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IRUT, Lebanon — Negotiators
rted little progress in talks on the
Iravval of Israeli troops, but
inon expressed hope the Middle
visit of Secretary of State George
tz would help break the dead-
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Without reporting progress Mon-
lisienui on ^ e y i ssue 0 {' security, the
sides decided to cancel further
ons scheduled for this week, as
tz prepared for high-level talks in
non and Israel aimed at resolv-
f tk If e r e n ce s.
jlf no agreement is reached dur-
pistour, we will resume the tripar-
[negotiations after his departure
Bithe region,” said Antoine Fattal,
lid of the Lebanese delegation.
iShultz will visit Lebanon Thurs
day, and we hope it will help us
achieve results,” he said.
The 33rd meeting of the U.S.-
mediated talks, held in the coastal
town of Khalde, a Beirut suburb, cen
tered on a U.S. recounting of areas of
agreement and disagreement be
tween Israel and Lebanon after four
months of discussion.
Phalangist Radio quoted a
Lebanese diplomatic source predict
ing Shultz’ mission would produce no
agreement to withdraw 30,000 Israeli
troops left in the country after last
year’s invasion.
Negotiators also hope to achieve
agreement on the withdrawal of
40,000 Syrian and 10,000 Palestine
Liberation Organization forces sta
tioned on Lebanese soil.
ourt confronts
execution case
Sharon Coulson, hostess of 15 Magazine for KAMU-TV,
interviews Sally Struthers on Monday for an upcoming
segment of the show. Struthers, sponsored by the Christian
photo by Diana Sultenfuss r
Children’s Fund and MSC Political Forum, was at Texas
A&M to speak on world hunger. The show will air in
three or four weeks.
United Press International
p*«ASHINGTON — Only four days
tt ImfiB-it permitted the Alabama execu-
3orhoocB 0 fj 0 hn Louis Evans III, theSup-
â– e Court is confronting a major
tally |ath-penalty case that will set the
toota®for executions nationwide,
icate 1 Eleven hours before Texas inmate
inginjmas “Andy” Barefoot was to be
ti thei® u ted with a lethal injection Jan.
orUMthe high court halted his execu-
o otlifiB an d agreed to hear arguments
takn lav 0 n a precedent-setting death
l he lib Baity issue.
â– The justices are considering how
gearlifiJral appeals courts should handle
:ided ajiiesis for stays of executions from
an a- plates who have almost run out of
lys to put off their death sentences.
The procedural question has major
repercussions for the 1,163 prisoners
on death rows across the country.
Many are about to exhaust the last of
their appeals and are on the verge of a
predicted tide of executions.
Barefoot’s lawyers are challenging
a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
decision that would have sent the for
mer oilfield roughneck to his death
without having his appeals fully
argued and considered by the appeals
court.
His lawyers claim the procedure is
a legal shortcut that, if condoned by
the nation’s highest court, could send
condemned prisoners to their deaths
more quickly — and perhaps by mis
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Student groups pledge $25,000
to sponsor village of children
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pority house on Athens Drive this
lining.
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lege Station fire department at
t a.m., started from an undeter-
ned cause on the second floor of
three-story house.
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house burst and caused extensive wa
ter damage to all three floors of the
house. All the fire alarms in the three-
year-old house worked properly.
The 39 residents will have to move
out of the house. Some of the resi
dents plan to find mote! rooms for the
remainder of the semester, but most
of the women plan to stay with
friends.
By Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
“Compassion will end world hun
ger,” says Sally Struthers, the Nation
al Chairperson for the Christian Chil
dren’s Fund.
Struthers, who spoke in Rudder
Auditorium Monday night, came to
Texas A&M on Sunday and will leave
today after touring the Veterinary
Medicine Complex.
She said that as a little girl, her
grandmother “planted the seeds of
compassion in my heart” and that is
why she became a CCF sponsor as an
adult. Struthers said that her grand
mother — one of the original CCF
sponsors — had the pictures of her
sponsored children framed on her
desk.
After “All in the Family” became a
top-rated show, Struthers — who
played Archie Bunker’s daughter,
Gloria — said she made more money
in a week than she made in a month as
a waitress or secretary and wanted to
share it.
“I decided to be like my grand
mother and sponsor a child,” she said.
She was a sponsor for two years
before becoming National Chairper
son for CCF in 1976.
On her first visit to a CCF project in
1977, Struthers went to Guatemala.
Families of six or eight lived in one-
rpom houses made of cardboard or
corrugated steel with no bathrooms,
just a ditch of raw sewage, she said.
“It was a terrible emotional experi
ence,” she said. “I wasn’t prepared for
what I saw.”
She said that at first she cried and
then got mad.
“I’m determined to do everything I
can to stop poverty,” she said.
Since her first visit to CCF projects,
she has made two other visits during
the past 12 months. She was in Thai
land last year and recently returned
from Africa.
While in Thailand, Struthers
filmed a commercial in a slum. She
said the houses were built inches
above a swamp, where the people
dumped their trash and fecal matter.
“I felt sure I was going to vomit... I
felt sure I was going to run out of
there ... but I didn’t,” she said, “be
cause I had to do that commercial for
my 'family.’”
She said her latest trip to Africa
“opened my eyes and my heart more
than the others.”
Although there was a State Depart
ment advisory urging all Americans
not to enter Uganda, Struthers flew
there during her trip to Africa to visit
one of her children.
She said she arrived at the airport
excited to see her sponsored child,
Damiano Wanambwa, but uneasy to
be in Uganda.
He had one of the most severe
forms of malnutrition when she be
gan sponsoring him, she said.
“Thousands of kids are perma
nently injured physically and mental
ly each year from malnutrition,” she
said. “Damiano was lucky.”
Struthers said she believes that
world hunger can be stopped — one
child at a time.
“There may be times when you
can’t find help, but there is not a time
when you can’t give help,” she said.
Struthers was presented with a spe
cial award from Texas A&M’s College
of Agriculture for her work to end
world hunger. The award was pre
sented by Dr. H.O. Kunkel, dean of
the college.
A pledge from the Interfraternity
Council and the Catholic Students
Association at Texas A&M to raise
$25,000 to sponsor a whole village
was announced by Struthers at a press
conference Monday afternoon in the
Memorial Student Center.
Struthers said that CCF will find a
village of about 100 children in Col
umbia for the sponsors.
She said she came to Texas A&M
because it was an opportunity to share
her experiences with an audience that
already was enthusiastic and involved
with CCF.
“If I can convince a few young peo
ple, as they go out in life they will
influence more ... and before you
know it, your effort has quadrupled,”
she said.
City Council to
alternate power
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
The College Station City Coun-
cil, after a special closed meeting
Monday afternoon, voted unani
mously to spend as much as
$80,000 to study supplementary
sources of power.
The city’s only source of power
now is Gulf State Utilities.
The resolution authorizes the
city manager to hire consultants to
“study participation in a joint
municipal power agency, and
either in connection (with) or inde
pendently to study alternative
sources of electrical power
supply.”
The resolution states that no ac
tions shall be taken that are incon
sistent with the city’s contract with
Gulf States Utilities. That contract
stipulates that the city must buy all
its power from GSU, Mayor Gary
Halter said after the meeting.
However, the contract expires
in 1997 and Halter said that until
then — if the city does buy its own
generating facilities — it can sell
the power to someone else.
Another option is to sell the power
to GSU and then buy it back, sav
ing money in the process, he said.
Halter added that the city also
could buy the generating facilities
from GSU, perhaps as much as
one-fourth of the generating
capacity GSU uses to provide pow
er to College Station currently.
The decision to go ahead with
the study was reached suddenly,
he said. The council has disco
vered a potential source of alterna
tive power and the potential needs
study
source
to be acted upon quickly, Halter
said. He declined to say what the
potential is.
The Council is not dissatisfied
with the services of GSU, Halter
said, but is concerned that College
Station is entirely dependent upon
an outside agency for its power.
The purpose of Monday’s action is
to prepare for the future, he said.
“Our concern right now is that
we don’t have any generating
capacity,” Halter said. Not only
would city-owned generating faci
lities make College Station more
self-sufficient, he said, but it would
also result in lower electricity bills
in the future.
“If I didn’t think it would save
some money — 10, 15, 20 years
down the road — I wouldn’t do it,”
he said.
Jordan says A&M
less conservative
because of growth
etting bill sponsor
pponent to 'take a
needs
walk’
United Press International
tSTIN — A parliamentary rule
lagged a preliminary vote on legaliz-
fj fe parimutuel betting in Texas, but
|e bill's sponsor said he may wait un-
la few of his opponents leave town
More trying again.
] Last week the Senate gave tentative
|>proval to a bill by Sen. Ike Harris,
[Dallas, that would legalize parimu-
el betting on horse races if voters
'prove of the gambling in a state-
de referendum.
But Harris fell several votes short
fthe number needed to give the bill
final passage and forward it to the
House.
Harris was prepared to try again
Monday, but he left the bill pending
because he could not gather enough
votes to suspend a parliamentary rule
that governs when bills can be consi
dered.
The parliamentary rule stipulates
that a two-thirds majority of the sena
tors present — 21 if all are in attend
ance -— must vote to consider a bill
before a vote on final passage can be
taken.
Harris said only 20 senators were
willing to vote for consideration of the
horseracing bill.
However, Harris said if one of the
measure’s opponents is absent from
the Senate later in the week, the 20
votes would be sufficient to suspend
the parliamentary rule and bring the
bill up for a final vote.
Harris said he would either try to
convince one of the bill’s opponents to
“take a walk” when the vote is con
ducted or would simply wait until one
of the opponents is absent because of
other business.
Editor’s note: This is the second of a
two-part series on 1983-84 Student
Body President Joe Jordan and his
goals for Student Government.
by Kelley Smith
Battalion Staff
Conservatism has been a major
weakness of Texas A&M, but the Uni
versity has become more open-
minded, says Joe Jordan, newly
elected student body president.
“I’m not saying that (the conservat
ism) is bad,” Jordan said. “I think I’m
pretty conservative myself, but I think
there’s a tendency to not be as innova
tive sometimes as we could — to be a
little bit too pragmatic.”
But the University has become less
conservative because of its rapid
growth, he said.
“The University as a whole had to
be more open-minded and accept
some things because of the influx of
people,” Jordan said.
He said Target 2000 — a program
that defines problems the Texas
A&M System may face in the next 20
years and recommends solutions — is
a positive step toward coping with the
growth.
The only way to handle the press
ures is to define the problem and see
what the pressures will be, Jordan
said.
“They’re headed in the right direc
tion by setting up that committee,”
Jordan said. “They realize the Uni
versity is growing at a rate where they
need to have planning 15 to 20 years
in advance.”
To deal with the problem of a small
minority student enrollment, the
University must start by defining the
problem, he said.
Jordan said most of the minority
students he has talked with say there
is nothing negative or derogatory ab
out Texas A&M that discourages
them from attending the University,
but they don’t feel that there is much
for a minority student to do in College
Station.
“If that’s the problem and not the
atmosphere of the University itself, if
the University is committed to en
hancing the recruitment of minority
students, then they need to take that
into consideration,” he said.
Jordan said he would like students
to be able to work with the administra
tion on matters that concern the en
tire System.
“What I would like to see, and I
think we’ve headed in that direction
this year, is more communication and
input from the student level to the
Texas A&M Board of Regents
through the chancellor,” he said.
Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen on
Thursday approved a student com
mittee that will deal with such System-
wide problems as minority recruit
ment and fee increases.
Jordan will serve on the committee.
The chancellor supported the com
mittee because it will offer students an
opportunity to have input into System
issues that affect the University, Jor
dan said.
A committee representative will
attend regents’ meetings and will be
called on by Hansen when the com
mittee wants to speak on an issue or
make a proposal.
Jordan said he believes regents will
listen to the committee, and said the
committee may be better than having
a student on the board.
see JORDAN, page 12
Senior rings
now available
Senior rings ordered through
Feb. 4 are available at the ring
clerk office.
Students may pick up senior
rings in 119 Pavilion between 8
a.m. and 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m.
and 4 p.m.
To pick up their rings, students
must have a Texas A&M student
I.D. card and a receipt from the
ring purchase.
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