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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.
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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
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C\(\m s t3te are becoming more recep-
live to gay student organizations, Jay
jherin, founder of the Texas Gay-
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i|)n,said Monday.
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yUvE <leasetl recognition of the organiza-
|bns at universities state-wide, he
?said, not simply a growth in the num-
bti of groups.
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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-
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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.