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A&.M students to be surveyed
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Cotton Bowl dreams on line
in A&M-Baylor clash Saturday
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The Battalion
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 16, 1985
is bin ned
Helicopter
crash kills
in s death 'b j vi ■ a ■
^15 Marines
Associated Press
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ter of one j
nade up
apartheid,
draft nl IJACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A heli-
pts are be-Bpter carrying 19 Marines plunged
a duty. It Bto the ocean while taking of f f rom
jplacedb) Bship for maneuvers in pre-dawn
ive young Brkness Tuesday, and of ficials said
ether ihet 1; Marines were killed and four res-
tartheid." |ued
■Gunnery Sgt. John Simmons said
■etwin-rotor CH-461) "Sea Knight”
Blicopter crashed in 50 feet of wa-
W tei about four miles off shore on
takeoff from the USS Guadalcanal.
■One body was recovered shortly
|fter the accident and four survivors
tad mixed I* 16 pl uc ^ e d from the water, Sim-
ihons said.
■Navy and Marine divers con-
at the kids Bcted a search and rescue opera-
testily,' he In in Onslow Bay much of die day
: seen him |oi more survivors, but Simmons
H the effort was called off in late-
.■ernoon and hope had been aban-
l a l' rea Bted of finding anyone else alive.
■The cause of the accident was un-
a 7H-pagfBi investigation.
ar that heBfhe four survivors were in good
iharboysii Bidition aboard the ship, said a Ma
ri, his ra Corps statement.
B)n Tuesday afternoon the Gua-
; about lilcanal sat in choppy water about 4
i-ls benvtej les off shore while several small
■ts circled at its stern, said Barry
■Mias, a Jacksonville Daily News
■tographer who flew over the
k lip.
% | : 'l saw no wreckage, no oil slick,”
r ■ Thomas. “Visibility was nearly
Tying, blue haze everywhere.”
he Marines were based at Camp
une and its New River Air Sta-
ib, said Staff Sgt. Terry Ruggles,
blic affairs
the state,il
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Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
Whatever The Weather
Robert Mullenax, a senior meteorology major
from Palestine, works at the weather radar trans
mitter in the radar room of Texas A&M’s meteo
rology department. The transmitter is located on
the twelfth floor of the Oceanography and Meteo
rology Building.
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2 more people
implicated in
ship’s hijacking
Associated Press
GENOA, Italy — Investigators is
sued arrest warrants Tuesday for
two more Palestinians, bringing to
seven the number of people charged
in the hijacking of the Achille Lauro
during a Mediterranean cruise that
began in this northern port Oct. 3.
Gennaro Calabrese de Feo, chief
prosecutor of Genoa, would not
identify the two Palestinians, reveal
the charges against them, or say if
they were in custody.
Italian news agencies said one was
aboard the Italian cruise liner and
left it in Alexandria, Egypt, the last
stop before the hijacking. They said
the second bought the cruise tickets
in Genoa that the four pirates used.
Judicial sources said at least one
accomplice in Genoa helped the four
hijackers. The sources, who spoke
on the condition they were not iden
tified, quoted the accused pirates as
telling interrogators that explosives
and submachine guns were put in
their cabin before they boarded.
An American passenger was killed
during the hijacking.
According to Italian news media,
the four men charged with hijacking
the Achille Lauro on Oct. 7 have,
been moved from Sicily to a prison
in Spoleto, in the Umbrian hills 80
miles north of Rome.
Genoa prosecutors charged a 21-
year-old Palestinian on Monday with
conspiracy to hijack a ship and kid
napping. De Feo confirmed that the
man was Kalaf Mohammed Zainab,
who got off a Tunisian liner with
both an Iraqi and a Moroccan pass
port and has been in jail since Sept.
28.
A source who spoke on condition
of anonymity said the prisoners ad
mitted hijacking the ship, but said
they did so in a change of plan made
when a waiter discovered them with
weapons in their cabin.
The men said the original plan
had been to get off the ship during
the scheduled stop at Ashdod, Is
rael, and stage an attack there, the
source reported.
The four men claim membership
in the Palestine Liberation Front, a
group in the PLO that has split into
three factions, one of them led by
Mohammed Abbas.
Abbas and a PLO aide also were
on the Egyptian plane, but were per
mitted to leave Italy for Yugoslavia.
Abbas, whose faction is loyal to Yas
ser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, has been
reported to be back in the Middle
East.
roposition 2
M UT systems approach expanded use of PUF with caution
High court hearing
school prayer case
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ion!
'ditor’s note: This is the first in a
three-part series on the effects of
koposition 2 on spending at Texas
mmsities.
By JENS B. KOEPKE
Staff Writer
M
\ profound changes have not yet
I fen felt by Texas A&M or the Uni-
i Isity of Texas as a result of pas-
|e of Proposition 2 in Nov. 1984.
t the long-term financial future of
j their universities and systems looks
ghter, system administration offi-
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However, the two systems are ap
proaching the expanded uses of the
PUF with caution.
Proposition 2 restructured the
function of the Permanent Univer
sity Fund. The PUF is the primary
source of construction revenue for
the A&M and UT systems.
The PUF, established by the state
in 1876, is a constitutional endow
ment of 2.1 million acres of West
Texas lands administered for the
benefit of both systems. The fund,
valued in excess of $2 billion, is used
as collateral for construction bonds.
Income from the oil-rich land is in
vested with the profits making up
the Available University Fund,
which finances enrichment pro-
grams such as endowed
professorships and scholarships.
The UT system receives two-thirds
of the AUF and the A&M system
gets one-third. The projected AUF
income for 1986 is over $194 mil
lion.
Proposition 2 invoked four
changes in the PUF:
• Use of bond proceeds were ex
panded to include major repairs and
renovation of existing buildings,
purchase of capital equipment, ac
quisition of library books and
materials and purchase of land.
•Three more institutions in the
A&M system and nine more schools
in the UT system are now eligible to
participate in the PUF and AUF.
Also, Prairie View A&M University
will receive a special $6 million ap
propriation from the UT portion of
the AUF each year for 10 years.
•The PUf bonding capacities
See Modified PUF,page 10
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Reagan
administration on Tuesday urged
the Supreme Court to allow student
religious groups to meet for prayer
and worship during public high
school activity periods.
“Congress has concluded that
high school students are sufficiently
mature to make the same distinc
tions we all do between neutrality
and endorsement,” government law
yer Charles Fried told the court.
He said a federal appeals court
decision that banned such meetings
at a Williamsport, Pa., high school
casts “grave constitutional doubt”
over the Equal Access Act of 1984.
In it, Congress made it unlawful
for high schools receiving federal
money and allowing some student
groups to conduct meetings on
school property to deny access to any
student group based on what it pro
poses to discuss.
But during an hour-long argu
ment session Tuesday, three justices
raised the possibility that the court
might not decide the constitutional
issue presented in the Williamsport
case.
Justices Sandra Day O’Connor,
John Paul Stevens and William J.
Brennan repeatedly questioned
whether the case should be dis
missed because of a procedural de
fect.
The dispute, the latest outgrowth
of the high court’s 1962 decision
outlawing organized prayer sessions
in public schools, arose when stu
dents in 1981 sought permission to
meet at Williamsport Area High
School.
Dockery soys dealings
with Murray on the level
Associated Press
DALLAS — A Dallas business-
an, accused last month of pro
viding illegal cash payments and a
lased sports car to Texas A&M
guarterback Kevin Murray, in-
"stshis relationship with the ath-
Jtewas strictly on the up-and-up.
haven’t done anything
|rong," Rod Dockery, a 1966
aduateof A&M and former yell
ader, told the Dallas Morning
fiews.
■ Dockery said he did nothing
Bore than give Murray a part-
time job and lease him an auto-
E obile.
Dockery acknowledged that he
ive Murray $4,150 in 1983 and
|84 but said Murray earned the
money by cleaning printing
equipment at one of Dockery’s
ilisinesses.
■Jarri Hopkins, a former book-
leeper for Dockery, told Dallas
■evision station WFAA (Chan
nel 8) last month she saw several
■00 checks made out to Murray
jmt never saw any records to ver-
'ffhis employment.
■Dockery said he employed
way six to eight weeks, begin-
ningin late 1983. Murray worked
firing the Christmas break and
pin during the spring and sum-
See Murray,page 10
A&M QB Kevin Murray
‘Palestinians being persecuted’
By ED CASSAVOY
Staff Writer
Palestinians are modern-day Jews
— scattered, persecuted and stereo
typed, said a representative of the
Palestine Liberation Organization
Tuesday night at Rudder Theater.
Dr. Hatem Hussaini, a member of
the Palestine National Council, the
Palestine Parliament in exile, said
the Middle East would never have
peace until facism, Zionism, and rac
ism were erased.
Hussaini said because of recent
world events, countries have gotten
a one-sided view of the PLO, espe
cially with the recent hijacking of the
Italian Luxury cruise liner Achille
Lauro and the killing of an Ameri
can passenger aboard.
“Of course the PLO condemns the
hijacking of the ship,” Hussaini said.
“We condemn terrorism. Most (Pal
estinians) involved in the past have
been severely punished (by the
PLO).
“How can President Reagan ex
press outrage at the death of one
American when 70 Palestinians died
two weeks ago when Israel bombed
office buildings in Tunisia? It’s a
double standard in this country.”
Hussaini said the PLO’s point-of-
view has received scant attention in
the news in recent years.
“Fve noticed in the past couple of
days with the press, a hysteria, a
‘lynch them (mentality)’, that we
have to be careful of,” Hussaini said.
“That’s what the extremist Israelis
want.”
Hussaini said Israel had bene-
fitted the most from the hijacking
since the country used this to sab
otage PLO peace initiatives and to
anger Tunisia and Egypt.
He said the PLO doesn’t formally
recognize Israel — one of the de
mands U.S. officials have stipulated
before any Middle East peace plan
can be considered acceptable — be
cause Israel is an occupying power
of the West Bank — Gaza Strip.
“The U.S. did not recognize Com
munist China for 24 years,” Hussaini
said, “So that is why Palestinians are
so cautious about this.
“Israel has no state, they are refu
gees. They should recognize the
right of self-determination (of Pales
tinians).”
Hussaini said the Palestinians are
not against Jews or Judaism but are
opposed to the Zionist philosophy
aiming for the formation of an ex
clusive Jewish state.
“I hate Israel because they deny
us our rights as a people,” Hussaini
said.
He said the creation of Israel in
1947 scattered the Palestinians, and
left them living in modern-day “con
centration camps.” Hussaini said
Palestinians paid the price of a guilt-
ridden world when Israel was
formed after World War II.
“There is a Christian feeling of
guilt for what happened in Europe
(the Jewish Holocaust),” he said. “If
the West feels guilty it should donate
Photo by Frank C. Hada
Dr. Hatem Hussaini
some of its own country.”
Hussaini said the displacement of
the Palestinians from their land and
the continued Israeli occupation of
the West Bank Gaza Strip, had
isolated 2 of the estimated 4'/2 mil
lion Palestinians living in the Middle
East.
“Palestinians are going to close the
schools down in protest and throw
stones at Israeli military vehicles be
cause they have a legitimate right to
resist.” Hussaini said.
“A distinction should be made be-
See Palestinians, page 10