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BEIRUT — U.S. Marines came
linder fire Sunday and the battleship
JSS New Jersey and destroyer USS
attnail retaliated by unleashing their
ive-inch guns at Moslem militia posi-
jji ionseast of Beirut, U.S. officials said.
It. Col. Charles Suits, a Pentagon
spokesman in Washington, said the
" darines retaliated with machine
iirscom ! uns ’ howitzers and mortars before
1 quam i ,e wa >'ships joined in.
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President Reagan’s Middle East en
voy, Donald Rumsfeld, arrived late
Sunday from Israel, and went straight
to a meeting with Nabih Berri, chief
of the Shiite Moslem militia Amal
which controls some of the suburbs
around the U.S. Marine base, Beirut
radio said.
“They talked for two and a quarter
hours about the security plan (for the
disengagement of militia forces
around Beirut) and the Israeli occu-
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Druze Moslem militiamen raked
be Beirut airport area, where the
larines are positioned, with sniper
the ilM
ire, forcing tfie facility to close at ab-
akersani lUl 4 ; 30 p.m., state Beirut radio said,
their it U.S. Marines were badly hit by
iIimsiW Tound-aimed 23mm anti-aircraft
lakshells, the radio network added.
pat ion of south Lebanon,” said a
spokesman for Berri.
The naval bombardment was the
1 1th time U.S. warships off the coast
of Lebanon have fired during the
Lebanese warfare since September.
The last time was Dec. 19 when two
gunboats bombarded Syrian positions
after U.S. reconnaissance flights re
portedly came under fire.
The United States has more than a
dozen war ships off the Lebanese
coast in two battle groups in support
of 1,200 Marines ashore in
peacekeeping force.
Later, unidentified gunmen fired a
rocket-propelled grenade at the west
Beirut headquarters of the French
contingent in the multinational
peace-keeping force but there were
no casualties, said Lt. Col. Philippe de
Longeaux, a French spokesman.
As flames rose from a Marine fuel
dump at the airport, the facility was
closed down for four hours and all
traffic diverted to Cyprus. Airport
workers dodged sniper fire and hid in
the lower floors of the terminal.
Salim Salam, head of Lebanon’s
Middle East Airlines, denied an ear
lier Beirut radio report that one of his
planes had been hit and was on fire.
Salam said the flames came from a
fuel dump near the U.S. Marines who
surround the airport.
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HANOVER, N.H. — A debate
the eight Democratic pres-
candidates erupted into a
mg match between the two
-runners Sunday, with John
u accusing Walter Mondale of
ngaging in “gobbledygook” and
ondale calling Glenn’s charge
baloney.”
There were no clear winners or
* n t ' le three-hour, free-for-all
( >ch was broadcast nationally from
wtmouth College.
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following 2!/L> hours of gentlemanly
discussion, became so heated fora few
minutes that Jesse Jackson admo
nished the two, “We have to conduct
the affairs of this business in a serious
vein.”
Former Florida Gov. Reubin
Askew and Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo.,
also jumped into the fray.
The exchange began after Mon
dale, former vice president and ack
nowledged front-runner for the
Democratic nomination, outlined his
program to cut federal deficits.
Glenn, the Ohio senator and Mon
dale’s closest rival, said with disgust:
“That’s the same big gobbledygook
we’ve been hearing for years.”
“Is this going to be a Democratic
Party that promises everything to ev
erybody and runs up a $170 billion
hill?” Glenn asked, using the figure he
says Mondale’s campaign promises
would cost.
Finals up
for vote
today
By MICHELLE POWE
Stall writer
The Faculty Senate will vote today
on a resolution that would require
il
graduating seniors to take final ex
aminations.
If the Senate votes in favor of this
policy change, it will recommend the
change to the University Rules and
Regulations Committee. The change
would need final approval from Presi
dent Frank E. Vandiver.
The resolution for the policy
change, proposed by the Senate’s ad
hoc committee on academic stan
dards, calls the practice of exempting
degree candidates from final exami
nations “a serious compromise with
fair and equitable academic stan
dards.”
The meeting will be at 3:15 p.m. in
601 Rudder. All students are wel
come, although only student body
representatives will be allowed to
address the Senate. Faculty Senate
Speaker John J. McDermott, disting
uished professor of philosophy, has
allotted 20 minutes for comments
from the student representatives.
“I’m disgusted and tired of all the
vague promises,” Glenn said adding
that Mondale would add to the de
ficits he has pledged to cut.
photo by Dean Saito
University of Houston’s Akeem Olajuwon and Texas A&M’s
Jimmie Gilbert go for a rebound after a missed shot
Saturday. Gilbert came down with this rebound but UH
went on to win 70-64. See related stories on page 15.
David Alders, speaker of the Stu
dent Senate and the Student Senate
representative to the Faculty Senate,
says he opposes the resolution. He
said the current policy is not de
trimental to academic standards.
The Student Senate passed a re
solution last semester recommending
that the current policy remain the
same.
Alders, who will address the Facul
ty Senate today, said he feels certain
the policy will be changed if the Facul
ty Senate approves such a change
today.
The academic standards commit
tee also recommended that the new
policy, if adopted, should be put into
effect before December 1985.
see DEBATE page 14
See related editorial, page 2
Soldier feared kidnapped, located in farmyard
United Press International
i/? ^ * * GART, West Germany —
Deri i encan so,dier feared kidnap-
ound
anti-nuclear
activists was
DU ho"' lde ^P ' r i a farmyard Sunday,
was kidnapped by anti-nucleat activ
ists who threatened to kill him, as he
told his wife in a telephone call
Saturday.
The circumstances surrounding
the incident were not immediately
clear, but a U.S. military spokesman
said police were investigating it as a
kidnapping.
“West German police are treating
the incident as a kidnapping, and *hey
are continuing their investigations, ’
said Maj. Anthony Maravola.
Police said Fowler telephoned his
wife twice Saturday to say he was in
the hands of six Germans who
threatened to kill him unless she
arranged to have U.S. news media
carry within 72 hours a statement that
West Germans do not want Pershing-
2 and cruise nuclear missiles deployed
in their country.
Maravola, a spokesman at Fowler’s
base in Schwaebisch-Gmuend, 150
miles northwest of where he was
found, said that Fowler was returned
by West German police to the base late
Sunday.
“He is apparently in good condi
tion, although somewhat tired by his
ordeal,” Maravola said. “He has beeen
reunited with his wife and will be
undergoing a medical examination by
the U.S.military medical authorities,”
he said.
A police spokesman said Fowler’s
red car, in which he disappeared, had
not been found. “We are investigating
all possibilities,” he said.
Police found Fowler covered only
with curtain material and suffering
from exposure, the spokesman said.
He was treated at a hospital and re
leased.
Fowler, last seen at 4 p.m. Friday,
told his wife his car had been rammed
by another vehicle just before six Ger
mans climbed into his car and drove
him around for several hours to con
fuse him about his whereabouts,
police said.
Police Sunday were still searching
for Fowler’s red Dodge.
The West German government
announced Dec. 30 that the first bat
tery of U.S. Pershing-2 missiles de
ployed to counter Soviet SS-20 mis
siles aimed at Western Europe was
operational.
Sources familiar with the deploy
ment said the missiles were positioned
at Fowler’s field artillery brigade’s de
pot, the scene of continuous anti
nuclear demonstrations.
A spokesman for the group lead
ing demonstrations at the brigade
headquarters denied Sunday any con
nection with what he called “the
alleged kidnapping.”
A week ago, West German intelli
gence officials warned that anti-
American terrorists were planning
attacks on U.S. bases because of the
anti-nuclear movement’s failure to
halt missile deployment.
The soldier’s father, Kenneth Leo
Fowler, said when contacted at his
home in Port Orange Sunday that the
family had heard from his son but
would not comment further.
tfenjor exam opinions gathered
Students, faculty don’t
In Today’s Battalion
% BRIGID BROCKMAN
Stall Writer
lo iake , f'ii[ a ( r ^ cluat ’ n 8 sen i° r s have
wl ?° were ques-
Would lih 1 Battalion said they
chan Red sn?L See the curre nt policy
Woulfi i, l ‘ lat graduating seniors
%p r > v , e to ^ke finals, and not
p°ned l U e students ques-
n ot hall , ' thou ght they should
t ave to take finals.
Tk
dent letrf a . tl ^* on as k- e d a few stu-
Sttidem R ?/ lheir °P in ions.
40,1 Sa *d he hS ^ residem Joe Jor-
as hethoi,rri ket 1 le curre nt policy,
lie also u mo . sl indents did, hut
tllB Profpcc d idn’t think most of
‘Voudn° IS s Bared his opinion,
not gain anything acade
mically by making students take fin
als,” he said.
Preston Abbott, Corps of Cadets
commander, simply said he would
go along with any decision the r acui
ty Senate made.
Greg Hawkins, president ol the
MSG council and directorate, said
he really hadn’t thought about the
issue, and he wasn’t concerned one
way or the other.
Kelli Kiesling, Residence Hal
Association president, also said
seniors should remain exempt from
finals. , . .
A recent poll conducted by an
assistant political science professor
showed that 77 percent of the facul
ty at Texas A&M were opposed to
the current policy.
Dr. Jon R. Bond said the poll had
three responses the faculty could
choose if they were opposed to the
policy, and the breakdown was as
follows: 16 percent were opposed
but could “live with it,” 29 percent
were opposed and would like to see
it changed and 32 percent were tot
ally opposed.
Responses were varied across the
colleges. The ones which were most
opposed to the current system were
the liberal arts and science colleges
with 88 percent of the faculty
opposed.
percent opposed, but the College of
Veterinary Medicine was the lowest
with only 45 percent opposed.
The colleges of business and agri
culture were close with 85 percent
and 84 percent opposed, respec
tively.
Some of the ones least opposed
were the colleges of engineering and
education with 65 percent and 63
Bond said he was opposed to the
current policy because it requires fa
culty to evaluate students in the
same class with different standards.
He said he knows many students
will say the current policy is a tradi
tion that should not be changed, but
Bond disagrees.
Most of the faculty recognizes the
importance of traditions at Texas
A&M, Bond said, but they are trying
to make a distinction between those
traditions which are functional and
those which are not.
He said the functional ones are
those which show “spirit, love and
comrnitment-ones which contribute
to the making of a great university.”
Local
• A court order has forced the release of a list of names of those
considered for the University’s presidency in 1981. It included some
very interesting candidates. See story page 3.
• Late registration begins today. For a complete list of important
deadlines, see page 12.
State
• T he American Heart Association has released a study which says
1.5 million Americans will suffer heart attacks this year and an
estimated 550,000 of them would die. See story page 5.
National
• Martin Luther King’s birthday was remembered across the nation
Sunday, even though it is not yet a national holiday. See story page
11.
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