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The battalion Serving the University community Vol 78 No. 192 USPS 045360 18 pages College Station, Texas Friday, September 16, 1983 ‘ honored ind Central Amerki Student Associatia ;ettable Guatemi associate profess n American studies ate mala during Ime t 7 p.m. ini Soviet vessel spotted with exploration craft ification ip Development, ;ned to helpstudei! aize man's imparta through the Wilde rogram, participt ified by tneNatm hi (door leader, or Recreation C® y during the year :o its members, lli perience is needed liable in the Studeit 'holarships United Press International TOKYO — Japanese ships spotted a soviet vessel lifting a deep-sea explora tion craft Thursday, raising speculation the Soviets might have located the main weckage of the downed Korean Air tines jet, a Japanese news report said. In a dispatch from Japan’s north ernmost island of Hokkaido, Kyodo News Service said Maritime Safety Agency ships sighted the craft in inter national waters near the Soviet island of Sakhalin where the KAL plane was be lieved to have crashed with 269 people iboard Sept. 1. ton are recipii inually to outstarc :nt School District Craig Maid >ased on need, i.E. WorthingTns established in million to ition. help ti; United Press International JERUSALEM — An ailing Prime Minister Menachem Begin formally juit Thursday, sending an aide to ear- his letter of resignation to Israel’s resident and paving the way for 1® foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir to tecome premier. The prime minister wanted to do his himself but because he is still Forced to remain in his home, he asked The Battalion oft hat I fulfill this task, " Cabinet Secret ly Dan Meridor said, handing over he letter to President Chaim Herzog. The brief ceremony took place in- iide Herzog’s official residence, repe- ited three times for the press. lique skin-sweep® nascara.AHin e. meet th! he system »f leading alyzes the ducts and and A red and orange buoy marking the location some 20 miles north of Moner- on also was spotted, raising speculation the Soviets might have found the wreck age on the seabed, the report said. The Maritime Safety Agency would not confirm the report. It said, howev er, that 21 Soviet ships, including a mis sile cruiser, an oil drilling vessel and 12,000-ton rescue ship were sighted in the area. The Soviet ships apparently conduct their search operations only at night while drifting in the area during the day, an agency official said. Begin resigns Israeli office But Begin s ill health almost over shadowed the end of an 18-day delay since his announcement he intended to resign. “Begin s doctors say he is not phy sically ill but is sinking before the eyes ofthose close to him,” columnist Yoel Marcus wrote Thursday in the Ha’aretznewspaper. “His face is stub- hied and his gauntness and weakness have prevented him from going to the president or appearing in public.” The Israeli leader has stayed in sec lusion inside his official Jerusalem re sidence for the last eight days, visited only by close aides, friends, family and doctors. The Government Press Office car ried an announcement from President Chaim Herzog’s bureau that Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor would deliver Begins formal letter of resignation at 7 a.m. EDT. Begin s illness kept him from fol lowing tradition by personally deliver ing the resignation letter to the presi dent. Israel Radio quoted Begin s spokes man, Uri Porat, as saying the premier has a skin rash and did not want to appear personally at the president’s residence. Non- PUF school funding endorsed by Michelle Powe Huttalion Stall TlicTexas A&M and University ol Texas Systems arc endorsing a state constitutional amendment which will provide funding for all state universities not included in the Permanent University Fund. Texas A&M Chancellor Arthur U Hansen is leading the move to make more money available to the utlier state schools. The PUF is the constitutional endowment of 2.1 million acres of West Texas land which is adminis tered for the benefit of the 1 Texas A&M and UT systems. Money from the PUF itselfcan- nut be spent, hut it is inx ested and the return on the investment, known as the Available University Fund, provides income for the two systems. The UT system receives two- thirds of the AUF and the Texas A&M System receives the other one-third. If voters approve the bill, prop osed to the Texas legislature by Representative Wilhelmina De- Ico, $100 million from general state revenues will he allocated to establish a fund for all institutions of higher learning outside of the Permanent University Fund. The bill also will open up the inside Around town 20 Classifieds 12 Local * 3 Opinions 2 Sports 15 State 5 What’s up 19 Forecast Clear skies, with temperatures in the mid 80s and a 20 percent chance of rain. PU F to all schools in the Universi ty of Texas System and Texas A&M System, and will require the UT Sy stem to allocate $6 million per y ear from its two-thirds share in the PUF for Prairie View A&M Unix ersity. The hill increases the bonding capacity of the PUF from twenty to thirty percent to allow for the needs of the additional ten institu tions eligible for the PL^F. It broadens the applications of the PIT' bond proceeds to include re pair and rehabilitation of buildings as well as acquisition of education al capital equipment, library hooks and library materials. (The bill) will require the UT System to allocate $6 million per year from its two-thirds share in the PUF for Prairie View A&M University. Texas A&M Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and General Counsel James B. Bond says Hansen has worked long and hard to get the hill passed and “solve the problem of funding of higher education sys tems not included in the Perma nent University Fund.” Bond says the U.T. and Texas A&M Systems “completely, unre- servably” support the hill and will exhaust every effort to get the hill passed. A member of the Legislative Study Group, a student govern ment committee here, John R. Hatch, savs the group lobbied for the hill. Hatch, a sophomore in general studies from Big Spring, say's the goal of the LSG now is to educate people about the hill and try to conx ince them to vote in favor of it. “For the first time in Texas his tory, all the schools have agreed on one issue and said ‘we are going to make this work.”’ An American ocean tug scanned Japan’s northern waters Thursday for the “black box” from the downed KAL plane as Japanese authorities reinforced their search for submerged wreckage and trapped bodies from the airliner. The decapitated bodies of two more people believed to have been aboard the plane washed ashore in northern Hokkaido Wednesday, where 500 policemen continued their search. A total of five bodies and eleven body parts have been recovered so far, in cluding two pieces of human flesh found washed up on the beach Thursday. The bodies remain unidentified. The U.S. Navy tug USNS Narragan- sett, equipped with special electronic sensing gear, was scanning the ocean floor listening to signals presumably still being transmitted from the black box. A spokesman in Japan Thursday said no signal from the crash-resistant box had been detected. The Narragansett joined three U.S. ships in the search area as Japanese au thorities reinforced their search by mobilizing two trawlers to scour the sea bed for submerged wreckage and trap ped human bodies. Aggies-Indian clash set for Saturday The Texas A&M football team will try to even its record at 1-1 Saturday when the Aggies host the Arkansas State Indians at 6 p.m. in Kyle Field. Arkansas State, 2-0 so far this season, is coached by Larry Lacewell and will face the Aggies for the first time ever Saturday. Aggie coach Jackie Sherrill said Lacewell will try to motivate the In dians by taking them to Midnight Yell Practice tonight. Also expected at yell practice are former members of the Aggie Band. Game time temperature is expected to he in the mid to low 80s and a crowd of about 50,000 is expected at Kyle Field. Should the Aggies win the opening coin flip, the Texas A&M Twelfth Man Kickoff Team will step into action again. Last week, Ike Liles, a senior from Stamford made the first tackle by the Twelfth Man team and was named Twelfth Man Kickoff Team Member of the Week. No live, national or regional televi sion coverage of the game is planned, but Home Sports Entertainment will broadcast the game on a delayed basis to its subscribers in the Houston and Dal las areas. Ted Davis and Donnie Dun can will call the game on the Southwest Conference Radio Network. For more on Saturday’s game see page 15. House passes $188 billion military plan United Press International WASHINGTON — The House, ignoring pleas to temper its outrage over the Korean airliner disaster, overwhelmingly approved and sent to President Reagan Thursday a $188 bil lion compromise 1984 military spend ing plan. The bill passed 266-152. Approval came despite efforts by Reps. Clement Zablocki, D-Wis., and Ed Bethune, R-Ark., to have the hill sent back to a conference committee because it authorizes the United States to resume production of nerve gas for the first time since 1969. The compromise legislation, which was approved 83-8 by the Senate Tuesday and also includes authority to produce the first 21 MX nuclear mis siles, was worked out by a House- Senate conference committee last month. But others argued that the interna tional developments of the past few days warrant a strong response, in cluding the go-ahead for resuming production of lethal chemical weapons. “This will send a clear message to the Kremlin that we have the will and we have the resolve to he strong,” said Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio. Approval of the mammoth confer ence report had been expected lie- cause military spending hills are tradi tionally popular with congressmen, many of whom have defense plants in their districts. “I can’t imagine we re going to vote the whole conference bill down be cause some of us disgree on some aspects of it,” added Ren. Jim Cour- ter, R-N.J. Bethune, whose congressional dis trict is near the Pine Bluff arsenal where the weapons will he produced, said his record on defense issues is “second to none” but that the Penta gon is not being forthright about the weapon’s continued problems. “Let’s not take leave of our senses and do something because of our emo tions at this particular moment,” Bethune said. The controversial nerve gas provi sion originally was rejected in the House and only passed in the Senate when Vice President George Bush cast a tie-breaking vote. The legislation authorizes $114.6 million for producing a new and ostensibly safer 155mm artillery nerve gas round, and for setting up a facility for producing the “Big Eye” bomb. It contains a provision that would pro hibit final assembly before Oct. 1, 1985. The mammoth hill, which gave Reagan virtually everything he asked for, includes $4.8 billion for procure ment of the MX units; $1.87 billion to buy 10 more B-l bombers, and $407 million to buy 95 Pershing-2 missiles for deployment in West Germany. The total was $10.5 billion below Reagan’s original request. Vice-chancellor to 'move on ? by Melissa Adair i Battalion Reporter Clyde Freeman, executive vice chan cellor for administration at Texas A&M, says he plans on retiring in January be cause he wants to move on to something different and let others have a chance at the position. “I’m 64 years of age, ” Freeman said. “And I want to give other people an opportunity to improve on what I’ve done.” Freeman, who has been considering resigning for about four months, said he made his resignation official earlier this week. Freeman graduated from Texas A&M in 1940 with a degree in agricultu ral administration. In 1947 he came to work for the University to help plan the establishment of the Texas A&M admi nistration system. Since 1953 he’s had the same basic responsibilities as he does now — only the titles have changed. Clifton Lancaster, assistant vice chancellor for budgets, has worked with Freeman for 22 years. Lancaster said Freeman will be missed a lot. “I hoped he (Freeman) would work forever,” Lancaster said. “He’s a super boss and he knows more about higher education than anyone I know. He’s...the one who has kept things together around here.” But Lancaster said he can respect Freeman’s decision to resign. “He de serves to have time for himself... to do what he wants to do. ” Lancaster and Bill Wasson, the sys tem’s comptroller, are organizationally the next two in line for Freeman’s posi tion. Freeman said he decided not to re commend anyone for the job. “I don t want to influence who is chosen for the job,” he said. “There are many qualified people and there shouldn’t be any problem filling the position.” Lancaster said he hasn’t thought too much about what will happen concern ing Freeman’s position. “It’s not my decision to make,” Lan caster said. “Both Bill (Wasson) and I are just waiting to see what happens.” Wasson could not he reached for comment. Freeman said he hasn’t decided what he will do after he resigns. Traffic director speaks out Parking a problem of attitude’ by Melissa Adair Battalion Reporter Parking at Texas A&M is only a problem because of the attitude of the drivers, says Bob Wiatt, director of security and traffic. Wiatt said people think they de serve convenient, easy-to-find park ing every time they come on campus. “Many students think that if they can’t find a place right by their classes, then they can just park illegally,” Wiatt said. He said there are enough parking spaces on campus for everyone with a parking sticker to park legally. But, he said, the problem is that the parking spaces are not always where the driv ers want them to be. “On any given day, you can go out to the fish lots (west of the railroad tracks) and there are plenty of unoccu pied spaces,” Wiatt said. He added that those lots are considered on cam pus. And, he said, shuttle buses run from those lots to the central part of campus every weekday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Anyone can ride these buses. But people continue to park illegal ly and as a result the University Police continue to write tickets, he said. From Sept. 1, 1982 to Aug. 31, 1983, the University Police issued 122,640 parking tickets — more than 500 tickets per class day. And so far this semester, the University Police have issued almost 8,000 tickets for parking violations — more than 650 per class day. Parking tickets cost $10 each. Where does all this money go? Wiatt said the money goes toward repairing and upgrading existing lots as well as construction of new lots. The most recent lot being constructed is a motorcycle parking lot at the corner of Ireland and Ross streets. This lot should be finished in two or three weeks. Wiatt admits the parking situation here isn’t the best, yet he insists that the University is working at solving some of the traffic and parking prob lems. For example, the University has hired a parking and traffic consulting firm to do an in-depth study of the parking situation here. One possibility for helping the park ing here is to add an upper level to already existing parking lots. But Wiatt said the main problem with adding a second level is the cost. Dr. Charles Pinnell, a liaison be tween the University and the consult ing firm, said building a second level for parking lot 60 (across from Rudder Tower) would cost about $2.5 million. A second level on lot 60 would add approximately 450 spaces that would cost about $5,000 per space. Another possibility considered was to close the campus to traffic and have buses bring in students who could park off campus, Weiss said. Howev er, this idea was negated because there aren’t enough places off campus for parking. The firm has other recommenda tions that will be presented to the Texas A&M Board of Regents later this month. The regents then will de cide what can be done about the park ing situation at Texas A&M. Sandy Downes, of Bryan, puts a ticket on the windshield of an illegally parked ear in lot 7 photo In Dean Saito Thursday- She is an officer with the universitx police department.