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The decision to approve a partial
pullback of Israel’s 30,000 troops in
Lebanon came a day after Prime
Minister Menachem Begin cancelled
his planned summit next week with
President Reagan.
The United States and the Lebanse
government of President Amin
Gemayel strongly oppose any Israeli
redeployment, saying it would lead to
the permanent partitioning of
Lebanon.
Gemayel was in Washington today
for meetings with congressional lead
ers before a personal talk with Reagan
on Friday.
Begin’s spokesman had said the
prime minister would not be going to
Washington for “personal reasons”
but Israeli newspapers reported the
prime minister cancelled the visit in
preparation for “a big surprise.”
Israeli press reports have said the
redeployment of Israeli troops from
the central Lebanese Shouf moun
tains and Beirut area would be con
ducted in stages over a two-month
period.
While the bulk of the Israeli forces
in Lebanon would move south of the
Awali, the Israelis were not expected
to abandon their positions in the east
ern Bekaa Valley, where they are
squared off against thousands of Sy
rian troops.
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forecast
Mostly clear skies today with a high
of93. Tonight’s low near 73. Clear
to partly cloudy skies Friday with a
high near 93. A 20 percent chance
of showers or thunderstorms from
late Friday through Saturday.
Soviets to release
Greenpeace activists
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union
has agreed to release one Canadian
and six American members of Green
peace International seized on the
Siberian coast while filming a whaling
station, the U.S. Embassy said today.
“The Foreign Ministry has said it is
willing to release the seven environ
mentalists,” an embassy spokesman
said. “They apparently will be allowed
to depart on their own vessel. All that
remains is for the specifics to be work
ed out.”
The activists were detained Mon
day while attempting to gather proof
that Moscow violates rules of the In
ternational Whaling Commission.
The Soviet Foreign Ministry Wednes
day advised the embassy the environ
mentalists had been detained, not
arrested.
The State Department said the
Soviets had suggested a transfer site
in the Bering Sea where the Green
peace ship, the Rainbow Warrior,
might be allowed to pick up the seven,
Greenpeace spokesman Patrick
Moore said.
Weapons talks ‘don’t
provide great hope’
by Eric Evan Lee
Battalion Reporter
Arms control talks do not provide
any great hope, says a Texas A&M
professor.
Dr. William Snyder, an associate
professor of political science, says he
is not optimistic about arms control
talks, despite an apparent change in
the administration’s arms control
policy.
The record of arms agreements do
not give any solid ground for great
optimism, Snyder said.
The past record of arms control
with the Soviets has led to more prob
lems for the future, he said.
Those problems, he said, include
the creation of newer, more modern
weapons, which make future agree
ments harder to achieve.
When The Strategic Arms Limita
tion Talks were negotiated, he said,
the number of missile launchers was
limited, thus encouraging the two su
perpowers to develop multiple war
head devices since a limited number
of rockets could be built.
Snyder said Reagan has shifted his
arms control policy to try and revert
to reliance on single warhead missiles
saying that more missiles lauchers will
act as deterrents to an attack.
He said he agrees with Reagan’s
policy, and said it’s a sensible
approach for the United States to
take.
The best idea yet, Snyder said, is
that of Sen. Henry M. Jackson to
establish a U.S.-Soviet crisis center.
The two nations would have a station
manned by both Russians and Amer
icans where the two countries could
inform each other of testing and man
euvers in advance, to prevent false
alarms of war among the nations.
Snyder said such a program would
be effective because it would provide
Washington and the Kremlin with
another contact.
Col. Donald L. Burton, Corps
commandant, who agreed with
Reagan’s poliyy of reducing arms,
said “there have got to be cuts.”
The problem with a halt of arms,
Burton said, is that neither side is will
ing to concede that they are at the
point they need to be.
Snyder said any cuts would have to
be equal for both countries.
The problem is that both countries
have different strong points, and cut
ting equal amounts of the same type
of weapons would not be fair, or
agreeable to the countries, he said.
Regents meet to discuss
name change of institute
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
The authorization to redesignate
the Institute of Statistics as the De
partment of Statistics will be discussed
by the Texas A&M Board of Regents
when they meet on Sunday. The re
gents will meet for three days in the
Regent’s Annex adjacent to the
Memorial Student Center.
The recommendation for approv
al of the name change was approved
by the Academic Council. If
approved by the regents, the request
will be sent before the state Coordi
nating Board, which was established
by the Texas Legislature to coordin
ate the affairs of the 37 Texas state
colleges and universities.
All administrative decisions re
garding programs, courses and build
ing must be approved by the Coordi
nating Board.
Because the Institute of Statistics is
the only academic unit in the Univer
sity designated as an institute, the
change to Department of Statistics
would make the identification of
academic units within the University
uniform.
Other discussion items on the
agenda that require the Coordinating
Board’s approval include consolida
tion of the industrial and vocational
education programs, renaming the
Department of Industrial Education
and authorization to offer a Bachelor
of Fine Arts Degree in Music, Art,
and Theater at Tarleton State Uni
versity.
The consolidation of the industrial
and vocational educational programs
— both of which are in the College of
Education — will be named the De
partment of Industrial, Vocational
and Technical Education. Programs
in the department include education
al technology, industrial education,
technical education and vocational
education — all of which have been
approved by the Coordinating Board.
The authorization to establish a
new undergraduate fine arts degree
program at Tarleton would make
Tarleton the second university in
Texas to offer a B.F.A. in all three
areas.
The regents will meet Sunday at
1:30 p.m., Monday at 8:30 a.m. and
Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
MX survives crucial vote
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The MX mis
sile survived another crucial vote in
the House, but its opponents say the
momentum is turning against the
nuclear weapon.
The House late Wednesday re
jected 220-207 an amendment to a
military spending bill that would have
cut out $2.5 billion for production of
the first 27 MX missiles.
The Senate scheduled a vote today
on a petition filed by Republican lead
er Howard Baker to choke off debate
on the MX. Another petition was filed
to allow a second attempt Friday if
today’s vote does not succeed.
The House rejected an amend
ment by Reps. Nicholas Mavroules,
D-Mass., andCharles Bennett, D-Fla.,
that would have deleted $2.5 billion
for procurement of 27 MX missiles
but retained $2 billion in research
funds.
But the margin of rejection was
much narrower than the 239-186 tally
in May by which the House approved
flight testing funds for the missile.
MX opponents said they hope to
carry the momentum through Sep
tember, when the House is scheduled
to consider a military appropriations
bill containing MX funding.
“We lost by 53 votes in May. We lost
by 13 votes today. We picked up a vote
a day,” said Rep. Edward Markey, D-
Mass.
He predicted that unless Reagan
makes demonstrable progress on
arms control in the next few months,
“MX will die on the next vote.”
The MX debate, which lasted less
than five hours, came during con
sideration of a $188 billion military
spending bill.
Reagan embraced the panel’s re
commendations for basing 100 MX
missiles in Minuteman silos; deploy
ment of a small, mobile single
warhead missile by the 1990s, and a
renewed commitment to arms con
trol.
House Democratic leader Jim
Wright, who endorsed the flight
testing funds in May and has often
sided with Reagan on foreign policy
issues, was among those who voted to
delete the production funds.
“AH my life I have believed in a
bipartisan foreign policy,” Wright
told his colleagues. “And yet I am
deeply troubled by what I see as a
• policy of painfully misguided priori
ties. For me, at least, the time has
come to say ‘enough.’”
Seventy-three Democrats joined
147 Republicans in voting against the
amendment and for production.
Eighteen Republicans sided with 189
Democrats in voting for the amend
ment.
by Beverly Hamilton
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M will submit a request
to the Coordinating Board Friday to
approve improvements to Easter-
wood Airport, which will cost more
than $200,000.
The airport construction project
will amount to $231,930. Texas
A&M is one of four public coUeges
and universities that will submit con
struction requests to the board for
consideration.
The University also will seek
approval to purchase half an acre of
land and an office and laboratory
building for campus expansion.
Texas A&M’s estimate for the pur
chases is $275,000.
Also among requested acquisi
tions by the University is the purch
ase of three acres of land, at tne cost
of $18,000, to facilitate University
water well operation.
Within the system, Prairie View
A&M will request approval of a
bachelor’s degree in computer en
gineering technology — one of 11
degree programs to be considered
by the board.
In accordance with the state plan
for higher education desegregation,
the board will consider the alloca
tion of $300,000 in matching funds
to public universitites for the re
cruitment of minority students, fa
culty and staff.
The funds will be drawn from the
special lender’s allowance of the
Hinson-Hazelwood College Student
Loan Program.
Also to be considered during the
board meeting is a 42 percent in
crease in the agency’s fiscal 1984
budget. The increase is the result of
an additional $30 million in trusteed
funds appropriated by the legisla
ture.
The board also will consider a
staff reorganization within the
agency that would combine the
senior college, community college
and health affairs divisions into a
Division of Academic and Health
Affairs.
The Coordinating Board sets and
administers policy and monitors
programs for all public higher edu
cation in Texas.
Balloon takes to air to test spacecraft placing ability
United Press International
WHITE SANDS MISSILE
RANGE, N.M. — At dawn Friday a
giant balloon will rise from southeast
ern New Mexico for a test of its ability
to lower a spacecraft into the intense
atmosphere of Jupiter.
A spokesman at the White Sands
Missile Range said the test, which de
pends on good weather, will simulate
the Galileo Atmosphere Probe
Spacecraft which is scheduled for
launching in mid-1986.
Jim Lovelady said Wednesday the
polyethylene balloon which will be
used to take the Galileo spacecraft 19
miles high will eventually transmit in
formation of Jupiter’s atmosphere,
believed to have more than 20 times
more pressure than Earth’s.
The project consists of an orbiter
and atmosphere probe and is sche
duled to reach the planet in 1988 and
give scientists the first data on the
atmosphere of one of the solar sys
tem’s outer planets.
At Friday’s test drop altitude, the
spacecraft, consisting of the Galileo
deceleration module and the descent
module, will separate from the bal
loon, Lovelady said.
Once Air Force technicians launch
the balloon near Roswell, N.M., the
balloon is expected to drift 120 miles
westward over the WSMR. There, in a
sequence designed to duplicate the
mission to Jupiter, telescopes and
cameras will record the probe’s de
ployment and separation, Lovelady
said.
A small pilot parachute will open
and pull the main parachute. A heat
shield and aero-shell structure, part
of the deceleration module, will sepa
rate from the descent module and
float to earth.
Aboard the balloon will be a recov
erable gondola to house the Galileo
probe hardware and provide pre
drop power, movie cameras to record
the drop and other balloon-related
equipment, Lovelady said.
The probe craft will separate from
the parent spacecraft 150 days before
arrival at Jupiter and will fly 200 miles
down into the atmosphere of the
giant planet.