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Radio-controlled bomb
explodes in Lebanon
They don’t build ’em like they used to!
staff photo by Barry Papke
This
and
log cabin was built with
trucks rather than axes
the help of
and wagons
cranes
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pre-fab home is being built in
and Mrs. Ed Higgins, class of ’63.
Wellborn for Mr.
United Press International
A remote-controlled bomb
exploded near a convoy of
Israeli army reservists deep in
southern Lebanon, killing two
soldiers and wounding 16
others, the military command
said Tuesday.
The attack came Monday
afternoon near the town of Has-
baya, about 7 miles north of the
Israeli border. It was the latest in
a series of attacks on Israeli
troops and brought to 504 the
number of Israeli soldiers killed
since the invasion of Lebanon 13
months ago.
The Israeli military said the
remote-controlled bomb, esti
mated to have explosive charges
of up to 150 pounds, exploded
as a convoy passed, overturning
one troop-carrying truck where
two soliders were killed and 16
wounded.
Israel Radio said the convoy
consisted of three trucks and
two jeeps. Hasbaya lies in the
heart of a proposed security
zone, extending 27 miles north
of the Israeli border, which
Israeli seeks in southern Leba
non to ensure the safety of its
northern border settlements.
Israel has been considering
redeploying its 30,000 troops in
Lebanon to the security zone to
reduce casualties in the Beirut
area and the Shouf Mountains
near the capital.
In Christian east Beirut, three
motorists were killed and several
others wounded when artillery
shells from Syrian-controlled
mountains overlooking the city
pounded the Beirut Nahr el
Kalb coastal road during rush-
hour.
“Three innocent civilians
were killed and four others
wounded by indiscriminate
shelling. The civilians were
motorists returning home
a long weekend,” official
Radio said.
Rightist radio stations,iiK
ing the Voice of Free Let®,
controlled by the Chi
Lebanese Forces militia ac:
Phalangist Party’s Voitt
Lebanon, blamed the she
on Syrian forces and theitlf
Lebanese allies.
Cotton PIK problems addressed
United Press International
WASH INGTON — Amid cri
ticism of its payment-in-kind
program, the Agriculture De
partment unveiled details of a
plan to address problems associ
ated with the payments to cotton
farmers.
Everett Rank, executive vice
president of the department’s
Commodity Credit Corp., said
special “harvest for PIK” loans
will be offered to cotton farmers
who did not put enough cotton
under price support loans to
satisfy their PIK requirements.
. Under this year’s farm prog
ram, farmers are being given
government-owned commod
ities if they reduce their plant
ings. Difficulty for cotton arose
because the government had too
little cotton with which to make
PIK payments.
Problems with the cotton
program have angered many
cotton producers as evidenced
by complaints voiced Monday by
Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Texas,
chairman of the House Agricul
ture Committee.
In a brief speech in the
House, de la Garza complained
that thousands of cotton far
mers were told they could enroll
in the payment-in-kind prog
ram without worrying about the
possibility the government
would take over their 1983 cot
ton crops.
Even though the takeover
provision was included in the
payment-in-kind contracts they
signed with the government,
Agriculture Department offi
cials had told some farmers it
was unlikely the provision would
be ordered into effect. As a re
sult, those farmers have already
signed contracts to sell their cot
ton to private merchants.
“This is happening after far
mers enrolled in a government
program with assurances from
government officials,” de la Gar
za said. “Now, because circumst
ances have changed, the assur
ances turn out to be wrong.”
The problem could be cor
rected through passage of legis
lation to require the department
to reopen bids to acquire more
cotton from producers, he said.
The department’s plan
enumerated by Rank will pro
vide two options to farmers who
are required to harvest 1983 cot
ton for PIK but do not want a
regular loan. When a special
loan is made, farmers may re
ceive PIK cotton immediately
and proceeds of sale of cotton to
the government after PIK cot
ton is available.
Under the second option, the
producer may receive the pro
ceeds immediately and the PIK
cotton after the PIK availability
date.
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ROME — The Italian judge
investigating the 1981 attemp
ted assassination of Pope John
Paul II flew unexpectedly to
Bulgaria amid what a lawyer
said were new developments in
the case.
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Judge Ilario Martella’s sur
prise departure Monday came
just three days after Turkish ter
rorist Mehmet Ali Agca, the con
victed papal attacker, made his
first public statement that the
Bulgarian secret services and
the Soviet KGB were behind the
shooting.
“Something important has
happened in the case,” said
Giuseppe Consolo, the attorney
representing Bulgarian airline
official Sergei Antonov, impris
oned in Italy for suspected com
plicity in the attack.
“There are definitely new de
velopments,” Consolo said in a
telephone interview. He said he
could not elaborate.
Martella, heading the 14
month-old investigation into the
May 13, 1981, shooting in St. Pe
ter’s Square, flew to the Bulga
rian capital of Sofia late Monday
for the first time on what judicial
sources said would be a one-
week visit.
He was accompanied by De
puty State Prosecutor Antonio
Albano, an officer of the Euro
pean police organization Inter
pol, another unnamed Italian
judicial official and an inter-
pretor.
Consolo said Martella and his
entourage “just rushed out” of
Italy.
Consolo said he had submit
ted four written requests to Mar
tella to travel to Bulgaria but
that the judge had always re
fused.
“Our bests witnesses are
there. But he never wanted to
go,” Consolo said. “But now, it’s
different.”
Agca told reporters Friday
that Antonov, 35, was in St. Pe
ter’s Square with him the day he
shot and wounded the pope. He
also said he was trained “by spe
cial experts of international ter
rorism” in Syria.
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Mall for children ages 6 to 14. All participating youngstenEj^j j
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of stock worth about $42,000. Harrison, Class of’47,saidi itarter batt
funds w ill be added to a scholarship endowment thatIrEPuhl hac
founded in 1972 in honor of his parents, Dr. and Mnilng a lead
Henry Harrison Jr.
The overall fund now totals more than $ 188,000 aKf j
provides support for a President’s Endowed Scholarship!
Twelth Man Scholarship and several scholarships in tkf
College of Medicine and the College of Veterinary Mediant
Dr. Harrison Jr., Class of’20, was the first recipientoli]
veterinary medicine degree at Texas A&M.
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in Bryan’s Sadie Thomas Park Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Tuning of
program will feature music from the Renaissance to Wednesday,
present and will mix a variety of solo works with ensembkr
performances. The public is encouraged to bring picnil
baskets and lawn chairs to the park which is located on0l|
Reliance Road.
Swim meet Saturday at Adamson
Pool
The second annual Masters of Brazos Long CourseSwit
Meet will be held Saturday and Sunday at Adamson Poolif
Bee Creek Park. The meet begins at 5 p.m. on Saturday an |
9 a.m. Sunday.
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MOSCOW — A hijadfl
seized a Soviet airline this!
in a abortive attempt to ^
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passengers and crew a» [
accomplice was overpo*'
Tass disclosed Tuesday. |
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Tass said the pair
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applied for asylum inW^I
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