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Photo by Jay Janner plates will be on ex- N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Lib ya sent Soviet-built bombers into Chad’s heartland Monday and French soldiers downed one of the Tupolev 22 jets with a missile near the N’Djamena airport, Chadian and French officials reported. Chadian officials said five bombs were dropped on Abeche, 450 miles east of N’Djamena, killing two civil ians and causing considerable dam age. One of two planes spotted over this capital city in a second raid was shot down before it could drop its bombs and the other turned away, they said. Libya said it conducted “success ful air raids” into Chad and acknowl edged loss of one plane. It cautioned civilian aircraft to skirt the danger zone and urged civilians to leave N’Djamena. Libya’s official JANA news agency said Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s gov ernment sent messages to the U.N. Security Council, the non-aligned movement and other organizations “informing them of the serious di mensions resulting from the direct participation by France and the U.S.A.” in the conflict. Defense Ministry officials in Paris confirmed that a French artillery unit based at N’Djamena downed the twin-engine, long-range bomber with a U.S.-made Hawk missile. A journalist at the scene said the Tupo lev exploded in a ball of green phos phorescent fire and fell slowly to the ground in pieces. Less than 48 hours before the raids, Chadian soldiers intercepted a Libyan column heading toward the northern Chad outpost of Ou- nianga-Kebir, routed it and pursued the retreating forces into Libyan ter ritory, seizing and destroying a ma jor Libyan base. It was the first time Chad’s army penetrated Libya in 14 years of war and territorial disputes with its northern neighbor. The army ap- parendy crossed the border in retal iation for the loss on Aug. 28 of Aouzou in northwestern Chad. President Hissene Habre’s troops in the past eight months have driven the Libyans nearly out of Chad. They seized Aouzou Aug. 8 only to lose it again three weeks later. Aouzou is the administrative capi tal of the disputed 43,000-square- mile Aouzou Strip that runs along the border. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi annexed the area in 1973 and his forces had occupied it since. Chadian officials said the units that moved into Libya would destroy the Matan-as-Sarra base and then pull out. They said the N’Djamena government had no intention of oc cupying Libyan territory. In its report on Monday’s action, JANA said the Libyan air force “launched successful air raids on the military air base of Abeche and N’D jamena airport following its trans formation into a military base receiv- ing continuous U.S.-Israeli reinforcements.” —Jackson announces plans to run for president Pittsburgh (ap) — jesse Jackson, 1 M 1 dechring he has a good chance of becom- 1 ing Amci Ira's first black president, said U 1 Monday hr will announce his candidacy for | the Democratic nomination on Oct. 10 and DOnaldP le,l K ed to campaign for “jobs, jobs, jobs, V/l 1 | peace and justice.” ® I “In a real sense. I’m trying to fulfill the •\NT f VERl ^ esI d* ,nens i° n °f the Constitution,” he said. “If I can in fact become president, in deed as (John) Kennedy became as a Catho- liclindeed as (Franklin D.) Roosevelt came iding in a wheelchair . . . every woman can, every man, boy and woman and girl can,” hp hplri Tfi ^ e | sa ttl on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning i u-T 0 ..,. America.” ^ISo in a real sense, I’m giving America a chance to make a choice to fulfill the high- RMNC be distribu' est and best of an authentic and honest de mocracy, ” he said. Jackson, who for months has been cam paigning around the nation as an unde clared candidate, said he will make his can didacy official in Raleigh, N.C., at the national convention of his Rainbow Coali tion. “We agree that what we need is not just a new occupant for the White House,” he said. “We need a new direction for our na tion.” “We need a government that cares, a president committed to the well-being of the American family who will protect them from the exportation of jobs and the impor tation of drugs.” Jackson, who in 1984 won primaries in Louisiana and the District of Columbia, be comes the most liberal in the Democrats’ sizable field of presidential contenders for 1988. He said his new campaign will work on broadening the party’s base of support, widening its “mainstream into a river,” in part by continuing his old theme of regis tering new voters. “The leadership of the Democratic party is going to be much fairer to me in part be cause I’m part of the leadership of the Democratic party,” Jackson said. “The party has recognized the errors of its ways in 1984,” he said. “It will expand and coalesce and win in 1988. We will work out any internal problems internally. My campaign must focus externally on jobs, jobs, jobs, peace and justice.” People should vote against him “if I do not make sense,” Jackson said. “But if one does not vote for me because I’m black, I’ll leave that in God’s hands be cause God made me that way and I’m glad about it,” he said. Jackson, relying heavily on his support from organized labor, formally disclosed his plans during a Labor Day Swing through Pittsburgh, Cleveland and New York City. He made his first announcement on ABC-TV from Pittsburgh, attended a Ro man Catholic mass at a racially mixed inner city church, and marched through a sup portive crowd of more than 5,000 people watching the city’s 100th Labor Day parade. From the pulpit at the Roman Catholic Church, the Baptist minister led pre-pa rade worshippers, including many laid-off steel workers, through a 10-point “Work ers’ Bill of Rights.” Jackson said workers have rights to a job, to union representation, a living wage, safe work place and pension security. He played to the local audience, saying American steel workers should not lose their jobs to for eign “slave labor.” Let us fight together and not one an other,” he said. embers. All^ sssary. The cM ical conditW 172; Scott AP 4 ration: Sept 0-8.30 PM S8.00 for non r, 845-7826 r a federal laws require A&M to release mformation about students to public By Clark Miller Staff Writer inf th f or an y business or organization km t requests students’ names, phone “^numbers, addresses, class schedules — even their parents’ names and ad dresses — A&M must comply to stay within the boundaries of federal law. fhe sex, race, date and place of re also avaW d or renewed semester. O an( ] class standing also is infor- me ^ ” P'. mat ion accessible to the public, ou do not na he Family Educational Rights mtil Septems an( | p r j vaC y ^\ ct of 1974 says univer sities have to divulge this informa tion to those who submit a written request and pay a fee. Waist BasW &./• I he University doesn’t advertise Itramural-neOHp service, but we have to comply 'lasses will t j t >> p exas a&M Registrar Don- J dents and Paid D. Carter said. after 5 Jaime Roman, a systems analyst in the A&M records department, said the University charges the busi nesses and individuals not associated with A&M a fee that covers A&M’s costs for labels and computer time. A&M only charges what the serv ice costs the University, or the serv ice would turn into a business, Ro man said. Students who don’t like the idea of this information being available can prevent the information from being released. Carter said students can go to the registrar’s office in Heaton Hall by Sept. 18 and fill out a form to block the directory information from be ing released. But students may be better off if they allow public access to this information, he said. “In some cases, withholding direc tory information can do more harm than good,” Carter said. After the information is blocked, even if a stu dent needs to be reached because of an emergency, he said, his address and phone number can not be given over the phone. Employers looking for a pros pect’s phone number also would be turned down if the student with holds that information, he said. Roman agrees that withholding information may not be to the stu dents’ advantage. “In the long run, it’s there to pro vide a service more than harm some body,” Roman said. Carter said students’ grades, test scores and social security numbers are not released. Roman said the kinds of people who use the directory information are companies that want to sell a product, people who are looking to hire someone and banks that want to offer credit cards to students. There are an estimated 50 to 100 requests for student directory infor mation each year by sources other than the University, he said. So if a student can stand the inevitable “junk” mail, there are benefits to having the information available, he said. Shiite kidnappers free West German hostage A/aist Basket' t ramural-ReP I asses Will be( DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Shiite dents and P Moslem kidnappers in Lebanon on after 5 pm, IKilpday freed one of their two West German hostages from seven p# months of captivity, and the Bonn government said Iran and Syria ^(played a role in the release. $36 Syrian army officers drove 47- 1 old en gi neer Alfred Schmidt to $3(1 Datnascus and turned him over to $30)Wast German diplomats. Kit’s wonderful to be a free man igain,” Schmidt said before he was aken to the airport for the flight home.“They didn’t mistreat me. ■The treatment was all right. I’m OK I want to see my family and ZOOM ► £ Read ► <3GRW » 6GRW ► 6GRW ► 6GRW 53t A West German air force trans- rt plane had flown to Damascus to ick him up. Schmidt was released at 4 a.m. in the slums of south Beirut, a strong hold of Iranian-backed Shiite mili tants. His captors, who call them selves the Holy Warriors for Freedom, indicated the agreement was worked out by Syria. Twenty-five foreigners remain missing in Lebanon, including eight Americans and Anglican church en voy Terry Waite. Most are believed held by Shiite kidnappers loyal to Iran. Terry A. Anderson, 39, is the hos tage held longest. The chief Middle East correspondent of the Asso ciated Press was abducted March 16, 1985. In Bonn, Foreign Ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobog said: “Iran and Syria both helped win (Schmidt’s) release. They both said they would help us and they did.” No information was revealed about the second West German hos tage, 53-year-old businessman Ru dolf Cordes. He was kidnapped Jan. 16, four days before Schmidt. The kidnappers had demanded the release of two Lebanese Shiites, Mohammed Ali Hamadi and his brother, Ali Abbas Hamadi, from jail in West Germany. Officials in Bonn said there were no plans to free the Hamadis. Alexander Prechtel, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office, said, “There were never any negotia tions to release the two Lebanese, and there are no plans to do so.” Spokesman Horst Siebert at Sie mens, the huge electronics company that employs Schmidt, said: “No ran som was paid by Siemens.” Mohammed Ali Hamadi, 23, was arrested at Frankfurt airport Jan. 13 while carrying liquid explosives in wine bottles. The United States wants him on murder and other charges in the June 1985 hijacking of a TWA air liner to Beirut during which U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was killed. His brother was arrested at Frank furt airport Jan. 26 on charges of in volvement in the Beirut kidnap pings, which occurred soon after the arrest of Mohammed Ali Hamadi. A third brother, Abdul-Hadi Hamadi, is Beirut security chief of the Iranian-backed militant Hezbol lah, or Party of God. He is widely be lieved to have planned the seizures of the two West Germans. In June, Bonn rejected a U.S. ex tradition request for Mohammed Ali Hamadi but said he would be tried on the charges in West Germany. Silver Taps ceremony to honor five students By Elisa Hutchins Staff Writer Silver Taps is one of Texas A&M’s sacred traditions. It will take place at 10:30 tonight at the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue in front of the Academic Building. The ceremony began in ^ 1898 to honor A&M stu dents that iad died, and traditions have been added over the years. During the 1920s the flag began being placed at half-staff due ling the day of Silver [Taps. At 10:15 p.m. chimes from the MSC tower will signal the start of Silver Taps. And at 10:30 p.m. the Ross Volunteer Firing Squad will march to the statue and fire three vol leys in a 21-gun-salute to the deceased students. Six buglers from the Aggie Band will play “Taps” three The buglers will play one time facing north, once toward the south and also to the west from the top of the Academic Building. At the conclusion of the music. Silver Taps also will be finished until the first Tuesday of the next month. For freshmen, transfer stu dents or students who have not attended before, this event should be treated with respect, and some observances from the Traditions Council should be made. • The area between the Sul Ross statue and the Academic Building is reserved for friends and family of the deceased. • Don’t stand or sit on the benches that line walkways be tween the flagpole and the statue. • The dark and quiet atmo sphere on campus at the late hour should be preserved.Try to keep noise to a minimum and don’t bring cameras or flash units. The names of the deceased are posted at the flagpole on the day of the ceremony.The first cere mony of this school year will honor five students who died since the last Muster was called on April 21. • Gordon Charles Prigoff, 22, a senior history major from Dal las, died April 22. • John Woolsey Sumner, 23, a senior agricultural engineering major from Itasca, died April 26. • Sarah Janeen Wagener, 20, a freshman general studies major form Robstown, died May 16. • Roy Arnold, 23, a senior ac counting major from Tomball, died May 28. • Douglass Michael White, 20, a senior English major from Aus tin, died Aug. 4. The purpose of the ceremony is to pay final tribute and to show A&M pride for the students who have died, because they are eter nal Aggies. Attendance at Silver Taps is not mandatory but go anyway — even if the deceased students weren’t friends or relatives. It is part of the campus and tradition of Texas A&M.