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New exotic animal center atA&M procuring wildife — Page 4 Lady Ags need upset of Tech to improve standing in SWC — Page 8 1 lie Battalion /ol. 83 No. 100 CISPS 075360 12 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 18, 1986 A&M prof i receives national istinction hemist is 4th at A&M to get honor ).R. Associated Press m lA Texas A&M chemist interested ■ usine enzyme technology to make Bedically important compounds has Ren awarded a President’s Young Rvestigator Award from the Na- ftnal Science Foundation, school of- fu ils announced Monday. ■ The latest recipient, Dr. Chi-Huey Wong, brings to four the number of Ak:M faculty who currently hold the prestigious awards. ■ Wong, who wishes “to tackle the new generation of problems appear- ■g at the border between chemistry and biology,” was selected last year j, ; as one of 20 Searle Scholars nation- gp] Ide who receive three years of sup- Rrt from a foundation established |g| 1 the estate of pharmaceutical exec- H live John Searle and his wife. elo-«“My future research interests will dthf .bt multi-disciplinary,” said Wong, Rlid- wiio formerly taught at National ^Biiwan University, his alma mater. ' Hr earned his doctorate from Mas- 1^1 s|i(husetts Institute of Technology and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before coming to the University in 1983. gAbout 200 Young Investigator Awards are presented nationwide h year, with each recipient get- ag up to $100,000 worth of re arch support a year for five years, pending on the ability of the uni- rsity to match NSF money. Re archers are guaranteed $25,000 arly. The awards are meant to aid Universities in attracting and keep goutstanding researchers. Other A&M recipients of Young S ( Investigator Awards include: sedi- Jentologist Dr. James Mazzullo and w-temperature experimental phys- ist Dr. Glenn Agnolet, who re ived their awards in 1985; and chemist Dr. Robert Lucchese, who ecializes in gas-surface dynamics d photoionization, a 1984 winner. [i 153 Check It Out Stephen DuBois, a sophomore biology major from Houston, takes a look at the brakes on a ten-speed Photo by ROBER T ONCKEN bicycle belonging to Mark Farrow at Pepper Tree Apartments in College Station. Habib meets with leaders in Philippines Associated Press MANILA, Philippines — Presi dent Reagan’s special envoy, Philip Habib, met separately Monday with President Ferdinand E. Marcos and with Corazon Aquino, both unyield ing in their claims to the Philippine presidency. When Reagan sent Habib here, he said the veteran troubleshooter was on a fact-finding mission and would report back to him on the aftermath of the Feb. 7 presidential election. Aquino was still ahead in an inde pendent vote count although the National Assembly officially pro claimed Marcos the victor Saturday. Aquino’s spokesman, Rene Sagui- sag, said the opposition candidate gave Habib “an earful” about per ceived U.S. support for Marcos. Marcos’ only public comment af ter meeting two hours with Habib was that Habib guaranteed he was “not interested in any way in telling us how to run our affairs.” Marcos, who has been running the Philippines for 20 years with au thoritarian rule and democracy, said he gave Habib documents proving his opponents cheated and used vio lence in the election. Roman Catholic bishops, inde pendent pollwatchers and interna tional observers have cited fraud and violent harassment of voters by the government. President Reagan said last week that fraud and vio lence may have happened on both sides. Signs emerged that Aquino’s call for restrained civil disobedience at a giant rally Sunday was having an ef fect. The price of stock in the huge San Miguel Corn, dropped about 20 per cent from last week. Aquino asked Filipinos to boycott the company, whose chairman, Eduardo Co- juangco, she called a Marcos “crony.” Several banks she listed for boy cott reported heavy withdrawals. Aquino has asked for strikes, school walkouts, boycotts and noise barrages the day after Marcos’ inau guration, expected next week. Habib also conferred with Jose Concepcion, head of Namfrel, the independent pollwatching organiza tion National Movement for Free Elections. Namfrel still had Aquino ahead with incomplete returns 10 days after the election. On the first day of what are to be her daily radio broadcasts, Aquino, widow of assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino, said she told Habib the crisis can be resolved only by making her president. “I impressed upon Mr. Habib our determination to apply increasing pressure until the popular will ex pressed last Feb. 7 is vindicated and respected at the earliest possible time,” she said over Catholic church- owned Radio Veritas. She indicated she thought Habib was more interested in the post-elec tion crisis than in any evidence of election abuses she or Marcos might offer him. Israel storms Lebanon after seizure of soldiers Company unable to guarantee safety Tylenol to stop making capsules Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The Raker of Tylenol announced Mon day it will no longer produce over- the-counter medication in capsules, pie days after cyanide-contami- hted capsules killed a woman and pore than three years after they Slled seven people in Illinois. 1 James E. Burke, chairman of Johnson & Johnson, said, “We feel lie company can no longer guar antee the safety of these capsules.” I Burke urged people to switch to bated oval-shaped tablets known as caplets, and said Johnson & Johnson lould replace free any capsules con sumers or stores now have. I The future of capsule medications las called into question after Diane llsroth, 23, died and a second bottle containing tainted Tylenol capsules was found in a store less than two blocks from the one in which the fa tal dose was purchased in Bronx- ville, just north of New York City. About 30 percent of the Tylenol sold is in capsules. Caplets, introduced after the 1982 poisonings, were designed as a cap sule substitute, Burke said. They are solid, and company offi cials say they cannot be tampered with because cyanide would break down the medicine. Officials investigating Elsroth’s death were spending Monday in specting a plant in Port Washington, Pa., where the contaminated cap sules were made last May, and a dis tribution center in Montgomeryville, Pa. William Grigg, spokesman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’, said the government considered the tampering a “local incident.” Grigg said the potassium cyanide that killed Elsroth and that found in the second bottle was not the same kind responsible for the seven deaths in Illinois. No arrests in those deaths were made. Johnson & Johnson has of fered a $100,000 reward for infor mation leading to arrest and convic tion in connection with the more recent incidents. In still another report of tam pering in Westchester County, Po lice Chief Stephen Blaha said a woman on Saturday found the cap of an Anacin-3 loose and broken and a puncture in the safety seal with a brown stain near it. Blaha said the store agreed to pull Anacin-3 tablets from its shelves until further testing was done Tuesday. And in Marshalltown, Iowa, au thorities have ordered tests on pills contained in a box of Tylenol tablets purchased Sunday. Marshall County Sheriff Deraid “Bud” Gonzales said, “The interior seal was off and whatever was in there smelled real bad.” • Consumers were urged to re turn unused portions of their Tyle nol capsule products to Tylenol Cap sule Exchange, P.O. Box 2000, Maple Plain, Minn., 55348. In ex change, consumers will receive a coupon good for the purchase of the same size bottle. Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli heli copter gunships, tanks and 600 troops swept through south Leb anon villages Monday in response to the capture of two soldiers by Mos lem guerrillas, U.N. sources said. Timur Goksel, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in the area, said Israeli gunships strafed sus pected guerrilla hideouts in the rugged hill country. He said Israeli soldiers ferried by helicopter stormed at least 15 Shiite Moslem villages searching for the two men, who were captured inside Israel’s “security zone.” Lebanese security sources said the soldiers were seized at about 1 p.m. Monday. The Israeli assault began an hour later. After dark, the sources said, gun ships dropped flares to light landing zones, and the Israeli pushed as far as Qaaqaaiyet, nearly 12 miles north of the buffer zone. Israeli forces spent two hours searching the Qaaqaaiyet area and then began withdrawing from two assembly points on the outskirts of Haris and Sroubine, about four. miles north of the security zone, the Lebanese sources said. Helicopter gunships were seen airlifting soldiers back to Israel at about 8 p.m., nearly six hours after the drive began, the sources said. Goksel said the Israelis had “at least two companies of mechanized troops pushing on several fronts and landing helicopter-borne troops in several villages.” Beirut state radio quoted its re porters in south Lebanon as saying the fighting centered around the vil lages of Deir Ntar and al-Sultaniyeh, about seven miles north of the fron tier, and Haris and Kafra, three miles farther north. It reported hand-to-hand combat in al-Sultaniyeh and said the Israelis pushed the guerrillas out of Kafra after a two-hour battle. The Lebanese security sources said Irish and Ghanaian troops of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, the peacekeeping troops known as UNIFIL, set up a score of check points in an attempt to halt the Is raeli thrust. But the Israelis used helicopters to leapfrog the roadblocks, and other troops in tanks and armored personnel carriers moved north ward along roads with no check points, the sources said. Faculty Senate approves part of core curriculum By SONDRA PICKARD Staff Writer The Faculty Senate adopted a for- ign language prerequisite and a peech and writing skills require- nent Monday in the first of several pecial meetings designated for mending the core curriculum pro- >osal. At this point, the senate is only oting on specific items in the core urriculum proposal, which has leen under scrutiny since February 1984. After the senators have fin- jhed this amendment process, a fi- lal vote will be taken on the existing iocument. Substitute motions to the entire proposal then will be consid ered and voted on. After passing through the senate, the finalized core curriculum propo sal must be approved by A&M Presi dent Frank E. Vandiver. If ap proved, only students entering the University after its passage will be af fected . One of the two items adopted Monday by the senate requires stu dents entering the University to complete two years of a foreign lan guage in high school or to demon strate proficiency in a second lan guage. Otherwise, they will be required to take two semesters of a foreign language once enrolled in the University. Sen. Murray Milford of the Col lege of Agriculture suggested an amendment from the agriculture caucus which would allow a student to substitute two courses “designed to develop understanding of non- U.S. cultures” for the foreign lan guage requirement. Milford’s amendment met with some support — many senators said that even after two years of a foreign language, a student will not necessarily be profi cient in that language, and that an understanding of another country’s culture would fulfill the intended purpose of the requirement. But the majority of the senators stressed that, although understand ing a non-U.S. culture is beneficial, exposure to the language of another country is a necessary part of a solid university education. One senator said that because people think in different terms in other cultures, an education is not well-rounded without a foreign lan guage, and Sen. Luis Costa of the College of Liberal Arts said it would be a mistake to try to perceive the rest of the world with only knowl edge of the English language. Sen. Chester Dunning, also of the liberal arts college, said it was evi dent to him that students in his Rus sian history courses who were famil iar with the Russian language often were more knowledgeable and ap preciative of Russian society than those who were solely interested in learning about Russian culture. The amendment failed and the foreign language requirement was passed as written in the proposal. In further action, the senate amended and passed the speech and writing skills requirement of the core curriculum proposal, which would require that a student take six hours of speech and writing, includ ing Engl 104 and one of the follow ing: Engl 210, 301, 325, 341; SCOM 103, 243, 403, 404; or a 200 level lit erature course to be selected from Engl 203, 212, 221, 222, 227, 228, 231 and 232. Specification of the 200 level liter ature courses, which was not in the original document, was proposed by Sen. Paul Parrish of the liberal arts college. Although Parrish’s amend ment passed, many senators voiced concern that specific courses men tioned in the core should be re viewed by an oversight committee before being placed in the final doc ument. Sen. Richard Shumway of the Col lege of Agriculture suggested an amendment from the agriculture caucus that would require “English 104, plus either a higher level En glish course with a strong writing component, a course in speech com munications, or a 200 level or higher level literature course,” but his amendment wasn’t passed.