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Tuesday, April 19, 1983
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JEJRUT, Lebanon — Workers
[ging through rubble for victims of
mb blast that devastated the U.S.
ibassy found the mutilated corpses
two people today, pushing to 3 1 the
ath toll in the terrorist attack.
Two formerly unknown groups
oclaimed responsibility today for
lattack, one day after extremists
it U.S. officials linked to Iran’s
atollah Ruhollah Khomeini had
imed responsibility.
Lebanese civil defense workers
ifehing through the night for vic-
isofMonday’s explosion found the
itilated bodies of a man and a
| man under tons of debris, bringing
llthetotal number known killed in
: blast.
At least 105 others, injured in the
jlosion at the U.S. Embassy in west
J irut, were taken Monday to the
fl Irican University Hospital.
‘There are more bodies,” said a
banese civil defense worker at the
ibassy, as cranes carefully lifted
bsofconcrete and twisted metal in
ich of possible survivors — but
ire likely bodies crushed under the
t bris.
fcores of people, some in near hys-
ia, waited outside the devastated
j for news of missing friends
Relatives.
“I told him not to go to work,”
screamed a middle-aged woman
whose husband was listed among the
many missing in the blast-riddled
waterfront embassy. “He was ill but
would not listen, he had to to go.
Where is he now?”
A little-known extremist group, the
Islamic Struggle Organization, first
claimed responsibility for the explo
sion that blew off the front of the
eight-story embassy, destroyed the
consular section and sent concrete
floors crashing down on employees.
Two previously unknown groups
— the “The Arab Socialist Unionists”
and “The Organization for
Vengeance for the Martyrs of Sabra
and Chatila” — also claimed responsi
bility today.
Sabra and Chatila are the two
Palestinian refugee camps in west
Beirut where Lebanese Christians last
Sept. 16-18 slaughtered hundreds of
civilians.
Beirut’s Christian Phalangist Radio
said the attack on the American
Embassy was a suicide mission by a
man who drove into the compound in
a pickup truck carrying more than
300 pounds of explosives.
Identification of the dead was in
complete.
Officials at the American Universi
ty Hospital in west Beirut released the
names of only 12 of the dead, iden
tifying three as American diplomats.
In Washington, Assistant Secretary
of State Lawrence Eagleburger said
Monday at least six Americans died in
the blast: “two foreign service offic
ers, two members of the Office of
Military Cooperation on temporary
duty there, and two AID (Agency for
International Development) em
ployees.”
The army identified the two slain
soldiers as Sgt. 1st Class Richard
Twine, 36, of Salop, England, and
Staff Sgt. Ben H. Maxwell, 26, of
Appomatox, Va. The army said a
third soldier. Staff Sgt. Mark E. Sala
zar, 30, of San Gabriel, Calif, was mis
sing and believed dead.
The three soldiers, in Beirut on a
training mission, had served at Fort
Hood Army base near Killeen, Texas.
President Reagan condemned the
bombing as “vicious and cowardly”
but insisted the United States would
not be deterred in its efforts to bring
about a comprehensive Middle East
peace settlement.
Sexual harassment system
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students at Texas A&M.
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by Kelley Smith
Battalion Staff
Die system for handling sexual
rassment problems at Texas A&M
inly two years old, but it already has
sven to be an effective one, the
liversity affirmative action officer
(S.
Thesystem was established to com-
with federal guidelines prohibit-
sexual harassment on the grounds
it is a form of discrimination.
That’s why we have an obligation
auniversity to ensure that students
d employees both are free from in-
lidation and hostile environ-
nts,” said Margaret Smith, Texas
M affirmative action officer.
When the guidelines prohibiting
tualharassment were issued, Texas
cM designated a person for each
rtof the System as an affirmative
ion officer and set up a procedure
handle harassment cases.
Many other schools did not set up a
item to follow until they were faced
th a complaint, Smith said.
Texas A&M put together a policy
the System level that defines sex-
Iharassment, says we will not toler-
it... and we will make you sorry if
udo it,” Smith said.
As the affirmative action officer for
emain campus, Smith listens to stu
nts’complaints and has them sign a
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deposition stating the charge. Smith
will not act on any complaint unless
the person making the charge is will
ing to put it in writing, a practice that
she said discourages frivolous cohr-—-
plaints.
Smith then meets with Ted Hajovs-
ky, associate general counsel, to de
termine the severity of the case — the
number and nature of the complaints
— and to decide on the appropriate
disciplinary action for the case. Disci
pline can range from suspension for a
semester or probation to counseling
or termination of employment. But
only a small percentage of the cases
end in termination, Smith said.
“Some people believe once a pro
fessor is tenured, he is untouchable,”
Smith said. “But that’s not true, they
can be terminated just like anyone
else. It has happened.”
Smith and Hajovsky then talk with
the professor’s department head who
informs the professor of the charge
and the action to be taken.
The name of the student making
the complaint is not revealed to the
professor unless the professor
appeals the decision and requests a
hearing or the case is severe enough
to involve termination. A faculty
appeal goes to the Committee on
Academic Freedom, Tenure and Re
sponsibility.
Most cases do not result in a hear
ing because the accused professor
may fear people would hear of the
complaint and it would damage his
reputation — even if he is proven in
nocent, Smith said. Most people re
member that someone was charged,
not that he was proven innocent, she
said.
One major problem in investigat
ing complaints is the lack of witnesses,
Smith said. An accusation usually is
the student’s word against the word of
the professor. However, she said,
when as many as seven people com
plain about the same professor, it
makes a strong case.
In her two years at Texas A&M,
Smith said she never has had a frivo
lous complaint and said that in every
case the professor has been found at
fault.
“It’s a very difficult charge to prove
or disprove,” Smith said. “However,
to me, it’s more likely that it happened
than it didn’t happen.”
Smith said sexual harassment
sometimes is not taken seriously in
companies that have men in positions
that handle complaints about sexual
harassment.
“It is not a joke with the (Universi
ty) administration,” she said. Depart
ment heads usually handle charges
professionally and know they must do
something to correct the situation,
she said.
But when approached with a com
plaint, most professors deny the
charge. And when faced with termi
nation, some professors will resign
without defending themselves, she
said.
First you throw it ...
staff photo by Eric Evan Lee
While other students are juggling projects,
classes and impending finals with the lure
of sunny, spring weather, Sharon Schulze,
a sophomore elementary education major
from Giddings, practices Monday afternoon
juggling something visible — bean bags.
Farm decline predicted
United Press International
WASHINGTON —Texas Agricul
ture Commissioner Jim Hightower
says the farm population will con
tinue to decline for the rest of the
decade if the Reagan administration
d6es not develop a policy which will
increase farmer’s earnings.
“We’ve got to have a farm policy
for a change that focuses on the far
mer,” Hightower told a meeting of
the Newspaper Farm Editors of
America Monday.
Farmers have complied with Agri
culture Department urgings to be
come more sophisticated in farm
management and marketing techni
ques, he said. But even with those
efforts, farmers have been left “pro
ductive, innovative and broke,” he
added.
If the problem continues, the farm
population will continue to decline
for the rest of the decade, he said.
In the past, he said, farm policy has
been concerned more with foreign
policy and other market conditions
than with the needs of commercial
farmers.
He blamed presidential adminis
trations throughout the last 30 years
for the nation’s “bad farm policy.”
But he singled out President
Reagan for failing to correct current
problems.
“Ronald Reagan has v no farm poli
cy,” Hightower said.
Hightower suggested that the gov
ernment might increase target prices
— the prices designated by the gov
ernment as desirable sales levels — to
equal the costs of crop production.
He also questioned predictions of
success for the payment-in-kind
program, noting that it is not yet clear
that the program will succeed in a
long-term reduction of crop sur
pluses.
The program, which promises gov
ernment surplus crops to farmers
who leave big portions of their land
idle, is really “a program to clean up
the farm mess” that already exists in
the form of huge supplies and weak
demand — not a new effort to re
build the farm economy, he said.
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forecast
Partly cloudy skies today with a
high near 80. Easterly winds of
around 10 mph. Clear and mild
tonight with a low of 57. Mostly
clear skies Wednesday with a high
near 82.
Former senators debate
current economic policies
by Lezlee Hinson
Battalion Reporter
President Reagan’s economic
policies — Reaganomics — are
working and should be continued,
Robert Taft, former Republican
senator from Ohio, said Monday
night.
Eugene McCarthy, former
Democratic senator from Minneso
ta, disagreed, saying that Reagan
never really has had an economic
theory of his own and said the re
duction in inflation is not caused by
the success of the president’s poli
cies.
In support of Reagan, Taft said
the goals of Reagan’s policies —to
build a strong defense, to revive the
economy and to control runaway
government spending — are being
met.
McCarthy claimed that Reagano
mics is mislabeled, and said that the
current reduction in inflation can be
attributed to other factors, includ
ing the high rate of unemployment.
As an alternative to Reagan’s
supply-side economic policies,
McCarthy said the problem of un
employment cannot be settled with
out a redistribution of labor. He said
such a redistribution could employ
as many as 1 million workers.
McCarthy also said excessive
Protesters enter
nuclear blast area
Former U.S. Sen. Eugene
former U.S. Sen. Robert Taft,
and cons of Reaganomics.
staff photos by Eric Evan Lee
McCarthy, D-Ohio, left, and
R-Ohio, discuss the pros
waste in the private sector should be
eliminated. He said the American
people are the most over
transported, over-fueled, over
advertised in the world.
Using the automobile industry as
an example, McCarthy said that
American business has no social
conscience. Its only concern, he
said, is to make money — regardless
of the consequences. Also, he said,
there is no real tax on corporate
waste.
Taft said that McCarthy’s propos
al to eliminate waste is a form of
“whip and carrot” incentive for cor
porations, similar to the present Pol
ish economic theory — reward cor
porations for responsible actions
and punish them for wasteful, self-
serving ones.
McCarthy responded by saying
that it is his goal to “keep ’em hon
est” and said the government might
benefit by a close analysis of the
“corporate soul.”
About 325 people attended the
event, which was sponsored by MSC
Political Forum.
United Press International
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Military heli
copters have been unable to detect
any trace of four anti-nuclear protes
ters who reportedly entered the
Nevada Test Site and set up camp on
Yucca Flat, within the classified nuc
lear blast area.
“We have an international team
out there. They put their lives on the
line to call attention to an environ
ment problem,” said Peter Dykstra, a
spokesman for the environmental
group Greenpeace.
Dykstra said each man was equip
ped with radiation detection devices,
food for a week, bed rolls and tents.
“We believe a halt to testing is the
first step towards a Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty which is a major step
toward nuclear disarmament,” Dyk
stra said Monday.
He identified the men as expedi
tion leader Harald Zindler, 38, of
Hamburg, West Germany; Ron
Taylor, 29, an electrical engineer
from Oxford, England; John Hinck,
29, of Seattle, Wash., and Brian Fitz
gerald, 24, of Boston, Mass.
The four Greenpeace members
crossed the northeast boundary of the
classified nuclear test site Saturday
and hiked to the mountain ridges
above Yucca Flat Sunday, said Dyk
stra.
Dave Miller, a spokesman for the
Department of Energy, said four Air
Force helicopters began a search of
the 1,350 square-mile Nevada Test
Site Monday morning for the four
men.
Miller said he found a package of
literature at his office from the
Greenpeace organization early Mon
day that said “at this moment” an ufi
ternational crew of United States,
German and United Kingdom mem
bers of Greenpeace are on the test
site.
“We don’t know if they actually
penetrated the site. It is 1,350 square
miles. Not all of it is fenced but all
roads and trails leading into the site
are barricaded, posted against tres
pass or guarded,” said Miller.
“There is no way anyone could
approach those areas without being
detected and caught,” Miller said. He
said all sensitive areas containing clas
sified materials were fenced or patrol
led by armed guards or electronic
sensors.
“We do have some concern because
there are RADEX (radiation exclu
sion) areas and it is possible if they are
bumbling around out there they
could get radioactive material on
their clothes and bodies,” Miller said.