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Brigadoon
A national theater touring company performs
“Brigadoon” Wednesday night in Rudder Audito
rium. The show, sponsored by MSC Town Hal-
Photo by Michael Sanchez
1/Broadway, tells the story of two backpackers who
stumble upon a legendary city that rises from the
Scottish mist once every 100 years.
U.S. helicopters carry
Hondurans to border
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP)
— U.S. military helicopters with
American crews ferried Honduran
soldiers to a remote border area
Wednesday where up to 1,500 Sand-
inista troops were reported trying to
fight their way back to Nicaragua.
U.S. officials here said 14 heli
copters from Palmerola air base
were carrying infantry and artillery
units to the “Las Vegas salient”
about 120 miles east of the capital.
The salient is a triangular-shaped
area of Honduras that juts into Nica
ragua along the irregular frontier
between the two countries. It has
long been the site of a major camp of
the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels,
called Contras, who fight the Sandi-
nista government from bases in
southern Honduras.
Honduran military sources,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
said 1,500 Sandinistas crossed the
frontier last Saturday in pursuit of
rebels and were trapped inside Hon
duras by Contras who cut off their
retreat.
Other sources estimated the num
ber of Nicaraguan government
troops at 800 and said most probably
would slip through the net because it
was difficult to block all paths
through the jungled mountain ter-
But Frank Arana, a spokesman
for the largest Contra group, the Ni
caragua Democratic Front, said
Wednesday, “Everything is under
control. The invaders are not going
to return to Nicaragua. Our troops
have them surrounded.” He refused
to elaborate.
U.S. officials said about 100 Sand
inistas and 80 Contras had been
killed in four days of fighting.
Accounts of fighting could not be
verified independently. Honduran
military sources said soldiers were
ordered to keep journalists out of
the area.
Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista gov
ernment denies any incursion and
says the reports are designed to win
U.S. aid for the Contras.
The U.S. Senate was expected to
vote by Thursday on President Rea
gan’s proposal for $100 million in
military and non-lethal aid to the re
bels. The House of Representatives
See Sources, page 12
note still debating Contra aid plan
h27
nation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
§te on Wednesday inched to-
ard likely approval of President
sagan’s $100 million aid plan for
leftist rebels in Nicaragua after
Democratic leader said the White
otise “torpedoed” a bid to build a
)ai tisan compromise.
The Senate recessed until today
thout taking any further action on
bill.
Sen. James Sasser of Tennessee,
■ has emerged as a spokesman
iSenate Democrats on Central
iciican policy, said genuine pro-
ess had been made on forging a
nited position before Adm. John
HPoindexter, the national security
viser, appeared in Senate Majority
Leader Bob Dole’s office and inter
vened.
He said Poindexter vetoed an at
tempt to write into the aid plan a
guarantee of direct talks between
Washington and Managua, with no
pre-conditions.
“Adm. Poindexter appeared, and
he torpedoed the bilateral negotia
tions,” said Sasser.
He added that he believes the ad
ministration felt it need not compro
mise on the issue because its hand
was strengthened by reports of a Ni
caraguan raid into neighboring
Honduras and the hostile reaction
that caused in Congress.
But Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.,
chairman of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee, blamed Senate
Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd of
West Virginia for the failure to
reach a compromise.
Dole and Byrd met for more than
three hours with Lugar and Sasser.
Lugar said Byrd had insisted on
Congress being given a second
chance of blocking offensive weap
ons shipments to the Contras even if
the Sandinista government of Nica
ragua refused to negotiate in good
faith.
“Poindexter did not enter at flank
speed or at any speed, he just walked
in,” Lugar said. “The administra
tion’s thoughts are important to us,
but they did not veto anything. . . .
Adm. Poindexter cannot be blamed
for torpedoing anything.”
Sasser said he believes the admin
istration felt it need not compromise
on the issue because hostile congres
sional reaction to reports of a Sandi
nista raid into Honduras means the
president is “holding more cards
than yesterday.”
Sasser said Poindexter insisted
that talks between the United States
and Nicaragua were possible only if
Nicaragua first opened negotiations
with the Contra guerrillas, a step Ni
caragua’s Sandinista government
has refused to take.
Responding to questions, Sasser
said he believes there was an attempt
See Senate, page 12
U.S-Libya conflict
reaches stalemate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
military confrontation between
the United States and Libya in the
Gulf of Sidra settled into an un
easy standoff Wednesday with
the U.S. 6th Fleet primed for ac
tion against an enemy who did
not appear.
The Pentagon said ships and
planes from the U.S. naval battle
group continued to operate be
low Libyan strongman Col.
Moammar Khadafy’s “line of
death” in the gulf, but no Libyan
planes or patrol boats had ven
tured farther than 12 miles from
the North African coastline since
early Tuesday morning.
Navy jets and a missile cruiser
attacked four Libyan ships after
they ventured into the gulf or
Mediterranean Sea on Monday
and early Tuesday. The Penta
gon has said three apparently
were sunk and one was hit but
managed to return to Libyan wa
ters.
Late Wednesday, however.
Vice Adm. Frank B. Kelso, the
commander of the 6th Fleet, indi
cated to a small group of report
ers allowed on the carrier Sara
toga that there had been five
naval engagements. Kelso also
said he was not yet prepared to
claim that any Libyan boat actu
ally sank.
“There were two definitely se
verely damaged patrol boats and
we are continuing to evaluate the
others,” Kelso said.
Pentagon and White House of
ficials had said Tuesday they had
received preliminary reports of a
fifth engagement with a Libyan
boat but that there was insuffi
cient information to confirm it.
U.S. attack planes have con
ducted two assaults on a radar-
guided missile facility near the Li
byan town of Sirte. All of the mili
tary strikes were prompted by the
firing of at least six surface-to-air
missiles against U.S. planes as
they flew over the gulf on Mon
day, officials said.
At the State Department,
meantime, spokesman Charles
Redman said Libyan agents have
U.S. installations around the
world under surveillance and
may have targeted Americans for
terrorist attack in retaliation for
the gulf confrontation.
Robert Sims, the Defense De
partment’s chief spokesman, said
the American force continued to
operate Wednesday under orders
See U.S., Libyan, page 12
Government suing
General Dynamics
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
ustice Department filed suit
dnesday alleging that General
amics Corp. mischarged the
|ernment on a contract for the
oduction of the DIVAD anti
raft gun system.
he civil suit, filed in U.S. Dis-
:t Court in Los Angeles, sought
undetermined amount of
ney from General Dynamics,
i Defense Secretary Caspar W.
inberger said the gun per-
onned poorly in tests and
iceled the weapon system last
ugust.
From 1978 to 1980, General
amics mischarged costs of
fulfilling a contract for the pro-
tion of DIVAD prototypes to
certain overhead accounts, the
lawsuit said.
The complaint says the com
pany mischarged costs of fulfil
ling the fixed-price DIVAD pro
totype contract to independent
research and development, bid
and proposal, and general and
administrative overhead ac
counts.
The government pays a con
tractor a proportion of the costs
charged to these accounts in addi
tion to what it pays under specific
contracts.
The result, the suit said, was
that the company obtained over
payments to which it was not enti
tled.
See Government, page 12
Preregistration at A&M
Students can pre-schedule tali first summer session classes
By Brian Pearson
Senior Staff Writer
The Registrar’s Office is trying
something a little different for
Texas A&M preregistration starting
April 7.
Students can then register in the
Pavilion for fall, and first session and
10-week summer classes at the same
time. Students can’t register for sec
ond session classes until July 9.
Don Carter, associate registrar,
said summer fee statements will be
issued the day of preregistration and
must be paid before May 30. He said
fall fee statements will be mailed in
July-
Academic advising for students
will begin Monday. Students should
check the advising schedule within
their department.
The schedule for preregistration
is as follows:
• April 7 —
and seniors with
ning H-O.
• April 8 —
and seniors with
ning P-Z.
• April 9 —
and seniors with
ning A-G.
• April 10 —
names beginning
graduate students
last names begin-
graduate students
last names begin-
graduate students
last names begin-
juniors with last
E-K.
• April 11 — juniors with last
names beginning L-R.
• April 14 — juniors with last
names beginning S-Z.
• April 15 — juniors with last
names beginning A-D.
• April 16 — sophomores with
last names beginning H-O.
• April 17 — sophomores with
last names beginning P-Z.
• April 18 — sophomores with
last names beginning A-G.
• April 22 — freshmen with last
names beginning E-K.
• April 23 — freshmen with last
names beginning L-R.
• April 24 — freshmen with last
names beginning S-Z.
• April 25 — freshmen with last
names beginning A-D.
• May 5-16 — open preregistra
tion for all students.
It’s only 43 more days until grad
uation ceremonies begin.
The Registrar’s Office says 3,135
undergraduates and 745 graduate
students have applied for diplomas.
Students who will graduate May 9
at 2 p.m. include graduate students
(all masters and doctoral candidates)
and undergraduates in the colleges
of agriculture, architecture and edu
cation.
Undergraduates in the colleges of
engineering and geosciences will
graduate at 7:30 p.m. May 9.
Undergraduates in the colleges of
business, liberal arts, science and vet
erinary medicine will graduate May
10 at 9 a.m.
'andiver OKs creation of video yearbook at A&M
By Rodney Rather
Staff Writer
? i! tpcas A&M President Frank E. Van-
ver has authorized the creation of a video
jlbook, and Dr. Don Tomlinson, the
Ect’s adviser, says it is a pioneering ef-
1$ Tfie student-run project will be com-
jfll from June 1 - May 31, 1987 and
ICEPMo uld be available to the public by Sep-
^j-mber or October of 1987, Tomlinson
TUfl£%s.
e yearbook will be a two-hour tape
bging such activities as Fish Camp and
Mfctic events, but the entire scope the
pe may encompass is unknown because
jfeo yearbooks are so new, he says.
[“We don’t know exactly what it’s going to
have in it,” he says. “We’re going to have to
decide that as we go.”
Although the concept of the video year
book is different from that of The Aggie-
land, A&M’s print yearbook, Tomlinson
says the two publications should comple
ment one another.
“I think they will be complementary to
one another, and I think they will be at the
same time very different,” he says.
“I think you will get out your print year
book in years to come to look at it for the
very same reasons you bought it in the first
place,” Tomlinson says.
“And I think the video version will be
something that people will also want to get
out and look at in years to come for the
same reason they buy a movie on videotape
that they want to keep — because they want
to see it again at some later point,” he says.
Before the project was authorized Tom
linson, Dr. Ed Smith, head of the journa
lism department, and Don Johnson, coor
dinator of student publications, discussed
the idea several times and looked for places
that already had a video yearbook, Tomlin
son says.
Abilene Christian University produced a
video yearbook last year, but Tomlinson
says it’s not comparable to what A&M will
produce because ACU does not have as
many resources. He says he views A&M as
pioneering the field.
Because the video yearbook is new, esti
mating the number of people who will buy
it is difficult, Tomlinson says. But, he says,
5,000 to 10,000 video yearbooks would be
an excellent number to sell in the first year.
He says former students also are tar
geted as potential yearbook buyers.
“Former students at Texas A&M, or
anywhere else, buy very few print year
books,” he says. “We believe that former
students, especially Texas A&M former
students, will buy a lot of these (video)
yearbooks.”
He says students probably will be able to
buy the video yearbook the same way they
can buy The Aggieland — through the
check-off system at registration. The cost
would be included on the fee slip, Tomlin
son says.
The video yearbook will sell for $45,
Tomlinson says, but a student may pur
chase the video yearbook and The Aggie
land for $50. The Aggieland costs $20 if
purchased separately.
A student video producer will supervise
the project’s staff, Tomlinson says. The
producer will hire a chief cameraperson,
other camera operators and production as
sistants, he says.
Applications for the producer position
are available in 230 Reed McDonald. Dead
line is 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Qualifications for the position are an
overall 2.0 grade point-ratio at the time of
selection and during the term of office.