'
4 ?;t
3 'l l f:le'P.;"
'
;-'
,
„ r 46. ,%
. ....1.—.17‘::
i , .. ,
1.,4t . ;,..,:,,,,
~.:
f , ",„. , , ;:::,. ''
'
~.:,",•••
•'..,,,,,,%,`,.
V''' . ::'), , ~3,%'.4 . , , 'PI
'•,, ''i . , '/
„I , ”.„
'.' ,
~,, 7'"•••;,,, ' \'
•."' ''',
•
i..`i.:-
~ \m\ ::•\•, :
.•s‘• ,1 ' ,
. ,
%, •
44 •• , . . y:
iJ,'4.,;',. . ay“:',:',
'':'
~..• ' ;7. ,*:
5,•,,—'4* !;.;:”. •4:',1 ''';' ''. ''*:f< 10.
, ,
c, ~... i .
: • ' "
l'':.
,
,
I,
"..w++
Marines
By TERRY A. ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon U.S.
Marines went on full alert again
early today and fired illumination
rounds after several shells exploded
near their positions beside the
Beirut airport, a spokesman
reported.
It was the fourth straight day of
action involving the, Americri
peacekeeping force and came as
artillery and rocket fire pounded
both Moslem, west Beirut and
Christian east Beirut.
Yesterday, the Marines waged a
90-minute firefight with Moslem
militiamen near the airport and
hundreds of Lebanese soldiers
attacked militia gunners
threatening a west Beirut hotel
housing U.S. Embassy personnel.
A Marine spokesman, Warrant
Officer Charles Rowe, said Marine
artillery fired four illumination
rounds early today toward the
sources of the shells that struck
near the airport runway. He said
the,1,200 Marines in the
multinational peacekeeping force
were placed on their highest state of
alert category one for the third
time in 24 hours.
State radio claimed the shells
striking both east and west Beirut
were coming from the Syrian
controlled Upper Metn Mountains
east of the capital. There was no
word on casualties but hospitals
broadcast urgent appeals for blood
No Marine casualties were
reported in yesterday's fighting, but
three French soldiers in the
peacekeeping force and a French
paramilitry policemen stationed at
the French Embassy were among
those slain in street battles and
shelling. Tho Marines were killed
Financial pinch:
By CHRISTINE MURRAY
Collegian Staff Writer
University students receiving financial aid
are feeling the crunch of the Satisfactory
Academic Progress standard implemented at
the end of Spring Term.
Based on the number of University students
who applied for campus-based aid for this
year, about 5 percent were found ineligible for
aid, said John Brugel, director of the Office of
Student Aid. In addition, seven percent were
placed on probation, Brugel said.
Campus based aid includes the
Supplemental Educational Opportunity
Grants, National Direct Student Loans and the
College Work Study Program.
Students receiving aid must first meet the
requirements set by the University in the
Student Handbook, Brugel said. Qny student
who fails to meet the requirements as stated
in the handbook will be ineligible for financial
assistance.
According to the Student Handbook,
students will be dropped as degree candidates
if they do not complete the required number of
credits based on their academic standing and
have acquired an excessive number of grade
point deficiencies.
Only quantitative data is looked at, he said,
and extenuating circumstances that may have
caused the student to be declared ineligible
Menachem Begin
on full alert in Beirut
and,l4 wounded by mortar fire at
the airport Monday.
The state radio said shells were
"pouring down" on Beirut despite
announcements late yesterday by
leading Moslem politicians,
including former Premier Saeb
Salam, that they would withdraw
their militias from the streets of
west Beirut and cooperate with the
Lebanese army to stave off civil
war.
Nabih Berri, leader of the Shiite
Moslems' Amal militia that was
Warned for..thaiiiortai: attabk•that •
killed the American karides, issued
a statement on state radio calling on
his forces to cease operations. He
said the government had agreed "to
restore stability with the consent of
all parties."
Shortly after his announcement, a
shell struck his home in west Beirut.
The uninjured Berri made another
broadcast saying the attack "was
aimed at undermining the
reconciliation drive which I had
announced in my statement
ordering gunmen off the streets."
State radio said Labanese
soldiers went into action in west
Beirut yesterday after the Cabinet
decided to clear out militia
strongholds and "restore calm and
safety for the residents."
Government and private radio
stations said Lebanese soldiers
landed by boat and helicopter at the
beachside Cadmos Hotel to protect
the American Embassy personnel
and U.S. Army Green Beret
advisers living in the building.
They said the soldiers then
launched attacks on the nearby 25-
story Holiday Inn that Moslem
Druse militias had seized earlier in
the day and from which they
threatened to attack the Cadmos
Hotel.
the
daily
AP Laserphoto
Academic standard limiting students eligible for aid
are not considered
However, Brugel said students can bring
any such circumstances to the office's
attention by speaking with a member of the
staff.
Although the office has been handling
appeals all summer, Brugel said the
`Our position on this has
been to be as lenient as
possible. The number (of
appeals) this summer was
lower than those I would
have anticipated.'
—John Brugel, director of the
Office of Student Aid
University has not been using the transitional
policy for satisfactory academic progress
long enough to know if students are making up
the credits.
"Our position on this has been to be as
lenient as possible," Brugel said. "The
number (of appeals) this summer was lower
than those I would have anticipated."
Every student who has received aid has
olle • lan
Begin writes resignation letter
By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM Prime Minister
Menachem Begin wrote his letter of
resignation yesterday, setting off a
scramble in his party to pick a
successor who could hold his right
wing government coalition
together.
cannot go on any longer," the
70-year-old prime minister told
colleagues who begged him to
change his mind.
Although he delayed submitting
his resignation to President Chaim
Herzog, political circles were
convinced that the six-year Begin
era, which brought Israel peace
with Egypt and war in Lebanon,
was over.
The ministers of Begin's Herut
Party in the ruling Likud bloc
caucused for . three hours last night,
but failed to decide on Begin's
successor. "We didn't come to any
conclusions," said Ronnie Milo, a
Herut deputy who attended the
meeting as an observer.
The U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight
D. Eisenhower, carrying about 90
jet fighters, and a destroyer escort
armed with guided missiles moved
closer to the coast to support the
Marines at the airport on Beirut's
southern outskirts.
The French Defense Ministry in
Paris said two of the French
soldiers and the policeman were
killed in a shelling attack at the
Frenth Embassy that injured
several other people. It said the
third French soldier was killed and
two were Wounded in'an attack'at
the midcity Galerie Sernaan
crossing point.
A military communique said
Defense Minister Charles Hernu
was following the situation "with
the utmost attention."
British peacekeeping forces also
came under attack near the Galerie
Semaan crossing but no casualties
were reported.
U.S. Marine positions at the
airport came under militia fire at
4:55 p.m. yesterday 10:55 a.m.
EDT and the Marines fought
back with machine-gun and rifle
fire, Warrant Officer Rowe
reported.
"At 5:35 p.m. 11:35 a.m. EDT
we began receiving rocket,
mortar and artillery fire near our
positions. Twenty-five shells landed
near our positions in the span of one
hour," he said.
Another Marine spokesman, Maj.
Robert Jordan, said the Marines
fired illumination rounds from
155 mm artillery in southern and
eastern districts around the airport
and sent up Cobra helicopter
gunships. But he denied reports that
the gunships rocketed suspected
militia positions in the Moslem
Shiite stronghold of Bourj el-
Barajneh.
been assessed prior to being granted aid for
this academic year, Brugel said.
"We made a sincere effort to alert the
students because this is a cumulative review
of a students academic history," Brugel said.
"Some students do get caught and have no
way of being alerted other than the University
Baccalaureate Degree Catalog."
Under the transitional policy now being
used, degree provisions were modified giving
the student 1.0 semesters of study, instead of
nine, to earn a bachelor's degree, he said.
When students are placed on probation they
have one academic year to change from
probationary status to the eligible status.
When students have been declared ineligible
they must earn enough credits to place them
in the eligible status, but they may not go from
ineligible status to probationary status to
eligible status.
The transitional policy states that to
establish eligibility for the second academic
level, a student must successfully complete a
minimum of 26 credits. Completion of at least
16 credits will place the student on probation
and completion of less than 16 credits will
determine a student ineligibile for financial
aid.
Similarly, for a student to be declared
eligible for aid for the third academic level, a
minimum of 52 credits must be earned.
Completion of at least 42 credits will place a
The ministers were to renew
efforts today to find a successor,
Milo*told reporters.
The chief contenders were
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
68, and Deputy Prime Minister
David Levy, 45, and Israel radio
said Shamir was preferred. But
Levy denied this, saying nothing
had been decided.
Israeli television reported that
Shamir told the ministers he wanted
an immediate meeting of the 24-
member Herut parliamentary
faction to choose a new leader,
while Levy wanted the issue
decided by the much more broadly
based central committee. Shamir is
considered the more likely victor in
the smaller body, while Levy has
strong support among the rank-and
file in the committee.
Other Likud leaders appealed to
Begin to withhold his resignation for
a few days to allow time to choose a
successor. He promised an answer
last night or this morning.
Israel radio said the opposition
Labor Party, which dominated the
Jordan said the airport fighting
lasted about 90 minutes, and that
the Marines had climbed out of their
foxholes but were still on alert.
The Cadmos Hotel is about four
miles north of the airport. State and
private radios said President Amin
Gemayel ordered his army to land
just 900 yards from other U.S.
Marines guarding the six-story
building that houses most U.S.
Embassy personnel and a number
of Green Beret advisers.
U.S. Embassy personnel have
been quartered in a number of
hotels and other buildings in west
Beirut since the embassy building
was blown up in a bomb attack April
Druse militiamen who support the
Shiite fighters had threatened
earlier in the day to attack the
Lebanese army contingent
guarding the hotel in the largely
Druse-populated Ein Mreisseh
neighborhood of west Beirut, which
includes the U.S., British and other
foreign embassies.
The French soldiers killed at the
Galerie Semaan were in a water
truck that was hit by a "medium or
large-caliber projectile," according
to Maj. Alain de Lestrade,
spokesman for the French
contingent of the 5,400-man
peacekeeping force that also
includes Italian soldiers.
Six Lebanese soldiers died in local
hospitals of wounds received in the
last three days of fighting. Police
said their deaths brought the
casualty toll since Sunday to 51
killed and 219 wounded.
In Jerusalem, Prime Minister
Menachem Begin remained
adamant about quitting and was
writing his letter of resignation,
Israeli officials said.
government for the first 29 years of
Israel's 35-year existence, was
contacting potential defectors in the
government.
The religious parties that hold the
balance of power have pledged
publicly to remain with the
government. But if Herut and the
Likud cannot agree quickly on a
leader, the allegiance of the minor
parties might weaken under the
pressure of inducements that Labor
is sure to offer them.
After he resigns, Begin will
continue as caretaker prime
minister until a new government is
formed. His spokesman, Uri Porat,
said he expects him to withdraw
from political life. But he added that
Begin had promised to campaign
for the Likud if neither it nor Labor
Tan form a majority government,
and elections must be held.
Begin made his surprise
announcement of his intention to
resign at the weekly Cabinet
meeting Sunday, then delayed while
his associates pleaded with him to
change his mind.
Vi 'A
ik4), 4
•
i* •
lora. ~..,..,,,....
,
.„,.:, .:::,
, ~,.. :.
.1
~ - .
, '
' ~.
...
..
: ...-...,' . ‘...'z..
.., : ''. 5..:
' .7.,
~; ~
~,
A Moslem militiaman peers around a telephone pole in a southern Beirut
neighborhood yesterday as fighting continued with the Lebanese Army. The
four•day fight has involved the U.S. Marines and British and French troops of
,
the Multi• National Peacekeeping Force in Beirut.
student on probation. However, if less than 42
credits are earned, the student will be
declared ineligible for financial assistance
Also, a student entering the fourth academic
level must successfully complete at least 78
credits for eligibility. If a minimum of 68
credits are completed, the student will be
placed on probation. If less than 68 credits are
acquired, the student will be declared
ineligible for aid.
When students are declared ineligible for
financial assistance they will receive a letter
in the mail detailing what is required of them
to make satisfactory academic progress.
This transitional policy was published last
fall and reviewed by the Administrative
Committee on Undergraduate Instruction and
approved by the President's Administrative
Policy Council, Brugel said.
The U.S. Department of Education had
previously stated that all universities must
develop a policy of satisfactory academic
progress.Brugel said the University had to
specify the length of study and decide a credit
system to define measurable progress.
The Department expected the University to
establish time limits on study and issue
stricter requirements in addition to those in
Section 54-52, listed in "Academic Policies and
Procedures for Undergraduate Students" in
the Student Handbook.
Wednesday, August 30, 1983 •
Vol. 84, No. 28 32 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State Univers
"You have to understand that the
members of the Herut movement
see Menachem Begin not just as a
man who was prime minister for six
years but a man who for 40 years
was a leader, a guide, a mentor, a
man who knew how to rescue us in
any situation," said a Likud
member of Parliament, Michael
Kleiner.
But Cabinet leaders said when
they called on him yesterday, they
found him penning his resignation
letter.
"We won't let you do it,"
exclaimed Economics Minister
Vaagov Meridor, a comrade from
their guerrilla days fighting for
Israeli independence.
"Then I'll do it without your
permission," Begin replied as he
finished the letter and sent it to be
typed.
Shlomo Lorencz of Agudat Israel,
one of the religious parties in the
coalition, said Begin still did not
spell out his reasons for quitting.
inside
• Centre County families with
health problems can receive free
nursing consultations from the
University Nurse• Family Health
Service. Page 4
o Anti-nuclear demonstrators
plan to blockade a U.S. Army
base tomorrow to launch a "hot
autumn" of protests against the
deployment of new American
missiles in West Germany in
December. Page 12
index
Opinions
Sports
State/nation/world
weather
Mostly cloudy today with occa
sional showers and thunder
storms. High of 76. A•low of 60
tonight, with fog developing.
Partly sunny tomorrow with a
high near 79.
—by Glenn Rolph