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    The Battalion
Serving the University community
76 No. 103 USPS 045360 16 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 23, 1983
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RUSALEM — Israel today re-
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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
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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.
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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.
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