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Student leader says Aggies can influence government — Page 5 Aggies' Franklin just had a bad day against Hurricane ♦ — Page 12 ch, Dinner ■■*1 Texas A&M m m m 0 The Battalion Thursday, October 3, 1985 College Station, Texas Vol. 81 No. 218 GSPS 045360 14 pages Associated Press BEIRUT — Kidnappers of four , Soviet Embassy employees killed one . of them and said Wednesday the [ North Bni ot ^ ers w ‘^ ^* e un l ess Syrian-backed "^Htias halt an offensive against Moslem fundamentalists in the northern port of Tripoli. jAn anonymous telephone caller claimed a second captive had been killed, and another said Moslem ex tremists planned to blow up the em- bassv. |The battle raged on for control of Tripoli, where more than 500 peo ple have been killed and 1,100 S man files zoning suit against city 26Hi| By TRENT LEOPOLD Senior Staff Writer __I|Miles Marks, owner of Photo Sys tems, Inc., has filed a suit against the Citv of College Station, Mayor Gary Halter and Police Chief Marvin Byrd in an attempt to declare one of the dty’s zoning ordinances uncon stitutional. BMarks takes photographs for so rorities and fraternities and distrib utes them from his apartment on Harvey Road. ||rhe complex is zoned “R-5 Apart ment/Medium Density.” ■Charles L. Michulka, Marks’ attor- nev, said Wednesday the purpose of the suit is to get the ordinance de- dared unconstitutional. B“If we get the ordinance declared unconstitutional, then any reasona ble attorney would go on to the fed eral courts and see ^ damages,” Michulka said. PThis past summer Marks won a suit in which he was named the de fendant. The suit, filed by the state of Texas, charged Marks with six counts of violating College Station zoning ordinance No.^ 850, Section 1-D — the same ordinance Marks is kill 1 Soviet diplomat wounded since Sept. 15. The militias supplied by Syria, Moscow’s main ally in the Middle East, have the fun damentalists cornered with their backs to the sea and Syrian artillery has joined the battle. The body of cultural attache Ar kady Katkov, 32, wa.s found Wednesday, shot once in the head at close range. It was sprawled on blood-stained rocks near the Cite Sportive, a stadium adjacent to the Sabra Palestinian refugee camp, which was destroyed by shellfire in Lebanon’s decade-long civil war. An anonymous caller claiming to speak for the Islamic Liberation Or ganization gave the location of the body in a telephone call to a Western news agency. “We have carried out God’s sen tence against one of the hostages and we shall execute the others one after the other if the atheistic cam paign against Islamic Tripoli does not stop,” he said. The four Soviets were abducted Monday in two sepa rate incidents in west Beirut, the capital’s Moslem sector. The Islamic Liberation Organiza tion, a Sunni Moslem fundamental ist group, is allied with Tawheed, the Islamic Unification movement, whose black-scarved warriors are fighting for their lives in Tripoli. Another caller, also purporting to speak for the kidnappers, tele phoned Beirut’s Moslem radio sta tion Voice of the Nation and said an other captive had been killed. Police said no second body had been found. In a third call, to a Western news agency, a man who said he rep resented the Islamic Liberation Or- □I B questioning in his suit, sp. ; The ordinance states: ■ "A ‘home occupation’ is a com- Hercial use customarily carried on in the home by members of the occu pant family without structural alter ations in the principal building of any of its rooms, without the installa tion of machinery or additional equipment other than that custom ary to normal household operations, I without the employment of additio nal persons, and which does not cause the generation of other than normal noise, pedestrian and vehic ular traffic.” If Michulka said the ordinance of fers ho standard, test or measure which could let Marks know what he ' might be violating, thereby depriv- : inghimofdue process of law. i; “The ordinance also fails to spec ify what types of machinery or equipment are ‘customary to normal household operations, 1 ” Michulka said. “The ordinance is void for vagueness in that it proscribes con- See Photographer, page 14 OS, 1EAI /E11S ESUUS C Raggedy Aggies Amy Hamling, a senior mechanical engineering major from Warwick, New York holds two of the Photo by FRANK HAD A Raggedy Aggies she was selling Wednesday at the arts and crafts fair by Rudder Fountain. erwhai to say ■ Classi- lelpyou ig joti. a/, dui- tational Adver- 3k, is a ! 10 put ssified or you! 'Ml Hudson loses battle with AIDS Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Rock Hudson, the cinema idol whose gallant admis sion of a yearlong battle against AIDS won sympathy and attention for victims of the disease, died Wednesday at his home. He was 59. “Please God, he has not died in |ain,” his friend and one-time co- . star Elizabeth Taylor said in a statement. ; Hudson, star of “Giant,” “A Gathering of Eagles,” several frothy Comedies with Doris Day on film, and “McMillan and Wife” and “Dy- |iiasty"on television, “died peacefully jn his sleep at 9 o’clock this morn- | ing,” publicist Dale Olson said. 1 At the White House, President :agan issued a statement saying: jNancy and I are saddened by the news of Rock Hudson’s death. He always be remembered for his dynamic impact on the film indus- ry, and fans all over the world will mainly mourn his loss. He will be emembered for his humanity, his Hudson, star of “Giant, ” “A Gathering of Eagles, ” sev eral frothy comedies with Doris Day on film, and “Mc Millan and Wife” and “Dynasty” on television, “died peacefully in his sleep at 9 o’clock this morning. ” — publicist Dale Olson. sympathetic spirit and well-deserved reputation for kindness. May God rest his soul.” Taylor, who starred with Hudson in “Giant” and “The Mirror Crack’d,” was one of his closest sup porters in his final days, and was co- nost for an AIDS benefit Sept. 19 with actor Burt Reynolds. Hudson donated $250,000 to the benefit, which grossed more than $1.2 million for AIDS research, and sent his last public words: “I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS, but if that is Helping others, I can, at least, know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.” He had known for more than a year that he suffered from acquired immune deficiency syndrome, but it became publicly known only after a gaunt Hudson checked into the American Hospital in Paris on July 21. The hospital decided that Hud son was too weak to be a good candi date for its experimental therapy with an unproven drug. He returned to Los Angeles Aug. 6 and spent the next 18 days in UCLA Medical Center. Olson said Hudson had been see ing friends and seemed unchanged recently. He said the actor had not suffered pain or taken pain medica tion for complications of AIDS, ganization said the extremists would blow up the Soviet Embassy unless it was evacuated within 48 hours. There was no way to authenticate the calls. The Islamic Liberation Organiza tion’s statements about the kidnap pings have been accompanied by the Lebanese identity cards of two of the hostages and photographs of all four with pistols held to their heads. The three remaining abducted Soviets are commercial attache Val ery Mirikov, press attache Oleg Spi- rin and Nikolai Sversky, an embassy doctor. Police earlier had identified Mirikov as Valery Kornev. Lebanon’s chief coroner, Ahmed Harati, said Igor Mazourov, the em bassy political secretary, identified Katkov’s body in his presence. Harati said the cutural attache was shot in the temple at close range with a 7mm automatic weapon. The embassy employees were the first Soviets among the 35 foreigners kidnapped in Lebanon since Jan uary 1984. Tuition increase has little influence on SWC enrollment By ED CASSAVOY Staff Writer The preliminary fall enrollment figures are in for Texas’ Southwest Conference schools and the verdict so far is: no change, some change, very little change — except for Texas A&M. The A&M registrar’s office re ported a total fall enrollment of 35,307 registered students by the 12th school day, an overall decrease of 3.05 percent. A&M officials had anticipated a decline in enrollment partly due to a tuition increase that went into effect this fall. The Texas Legislature in the spring raised the tuition for Texas residents attending state-supported colleges and universities from $4 per semester hour to $12. Non-resident tuition jumped from $40 per seme- ter hour to $120 per hour this year. The number of non-resident stu dents attending A&M declined by 8.3 percent, or 472 students. Most other SWC universities are at various states of completion of their enrollment figures, but except for A&M, they appear relatively unscathed by the tuition squeeze. The University of Texas released preliminary enrollment figures showing a total of 47,973 students, a drop of 140 students from the Fall 1984 semester. 1985 fall undergraduate enroll ment at UT dropped by 189 stu dents to 36,633. Graduate student enrollment rose from 11,151 in ’84 to 11,200 this fall.. The slight decline in the number of students at UT might not be at tributed to the tuition increase, a UT official said. “We have an enrollment manage ment program here at UT,” said Erma Berry, assistant director of in stitutional studies, “to hold enroll ment to 48,000 students. “That might be mixed up with the effect of tuition increases (in enroll ment). It’s difficult to make any con clusions until we get all the data in.” Berry said she was surprised by the graduate enrollment increase. And she said the applications by Texas (resident) students in the freshmen program had increased “incredibly.” Texas Tech University was one of a number of Texas universities re porting an increase in total enroll ment. Texas Tech’s total enrollment rose by 71 students to 23,504 this fall. “As far as I can tell,” said Susan Carter, administrative assistant for statistics and records, “the college to tals are the same. There was no big jumps by students from one pro gram to another. “There were nearly the same amount of freshmen as last year . . . and a fairly even distribution in the other classes (compared to last year’s figures).” Carter said the 3,200 graduate students enrolled for the 1985 fall semester dropped by 71 students. Baylor University, a private uni versity that was not affected by the tuition increase, was another overall winner in the enrollment sweepstakes reporting a jump of 490 students in its fall 1985 enrollment to 11,481. “(We accepted) a lot of freshmen — more than our usual percentage — and the number of applications went up,” said Ceylon Hood, coordi nator of administrative services. Texas Christian University, an other private unversity, had 6,925 See Tuition, page 14 Gorbachev warns U.S. of rough times ahead which disarms the body’s resistance to disease. The office of Rexford Kennamer, Hudson’s physician, said it would not comment on the immediate cause of the actor’s death. Coroner’s spokesman Bill Gold said it would not be a coroner’s case, since Hud son had been under the care of a physician. Olson said only the staff at Hud son’s home was there when he died. Funeral services were not set im mediately. The most common victims of AIDS are homosexuals, intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs. The disease is believed to be spread through sexual contact, contami nated needles and blood transfu sions. Hudson’s homosexuality had been rumored for years. Even after his illness became known and several magazines carried sympathetic arti- See Hudson, page 14 Associated Press PARIS — Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned Wednesday night of “rough times” ahead if the United States persists in developing the space-based defense system com monly called Star Wars. He said the Reagan administra tion plan has wrought a major change in the arms race, which “con sists of the fact that an attempt is be ing undertaken to transfer military rivalry into extra-atmospheric space, as if we latked it on Earth.” “In the event that the instigators of this enterprise stubbornly con tinue down the perilous path they have laid, the world must indeed face up to rough times,” Gorbachev said at a banquet on the first night of his four-day official visit to France. He spoke in Russian and a French translation was provided. The trip, seven weeks before his November summit in Geneva with President Reagan, is his first to the West since becoming Kremlin leader in March. Gorbachev’s response to a toast by President Francois Mitterrand con firmed that his opposition to the space-defense project, whose formal name is the Strategic Defense Initia tive, would be the major theme of his visit. Soviet opposition to Star Wars has been a major sticking point at the bi lateral nuclear arms control talks now in session at Geneva. Leonid Zamyatin, Gorbachev’s spokesman, promised reporters he would give details today of the new SoViet arms-reduction proposal, which was delivered to Reagan last Friday and put on the table Tuesday in Geneva. Some details of the proposal have been leaked in Washington, which apparently annoyed Gorbachev. He refused to confirm or even discuss them in an interview with French television broadcast Tuesday. The Washington reports have in dicated the Soviet Union proposes a reduction of up to 50 percent in nu clear missile arsenals of the two na tions. French officials said that, while Mitterrand opposes some aspects of Star Wars and has refused an invita tion for France to take part in the re search, he would not join in a Soviet- French attack on the project. This is Gorbachev’s only sched uled trip to a Western nation before he and Reagan meet in Geneva Nov. 19-20. Star Wars is expected to be the central issue at the summit.