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Vol. 81 No. 38 (JSPS 045360 16 pages
College Station, Texas
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Two teachers’ strikes
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United Press International
he longest teachers’ strike of the
ameonl cui rent school year ended Monday,
new wie fbui strikes still kept about 40,000
iedofani; stlidents Out of the classroom and a
lung in :; threatened walkout in Chicago could
to Paris |c|pple the nation’s third-largest dis-
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Teachers in Reserve, La., re
turned to work, ending an eight-
net k strike that affected about 6,200
■dents. A second strike was settled
in Mattoon, Ill., where 4,100 stu-
Mems returned less than an hour af-
tf teachers signed a two-year con
tra.
•■lowever, teachers continued
■king in five states from New Jer
sey to Idaho. Students in Pennsylva
nia have been out of school for six
weeks.
ttHn Chicago, teachers, unhappy
with medical insurance deductions,
set a Dec. 3 strike deadline that
could keep 400,000 children out of
school.
Joe Hutchinson of LaPlace, La.,
said the St. John the Baptist Parish
School Board met shortly after 1
a.rn. Monday and acccepted a con
tract signed late Sunday by teachers
who had been on strike since Aug.
27.
The contract included a provision
calling for a public referendum Jan.
19 to decide whether teachers may
use the St. John’s Association of Ed
ucators as their bargaining agent.
The last impasse was cleared when
teachers agreed to layoffs if enroll
ment dropped.
In Illinois, about 19,000 students
in five districts — including Wauke
gan, Effingham and Roodhouse —
were kept out of school by strikes. A
hearing is set for today to determine
if the Waukegan walkout, which be
gan Oct. 10, is illegal.
About 250 teachers in Roselle,
N.J., struck Monday in a dispute
over pay and fringe benefits. T he
school board offered raises totaling
16 percent over two years, but the
teachers want 18.85 percent.
In Toledo, Ohio, the president of
a teachers’ association said Monday
and today were key days in settling a
strike by 460 teachers. The main is
sues in the strike, which began
Thursday, are salaries, contract
length and health insurance costs
About 8,000 students are af fected.
emorial services set
By KARI FLUEGEL
Stuff Writer
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■ ^Hor from the Woodlands. Mascart
■ dieii early Sunday morning in a car
Bdent south of College Station.
alQv BVake services will he Wednesday
I at / p.m. at Earthman’s Resthaven
® Bpel at 13102 N. Freeway (the
ERA Gftens Road exit). Memorial serv
ices will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St.
Simon and Jude Catholic Church at
26777 Glen Loch in the Woodlands.
Police reports said Mascart had
been traveling on Texas Highway 6
South about a half mile from College
Station when his car crossed the cen
ter stripe of the highway and col
lided with a van heading north. Re
ports said Mascart was not wearing a
seatbelt.
Mascart was pronounced dead at
3:30 a.m. at the scene of the accident
by Justice of the Peace Mary Horn.
All six passengers in the van were
treated and released at St. Joseph
Hospital.
Survivors include his parents, Jac
ques and Monique Mascart; a sister,
Diane, all of the Woodlands; and
grandparents Maurice and Jose
phine Gamier of Belgium.
Silver taps will be Nov. 6.
Hpbassy under heavy guard
on anniversary of bombing
■ United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebannon — The U.S.
tab assy was under heavy guard
tahday night, the anniversary of
bffluicide bombing one year ago.
ft recent days the embassy lias cut
Will drastically because of contin-
threats and fears that terrorists
Hi stage an attack before the
\'ov. 6 presidential election to emba
ys the Reagan administration.
Embassy spokesman Jon Stewart
■ the remaining U.S. diplomats
wre under heavy guard on the eve
rftheOct. 23, 1983 suicide bombing
jf the U.S. Marine base that killed
Ml American servicemen.
“We are following, not only as an
institution but also as individuals,
Bpnt security measures,” Stew-
Ibout 100 Americans were at-
pitd to the embassy until Sept. 20,
fihen the U.S. diplomatic mission in
infeast Beirut suburb was wrecked
>ya suicide truck bomb.
Host of the embassy’s functions
:re then moved to Ambassador Re
paid Bartholomew’s residence in
/Nr' 1
Yarze, another suburb of Christian
East Beirut. By Friday, the number
of American embassy employees had
been reduced to 45.
A State Department spokesman in
Washington Monday confirmed that
26 Americans employed at the em
bassy left Beirut Saturday and Sun
day aboard helicopter flights for un
disclosed destinations, reducing the
staff to 19.
The official said the number of
American employees of the embassy
“will be in the range of 20 to 30, day
to day, depending on the work that
needs to be done” to improve secu
rity in the embassy compound.
Radio reports said tension in the
Burj Barajneh refugee camp
erupted in shooting between Pales
tinian factions. The reports said at
least five and possibly eight people
were killed and 14 others wounded.
A Lebanese army unit dispatched
to the camp near the airport came
under machine-gun fire and the
government troops fired back, the
Christian Voice of Lebanon radio re
ported.
Security forces closed the main
highway leading to the city’s interna
tional airport because it runs along
side Burj Barajneh. A side route
stayed open and a spokesman for
Middle East Airlines, the national air
carrier, said air travel was not af
fected.
Police and radio reports said the
dash pitted supporters of Yasser Ar
afat, the Palestine Liberation Orga
nization leader, against an anti-Ar
afat faction loyal to Col. Saed “Abu”
Moussa, the PLO dissident who led a
revolt against Arafat last fall.
The renewed violence in Beirut
and tightened U.S. security came as
the Cabinet ministers met to deal.
with Lebanon’s ailing economy.
Immediately after the Cabinet
meeting, President Amin Gemayel
flew to Libya for an unannounced
visit, state-run Beirut Radio said.
The purpose of his trip was not im
mediately clear.
In th© news Photo by DAVID LEYENDECKER
Corps Commander Chuck Rollins Discusses told Austin’s Channel 7 reporter Carlos
the reaction of the Corps of Cadets to the Ramirez that while the Corps will never for
events of the Bruce Goodrich case. Rollins get Goodrich, the Corps will continue.
Former Indiana University student
charged in revenge fire murder
United Press International
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A for
mer student who got into drunken
fights at an Indiana University fra
ternity house was charged Monday
with murder and arson in a revenge
fire that killed one student and in
jured 30 others, police said.
jerry Scott Zook, 23, dropped his
wallet during one of two fights at the
Zeta Beta Tau house homecoming
party Saturday night, police said.
Officers said they called him at
home in Indianapolis and he surren
dered in Bloomington.
Zook, who was being held without
bond, was charged with murder and
arson Monday. At a second hearing,
preliminary innocent pleas were en
tered on both counts and a public
defender was appointed for Zook,
who faces up to 110 years in prison if
found guilty. A Dec. 17 trial date was
set.
Israel D. Edelman, 19, a student
at IU’s Richmond campus, who
joined the fraternity last year and
planned to transfer to Bloomington
in the spring, was killed in the blaze
early Sunday morning.
Edelman was eulogized and bur
ied Monday at Earlham Cemetery in
Richmond. A busload of IU stu
dents, as well as four school Adminis
trators, attended the services.
Issues and Grievances Committee hears heated
reactions to Student Government GSS resolution
By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Reporter
The Issues and Grievances
Committee of the Student Gov
ernment came under heated at
tack Monday for approving a res
olution calling on the Texas A&M
Board of Regents to recognize
the Gay Student Services Organi
zation.
The resolution, which passed
by one vote, is a formal express
ion of the will or intent of the Stu
dent Senate and is non-binding.
The resolution states:
Whereas: The Texas A&M
University Administration has
consistently refused to recognize
the Gay Student Services Organi
zation, and
Whereas: The GSSO provides
a needed service for a special mi
nority group of the Texas A&M
community which is presently not
provided by other campus orga
nizations, and
Whereas: In other instances it
has been University policy to rec
ognize student organizations
which provide services to specific
minority groups and promote
community awareness of such
groups,
Therefore be it resolved: That
the Texas A&M University Stu
dent Senate recommend that the
administration officially recog
nize the Gay Student Services Or
ganization.
Wayne Roberts, vice president
of student services, said homosex
ual practices are no longer illegal
and therefore the GSS should not
be denied recognition. Roberts
supported the resolution.
“If we didn’t disregard the is
sue of morality the resolution
wouldn’t have passed,” Roberts
said. “I alienated myself com
pletely from the morality because
I’m a Christian, also. But, I had to
think in terms of their (homosex
uals) rights.”
Roberts said that although the
University does not recognize so
cial clubs, he believes the GSS is
service-oriented as are hometown
clubs which the administration
does recognize.
Brett Shine, vice president for
external affairs, said some polls
showed the student body was
against recognition of the GSS.
“I was ashamed of what hap
pened Wednesday night,” Shine
said. “I won’t support the issue,
there’s no way I would support it,
because I have a constituency out
there.”
Brian Francis, sub-chairman of
special projects, said he was per
sonally opposed to homosexuality
but supported the resolution be
cause he recognizes the rights of a
minority.
“If the majority did rule, blacks
would be in the same position
now that they were in during the
40’s and 50’s,” Francis said. “Wo
men would not be here at Texas
A&M University. You would be
in the Corps of Cadets right now
if the majority persisted. I can’t
say ‘hey that’s wrong because I
don’t believe in it.’ ”
Mike Kelley, vice president of
finance, supported the resolution
despite polls showing his constitu- -
ents opposed its adoption.