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Texas A&M ofits hk >ns. ficials say, Ping the't, mdalfeeu evenue ^ iat Mei! Vol. 76 No. 160 USPS 045360 10 Pages billion k r <)leura [ > av ignac J )rc >gn visi, 1 a tourisu v 1 Serving the University community College Station, Texas Tuesday, June 14,1983 a, or exico. lid the hu 3.5 essary to nent and. ether set at nt. egulations accepted y Faculty Senate by Angel Stokes Battalion Staff The Texas A&M Faculty Senate lohday afternoon approved bylaws ) it c ould vote on the organization of leiexecutive committee at its next ■ting- | : The executive committee, consist- pf eight members, will be the gov- g body of the Faculty Senate, e committee, made up of a deputy ker, a secretary-treasurer and six :ed members-at-large, will advise [speaker of the Senate, assist in inistration and planning of Sen- ineetings, be responsible for the budget, implement the decisions and programs of the Senate and act for the Senate in case of emergency. The speaker of the Faculty Senate, Dr. John McDermont, will chair the executive committee and vote only in the event of a tie. Jon Bond, a representative of the bylaws committee, said the main pur pose of Monday’s meeting was to pass the bare minimum of bylaws, so the Senate could begin working this summmer. The main issue at the meeting was how to establish workable procedures during elections in order to select the executive committee. The bylaws committee will con tinue to work to define senator elec tion and floor procedures, Bond said. Other agenda items included: selection of Dr. Paul Van Riper as parliamentarian, approval of taping the meetings to aid in keeping of the minutes and a report by the person nel and budget committee. The meetings will be taped, except when off-record comments are re quested, and tapes will be erased as soon as the minutes are written. The next meeting of the Faculty Senate will be July 11 in 601 Rudder. —Pressure won’t help /pullout says Arens l United Press International ^Isiaeli Defense Minister Moshe tens says Israel will not be pressured ito withdrawing from Lebanon de- i|te mounting casualties and step- ed-jup guerrilla attacks that have left re Israeli soldiers dead in the last /eek. he terrorists, with the aid of the Syrian army, are doing everything in their power to bring about a unilater al withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces,” Arens told Israel Radio Sunday. Earlier Sunday, a bomb exploded on a road south of the port city of Sidon as an Israeli vehicle was driving by but there were no casualties, Israel Radio said. In Washington, U.S. special Mid dle East envoy Morris Draper said Sunday the United States has held “serious discussions” with the Soviet Union on the Lebanese crisis. >rt Worth motel burns Four killed in blaze He creamed ’em all! staff photo by Eric Evan Lee Pies Turner, mayor pro-tem of Bryan, won Post Oak Mall’s 2nd Annual Cow Milking Contest Saturday. In the three-minute time limit, Turner milked 120 ounces of milk. Funds raised from the milking contest will benefit Brazos County Crime Stoppers. Brazos County Sheriff Bobby Yeager, who milked 46 ounces, won second place. United Press International / FORT WORTH — Fire imted at an east side Ramada Inn ) 1 today, killing four people trap- :<jjnside and forcing the evacuation authorities said. Chief William H. Car- think all of them were m just not sure right least 30 people were reported jured. Most of them had minor smoke ilation and lacerations, said Robin Iqrilungton, a representative for All unis Hospital. Two people suffered oken bones jumping from second or) windows. The blaze broke out at 3:24 a.m. in two-story 87-room unit on the west of the south structure in the five building complex and quickly grew to five alarms. A raging thunderstorm which broke out at 5 a.m. increased the smoke and soaked the evacuated guests, many of them wearing no thing but night clothes or bedsheets. Blowing smoke reduced visibility to near zero on the Fort Worth Turn pike adjacent to the motel. Author ities temporarily closed the exit nearest the motel. Richard Crain, 40, of Lafayette, La., said he was asleep in a first floor room when the fire started. “I woke up and some people out side were blowing their horn and hol lering, ‘fire.’ I couldn’t find my pants at first, then I got a chair and broke the window out. About that time two women in the room above mine broke out their windown and glass fell all over me.” Shelley Wilkinson, 40, of Waco, Texas, was on the second floor. “When I woke up there was smoke coming through the door so thick you couldn’t breath,” she said. “I didn’t hear any fire alarm.” a drive mporary -thru ha Government critics want U.S. out of Philippines bank near the motel. Approximately 110 firefighters fought the blaze, which filled the horizon with a red glow, visible for several miles. There were 25 fire units from Fort Worth and three from nearby Arling ton, Texas, on the scene. More than a dozen police officers were on the scene. United Press International MANILA, Philippines — Govern ment critics, buoyed by a demonstra tion of more than 5,000 people pro testing a new agreement on American bases, today vowed to eject the U.S. military from the Philippines. In the biggest anti-government de monstration this year, thousands of students, workers and white-frocked nuns gathered Sunday outside Clark Air Base, 60 miles north of Manila, to protest the agreement on American bases signed this month. “We cannot stop what has been signed,” said activist Rogaciano Mer cado, who organized the demonstra tion. “It is now 1991 that we have to prepare for.” Mercado, a member of Congress until the legislative body was dis solved in 1972, said the protests were “the only language” the United States understands. The Marcos government signed a five-year amendment to the agree ment that gives the United States the use of Clark and Subic Bay Naval Base for $900 million in military and economic assistance through 1991. The previous agreement cost the United States $500 million in rent. andiver says U.S. defense weak in numbers by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff xas A&M President Frank E. diver said Monday although the nited States’ military technology is rior to that of the Soviets, he is id that between now and 1999 — espite action by the United States — ilitary strength will not equal or superior to that of the Soviet Un- and its allies. andiver calls the situation the dow of vulnerability.” he main hope for arms equality is Scategic Arms Limitations Talks III beement, he said. The United tates must convince the Soviets to jree to a proportional arms reduc- on. Vandiver recently returned from a 5 havefl ion id colofs umm eI tour of U.S. military facilities at the invitation of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Vandiver was nominated for the trip by the Corps of Cadets, Corps Commandant Col. Donald L. Burton and Gen. Ormond R. Simpson, assistant vice president for student services. Of thousands of nominees, Vandiver was one of the 60 top educators and business leaders from across the nation selected. “It was an excellent trip, superior in every respect,” Vandiver said. “It was a rare opportunity and I’m glad I got it.” Vandiver visited the Pentagon, Fort Lewis, Wash., Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., and the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif. The purpose of the trip was to give civilians the opportunity to observe the armed forces. “The Secretary of Defense would like you to find out how the defense money is being spent,” Vandiver said. While touring the facilities, Van diver visited with the troops, observed refueling of aircraft in flight, rode in a new missile carrier and in the Black Hawk — a highly maneuverable, heavily armed troop carrier and vi sited a submarine training center. He also observed demonstrations of the latest technology in compute rized guns, the FI6 — the latest and most sophisticated fighter plane that can take off and fly straight up to 40,000 feet reaching the speed of sound — and the Agressor Squadrons — planes camouflaged like Soviet planes that use Soviet air tactics. The purpose of the Agressor Squadrons is to familiarize U.S. pilots with Russian tactics, Vandiver said. The participants of the tour were asked to write to the secretary after they returned home with their reac tion to the facilities they saw. “I think I am going to be saying how impressed I am with what I saw,” Vandiver said of his letter to Wein berger. “I was particularly impressed with the quality of the troops.” However the trip left him a little scared. He said he saw that the Soviet threat to the defense of the United States is real if not understated. Vandiver said the only problem he saw was that the United States does not have enough strength in terms of numbers. The United States, with a force of 500 ships, is struggling for a force of 600. With the rate the Soviets are growing, if the United States obtained the 600 force, the ratio with the Soviets would still be about three to one, he said. “But we still have an edge in tech nology and we need to hold on to that,” Vandiver said. “We can pro duce better technology than the Soviets, but you can be overcome by numbers.” Vandiver said the way to overcome the deficiency in numbers is not necessarily with a larger defense budget but rather by using appropri ated money wisely. The money must be carefully targeted to the areas where it is most needed, he said. This, he said, is not always done. He added that money also must be spent on research. “We don’t just have to buy it, but design it,” he said. Vandiver believes that sometime in the 1990s, the United States may be come equal in strength with the Soviet Union if the United States’ present ratio of military growth continues. However, he said that concern and action for defense seems to have les sened. Once the problem is noticed and initial action taken, the there is a tendency to cease being concerned, he said. Reason for delay of 10th shuttle flight not revealed staff photo by Eric Evan Lee The model pet David Powell, 5, of Houston, plays with an Imperial Walker Star Wars toy while waiting for his father in the Academic and Agency Building Friday afternoon. His father, a teacher in the Aldine School District, is taking a summer course here. United Press International WASHINGTON — The first full military mission of the space shuttle, originally set for November, has been postponed indefinitely at the request of the Air Force, but the reason for the delay was kept secret. Aviation Week and Space Tech nology magazine said, however, the postponement resulted from a lack of confidence in the rocket that was to have boosted a military satellite. It is the same type rocket that left a $100 million NASA satellite in the wrong orbit after launch from a shuttle in April. The delay, confirmed Monday by both NASA and the Air Force, dis rupts NASA planning at a time when the shuttle program was moving into a fast-paced schedule using two of the rocket ships. Saturday’s scheduled launch of the shuttle Challenger, however, is not affected by the schedule change. En gineers plan to begin the countdown early Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center launch site in Florida. The upcoming mission, the seventh for a shuttle, is to last six days. Two communications satellites will be launched and an experimental satel lite will be launched and later re trieved. Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, is a member of the five-person crew. Also remaining on the books is another launch of Challenger in Au gust and the Sept. 30 launch of Col umbia carrying the European-built Spacelab and a crew of six for nine days. But 'postponement of the 10th mis sion in November leaves a gap in NASA planning. The next scheduled flight is scheduled for late January and a space agency spokesman said officials may not be able to advance its schedule because its communications satellite payload may not be ready. Aviation Week magazine, quoting unidentified space officials, said April’s failure of the Inertial Upper Stage, a complex, two-stage Air Force rocket, caused the mission 10 delay. It said the rocket was to due have been used with “a large complex military satellite.” An Air Force spokesman said the rocket problem has been traced to a mechanical control difficulty, but he declined to say if the rocket was to have been used in November. Astronauts Thomas Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka and James Buchli plus an unidentified Air Force engineer were to have flown tha 10th mission. 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