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United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan ordered the invasion of Gre
nada after rejecting as untrustworthy
assurances from the island’s Marxist
leaders that Americans were safe and
free to leave, his chief spokesman said
Wednesday.
“It was a floating crap game down
there and we never knew who was in
charge,” presidential spokesman Lar
ry Speakes said.
“There was just no way, in our
collective judgment, with the collec
tive judgment of the neighboring is
lands, that we could be at all assured
that their promises would be kept —
that we weren’t going into a situation
which would have been chaotic and
which would have resulted in disas
ter,” he said.
Reagan faced increasing criticism
Wednesday for the U.S.-led invasion
of the island nation 90 miles off the
coast of Venezuela. Some 1,900
Marines and Army Rangers landed
on the island Tuesday to oust radical
Marxists who seized power last week
and killed leftist Prime Minister
Maurice Bishop. Up to 1,000 more
Army troops landed Wednesday.
Pentagon sources said at least six
Americans were killed in the fighting
and at least 33 were wounded.
The White House provided details
on events prior to the invasion, shed
ding additional light on Reagan’s mo
tives and intentions.
Because of political instability and
bloodshed, Speakes said, plans for the
invasion went forward, despite
eleventh-hour assurances from Gre
nada’s Revolutionary Military Coun
cil that all Americans would be safe.
Speakes said Reagan and his advis
ers based their judgments on the “sor
ry record” of the coup leaders prior to
Saturday.
Speakes said Grenada’s military
leaders — headed by Gen. Hudson
Austin, told U.S. officials in a diplo
matic message delivered to the U.S.
Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados, at
2 a.m. Monday that the Americans
would be safe.
Speakes said, however, that U.S.
officials concluded the assurances
could not be believed. He noted Au
stin’s regime failed to keep a promise
to reopen the island airport.
In its only formal communication
to Grenada, the administration re
fused to deal with the Austin regime
through diplomatic channels and
again expressed concern about the
fate of U.S. citizens, Speakes said.
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United Press International
BEIRUT — The suicide bombing
in Beirut has turned the U.S. Marine
peace-keepers into another military
faction in the Lebanese civil war —
itching for revenge against anyone
and everyone carrying a gun near
their base.
“I want to take this place out, make
this the biggest parking lot in the Mid
dle East,” said a 25-year-old corporal
in the Enlisted Men’s Club shortly af
ter Vice President George Bush’s visit
Wednesday.
“What would we get out of
smashing the Lebanese? A lot of re
venge, pride, satisfaction and plea
sure,” he said, asking not to be named.
“If we were able to take immediate
action, everybody would be glad to go
out and kick their ass,” said Cpl. Tho
mas Feron, 20, of Bethlehem, Pa.
“The only thing on our minds is
revenge,” added a 21-year-old lance
corporal standing 300 yards from a
Moslem sluiji where militiamen had
sniped at Marines.
“We want the personal satisfaction
of just getting back, just at the people
who took out my friends, my com
rades-in-arms. I was so close to them,
and now they are gone.”
A fourth Marine, a 22-year-old
lance corporal, said, “I want to sit out
there all day with my tracker (gun-
sight), and wait to see somebody with
a weapon.”
Although most Marines refused to
be quoted by name about their feel
ings of revenge, Marine spokesman
Maj. Robert Jordan acknowledged a
dramatic change in attitude.
The rank and file, known as
“grunts” on the base, spent the day
writing letters home — at the com
mander’s orders.
Decision not expected until late December
Texas A&M logo dispute goes to judge
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Battalion Staff
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Inc.; Texas Aggie Bookstore; Loupot’s book
store; Rother’s bookstore and M&M Designs
of Huntsville — filed suit against Texas A&M
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| The plaintiffs were upset because the Uni
versity has been charging manufacturers a 6
percent royalty on the use of its logos and
emblems since May 1981, a cost which is pas
sed on to the bookstores and, eventually, the
consumer.
Judson Loupot, Class of ‘32, who’s been
selling merchandise with Texas A&M logos
since 1928, said he thinks the licensing restric
tion hurts the student more than anyone.
The students, he said, will pay twice as
much in increased prices as the University will
collect in royalties.
“The student is the last one they want to
help,” Loupot said.
Earnest Camp, co-owner of University
Bookstore, said his group doesn’t object to the
University trying to protect its logo and
emblems.
“We object to the students paying two bits
to give the University 6 cents,” he said.
The fund created by the royalties was in
tended to be used by student organizations.
Thus far it has accrued more than $88,000
since its inception in 1981. The Singing
Cadets requested and received $8,000 from
the fund, the only money so far that has been
used directly for students.
Stubbs said this lawsuit has cost the fund
about $11,000, money she said should have
been used for the students instead of used by
the University to defend the licensing
program.
Loupot said he wouldn’t mind the Univer
sity receiving these royalties if at least 80 or 85
E ercent of the money was used for students,
ut he said he doesn’t think they ever will see
more than 10 to 15 percent.
In the second day of deliberation Wednes
day the plaintiffs’ attorney, Quinnan H.
Hodges, used the testimony of two bookstore
owners, John Raney of the Texas Aggie Book
store and Loupot of Loupot’s bookstore, to
establish that all the merchandise on the mar
ket with Texas A&M emblems is designed and
manufactured by entities other than the Uni
versity.
Hodges also established that the bookstore
owners did not immediately file a lawsuit after
the University started the licensing program,
but tried many channels of negotiation.
Donald B. Powell, Texas A&M’s director of
business services, instigated the licensing
program in 1981 and was directly responsible
for its administration until recently when the
responsibility was given to a subordinate.
After a short recess Hodges called Powell
to the stand and questioned him for nearly
two hours.
Hodges rested, then Texas A&M’s defense
began its case with its one and only witness —
Powell.
Texas A&M Senior Staff Attorney Gene
vieve Stubbs said later that she and her associ
ates, patent attorneys Roger C. Clapp and
Daniel V. Thompson from Dallas, felt
Powell’s testimony was all they needed.
After .the defense rested its case Judge
McDonald closed the courtroom delibera
tions, but told the attorneys he would require
three more legal briefs from them between
now and December.
Stubbs said later this type of decision is
difficult because similar cases are rare, espe
cially in this particular court, and because of
the difficulty of this subject.
“Trademark is a highly specialized area of
law,” she said. That’s why Texas A&M hired
two patent attorneys to help defend its case.
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University purpose: research or teaching?
(Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a
five-part series on research at Texas
A&M.)
by Elaine Engstrom
Battalion Staff
The purpose of a university is to
integrate research, teaching and com
munity service, several Texas A&M
professors say. The only difference in
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rescheduled
Freshman runoff elections sche
duled for today have been re
scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Pat Wood, co-commissioner of the
election committee, says a computer
error caused the delay.
Runoff elections will be held for
the Class of ’87 president, vice-
president, treasurer and social sec
retary.
The elections will be held from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Memo
rial Student Center lounge and the
Pavilion.
opinions lies in what emphasis to
place in each area.
Some professors believe research is
overemphasized here while others
think research and teaching are well
balanced. Also, some believe not
enough credit is given to professors
who spend a great deal of time work
ing with students outside of class.
Interesting differences appear be
tween the opinions of tenured profes
sors and younger professors who are
untenured. Generally, the young, un
tenured professors are more con
cerned with research and the pursuit
of recognition through their publica
tions.
Texas A&M spent about $104 mil
lion on research during the 1982-83
fiscal year, which ended in August,
and leads the state in research ex
penditure.
Last year, the College of Liberal
Arts tripled the amount of money it
spent on research from $490,000 to
nearly $1.8 million. The College of
Science spent $9 million. Combined
expenditure for the College of
Enineering, the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station and the Texas
Transportation Institute was $29 mil
lion.
This increase of research at
See RESEARCH, page 10
Center has rent cars for departments
by Karen Wallace
Battalion Staff
The transportation center is
Texas A&M’s answer to Hertz Rent-
a-Car.
“That’s exactly what it is,” Wil
liam P. Workman, manager of trans
portation services, said. “It’s a cen
tralized leasing and purchasing
agency.”
The center rents cars, pickup
trucks, vans and minibuses to Uni
versity organizations and depar-
Sments on a daily, weekly, monthly
and annual basis.
“We serve only Texas A&M Uni
versity,” Workman said. “This is
strictly a state agency.”
University departments must
rent from the center instead of pur
chasing vehicles, Workman said.
“This was the original intent of
the facility,” Workman said. “They
wanted to prevent a department
from buying a vehicle, using it 10
percent of the time, then letting it
rot away in a parking lot the rest of
the time.”
Student organizations such as
MSC Town Hall can rent the vehi
cles, but students can’t rent vehicles
for personal use.
“A student can’t just walk in and
rent a car for a trip home to Lare
do,” Workman said.
Workman said there are about
420 vehicles altogether, with about
100 in the daily rental fleet.
The rental rates range from $23 a
day for a sedan, to $33 a day for a
mini-bus. A pickup truck can be
rented for $2,141 a year, or a van for
$3,612 a year.
“When I establish the rates, I take
into consideration the possibility of a
wreck,” Workman said. “And we
have had a few wrecks in the last
couple of years.”
Workman said that last year only
three vehicles were wrecked beyond
repair.
“That’s not bad considering we
have over 400 vehicles,” he said.
If a vehicle is wrecked, University
insurance covers the third party,
and the center takes care of the
wrecked car, Workman said.
“People bring the keys back, drop
them on my desk, say ‘I tore your
vehicle up,’ fill out the appropriate
accident report and that’s it,” he
said. “The person or department is
relieved of all responsibility as far as
repair of the vehicle is concerned.”
All repair and maintenance for
the vehicles are done at the center.
Not many interesting things hap
pen in the car rental business, Work
man said. The only exciting thing
that happened was about three years
ago when a van was stolen and later
found in the Rio Grande River.
“We recovered it, flushed it out
and put it back on the road,” Work
man said. “I guess it’s still running
today.”