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Begin hopeful about
troop withdrawals
United Press International
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin told former President Carter a
breakthrough could be expected soon
in the U.S.-mediated talks on the
withdrawal of foreign forces from
Lebanon, Begin aides said.
In Washington, a State Depart
ment spokesman said Tuesday,
Israeli Foreign Minister Yit/hak Sha
mir will meet Secretary of State
George Shultz Sunday to try to re
solve differences in the troop with
drawal negotiations.
Philip C. Habib, President
Reagan’s special envoy for the Middle
East, is in Washington for consulta
tions and will participate in the talks
with Shamir, spokesman John
Hughes said Tuesday.
In Jerusalem, Israel Radio quoted
Shamir as saying Israel was prepared
to compromise in the discussions by
dropping demands to permanently
station Israeli troops inside Lebanon.
In Khalde, Lebanon, the f uture of
trade ties between Israel and Leba
non dominated the 21 st session of the
negotiations Tuesday. Israel warned
the negotiations were pointless if
Lebanon refused to have open bor
ders.
Following the session in Khalde, 8
miles south of Beirut, a Lebanese
spokesman said there had been
“slight progress” in the talks aimed at
the pullout of 30,000 Israeli, 40,000
Syrian and 10,000 Palestinians from
Lebanon.
Begin informed Carter during a
30-minute meeting Tuesday in Jeru
salem that Israel expected “positive
results” soon in the negotiations, an
aide of the prime minister said.
Carter, on the second leg of his
Middle East tour, was meeting today
with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe
Arens and moderate Palestinian lead
er Elias Freij, mayor of the occupied
West Bank town of Bethlehem.
Carter flew in Tuesday from Egypt
where he told reporters he had met
with Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion officials as a “private citizen.”
The United States officially refuses to
speak with the PLO until it recognizes
Israel.
Israel’s willingness to compromise
on keeping its troops in southern
Lebanon comes after its demands for
five security monitoring stations in
the border area were rejected by the
Beirut government.
Sweet revenge
staff photo by Irene Mees
IU students to get shots
When Bill Mulligan, executive officer of
the First Regiment, went away for the
weekend, regiment staff juniors, Craig
Jakus, right,and Christopher Dowling
epoxied Mulligan’s senior boots to his
shelf. Jakus is anindustrial technology
major from Las Vegas, and Dowling is a
marketing major from Houston.
jjV&M group to lobby
on fees, drinking age
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Battalion Staff
The Student Government Legisla-
ft, LltCfc'-iveStudy Group,will lobby in Austin
OrganiZ; urfng spring break to represent
exas A&M students’ views on higher
dutation fees and the raising of the
rinking age.
n. bul has been proposed in the
exas Legislature that would include
I state fees, including higher educa-
on fees, in the state budget.
^Currently the Legislature must
pprove increases for all state fees
irough individual bills.
II the bill is approved, proposals
r state fee increases would side- step
e hearing and testifying processes
Wally involved when debating a bill,
tid Madelon Yanta, the group’s re-
tarth coordinator for tuition.
PjVhen the Legislature proposes the
. judget, it usually is approved, Yanta
k Wlriid. Fee increases would have a grea-
I W wr chance ol being approved if they
r I f ere i nt l uc l e< l > n the budget, she said,
nd fees could be increased every
me the Legislature was in session.
Fred Billings, administrative dire-
tor of the group, said because educa-
on fees are included in the budget
ley would not have the protection of
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the legislative process.
“There won’t be any protection for
the students,” he said.
Yanta said tuition hasn’t increased
since 1957 because the issue has been
so controversial. When an increase is
proposed, the people who are not in
favor of the increase can lobby against
it at the state Legislature.
During the last legislative session,
bills that proposed tuition increases as
high as 100 percent for Texas and
out-of-state residents and 300 to 400
percent for veterinary and medical
school students were not approved.
Both Yanta and Billings agree that
a tuition increase is inevitable.
“The question is not whether tui
tion will be increased but how and by
what method,” Yanta said.
At tonight’s Student Senate meet
ing, the study group will recommend
that the senate support a tuition in
crease but that the increase be ad
justed to fit predefined costs. The
group will propose that the fees cover
a percentage of certain operating
costs.
The group also will recommend
working to exempt higher education
fees from the proposed bill.
Student fees currently are 4 per
cent of the University’s cost per stu
dent.
The group also will recommend to
the Senate that it oppose proposals to
raise the legal drinking age from 19
to 21.
Nancy Mohlman, research coordi
nator for the legal drinking age, said:
“We do realize there’s a problem and
something must be done, but raising
the drinking age to 21 is not the solu
tion.”
The solution lies in stricter en
forcement of existing laws and better
and increased alcohol awareness edu
cation, Mohlman said.
The group also has proposed a
mandatory course in alcohol aware
ness that must be passed in addition to
the driver’s test to receive a driver’s
license.
While the bill would make it harder
for those under 21 to obtain alcohol, it
would not be totally effective, Mohl
man said. She called this the “forbid
den fruit syndrome.”
If minors want alcohol badly
enough they will get it, she said.
Billings said students should con
tact their student senators before the
meeting tonight to give their opinion
on each of the issues.
United Press International
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Stu
dents at Indiana University, caught in
a measles epidemic, say they are get
ting immunization not to protect their
health, but because they are worried
about being barred from classes.
About 176 cases of measles have
been reported at IU and state health
officials are rushing to immunize stu
dents in an attempt to stop a nation
wide spread of the disease when they
return home for spring break later
this week.
By late Tuesday about 17,300 of
the campus’ 32,000 students had re
ceived injections against the measles.
Indiana Health Commissioner Dr.
Ronald G. Blankenbaker said^he will
require students to provide proof of
their immunization when they return
to school March 21. Spring break be
gins Friday.
“Action against students who have
not protected themselves against the
disease may be as drastic as exclusion
from class,” Blankenbaker said.
“I didn’t want to be hassled about it
when I got back from spring break,”
said Tim Rodgers, 25, moments after
receiving a measles shot at the Memo
rial Union.
“I’ve had them,” said Rodgers, who
planned to spend his vacation at his
home in Brownsburg, Ind. “It would
have been difficult to prove. So rather
than get a doctor from out of state out
of retirement, I got the shot.”
Robb Booker, 19, said he also stood
in line for a shot even though he is
certain he either had measles or has
been immunized against it.
“It was just something to do,”
Booker said.
Dr. Walter Orenstein of the Cen
ters for Disease Control in Atlanta
said people should be on the alert
throughout the country because of
the potential the measles outbreak
could spread.
The board of health had consi
dered keeping students in Blooming
ton during the vacation, Blankenbak
er said, but decided “quarantine is too
radical at this particular time.”
Measles, which also has affected 23
Bloomington residents, is characte
rized by red skin spots and fever and
can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis,
middle ear infections and other com
plications, Blankenbaker said. One
case in 1,006 is fatal, he said.
Closure bill ‘advantage’
for public institutions
by Patti Schwierzke
Battalion Staff
State laws that order public disclo
sure of official papers is a disadvan
tage for public institutions trying to
obtain personal manuscript collec
tions and oral history interviews, a
Texas A&M archivist says.
Archivist Charles Schultz is sup
porting a bill in the Texas Legislature
that will allow partial closure of offi
cial papers.
The bill would exempt from the
state’s Open Records Law portions of
documents that are given to public
institutions. Rep. Bill Presnal, D-
Bryan, is sponsoring the bill.
Schultz said the purpose of the bill
is to give public institutions the same
rights as private institutions.
Under Presnal’s proposal, public
universities would be able to acquire
papers of former officials and keep
some parts of those documents secret
for an indefinite period of time. Pri
vate universities are not required to
follow the disclosure law.
“Theoretically, private institutions
have an advantage over state institu
tions,” Schultz said. “The practice in
archives, manuscript collections and
oral history collections is to close all or
a portion of the papers and interviews
for a specific and limited period of
time.”
Documents sometimes are closed
in archives to protect the privacy of
people who are alive and are men
tioned in the papers, Schultz said.
“Sometimes dosing part of a docu
ment becomes a condition of the gift,”
he said. “It is not very often that the
archives want to close it, but the per
son giving the gift wants parts of it
closed.
“I hope the bill passes. It will help
us to obtain records.”
Filing deadline
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here » re:
L Filing for positions with Student
Government, Off-Campus Aggies,
Residence Hall Association and for
yell leaders opened Monday and
will continue until Friday.
I All candidates for student body
president, yell leader, vice presi
dents, class presidents, RHA presi
dent and OCA president must have
their pictures taken today for the
Voters’ Guide, a supplement to
The Battalion. Pictures will be
taken from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in 216
Reed McDonald.
| No pictures will be taken after
today and no other pictures will be
accepted. Only candidates for the
offices listed above need to have
pictures made.
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forecast
Partly cloudy skies today with a
high near 69 and a 20 percent
' ance of showers. Winds from the
north at 10 to 15 mph. Mostly clear
and cooler tonight with the low
near 38. Clear to partly cloudy
Thursday with a high of around
70.
Bill will prohibit replacing
candidates after primaries
United Press International
AUSTIN — Democratic legislators,
hoping to end last-minute election
ploys by political parties, urged a
House committee to approve a bill
that would prohibit parties from sub
stituting a new candidate for one vic
torious in primary races.
The bill stemmed from the re
placement of two Republican candi
dates for statewide office last year fol
lowing the candidates’ victories in the
Republican primary.
Millard Neptune, a candidate for
state treasurer, and Donald Hebert, a
candidate for agriculture commis
sioner, were bumped from the GOP
ticket following their May primary
victories in favor of what the party
called “more viable” candidates.
Rep. Joe Hernandez, D-San Anto
nio, one of the bill’s sponsors, told
members of the House Elections
Committee the proposal would main
tain a primary victor’s name on the
general election ballot unless the can
didate died or was declared ineligible
by the courts.
“Once you have been nominated,
that’s it,” Hernandez said Tuesday.
The bill, identical to a measure
already passed by the Senate, was sent
to a subcommittee for further study
along with a similar proposal by Rep.
Lanny Hall, D-Fort Worth.
Hall’s bill would allow a candidate
to decline a nomination for reasons of
death or disability because of illness.
Opponents say betting will
lead to organized crime
United Press International
AUSTIN — Gambling opponents
claimed the Texas Legislature would
open the doors of the state to orga
nized crime, state-sanctioned vice, ex
ploitation of the poor and animal
cruelty if lawmakers legalized pari
mutuel horserace betting.
Dozens of people crowded the
House and Senate chambers Tuesday
during hearings on almost identical
wagering bills by Sen. Craig Washing
ton, D-Houston, and Rep. Hugo Ber-
langa, D-Corpus Christi.
The Senate Economic Affairs and
House Urban Affairs committees sent
the two bills to subcommittees for
further study after hearing testimony
from opponents who complained the
proposal would bring little revenue to
the state while ushering in organized
crime.
“You’re talking about peanuts in
terms of a revenue bill,” said Allan
Maley, executive director of Texans
Against Gambling.
Gerard Fulcher, who said he was a
former pathological gambler and
New York City policeman who now
counsels gamblers through the Dela
ware Council on Gambling Problems,
said organized crime would prey on
poor compulsive gamblers if racet
rack betting were legalized.
“Regular gamblers at racetracks,
are going to be the poorest element in
your community,” Fulcher said. “It
has been documented that revenues
at racetracks increase the days welfare
checks arrive.
“Organized crime has never been
kept out of legalized gambling. It will
indeed cause more problems than it
will erase.”
Supporters, however, said legal
horserace betting would eventually
draw as much as $126 million a year
the the Texas treasury and would cre
ate thousands of jobs.
The bills would set aside 5 percent
of bets for the state, which would use
the money for child welfare, 5 per
cent for the tracks and 5 percent for
racing purses. An eight-member
commission would monitor tracks
and local-option elections would be
required in counties considering pari
mutuel wagering.
Heavy load
staff photo by David Fisher
Joseph Washington, a College Station resident, carries a
crosstie to his truck on his shoulder. The railroad
company has been replacing old crossties on the tracks,
and Washington is one of many people hauling the old
ties off.