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College Station, Texas
Monday, December 13, 1982
Israel may OK shuttle mediation
United Press International
Fighting among rival Lebanese
militias killed 28 people, it was re-
iported today amid indications Israel
*may accept U.S. shuttle mediation
'Sairaed at breaking the deadlock over
f the withdrawal of foreign forces from
ffhebanon.
^■Security sources said the main
highway between Beirut and Damas
cus was closed today by heavy fighting
in at least 11 villages the right-wing
(Phalange Voice of Lebanon said has
left at least 25 people dead over the
past 24 hours.
In Syrian-occupied Tripoli north
of Beirut, fighting between pro-and
anti-Syrian militias died down early
today after fierce fighting killed three
people and wounded 10 others Sun
day, official Beirut radio said.
Mortar, machine-gun and artillery
battles in the past week have killed 31
people and left 111 others wounded.
Heavy artillery duels raged
through the night and into today in
the Israeli-occupied Shouf Moun
tains, with a number of shells falling
on the town of Bhamdoun along the
Beirut-Damascus highway, security
sources said.
Israeli forces occupying the moun
tains clamped a strict curfew on the
resort town of Aley, but the fighting
between Christian and Druze Moslem
militias went on in other towns, the
sources said.
Lebanese President Amin
Gemayel dispatched Hisham Shaar,
head of Internal Security Forces
(ISF), to Tripoli Sunday in the Beirut
government’s first move to take
charge in the city since Lebanon’s
1975-76 civil war.
Shaar told local militia leaders and
Syrian officers Sunday the Lebanese
ISF was uncapable of standing be
tween the local factions since his gov
ernment forces lacked the heavy
weapons of the Syrian forces and pri
vate militias.
Officials accompanying Secretary
of State George Shultz in Rome said
U.S. envoys Philip Habib and Morris
Draper were returning to the Middle
East this week with a new plan for
resolving the impasse on force with
drawals.
Shultz was meeting in Rome today
with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak on the new U.S. shuttle
proposal to use shuttle diplomacy to
work out the troop withdrawals from
Lebanon.
In Israel, Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon Sunday welcomed the prop
osal as a way of starting talks aimed at
the pull-out of Syrian, Palestinian and
Israeli forces from Lebanon.
But Sharon said the shuttle plan
could not work out a security arrange
ment between Israel and Lebanon.
Both sides have balked for months at
U.S. efforts to set up direct talks.
Police, RHA give safety tips
after campus rape, assaults
Here’s to me
staff photo by David Fisher
Stuart Halding drinks from a water glass at the podium
in G. Roilie White after toasting the crowd assembled for
graduation. Halding received his degree in mechanical
engineering.
by Maureen Carmody
Battalion Reporter
After two assaults and one rape
were reported to the University Police
last week, many students are begin
ning to worry about on-campus safety
and precautions they should take.
According to the University Police
Department’s 1981-82 report, the
number of on-campus crimes has de
creased. But Thomas R. Parsons, di
rector of security and traffic at Texas
A&M, said many crimes go unre
ported.
For example, he said, a Clements
Hall resident was assaulted Dec. 2 but
did not report the incident until Dec.
7, when she read about the Mosher
Hall incident.
One of the best ways for students
to protect themselves from assaults
and other crimes is to be aware of
potentially dangerous situations, Par
sons said.
One problem with dorm safety is
that people tend to leave outside
doors propped open at night when
they should be locked, he said.
Stacey Graf, president of the Resi
dence Hall Association, said students
need to take the problem more se
riously.
“I feel like our biggest security
problem is student awareness,” Graf
said. “They don’t lock the doors and
the girls walk around at night by
themselves.”
The main thing students need to be
walk alone at night, take advantage of
the Alpha Phi Omega shuttle bus that
comes in from the freshman parking
lot and there are always Corps guys in
A&M student assaulted
near Commons bike racks
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
A Texas A&M University student
was assaulted about 9:15 Sunday
night between the bike racks of
Mosher and Krueger halls.
University Police Chief, John R.
McDonald said the woman was grab
bed from behind by her assailant as
she was walking from Mosher to
Krueger. When she tried to get away,
he said, the man hit her on the right
side of the face with his fist.
After getting away, she ran inside
Krueger to her room and called the
police, McDonald said.
The woman described her
assailant as a black male between 20
and 22 years old, wearing a gray
sweatsuit and basketball shoes, he
said. She did not see his face.
After the police arrived, she was
taken to A.P. Beutel Health Center,
treated and released, McDonald said.
The area was searched but no one
was found, he said.
aware of is that there is a problem and
to be aware that there are ways to
protect against crime, she said.
“Keep your doors locked, don’t
the guard room who will escort you
across campus,” Graf said.
Parsons also said that University
police are willing to escort on-campus
students home after midnight.
One crime that occurs frequently
and often is not reported is obscene
phone calls, particularly what Parsons
called “doctor calls.”
“A few years ago we used to get a lot
of reports of doctor calls,” he said.
“This is where a man would call up
students, usually in married student
housing, and say he was doctor so and
so and he had just examined one of
the couple, usually the husband. He
would even call the husband by name.
Then he starts asking the wife sexual
ly oriented questions. We’ve had
three of these reports lately and
they’re generally in reference to
herpes.”
Parsons said the best thing to do if
you receive one of those calls is to
hang up or to ask for the caller’s name
and telephone number and tell him
you will call back. After hanging up,
report the call to the police immedi
ately.
“A professional doctor isn’t going
to ask you personal, sexual questions
over the telephone,” he said.
According to the annual report for
Bryan-College Station, 11 murders,
30 rapes, 84 robberies, 343 aggra
vated assaults, 1,878 burglaries, 2,936
larcenies and 313 motor vehicle thefts
were reported during 1981-82.
ongress may
iss’ Christmas
Heart recipient’s health critical,
MDs disappointed in recovery
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congressional
Bders, faced with three big pieces of
jislation needing action, are doubt-
;ihg they will be able to get home for
> Christmas.
Hln the first two weeks ending Fri-
1 day, Congress accomplished little —
the Senate had only started the time-
lonsuming jobs and defense bills —
and both houses had a week left to
Complete a “continuing resolution” to
pay the government’s oills after mid-
ight next Friday.
’ After a week of threatening col-
gues, Republican leader Howard
ker said the three week lame-duck
sion originally planned at Presi
dent Reagan’s request could not end
on time.
■ The jobs bill, to be paid for by a
■ckel-a-gallon gasoline tax increase,
rfas being filibustered in the Senate,
and the continuing resolution was
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The Battalion will publish its last
o issues of 1982 on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The next issue of The Battalion
ill be Wednesday, Jan. 12. Aregular
publication schedule will resume
jfhen spring semester classes start
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forecast
Today’s forecast: Mostly sunny
jkies with a high in the upper 40s.
Winds will be from 5 to 10 miles per
hour.
picking up a “Christmas tree” of
amendments.
Baker asked House Speaker Tho
mas O’Neill to have the House consid
er a temporary interim funding bill to
carry the government until Dec. 22
while Congress would be working on
a more permanent resolution, to ex
pire in the spring.
A Baker aide said, however, that
House Democratic leaders instead
proposed a continuing resolution ex
piring Jan. 1, with Congress going
home as planned next Friday but re
turning the week after Christmas.
There was no immediate solution
to the dilemma, in which members’
desires to go home conflicted with
Democratic insistence on a big jobs
bill, the administration’s insistence on
a military bill with money for the MX
missile, and bipartisan insistence on a
highway repair program paid for by
the gasoline tax.
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — Doctors at
the University of Utah are dis
appointed in the progress being made
by artificial heart recipient Barney
Clark.
They thought it would take the
retired dentist only a few days to re
cover from the Dec. 2 operation, but
Clark has failed to bounce back from
a seizure suffered Tuesday, five days
after the historic surgery.
Clark, 61, remained in “critica^but
stable condition” early today, nurses
in the university hospital’s intensive
care unit said. His condition has been
critical since the seizure complication.
“We can tolerate a recovery period
of from three to seven days,” Dr.
Chase Peterson said.
But, on the 10th day after the
operation, he said, “We’re still look
ing for a brightening of the neurolo
gical system,” causing disappoint
ment in the 20-member team caring
for the Seattle-area resident.
Following the Tuesday seizure,
doctors changed Clark’s medication
and began feeding him through a
tube to his stomach to correct a body
chemistry imbalance believed to have
caused the attack.
Peterson, university vice president
of health sciences, said the major
treatment is now 24-hour care and
almost constant physical contact be
tween Clark, the medical team and his
family in efforts to stimulate his brain
back to consciousness.
Center nursing supervisior Jan
Belnap said Clark had made no real
progress since Saturday, when physi
cians asked his family to spend more
time with him in hopes the personal
contact would bring him through.
Even though Clark had not reco
vered as quickly as doctors hoped,
Peterson said he has shown numerous
signs of physical recovery and the in
cisions in his chest had healed without
infection.
Jury hears Spinelli tapes;
Wood deliberations resume
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO —Jurors began
their third day of deliberations today
in the trial of three defendants in the
slaying of a federal judge with a pri
vate replay of secretly taped jailhouse
conversations between hitman
Charles Harrelson and his wife.
Resuming their work at 8:47 a.m.,
the jurors gathered in the cleared
courtroom for a replay of the tape
conversations between Harrelson and
his wife Jo Ann in which the govern
ment says they planned how to thwart
the FBI and federal grand investiga
tion of the Wood assassination.
U.S. District Judge William Ses
sions ordered reporters, defendants,
spectators and attorneys out of the
courtroom for the hour-long replay
of the four tapes by his clerk, Art
Nicholson.
The tapes, a small part of the Wood
investigation, were made by Harris
County Jail inmate John Lee Spinelli,
who cooperated with the FBI in re
turn for a transfer to a federal prison.
The jury received the case on
Saturday and deliberated 9 and a half
hours on Sunday before retiring for
the night.
Students spending 3.5 million ‘for fun’
by Carol Smith
Battalion Staff
Don’t let anyone tell you that col
lege students are poor and suffering
— at least not at Texas A&M Univer
sity. Every month, students here
spend close to $3.5 million just for
fun, according to a recent survey.
In the survey — conducted Nov.
15 to Dec. 2 by student reporters —
Texas A&M students were asked how
much money, excluding basic ex
penses, they spend each month. One
hundred and twenty full-time under
graduate students were selected from
the 1982-83 campus directory and
asked by telephone to estimate their
monthly spending money.
The average amount of spending
money computed from the survey is
about $ 118 a month for each student.
If the results are applied to the 29,000
undergraduate students here, the
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amount of money spent in Bryan-
College Station each month could
reach $3.5 million.
The survey defined spending
money as the amount of money left
after rent, utilities, bills and basic food
expenses are paid.
So, where does that money go?
According to the survey, most of it is
spent on drinking at bars, dancing
and movies.
Typical responses included:
“I spend mine foolishly on girls
and beer.”
“On ice cream.”
“I spend mine very wisely.”
“What do I spend my money on?
Why, booze and dancing of course!”
“I spend mine on clothing and par
tying — things my parents wouldn’t
like.”
Of the students sampled, 83 per
cent said they thought they had an
adequate amount of spending money
and 73 percent said they thought it
was spent well. The students respond
ing had many ideas about how to
spend their money. Some thought if
they enjoyed themselves then the
money was spent well:
“It gives me enjoyment. It gives me
a break.”
“Yes I could cut down, but I don’t
want to.”
“I couldn’t really spend it better.”
Others said they spend it wisely:
“Yes, I have to!”
“If I earned it, it’s well spent.”
Another respondent had a more
romantic attitude: “It’s well spent be
cause I spend it on my girlfriend.”
Twenty-seven percent said they
didn’t feel their money was spent well.
Some offered better suggestions for
the money:
“I could save it for Europe.”
“I would like to save up for some
thing.”
“I spend too much on junk; I need
to save more.”
“I need to spend less on myself and
save more.”
Others gave suggestions on what
not to spend it on:
“I spend too much on phone bills
and I drive too much.”
“I should spend it on something
better than drinks.”
“Sometimes I buy things I really
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