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§\N SALVADOR — A gunman
j from a taxicab killed the head
tcurity at the U.S. Embassy Mon-
■barely a mile from the mission,
liorities said.
aaquim Alfredo Zapata Romero,
Idied in his car from four bullet
Inds to the head, neck and chest,
Jesses said. His wife Yolanda was
1 in the mouth but a daughter
eling with them was unharmed,
[said.
[fitnesses said the unidentified
[man in the passenger seat of a
[ pulled up beside Zapata’s car,
Iped at a major intersection dur-
ig the morning rush hour in the
est of the capital, and opened fire.
Jjlheysaid the gunman and the taxi
p escaped from the scene by
ding away to the north.
logroup immediately claimed re-
hsibiliiy and police said they had
i Washington, the State Depart-
tsaid it had no information on
dentily of the gunman and that
med of the shooting “with pro-
id regret.”
The department of State con
ns all such acts of violence and
irism,” said department spokes-
John Hughes.
japata was an 8-year veteran of
assy security, the highest-rank-
Salvadoran on the embassy staff
headed the 200-member security
:e of Salvadorans, a spokesman
the mission said.
le ranked just below the embas-
Regional Security Officer, an
erican, the spokesman said.
mong his duties was coordinat-
security arrangements with the
adoran government for the visits
aigh-ranking American officials,
i as Cabinet members and the
president, the spokesman said.
lapata previously had been chief
the Salvadoran national police
ninal investigations division, au-
dties said.
'ampus construction in full swing
Fighting continues
in Beirut and Tripoli
United Press International
BEIRUT — Fighting closed the
only crossing between the Christian
and Moslem sectors of the divided
capital Monday and rival Moslem
gunmen clashed in Tripoli, killing at
least four people and wounding 20
others.
In Damascus, Syrian Vice Presi
dent Abdel Halim Khaddam met
with Druze Moslem rebel leader Wa
lk! Jumblalt and top aides in Jumb-
latt’s Progressive Socialist Party in a
bid “to consolidate a cease-fire,”
Druze radio said.
Other rebel leaders opposed to the
government of Christian President
Amin Gemayel met in Damascus as
fighting flared again in Beirut and
Tripoli, a port city 42 miles north of
the capital.
At least six people were reported
killed Sunday in Tripoli when the
first fighting in the city in months
erupted between the Tawheed, a
fundamentalist Sunni militia, and the
“Pink Knights,” gunmen of the pro-
Syrian Alawite sect of Islam that bit
terly opposes the Sunnis.
Fighting closed the Museum cross
ing Monday, halting traffic through
the Green Line, a no mans land lepa-
rating the Christian east from Mos
lem west Beirut.
Minutes after police in Beirut
opened the crossing for the day,
mortar shelling and bursts of heavy
machine-gun fire forced them to
close it.
“There were dozens of cars at the
time of the shooting but none was
hit,” one witness said. “Drivers left
their cars and escaped into nearby
buildings when the first shells fell in
an empty lot.”
A Christian delegate at a cease-fire
committee meeting to reopen the
crossing blamed Moslem gunners for
the violence.
The Museum crossing, normally
open 12 hours a day, remained shut
in what appeared to be its first all-day
closing since February.
Safely away from the bloodshed
aboard a U.S. warship off the Leb
anese coast, American professor
Frank Regier received medical tests
less than 24 hours after he was re
leased from two months in captivity.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said
Regier, 56, head of the electrical en
gineering department at the Ameri
can University of Beirut, was flown
by helicopter to the USS Nassau.
Regier, of Montgomery, W.Va.,
was reported “in psychologically
good condition but physically weak.”
Regier and French architect Chris
tian Joubert, both kidnapped in west
Beirut in February, were rescued
Sunday by Shiite Moslem militiamen.
Haig, Kissinger to have
extra security while here
Photo by JOHN MAKELY
Too late now
More than 40,000 tax returns were processed at the Bryan Post
Office Monday night. Charles Ray, manager of mail proc
essing in Bryan, postmarks and sorts through a few of the re
turns. The mail trucks left for the Austin post offices at 1 a.m.
Tuesday morning.
By ROBIN BLACK
Staff Writer
Former Secretaries of State Alex
ander Haig and Henry Kissinger will
be the Big Men on Campus Thurs
day, and with the security measures
that are being taken it shouldn’t be
too difficult to pick them out of the
crowd.
Bob Wiatt, director of Security
and Traffic of the University Police,
said the department is preparing for
the worst and stepping up security
for the event Thursday.
There will be a “very visible show
of support” by the University Police
while the two men are here, Wiatt
said, because there is no way of
knowing who else might show up as a
welcoming committee.
“There will be a tremendous
amount of security from the moment
they land at the airport,” he said.
Wiatt said University Police will
check out in advance every place
Haig and Kissinger will be while on
campus.
The University Police have issued
a parade permit to LaRouche, an or
ganization that is a right-wing branch
of the Democratic party. Wiatt said
the group will be allowed to demon
strate only within the constraints of
the Rudder Fountain area.
Larouche has distributed propa
ganda pamphlets accusing Kissinger
of being behind the plot to murder
former Italian Prime Minister Aldo
Moro.
Kissinger will bring two body
guards with him but Haig will arrive
alone, Wiatt said.
“We’re not treating this thing
lightly,” he said. “This is a heck of a
lot more than ‘ho-hum, there’s an
other speaker on campus.’ This
could end up with several people
screaming and hollering.”
Keri Hairston, public relations di
rector of the Endowed Lecture Series
which is sponsoring the Haig-Kissin-
ger event, said she’s not anticipating
much trouble at Texas A&M because
of the strong conservatism in the stu
dent body.
“The only thing any kind of dem
onstration can do is help us in the fu
ture,” Hairston said. “It would help
because more of the media would be
attracted next year.”
Kissinger encountered a consider
able amount of protest last month
when he spoke at the University of
Texas.
More than 200 people held a
peaceful demonstration around UT’s
LBJ library in protest of Kissinger’s
El Salvador involvement, and about
50 were arrested.
“You never know who else might
show up,” he said. “The people from
UT might show up about the El Sal
vador thing. After all, Austin is only
about 90 miles from here.”
Capt. M. Newton of the College
Station Police Department said city
police will not be involved with the
security, but will be on call if the Uni
versity police need assistance.
Wiatt said that University Police
might have a paddy wagon nearby in
case any trouble starts with demon
strators.
“We might even have a school bus
depending on the numbers,” he said.
Tickets for the Endowed Lecture
Series sold out last week, so the com
mittee has arranged for a video sim
ulcast in Rudder Theater. Tickets for
the simulcast are on sale in the Rud
der box office.
University trying to solve building shortage
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By ANNE HEDGCOXE
Reporter
Texas A&M University just
uldn’t be the same without con-
tction fences, renovation signs,
Uming drills and banging ham-
rs.
Respite the leveling off of student
ollment in the past few semesters,
University is building in full gear.
Texas A&M has the most severe
ilding shortage of any other state
iversity, says retired Major Gen
ii Wesley E. Peel, vice chancellor
facilities planning and construc-
n.
The University has the physical fa
des to accommodate comfortably
25,000 students, he says, but the
problem is there are 36,000.
According to the coordinating
board’s standard of 130 square feet
per one full-time student, Peel says
the University is probably about one
million square feet short of ENG,
general education space.
About ten years ago, Texas A&M
was just trying to keep up with the
rapid increase in student enrollment.
Now that enrollment has slacked off,
the University can “catch its breath”,
says Peel.
“If the enrollment remains at
about 36,000, we will probably catch
up, based upon our current pro
gram, in about five years,” he says.
“At that time, we will be transitioning
into a full-time renovation.”
Considering the sudden increased
enrollment experienced in the last
decade, Peel says the University has
responded with efficiency.
While some universities may as
sign classrooms on a departmental
basis, Texas A&M uses computers to
assure that laboratories and class
rooms are fully utilized 1 instead of sit
ting dormant.
A majority of the classrooms on
campus are used approximately six
hours a day.
Texas A&M also has the space and
funds to create the state of the art
changes needed for research and in
struction.
Currently there is $50 million un
der contract for building and renova
tion, says Peel.
“If you look at the projects in pro
gress now, there is more renovation
under way than in the past,” he says.
In the next few years, Peel says
there will be $50 million to $60 mil
lion under construction at one given
time.
All this money comes from the
Available Fund, income from the
Permanent University Fund, a land
endowment'totaling $1.5 billion, and
bonds sold by the University.
“Some complain about all the brick
arking permits to be sold by the year
By ERIN PYLE
Reporter
Students pre-registering for the
ring semester have been surprised
len signing up for parking stickers
they are no longer sold by the se
tter. Beginning next fall, all stu
ntparking stickers will be sold on a
o-semester basis. Stickers pre-
>usly have been available on a sin-
i-semester basis.
AUniveristy Police representative
id the selling of the longer permits
Hcutthe amount of paperwork in
ked.
Fees for parking also will go up in
e fall. The increased fees will pro
vide more money for improved park
ing facilities.
Students who plan to graduate in
December must purchase a sticker
for the entire academic year, but at
the end of the fall semester they can
get a refund for the spring semester
if they remove the sticker and return
it to the University Police. The
sticker does not have to be in one
piece to get a refund, but students
are required to return all the pieces
to the University Police. Graduating
students must pay all outstanding
tickets before receiving their refund.
The new change has caused confu
sion among students and the Univer
sity Police. Because the pre-registra
tion forms have an option for one-
semester stickers, some students be
lieve they can purchase a one-semes
ter sticker. The University Police say
they are sorry for the confusion, but
all students signing up for parking
stickers will be billed for two semes
ters.
Students who are planning to at
tend school both semesters say they
are not affected as much as those
who are graduating in December.
Lee Holmes, a junior political sci
ence major from Clear Lake, said he
is not opposed to buying the sticker
on a yearly basis as long as it is cost-
effective.
Cynthia Richardson, a sophomore
elementary education major from
Houston, said the sticker policy is un
fair to graduating seniors.
Mintarso Salim, an industrial engi
neering graduate student from Indo
nesia, said he doesn’t mind paying
for an extra semester as long as he
can get a refund when he graduates.
“I guess we don’t have a choice,”
Salim said.
and mortar. What they forget is that
without brick and mortar, there are
no offices, laboratories or class
rooms,” Peel says. “It is a require
ment for construction.”
Expansion also is a requirement
for upgrading facilities and techno
logical research if Texas A&M is
going to advance educationally.
Texas A&M, like most universities,
is experiencing a change in educatio
nal scope. Instead of a classroom-
based education, more emphasis now
is being placed on highly technologi
cal research.
This is why buildings currently un
der construction are mainly office
space and research laboratories.
Daniel T. Whitt, assistant director
of facilities planning and construc
tion, says that “In the past decade the
rapid growth in enrollment and in
research as been such that we have
devoted most of our available dollars
to new buildings.
“We are approaching a point now,
however, where we can spend some
of those dollars on some very needed
renovations. If you have a building
that is structurally sound, it is more
efficient to renovate than to start
over with new construction.”
Renovation upgrades and mod
ernizes existing facilities while main
taining the flavor and character of
the University.
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Local
• Participants in Wednesday’s Political Awareness Day
include members from MADD, the KKK and the Commu
nist Party. See story page 3.
• Believe it or not, student bookstores enjoy buying
and selling used books. See story page 4.
• For a complete list of winners of the Buck Weirus
Spirit Awards and the Gathright Awards see page 3.