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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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.