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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.”
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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.
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director of health center says
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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
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[incorrectly identified Russell San
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Abilene.
The Battalion regrets the error.
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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.