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■ AUSTIN (AP) — The U.S. Forest
\ Service agreed Thursday to a week-
long moratorium on destruction of
an East Texas forest while Attorney
General Jim Mattox determines the
environmental impact.
■ “The U.S. Forest Service agreed
to stop crushing the trees, which has
been going on seven days a week at
about 30 acres a day, and not to na-
i palm any of the crushed trees acre-
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■ Mike Lannan, supervisor for the
U.S. forest lands in Fexas, said, “We
felt it was quite a legitimate request.
i This will give him an opportunity to
look into it.”
■ Mattox told a news conference
Thursday that the Forest Service was
burning 2,600 acres of timber in the
Four-Notch area near Huntsville.
■“It reminds me of the old adage
about burning down the barn to get
rid of the rats,” Mattox said. “Now
thby’re burning the forest to get rid
of the pine beetles.”
■Lannan said stopping pine beetle
damage was not the reason for the
dearingof land in the area.
■“The operation is a cleanup be
hind the pine beetle infestation of
several years ago and to prepare for
reforestation,” Lannan said. “Pine
beedes are generally inactive at this
time.”
■Mattox said the Forest Service was
destroying hardwood trees along
with pines, and as a result destroying
wijdlife in that part of the Sam
H0uston National Forest.
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■‘They are using a 52-ton machine
to crush the trees, driving out va
rious kinds of wildlife, including a
type of woodpecker that is an endan
gered species in the forest area,”
Mattox said.
Hannan said the area being de
stroyed included a “few” hardwood
trees
Igl'All the trees in the area are being
removed,” Lannan said. “However,
we determined that about 30 per
cent of the area had a potential for
producing quality hardwood trees
and that area is not being treated at
all.’
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Grease Is The Word
A freshman “grease monkey” does a yell after
greasing up a perimeter pole on the bonfire site
Thursday. The oil is put on the perimeter poles
Photo by Alex Luke
so that support ropes can be pulled taut around
them and keep the centerpole in place until the
stack is completed.
OPAS to present
music and dance
in Festival of India
By Karl Pallmeyer
Staff Writer
The music and dance of India
will be presented at Rudder Audi
torium Monday at 8 p.m. when the
Memorial Student Center’s Opera
and Performing Arts Society pre
sents Festival of India 1986.
More than 30 performers, in
cluding dancers, singers and musi
cians, will be presenting various
folk dances, religious rituals and
tribal rites of India’s rich and varied
cultural heritage. Several classic
dances will be performed with the
traditional accompaniment of sitar,
tabla, bamboo flutes and other
exotic instruments.
Most of the dances that will be
performed have a deep religious
significance in Indian culture. “O-
dissi,” a dance that originated in the
Hindu temples of the Eastern In
dian state of Orissa, celebrates spiri
tual eroticism and mystic love.
“Purulia Chhau” features danc
ers wearing elaborate masks and
costumes that represent good and
evil. The dance shows the struggle
between the opposing forces.
A 12th-century martial art form
of Kalaripayattu combines fencing
and dance. Kalaripayattu requires
total control over mind and body as
the dancer performs with spears,
swords, knives and daggers. Only
masters of the art are allowed to
used the “urumi,” or belt-sword.
The “urumi” is a sharp, double-
edged sword four to nine feet long
that is flexible enough to be worn as
a belt.
One of the songs to be per
formed is “Qawwali,” a devotion
al song tied to the Sufi cult of Islam.
The song dates back to the 13th
century and is usually sung to
praise Allah or Sufi saints during
religous ceremonies.
Tickets are available at the Rud
der box office. Prices are $8.25 and
$10.25 for students and $9.50 and
$12.50 for non-students.
Before the performance, the
MSC Jordan Institute for Interna
tional Awareness will sponsor a free
program on the history of Indian
dance and music in 201 MSC at
6:45 p.m.
Speaker says Palestinians favor secular state
By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Staff Writer
The great majority of Palestinians
favor the creation of a secular state
in which both Israelis and Palestin
ians live together within the bounda
ries of present day Israel, a Palestin-
ian-American leader said Thursday
at Rudder Tower.
Dr. Mounit Bayyoud, who headed
the Dallas office of the Arab States
League from 1978 to 1982, said
most Palestinians consider the Pales
tinian Liberation Organization and
its leader, Yassir Arafat, to be the
only legitimate negotiators for them.
In the program sponsored by the
International Students Association,
Bayyoud presented a history of
Arab-Israeli relations from the Pal
estinian point of view, beginning by
tracing the origin of the Palestinian
people to a time before the creation
of the Hebrew state.
Bayyoud was born and raised in
Lebanon but moved to Palestine as a
young man in 1933, where he lived
until the creation of the Israeli state
in 1948. He taught mathematics in
Jerusalem and worked for the Brit
ish government there during World
War II.
Bayyoud said that at the begin
ning of the war, Zionist extremists
such as Menachem Begin stepped
up violent attacks against Palestin
ians and the British government in
an effort to force an Israeli state into
existence. The Bureau of Labor was
bombed three times while Bayyoud
was working there, he said.
About a month before the cre
ation of Israel, a small Palestinian
community was massacred by Jewish
extremists, he said. He said he re
members trucks driving through the
streets of Jerusalem, reminding Pal
estinians of the attack and warning
them to leave the country.
With the founding of Israel in
1948, Bayyoud moved back to Leb
anon, working as director of a Pales
tinian refugee camp for orphans.
Later he worked for the oil industry,
First in Lebanon and then in the Per
sian Gulf state of Qatar.
Bayyoud moved to the United
States in 1958. In later visits to Leb
anon, he said he was impressed by
the social system the Palestinians
built for themselves, including the
schools and welfare institutions for
the blind and the aged.
Bayyoud defended the PLO ad
ministration, saying the factional
contticts and kidnapping of Ameri
cans did not begin in Beirut until af
ter the 1982 Israeli invasion. This is
when the PLO was driven out of
Lebanon.
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Super seats to see
the SuperStar!
November 6
Rudder Auditorium/8 p.m.
Jesus Christ Superstar, the sensational opera that rocked the seventies, will open
the 1986-87 MSC Town Hall/Broadway Season.
Don’t miss this powerful production of the greatest story ever told. A few good
seats are still available. This “Superstar” combines spellbinding scenes with Broad
way’s most dazzling visual effects and unforgettable musical scores.
This season MSC Town Hall/Broadway will present “Romeo and Juliet” February
14, 1987, Cole Porter’s “Can-Can” March 1, 1987 and William Windom as
“Thurber” April 23, 1987.
Tickets for “Jesus Christ Superstar” are on sale at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234.
VISA and MasterCard accepted. Catch this Superstar!
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