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United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israel's Cabinet
Monday approved a plan for a
three-staged withdrawal of Israeli
troops from southern Lebanon that
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said
would begin in five weeks — with or
without U.S. support.
Official Israeli television said the
unity Cabinet debated the plan for
11'/i hours over two days before 16
ministers voted for approval late
Monday. Six ministers, including
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
were opposed.
Rabin said implementation of the
first stage of the plan will begin in
five weeks. Until then, he said, Israel
will try to persuade Lebanon and the
United Nations to agree on an or
derly withdrawal to make sure no
“riots, massacres or any other distur
bances occur."
But Rabin said Israel would pro
ceed with the plan “regardless of
whether the United States or the
Lebanese government or its army
cooperate.”
Rabin also warned that Israel
| would strike swiftly to eliminate any
| guerrilla cells that re-emerge in
[southern Lebanon.
"We will not hesitate to enter
(southern Lebanon) to eliminate anv
such efforts,” Rabin said. “We will
I maintain a mobile and aggressive de-
| fense system in order to ensure the
safety of the settlers and the set-
dements in the north.”
Israel invaded Lebanon in June
1982 to rout out Palestine Liberation
Organization guerrillas attacking its
northern border and forced the ex
pulsion of PLO leader Yasser Arafat
! and his lighters from Beirut. Some
10,000 troops have remained in the
? country since the invasion.
According to a Cabinet statement
read by Cabinet Secretary Yosef Bei-
> lin, the first stage of the plan calls for
pulling Israeli Defense Force troops
| irom front lines at the Awali river
about 18 miles to the Litani-Naba-
!; tiyeh area.
The second stage would remove
soldiers about 18 miles from the Be-
kaa Valley in eastern Lebanon to the
Hasbayaarea, the statement said.
“In the third stage the IDF will i e-
| deploy to the international border
; between Israel and Lebanon while
I maintaining an area in southern
I Lebanon where local forces — the
South Lebanese Army — backed by
the IDF will operate," the statement
said.
New drinking rules ‘a joke’ to clubs
Photo by JOHN MA KEL Y
By LYNN RAE POVEC
Staff Writer
Managers of local clubs and
restaurants said the new law ban
ning two-for-one happy hours
has had little effect on their busi
ness.
“Businesswise, it’s a joke,” said
Mike Earhart, assistant manager
of Roxz in Post Oak Mall. Earhart
said clubs “can just cut the price
of drinks down to nothing” in
stead of serving more than one
drink.
Late last month, the Texas Al
coholic Beverage Commission
made the new rules which pro
hibit selling multiple containers
of drinks for the price of one, but
don’t ban half-price drinks.
Local managers said they’re
not worried about the rules be
cause of the many possibilities of
getting around them. For exam
ple, serving two drinks at the
same time, usually done during
happy hours, is prohibited, hut
putting both drinks into one
larger glass is not.
“It sounds a little ridiculous,”
Sheri Talbot said. Talbot and her
husband manage Casa Tomas
Mexican Restaurant in Bryan.
“With our clientele (during
■happy hour) being mostly college
sluclents — mostly girls — they’ll
have one or two frozen margari-
tas, and that’s all they’ll have,”
Talbot said. “If they get two-for-
one, they’ll split it.”
Casa Tomas’ most popular spe
cial during happy hour has been
a frozen margarita for $1.25, and
the new rules don’t affect it, Tal
bot said.
The rules also don’t affect
more important promotions,
Texas Restaurant Association of
ficials charge, such as substan
tially-reduced drink prices, free
drinks and nickel beer specials.
The rules don’t ban “drink and
drown” promotions that allow pa
trons to drink all night for a nom
inal price.
Joe Darnall, executive assistant
to the commission’s administra
tor, said the rules are “meant to
reduce the rapid consumption
our agents have observed.”
The commission is not con
cerned with the price club and
restaurant managers are charg
ing for drinks, but with the num
ber of drinks they’re serving, he
said. When multiple containers
are part of the bargain, as during
happy hours, a customer who de
cides U> have a drink suddenly
has two or three in front of him,
Darnall said.
He said commission agents re
ported excessive abuses of two-
ior-one promotions, which
caused the commission to target
such promotions for the ban.
Specials at The Zephyr Club on
Harvey Road, are not affected by
the ban, Manager Shahin Vo-
sough said. The club doesn’t of
fer two-for-one specials, hut of
fers large-sized drinks instead.
But Scandals in College Station
had to discontinue its four-f'or-
one happy hour on Fridays.
“We used to have four-for-one
on Friday, and we can no longer
do that, obviously,” said Scandals’
Manager Debbi Schalloch. In
stead Scandals is offering 50-cent
drinks for an hour on Fridays.
The results businesswise are
about the same for the club,
Schalloch said. The difference is
that people don’t have to have
four drinks.
TABC officials expect few
problems with compliance to the
new regulations. Only the re
tailer, not the patron, can be
fined, and fines ranging front
$25 to $100 will he assessed to vi
olators.
The ban is being called “a first
step” by the Bryan-College Sta
tion chapter of Mothers Against
Drunk Drivers.
MADI) Vice President Don
Clark is pleased with the law. But,
he added, the new regulations
just don’t go far enough.
Faculty address disqrmannenf of University police
Senate proposes no guns on campus
By CATHIE ANDERSON
Staff Writer
T he Faculty Senate considered a
proposal by faculty senator
Phanindramohan Das Monday that
would forbid T exas A&M University
police officers from carrying guns
on campus.
“A university has a different envi
ronment,” said Das, a professor in
the Meteorology Department. “It is a
kind of sanctuary. The main thing is
the spirit of inquiry.”
The open display of guns on cam
pus now conflicts with the purpose
of a university because people at a
university are expected to do a cer
tain amount of self-policing, Das
said.
He said general supervision is
necessary on campus, hut that he
sees no need for guns to be carried
around in all areas of police work.
Dr. Thomas Kozik, a senator from
the Mechanical Engineering Depart
ment, suggested that an advisory
group meet with the campus police
and come up with some ideas to han
dle unique student problems or non
criminal confrontations without the
use of weapons. But he said the ide
als of a university could remain in
tact although guns are openly dis
played by police officers.
Kozik said an advisory committee
is also a way to start a better channel
of communications with the campus
police.
“The relationship between the
faculty and the campus police has
been a one-way street.,” Das said.
“T he police force is hired by the ad
ministration and the faculty has no
input into that relationship.”
Das said guns could be neld in po
lice headquarters until officers need
them, and then a designated officer
could specifically approve the use of
weapons by officers when an emer
gency situation arose on campus.
The proposal said individuals
should not be able to carry guns on
campus, but Das stressed that he
would make three exceptions:
• for ceremonial purposes such as
Silver Taps or Aggie Muster,
• for use during classroom instruc
tion,
• and for display in museums on
campus.
In a policy change, Rabin said Is
rael would allow Lebanon’s regular
army to take over the area the Israe
lis will vacate either directly or from
theU.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
In recent withdrawal talks in the
southern Lebanese town of Na-
qoura, Lebanon has repeatedly in
sisted its army be allowed to move
into vacated areas but Israel has un
til now refused to agree. Israel had
demanded that U.N. peace-keeping
troops and SL.A militiamen take over
security in the region.
In anticipation of an Israeli with
drawal, the Lebanese arrnv has be
gun deploying troops along the
highway leading to Israel’s front
lines.
The Cabinet Statement did not say
when the final phase of the withdra
wal would take place, but news re
ports earlier said it could be com
plete within nine months.
“Decision on the timing of each
stage will be made by the govern
ment ... efforts will continue to
achieve political agreements,” the
statement said.
Israel has lost 606 soldiers since
invading Lebanon — 86 of them
killed in guerrilla attacks by militant
Shiite Moslems since pulling back
from Beirut in September 1983 to
what was said to be a more secure
line along the Awali river.
Research group:
Texas students
pay too little fees
Hump it, baby
Photo by FRANK IR WIN
Gabe Thorton ,3, humps it with his father,
assistant basketball coach John Thorton,
during All-University Night at G. Rollie
White Coliseum Monday night. Behind
Gabe are head basketball coach Shelby Met
calf and his daughter, Shelley.
United Press International
AUSTIN — Texas college and
university students — many of them
from families who earn more than
$30,000 a year, pay too little in tu
ition, the Texas Research League
said Monday.
“No other state provides nonresi
dent students the bargain-basement
tuition rates that Texas does,” said
the report by the Austin-based pub
lic policy research league.
It said Texas could double its tu
ition and fees and still remain “sub
stantially” below the average
charged by other states.
As part of his plan to erase a $1
billion revenue deficit, Gov. Mark
White is expected to recommend to
the Texas Legislature Tuesday that
it raise out-of-state, foreign and pro
fessional school tuition.
But White reportedly does not fa
vor any increase in general under
graduate tuition, which was raised
last year for foreign and out-of-state
students.
The Research League noted that
the median income of families with a
student in a Texas public university
or college was $31,739 in 1982, well
above the median income for all
families.
“By maintaining low tuition rates
the state is, in effect, providing large
subsidies to all college students re
gardless of their economic status,”
the report said.
The study said tuition charged a
Texas resident to attend a state-sup
ported university has not changed
much in nearly three decades, de
spite a fivefold increase in the
amount the state spends per student
for college instruction.
The study said Texas collected in
1983 less than 2 percent of the $2.4
billion appropriated by the Legis
lature for higher education.
An out-of-state student pays
$1,362 for a nine-month school year
in Texas, less than Maine, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, New
York, Michigan and Oregon charge
their own residents to attend their
state schools.
Also, a Texas undergraduate who
goes to a state university in Califor
nia would pay $3,274 in tuition and
fees — more than double the
amount a Californian would pay to
attend a Texas state university.
The report said charges at Texas
medical and dental schools could in
crease fivefold and still remain be
low the national average.
The Research League study did
not recommend a specific tuition in
crease, but it suggested charges
could be assessed at about 15 per
cent or 20 percent of the institutio
nal education costs.
It also said lawmakers should con
sider charging higher tuition for
“upper-level” institutions, such as
the University of Texas at Austin
and Texas A&M University, and for
graduate or special programs.