retie seas. Oil spills
° 1 narrow water chan
ice and
tra\el.
' Tar pley also!
e thei
irrow's only veterinarl^ol. 78 No. 11 USPS 045360 20 pages
nt six weeks ■ ’ *
The Battalion
Serving the University community
studying
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 15, 1983
l<1 in San Diego.,
L>ify dealt with
s unique to the (
,on « rabies ™ ^
w the Arctic fox andu aJT
ised hy sewage «ini
s in an area where th
<> water pipelines.
ike
1UFHERS
N CAR SPECIALIST
rnm
lashow scheduled
o visit next week
•FITS MANY
SMALL CADS
AT (
participating
dealers
FOREIGN CARS
CUSTOM DUALS
HEAVY DUTY SHOCKS
ISTOM PIPE BENDING
d... 775-0188
rCASES
S-8PM
by Kathy Wiesepape
Battalion Staff
Nobel Prize-winning Harvard physi-
Sheldon Glashow, will be at Texas
(M next week for the first of eight
-week visits scheduled for the year.
Glashow, who received the Nobel
ize in 1979, will head up a group of
ecialists in the area of particle phy-
;, Peter McIntyre, associate profes-
of physics, said. The four other
mbers of the group also will be here
extended visits during the year.
McIntyre said the physics depart
ed will try to arrange the visits to
incide as much as possible so the
oupcan have several test runs to see if
ey are able to work well as a team.
Eventually Texas A&M hopes to re-
uit the visiting scientists as penna
nt faculty members, he said.
“If they succeed, and if we are able to
Ip them with the things that they
ed, there’s a possibility that we may
rsuade some or all of them to stay, he
fexas A&M received national atten-
photo by University News Service
Dr. Sheldon Glashow
tion last year when Glashow was quoted
by the Harvard Crimson as saying Texas
A&M had offered him a salary package
rivaling the one offered to Athletic Di
rector and Head Football Coach Jackie
Sherrill. Glashow later said he had been
misquoted.
However, Glashow met with Texas
A&M President Frank E. Vandiver and
other University officials to discuss th6
possibility of spending his year-long
sabbatical at Texas A&M. The discus
sions were part of an effort to bring out
standing faculty members to Texas
A&M.
Texas A&M was later upstaged by the
University of Houston, when UH offi
cials announced that Glashow had
agreed to take the position of “affiliated
senior scientist at the University of
Houston Central Campus College of
Natural Sciences and Mathmatics.’’
Under the agreement, Glashow will
spend one week a year at UH and be a
long-distance consultant for the rest of
the year.
Glashow's second visit is scheduled
for Oct. 3-7, McIntyre said, with the
remaining six visits to be spread
throughout the year.
ieadquarters dedication
banned for Saturday
.staff photo by Guy Chandler Hood
by Wanda Winkler
Battalion Staff
Die Texas A&M University Press will
dicate its new headquarters as the
in H. Lindsey Building at 1:30 p. m.
turday.
The dedication ceremony will he in
idder Forum, followed by an open
use in the Lindsey Building, on the
utheast comer of Duncan field on
is Street.
The Frank H. Wardlaw Collection of
:xas Art will be on display during the
house. Wardlaw established the
iversity of South Carolina Press in
jjihS, the University of Texas Press in
iO and Texas A&M’s press in 1974.
Wardlaw “should be in the Book of
'orld Records for founding three Uni-
rsitypresses,” Lloyd G. Lyman, dire-
jor of the press, says.
He saved the best for last, ” Lyman
jThe press, previously within the
Ixas A&M System, recently became
Irt of the University. The administra-
■echange means Lyman will report to
■esident Frank E. Vandiver instead of
lancellor Arthur G. Hansen.
Lyman said the press, with at least
ISbooks in print, is committed to serv
ing the scholarly community and gener
al readers throughout Texas and the
Southwest.
“Very few university presses have de
veloped as quickly as us,” Lyman said.
The press has published about 20 ti
tles a year and 12 more are planned for
publication this fall. Faculty, former
students and the Board of Regents
strongly support the facility, he said.
“They seem to like us, and we re
proud of it. ”
Anyone can submit a manuscript to
the press, regardless of experience,
occupational status or financial re
sources. Each manuscript is evaluated
by at least one expert in that particular
field.
When a manuscript receives a posi
tive evaluation, it is submitted to the
University Press Committee for
approval. Publication depends on the
quality of the manuscript, Lyman said.
The committee consists of faculty
members from Texas A&M, Prairie
View A&M University, Texas A&M
University at Galveston and Tarleton
State University. After a manuscript is
approved, the press can publish the
work.
The majority of manuscripts recom
mended by the press are approved, Ly
man said. The facility publishes non
fiction books about Texas, economics,
natural history, veterinary medicine
and the Southwest. The University
president and at least 20 faculty mem
bers have published works through the
press.
Regional books are a specialty of the
press. They include “Texas Wildlife,”
“Coastal Texas,” and “Landscapes of
Texas. ”
“I’m very optimistic about the future
of the press, and I think it will continue
to grow and be an increasingly impor
tant part of Texas A&M,” Lyman says.
In June, the press began distributing
new books and backlist books of Rice
University Studies, Texas Christian
University Press and the Texas State
Historical Assocation.
The original University Press head
quarters was in the old Board of Dire
ctors Building, the current site of Hob
by and Neeley halls. But in 1979, when
it was destroyed by fire, the press was
moved in to several mobile trailers lo
cated north of Hotard Hall, behind the
Northgate Pos$ Office. In April, it was
moved to its current location.
Aggie skydiving
The Sport Parachute Club held a demonstration jump
on the polo field Wednesday evening. Jumping from an
altitude of 8000 feet, the chutists free fell to 2000 feet
before opening their chutes.
Gramm
assembles
financiers
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. Phil
Gramm, R-Texas, announced Tuesday
he has named 37 supporters to an “ex
ploratory finance committee” to gauge
possible support for a bid to win the
U.S. Senate seat of John Tower, who
has decided to retire.
Gramm is expected to decide within
the next two weeks whether to enter the
race for Tower’s seat following the five-
term senator’s announcement last
month that he planned to step down for
personal reasons.
The list of Gramm suppporters in
clude Texas Rangers owner and oilman
Eddie Chiles of Fort Worth, Hunt Oil
President Ray Hunt of Dallas and Mesa
Petroleum Chairman Boone Pickens of
Amarillo.
“I am honored that so many men and
women who have played such major
roles in the economic and political
growth of our state have urged me to
run and offered to serve on this explora
tory committee, seeking further
pledges of support” Gramm said.
The former Texas A&M economics
professor switched to the Republican
Party earlier this year after Democrats
threw him off the House Budget Com
mittee. He won a special election to
regain his seat.
Several Democrats have announced
their intentions to seek Tower’s seat and
Gramm’s fellow GOP congressman,
Ron Paul of Houston, announced his
candidacy immediately after Tower
announced his retirement last month.
Soviet Union purchases
100.000 tons of wheat
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Un
ion has bought another 100,000 metric
tons of wheat as part of active buying of
American grain under a new five-year
grain agreement, the Agriculture De
partment said Wednesday.
It was the second annnouncement
this week of a Soviet purchase of Amer
ican grain from private exporters at un
disclosed prices. On Tuesday, officials
announced the Kremlin bought 135,000
tons of American corn.
The most recent purchases continue
a flurry of sales since Sept. 1, the day the
Soviets shot down a Korean jetliner.
President Reagan has said the airliner
incident will not jeopardize the grain
deal.
The recent sales add up to 2.585
million tons of grain — 1.635 million
tons of corn and the rest wheat—as well
as 390,000 tons of soybeans.
Under the agreement, the Soviets
are obligated to buy at least 8 million
tons of grain and 500,000 tons of soy
beans a year and can buy up to 12 mil
lion tons of grain without specific U.S.
permission.
The Agriculture Department also
announced the sale of 250,000 tons of
wheat to unknown destinations, which
could possibly turn out to be the Soviet
Union, as well.
sticated
orth
ollars.
gjger chal-
ot more
y than
ttions give
le rewards
io. There’s
nefits,
3 starting
nost com-
; of college.
Dromo-
alary will
131,000.
w, through
>ur skills)
ortunities
our edu-
iing the
f attending
ool while
Navy,
st take a
a Navy
ake charge-
staff photo by John Makely
Kind of confusing
Marc Henn, a graduate exchange student from West
Germany majoring in mechanical engineering looks at
the engine of a 1983 GTI Volkswagen in the Texas A&M
Sports Car Club’s show Wednesday by Rudder fountain.
Fate of foreigners unknown
Planes collide in China, 10 die
United Press International
PEKING — A Chinese airliner col
lided with a military aircraft on the run
way of Guilin airport in southern China
Thursday, killing 10 people and injuring
21 others, the official Xinhua news
agency said.
The agency said foreigners were
among the 100 passengers on board, but
it was not immediately known if fore
igners were among the dead or injured.
The plane, a British-made Trident
jetliner, collided with the military air
craft as it was about to leave Guilin, a
popular tourist resort, for Peking,
Xinhua said.
It was the fifth air accident in China
in 17 months but the first involving a
collision between two aircraft.
A spokesman for China’s state air
line, CAAC, said the injured included
two crew members.
Xinhua said the crash occurred at 9:34
a.m. as the jetliner, flight number 264,
was taxiing down the runway. It did not
identify the military plane involved.
It said a CAAC investigative team was
“rushed to Guilin, 450 miles northwest
of the provincial capital of Canton and
scene of Chinas worst known air disaster
to date.
Guilin is famous for its mountains. In
April of last year, a Chinese airliner
slammed into one of them, killing all
112 people aboard.
Last Christmas, 23 people including
three Americans were killed when afire
Reagan authorizes Marines
to protect peace keepers
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — President
Reagan, in a move that could step up
U.S. military involvement in Lebanon,
authorized Marines to call on American
air and naval power to protect all foreign
peace keepers in Beirut.
The shift in U.S. policy Tuesday
came as Syria and Lebanon exchanged
sharp words and the Lebanese army re
pulsed a major Syrian-backed Druze
Moslem assault on the approaches to
Beirut.
U.S. envoy Robert McFarlane re
turned to Beirut after talks with King
Fahd and other officials in Saudi Arabia
to discuss a possible cease-fire in the
war between the Druze and the Christ
ian militias, backed by the Lebanese
army.
Prince Bandar in Sultan, the Saudi
mediator between Lebanon and Syria
was back in Damascus Tuesday, state-
run Beirut radio said.
Two British Buccaneer jets, urgently
dispatched to a Cyprus base last Veek,
swooped low over Beirut and the Shouf
mountains south and east of the capital
Tuesday, spreading panic among civi
lians.
In Washington, Reagan authorized
Marine commanders in Beirut to order
air strikes from warships off the coast of
Beirut and naval bombardment to pro
tect diplomats and peacekeeping troops
if they are threatened by hostile fire.
On Monday, 2,000 fresh U.S. troops
arrived on warships off the coast of
Beirut to back up the 1,200 Marines
already on Lebanon’s soil.
The Reagan administration, howev
er, said it did not expect the Marines to
take the offensive against Syrian troops
despite the new authorization.
“We re still in a defensive role,” he
said. “We still believe that we can get a
cease-fire and the Lebanese govern
ment can extend its control over a grea
ter area” in Lebanon, the aide said.
President Amin Gemayel’s govern
ment lashed out at Syria in response to a
statement by Syrian Minister of State
for External Affairs Farouk Sharaa who
warned of “grave dangers” ahead,
accusing Washington of escalating de
velopments in Lebanon.
“The Lebanese government does not
need a certificate from anyone (Syria)
that it is legitimate,” state-run
Lebanese television quoted Lebanon’s
Information Minister Roger Chikhani as
saying.
The heightening of tension between
the two governments coincided with a
massive Druze attack on Souk al Gharb,
8 miles southeast of Beirut, the last
army line of defense protecting the
presidential palace in suburban Baabda.
The attack, launched by “foreign
forces’ — the Beirut government’s re
ference to the alleged involvement of
Syrian, Palestinian and Iranian fighters
alongside the Druze — was beaten off
after four hours, Beirut radio said.
After two postponements because of
persistent shelling of their base at the
foot of the Shouf, the Marine unit held a
memorial service for the two Marines
killed Sept. 6 when their bunker took a
direct hit by a rocket.
Two hundred Marines led by Col.
Timothy Geraghty sang “Amazing
Grace” and marksmen fired 21 shots
into the sky in a tribute to Cpl. Pedro
del Valle, 25, of Puerto Rico, and Lance
Cpl. Randy Clark, 19, of Minong, Wise.
swept through a Chinese airliner land
ing in Canton.
Another Chinese airliner crash-
landed in Fuzhou last February in what
was later described by Chinese sources
as an attempted hijacking.
Last September, a Japan Airlines
DC-8 crash landed in Shanghai, injur
ing 23 people.
inside
Around town
Classifieds. .
Local
Opinions. . .
Sports . . . . .
State
What’s up . .
Forecast
Partly cloudy skies with tempera
tures in the mid-80s, and a 40 per
cent chance of rain.
20
12
4
2
17
5
19