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f; re ail -rcent beyond its* . when the not era The Battalion m the week, m and othercorr ■ ac ting on orders imped a lid o n ink |,77No. 5 USPS 045360 20 Pages Ion t know whai^ told a newsconfcS ik it is better to wr i reports arecoui Americai. union attorneyi I Serving the University community College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 7,1983 court suit uned the riot ( worsened by“ak including heat ■ food facUidi nc. illage of Hope’ fund ■Irive begins at A&M ng Cznte.il! dent by Karen Schrimsher Battalion Staff n April, Texas A&M organizations ^^dged to raise $25,000 for the ristian Children’s Fund. The cam- ^ i-wide fund drive begins Monday. Although the CCF plan has been to pchildren "one at a time” through lividual sponsorships, the sum sed by Aggies will be used to spon- an entire village in Columbia, ith America. “So far, the response has been ex- lent," said Dr. Robert Kellner, idinator of the fund drive. “This will be the very first project Trade :ones sought United Press International WASHINGTON — An examiners mmittee of the Foreign-Trade ties Board will hold a meeting (ursday in Laredo, Texas to consid- requests from four Texas border eas seeking foreign trade zone itus. A foreign trade zone is an area itside U.S. Customs Service terri- ry where importers or manufactur- may bring in goods exempt from stoms duties until they are officially (ported into the United States. The lodsalso may be re-exported. The goods usually are reviewed, oredor added in a manufacturing ocess before Customs duty is asses- don a final product. Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo and to Grande City have all filed re- jests for the zones. John Da Ponte Jr., executive sec tary of the board, said after this eek’s hearing, the record will be pt open for another 30 days for uhlic comment and then a report id recommendations will be pre- ared for the U.S. Commerce De- artment, which will make the final ecision. “Ordinarily, given the number of tses that we have pending, it would : about five months before a deci- on is made unless there is an issue aisedon manufacturing operations," id Da Ponte. The four applicants say they cur- mtly want the foreign trade status nly for warehousing and distribu- on purposes. Manufacturing re- uests would be considered on a case- y-case basis. Foreign zone status already is held lyseven other Texas areas — Brown- , McAllen, Galveston, El Paso, is-Fort Worth, San Antonio and larris County. There are 87 foreign rade zones nationwide. lePass wants a general purpose breign-trade zone in Maverick iounty, adjacent to the Eagle Pass aistoms port of entry. The zone mild include five sites totaling 1,380 icres, including 1,100 acres at the -lavenck County Airport. It will be Jperated by the nonprofit Maverick County Development Corp. “Local firms have indicated an in to in using the zone for warehous ing-distribution and the processing of construction materials and apparel. No approval is being requested for manufacturing at this time,” officials said. inside Around town. Classified.... Local Opinions.... Sports State What’s up.... 8 10 3 2 15 3 9 forecast Cloudy today with intermittant rain. High near 90. in Columbia,” Kellner said. Kellner hopes to enlist the support of the Aggie Mothers Club and the Association of Former Students. The Catholic Student Association, the Intrafraternal Council, the Corps of Cadets, and other organizations have pledged support for the project. Kellner has been invited to speak be fore the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at 8:30 pm in the Memorial Student Center. Founded in 1938 by a Presbyterian minister from Richmond, Va., CCF was originally the China Children’s Fund. The first CCF project was feed ing several hundred orphans. Forty-four years later, CCF boasts of sponsoring over 280,000 children in 980 projects worldwide. Kellner, a Texas A&M English pro fessor, started working with CCF seven years ago while teaching at Col umbia College in Columbia, Mo. He and several concerned students formed a club, and raised $500 to sponsor two children. “When I got here, I wanted to do the same thing,” Kellner, who was raised in an orphanage, said. “To use publicity to galvanize students to organize, and give a small child — 100 children — a better life.” Kellner calls his idea the “Village of Hope.” He said the $25,000 figure was taken from the idea that if each student, staff and faculty member would donate 50 cents, the money would be raised easily. Don Murray, public relations man ager for CCF, said he was skeptical at first about Kellner’s idea. “When he first broached it to me my concern was whether the mechan ism CCF has for Tunneling money would permit that kind of thing,” he said. See CCF page 1 One count dropped in civil rights trial United Press International HOUSTON — One count of civil rights violations against a former San Jacinto County sheriff, accused along with three of his former deputies of torturing pris oners, has been dropped. The defense planned to open its case in the trial today, with more than 30 lawyers, judges, law enforcement offic ers and prosecutors subpoenaed to testify. Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Woodward rested his case Tuesday against former Sheriff James “Humpy” Parker, 47, and the former deputies, and U.S. District J udge James DeAnda dropped one of the multiple counts against Parker due to a lack of evidence. Also on trial are former deputies Carl Lee, Floyd Baker and James Glover in the alleged torture of six prisoners for confessions between 1976 and 1980. The last of six alleged victims testified against the four defendants Tuesday. James Hicks, 33, a construction woker, testified the defendants draped a towel on his face and poured water on it until he thought he would drown. Hicks also testified he was beaten by one deputy who tried to shackle his hands and feet. The indictment charged them with placing towels over the faces of handcuffed prisoners and pouring water into the towel until they confessed. Unlike the other prisoners, Hicks said the torture done to him was over a floor drain, which eliminated any trace of the water poured over his face and onto the floor. Challenger’s condition OK after mission United Press International SPACE CENTER, Houston — Except for persistent plumbing problems, the space shuttle Chal lenger checked out in its best post flight condition yet following a six- day, 2.5 million mile mission. “It’s been coming through bet ter the last several flights. This one looks even better,” said Herman K. Widick, ground manager at Ken nedy Space Center, after inspect ing Challenger at its Edwards Air Force Base, Calif, landing site. The orbiter came through the landing cleaner than usual, Widick said, with only a few nicks and pockmarks, “all repairable.” He said experience is easing the fol low-up work after each mission. “We don’t really know exactly what the damage is going to be (before landing),” Widick said Tuesday. "When it comes back, we find out where there was a prob lem. Then you analyze that parti cular problem and improve. “It should continue to get better.” Tuesday, Widick said officials still had not decided what to do about the repeatedly troublesome space shuttle toilet. Also, Widick said 27 heat shield tiles will have to be repaired or re placed, a relatively small number. He said a propellant leak in two of Challenger’s steering thrusters was barely detectable, but would force a 16-hour delay in Challen- f er’s return to Florida’s Kennedy pace Center while the thruster manifolds are drained. The leak was discovered during the mission when instruments de tected a drop in the thrusters’ pressure. He said the propellant leak amounted to only about one- tenth of a pound per hour and was not considered serious. Widick said one of Challenger’s brakes, damaged on its previous mission, would be removed and shipped to the manufaturer for testing even though there were no E roblems during Monday’s inding. The five-man crew took the day off Tuesday in preparation for a week of debriefings that starts Wednesday and ends next Tues day with a postflight news confer- Widick said his team will shoot for a four-day turnaround at Ed wards — it would be the fastest ever — and hoped to have the Challenger piggyback aboard its carrier Boeing 747 for takeoff Friday. The previous fastest turnar ound at Edwards was five days on the last mission. Challenger will make a refueling stop en route from California to Florida either at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas or Altus AFB, Okla., Widick said. Reagan continues pressure, demands Soviet apology United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan, not satisfied with the latest Soviet explanation, is keeping the pressure on the Kremlin to make a complete apology for shooting down a South Korean passenger jet. An administration spokesman branded as “lies and half truths” the latest Soviet statement on the missile- attack of Korean Air Lines flight 007 with 269 aboard. Reagan made no public appear ances Tuesday but met with the Na tional Security Council to assess rami fications of the plane tragedy and the volatile situation in Lebanon, where two more Marines were killed earlier in the day. That brought to four the total number of Marines killed in the past 10 days in Lebanon. In the past few' days since the plane was shot down, the president and Soviet leaders have engaged in some of the harshest East-West dialogue since the Cold War with the confron tation casting a pall on what had been budding attempts to revive detente. Reagan described the Soviet action as “barbaric . uncivilized . savagery.” Soviet officials, in a Tass news agency dispatch, described the presi dent as an “ignoramous” in the con tinuing war of words. Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, who delivered the Reagan response to the latest Soviet explanation, said the Soviet Union “continues to lie to the world, but also raises the most serious questions ab out the competence of the Soviet air defense system, with all the danger that implies.” The first White House reaction to the Soviet admission that one of its fighter jets had downed the plane — six days after the fact — came from deputy press secretary Larry Speakes, who said: “It’s about time they owned up to it. It’s about time they owned up to taking 269 lives.” Texas Attorney General advises Galveston owners not to rebuild Silver Taps staff photo by Mike Davis Freshmen in the Corps are required to learn the names of students honored during Silver Taps. Scott Marlow, a freshman in Squadron 16, copies the names of the students honored during Tuesday’s ceremony. Chrysler OKs deal for wage increases United Press International GALVESTON — Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox told Galveston Island beach-house owners not to re pair or rebuild their homes, which were washed away by Hurricane Alicia. Mattox said Tuesday the homes now may be on public land because of the storm erosion. State law says no one can own property between the mean low tide line and the natural vegetation line on Texas beaches. Hurricane Alicia eroded beaches as much as 75 to 100 feet. City and county officials accompa nied Mattox as he surveyed the beaches, but upset property owners told the attorney general that, given time, the sand eroded from the beaches will be driven back to shore, taking some of the disputed prop erties out of the area governed by the open beaches law. It is estimated that as many as 300 structures might be affected. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chief William Wooley said the corps has been been doing studies on ero sion on the Texas coast for many years, but said “even if the sand is replaced on the beaches by nature, it would be a difficult question as to where the natural vegetation line will be re-established.” Wooley said if the eroded sand stal led near the damaged beaches, it could be carried back ashore by nor mal waves. But if sand was taken far offshore by waves the hurricane cre ated, Wooley said “it might be lost forever.” United Press International DETROIT — Chrysler Corp. offi cials say they cannot afford a $1 bil lion contract granting wage and be nefit increases to its workers but agreed to the settlement to avoid a strike. The 170-member Chrysler Coun cil approved the pact Tuesday — one day after bargainers reached agree ment. The contract goes to members for a vote Sept. 13 and, if approved, will take effect Sept. 19. Owen Bieber, president of the Un ited Auto Workers union, and local leaders predicted workers would overwhelmingly ratify the contract, which Bieber called “a good, honor able settlement.” With Chrysler no longer in danger of bankruptcy, workers had been de manding they be compensated for concessions made during the hard times. The contract grants 85,000 ac tive and laid-off U.S. workers parity with wage and benefit levels paid at the other Big Three automakers. Chrysler Vice President Thomas Miner told reporters Chrysler wanted to avoid a walkout in January just as key new products are being intro duced. Miner said the pact will cost $1 bil lion over its two-year life. For the typical U.S. worker making $9.85 an hour, the contract will mean an in crease to $12.27 by 1985. The conti :u r will mean an immedi ate $1 per hour wage increase re troactive to Aug. 15, and additional wage increases of $1.42 an hour along with cost of living adjustments over the two vears of the contract, which expires in 1985. The total package will mean esti mated wage and cost-of-living be nefits averaging $8,625 per worker over the life of the agreement. ‘Lecturers tend to come and go’ Faculty turnover up slightly by Christine Mallon Battalion Staff Texas A&M made about 200 fa culty changes this fall, a University official says. Dean of Faculties Clinton A. Phillips said although there have been many promotions within the University most of the new faculty members came to Texas A&M from other colleges and universi ties. “The bulk of the new faculty is replacements for positions that were vacated,” Phillips said. “Lec turers tend to come and go, and that’s where a lot of our turnover takes place.” Phillips estimated that the num ber of new faculty this semester is only about 25 more than at the same time last year. Phillips said the University “aggressively recruits” new faculty members from around the coun try and the world. Some new faculty members have been brought from places as varying as Italy and Israel. Dr. Zvi Altshuler, visiting associ ate professor of mathematics, for merly was a senior lecturer at Heb rew University in Jerusalem. Dr. James Burk, visiting assistant pro fessor of sociology, held the same rank at McGill University in Quebec, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Helmut Karzel, visiting professor of mathematics, was formerly at the University of Brescia in Italy. Dr. Helmut Shaefer, visiting pro fessor of mathematics, was re cruited from the Mathematisches Institut, Universitat Tubingen in Germany. Phillips said to recruit faculty to Texas A&M, most departments run ads in technical journals or list their availabilities with associa tions. For example, an opening for an agronomy professor may be listed in one of the American Soci ety of Agronomists’ reports. Phillips said there have been a few major appointments made along with other faculty changes. Mr. Taft Benson is the new Di rector of Student Financial Aid. Dr. Brian Blouet is now head of the geography department. Dr. M. Charles Gilbert is head of the geol ogy department. Dr. Grant Vest is the new head of the horticulture department and TSgt. Rollen Lipscomb is head of cadet records.