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TX College Station Branch Office: Texas Avenue at Southwest Parkway 696-2800 liil Official doubts U.S. defense to terrorism Associated Press WASHINGTON — The head of the Reagan administration’s civil de fense program, calling U.S. territory “extremely vulnerable” to terrorism, said Tuesday he lacks confidence in the nation’s ability to stop deadly at tacks by groups using chemical and germ weapons. “We cannot, and should not, count on the current, essentially un coordinated, terror methodology in the United States continuing indefi nitely into the future,” said Louis O. Giuffrida, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “Realistically, the United States is extremely vulnerable to the conven tional weapons and tactics of terror ism,” he added. Giuffrida gave the assessment in a report to a long-scheduled, two-day terrorism conference. Most of the discussion at the ter rorism conference, sponsored by the Nuclear Control Institute and the State University of New York’s ter rorism studies program, focused on the possibility that radical groups could steal or make an atomic bomb and use it to force outrageous con cessions from governments. Around town Science students must take exam Any junior or senior in the College of Science who has not pre viously taken the English Proficiency Examination should plan to take the test June 27 unless they have completed English 301 with a minimum grade of C. Students in the College of Science must pass the proficiency exam or satisfactorily complete English 301 by the spring semester of their junior year in order to qualify as a degree candidate. The English Proficiency Exam will be administered by theen- giish department. Students in the biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics departments should register for the exam in 152 Blocker by June 27, Employee safety belt Incentive reinstated The TAMU Safety Education Program will conduct Phase II of the Employee Incentive Safety Belt Program during the summer sessions at selected staff parking lots. Business of the communityaK contributing incentives to be used as rewards to those wearing safety belts. The program is funded by the Texas Safety Association For more information, contact Dr. Maurice E. Dennis or Jerry Ockert at 345-3019. Local arcade will host benefit contest Games Galore, 1511 S. Texas Ave., has been selected as hoe of B- family arcades nationwide to be a site for CARE’s Campaign for Af rica fund raiser video contest. For more information on the contest contact Games Galore at 593-7711. Move is beneficial to IBM MCI to buy rival network Associated Press WASHINGTON — MCI Com munications Corp. said Tuesday it agreed to acquire Satellite Business Systems, a rival long-distance tele phone network principally owned by International Business Machines Corp., in a transaction that would make IBM the largest stockholder in MCI. IBM currently owns 60 percent of Satellite Business Systems, while the other 40 percent is owned by Aetna Life & Casualty Co. SBS originally was founded by IBM, Aetna and Communications Satellite Corp., or Comsat. But last summer Comsat sold its stake to IBM. As a first step toward selling SBS to MCI, IBM and Aetna said they reached a separate agreement in E rinciple for IBM to take over SBS y making unspecified “cash pay ments and other considerations” to Aetna. Aetna also “could receive a future payment from IBM depending on the market value of MCI stock at the time the merger is concluded,” the companies said. MCI, in exchange for acouiring substantially all SBS assets and oper ations, would issue to IBM 45 mil lion shares of MCI common stock, and warrants for the purchase of additional 7 million shares of MCI common stock at $ 15 per share, also agreed to hold the shares fora minimum of three years. MCI currently has about 23/5 million common shares outstanding. Assuming conversion of the war rants, IBM would hold a 22 percem interest in MCI. Terror (continued from page 1) tally ludicrous.” He said even the environment of the building is controlled; the heat is turned up if the building is hot or is cooled if the building is cold. “Remember that the key to ma naging a special threat situation is controlling what the individual sees, hears and smells,” Dalager said. Dalager said that a violent solu tion to a situation is used only as a last resort. “The idea is to resolve a very vio lent situation in a non-violent way through communication . . . We^ don’t shoot anybody in one of these situations unless he starts shooting people,” he said. Dalager said the procedures and tactics illustrated in the program are useful in terrorist threats and situa tions involving criminals. “It doesn’t make any difference to us whether it’s a terrorist or a crimi nal, we handle them the same,” he said. He said that in terrorist situations, only the negotiation techniques are different. “Our chances of getting him (the criminal) out without anybody get ting hurt if we properly handle the situation is 99.9 percent,” Dalam said. “The chances of negotialinf without violence with a terroristisal most zero.” An example of this is the June H hijacking of TWA Flight 847 when terrorists killed a U.S. Navy man. Dalager said the hostage crisis tt lowing the hijacking can only be re solved by careful negotiations. “I think time is on our side in Lei- anon if we just keep our cool and don’t wave the sword around too much,” he said. “Anybody that would try any mili tary force in Lebanon needs to have their head examined,” he said. * * * Be a Star! Advertise in The Battalion 845-2611 * ;* * ■ < 4rAISC DINNER THEATRE AND AGGIE PLAYERS PRESENT: NEIL SIMON'S & "ANOTHER FUNNY COMEDY BY THE MASTER HUMORIST WHO WROTE BAREFOOT IN THE PARK' AND THE ODD COUPLE." ,v -m*w JUNE 26-29 FOR TICKETS & INFORMATION MSC BOX OFFICE (MS-1234)