of the Palestinian National Council, as saying the PLO wants “a total policy coordination between the PLO and Egypt, and between the PLO and Saudi Arabia.” The policy coordination is aimed at confronting “the Israeli attempt to confiscate the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the PLO’s right to represent its people at future negotiations.” Israel and the United States have refused to consider direct PLO parti cipation in Middle East peace talks. In Rabat, U.S. officials had no de tails of Habib’s meeting Tuesday with the Saudi monarch, who was in Morocco resting at a residence owned by the Saudi royal family in Fez. But it was believed that Habib and Fahd discussed President Reagan’s Sept. 1 peace plan calling for a Palesti nian autonomous region in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip linked to Jordan. Habib was scheduled to leave Morocco Wednesday but his destina tion was not announced in advance. Active consideration of Reagan’s peace plan has been relegated to the more pressing effort of negotiating a withdrawal of 40,000 Syrian, 30,000 Israeli and 10,000 Palestinian troops in Lebanon. In Saudi Arabia, the Arab News newspaper said Arab nations should suspend economic relations with the United Kingdom because of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s refusal to meet the PLO representa tive in an Arab League delegation. “It is hoped that the Arab states will teach the British government a lesson by suspending all economic relations. This may bring them to their senses,” the newspaper said. The British government has said it would recognize the PLO when the PLO had recognized Israel and de nounced terrorism. Eat your heart out, Elvis staff photo by Irene Mees As soon as Steve Ard, right, started a ’50s tune, Rita Navarro, threw herself at his feet. Stacked Deck, the winners of the 1982 MSC Variety Show, sang in the Memorial Student Center Wednesday to promote the 1983 show. The singers are juniors Rick Thurman of Houston and Ken Golden of Lake Jackson, senior Wally Thurwood, of College Station, and Ard, a junior from Dallas. Navarro is a junior.