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United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The man ac
cused of driving his car down a
crowded Westwood sidewalk, killing
one pedestrian and injuring 54 oth
ers, could be charged with murder
plus scores of attempted murder or
assault counts, prosecutors said
Monday.
A1 Albergate, a spokesman for the
District Attorney’s Office, said pros
ecutors have until Tuesday evening
or Wednesday morning to charge
Daniel Lee Young, 21, of Ingle
wood, Calif., or free him from cus
tody.
Young could be charged with
murder in the death of 15-year-old
Eileen Deutsch, of New York City,
plus numerous counts of attempted
murder or assault with a deadely
weapon — his car — for the other in
jured people, Albergate said.
If any of the other victims who
were critically injured in Friday’s
night wild car assault die, Young
[ could be charged with additional
murder counts, Albergate said.
Police said Young intentionally
drove his car onto a tourist-crowded
sidewalk in the fashionable West-
! wood district Friday night at 35
mph, killing the teenager and injur
ing 57 otner people who were
mowed down “like bowling pins.”
After speeding along almost an en
tire block of Westwood Boulevard,
Young’s shattered car came to a halt
and he was arrested as he left the ve
hicle.
No Olympic athletes or coaches
were injurea even though the scene
was a few blocks from the UCLA
Olynipic village and the incident oc>
curred on the eve of the Carnes’
Opening Ceremonies.
Coke building ends
check cashing soon
By Dolores Hajovsky
Reporter
The days of cashing checks for
more than $25 are numbered. Be
ginning Aug. 20 Fiscal Department
cashiers will no longer cash personal
or payroll checks.
The check cashing service will dis
continue because there’s not enough
space to cash checks and disburse fi
nancial aid, Robert Smith, assistant
vice president for fiscal affairs, said.
Something has to give since business
is growing, and what’s giving is cash
ing personal and payroll checks,
Smith said.
The first responsibility of the fis
cal department is to meet the needs
of the students receiving financial
aid, making fee payments and taking
care of other financial business the
department conducts.
The fiscal department disburses
millions in aid, loans, scholarships
and fee refunds a year, Smith said.
There isn’t enough room to help stu
dents when people are cashing per
sonal and payroll checks in the Coke
Building, Smith said.
The Coke Building was con
structed in 1952 when Texas A&M
had only 6,000 students. Now enroll
ment is six times that number and
the fiscal department can’t absorb
the increase, he said.
“Nobody likes to discuss their fi
nancial needs in public,” Smith said.
“When students are elbow to elbow
with all the other people cashing
checks there isn’t any privacy.”
The financial offices, now in the
basement of the building, will be
moved upstairs with the cashiers,
Smith said. This change will enable
the students to recieve their financial
aid with less Confusion since all the
offices will be together, he said.
Two on-campus options remain
for students when they need money.
The desk at the Memorial Student
Center will continue to cash personal
checks up to $25, and there are two
automatic teller machines outside
the MSC. The machines operate 24
hours a day allowing withdrawls up
to $300 at a time for those with M-
PACT orPulse cards.
“Currently 50 percent of the stu
dents have automatic teller cards,”
Smith said. “They process about
20,000 transactions a month at the
machines. The check cashing trend
will soon be gone and someday there
will only be the automatic teller ma
chines.”
Smith said the machines are for all
students with cards, not just those
with accounts at local banks. He is
hoping to get more machines placed
soon at the main points on the cam
pus, such as the Commons and
Northgate.
Combat troops
leaving Beirut
Photo by PETER ROCHA
New voice on new station
Dr. Lou, midday disc jockey, tells listeners about KKYS 105
FM the new area radio station. See story page 3.
ERA plans dramatic
cut in gas lead level
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The govern-
I ment, citing “overwhelming” evi-
§1 dence of a health threat to children,
H proposed Monday to cut the amount
9 of lead irl gasoline 91 percent by
I 1986 with the hope of eliminating it
9 entirely in a decade.
The tough new plan announced
1 by Environmental Protection
I Agency chief William Ruckelshaus
9 drew praise from environmentalists,
H but the move is likely to run into a
9 court challenge from the lead indus-
I try-
The action stops short of a total
B ban on leaded gasoline, which still
accounts for 45 percent of the motor
fuel sold.
But because lead is so dangerous
to children and fetuses — low-level
exposure can cause mental impair
ment and high levels can be fatal —
health officials have been pushing to
get lead out of gasoline as soon as
possible.
“The evidence is overwhelming
that lead, from all sources, is a threat
to human health,” Ruckelshaus told
reporters. “Recently, additional evi
dence has come in showing that ad
verse health effects from lead expo
sure may occur at much lower levels
than heretofore considered safe.”
lay
300,000 children — many of tnem
inner-city dwellers — with blood
lead levels at least slightly higher
than what is considered to be safe.
By 1986, that figure is expected to
drop to 97,000, and Ruckelshaus
said the new restrictions will take
50,000 more children out of that cat
egory.
Under the EPA plan, the lead
content of leaded gasoline would be
cut back from the current 1.1 grams
per gallon to 0.1 grams beginning
Jan. 1, 1986.
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The last
U.S. Marine combat troops in Leb
anon began pulling out of Beirut
Monday, leaving guard duty at the
new American Embassy to a handf ul
of Marines and Lebanese security
men.
Three amphibious assault vehicles
called “Amtraks” carried a group of
Marines to the west Beirut water
front at dawn and chugged into the
Mediterranean for the short ride to
two U.S. warships stationed off
shore.
“This feels all right,” said one Ma
rine as he waved goodbye to the city
where he had been stationed for
three months.
The departure of about 100 com
bat troops from the 22nd Marine
Amphibious Unit was expected to
take two days, coinciding with the
U.S. Embassy’s move into new of
fices in east and west Beirut.
It appeared that less than half the
Marines left Monday, hut embassy
officials declined comment.
The move came as militiamen ex
changed sniper fire southeast of the
capital and the Lebanese govern
ment cleared more barricades from
highways linking Christian east and
Moslem west Beirut in a move to ex
pand the city’s July 4 security plan.
Some 2,500 soldiers of a new Mos-
lem-Christian army brigade contin
ued to spread out Monday along the
war-ravaged Green Line that divides
the city for the planned reopening
Wednesday of two more crossings
between east and west Beirut.
Marine combat units were diver
ted from Lebanon’s multinational
peace-keeping force to guard U.S.
diplomats after 63 people, including
17 Americans, died in the suicide
truck bombing of the U.S. embassy
in west Beirut on April 18, 1983.
The Marines served as backup to
the embassy’s regular Marine Secu
rity Guard contingent when Ameri
can diplomats crowded into Britain’s
sealed-off embassy on west Beirut’s
waterfront.
With the departure of the 22nd
MAU, the new American Embassy
offices will be guarded by about 15
Marines and a special Lebanese se
curity force made up partly of for
mer Druze and Shiite Moslem mili
tiamen, U.S. officials said.
“Security experts believe that se
curity is and will be, without the Ma
rines, as effective as it was with
them,” embassy spokesman Jon
Stewart said.
As the Marines were leaving,
American diplomats prepared for
the expected opening Tuesday of
their new embassy about Va-mile
west of the temporary offices. Sur
rounded by high walls topped with
barbed wire, the two-story building
is set back from the waterfront.
A larger, five-story “embassy an
nex” is expected to open in Aukur, a
hillside suburb of east Beirut, on
Thursday.
The U.S. government, although it
has never said so publicly, appar
ently chose the east Beirut office for
security reasons after Moslem mili
tiamen gained control of west Beirut
Feb. 6.
Town
has two
mayors
United Press International
MOUNT ENTERPRISE — It’s
a mathematician’s dream and a
city government nightmare.
This tiny East Texas farming
and timber community of fewer
than 500 people has two men
claiming to be mayor, a City
Council that has been impeached
but still meets and a court date to
sort out the mess.
“It’s like walking down a hall of
mirrors,” said Ron Adkison, the
attorney from nearby Henderson
who is representing the elected
mayor, Fred Spivey, in his suit to
keep the appointed mayor, B.L.
Creel, from holding office.
“The possibilities are endless,”
Adkison said. “I tell people five
things could happen, depending
on what thejudge does.
“I say they’ve either got the
same mayor, but no council, a
council with no mayor, the same
mayor and the same council, the
same council with a new mayor or
a new mayor with no counciL
“This is one of those deals
where the possibilities are end
less,” Adkison said.
And for Mount Enterprise res
idents, the dispute may seen end
less, too.
“My great fear is that my
daughter, who is 18 months old,
will inherit this case and have to
close it out,” Adkison said.
Language sometimes barrier in class
By By REBECCA DIMEO
Reporter
(Editor’s note: This is the first in a
three-part series about foreign grad
uate students who teach.)
In November 1981 the Houston
A&M mothers’ club surveyed par
ents of Texas A&M students about
student-instructor relationships.
One question concerned the number
of foreign teachers who do not speak
fluent English.
The answers to the survey showed
a problem does exist, although the
extent of the problem is difficult to
determine.
Some foreign graduate students
do have trouble speaking or under
standing English, but the ones who
teach are carefully screened, says
George Kunze, dean of the graduate
college, as he describes the rigorous
standards all foreign graduate stu
dents must meet.
Texas A&M policy requires that
all foreign undergraduates or grad
uates, no matter what countries the
students come from, must take an
English proficiency exam, the Test
Of English as a Foreign Language
(TOEFL). Kunze says he feels profi
ciency in English is vital for foreign
graduate students who teach or as
sist with a class.
“Otherwise you’re putting stu
dents in the classroom with some
body they can’t communicate with,
and that’s no learning situation,”
Kunze says.
Although Texas A&M doesn’t
limit the number of foreign grad
uate students in total or the number
from any one country the way some
universities do, Kunze says, it does
control the number that can be Uni
versity supported with research and
teaching assistantships or
fellowships.
The University currently follows a
10 percent rule, although rumor has
it the percentage may increase to 15
f iercent. All international students
rom the Western hemisphere are
exempt. Individual colleges may fi
nancially support 10 percent of the
graduate students from anywhere
else.
“Say there are 500 total graduate
students in a college and 20 of them
are from the Western hemisphere,”
Kunze says. “Those 20 are not
counted in the 10 percent rule, so 50
may be University supported from
the rest of the world.”
The 10 percent rule also controls
when international students can re
ceive University funding. Graduate
students from the Western hemi
sphere can be supported their first
semester at thq University, as may
students from the Eastern hemi
sphere who have degrees from U.S.
institutions.
Others must wait until their sec
ond semester or receive special per
mission from the dean’s office. In
ternational students from the West
receive special privileges for what
Kunze sees as good reason.
“We want to work with our neigh
bors,” he says.
University standards regarding
foreign graduate students are im-
•portant because of the large num
bers of them in Texas, Kunze says.
Texas is among the states with the
largest foreign student enrollments
because of the sheer number of
schools in Texas.
Last fall Texas A&M had 914 total
graduate students on assistantship
See FOREIGN, page 5
In Today’s Battalion
Local
•Traffic signal coordination developed by the Texas
Transportation Institute is being used by engineers in Los
Angeles to help avoid Olympic-scale traffic jams at the
summer games. See story page 3.
State
• As Sally Ride celebrates the anniversary of the trip that
made her the first American woman in space, she says she’s
tired of the distinction. See story page 8.