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rne Dattaiion Serving the University community , 77 No. 6 USPS 045360 16 Pages College Station, Texas Thursday, September 8, 1983 Var continues n Lebannon I United Press International I .IRUT, Lebanon — Druze Mos- gunners halted deadly artillery ocket attacks on the multination- ace-keeping troops in Beirut to- xit reports from the mountains the militiamen were advancing te embattled capital. in Syria, U.S. envoy Robert irlane pressed for a total cease- in the fighting east of Beirut, eheavy fighting entered its fifth oday. 'It is very quiet arott nd here,” a ine spokesman said today from teadquarter base at Beirut Inter nal Airport. He said the Marines heir first night of sleep after sev- us of bombardments. The Druze agreement to stop ing the 4,800-member multina il peace-keeping force coincided talks in Damascus late Wednes- between McFarlane and Druze lerWalidJumblatt, A Druze state- n issued in Damascus said. Tie agreement came a few hours rU.S. F-14 Tomcat fighters and nch Super Etendards buzzed the rut area Wednesday in a stern ningto the Moslem gunners who led the French Embassy com- nd, killing a French soldier. ilcFarlane also held two hours of s with President Hafez Assad on a Jceasefire in the Christian-Druze itingintheShouf mountains ov er- ting Beirut, Western diplomatic sources said. More talks may take place today, they said. Reports from the mountain war fronts said the Druze pressed on two fronts today — down the Beirut- Damascus highway toward Beirut and down the coast just south of the city. Syria, along with Palestinian guer rillas, backs the Druze militias in their war against the Lebanese army and the progovernment Phalange- dominated Christian militia for con trol of the Shouf mountains east of Beirut. There was no let up in the fighting Wednesday, which erupted Sunday after Israeli forces swiftly vacated the Shouf hills ending a 15-month occu pation, state-run Beirut Radio said. Four Marines have been killed and a total of 25 wounded in 10 days of fighting around Beirut. Persistent bombardments of multi national forces by Druze gunners, who apparently were often aiming at Lebanese army targets, threatened deeper involvement for the United States, France, Italy and Britain. In Washington, Lebanese and U.S. officials discussed the possibility of “a more active role" for American forces in the area. In Paris, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, reacting to the deaths of two French soldiers following a rocket attack* Wednesday, said French sol diers would fire back “without the slightest doubt” if attacked. didn’t I take the elevator? staff photo by John Makely Any Texas A&M freshman might easily become confused However, these students Wednesday seem to know where by this stairway maze at Harrington Classroom Building. they re going. upply exceeds demand in local market lousing glut makes life easier for renters by Tricia Parker Battalion Reporter Students looking for an apartment this year I find that the search has become easier, inks to a housing glut in the Bryan-College ition area. The area is overbuilt, a research economist k the Texas Real Estate Research Depart- ■ntsays. Approximately 24,000 apartments Idcondominiums are available for lease, but ■ere is only a demand for 19.000. Dr. Arthur ■right said. Wright said the surplus was caused by two factors. A slowdown in the oil industry in the fall of 1982 caused many wot kers to leave the area while, at the same time, new complexes were being built at record rates. The private sector will have to fill the 13,000 vacancies created by the glut, Wright said, because University enrollment is not ex pected to increase significantly. However, that could take up to three years, he said. The current housing oversupply has put economic power in the hands of renters who can now shop around for the best deals. Pre viously, renters had to take what they could get, but now stiff competition to attract resi dents has lowered prices and increased ser vices and benefits for renters. Louanne Schulze, coordinator of the Off- Campus Center, said the number of apart ment complexes has increased from 85 in the fall of 1982 to 120 in the fall of 1983. “In the past, we had a really tight housing market,” Schulze said. “Now there is an ex cess. A few' years ago, most of the apartments were booked up by mid-July. Right now we have 100 empty units on file.” Schulze said prospective renters are so scarce that apartment complexes are trying gimmicks to attract them. Complexes now offer bonuses ranging from free microwave ovens and shuttle bus passes to health club memberships and a vacation trip to Hawaii, she said. But the biggest advantage for price conscious students is that complexes are being forced to reduce rates to attract renters or keep the ones they have, Schulze said. In the fall of 1982, the average rent for an unfurnished, 2-bedroom, 2-bath apartment was $425 per month, the center reported. This fall, however, the rent for the same apartment would be $383, a decrease of 9.9 percent. Schulze said that on the average, rent lias declined 8 percent in the past year. However, effects of the glut have not all been positive. In the past, the Off-Campus Center was able to match up students who needed room mates with those who needed housing, by us ing the center’s card file. Now, she said, since so many apartments are available, fewer students have been check ing the file for available housing. Instead, they rent an apartment alone, hoping to find a roommate later on, only to find that room mates are in as much demand as an empty apartment was a few years ago. Because of this scarcity, Schulze advises stu dents who want a roommate to be sure they have one before they sign a lease. 'hultz arrives in Madrid for first meeting with Soviets since tragedy United Press International Secretary of State George Shultz ar- ived in Madrid Wednesday for a hu- lan rights conference warning Mos- iwhis chief topic will be the downing fa Korean airliner. In South Korea, more than 000 people turned a memorial irvice into an angry anti-Soviet pro- The requiem for the victims in eoulwasthe largest ever in the South iorean capital and came a day after te Kremlin finally admitted its war- lanes shot down the Korean Air ines jumbo jet with 269 people board last Thursday. Thousands of people also demons- rated across Japan, but the Japanese [overnment, concerned about rela tions with Moscow, delayed taking ac tion to protest the shooting down of the jetliner over the northern Sea of Japan. The State Department moved into the fray Tuesday by demanding the Soviets make an “unequivocal apolo gy,” provide a full account of what happened and make restitution to f amilies of the 269 victims. Shultz was in Madrid today to attend the European Security Con ference along with 34 other foreign ministers, who will approve a follow up East-West agreement to the 1975 Helsinki accords on security and hu man rights in Europe. Also among the ministers is Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who will encounter Shultz in the first face-to-face meeting of top American and Soviet officials since the jetliner crisis erupted. Shultz and Gromyko plan a one- hour meeting Thursday arranged long before the jumbo jet went down — but which will now focus on the tragedy. In Seoul, more than 100,000 peo ple, including grief-stricken relatives of the victims, gathered at a municipal stadium for a solemn one-hour memorial service. A priest, a minister and three monks offered prayers. Many wept openly as a daughter of Kim Hee-chul, the doomed plane’s flight engineer, read a condolence let ter to his father in a tearful voice and said: “My happiness was shattered by the Soviet missiles.” But the requiem swiftly turned into a mass protest denouncing Soviet “barbarism,” with demonstrators wearing black ribbons and carrying hundreds of placards, some of which read “Stop Killing, Russians. Get Re tribution.” In Tokyo, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone called a Cabinet task force meeting to consider retaliatory moves. The group met for 40 minutes but broke without a decision. Some 2,500 demonstrators, mostly South Koreans living in Japan, mar ched near the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo to denounce the “massacre.” In western Osaka, about 8,000 South Koreans also rallied and protests were reported in other Japanese cities. inside Around town 6 Classified 8 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 13 Slate 7 What’s up 7 forecast Skies will be partly cloudy today as the mercury climbs to the upper 80s over the upper coast and 90s elsewhere. Weinberger’s tour arrives in U.S.-backed El Salvador United Press International PANAMA CITY, Panama — De fense Secretary Caspar Weinberger’s visit to El Salvador Wednesday came under wartime conditions and in cluded a review of American training and his first close-up look at installa tions staffed by U.S. advisers. Weinberger’s itinerary in El Salva dor featured San Vicente, showcase province of a U.S.-designed pacifica tion program, and lunch with De fense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova aboard the battleship USS New Jersey. He also met with U.S. advisers training 350-man “hunter” units in San Vicente, with members of a 25- man U.S. medical adviser team and with troops of the U.S.-trained Ramon Belloso “immediate reaction” battalion. Weinberger’s whirlwind tour of Panama, El Salvador and Honduras, which began Tuesday, marks the first trip by a U.S. defense chief to the war-ravaged region that President Reagan has called strategically impor tant to American interests. Although Weinberger said he has no specific mission in his three days of meetings with leaders of the three na tions, he will make a point of visiting U.S. troops stationed in the region. He denied his trip to Central America was designed to plug the administration’s request for addition al military and economic aid to El Sal vador, pending before Congress. In fiscal 1983, El Salvador’s gov ernment is receiving $110 million in U.S. military aid to fight leftist rebels who have waged nearly four years of war. Weinberger said he did not see a need for increasing the number of U.S advisers in El Salvador beyond the administration’s self-imposed limit of 55 as long as training of Salva doran troops can continue in neigh boring Honduras. He earlier called the deaths of two more Marines in Lebanon “a source of great sadness,” but said he saw no reason for the administration to ask Congress for permission to keep the Marines in Lebanon. Weinberger spent most of his first day in Central America with U.S. troops in Panama, attending Army briefings, watching jungle warfare demonstrations and occasionally shaking the hands of soldiers, intro ducing himself like a candidate on the campaign trail. After a courtesy call on Panama nian President Ricardo de la Espriel- la, Weinberer later changed into wrinkled khaki trousers, combat boots and an army helmet and squished through the ankle-high mud of the rain-swollen jungle to wit ness a live-fire sniper demonstration. The excercise was conducted by troops of the 193rd Infantry Brigade, guardians of the Panama canal, at the jungle operations training center situ ated at the Caribbean Ocean end of the 52-mile-long canal. The United States has retained all of its bases in what was known as the Canal Zone before a new treaty was signed with Panama in 1979. Under the treaty, responsibility for the de fense of the waterway will be handed over to Panama at the end of the cen tury. Research park director named by Ronnie Crocker Battalion Staff The search for a director of the Texas A&M System’s new high- technology research park has en ded. Dr. Mark L. Money has been named to the position and will start on Oct. 15. Chancellor Emeritus Frank Hubert, chairman of the Texas A&M System’s Industrial Park De velopment Committee, headed the search that brought Money here. He said Money is qualified for the director’s job because he has spent many years at another suc cessful university research park and knows about the “academic as well as the real estate aspects” of the plan. Money has headed the Univer sity of Utah Research Park for the past 12 years. That park expanded under his leadership and currently consists of 30 research-related companies housed in 17 buildings. Research and development of the first artificial heart, which was used successfully in an operation in Salt Lake City, took place at the Utah park under Money’s direc tion. Money’s official title will be vice chancellor for research park and corporate relations. Valerie Nel son will be Money’s administrative assistant. Money said he is looking for ward to leading the development of the research facility here. “I welcome the opportunity to use my experience in the develop ment of a university-related park in the exciting environment of Texas A&M,” Money said. Hubert said Money will be here for the whole project, which in cludes the planning and procure ment of companies as well as the operation once everything is underway. A research park is similar to an industrial park in that several com panies are located jn a central area. All the companies in a research park are connected with research Dr. Mark L. Money and technology, but there are none of the big trucks or heavy equipment moving through the area as there is in an industrial park. Hubert said the plan for the University park is to “seek out re search organizations from busi ness and industry whose research goals are compatible with those of the University.” He also said the companies’ pre sence will provide additional Uni versity research and additional jobs for Texas A&M graduates and graduate students. Money received his doctorate from the University of Utah in 1970 with his dissertation, “A Model for a University-Related Research Park within a Frame work of Selected Management Principles.” He also has an MBA degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University. Money is a colonel in the Army Reserve, and is married with four children.