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ARE YOU A COMPOSER???
Page 8/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 8, 1986
If so, MSC OPAS would like to feature your
musical compositions in its Texas A & M Composers
Spotlight, on April 16 , as part of the J. Wayne Stark
Concert Series. Student compositions in any perform-
able medium are acceptable. For more information,
call 345-1661, or go by the MSC OPAS cubicle in
MSC 216.
J.t.
Concert Series
MSC SCONA 32
Student Conference on National Affairs
General Committee Member
Applications now Available
at secretary island, 216 MSC
Deadline: April 9
Great
seats still
available
for the
Houston
Ballet.
Some of the best seats in Rudder
Auditorium are still available for the
Houston Ballet s April 10th performance
of "Giselle". This is a special presenta
tion of MSC OPAS and is the culmination
of a two-day residency in Bryan-College
Station. Under the artistic direction of
Ben Stevenson, the Houston Ballet has
won international acclaim for its presen
tation of this enchanted myth of unre
quited love.
"Giselle" is your chance for the best
seats in the house. Spend the last
magical evening of the 1985-86 MSC
OPAS season enjoying this magnificent
performance of the Houston Ballet.
For ticket information, contact the MSC
Box Office, 845-1234. VISA and Master-
Card accepted.
World and Nation
Younger terrorists mark
struggle in Middle East
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — To
day’s “godfather of terrorism” is
sometimes 14 years old.
At that age, Tareq Same said, he
joined the Palestinian guerrilla
movement. He is now 17 — he
sucked hard on his Syrian cigarette
— and ready to die.
“I want to do a suicide mission.
With an explosives belt,” the skinny
boy in fatigues told a visitor. “It’s my
duty.”
His comrades, crowded into a
charcoal-heated room above the
muddy lanes of the Yarmouk refu
gee district, said they all knew of.
someone who carried out suicide at
tacks against Israeli troops in nearby
Lebanon.
And what of attacks on civilians,
like the Palestinian slaughter of
Americans and others at Rome and
Vienna airports last December?
“If the American administration
does not stop supporting Israel,” a
young guerrilla shot back, “we are
ready to do operations worse than
Rome and Vienna!”
Teen-age bravado, perhaps — but
of a dangerous variety.
Like the lone surviving terrorist in
the Rome attack, three of Same’s
companions said they lost family or
friends in 1982 when Palestinians at
Beirut’s Sabra and Chatilla camps
were massacred by Israeli-allied Leb
anese Christians.
And, like the Rome gunman, they
want to strike back, at almost any
one.
Such bitter desperation is bring
ing the Palestinian movement to a
fateful crossroads, said knowledga-
ble Arabs, Israelis and Westerners in
the region.
Combined with new political frus
trations within the Palestinian lead
ership, it could turn the guerrillas
again toward all-out international
terrorism, these diplomats and other
specialists said in recent interviews.
The latest split between Jordan
and Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liber
ation Organization, derailing efforts
toward an Arab-Israeli peace, has
left an atmosphere of utter hopeless
ness among Palestinians, one West
European ambassador in close touch
with the PLO said.
“Arafat’s opponents can now say
his policy of moderation was
wrong,” said the diplomat, who
granted an interview on condition of
anonymity, “and that terrorism, kill
ing innocents, is the only language
Israel and the United States under
stand.”
Since 1974, “establishment” Pales
tinian guerrilla organizations have
sought to distance themselves from
terrorist outrages committed by such
renegades as Abu Nidal, blamed for
the Rome-Vienna attacks. But the
larger groups are now feeling pres
sure.
“If we oppose operations like
Rome and Vienna, we will look weak
in the eyes of our people,” said
Khaled Abdel Majid, a leader of
Same’s guerrilla group, the Popular
Struggle Front.
The Palestinian guerrilla story, in
many ways, is the story of contempo
rary terrorism.
After King Hussein’s army drove
the guerrillas from Jordan in 1970,
depriving them of a vital base for at
tacks on Israel, they plunged more
deeply into global “armed struggle."
They shocked the world with
bloody “spectaculars” — skyjackings,
the Munich Olympics siege, the mas
sacre at Israel’s Lod Airport. They
became “godfathers” of terrorism,
training radical groups from Europe
and elsewhere.
But in 1974 the PLO, exploring
political avenues to peace, declared
it would confine future attacks to Is
raeli territory.
Gavin resigns as chief
of embassy in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Am
bassador John Gavin — who like his
boss went from the films of Holly
wood to the stage of politics — an
nounced his resignation Monday as
head of the largest American diplo
matic mission in the world.
Gavin said in a statement read to
reporters and Lf.S. Embassy staff
that he was leaving “to return to the
private sector and meet new chal
lenges.” v
In his letter of resignation, Gavin
said that although he had been
asked to stay on until President Rea
gan completes his term, his resigna
tion would take effect in mid-May.
‘It is particularly gratifying that
you have asked me to continue here
through the remainder of your
term,” said his letter to Reagan, who
was also an actor before entering
politics.
“I believe, however, that I have ac
complished the major tasks you set
for me. The time has come for me to
return to the private sector and to
meet new challenges.”
Gavin declined to answer ques
tions after reading the letter and his
statement.
Embassy officials said they had no
information on what Gavin would
do after leaving Mexico, and there
was no information available here
about who would be chosen as the
next ambassador.
He had headed a staff of about
1,200 U.S. and Mexican employees
at the embassy and nine consulates
throughout Mexico.
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One name that surfaced in
past as a possible successor
Harry Shlaudeman, one of Reagan’s
special envoys for Central America.
There had been speculation dur
ing Gavin’s tenure that he was inter
ested in other government jobs —
such as ambassador to the United
Nations or commerce secretary — or
that he was considering a run for the
U.S. Senate from California. Such
job changes never materialized.
Sources say
bomb could
have caused
crash in Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
possibility of a bomb having been
detonated aboard a Mexicana
Airlines plane that slammed into
a mountain and killed 166 people
last week has not been ruled out,
sources close to the investigation
of the crash said Monday night.
These sources, who spoke on
the condition they not be identi
fied, said investigators have de
termined that there was a fire to
ward the rear of the plane before
it crashed. They said the fire
could have been caused by some
thing other than an explosive.
On Friday in Beirut, a type
written statement signed by two
underground groups claimed re
sponsibility for the crash, but
there was no way to verify the
note.
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