mmmmm for pre to 5 p.K dnesdar — hursdar ■ tion and x^ensios May 15. m 10 sell tde avail' ■3051. m on iht 16 MSC U.S. military strike at Libya discussed during A&M forum — Page 3 Clements predicting victory over White in governor's race — Page 5 College hoop's top player forgoes senior year for pros — Page 9 HHHMMHBHHHnMMHHBnMHMSMMBMEMMraHBnHHnMnMHHMHUHMI The Battalion Serving the University community ays 82 graduating cadets will be Btmissioned Saturday by the utmost i 'Vrjny, 19 by the Air Force and 14 by res as tht the Navy and Marines. Commission- i facub nawill be at 1:30 p.m. in G. Rollie voices Wllite Coliseum. Tne first round of llyhand) finhl review will be at 3:25 p.m. and il goven thesecond round will be at 5:25 p.m. ig finger an [he Simpson Drill Field, ast vein. ’' r o the firs: : H* r ' Gordon Eaton, A&M’s pro- ^hn j y vosj and vice president for academic ernance i ^r rs ’ vv ’** speak at the graduation imoner :er F mon y Friday afternoon, and Dr. ^Wnk E. Vandiver, president of , ( \&M, will speak at the Friday eve- .‘ |nnii ! ling and Saturday morning ceremo- "Eithe: ties aid we fa nalism, and unite®" he schedule for graduation cere monies is: jw Friday at 2 p.m. — all graduate students and undergraduates in the (colleges of agriculture, architecture and education. i iids I® H Friday at 7:30 p.m. — under graduates in the colleges of engi (leering and geosciences. ■ Saturday at 9 a.m. — under graduates in the colleges of business iberal arts, science and veterinary medicine. —NASA officials: Short circuit may have shut down rocket )dd Bryan »Ordonez a Smelley ry Smalley Terri Riha irnardZee inch Ward I Porchard ony Moore teve Wolfe Won® Brad Ha l! Joel Tolart like Clayvft J. L. Baggez im Thomsen Jim Basses IaPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) JAn electrical shevrt circuit may |e prematurely shut down a Delta ejeet’s main engines on liftoff, orcing launch managers to order its ’ :struction, two top NASA officials id Monday. Bill Russell and Lawrence J. Ross d a news conference they did not w the origin of what Russell said re two “large amplitude spikes,” ower surges, during Saturday’s ted launch, but that they could rule out sabotage as one of the ibilities. Ross, the head of a newly named VISA investigative panel into the atest launch disaster, said all three remaining Delta launches this year would be postponed until after the investigation was complete. He also said he was “pretty sure” a May 22 launch of an Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying a military surveil lance satellite would be delayed. Russell, head of the space agency’s Delta project, called the detection of the electrical malfunction in a data analysis of the accident “quite a sig nificant find . . . that could be quite cogent to the problem.” He said the origin of the power surges were “apparently internally induced.” But he cautioned that “you don’t jump to conclusions” about where the electrical spikes came from or whether they were the cause of the engine shutdown. Ross said, “It’s the first thing that leaps up from the data,” but em phasized that the investigation would be a broad one. In response to questions about possible sabotage, such as a radioed command from an external source, Russell said that was unlikely, but added that, “We have not totally ruled out sabotage.” Ross said, however, “There is ab solutely no indication that the range See Rocket, page 8 Summit allies outline anti-terrorism steps TOKYO (AP) — The United States’ major Western allies, de nouncing “blatant and cynical” gov ernment use of terrorism, outlined on Monday several steps giving the Reagan administration the condem nation of Libya it sought, but with out endorsing the U.S. bombing raid or an oil boycott. French Foreign Minister Jean- Bernard Raimond, for example, said France stood by its policy of not al lowing U.S. warplanes to fly over its ' territory en route to military strikes f against Libya, and neither Italy nor West Germany, two large importers of Libyan oil, would go along with a boycott. Still, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the statement adopted at the economic summit sends Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy a blunt message: “You’ve had it, pal; you’re isolated.” The leaders of the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Italy and West Germany only dabbled in trade, currency and other financial issues during the second day of the summit as concern about surging terrorism and nuclear safety contin ued to dominate conversation. The anti-terrorism statement, adopted unanimously by the seven summit partners, would make it harder for those accused of terrorist activity — including diplomats — to cross borders. It also would ban the export of arms to terrorist states, advocate closing or limiting diplomatic mis sions of nations that support terror ism and impose tighter immigration and visa requirements. The statement expands upon measures adopted earlier by the 12- nation European Community, some times called the Common Market. Among measures not included in that earlier gesture are improved ex tradition procredures for bringing terrorists to trial and denying entry into a country of anyone even sus pected of terrorism, according to U.S. officials. And, while the measure does not specifically mention the use of force, U.S. officials said it doesn’t preclude that either. But by far the most important vic tory for the Reagan administration was the inclusion in the draft of a section stating that the sanctions would apply “particularly” to Libya. An earlier draft of the proposal did not name Khadafy’s country. U.S. sources, declining to be named publicly, said British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher led the move to toughen the draft as the summit. partners returned to the Akasaka Palace for talks. But the Reagan administration did not get all it wanted. Raimond told a news conference that “the policy of France has not changed” with respect to the over flights, insisting that “France has been neither anti-American or pro- Libyan.” The French government refused to allow U.S. F-l 11 jet fighters based in Britain to fly over French terri tory for the air raid on Libya — a de cision that brought severe criticism from both Reagan and Shultz. Raimond said, “Obviously Libya is not the only country that spreads terrorism, but the terrorist acts that have been the most calculated, car ried out with the most inspiration, were carried out by Libya.” But he also said that France and its West European partners were re luctant to take specific steps against Khadafy’s regime. “It was the Amer- See Summit, page 8 Countries agree to major revision of fiscal policies TOKYO (AP) — The world’s seven largest industrialized de mocracies on Tuesday embraced the first major revision in interna tional monetary policy in 13 years, agreeing to use a system of economic checks and balances to help stabilize currency exchange rates. The new system would estab lish a mechanism designed to keep the value of the U.S. dollar and other major currencies from wild fluctuations or at least from falling or climbing too far or too fast with respect to one other. Such currency swings have caused havoc for farmers and other exporters and have been a factor in last year’s $150 billion U.S. trade deficit. The plan, expected to be an nounced by the Tokyo summit Wednesday, was formulated by U.S. Treasury Secretry James A. Baker III. It is the first change in the ex change rate system since the old fixed-rate system was abandoned in 1973 in favor of the current “floating” exchange rate system, in which the values of various currencies move up and down according to market pressures. A senior Reagan administra tion official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, called the new plan one of “man aged float,” a cross between the current system and a reimposi tion of some government controls over currencies. The plan, which was widely cir culated among delegations to the Tokyo gathering even in advance of its release, calls for constant surveillance by the summit pow ers of each other’s economies and of exchange rate relationships be tween the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the West German mark, the Japanese yen and the French franc. The remaining two summit na tions — Canada and Italy — would be given limited mem bership in this so-called Group of Five for the purpose of coordi nating overall monetary and eco nomic policy among all seven summit members. In monetary parlance, the new group will be known as the Group of Seven, monetary officials said. Each summit nation would provide the others with a set of economic forecasts and expecta tions. When actual performance missed the mark on any of these economic indicators by a wide margin, the group would meet to coordinate monetary strategy. U.S. officials have said the pro posal builds on the kind of coor dinated multi-nation intervention in currency markets by the Group of Five that helped bring the dol lar more in line over the past few months with other market cur rencies. A Japanese official, who spoke only on the condition of anonym ity, said that the impact of the new policy-coordination mech anism will probably have little im mediate effect on trade. But he said from the medium and long- range standpoint, the system will serve to stabilize major curren cies. mpia Pravda gives account of Chernobyl disaster ■ MOSCOW (AP) — The Com- ! munist Party newspaper Pravda said Tuesday that an explosion ripped apart the building that housed Chernobyl’s No. 4 nuclear ■actor and the resulting fire shot flames nearly 100 feet into the air. H It was the first detailed Soviet report on what happened at the fflkrainian nuclear power plant Hpril 26. The accident sent an in visible cloud of radioactivity over most of Europe. I The article scheduled for T ues day’s edition of Pravda was distrib uted in advance in English by the official Tass news agency. H It said the fire “is extremely dif ficult” to extinguish, since chemi cals and water cannot be used, but iqsisted the crisis at the plant was under control. M Pravda said residents of the plant area were evacuated within four hours after the accident be gan. It did not say when the acci dent occurred, but previous re ports have said the fire began April 26. ■ Tass said the Pravda article was written by correspondents from the newspaper who visited the plant and its settlement of Pripyat, w hich once housed 25,000 energy, construction, chemical industry and river port w'orkers. It said Pripyat now is empty, and “only a specialized radiation monitoring vehicle appears on the streets from time to time.” Pravda said workers, presu mably wearing protective suits, still manned the three undamaged re actors at the plant, which have been shut dowm but must be mon itored. In its dramatic depiction of the accident, Pravda said at the begin ning “an explosion destroyed structural elements of the building housing the reactor and a fire broke out.” Television footage and one black-and-w hite photograph made public by the official media have show n the explosion ripped a wall and the roof off the reactor build ing, w hich is separated by a tower from a “twinned” reactor in an at tached structure. Administrators' views of group mixed Vandiver pushed for senate Editor's note: In this, the second of a three-part series on Texas A&M’s Faculty Senate, A&M administrators discuss the senate’s role and effec tiveness. By Sondra Pickard Staff Writer No rule requires Texas A&M to hhve a Faculty Senate, but the cur rent University administration, while not always agreeing with its ac tions, has been sympathetic toward the senate. Because it makes only recommen dations, not policy, the senate is de pendent on receptive attitudes from above. All of its actions, whether proposals or resolutions, go directly to the president’s office for appro val. When A&M President Frank E. Vandiver first came to A&M, he said he found it necessary in an institu tion of this size and scope to know' exactly what the faculty wanted. “When I got here I couldn’t find out what the faculty’s opinion on things was,” Vandiver said, “and most institutions of our interest and ambition have faculty senates.” Vandiver was largely responsible for getting a faculty senate at A&M. “I’ve always believed the faculty is the essence of an institution,” he said. “It is the academic conscience of a university.” Vandiver put the issue of core curriculum to the senate a fev/ years ago, and he said he thinks the senate came through in a remarkable way. “They assumed the role a faculty should in deciding what an educated person ought to be,” he said. “I’m very fond of the senate and I intend to rely on them constantly in the fu ture.” Although not as directly involved with the senate’s actions, Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen said the senate has been off to a good start. But Hansen said it still will take a while for the senate’s impact to be felt. “There has to be a learning curve in order to see w'hich committees are most effective and what’s the best way to help formulate policy, and that takes time,” Hansen said. The main problem the senate faces, he said, is the de elopment of more efficient methods to make it more effective, which also is part of the learning curve. Hansen agreed with Vandiver that the most significant step to date is the formation of a core curriculum proposal, but he said the senate’s most important role is to provide a forum for faculty to discuss prob lems among themselves. “That one function by itself is enough justification for the Faculty Senate to continue on,” Hansen said. Further up the hierarchy is the Board of Regents. So far there has been little interaction between the senate and the regents, but Dr. Mur ray Milford, the senate’s second speaker, said this is because there’s a very important difference between the two: The board makes final deci sions — the senate doesn’t. “I think the Board of Regents ini tially had some considerable reserva tions about the formation of the Fac- ulty Senate,” Milford said. “However, the vibes I’ve received, at least in the past year, have been very positive.” Milford said that because A&M is a system of strong traditions, any kind of change causes concern. He said some members of the board may have seen the Faculty Senate as an attempt by the faculty to make a power grab. Although the senate is an advisory body, Milford said it has just as much interest as the Board of Re gents in seeing that the University becomes the premier institution it wants to be. Dr. Jaan Laane, current senate speaker, said any collaboration be tween the the two groups is not part of official procedures. “In past history it has been rare for the Board of Regents to interact with anybody except the top admin istration,” Laane said. “The direct contact is with the chancellor’s office and sometimes the president and vice presidents. “Sometimes we read about each See Senate, page 8