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The Texas A&M Faculty Senate
lohday afternoon approved bylaws
) it c ould vote on the organization of
leiexecutive committee at its next
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| : 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
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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.”
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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
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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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forecast
Partly cloudy to cloudy today with a
20 percent chance of showers or
thundershowers. Today’s high
near 91.
A 20 percent chance of
showers tonight with a low near 67.
Partly cloudy Wednesday with a 20
percent chance of showers and a
high neat
87.