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Tuesday, March 6, 1984
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{uild also itjinhJ Maine went — to Gary Hart —
rs of local noljs Vermont predicted to go Tues-
l network-ownfily n a presidential pt iinary season
at led front-runner Waller Nfon-
ilclo declare Monday, “I’m in trou-
■ need help."
11 c Vermont primary is a "beauty
Hst” from which the winner gets
) national convention delegates, but
Hier win by the Colorado Demo-
H: Senator would give him three
gs of a four-state New England
ve T-
appy but shivering without an
ktrcoat in 28-degree weather, Hart
■ , ^soutcampaigningalsumipMon-
Iflr outside a Quincy, Mass., ship-
I llvH and a Boston subwav stop only
|urs after his second upset ol Mon-
ale in the Maine caucuses Sunday,
■eclining to accept the front-run-
ellabel he stripped from Mondale
nlj hand-running' victories in New
pupshire and Maine, Hart said.
H still a dark horse," as he cam-
ttgiud for the 116 delegates Massa-
huseits will select March 18 for the
■gHH-Talic National Convention,
in ced with Hidl es ^ es l * le Maine scalp,, I lari had
it saying heanB llcrentoura K c m en t in Boston —
n’liershadridi: . 1K ' V B°ston ('.lobe poll showing
; ;iii} leading Mondale dl percent to
^■lercent in the Massachusetts pri-
iar\ In January, Hart had 8 per-
Bin the same newspaper's poll.
|.one of the major candidates
ten: able to campaign in snowbound
# \ fti out Monday. But Hart is the
Jf % ml contender who has given the
B Beanyamomit ol attention and is a
■ Brite to capture the preferential
H Miuary.
went on to Springfield, Mass.,
^^Mbnday and then headed south for
I - I 1 ' e °f stumping in the March
■’T PVrPV ■" Su P ei IHesday" primary stales
' ! ' IBeorgia, Alabama and Florida.
'•INC Blondale, reeling from the Hart
||lauglu, had declined an invitation
ppear on network television after
v Hampshire but Monday he
lew York and
Los A net
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chairman Geoi
und anyconfisj
made all three of the morning news
programs.
Asked on ABC’s “Good Morning
America” to explain, Mondale
laughed and said, ‘Tin in trouble. I
need help."
But he appeared to be buoyed by a
packed noontime Boston rally where
fie was repeatedly interrupted by
cheers and screams.
“To hell with New Hampshire,”
one man shouted.
Mondale said the tide will turn
w hen Hart’s record on nuclear arms,
energy taxes and other issues are
fully discussed.
He said Hart tried to claim that his
oil tax would not harm consumers,
but, “Voters of Massachusetts, watch
out. Thai’s a dagger in your heart.
That $10 a barrel oil tax will raise the
cost of producing goods in this coun
try to a level much higher than goods
produced anywhere else on earth,
and w ill do so at a time when Amer
ica is at full retreat in international
competition because of the impact of
Reaganomics.”
Hart “wrote a book about his vi
sion of America, and you need an
FBI investigator to Find one word in
there of expressing concern about
people who are in trouble. There’s a
big difference,” Mondale said.
At Birmingham, Ala., Sen. John
Glenn of Ohio stopped to make some
new' television commercials Monday
while his strategists cast about for a
sign of hope in his run of poor fin
ishes. One told reporters it may come
in a Mondale Southern collapse.
Glenn told a news conference
Hart’s Maine caucus victory proved
“what we thought — the inevitability
of Walter Mondale’s candidacy, the
juggernaut rolling down the tracks,
certainly has been stopped.”
Greg Schneiders, Glenn’s spokes
man, said if Hart wins in Vermont
and Wyoming Saturday, as expected,
“Mondale would be devastated in the
South.
Fast Food?
Photo by DEANSAITO
No, just trick photography as a long shutter
speed emphasizes the mad rush of students
going through the food lines at Sbisa Dining
Hall Monday.
Iran: Britain supplied arms
United Press International
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iran said
Monday it would produce “sufficient
documents” to prove Britain sup
plied deadly chemical weapons to
help Iraq in the bitter 42-month Per
sian Gulf war, a charge both Bagh
dad and London denied.
In Stockholm, one of 15 Iranian
soldiers flown to Europe for treat
ment of burn wounds that specialists
said could have been caused by
chemical bombs, died Monday of
heart failure.
On the war front, Iraq’s official
news agency INA, monitored in Lon
don, reported artillery duels between
Iraqi and Iranian soldiers but gave
no details and said there was a “no
ticeable calm” on the battlefield.
Iraq also said it staged attacks with
helicopter gunships on Iranian posi
tions east of the Gulf port city of
Basra.
Iraqi Maj. Gen. Hisham Sabah
Fakhvi predicted a new massive Ira
nian offensive would be opened soon
in the war, which broke out Sept. 22,
1980.
. “If Iran launches another aggres
sion, we shall not greet them with
flowers,” he said.
Iran made no battle claims Mon
day but summoned foreign ambassa
dors in Tehran to hear Foreign Min
ister Aki Akbar Velayati charge that
Iraq used British-supplied chemical
weapons to counter Iranian offen
sives last month.
Claiming 1,000 Iranians have been
poisoned, Velayati invited foreign of-
ficals to visit those “who are suffering
from chemical burns in hospitals
throughout the country.”
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jtestriping, construction proposed
Parking debated by Faculty Senate
oy reserva ; By DAINAH BULLARD
A,B,C,andr« ; „
Stall Writer
proposed solutions to parking
larch S.ChecfpMilems on the Texas A&M Univer-
ds outside the sitv campus dominated (tie Faculty
ecreational SpoBiate meeting Monday afternoon.
3 when you plaBCharles R. Cargill, vice president
ssigned an op. bf operations, presented the results
nd a timetOpla°f investigations into campus traf fic
■obleins from the firm of Barlon-
—Bellman to the Senate.
E WATER POlBPlans to improve parking condi-
involved in Itiipns suggested by Barion-Aschnian
te season-
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offered. Play
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id caps will fl ,
y the IM-RBJ ER USALEM — Police have ar-
i There will seven American Jewish sel-
ns meeting If s suspected of attacking an Arab
arch 8 at6pnr| ls near l h e W esl Bank town of Ra-
3 Playschedui allah ’ wounding seven Palestinian
ole at this time Israel Radio reported Mon-
tl ly.
1 Police were also investigating
Ihether the seven were involved in
Be aborted attack on the Temple
■ounl in Jerusalem, a site holy to
l>th Moslems and Jews, earlier this
at, the radio said.
include redesigning existing parking
lots, construction of a parking garage
on parking lot 60 (south of Rudder
Tower), and construction of a six-
level parking garage on the site cur
rently occupied by the physical plant.
Cargill agreed with Barton-Asch-
inan that repainting campus parking
lots to create more spaces would be a
good idea. He also said decreasing
the width of parking spaces from 9
feet to 8 feel six inches could add a
number of spaces to campus parking
lots.
Cargill said a parking garage will
probably be built some day on lot 60,
but a parking garage on the physical
plant site would be more practical
since it would provide more parking
spaces where they are needed.
The six-level parking garage
would provide 2000 parking spaces,
and would cost $10 to $18.5 million.
Cargill said part of the money to
build the garage would come from
the sale of parking permits, includ
ing permits for building basement
garage spaces, and reserved number
spaces.
Parking fees would increase yearly
from the 1985 fiscal year through the
1987 fiscal year, Cargill said, and stu
dent parking fees would increase
along with faculty and staff parking
fees.
Until a parking garage can be
built, the University is taking mea
sures to ease campus parking prob
lems by encouraging parking on the
west side of campus, he said.
Beginning in September, the large
shuttle buses will drive an “express
route” from the Olsen Field parking
lot to the northeast area of campus,
and the small shuttle buses will offer
increased intra-campus transporta
tion, he said.
In other business, the Senate ap
proved an ammendment to delete
item three (tenure or nontenure sta
tus) from the faculty memorandum
on the subject of terms and condi
tions of appointment. The deletion
of item three is temporary, pending
examination by a Senate committee.
Socal
will buy
Gulf Oil
United Press International
PITTSBURGH — Standard Oil
Co. of California said Monday it
agreed to buy Gulf Oil Corp. for
$18.2 billion, or $80 per share, in
what would be the largest takeover in
U.S. corporate history.
The merger is aimed at saving
Pittsburgh-based Gulf from a hostile
bid by Texas oilman T. Boone Pick
ens, its largest shareholder.
Gulf, the nation’s sixth-largest oil
company, said the boards of direc
tors of both companies approved the
agreement. The plan calls for Gulf to
be merged into a subsidiary of fifth-
ranked Socal.
The takeover would create the na
tion’s third-largest oil firm, behind
Exxon Corp. and Mobil Corp., and
could raise antitrust objections by the
Federal Trade Commission, industry
sources said.
The offer was settled in a day-long
meeting of Gulf s board of directors,
Gulf Chairman James E. Lee and So
cal Chairman George M. keller, a
Gulf spokesman said.
Los Angeles-based Atlantic Rich
field Co., considered the top con
tender to buy Gulf, said its offer was
considered but rejected.
“Another competitor’s bid was se
lected and we wish them and the
Gulf Oil Corp. well in their endeav
ors,” ARCO said in a statement.
There was no immediate comment
from Allied Corp. of Morristown,
N.J., considered another likely bid
der for Gulf.
Gulf said a cash tender offer for all
its outstanding stock will begin
shortly, hut Socal is not obligated to
complete the deal unless it can buy
85 million shares, or 51 percent of
outstanding stock.
Socal also has an option to buy
80.5 million shares of Gulfs 35 mil
lion unissued treasury shares, a Gulf
spokesman said.
Gulf launched a search for a so-
called “white knight” after a dissident
investment group led by Pickens
made an unfriendly $65-per-share
tender offer for 8.2 percent of Gulfs
stock.
Pickens, chairman of Mesa Petro
leum Co. of Amarillo and his fellow
investors rank as Gulfs largest share
holders, with a 13.2 percent stake.
About a dozen prospective suitors
had examined Gulfs internal finan
cial data and more than half signed a
pact agreeing not to seek control of
the Company for three years without
Gulfs consent, industry sources said.
Kuwait’s state-owned petroleum
company *dso has expressed interest
in buying Gulfs U.S. gasoline mar
keting network, sources said.
The nation’s largest merger so far
is Texaco Inc.’s recent $10.1 billion
acquisition of Getty Oil Co.
merieem Jews arrested in Israel
United Press International
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„ llTM i lire on a Volvo bus carrying Palestm-
n laborers on their way to jobs in-
|de Israel. Seven Arab men were
ounded, one seriously.
Anonymous callers to Israeli news
papers and Armed Forces Radio
’ ■aimed responsibility for the attack
Bn behalf of “TNT," a Hebrew acro-
■ym for “Terror Against Terror,” a
STMTS ■ |,!U I ,() I sus P ecle< -I.J t ‘ w * s l' terrorists.
w I If the radio report is true, it would
lored each MouBpresent the first major break by Is-
FlestaurantsaBeli police in solving a series of as-
— exas Avenue Bills on Arabs in the past few
ramural StaiBdOlOOI months claimed by “TNT.”
bm McDonnelBaeli police have been sharply crit-
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If the radio report is true,
it would represent the
first major break by Is
raeli police in solving a
series of assaults on Ar
abs in the past few
months claimed by
“TNT.”
icized for failing to crack the case in
volving attacks by Jews against Arabs.
“The suspects are Americans ap
parently living in the Mount Hebron
area,” the radio said. There are a
number of Jewish settlements in the
hills near the West Bank town of He
bron.
Under Israeli law, the names of
the suspects cannot be disclosed until
they are formally arraigned in court.
“The suspects were caught with
weapons in their possession,” the ra
dio said. “The investigation has dis
closed that the suspects drove in a
Subaru car to the site of the attack
where they waited for the bus and
opened fire.”
The radio report added, “Police
are also investigating whether the
suspects were responsible for the re
cent attempted attack on the Temple
Mount,” site of the Dome of the Rock
and Al Aksa mosques, the third ho
liest site in Islam.
Police spokesmen were not imme
diately available to comment on the
radio report.
Earlier Monday, rock-throwing
youths attacked two Israeli buses in
Ramallah in apparent retaliation for
the ambush. There were no reports
of casualties.
■ The East Jerusalem-based Pales
tine Press Service said anti-Israeli
demonstrations were also held in
Nablus and El Bireh “to protest the
attack against the Arab bus.” The
news agency said youths burned tires
and hoisted Palestinian ,flags in the
towns. •
Sunday’s ambush came five days
after a terrorist bomb exploded in
the doorway of a Jewish shop on a
crowded west Jerusalem street,
wounding 21 people.
Two of the men wounded in Sun
day’s attack told United Press Inter
national they could not see their as
sailants because of darkness and
ground fog.
“We were about 250 meters from
the village,” said Rowdi Mohammed
Feis, 19, a construction worker hit
with a bullet in the left forearm.
“Suddenly, there were gunshots
coming from both sides of the bus,
from the hills above the road. I
couldn’t see anythingl It was dark
and it happened very quickly.”
Police said the attack fit into a pat
tern of suspected vigilante retaliation
for Arab attacks against Israeli civil
ian targets.
Three days after a bomb gutted a
Jewish bus in Jerusalem last Dec. 6,
killing at least six and wounding
more than 30, “TNT” claimed its
first attack, when four Moslem and
Christian holy sites were wired with
hand grenades.
There have been a large number
of attacks on Arab targets since then
for which the group has claimed re-
ponsibility.
In Today’s Battalion
local
* University police speak out about the increase in
campus crimes. See story page S.
* For May graduates in the College of Architecture
and Environmental Design, the job market in Texas is
looking good. See story page 5.
* Local merchants say Texas A&M students aren't tak
ing advantage of the student government s People Book,
which is distributed at t he beginning of each semester and
contains coupons and discounts at local businesses. See
story page C>.
Nation
• Robert Sakowit/ is planning to open another of his
stores in Tulsa. He believes Tulsa is ready for high fashion.
See story page 8.
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