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Student killed
in car accident
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
One Texas A&M University stu
dent was killed and another injured
Thursday night in College Station
when their car was struck by a train.
The women’i car, a brown Volvo,
was travelling east on W. Luther
Street shortly before 9 p.m. when it
crossed the railroad tracks and was
hit broadside by a Southern Pacific
freight train, College Station police
said.
Police said the car was dragged
about 100 feet after the collision.
The passenger was pronounced
dead at the scene and the driver, a
22-year-old woman, was taken to St.
Joseph Hospital in Bryan. This
morning she was listed in stable con
dition with a fractured collarbone.
Police have not yet released the
names of either women, pending no
tification of the families.
Two Texas A&M student identifi
cation cards were found in the
Volvo, and the car had a blue Uni
versity student parking sticker on it.
“The women were eastbound on
Luther near Wellborn Road and ap
parently did not see the train com
ing, crossed the tracks and were hit
broadside by the train,” College Sta
tion police Lt. Greg Lewis said.
There are no warning lights or
safety gates at the crossing on Lu
ther Street, which is just south of
Jersey Street in College Station.
There is no lighting near the inter
section, and the only railroad cross
ing sign is almost completely
obscured by trees.
No alcohol was found in the car
and was not a factor in the accident,
police said.
Sergeant William Stark of the Col
lege Station Police Department is
conducting an investigation of the
accident.
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‘n BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two pro-
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bomb through a hail of bullets to the
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ft H Police set the overall toll at 23
d( ad and 71 injured in the attack —
“i Jthe third against an American instal-
1 lanon in Beirut in 17 months. At
feast 20 other people were reported
• 0 trussing, rescue officials said. State-
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111(1 in “trough the rubble.
U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bar-
(rolomew, 48, was among 25 Ameri-
ns injured. He was pinned under
tbble in his 4th floor office and ex-
icated by British Ambassador Da-
fid Miers, who was visiting him, wit-
esses said. Bartholomew’s injuries
ere described as minor.
The Pentagon said the two serv-
cemen killed were Army Chief War-
Officer Kenneth W. Welch, 33,
If Grand Rapids, Mich., and Petty
)fficer 1st Class Michael Ray Wag-
ler,30,of Zebulon, N.C.
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President Reagan was awakened
it 5:50 a.m. and informed of the al
ack. He called the bombing a “pain-
ul reminder” of a worldwide terror-
st network.
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said.
The Islamic Jihad organization, a
aro-Iranian underground
novement bent on pushing “the last
\merican out of Lebanon,” claimed
esponsibility for the blast in a tele
phone call to a Western news
agency.
“We fulfill our promise,” the
caller said. “Not a single American
will stay on Lebanese soil.”
Two weeks ago, a person identify
ing himself as a spokesman for the
Islamic Jihad warned of an attack on
a U.S. installation.
The estimated 330 pounds of
TNT in the truck detonated just 20
feet short of the six-story embassy
building, near a crowd that gathered
at the visa section. The embassy was
damaged but none of its walls col
lapsed.
A State Department official said
the dead included four or five Leb
anese employees of the embassy.
Three other American service
men were wounded and hospitalized
but their injuries were not life-
threatening, the Pentagon said.
“There were bodies scattered
round the building, some limbless
and some headless,” said a resident
who arrived minutes after the blast.
“I just thank God he didn’t turn into
the building — but blew it up out
side.”
State Department spokesman
John Hughes said U.S. diplomatic
posts around the world were put on
heightened alert as a result of the at
tack, which he said was linked to a
U.S. veto in the U.N. Security Coun
cil of a resolution on Israel’s contin
ued occupation of southern Leb
anon.
Investigations showed the two
men drove up a tree-lined road in
the suburb ol Awkar, 6 miles from
Beirut’s city center and stopped at a
series of waist-high concrete blocks
on the outer perimeter of the
grounds, security sources said.
“They argued with the local
guards and then fired at them and
drove around the teeth,” an embassy
source said. “They then drove on
and were fired at by U.S. Marine
guards, a British bodyguard of the
ambassador’s and the local guards.”
The truck accelerated along the
straight 100-yard road and its load
of TNT exploded as it passed in
front of the stone building, gouging
out a crater 9-feet deep and 24-feet
wide.
Lebanese military officials said the
driver was shot and killed and the
other man was presumed to have
died in the attack.
“The bomber was apparently
more or less vaporized,” a security
officer said. “We have found no
trace of him and only bits of the en
gine of the truck we were told he was
in. The only thing we have is the
crater.”
Embassy vehicles were flung
along the road by the force of the ex
plosion, which sent girders tumbling
out of the building and on to the
road, damaged dozens of cars and
shattered hundreds of windows.
Thursday’s explosion at the new
embassy, which opened just seven
weeks ago, was the third attack on a
major U.S. installation in the Leb
anese capital since April 1983 and
Islamic Jihad has claimed responsi
bility for all three.
Rings passed down
by former students
By LORI BROOKS
Reporter
Imagine ...
Upon receiving your senior
ring you not only get a piece of
metal, but also a piece of Texas
A&M’s history.
One special piece of Aggie his
tory is on the hand of Gary G.
Klein, an industrial distribution
major from Fort Worth. The
1984 graduate’s new Aggie ring is
made from the gold of the 1951
Aggie ring worn by his father,
George }. Klein.
Gary Klein is the recipient of
the first Aggie ring recycled
through the Lipscomb Anderson
Perpetual Ring Program. The
program was created at the re
quest of Lipscomb Anderson, a
1927 A&M graduate.
Klein said the ring is “real
neat” and he plans on passing it
down to his own children. Klein
said he read about the program
in the Texas Aggie.
“I thought it was a neat idea.
As soon as I read about it I knew
that’s what I wanted to do,” the
elder Klein said.
The Lipscomb Anderson Per
petual Ring Program went into
effect in January 1984, since the
first donation by George Klein
there have been 29 other rings
donated.
Any former student or former
student’s family can donate an of
ficial Aggie ring to be remade by
Any former student can
donate an official Aggie
ring to be remade for
an A&M student.
the L. G. Balfour Company for
either a designated or undesig
nated A&M student. The ring is
remade at no cost to the donor or
recipient. When the ring is fin
ished, the name and class year of
the original owner, as well as the
name of the new owner will be in
scribed inside the ring.
Most of the rings donated are
for family members or friends,
but some of the rings are donated
at random. Recipients of the ran
dom rings are selected through
an impartial drawing.
All students who have placed a
ring order during the period in
which a donated ring is available
are eligible.
The first random ring was re
ceived by Floyd Kaminski, a 1984
graduate. “It really touched
something inside,” Kaminski said.
“You get caught up in Aggie
spirit at yell practices and games,
hut this gave me a personal feel
ing with it. I feel very lucky and
proud td be part of a hew tradi
tion,” he said.
Kaminski’s ring was donated
by Jack Idol, a 1926 graduate.
Idol said, “I thought it would be a
good idea to let someone else
wear it. I hope he enjoys it as
much as I did. I was very proud
to wear it.”
The other random ring was
donated by John Cruickshank, a
1922 graduate.
Cruickshank said he wore his
ring continuously and it became
very worn, so his son gave him a
new one.
“I saw the article about the ring
organization in the Aggie News
and thought my ring would do a
student some good,” Cruickshank
said. “I didn’t have anyone to
name for it (the ring), so I left it
to the ring committee to decide.”
The Lipscomb Anderson Per
petual Ring Program was created
by Jack Fritts, a 1953 graduate.
Fritts said, “Lipscomb Anderson
originally talked to me about
starting a program because he
was concerned about what he
would do with his ring. He didn’t
want to be buried with it, and he
had no children or grandchildren
at A&M.
“The association has problems
with people wanting to leave their
rings to them. It seems sacrile
gious to melt the rings for value.
With the input of several people,
the association organized a pro
gram that allows Aggie rings to be
passed down,” he said.
The program now is handled
through the Ring Office in The
Pavilion.
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Proposition 2 to decide future of PUF
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
“Proposition 2: The constitutional
amendment to create from general
revenue a special Higher Education
Fund for construction and related
activities, to restructure the Perma
nent University Fund and to in
crease the number of institutions eli
gible to benefit from the Permanent
University Fund.”
When Texas voters cast their bal
lots on Nov. 6, they will be deciding
the future of the Permanent Univer
sity Fund and the future of 26 Texas
colleges and universities.
If Proposition 2 passes, the new
constitutional amendment will open
the PUF to all units of the Texas
A&M and the University of Texas
Systems. It also will create the
Higher Education Assistance Fund,
a constitutionally dedicated fund for
the 26 state institutions outside the
A&M and UT systems.
The PUF was established by the
state constitution in 1876 to provide
support to two “flagship” universi
ties — UT and A&M. The endow
ment now consists of 2.1 million
iicres of land in 19 West Texas coun
ties.
As of August 1983, the main body
of the dedicated fund wr.s worth
$1.9 billion and was growing at a
rate of 8 percent annually. The body
of the fund cannot be spent, only the
investment earnings.
The revenue from the PUF is
called the Available University
Fund. In 1982, the AUF provided
about $156 million to be distributed
between UT and A&M. T he AUF' is
constitutionally divided with two-
thirds going to UT and one-third
going to A&M.
The bonding capacity currently is
limited to 20 percent of the cash va
lue of the PUF. Bond proceeds are
limited to new construction and re
stricted to those units of the UT and
A&M systems designated by the con
stitution.
A&M system institutions desig
nated by the constitution are A&M,
Prairie View A&M, Tarleton State
University, the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, the Texas Agri
culture Extension Service, the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station in
College Station, the Texas Engi
neering Extension Service and the
Texas Forest Service.
UT system institutions designated
by the constitution are UT-Austin
including the Marine Science Insti
tute at Port Aransas and the McDon
ald Observatory at Fort Davis; UT-
El Paso; the UT Health Sciences
Center in Dallas; the UT Health Sci
ences Center in Houston including
the Dental School; the Graduate
School of Biomedical Sciences and
the School of Public Health; the UT
Medical Branch at Galveston and the
UT-M.D. Anderson Hospital and
Tumor Institute.
“We would have had a hard time
during our growth of the ’70s if we
wouldn’t have had the use of the
PUF and AUF,” Dr. J. Malon South
erland, assistant vice president for
student services, said. “It (the PUF)
has been a most valuable tool.”
If the amendment is approved,
the bonding capacity will be raised to
30 percent of the cash value of the
PUF. If it passes, A&M will add
three units and UT will add nine
units to the list of institutions which
See PUF, page 13