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BYU’s Detmer,
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The Bolshoi Ballet-Grigorovich Company has captivated audi
ences with their premiere this weekend just as Texas A&M has
captivated the company, interpreter Ellen Zelidin {above left)
translates for Oksana Konobeyeva who plays Marie and Dmitry
Tuboltsev who plays the Nutcracker Prince while they look at a
group of pictures of the dancers in The Battalion. (Left) Dancer
German Rubchikhin smokes an American cigarette backstage
after Friday’s debut. Tickets are still available for performances
this week. The MSC Box Office has more information at 845-
1234. For complete coverage of the world premiere, please see
pages 4 and 5.
Walesa leads
Polish election
Polls predict runoff
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech
Walesa, who united Poles in their
struggle against communism, won
the initial round in Poland’s first
popular presidential election Sun
day but appeared headed for a run
off, according to state TV exit polls.
The Solidarity chief had 41 per
cent of the vote, a 2-to-l lead over
Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki
and political unknown Stanislaw
Tyminski, according to the polls.
The polls indicated Mazowiecki
and Tyminski each had 20.5 percent
of the vote, far ahead of the remain
ing three candidates.
It was a stunning setback for Ma
zowiecki, a former Walesa ally who
instituted unpopular economic aus
terity measures after taking Poland’s
first postwar non-Communist gov
ernment.
Pollsters questioned every 20th
voter at 404 polling places around
the country, or up to 15,000 people.
The results were issued on nation
wide TV minutes after the polls
closed at 8 p.m. (1 p.m. CST) Sun
day.
The poll indicated that farmers,
who represent 40 percent of Polish
society, deserted Mazowiecki en
masse.
Only 4 percent of the farm vote
went to the prime minister, accord
ing to the poll. Farmers have been
angry at the abolition of guaranteed
prices for their produce under the
government’s shock economic re
form plan.
If no one wins 50 percent in the
vote, a runoff must be held between
the two top vote-getters Dec. 9.
At Mazowiecki national headquar
ters in Warsaw, a spokeswoman said
Walesa seemed far ahead in several
areas around the country but that
supporters were not discouraged.
Walesa himself expressed opti
mism after voting in Gdansk with his
wife, Danuta, and their second son,
18-year-old Slawek.
“I voted for the candidate who is
supposed to win,” he said, smiling.
“Tyminski conducted
an American-standard
campaign, breaking
every rule.”
— Ryszard Legutko,
political commentator
Mazowiecki walked to the polling
station in his central Warsaw neigh
borhood, accompanied by his
daughter-in-law wheeling his 4-
month-old granddaughter in a strol
ler.
“I am happy it stopped raining.
Otherwise the turnout would have
been much worse,” said the prime
minister, the East bloc’s first non-
Communist head of government.
Tyminski had been considered a
dark-horse candidate. An emigre
businessman, he returned to Poland
this fall after 21 years in Canada and
Peru.
“Tyminski conducted an Ameri
can-standard campaign, breaking
every rule,” political commentator
Ryszard Legutko said on state tele
vision. During the campaign he was
accused of slander for charges that
Mazowiecki had committed treason
against the nation.
The new president will take over
from President Wojciech Jaruzelski,
the Communist general who or
dered martial law to crush Solidarity
and imprisoned Walesa and Mazo
wiecki in December 1981.
He also is expected to receive the
symbols of authority from the still-
existing World War II government
in exile in London, which never rec
ognized the Soviet-backed state.
Walesa, 47, is the charismatic
leader of Solidarity, the first inde
pendent labor federation in the So
viet bloc, which led the anti-Commu-
nist rebellion. He contends even
more reforms are needed more
quickly or a social explosion is com
ing.
History professor chosen for Advisory Committee
By TROY HALL
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EILAT, Israel (AP) — A lone
gunman slipped across the Egyptian
border Sunday and fired an auto
matic rifle at a bus and three military
vehicles, killing four Israelis and
wounding 27, the army said.
The attack was the third from
Arab territory in two days. At least
four Palestinian guerrillas were
killed and two Israeli soldiers in
jured in other incidents in Israel’s
self-declared security zone in south
ern Lebanon and off the Mediterra
nean coast.
The dead in the border attack,
three soldiers and a civilian bus
driver, were shot on a road running
along the Israeli-Egyptian border
about 15 miles northwest of the Is
raeli Red Sea resort of Eilat, the
army said. It said most of the
wounded were civilian workers at an
Israeli air base.
The gunman, who was described
as wearing a uniform, escaped back
into Egypt. He was shot by an Israeli
security guard and trailing blood,
the army said.
An Israeli army patrol chased
him, firing, but did not pursue him
across the frontier, the army said.
A senior Egyptian security source
in Cairo said an Egyptian border po
liceman stationed in the area had
been arrested as the suspected assail
ant.
Israel army radio said the assail
ant’s blood-stained flak jacket with
“Allah” written on it was found in
the area. It said the attack was
claimed by the Moslem fundamen
talist group Islamic Holy War-Jeru-
salem in a statement issued in Am
man, Jordan.
Israeli and Egyptian reports said
the attacker was armed with the So
viet-designed Kalashnikov assault ri
fle.
The gunman fired intermittently
for about a half-hour as vehicles
drove along the road, the national
news agency Itim said. Apparently
he remained undiscovered because
drivers were unaware of what hap
pened or thought a traffic accident
had occurred.
Egypt and Israel have been at
peace since 1979, and the border is
less heavily defended than other Is
raeli frontiers.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
called on Egypt to capture and pun
ish the assailant and to prevent fur
ther attacks.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat
Abdel-Meguid called the attack
“very regrettable” and said he hoped
it would not affect relations between
the two countries.
Also Sunday, a pipe bomb ex
ploded at a bus stop Jerusalem but
no one was injured, police said.
A Texas A&M University history
professor recently was appointed to
serve on the Advisory Committee on
Naval History.
Dr. Betty Unterberger was se
lected from distinguished U.S. histo
rians, librarians, curators and ar
chivists to serve on the nine-member
committee.
The selection process took about
three months, Unterberger says.
“Nominees had to fill out many
long and involved forms to be sure
there are no competing business in
terests or anything that might impair
objectivity,” she says.
Although Unterberger has not re
ceived all the information concern
ing her committee duties, she relates
this appointment to other distin
guished committees on which she
served in the past.
While serving on the Historical
Advisory Committee to the Depart
ment of the Army and Department
of State, Unterberger advised the
committee about many different
topics.
“I really did a lot of advising and
the advice was seriously considered
by the committee,” she says. “I was
usually sent a great deal of material
before meetings so I could familiar
ize myself with issues and problems,
so I could be in a position to offer
suggestions and advice.”
She has been particularly inter
ested in declassifying government
documents since graduate school.
While serving as chairwoman of
the U.S. State Department Historical
Advisory Committee, Unterberger
labored to secure legislation making
government documents more acces
sible.
“The year I chaired the state de
partment committee was the year
the Department of State introduced
a totally new program of declassifi-
“I really did a lot of
advising and the
advice was seriously
considered by the
committee.”
— Betty Unterberger,
history professor
cation,” Unterberger says. “The pro
gram was onerous, and I knew it
would seriously inhibit the efforts of
scholars to do research on American
foreign relations about issues that
were of crucial importance.
“I spent a great deal of time mak
ing every effort to try to modify the
process so it would not be so oner
ous, so there would be greater op
portunity for scholarly access to im
portant documents.”
She says she believes the Freedom
of Information Act has not helped a
great deal to secure more rapid de-
classification or broader declassifica
tion of government documents.
She also says scholars and journal
ists could write more authentic work
if they had access to these important
documents.
Unterberger says she hopes her
appointment to the Advisory Com
mittee on Naval History will put her
once again in a position to influence
changes in the declassifying process.
She says she believes the same
problems obtaining government
documents will arise while on the
Advisory Committee.
Unterberger’s interest in interna
tional history has earned her a repu
tation as a prolific international
writer.
Her newest book, “The United
States, Revolutionary Russia and the
Rise of Czechoslovakia,” published
by the University of North Carolina
Press, has been well received by his
tory experts in both Czechoslovakia
and the Soviet Union.
Dr. Betty Unterberger
“I received a letter from the Soviet
Union, which had indicated they
were very impressed with it, and
they were going to immerse them
selves in it for ‘purposes of self-crit
icism,”’ she says.
She says her latest book has gener-
JAY JANNER/The Battalion
ated considerable interest from
many A&M students.
Unterberger says she looks for
ward to working on the nine mem
ber Advisory Committee, which will
have its first meeting early next year
in Washington, D.C.
Pan-Hellenic Council receives charter
By TROY HALL
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Pan-Hellenic Council now is
integrated with similar college councils nation
wide after receiving its charter from the National
Pan-Hellenic Council.
The A&M Pan-Hellenic Council was honored
with the national charter during November’s re
gional convention in Houston, making the coun
cil officially part of the national organization.
A&M’s council is the governing body of five
service fraternities and sororities.
Fraternities under the Pan-Hellenic Council
are Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi. Soro
rities affiliated with the council are Alpha Kappa
Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta and Sigma Gamma
Rho.
The A&M Pan-Hellenic Council coordinates
activities between service fraternities and sorori
ties much like the Interfraternity Council and
Panhellenic Councils, Felicia James, student ac
tivities adviser for the A&M Pan-Hellenic Coun
cil, says.
“The three governing bodies of the Greek sys
tem have been working together to program dif
ferent things as a Greek body,” she says.
The organization has been recognized by the
University since 1989 although it only recently
received its national charter.
James says official recognition by the national
office is just a formality since the council has
been fully operational since it was recognized by
A&M.
Receiving the national charter shouldn’t
change the way the council is operated, she says.
“Each Pan-Hellenic Council on each campus is
different, is run autonomously and is tailored to
the campus’s culture,” James says.