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2315515 Hi 82 No. 212 GSRS 045360 16 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, September 19, 1986
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tlRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A lone
pin using a silencer-equipped
killed the French military at-
outside the French Embassy
jifsclay. It was the latest of a series
rorist attacks on French targets
and in Paris.
Alonymous telephone callers in
ton and France claimed re-
ibility for the assassination in
ante of two obscure groups and
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if just Sl.oaA •.■Bed in France.
tSchulmsn8 , ‘ p,|i ce sa i ( | (; () | Cibristian Gon-
llad P a| hed his car near
46Flench Embassy in Christian east
NlGHTi In. at 8:30 a.m. and was about to
[cSF eHout when the gunman ap-
ijoat hed him.
Hey said the attacker shot Gou-
Tre ihree times in the head with a
■er-eqnipped pistol and escaped
waiting green BMW. Police de-
■d the gunman as a tall, dark-
Jjlexioned man, believed to be in
late 20s.
butierre had parked his car out-
the embassy’s security zone,
[extends 100 yards around the
■story building and is patrolled
ibassy guards and Lebanese po-
Tiere was no immediate expla
in why he did not park in the se-
zone.
Hitierre had been stationed in
Jt since October 1084.
lance, like most Western coun-
■ moved its embassy to Christian
|Beirut from the Moslem west
ern sector two years ago because of
frequent kidnappings and bomb
ings. Switzerland and Greece are the
only Western countries that still have
embassies in west Beirut.
The first claim of responsibility
came f rom an anonymous telephone
caller to a Western news agency in
Beirut. He said the assassination was
carried out on behalf of the Revenge
and | ustice Front.
“Let (French Prime Minister Jac
ques) Chirac know our next blow will
be more crippling,” said the caller,
who did not say what the group
wanted.
Later, a caller to a Western news
agency of fice in Paris claimed the at
tache had been killed by Anti-Impe
rialist International Brigades “revo
lutionaries.”
That group name was used before
in rocket and bombing attacks last
May on the U.S., Japanese and Ca^
nadian embassies in Indonesia.
Tubular
Members of the Aggie Band practice marching formations Thursday
on their drill field in preparation for this weekend’s halftime show.
Photo by John Makely
1 he Aggie football team faces off against North Texas State Univer
sity Saturday at 6 p.m. at Kyle Held.
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Senate approves deferred-payment bill
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AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate nar-
rowly approved a bill Thursday that
would delay until February the first
payment this fiscal year of $860.5
million to the state employee and
teacher retirement systems.
The proposal was approved 2T5,
barely the two-thirds needed to put
the measure into immediate effect if
it also clears the House by a two-*
thirds.margin.
Rep. Kent Caperton, D-Bryan,
was one of the 21 in favor of the bill.
The proposal would become ef
fective only if the current special leg
islative session enacts a tax bill.
John Traveger, D-Seguin, spon
sor of the legislation, said, “That is
one of the most important facets of
the bill.”
Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena,
said, “Not that I think it’s best solu
tion . . . but I think it may be the only
one of the major solutions we have at
hand that will work and get out of
this rather serious trap we re in.”
State payments from February
through August 1987 would be pro
rated for a 12-month period.
At the end of that period, the state
also would pay a minimum of 8 per
cent interest on what the payments
would have earned in interest had
they not been deferred.
The delay of retirement payments
is one of several measures designed
to avoid state checks bouncing later
this year as lawmakers try to cope
with a projected budget deficit of
$2.8 billion.
Traeger said earlier the bill would
not have any effect on current re
tirement benefits or benefits for em
ployees thinking about retiring.
In other action Thursday, the
Senate:
• Approved 27-0 a bill that would
require payment of a 25-cent fee
each time a person brings beer and
liquor into the state. The Legislative
Budget Board estimated the bill
would raise $600,000 to $750,000 a
year, with the money going for state
enforcement of import restrictions.
• Approved ori voice vote a reso
lution urging the Texas congressio
nal delegation to change a federal
tax proposal that would eliminate
the deduction of the state sales tax.
:ors must
e moved
“ rch from lots
To provide extra parking space
or the Texas A&M football team’s
line opener, students need to
their vehicles from nine cam-
arking lots by 10 a.m. Satur-
aid Bob Wiatt, director of secu-
nd traffic.
JJIJ the Athletic Department has re-
■ i liHted that those vehicles not
in noved by the Saturday morning
II ll| ' ne 136 “ r e-positioned” by a tow
II llruck, Wiatt said.
Wiatt said those parked in the fol
ding lots must move their vehicles
risk the consequences: PA 37, PA
,PA 48. PA 49, PA 56, PA 60, PA
VA 63 and PA 69.
Aquino seeking peace
Filipinos Vill fighf if rebel negotiations fail
WASHINGTON — Philippine
President Corazon Aquino, in a
speech to a joint session of Con
gress, pledged Thursday to take
tip “the sword of war” if peace
making with communist rebels
fails.
Aquino, in the seventh month
of her leadership of a major U.S.
ally which was led for more than
20 years by Ferdinand Marcos,
offered thanks for the role Con
gress played in changing U.S.
policy toward her country.
Within hours of her speech,
the House passed 203-197 a bill
giving the Philippines a $200 mil
lion cash infusion to help 'deal
with economic distress. The mea
sure was sent to the Senate, where
. prospects for approval were un
certain.
Aquino underscored her policy
of negotiating with, the Commu
nist New People’s Army guerrilla
movement but said, “I will not
stand by and allow an insurgent
leadership to spurn our offer of
peace and kill our young soldiers
and threaten our new freedom.
“We face a communist insur
gency that feeds on economic de
terioration, even as we carry a
great share of the free-world de
fenses in the Pacific,” she said in
her only reference to U.S. mili
tary bases in the Philippines.
Invoking the name of Presi
dent Abraham Lincoln, Aquino
said, “I understand that force
may be necessary before mercy.
Like Lincoln, I don’t relish it, yet
I will do whatever it takes to de
fend the integrity and freedom of
my country.
“I must explore the path of
peace to the utmost, for at its end,
whatever disappointment I meet
there, is the moral basis for laying
down the olive branch of peace
and taking up the sword of war.”
Aquino is on a nine-day official
visit to the country where she
lived for 10 years, first as a stu
dent and later in exile until her
husband was assassinated on his
return to Manila. She is to ad
dress the United Nations in New
York on Monday.
Rehnquist seeks
end to controversy
over nomination
to the Renovations estimated at $4.4 million
Range
I Duncan Dining Hall to get facelift
By Bob Grube
Staff Writer
ket
casket
in adult Bter 47 years of faithful service
0f and Octofc: g the Corps of Cadets, Duncan Din-
igjHall is getting a well-deserved
acelift.
lie estimated $4.4 million con-
■ffuciion job will begin at the end of
RQfl 1/’ ln l exams week in December, and
030- ■)u| can vv ju p e c | osef i un til Spring
Moffatt Adams, a chief architect
jhe Facilities Planning and Con-
pitftion Department, says that after
Me novations are completed 2,200
Kfits coitld be served in 10 min-
ites,
■his new, innovative service was
elopec) by the Food Services De
tent,” Adams says, “and there’s
Bing (ike it in the country —
ybe in the world.”
0 ''Tr 16 wa T cac > ets are fed will be the
Test change at Duncan, he says,
ey currently are fed family style,
ith bowls of food on the table in
om of them. This style of eating
jh.s very little food variety to the
jets, Adams says.
“H you don’t like what they serve
r if you’re on a diet, you’re out of
n'C6 CUStOlrt 1 ck," he says.
The new serving system will be
rssi
ount
ion-
faster and offer a large variety of
foods, such as fried chicken, ham
burgers and pizza.
“Our youngsters are accustomed
to fast food and fast service,” Adams
says. “They know what they want
and now they will get it.”
The closing of Duncan will pre
sent the problem of where to feed
the 2,200 cadets. While no decision
has been made about where to feed
the Corps, Lt. Col. Don Johnson says
one will be made soon.
“We want the students to be aware
that they are going to have to work
together because there will be 2,200
more people eating in the Commons
and Sbisa dining halls,” Johnson
says.
Some of the funds for the renova
tion are coming from the Food Serv
ices Department, but at least $3 mil
lion is coming from interest earned
on non-pledged auxiliary enterprise
accounts.
Auxiliary enterprise accounts, like
the bookstore in the Memorial Stu
dent Center, are not connected with
the instructional part of the Univer
sity. The interest earned on these ac-
counts may be used for self-support
ing entities of the University, such as
Food Services.
Available University Fund monies
can’t be used for the renovations be
cause the Food Services Department
is self-supporting.
Adams says lack of food variety is
not the only reason for the renova
tions.
“Duncan Dining Hall has been op
erating at a loss the last few years,”
Adams says.'“A lot of food is wasted
because it’s not eaten. If it’s not
eaten, it is thrown away. The new
serving system will stop the waste.”
The dining hall will greet the
Corps with more than just a re
vamped serving system when its
doors reopen.
A lighted, high-tech menu will tell
the cadets what each line is serving,
Adams says.
There will be two connecting din
ing rooms because the serving area
will be between them, he says. For
years, cadets in one room have been
separated from the cadets in the
other dining room.
The kitchen will be reworked and
a new public address system will be
installed, he says.
A new tray collector that accepts
trays from many openings and then
stacks them has been developed by
the Food Services Department and
Food Services consultants, Adams
says. The machine will save time by
make busing of trays obsolete.
“The objective of this new system
is not just fast service,” Adams says.
“When 2,200 cadets get served at the
same time, they’re going to finish
eating at the same time too. We have
to be able to clear them out as fast as
we serve them.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — William
H. Rehnquist, saying he is looking
forward to his new job as chief jus
tice, sought Thursday to set aside
the bitter controversy sparked by his
promotion.
“I’m not going to address myself
to the past.” Rehnquist told report
ers the morning after his 65-33 vic
tory in the Senate. “I’m glad the con
firmation process has finally run its
course. I’m looking forward to the
future and trying to be a good chief
justice.”
Antonin Scalia, the federal ap
peals court judge who won unani
mous Senate approval to become the
newest Supreme Court justice, re
fused comment Thursday.
Both men are to be sworn in offi
cially on Sept. 26, just three days be
fore the Supreme Court begins a
weeklong conference to prepare for
the start of its 1986-87 term.
While Scalia’s nomination sailed
through the Senate, getting 98-0 ap
proval, Rehnquist’s was subjected to
prolonged scrutiny. Democrats as
saulted his integrity and commit
ment to equaljustice.
He drew the most negative votes
in history of any Supreme Court
nominee to win confirmation.
Rehnquist, 61, has been the
court’s most politically conservative
member but Scalia, 50, generally is
regarded as just as fervent a conser
vative.
Both men win high marks from
those who know them best for their
conviviality and intellect.
But whether President Reagan’s
elevation of Rehnquist and appoint
ment of Scalia will have any substan
tive effect on the Supreme Court’s
decision-making is far from clear.
Reagan was quoted by Senate Ma
jority Leader Bob Dole as calling
Rehnquist’s opponents “a lynch
mob,” and in a statement released by
the White House the president
added: “The attacks came from
those whose ideology runs contrary
to his profound and unshakeable be
lief in the proper constitutional role
of the judiciary.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said
Democrats had conducted “a Rehn-
quisition” marked by distortions and
misrepresentations.
But Democrats noted that Scalia
and Reagan’s only other Supreme
Court nominee, Sandra Day O’Con
nor in 1981, won unanimous confir
mation.
Liberal arts
enrollment
up at A&M
By Mike Sullivan
Staff Writer
Texas A&M’s official fall en
rollment of 36,561, up 886 stu
dents from last fall, reflects large
enrollment increases for the lib
eral arts and business colleges.
Dr. Candida Lutes, associate
dean of the College of Liberal
Arts, said the 60G-student in
crease in that college is not sur
prising.
“There are publications com
ing out all the time with articles
about how much CEOs (chief ex
ecutive officers) like liberal arts
majors,” Lutes said.
She said fewer students and
parents are fearful of liberal arts
degrees, and as a result, enroll
ment in that college has been in
creasing steadily in recent years.
The College of Business Ad
ministration has 300 more stu
dents than last year, and graduate
student enrollment increased by
279 students.
There also are 500 more
women at A&M this year, which
brings total enrollment for
women to an all-time high of
14,678, about 40 percent of the
student body.