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The Battalion Serving the University community 76 No. 103 USPS 045360 16 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 23, 1983 n is proiij, e prop itional IHI". just ' s his adi . srael rejects help in Lebanon ca n in flu United Press International RUSALEM — Israel today re- ? Bed President Reagan’s offer to juuLuuB'antee the security of its northern i ' hnW er an< * sa * c * .I ews — not U.S. 1 [alines — should light for the Jewish mm Itl. /\j r PigHu BWe thank President Reagan for ny of Milili lAirflafe lal Quar )dernsei slwillingness and magnanimity, iilign Minister Yitzhak Shamir told ielWorld Assembly of Jewish War etei ans in Jerusalem. “But this cannot serve as a substi tute for solid security arrangements (with Lebanon),” he said. Shamir’s comments came before a meeting with U.S. envoy Philip Habib for talks on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon. Israeli newspaper reports quoted government sources as saying Jor dan’s King Hussein has decided to join Middle East peace negotiations following the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers. There was no independent confir mation of the reports. Reagan offered to guarantee Israel’s northern borders Tuesday in a bid to speed up the U.S.-led talks between Israel and Lebanon on force withdrawals, future relations and security. “This administration is prepared to take all necessary measures to guarantee the security of Israel’s egents approve oil ases on A&M land us an m by Angel Stokes f Battalion Staff Kie Texas A&M Board of Regents proved bids on two oil, gas and sul- iii'leases on more than 1,000 acres ■niversity property during a. spe ll meeting Tuesday. ■he University was paid $1.28 mil- n for the drilling rights and could Jl [ke quite a bit more in drilling falties. Money from the lease anti jucing wells will lie placed in an ifiowment to be used for building Bovements and construction on iliipuS; KThe five regents attending the leeting awarded both leases to North |tral Oil Corp. of Houston, which Jthe highest bidder in the public Ition sale held Monday in Rudder (■er. married student housing on Universi ty Drive, and the highest bid was $1,200 an acre by North Central Oil. The second lease was for 827.68 acres between the West Loop and Wellborn Road, north of F&B Road (the dairy farm). North Central Oil also had the top bid of $1,300 an acre for the second lease. mkegents’ chairman H.R. “Bum” jriglit said the board was pleased p the lease bids and was glad to ave North Central Oil working for iel exas A&M System. C.A. Watts, president of North eijtral Oil, said his company has dril- Beveral other wells in the com-' julity, including a well on two golf Jtises in Bryan. The minimum bid set by the re- ents was $300 an acre for each lease, he first lease up for bid was 169.7 cres in Hensel Park, just north of North Central Oil paid about $ 1.28 million in bonus money to Texas A&M for the drilling rights. The University will receive 30 per cent of the first $1.07 million in re venue from the first well. North Cen tral Oil is allowed to keep the remain ing $750,000 as payout. Payout is money to cover the costs of drilling. After payout is reached, the com pany will be allowed to keep 25 per cent of proceeds from production. The University will receive 75 per cent. Ed Wells, chief operations en gineer for North Central Oil, said the first rig will be on the north corner of the dairy farm and the second rig will be in Hensel Park. “I would like to say that drilling could begin within a week, but drill ing probably will begin in roughly two weeks,” Wells said. A continuous drilling clause in the lease agreement requires that drilling on the second rig begin within 30 days after cement casing is set around the pipes of a producing well. Failure to drill and continue drilling will consti tute a breach of the lease. If one or more dry holes are drilled after a producing well is drilled and the company decides not to drill addi tional wells, the lease will be forfeited only for the acreage not including producing wells. Although money from the wells will be used for building on campus, regent Bill Clayton suggested that the money also be used to expand teaching excellence. He said it would be wise to use the fund for other things besides building in order to avoid over-development. In other business, regents said the chancellor’s house probably will be ready for occupation in December 1984. The Texas A&M Development Foundation will provide the initial funding of the project, but will be reimbursed by money from indi viduals. The estimated cost of build ing and furnishing the house will be about $1.2 million. Of this amount, $200,000 is for furnishings that already have been financed. Dr. Robert L. Walker, vice presi dent for development, said financing from one person for construction of the house would be preferred, but an alternate source would be to have groups donate at least $50,000 each. ew process uses X-rays find hidden resources by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff ■ Di. Sheldon Glashow, Nobel prize- Hiing physicist, outlined a new pro- , B at a lecture here Tuesday for X- jafng large sections of the earth to Bte hidden pockets of oil, natural p, water and precious metals. f HAt his presentation in Rudder Iheater, Glashow, a professor of phy- Bat Harvard University, made the letails of the theory — which calls for he use of subatomic particles pro- juled in a “super-accelerator” to me- isure properties of the earth — public or the first time. ■The subatomic particles, called le|trinos, are produced in a beam hat is directed through the earth and aimed at the area where a property is to be measured. As the beam passes through the designated area, sound impulses are created and receivers are set up on the earth’s surface above the target area to measure the sound produced by the beam. The sounds created determine the substance that the beam has gone through, such as water, oil or min erals. Glashow said the beams are harm less. “You can stand right in front of the beam with no damage done,” he said. Currently accelerators that pro duce subatomic particles are used for research purposes only. The prop osed “super-accelerator,” the Geot- ron, would be much larger and pro duce more energy than existing accelerators and would cost about $1 billion. The super-accelerator would be used for geological research to find oil, water and metals and to study the earth’s core, as well as basic research. “Texas is the most interested in finding oil,” Glashow said. Because of this and the geological purpose of the accelerator, Glashow said it is possible the accelerator, which he jokingly called the Texat- ron, would be built in Texas. But geological research is not the main purpose of the accelerator, Glashow said. “Our goal is to design a machine that would restore our country’s preeminence in high-energy phy sics,” he said. “If it could re-establish high-energy physics and also work for others, it would be great.” Glashow also said the accelerator could have a circumference of about 100 kilometers, but said there should be no problems with building it. “The (building of the) accelerator presents no technical difficulties,” Glashow said. “It is well within our bounds to do.” The beam can be produced and directed at a target but, he said, there is a question as to how much sound can be heard and what the effects of background noise might be. While it is possible to build the accelerator, it may not be cost- efficient, Glashow said. staff photo by Irene Mees Dr. Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Prize winning physicist, addresses I students and faculty in Rudder Theater Tuesday. “What is needed is a critical study of the idea to see if the professions that would use it need it,” he said. The $1 billion needed to build the accelerator probably would come from the government, private indus try or individuals, Glashow said. “If the oil industry sees it as feasi ble, they may be interested in sub sidizing the project,” he said. If $200 million could come from non-federal sources and the project could receive one-third of a $450 mil lion yearly budget for high-energy physics for six years, the accelerator could be built within six years, he said. Glashow won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1979 with Dr. Steven Wein berg for their theories of the uni verse’s origin. Texas A&M officials have offered Glashow a post here, but so far he has declined. northern borders in the aftermath of the complete withdrawal of the Israeli Army,” he told the American Legion in Washington. The Israeli-Lebanese talks have bogged down over Israel’s demands for a 27-mile security zone in south Lebanon, including three to five Israel-manned outposts to monitor possible guerrilla activity in the area. Shamir said that there is a danger of the PLO coming back to south Lebanon, asking who would prevent them from doing so. “Will the American Marines or the French Foreign Legion? Will they be of any use? They are incapable of doing it. They are not set up for such a role and they are not motivated to do it.” Shamir said Israel would never ask for American soldiers to fight for it. In Washington, a U.S. official said that the PNG — the Palestinian parlia ment-in-exile — move put “the ball in Hussein’s court.” “This is a great principle, a national and ethical principle which we insist on: only Jews will fight for the Jewish State,” he said. In Algiers, the PNG said it favored a confederation with Jordan but only after the establishment of a Palesti nian state. It stopped short, however, of rejecting a U.S. peace plan. University President Frank Vandiver talks to Jer ry Namken, Susan Steinberg, and Margaret Vam- staff photo by Irene Mees osy, from left, the three founders of the Interna tional Development Forum. Vandiver says A&M has international obligations by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff Texas A&M is obligated to do things far beyond its own campus, Texas A&M President Frank Vandiv er said at the International Develop ment Forum Tuesday night. “A general land grant, sea grant university is by definition involved in foreign activities,” he said. Vandiver’s speech was given at the first general meeting of the Interna tional Development Forum, made up of students and faculty members. It plans to meet every two weeks. Peg Vamosy, member of the forum’s steering committee, said the objectives of the forum are to increase awareness of interactions with the world community, to exchange infor mation and experience related to in ternational development and to ex plore opportunities in development. Vandiver, speaking on the role of the University in international de velopment said, “Universities, perhaps greater than the govern ment, have an unusual opportunity to affect the life of the world.” The scholars in a university com munity should reach beyond govern ments to talk with other scholars on their common interests and research, he said. “This cross-fertilization of ideas is vital,” he said. University administrations and the government, however, impede this flow of scholarship. The government and administrations should get out of the way, but this usually is not done, he said. “Texas A&M has already done re markable things around the world be cause it does ... communicate! with other communities,” Vandiver said. “There are going to be increasing artificial barriers to the transfer of people and ideas and it is up to the scholars to break them down.” During the past 75 years, Texas A&M has been involved with foreign countries through the experiment station and extension services and has carried the University’s flag to the far corners of the world, Vandiver said. However, involvement with fore ign countries is more difficult for a public university than for a private one, he said. “People are always concerned ab out how it will affect the taxpayer.” Funds for work with foreign coun tries come from private donations from friends and former students. Those donations can be used for all legitimate purposes, and this is a legi timate purpose, Vandiver said. Vandiver just returned from Latin America where he signed agreements of cooperation with three Latin American universities. These agree ments open the way of exchange of faculty and students between the uni versities. Once an agreement is signed, it is up to the individual facul ty members to contact faculty at the other universities for specific pro jects. Dr. Jack Cross, director of the office of international coordination, outlined the extent of Texas A&M’s involvement in research and develop ment programs with other countries. This includes agricultural projects and foreign university development projects. NWS says winter already a memory United Press International FORT WORTH— Heralding the arrival of spring may seem premature in February, but the National Weath er Service says there’s plenty of justifi cation for believing that the winter of 1983 is already a memory for Texans. “You can all but declare winter over,” said Bryan Harmon, NWS forecaster in Fort Worth. “The way it looks now, we could have an early — and active — spring season. “What it looks like is a pretty nice remainder of winter, though it will be interrupted by periods of thunder storms, or at least periods of rain,” he said Monday. The past weekend was an example of just that. Storms that dumped enormous amounts of snow on New Mexico and Colorado rolled eastward through Texas, producing snow in the Panhandle and generating heavy rain and thunderstorms in northern, east ern and southeastern Texas. Lowland flooding caused the eva- , cuation of about six families in Green ville east of Dallas. Lt. Barry Harris of the Greenville Police Department said the flooded areas in the northern part of the city were low-lying and usually flood in heavy rains. There were no injuries. Harmon said the mild Texas win ter and the pleasant forecast for the rest of winter was caused by an un usual weather phenomonon this year. Most winters, he said, an upper atmosphere high pressure ridge stretches along the Pacific Coast and arctic air flowing southward is tun neled into the Midwest and Southwest along that wall. This year, however, the ridge never formed. So, instead of a southward flow of cold air, the absence of the high press ure has allowed a “zonal flow” — a west-to-east flow of air. “That’s the reason California has been getting all those terrible rains,” Harmon said. “Then, when those storms would hit the West Coast, in stead of the ridge stopping them, the air has flowed on through. “Half of it flows to the north and half of it flows to the south. That in hibits an arctic cold front from flow ing into this region.” Harmon said it is unlikely the high pressure ridge would form this late in the season, which is why forecasters expect the rest of winter in Texas to be mild, punctuated by periods of thunderstorms or rain. inside Around Town 4 Classified 6 Local 3 National 9 Opinions 2 Police Beat 4 Sports 13 State 6 What’s up 12 forecast Clear to partly cloudy skies today with a high of 66. Northwesterly winds at about 10 mph. Mostly clear for tonight and the low' near 44. Partly sunny skies and warmer temperatures on Thursday with the high reaching 72. "Gvu.: ;