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'' e ttie rei "•'espons. |Jl le pl ani l{ iv tried K Icohol 4 '• wid Marl •sident. ‘v," m as a noir, 'pie liken I tnink itiei maketlu ■dd the ntr •^ate mort : of Dui •lost like is whan eopk i pie breal' d'ore. Pet, Hall rest may driii he savstk ^n«p» U««* on ‘ K^ ttAKOt u Defender of civil liberties speaks to A&M audience — Page 7 Ag basketball team ready to host Athletes In Action — Page 11 The Batta Serving the University community Sdt N' 81 No - 50 USPS 075360 14 pages College Station, Texas Friday, November 8, 1985 American hostages threatened with death e to even® Associated Press it havings® b£Irut, Lebanon — An anony- i.itspo»rB|() US ta |i er sa i t j Islamic Jihad ex- ' "'^Memists planned to kill their half- r , || Chj ?B oze n American hostages I hursday, ‘ j Und a second caller claimed they s , ! r»ere dead. But no bodies were mts ofiaB^nd i n the designated spot. ■ The captives were to he “exe- (,u tai Bjuted” by tiring squad because indi- u <ilconclB ect negotialions with the United 8 rou ,P s ®ates had reached “a dead end, the i at the (•r down. lirst man said in a call to a Western news agency. But in Washington a White House official said “contacts” in the Leb anon hostage case had not broken down. And President Reagan said of the death threat, “Evidently there is no substantiation of that at all.” Since the calls could not be au thenticated, it was impossible to de termine whether they were a hoax or an attempt by the Shiite Moslem fac tion holding the hostages to pressure Washington into making a deal. Six Americans are missing in Leb anon. Islamic jihad claimed Oct. 4 it killed one of them, but no body has turned up. Islamic Jihad had said it would re lease the Americans when Kuwait frees 17 Shiite comrades serving rison terms for the bombings of the \S. and French embassies in Ku- [>' wait in December 1983. Kuwait re fuses. Several threats were made earlier to try the hostages as spies and “exe cute'’ them if trie demand was not met, but no deadlines were set. A representative of the news agency, which declined to he identi fied, said Thursday’s first call came at 12:15 a.m. EST from a man who said the hostages would be shot by firing squad. “We wish to tell America that the sad end of the American hostages will not he the last,” the caller said. “We shall shake the earth at Ameri ca’s feet and the feet of its agents.”^ He promised to call again at 1 p.m. local time to say where the bod ies had been dumped but didn't. An other man caller! the agency at 10 He said that “all the bodies of the Americans, including Buckley’s,” had been dumped in the basement of the derelict Coca-Cola factory in the Kola district of south Beirut. But policemen, reporters and Moslem militiamen found nothing after several hours of searching the rat-infested factory, surrounding buildings and nearby neighbor hoods where bodies have been dumped before. good it’s PY PRINi«G PUN Avt’U# iniversity lolice to get Ags to pay By BRIAN PEARSON Senior Stall Writer University Police are practically up to their badges in unpaid parking * +.**1 tickets and have decided to do some- « I thing about it starting with pre-regis- nCY. j tration Monday. help ifl Bob Wiatt, director of security f and traffic at Texas A&M, said stu- I dents with three or more unpaid tra- | flic tickets will not be able to pre-reg- J ister for the spring semester. ]■ “This is something that we were -rviceJljoing to do for the fall semester, but I Because of the computer foul ups, | fie were unable to,” Wiatt said. • f' He said students who have three Mr more unpaid tickets should not be iiiuipnsed when they to go the Pavil- ion and are blocked from pre-regis- a tration. I “There are a lot of them out there ^thinking, ‘Oh, nobody is going to get | me,’ and they’re going to get zap ped,” Wiatt said. ’. He said tickets can he paid at the University Police station. “If they clear up the tickets here ijat the station), all we do is push a button on our computer, and ; bloc ests lors it im mediately lifts the block on the regis- Itrar’s (computer),” Wiatt said. He said 6,000 students already are blocked, and “it’s probably going to UT system audit discloses odd money deals See UPD, page 10 Looking Impressive The Corps of Cadets lines up for Thursday’s Fall Review. The Corps was reviewed by Harvey Walker, executive director of the Wofford Cain Photo by ANTHONY’S. CASPER Foundation, and Col. Donald Burton, Corps Com mandant. Walker also presented four Cain Foun dation Awards to outstanding cadets. Associated Press FORT WORTH — A number of transactions have been questioned by the University of Texas System’s 1984 audit, including payment of $1.4 million to a Swiss bank account on the approval of a lone university official, the Fort Worth Star-Tele gram reported Thursday. The 95-page audit report crit icizes a UT policy allowing one per son to sign a payment voucher both for the University ahd for a “foreign vendor.” The . $1.4 million was deposited into the Swiss account after a UT- Austin official signed a payment or der on behalf of both the university and the recipient of the money, the- Star-Telegram reported. In another case, the UT Health Science Center in Houston made fake lease payments to Hermann Hospital Estate to conceal excessive salary payments to physicians on the center s staff. At the same time, UT-Austin spent $293,000 in state tax money on Social Security payments when it should have used “local” money such as tuition or fees. Despite the findings, State Audi tor Lawrence Alwin certified the sys tem’s financial statement, thus giv ing the books a good order standing. UT did furnish proof that the $1.4 million diverted to the Swiss ac count had been approved by a spe cial committee and that it went to a purchase the university received, said Ronnie Jung, director of higher education audits. The report also revealed “simu lated lease payments” were made to Hermann Hospital- &M official to be honored this weekend By MEG CADIGAN Staff Writer Wayne Stark, we’re going to throw you the biggest party you've ever seen,” a former student of Texas A&M tells J. Wayne Stark, A&M’s special assistant to the presi dent in charge of cultural affairs. Jim Howell, senior vice president land chief executive officer of the IBank of Boston, is one of a commit- |teeof 21, which is planning the J. [Wayne Stark Tribute. The commit tee includes San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros and Congressman ||oe Barton. The festivities begin Saturday With a reception at the Hilton Hotel followed bv a reception at Rudder Exhibit Hall. for: J. Wayne Stark At 7 p.m. there will be a banquet in Stark’s honor in the Memorial Student Center. The weekend’s schedule of activ ities will conclude Sunday with an in formal continental breakfast. Stark said many people are calling this his retirement party, but he dis credits this rumor. “I’ve told everybody that’s my se cret,” he said. “I may retire Monday or it may be in two years.” Former MSC President Pat Wood said Stark deserves this tribute be cause “he’s the reason we have a stu dent center.” Stark began working as MSC di rector three years before the student center was constructed. He was re sponsible for the planning and de velopment for the student center builaing and MSC programs and ac tivities. After three years of work at the MSC, Stark received an award from The Battalion for outstanding serv ice to the University. The award is one of many that cover a wall at his MSC office. Wood said Stark’s thinking is 10 years ahead of everyone else, which makes him an excellent adviser. Jack Rains, Class of '60, also com mented on Stark’s vision in the 1980 March-April issue of Texas A&M Today. “We met in 1956, when he told me I was spending too much time in the MSC coffee lounge,” he said, “and I’ve been taking advice from him ever since. . . . A&M is vastly differ ent now from what it was then. It was a small, male institution then for boys from mostly rural backgrounds with limited horizons and visions. He took boys up on mountain tops and showed them broader visions, encouraged them to climb larger mountains, scale larger heights, open doors they didn’t know exis ted.” Rains said time hasn’t changed Stark’s willingness to help students. “He was a cultural oasis in a khaki wasteland . . . time and growth at Texas A&M haven’t changed him,” Rains said. “He’s the very same to day.” Stark’s counseling plan has three ingredients: being involved outside the classroom, going to any type of graduate school and going overseas. He encourages students to take ad vantages of the opportunities avail able at A&M and to set goals to broa- See Aggies, page 12 Regents issue PDF bonds for more than $149 million University News Service HOUSTON — The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Thursday issued new Permanent University Fund bonds totaling $149.1 million as part of a process to refund pre viously issued bonds to take ad vantage of favorable market con ditions. The move generates debt-serv ice savings of $52.9 million over the next 10 years and produces a net present-value savings of $2.1 million, officials said. The sale of Permanent Univer sity Fund refunding bonds allows the retirement of currently out standing Permanent University Fund bonds totaling $162 mil lion, thus reducing the total amount of bonds issued by the re gents by nearly $13.2 million. Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York was selected to serve the managing underwriter for the project. “We received a highly favor able sale and especially in compa rison to other recent sales,” Mor gan Guaranty representative Ken Hedrick tola the regents. “It’s a very successful sale.” Fish Camp to break from Student Y in 1986 By KELL YE MAYO Reporter Fish Camp, founded in 1954 bv the Student Y Association at Texas A&M, will see a name change in 1986 as it breaks away from its founder. But, Chris Wal lace, director of Fish Camp ’86 says that’s about all that will change. “Beginning in 1986, Fish Camp will no longer be associated with the Student Y at A&M,” Wallace says. “All the programs will be the same, but the name will be changed to the Texas A&M University Fish Camp.” Fish Camp was originally con cerned with Christian program ming, he says, but over the past 15 years it has become a tradi tions program. “Tnere will still be Christian in- Jluences, but the main emphasis will be on tradition and introduc ing the incoming freshmen to A&M,” he says. “The National Association of Student Y’s goals are to be world oriented. Tnrough the years, however. Fish Camp has become more centered toward A&M and its goals. ‘^In order for the A&M Stu dent Y to continue being recog nized by the national organiza tion, they needed to cut back on programs that weren’t really deal ing with worldwide issues.” Although there was some op position to the separation of Fish Camp from Student Y, everyone was basically in agreement, Wal lace says. The decision was beneficial to both organizations, but there were no problems between the See Fish Camp,page 10 Administration is conquering problems Reagan aid praises president’s work By SCOTT SUTHERLAND Staff Writer A White House official said Thursday at Texas A&M that Presi dent Reagan has conquered the ma jor problems of his first term and will conquer the issues that lie ahead. Card also praised Texas A&M and Sen. Phil Gramm for their assistance to the administration and its policies. Andrew Card, Reagan’s special as sistant on intergovernmental affairs, said universities such as A&M are working with the National Science Foundation discovering ways to en courage states to expand their econ omies. He said states with more diverse economies suffer less from the slow down in the economy. A&M’s work will help other states widen their economic bases. Card said. He said Texans should be proud they elected Sen. Phil Gramm. Andrew Card Gramm's deficit reduction plan. Card said, is a real accomplishment. “Phil Gramm has succeeded for the first time,” Card said, “in focus ing Congress’. . . attention on one is sue, the reduction of the federal de ficit.” In October, Gramm introduced the Gramrn-Rudman bill, which will force Congress to balance the bud get by 1991. Card reflected on the Reagan ad ministration’s accomplishments and predicted further success during the remainder of Reagan’s second term. Card, a Massachusetts gubernato rial candidate in 1982, said the num ber one enemy in 1980 was infiation. High interest rates were a close sec ond and a combination of the two led to a malaise that swept the coun try. Card said the president realized he couldn’t strengthen the nation without a sturdy foundation. “The president realized he couldn’t build a house by putting the roof on first and then slapping the walls up underneath it.” Card said, “He realized the starting point had to begin with a stern foundation.” But unfortunately. Card said, the administration had to start with bad soil. “Inflation in 1980 was 10 percent, interest rates were 21.5 percent, and our military was at such a low point that our allies didn’t even respect it, much less our adversaries,” he said. Card said the country was experi encing a “malaise”, a term President Carter had used to describe the na tion’s condition. But Card said Reagan’s optimism and decision-making ability pro vided the leadership necessary to turn the tide. “People (in the Carter Adminis tration) were afraid to make deci sions because thev didn’t know what the consequences were.” Card said, “ But along comes Ronald Reagan, and he says ‘the glass is half full, not empty.’ ” Reagan began to turn things See White House,page 10 .1