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The musical 'Oliver' thrills Rudder crowd See page 11 U.S. hockey team loses shot at medal See page 14 Texas A&M J Lisa Langston leads women to Waco See page 15 ■■■■I «■ 1 exas AoM — ^ w A The Battalion Serving the University community Vol 78 No. 94 GSRS 0453110 16 pages College Station, Texas Friday, February 10, 1984 .S. warships still shelling Lebanon United Press International iJLIRUT — A U.S. destroyer fir- 5-inch guns pounded rebel posi- _iis east ol Beirut Thursday and RL warplanes roared over the area ■a show of force aimed at halting rebel shelling of Christian east Bei- IU k W BThe renewed naval fire followed a /astating 10-hour bombardment jy-boomjAdnesday by the U S. battleship averylar« w j erse y a i K i a second ship from lecreasinj.® 6th Fleet that shook buildings txwni jljosstiie capital. thedaiipM n Damascus, Syria threatened re- smostprojabon if the U.S. naval bombard- ne of ev£® n t s intensified and the rebel HLpectedto ft] jze Moslem militia »)f Walid said heM<B m k| a tt warned U.S. interests in : will destr!®j ru t would be physically endan- na ? e ' W et * renewed shelling, toll will te«u.S. Marine helicopters airlifted eollhe'-" aid theinffl| marriagfi ilies will anships. ositivenoiel rveys sho»j people aff| h other, nhappy, i d. “It i lappy coi gSSfWWOND 0 [- I( Ipirsday they plan to proceed with jB least two more capital murder ■es against Eliseo Moreno, con- fl|ied and sentenced to death this ■ek in the slaying of a state trooper, ajhough trial date in the case of S Breno’s slainin-laws has not been J I ■Moreno, 25, a former lawn mower Bainnan from Bryan, was con- Bed Monday of killing Department I Public Safety Trooper Russell Bin Boyd on Oct. I 1. He was sen tenced to death by injection Wednes- - “ F' olor whro-BBut despite his conviction, pros en Annes |uuors in Brazos and Waller County blend b llan io take Moreno to trial, first in ouch toll the deaths of Esther and Juan Garza tesaid. in College Station and possibly for , director! *he deaths of three elderly Hemp- anolher 50 U.S. Embassy employees and their families from west Beirut, which was seized by Moslem rebels Tuesday in a drive to oust President Amin Gemayel, a Christian. Ignoring Syrian and Druze warn ings, the USS Moosburgger fired 150 rounds from its 5-inch guns in retal iation for rebel artillery attacks on Christian east Beirut and other Christian enclaves north of the city, a Marine spokesman said. The spokesman, Maj. Dennis Brooks, said the naval fire was di rected at anti-government positions east of Beirut but could not confirm the exact targets. Druze-operated Voice of the Mountain radio said U.S. ships fired 25 rounds per minute in the latest barrage, which coincided with spo radic fighting along the “Green Line” separating the Moslem-held west from the east. American F-14 Tomcat fighter- bombers roared over Syrian posi tions east of Beirut shortly before the barrage began but Brooks denied re ports they carried out bombing raids. The planes drew anti-aircraft fire with Moslem militiamen firing .50- caliber machine guns as the war jets streaked westward out of the Leb anese mountains over Beirut in the afternoon. A Druze spokesman in Damascus charged that at least 18 people were killed and 80 wounded in Wednes day’s bombardment of positions in a Syrian-controlled area near Hamana, 15 miles east of Beirut in the Upper Metn mountains. Acting on orders from President Reagan, the New Jersey unleashed a relentless barrage of 16-inch 1-ton explosive shells that crushed entire buildings. The shells from the battle ship’s big guns can be fired more than 20 miles and blow a crater 100 yards wide. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein berger said Wednesday’s naval bom bardment was ordered because the rebel shelling was “exceptionally dis ruptive” to U.S. efforts to reconsti tute the Gemayel government. Jumblatt, however, told CBS news that Gemayel must go. “Either the civil war will continue and Lebanon will just disappear or Gemayel will realize he’s just an American puppet and a big loser, and if I have to give him advice it’s better for him to (commit) suicide,” Jumhlall said. Jumblatt’s Progressive Socialist Party warned the U.S. Embassy in Damascus “that the people’s mass re action against U.S. interests in Leb anon may be uncontrollable if the United States continues to massacre the Lebanese people.” About 100 non-essential U.S. Ma rines were withdrawn from Beirut, and Marine helicopters airlifted an other 50 U.S. Embassy employees or family members from the west Beirut seafront, Brooks said. U.S. Embassy spokesman Jon Stewart said no plans were made for evacuating an estimated 5,000 Amer ican citizens from Lebanon, although non-essential embassy staff were taken out because of the “current cir cumstances.” In all, 140 Americans have been airlifted to the USS Guam offshore and then transferred to the Mediter ranean island of Cyprus. Approximately 1,120 Marines were left on the ground, with a total of 353 non-essential servicemen taken to ships this week. Brooks said the movements were not part of the total withdrawal ordered by Reagan this week. In its World Service broadcasts, the BBC notified the estimated 2,000 British subjects in Lebanon to pre pare for evacuation by two ferries steaming from Cyprus to the port of Jounieh, 12 miles north of the capi tal. In west Beirut Shiite militiamen broke up bars and gambling houses, forcing Shiite Amal militia leader Nabih Berri to order his men off the street and ask police to resume pa trols of the war-battered predomi nantly Moslem sector. oreno to face more charges United Press International Prosecutors said he protf ts Floral M lead residents. id thalW ide upontlij of the d could meaif eenane erne ora* s lid nlOl)^l■^ o^eno, ‘ n l ^ e Fort Bend hould be(f Ulll y j a ‘l ‘ n R* c h mont l where he i li?h !* a ' triecl > 8° to Harris County di- uBnoscic unit before he is transferred Ilj am to the lexas Department of Correc- )i( j lions death row near Trinity. nThe Garzas, who were related to joreno’s estanged wife, were shot to lath in their apartment. Eye wit- ijsses testified during the Boyd trial it they saw Moreno shoot the cou- le and flee from their home. Ijoreno is charged with two counts capital murder in those deaths. thebridesl*“We fully intend to try Moreno in communKBose cases,” said Assistant Brazos and undeiBmnty District Attorney Rob Boyles. sareinsenfButno trial date has been set. “We want to get Moreno into our I before he goes to the Texas De triment of Corrections.” The case is Insidered a capital of fense because msecutors claim Moreno also was urglarifjng the Garza’s home. |Waller County prosecutor Jim ray estra tiling keeshan, who successfully pros ecuted Moreno this week, said he may want in the future to try Moreno in the deaths of James Bennett, Ann Bermatt and Elbe Wilkins, who were slain when they would not cooperate with Moreno. “Those cases are murder and the maximum he could get is life in prison. We have not made a decision on whether to go to trial. And no de cision has been made for the trial of the kidnapping of the Shirley fam ily,” Keeshan said. The five Shirleys were kidnapped from Hempstead and forced to drive Moreno to Pasadena, where he gave the unharmed family his last $6 so they could return home. But, Keeshan noted the kidnap ping case was very strong because there are five eye witnesses ready to testify. Defense lawyer Robert Scardino Jr., who described his client as “po lite, almost condescending,” said Moreno initially wanted to personally argue to the jury for death. But, he was convinced by his family, lawyer and a priest to allow Scardino to try and get him life in prison. The jury chose death by unani mously answering three questions during deliberations: was the shoot ing deliberate, was Moreno a danger to society and did he act unreason able to any provocation by the victim. If all three questions were answered “yes,” presiding state District Judge Oliver Kitzman had no choice but to order death. Scardino maintains his client had a serious alcohol problem that trig gered the five-hour crime spree across 130 miles of East Texas and he is not a danger to society. Keeshan said he had no doubt the jury would convict Moreno. Goosed in the pork John Mapes, a senior political science major from Kerrville, tion’s Central Park. Park officials are implementing a program takes a study break and feeds bread to the geese in College Sta- to improve maintenance in local parks. Related story, page 6. allege of Engineering to limit enrollment in each department By KAREN WALLACE Sta// Writer Beginning next fall, the College of ttgineering here will limit the num- r of students in each engineering partment, an official in that de- Jrtment said Thursday. The change should ease the strain ft faculty, facilities, and resources, id Associate Dean Leland A. Carl- ■n. The enrollment has increased |ree times as much as the faculty lice 1970,” Carlson said. “The total limber of students enrolled has in- eased 219 percent while the teach- g faculty has increased only 108 rcent.” [The.imbalance leaves the faculty ith a heavy teaching load, he said, iding that it’s also difficult to plan I race and facility use for this many udents. “The goal is to reduce the under- aduate enrollment from the pre- nt number of over 10,000 down to 8,000,” he said, “and to increase the number of graduate students from 1,157 to 2,000.” The new program will begin with incoming freshmen next fall and will be phased in over the next four to five years, he said. “None of the students already en rolled will be affected,” he said. wants to The new program requires fresh men at the end of the year to submit an application to the dean of engi neering in order to apply to the de partment of choice. In order to ap ply, freshmen must have a grade point ratio of at least 2.0, have 30 se mester hours and have received ' credit for certain semester hours de pending on the desired field. Each department then decides how many sophomores it can take and accepts the best qualified stu dents, Carlson said. The primary fac tor is the students grade point ratio, he said. The student who doesn’t qualify for admission can stay in engineering but can’t take any sophomore level engineering courses, he said. “The student has to decide if he wants to switch to another field and remain an Aggie or stay in his field and change universities,” he said. The program will replace the pre vious 2.5 grade point ratio rule where a student had to have a 2.5 to remain in the college of engineering. This rule was too severe for some de partments and too lenient for others, he said. “This enables us to go on a pro gram by program basis,” he said. Carlson said there are many rea sons why the program will be good. First, the program forces students to make important career decisions earlier than they do now, he said. “Students will look at their career choices more realistically and much earlier than they did before,” he said.” Also, the quality of instruction will increase because the number of stu dents compared to the number of faculty members will even out a little more, and space and facilities can be better managed, he said. The program will have some prob lems though, he said. More students want to study com puter science, petroleum engi neering and electical engineering than the departments have space for, he said. Many students applying to these departments will be turned down, he said. “But it is better to limit enrollment and provide quality educaton,” he said. “We can’t continue to take just lots and lots of students in with our limited resources.” The program, which has been in the planning stage for several yeras, has already been implemented in 23 other universities in the United States including the University of .Texas at Austin. In Today’s Battalion Local • College Station park officials want to begin a “Park Partners” program to help speed up park maintenance. See story page 6. • Students are often the culprits in campus bicycle thefts on the Texas A&M campus. Story, page 7. State • The San Antonio Gunslingers of the United States Football League were given permission Thursday to play in Alamo Stadium, ending a long legal battle. See story, page 15. • Members of an Austin church, tired of wading through “vomit, beer bottles and urine” to enter their es tablishment, want to move from their location across from the University of Texas campus. See story, page 4. • David, the “bubble boy”, shows sign of improvement. See story page 3.