Clements says Texans must
concentrate on state's future
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A&M seniors' Williams, Toney
anxiously awaiting NFL call
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The Battalion
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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 29, 1986
ioviets report nuclear reactor damaged
ue
MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet
pi said Monday that a nuclear
[dent damaged an atomic reactor
te Chernobyl power plant in the
l aine. Radiation reported up to
0 imes above normal swept across
Tand, Denmark and Sweden,
re than 750 miles away.
Judapest Radio in Hungaiy re
lied early Tuesdav that there
injuries from the accident and
I that the power plant was lo-
atdat the conjunction of two riv-
near the reservoir that supplies
iiu.acity of 2.4 million people and
(capital of the Ukraine.
The official Soviet news agency,
as, said only that people “af-
fd" were being aided, but did
not say whether there were injuries
or deaths, when the accident oc
curred, nor the exact location of the
plant.
Tass said it was the first nuclear
accident in the Soviet Union and a
government commission was ap
pointed, an indication that it was se
rious.
Lars Erik de Geer of Sweden’s De
fense Research Agency, said, “It
must have been a relatively big acci
dent, since we have received such
high levels of radiation from so far
away.”
He said the radiation levels corre
sponded to those recorded after nu
clear weapons’ tests in the atmo
sphere during the 1970s. “I know of
no earlier nuclear power plant acci
dent which has lead to such high ra
diation levels in this area,” he said.
Neither Hungary nor any other
Eastern European country, much
closer to the plant site than Scandi
navia, made public reports of radia
tion level increases.
“The increased Swedish levels
were between three and four times
the normal,” information director
Lennart Franzon at the Forsmark
nuclear plant north of Stockholm
told the AP.
In Finland the increased radia
tion, first noticed Sunday night,
were 10 times higher than those in
Sweden, said Gunnar Bengtsson,
head of Sweden’s Radiation and Nu
clear Safety Board. Danish and
Norwegian officials reported more
modest increases.
Franzon said an analysis of the ra
dioactive emission will take a few
days to conclude, but that a prelimi
nary report indicated graphite and
cesium 137 were present.
The Soviet acknowledgement of
the accident came many hours after
Swedish officials had started hunt
ing for the source of the increased
radiation levels, which were first dis
covered on Monday morning at a
routine check of a worker at the
Forsmark plant, 750 miles northwest
of Kiev.
Birgitta Dahl, Sweden’s energy
minister, said the Soviets were asked
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Looking Up
A bird soars toward the upper ramps of Texas A&M’s Kyle Field.
i mosecutor says consul knew of plan
t*hoto by Dean Saito
‘Libyans at embassy aid terrorists’
[ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Em-
jjloyees of Libya’s embassy supplied
and grenades with which two Li-
Bans planned to attack a U.S. mili-
Iry officers’ club in Ankara during
[wedding party, a prosecutor said
Monday.
Ifhe grenades were brought into
Jj iBurkey under cover of diplomatic
‘Titmmity, Ulku Coskun told The
jssociated Press in an interview. He
Would not elaborate, but said Ali
Zeyyani, Libyan consul in Istanbul,
knew of the plan.
Two Libyans identified as Ali
Ecefli Ramadan and Recep Muhtar
Rohoma Tarhuni, both 30, were
captured April 18 near the officers’
club in the residential district of Ga-
ziosmanpasa and questioned for
nine days.
They were arrested formally Sun
day and charged with conspiracy to
kill a group of people and illegally
bringing weapons into the country.
Authorities have said two Libyans
were seen loitering 45 yards from
the club the evening of April 18,
three days after U.S. air raids on Li
bya. They ran when police ordered
them to halt, tossing away a bag con
taining six hand grenades, and an
other team of police caught them
nearby.
The U.S. officers’ club in this
NATO-member nation was filled
with about 100 people attending a
wedding and just one of the Soviet-
for an extensive report and added:
“They should immediately have
warned us.”
She said initial inquiries drew the
response that Soviet officials were
not aware of a radiation leak, but she
said the questions probably led to
the unusual Soviet confirmation of
the accident.
“We must demand higher safety
standards in the Soviet Union,” she
said, and Sweden may insist that the
Soviet civil nuclear program be over
seen by the International Atomic
Energy Agency, a U.N. agency.
White House spokesman Edward
Djerejian said: “It.must be very se
rious if the Soviets talk about it.”
Soviet media seldom report natu
ral disasters or accidents unless inju
ries and damage are widespread.
The first, brief Tass announce
ment did not give details beyond say
ing, “Measures are being under
taken to eliminate the consequences
of the accident. Aid is being given to
those affected.”
A subsequent Tass report called it
the first such accident in the Soviet
Union, “although in other countries
similar incidents have occurred
more than once.”
Tass mentioned the 1979 accident
at Three Mile Island in Pennsylva
nia, the worst accident at a U.S. com-
See Soviets, page 6
Faculty Senate OKs
recommendations
to aid minorities
manufactured grenades could have
killed or injured half of them, Cos
kun said.
Coskun said the security court,
which handles terrorism cases, did
not press charges against two Li
byans picked up for questioning af
ter the initial interrogation of the
two suspects but they remain in de
tention pending possible future ac
tion. He identified them as Ali Ab-
dulhadi Shalmi and Bashir el-
Mabruk Ibrahim.
By Sondra Pickard
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate on Monday
unanimously approved recommen
dations that seek to improve the situ
ation of minority faculty and stu
dents at Texas A&M.
In spring 1984, the senate estab
lished the Senate Committee on Mi
nority Conditions with the objective
of monitoring and supporting equal
opportunity and treatment of mi
nority faculty and students at A&M.
After over two years of in-depth
research, the committee found the
minority situation at A&M inade
quate in several areas.
Sen. Stephen Fulling, professor of
mathematics and co-chair of the
committee, said, “This is our day to
put our money where our mouths
are. Today we present you with seve
ral resolutions to improve the status
of blacks and Hispanics on this cam
pus.
“The report is not the issue, but
the problem is in the report.”
According to the committee’s
findings, some recommendations of
the 1982 and 1983 President’s Com
mittee on Minority Committee al
ready have been implemented, but
the student and faculty minority
representation relative to all Texas
public senior institutions has de
clined and funding available for
scholarships to minority students on
the graduate and undergraduate
levels is no longer competitive.
The senate urges:
• That the Board of Regents ap
prove more funding and implement
the committee’s recommendations as
well as those of the president’s com
mittee.
• An appointment of a special as
sistant to the provost-vice president
for academic affairs whose primary
role would be to carry out the rec
ommendations unhampered by bu
reaucratic chores.
• An increase in the number of
minority graduate fellowships.
• An increase in the number of
minority undergraduate schol
arships, making them competitive
with those of the University of Texas
at Austin.
• That the attorney general be
requested to ask the U.S. Office of
Committee
suggests
changes in
tenure policy
By Sondra Pickard
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate Monday
heard a report suggesting a new,
broad set of criteria for evaluat
ing faculty members for promo
tion and tenure.
The senate also voted to ex
tend the landscape architecture
undergraduate program from
four to five years.
Since February 1985, the sen
ate Committee on Tenure and
Promotion has been working on a
set of suggestions they hope will
improve existing A&M policy on
faculty promotion and tenure by
giving faculty more individual
rights.
The committee is recommend
ing that the University expand its
traditional areas of evaluation —
teaching, research and service —
from three to five.
The two proposed areas are
dissemination of knowledge and
creative work and consulting and
practice.
Also, the committee hopes to
achieve a uniform evaluation
See Report, page 6
Education to reconsider the State of
Texas Plan’s minority counting tech
nique. The Texas Plan requires uni
versities to increase their minority
representation, but it mandates that
universities count only minority stu
dents who have graduated from
Texas public high schools or only
minority graduate students from
See Faculty, page 6
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Abu Nidal’s group claims It killed British
■ BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The radical
terrorist: group Abu Nidal claimed respon-
ibility Monday for killing a British tourist
in Jerusalem. In a separate development,
|vo Cypriot students were reported miss
ing in kidnap-plagued west Beirut.
Police identified the Cypriots as Panikos
irkides and Stavros Yiannakis, both 25, of
icosia. Both are engineering students at
the American University of Beirut.
They left together Monday morning
Jrom the New Hamra Hotel where they
lived in the Moslem sector of the Lebanese
lapital, but they never arrived at school,
olice said. By Monday night, no one had
ilaitned responsibility for taking the pair,
authorities said.
A hotel spokesman said late Monday
[hat neither of the two Cypriots returned
:o their rooms, where their passports and
residence permits were found. A school of
ficial also confirmed their disappearance.
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry said the
Netherlands was closing its embassy in
Moslem west Beirut because of the wave of
kidnappings and murders since the Ameri
can raids April 15 on Tripoli and Beng
hazi. All Dutch nationals are to be evac
uated from the Moslem sector.
At least 15 foreigners, including four
Americans, seven Frenchmen, one Briton,
one Irishman, one Italian and one South
Korean have been kidnapped or are miss
ing in Lebanon since 1984.
Earlier Monday, Abu Nidal’s group
claimed it killed British tourist Paul Ap
pleby in Jerusalem in revenge for the U.S.
air raids on Libya two weeks ago.
The United States blames the Palestinian
faction leader for the Dec. 27 massacres at
the Rome and Vienna airports, in which 20
people were killed, and accuses Libyan
leader Moammar Khadafy of harboring
him.
A typewritten statement delivered to a
Western news agency in Moslem west Bei
rut claimed that Appleby was on a spy mis
sion Sunday when gunmen of Abu Nidal’s
Fatah-Revolutionary Council shot him
down.
“The Monzer Kadry squad that operates
in the Jerusalem district has carried out the
death sentence against Briton Paul Ap
pleby in the heart of Jerusalem while he
was on an intelligence mission disguised
behind a false (tourist) pretense,” said the
terrorist statement, which was in Arabic.
Palestinian sources in Beirut said Kadry
probably was an Abu Nidal follower killed
in action, but they had no specific informa
tion about him.
According to the statement, Appleby’s
murder was “retaliation for the complicity
o the Thatcher government in the U.S. im
perialist aggression on Libya.” The refer
ence was to the British government of
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which
supported the U.S. raids.
It did not give the number of terrorists
involved, but said all “returned safely to
base.”
The statement was dated April 28 and
signed Fatah-Revolutionary Council, the
group Abu Nidal formed when he broke
with Palestine Liberation Organization
chief Yasser Arafat’s mainstream Fatah
guerrilla group in 1974. The PLO has sen
tenced him to death in absentia.
Two other terrorist groups believed
tourist
linked to Abu Nidal claim to have killed
three kidnapped Britons and an American
in the past two weeks in retaliation for the
raid.
The bodies of the American and two
Britons were found April 17 beside a
mountain road east of Beirut. A videotape
said to show the body of the other Briton
hanging from a gallows as delivered to a
Beirut newspaper last week, but no body
has been found.
Westerners fled the capital’s Moslem sec
tor because of the killings and most of
them left Lebanon. Diplomatic sources,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said
about 100 Americans, Britons, Frenchmen,
Italians, Swedes, Irishmen and New Zea
landers were evacuated in the past 10 days.