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)t h )lina’s other oups te Ca- y and mfed- a pa il relay :o" g . )rd > Hansen: Faculty senators can aid chancellor search — Page 6 Oilers finally hire head coach; Glanville signs 5-year pact — Page 7 nt yean, Chisolm includt ) encout- s, facult liege S& irgestrt- she sap ients re all,cote year an! i rate fa m*T«asA&M • l lie Battalion iVol. 82 No. 80 CISPS 075360 10 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 21, 1986 33.4 per ianic stir rt ofth :ompara the ptt ileisnoi rlackani A&Maj s fortlr id th; pects Four year colleges not cheap A Associated Press Students in Texas are not fac ing tuition increases alone. All the nation’s four-year pub lic colleges and universities, tradi- lionally among the best buys in higher education, are getting more expensive. They now charge an average of $4,587 a war for tuition, room and board. I That is 7 percent more than a year ago, according to a survey released Monday by the Ameri- [can Association of State Colleges and Universities and the National •Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Tuition alone jumped by 8 per cent for students attending col lege in their home state and 1 1 percent for out-of-state students. The steepest increases, in per centage terms, were in Texas, for years the home of the nation’s least expensive public universi- Ities. Tuition and fees for state presidents jumped 57 percent from $446 a year to $701, while ‘out-of-state students saw their fibills soar 162 percent from $1,437 to $3,764. i The legislature in Texas boosted the colleges’ charges 'amidst a budget crunch brought about largely by depressed oil and gas prices. > Louisiana, another state hit by falling energy prices, had the sec ond highest increase in tuition See Colleges, page 10 Erik Welsh, a freshman in general studies at Texas A&M, tries to find a pair of sunglasses to help him fight the glare of the sunny winter days. Tempera tures in the College Station area have been unsea sonably warm. The weather service says the next ; few days will be sunny with temperatures in the middle to high 70s. The sunglass sale is being held near Rudder Fountain. Coup expels Jonathan as Lesotho ruler Associated Press MASERU, Lesotho — Thousands of people danced in the streets Mon day to welcome an apparently blood less coup that ousted the authorita rian prime minister. Chief Leabua Jonathan, a day after he declared himself “in complete control.” The takeover by a military com mander described as a moderate ap peared to presage the end of a South African economic blockade that had nearly paralyzed this mountain king dom since the first of the year. South Africa, whose territory surrounds Lesotho, accused Jonathan of har boring guerrillas. Maj. Gen. Justin Lekhanya, who overthrew Jonathan, is said to be about 55 years old. He commands the 1,500-man Lesotho Paramilitary Force that serves as both army and police. Government radio reported the coup at dawn to the 1.3 million peo ple of Lesotho, which is about the size of Maryland. The radio said Ox ford-educated King Moshoeshoe II, 47, remained as head of state. No information was available about the whereabouts of Jonathan or members of his Cabinet, who also were swept from office. It appears that Lekhanya wants more amicable relations with South Africa. He was reported to be an gered by Jonathan’s risky policy of militant opposition to the white-mi nority government’s apartheid racial policies. South Africa sent commandos into Maseru in 1982 and has occa sionally squeezed Lesotho’s depen dent economy when Jonathan stepped up his anti-apartheid rhe toric. Nearly everything the king dom needs comes across the borders from South Africa. Chief Jonathan told reporters Sunday: “Although you never know, I would say that I am in complete control. Never before in my 30 years in politics have I been so accepted.” Twenty-four hours later, Lesotho radio said Jonathan had been de posed, and “there is peace and calm prevailing over the country.” The new military commanders imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew, which restricted journalists to their hotels, so there was no way to verify the radio’s description. Earlier in the day, soldiers ap peared to be welcomed as cham pions. The military presence in the capi tal was light, but crowds cheered the soldiers when they appeared. Youths climbed atop government buildings, pulled down flags and tore them to shreds. The sentiment See Bloodless, page 10 iKird® A&M fraternity remembers King with candlelight vigil ice, By SAM BUCHMEYER Staff Writer I “I have a dream,” said the Rev. ^lartin Luther King, Jr., and the na tional recognition of his birthday as )i federal holiday has become a sym- i\ of the dream that King envi- lioned. |A standing-room-only crowd at [Texas A&M paid tribute to the slain fivil rights leader Monday with a Candlelight vigil conducted by the pembers of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. During the service, members of the fraternity read selected words of King. And Dr. Alvin Larke,Jr., assis- tant professor of agricultural educa- ion, outlined King’s biography, giv ing the predominately black crowd n nsight into the kind of man King vas. Larke told the crowd that al- hough the holiday is being recog- Protests, parades mark first federal holiday honoring King Associated Press Protests mingled with parades' Monday on the first federal holi day in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., a day in which ironic touches measured how close the country has come to achieving the slain civil rights leader’s dream. Parades and gatherings hon ored King in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Honolulu, among others. Church bells pealed in Minnesota, Illinois and Rhode Island, and radio stations around the nation’s tiniest state joined broadcasting portions of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Five hundred blacks gathered on the Capitol steps at Montgom ery, Ala., where Gov. George Wallace had vowed “segregation now, segregation forever” in 1963, to hear a proclamation honoring King. Wallace, recently released from a hospital, did not attend the ceremony, where press secretary Bill Joe Camp read his proclamation. In Birmingham, Ala., where King led marchers against fire hoses and police dogs in 1963, a seven-foot statue of King was un veiled in a city park. By federal law, the third Mon day of January is a day in hono. of King, who was born Jan. 15, 1929, and assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. The day is a legal holiday in 27 states, including three that also honor Confederate generals. Two other states have a holiday on Jan. 15. Monday’s protests focused on states and communities that stood aloof from the holiday. In Memphis, 300 people gath ered in the pot-holed parking lot of the Lorraine Motel where King was murdered. The motel is now owned by a civic group. After King’s son Dexter laid a wreath at his father’s tomb in At- See King, page 10 nized nationally on Jan. 20 this year, King was actually born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He said King’s life was not uncom mon as a child, but during the 39 years that he was alive he would be come one of the most controversial and respected men in American his tory. Larke’s speech was followed by a video presentation about King titled “I Have a Dream,” which featured dramatic footage of King and some of his most famous speeches. The second featured speaker was Kevin Carreathers, a Texas A&M adviser of student activities. Carreathers told the audience what the observance of King’s birth day as national holiday means to him and all Americans today. Both Carreathers and Larke said it was important that we now offi cially celebrate King’s birthday be cause then future generations will understand better what King stood for as well as what can be achieved by the unity of all men. Carreathers said that although King was killed 18 years ago, his memory is still a major force in so ciety today, especially with the racial problems in South Africa. Kevin Johnson, president of Al pha Phi Alpha, said the plans were made for the commemoration serv ice in the Fall but that actual prepa ration began about two weeks ago. Alpha Phi Alpha is a service fra ternity that was chartered at Texas A&M on Sept. 15, 1985. This semester the organization will be helping with clean up opera tions at Hensel Park as well as partic ipating with such on-campus func tions as the Big Event. Libyans ready for suicide missions 'oft. Students get military training Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya — All Libyan igh school students are required to ndergo intensive military training that includes preparation for possi ble suicide missions, the military ommander of a boys’ school said Monday. A group of Western reporters was taken to Ali Awarith High School in downtown Tripoli, where they watched uniformed students per form military drills and firing exer cises with four Soviet-designed, BM- 21 multiple rocket launchers. One of the students was Seifeddin Khadafy, the 13-year-old eldest son of Col. Moammar Khadafy, the Li byan leader who has warned that iuicide squads would strike in the United States and Israel if the two ever attack this country. Seifeddin, whose name means |“sword of the faith,” seemed intim idated when presented to the report ers and made no comment. The reporters were not allowed to question the students individually, “All Libyans are training for suicide missions. We are all ready to launch such operations, even in the United States and into the White House itself. ” — Maj. Saeed Ali Awedat, military commander of the Ali Awarith High School. but the demonstration illustrated the increasing militarization of Libyan society under Khadafy’s rule. The school’s military commander, Maj. Saeed Ali Awedat, told report ers that all Libyan secondary stu dents — both girls and boys — un dergo two hours of military training a week as a compulsory part of their curriculum. The training also in cludes one month during each sum mer vacation. Asked whether the students also train for the suicide commando mis sions that Khadafy has threatened to launch against the United States and Israel, Awedat replied: “Yes. All Libyans are training for refutable” proof that Khadafy as sisted the Palestinian extremist group believed responsible for the attacks, and he has imposed eco nomic sanctions ordering all U.S. cit izens and companies to stop doing business with Libya. Awedat said the students in his school were not allowed to take their pistols and Soviet-designed Kalash nikov machine guns home with them at night. With almost perfect precision, the blue-bereted students dismantled and reassembled their Kalashnikovs in less than 50 seconds. One group plotted the firing tra- to discuss details of jectory for their rocket launchers, suicide commando known as “Stalin organs.” The rocket launchers were unarmed; the target marked on their plotting board was Israel’s Star of David. Awedat seemed pleased with his students. Their high precision led some of the reporters to question his claim that they received only two hours of military training per week, compared with 36 hours of civilian instruction. suicide missions. We are all ready to launch such operations, even in the United States and into the White House itself. “We are ready to carry out any or der given by the leader.” He refused the students’ training other than to say it was re served for older age groups. Most of the 2,000 students at his school, he said, ranged in age from 15 to 18. U.S.-Libya tensions heightened after the Dec. 27 airport attacks in Rome and Vienna that left 19 people dead, including five A.mericans, two Israelis and four of the attackers. President Reagan says he has “ir- Southern states setting up regional primary Associated Press AUSTIN -— The South can grab its fair share of the national political spotlight by setting up a regional primary that commands the attention of presidential can didates, Texas and Florida law makers said Monday. Legislators from the two states met in the Texas Capitol to forge a coalition among leaders of the growing states. California law makers had planned to partici- E ate but could not because their igislative session is under way. Florida has moved its presi dential primaries to the second Tuesday in March, the date pushed as ideal for a “super Dixie primary.” A partisan fight in the Texas Legislature prevented such a move here last year. But Texas Sen. John Traeger, D-Seguin, said he is confident Texas would establish a March presidential primary. Presidential delegates from Texas now are se lected through a caucus system that begins in May. Sen. Chet Edwards, D-Duncan- ville, and sponsor of the ill-fated 1985 primary bill, said, “It would be nice to see presidential candi dates spend time in the sun of Texas and Florida than tromping around the snow of New Hamp shire and Iowa.” The early primaries also would “encourage people from the South to run for president,” Ed wards added. The 14 southern states have 47 percent of the Democratic dele gates, he said. Florida House Speaker Desig nate Jon Mills, D-Gainesville, said the South is the right place for an early, regional primary because it is “as ethnically diverse” as any re gion. Florida Rep. T.K. Wetherell, D-Daytona Beach, said Texas is a “key player” in persuading other southern states to join in a re gional primary. “You probably have the ability to bring eight or 10 or 12 others along,” he said.