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I es arines, diplomats evacuated from Beirut United Press International BEIRUT — Moslem rebels sii/ed control of much of Beirut Tuesday and President Reagan or dered U.S. Marines at Beirut airport to withdraw to ships offshore. Heli copters evacuated 39 American dip lomats and family members. The withdrawal order came as |the splintered Lebanese army neared ■ollapse in the face of the onslaught b\ the Syrian-hacked Druze and Phiiie militiamen and the authority M the government of President Bmin Gemayel disintegrated. A fierce thunderstorm helped Buell the clashes that Monday had en gulfed the capital in the worst factio- Inal combat in Beirut since the 1975- peopl were killed and 785 others wounded in the past week. But on arrival at Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California, Rea gan issued a statement saying he had ordered a phased withdrawal of the 1,470 Marines in the U.S. contingent of the multinational peace-keeping force. He also authorized the Marines to shoot and conduct air attacks against Syrian-controlled positions in Lebanon. The president said he was asking Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger “to present to me a plan for redeployment of the Marines from Beirut airport to their ships off shore. “This redeployment will begin shortly and will proceed in stages,” he said. He said some American military forces would remain on the ground to continue training the Lebanese army and protecting remaining per sonnel. The Marines are based at Beirut International Airport south of the troubled Moslem suburbs on the cap ital’s south. They have repeatedly been exposed to the fighting and 262 U.S. servicemen have died in attacks in Beirut. There was no immediate reac tion from France, Italy or Britain, the other countries whose troops make up the 5,000-strong peace keeping force. The Marines were first deployed in Lebanon in August 1982. The withdrawal order came as the Moslem rebels virtually seized control of the capital from the Leb anese governmenta and the second day in a row U.S. forces were drawn into the fighting. The battleship USS New Jersey fired its 5-inch guns from the Medi terranean at Moslem mortar and ar tillery positions in the mountains east of Beirut after shelling seriously wounded a Marine, who was not im mediately identified.' Three Italian members of the multinational peace-keeping force were also wounded in Tuesday’s clashes. U.S. officials ordered the evac uation of non-essential embassy per sonnel. The State Department said in Washington that 39 American diplo mats and dependents were airlifted out by helicopter to the 6th Fleet’s Manitowac landing ship. The U.S. Marine spokesman, Maj. Dennis Brooks, said the Ameri can personnel were evacuated from the seafront U.S. Embassy offices be cause of “the unsettled situation” and would return when safety improved. Marine CH-46 helicopters swooped down on the palm-lined boulevard under heavy guard at dusk. Some Americans had been trapped inside the British Embassy, which has housed U.S. offices since the American Embassy was bombed last year. Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld met with Gemayel and re portedly headed for Damascus for talks with the Syrians. Reagan Mon day warned Syria to stop helping those responsible “for terrorists at tacks on the people of Lebanon.” U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bar tholomew held talks with Lebanese officials at the presidential palace in suburban Baabda. A White House spokesman said Reagan ordered stepped-up diplomatic efforts to sal vage the situation. al he (Hi >’ton said. ,hal was from dm lut that ka 5°' the Chitap lolmes as bvpass a ;r from il*! Bears. Tat in my with the “Walter tedtostai edicted to anm ns return To Bowl ECT providing emergency services to the A&M campus account® 1 . 1 former J j[ * ,aid non-fi ns could 1 but main^ own’s re^ |,!, uld not I*! made fiH re to | d. “JifflM nd ire'll 1 the recent chilly weather, College Sta ton resident Dara Crain enjoys a cool ice cream cone cream parlor. Photo by KATHERINE HURT local Baskin-Robbins By MICHELLE POWE Senior Staff Writer You never know when you may be in an accident and need emergency care. David Mark Eng found that out Monday night when he and a bicy clist collided on the Texas A&M cam pus. Eng, who was riding his motorcy cle when the accident happened, was treated by Texas A&M’s Emergency Care Team and later treated and re leased from St. Joseph Hospital. Eng, a sophomore Environmental Design student from Houston, said the ECT took every precaution while treating him. “They really knew what they were doing,” he said. Texas A&M’s Emergency Care Team is a volunteer student organi zation, responsible for the emer gency care of everyone on University property. Most of its 60 or so mem bers are students and all of its mem bers work free-of-charge. The president of the ECT, Louis Gonzales, says the most important functions of the ECT are covering University events and providing am bulance service to the University. The ECT was created in 1976 to provide emergency care, when needed, at all University events such as football games and bonfire and to teach first aid and CPR to the public. ECT members today still attend all University functions, including con certs, plays and the MSC All-Nile Fair. Gonzales said the ECT always sends at least two members to every function, and usually sends three or more. Six ECT members were on duty from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. at the All- Nite Fair last weekend, he said. What you should do in an emergency in an emergency — a possible life or death situation — a person should know the number to call for help. But few people at Texas A&M seem to know the number to call in an emergency and those who do are often confused about it. The emergency number for Texas A&M is 9911. The confusion results from that first 9. Do you dial 9 and then 9911 or do you just dial 9911? The answer: dial 9911. If you dial 9911 on any Univer sity telephone you will be connected with an operator who will contact the proper authorities for you. To dial Texas A&M’s emergency number from an off-campus tele phone, dial 845-1111. The ECT has grown significantly since 1976, when it had only 6 mem bers, and the number of its responsi bilities has increased as well. The ECT is separated into divi sions with different duties. One divi sion is responsible solely for covering University events. Another, called the Emergency Medical Services, is responsible for the ambulance serv ice to the University. Texas A&M’s ambulance service began in early 1980. The University bought its first ambulance in late 1979 and a second one last spring. The A.P. Beutel Health Center — a separate organization from the ECT — funds and maintains the am bulances and the ECT provides the manpower and management for am bulance service. Gonzales said funding for the ECT comes from members’ dues, book store funds and donations. The ECT, therefore, cannot afford to pay for the ambulances. When ambulance service for Texas A&M began, members of the EMS were on duty during the week days and health center technicians rganizations of gay students chieve statewide recognition took over at nights and on the week ends. This semester, however, the ECT has completely taken over ambulance operations and EMS members are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On weekends, members pull 12- hour shifts, working from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. During the 5- day working week, members pull 14- hour shifts at night from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. and work whenever their class schedules allow duringweek days. Several members work second, paying jobs in addition to their class loads and jobs with the ECT. Two other divisions of the ECT are the education and symposium branches. The education division is responsible for the emergency care education of ECT members as well as people on campus and in the com munity, Gonzales said. The sympo sium division is responsible for the annual symposiums which the ECT holds. Gonzales said the symposiums at tract people from all over the state. By ROBIN BLACK Staff Writer nternatio 111 j *nn.- i arterbad l iM University administrators across C\(\m s t3te are becoming more recep- live to gay student organizations, Jay jherin, founder of the Texas Gay- jesbian Student Organization Coali- i|)n,said Monday. ^ al ‘ s l ^ e rea ^ tren< l * n the in- yUvE <leasetl recognition of the organiza- |bns at universities state-wide, he ?said, not simply a growth in the num- bti of groups. I Cherin said most of the groups lou. T v e been in existence for some time, tke hisf 1 ® 111 administrators just now are be- inesday* 1 l nn i n g to accept the groups as legiti- the Me 1 ® ate campus organizations, ads said® “As far as any trend is concer- Bd,” he said, “there has been a kind red this’M domino effect, because of the d a $1#""^g acceptance of such groups.” Cherin said that groups exist at die lollowing colleges and universi- dev the University of Texas at Ar- jBigton, Stephen F. Austin Univer- liy, the University of Texas at fustin, North Texas State Univer sity, Southwest Texas State Univer- Stv, Texas A&I University, Rice Uni- first 1 I'sity, The University of Houston, Saturdt'l ..‘n^n Angelo State University, South- ‘ * pn. Methodist University, Texas rs ' K-'M, and Southwestern University act will 1 » will be* ^ durinl . ce, teal sduled r roster at Georgetown. The only groups not recognized by their respective college or univer sity are those at SWT, Texas A&I, Texas A&M and SMU. Cherin said there was a gay stu dent group at Trinity University at one time, but the administration withdrew the group’s right to be rec ognized on the campus. The two oldest groups exist at UT and Rice. The group at UT was formed in 1972 and was recognized as a campus organization in 1974 af ter a court case which set the prece dent for other groups which were recognized soon after that, Cherin said. Cherin was a chairperson of the UT organization, and founded TGLSOC last year because he felt there wasn’t enough communication between the groups across the state. He said the organization, which celebrated its first anniversary Sun day, was also created to increase the exposure the various groups re ceived. “Just our exposure to ‘straight’ people is very important,” Cherin said. “People tend to understand us better the more they know about us and our lifestyles.” The organization has three ma jor objectives, Cherin said. One is to increase the resources available in libraries about homosex ual lifestyles, he said. “We’re getting a lot of help from the American Library Associa tion’s Task Force on Gay Liberation,” Cherin said. The Philadelphia-based task force researches information to go into libraries concerning homo sexual lifestyles and psychology. Another of the group’s objec tives is to educate the public on ho mosexual lifestyles, and, Cherin said, this is tied in with the first objective to make resources on this subject more readily available to the public. The goal the group considers most important, however, is work to establish new groups and keep lines of communication open between existing groups. Cherin said the organization has an Outreach Task Force whose job is to establish gay groups where they don’t now exist. Cherin said the political clout of the gay student groups is becoming more and more apparent. He cited the UT group as an example. He said the student association —equivalent to student government —has recently appointed a subcom mittee for Homosexual Student Af fairs to monitor the needs of that part of the university’s population. “It was a big step for us for growth,” Cherin said. Nationally, he said, the groups are more visible because of court cases, especially the Texas A&M gay student group. Another gay student group that is receiving a lot of attention these days is the Gay and Lesbian Student Support Organization at SMU. Con troversy erupted when official recog nition was denied the group. Lenny DePalma, media rep resentative for the Gay Organiza tions of the Brazos Valley, said the SMU and Texas A&M groups are pretty much unrelated in their prob lems. DePalma said the SMU organi zation is not waiting on the court de cision on the Texas A&M group be fore going through the process of trying to get their group recognized on campus. “The conflict at SMU is based pretty much on religion,” he said, “w- hile the problems with the A&M or ganization is due mostly to the ad ministration finding the group unacceptable, using the argument that it is a ‘social’ organization.” Cherin said he feels it is just a matter of time before both groups are recognized as official campus or ganizations. In Today’s Battalion Local • RHA passed three new bills at last night’s meeting. See story page 8. • Attendance at local clubs and bars is dropping this semester. See story page 4. State • Prosecutors are asking for the death penalty in the Moreno capital murder trial. See story page 5. • State officials say Texas’ supply of natural gas is disappearing. See story page 7. • Politicians Phil Gramm and Jim Hightower both make public apologies for campaign remarks. See separate stories page 5.