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By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
Texas A&M and the University
of Texas last met to decide the
Southwest Conference football
championship on a Thanksgiving
Day 42 years ago.
A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill
celebrated his 42nd birthday on
Thanksgiving Day.
And the Aggies, proving that
had luck indeed conies in threes
for Longhorns, scored 42 points
against Texas in a Thanksgiving
Night 42-10 feast that propelled
A&M to the SWC title and the host
berth in the Cotton Bowl for the
first time since 1908.
“1 didn’t play up the fact that it
was my birthday," Sherrill said. “I
don’t even know how old 1 am. All
1 know is that I’m a lot younger
today than 1 was yesterday.”
The Aggies with a record of 9-2
will face Auburn (8-3), led by
Heisman Trophy-favorite run
ning back Bo Jackson, in Dallas on
New Year’s Day. A&M’s confer
ence championship is the 10th in
school history.
The Longhorns (8-3) will play
Air Force in the Bluebonnet Bowl
on New Year’s Eve in Houston’s
Rice Stadium.
“We knew all along we had the
best team in the conference,” said
Doug Williams, an A&M senior
offensive tackle. “We just had to
go out and produce on the field.
Everything worked out for us this
year.”
And everything worked out
against Texas — including the
legendary A&M Twelfth Man.
A Kyle Field record-setting
crowd of 77,607 fans jammed into
endzone seats and temporary
bleachers erected on the track
level.
On three separate occassions,
Texas quarterback Bret Stafford
refused to snap the ball because of
crowd noise. After the third delay
which lasted over two minutes,
Stafford was sacked for an eight-
yard loss and subsequently was re
placed by UT senior Todd Dodge.
The Longhorns trailed 28-3 at
the time, with only a 57-yard field
goal from Jeff Ward to show for
1 three quarters of offense.
Dodge proceeded to complete a
10-yard pass to Russell Hayes for
Texas’ only touchdown of the
game.
A&M junior linebacker Johnny
Holland, an All-American,
seemed perturbed that Texas fin
ally scored a touchdown against an
Aggie defense that had kept oppo
nents out of the endzone for 11
straight quarters.
“We were ahead by 28 points
and I think we just let up a little
bit,” Holland said.
Through the first three quar
ters, however, the only thing the
A&M defense “let up” was Staf
ford, who was sacked five times
for a total loss of 45 yards. Dodge
was sandwiched once for six addi
tional yards of losses.
For the game, A&M held the
’Horns to 252 total yards (32 yards
less than the Aggies’ league
leading defensive average), inter
cepted four passes (two each from
Stafford and Dodge) and reco
vered both of Texas’ f umbles.
More important to the final
score and the early momentum,
however, was what the Aggies did
not do.
Texas recovered an A&M fum
ble and drove 61 yards to the
A&M six-yard- line. On first
down,' UT tailback Charles Hun
ter broke inside to the three yard
line. On the second and third
downs, the ’Horns moved the ball
to the goal line.
And, on fourth down, with the
ball less than six inches away from
an early go-ahead touchdown for
1 exas. the Aggies stopped the
’Horns Edwin Simmons for a one-
yard loss and a huge swing of
momentum.
The Aggies didn’t let Texas
into the endzone or into the game.
“I think Texas lost a lot of confi
dence after that,” Holland said.
“When you’re at the two-(yard-
line) and can’t score, it takes it out
of you.
“All week long, we’d heard ab
out how good the Texas defense
was when we had the leading de
fense in the conference. We just
wanted to show what we could do.
And we didn’t believe they could
get across the goal line.”
Following the. stand by the
A&M defense, the A&M offense
moved from the shadows of its
goal line to near mid-field before
being forced to punt.
The kick from junior punter
Todd Tschantz was fumbled by
Texas’ freshman kick returner
Eric Metcalf and recovered by the
Page 1 photos by JOHN MAKELY
Ira Valentine (42) celebrates with Craig Stump (9) and Rich Siler
after Valentine’s fourth-quarter touchdown.
Ags on the Texas 12-yard-line.
Sophomore quarterback Kevin
Murray then put the Aggies on the
scoreboard first with a 10-yard
pass to senior wide receiver Jeff
Nelson. That TD pass was the only
scoring play of the first half —
which was not a very accurate in
dication of what was yet to come.
A&M took the opening kickoff
of the second half and drove 78
yards for a score which culmin
ated in a 9-yard TD pass from
Murray to freshman Rod Harris.
In a span of less than three mi
nutes, the Aggies scored twice
more — once after another Texas
turnover whenjunior f ullback Ro
ger Vick crashed through the mid
dle of the Texas defense for an
11-yard TD run and again when
Murray found Harris in the back
of the endzone for a 32-yard TD
strike.
“This is what it’s all about,”
Murray said. “You have to be able
to make the big plays in the big
games. I didn’t feel I had an out
standing night but Texas had a
good defense. I think Rod (Har
ris) can be one of the best ever in
the SWC.”
The Aggies would be one of the
best offenses in the history of col
lege football if they could bottle
the formula that turned a defen
sive thriller into the most lopsided
A&M victory in the history of the
series between the two rival
schools.
“It was that third quarter that
See Ags win, page 10
Israel gives apology
for Pollard spy case
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel made a be
lated and conditional apology to the
United States on Sunday over the
Jonathan J. Pollard spy case. It prom
ised to punish culprits and disband a
secret intelligence unit if an investiga
tion finds that the U.S. Navy analyst
was recruited to spy for Israel.
The apology was issued in the
name of Prime Minister Shimon
Peres and delivered to U.S. Ambassa
dor Thomas Pickering in hopes of
defusing the controversy, officials
said.
The announcement fell short of a
full admission of guilt, but said that
any Israeli espionage directed against
the United States “was wrong, and
the government of Israel apologizes
for it.”
It was Israel’s first apology since
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
arrested Pollard on Nov. 21 and ac
cused the 31-year-old American Jew
of selling military secrets to Israel for
$50,000 over the last 18 months.
His wife, Anne Henderson-
Pollard, 25, was arrested the next day
and charged with unauthorized pos
session of national defense docu
ments.
Secretary of State George Shultz
said the United States was satisfied
with the statement, according to State
Department spokesman Pete Mar
tinez.
“We think this is an excellent state
ment, and we are satisfied by it and
we welcome it,” Martinez said Shultz
told reporters on his way to Cartage
na, Colombia, for a meeting of the
Organization of American States.
‘‘We have full confidence in
Israel’s determination and ability to
pursue this case down to the last de
tail and to bring those responsible to
account,” Shultz said.
The apology, released after a
Cabinet meeting, pledged to punish
those responsible and “completely
and permanently dismantle” the unit
involved if the charges against Pol
lard proved true.
The statement did not identify the
unit. But Israeli officials who spoke
on condition of anonymity said Pol
lard was working for a secret depart
ment of the Defense Ministry found
ed about 20 years ago to conduct in
dustrial espionage, but which recent
ly expanded to include military
spying.
Accounts published by U.S. news
papers and confirmed by officials
named Rafael Eytan as head of the
unit, which used scientific attaches in
the United States as conduits for
other types of espionage.
Eytan, a adviser on terrorism to
former Prime Ministers Menachem
Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, con
tinued to head the unit although he
left the prime minister’s office after
Peres took office in September 1984.
Space toys
Orbital building continues
with Atlantis' hardhats
Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston —
Atlantis’ spacewalking hardhats, ea
ger to “go outside and play” with a
four-story tower they were to build
and maneuver by hand, moved into
the shuttle’s open cargo bay Sunday
for their second orbital construction
demonstration.
“It’s a bright shining day outside,”
said astronaut Jerry Ross as he and
Sherwood Spring put on their space
suits. “I can’t wait to go outside and
play.”
Mission commander Brewster
Shaw told Mission Control, “We’ve
got a couple of bit chompers up here.
What you say we get this thing
started?”
Mission Control agreed, and the
astronauts started their second day as
zero-gravity construction workers at
3:22 p.m. EST, about half an hour
early.
The astronauts built and disassem
bled a 45-foot tower, or beam, and a
12-foot-tall pyramid during a five-
hour, 32-minute spacewalk Friday.
The structures are put together with
99 aluminum struts that snap
together like Finkertoys.
NASA officials said construction
of the beam and pyramid proved that
astronauts will be able to assemble
major elements of a permanent space
station that NASA hopes to build in
orbit in the 1990s.
During much of Friday’s work, the
astronauts floated free.
But Sunday’s work schedule called
for them to assemble the two struc
tures while one of the astronauts
stood on the end of Atlantis’ robot
arm, controlled from inside the shut
tle by astronaut Mary Cleave.
After the tower was assembled,
they were to take turns picking up the
structure, which weighs 200 pounds
on Earth, while standing on the robot
arm and manipulating it by hand.
A 12-foot pyramid, weighing ab
out 384 pounds, also was to be ass
bled and
assem-
moved about by hand.
David Akin of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, who
directed development of the pyramid
structure, and Douglas Heard of
NASA’s Langley Research Center,
who was in charge of the tower mate
rials, said that Friday’s spacewalk
proved conclusively that astronauts
can be the construction workers of
the homesteading era of space ex
ploration.
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By FRANK SMITH
Reporter
unday marked the beginning of
the penalty enforcement phase of
Texas’ mandatory seat belt law,
meaning those caught not complying
.can now be fined from $25 to $50.
■Since the law' went into effect Sept.
Tjviolators have been issued warn-
ings.
■The law requires the use of seat
Lehs by the drivers and front seat
passengers of all cars, vans and trucks
with a capacity of less than 1,500
pounds. Drivers are held responsible
for themselves and any f ront seat pas
sengers younger than 15 years old.
J.A. Orozco, personnel training
officer for the College Station Police
Department, said last week that the
issuing of citations to those not abid
ing by the new' law will be left to offic
ers’ discretion when they work at acci
dent sites or stop motorists for other
traffic violations.
Bryan police Maj. Lee Freeman
said that city’s officers also will work
to uphold the new law.
“We will enforce the law, and we
will issue citations when violations
come to our attention,” Freeman
said. “The normal way that’s going to
come to our attention is wben we
make a normal traffic stop for some
other type of violation or when we go
out to work an accident.
“In other words, we’re not going to
be setting up roadblocks to stop peo
ple like the old DL (driver’s license)
checks or something like that.”
According to a survey conducted
by the Texas Transportation Insti
tute — which is headquartered at
Texas A&M — prior to the im
plementation of the law, compliance
with the law would represent a
change in habit for many Texans.
The survey, conducted at major
street intersections in 12 of the state’s
metropolitan areas between January
and June of this year, indicated that
only 15 percent of the sampled auto
mobile drivers and 10 percent of the
front seat passengers sampled wore
shoulder belts.
In the Bryan-College Station area,
16.4 percent of the observed drivers
and 14.7 percent of the observed
front-seat passengers were wearing
shoulder belts. Bryan-College Station
had the third highest shoulder belt
See Unbelted,page 6
Blast of
arctic air
hits state
Associated Press
Texas weathered frigid temper
atures, blustery winds and snarled
traffic Sunday as an arctic front
chilled the state.
By Sunday morning, the front,
which was preceded by intense
thunderstorms, rain and hail,
stretched along the Texas coast
and the weather had turned dry
and the sun was out.
But afternoon temperatures
were still in the 20s and 30s across
most of north Texas and the High
Plains, the National Weather Ser
vice said.
The forecast for North Texas
called for very cold weather today
with highs in the 30s and 40s. The
lows tonight and Tuesday were
expected to be in the 20s.
The weather was expected to
warm up today in West Texas, the
weather service said. Highs today
were expected to be in the 30s and
40s with some readings in the 60s
in the far west.
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[JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
South Af rica’s biggest union federation, one
day old and claiming to represent 40(),()00
workers, allied itself with black anti-
apartheid activists Sunday and demanded
that restrictive pass laws be abandoned with
in six months.
■ In another development, U.S. business
executives were reported to be stepping up
presstire on the government to end its sys
tem of racial segregation, under which 5
million whites dominate 24 million voteless
blacks.
“The Congress of South African Trade
Unions is giving (President P.W.) Botha six
months to get rid of pass laws,” Elijah Barayi,
president of the new labor federation, told a
rally of 5,000 people in a Durban rugby sta
dium. “Otherwise we will burn all the passes
of the black man.”
Pass laws require blacks to carry docu
ments proving that they hat e permission to
work or live in or near white areas. The laws
result in tens of thousands of blacks being
prosecuted each year, and are a foundation
of apartheid. The laws also mean separation
for many black families, with the husband
working in an area where his family is not
permitted to live.
“COSATU (the labor federation) will not
only concentrate on wages, it will also con
centrate on politics, as well,” Barayi said.
The federation was formed Saturday in
Durban and claims 36 affiliated unions with
more than 400,000 members — nearly 40
percent of South Africa’s 1.4 million unio
nized workers,
COSATU is multiracial but nearly all its
workers are black, and about half belong to
the National Union of Mineworkers.
The formation of COSATU is expected to
unify and strengthen black workers’ de
mands for social change. Still outside the
federation are about 250,000 workers in 20
unions linked to black groups rejecting a
significant role for whites in the struggle for
black rights, and two white labor organiza
tions opposed to multiracial unions.
In Cape Town, 186 U.S. companies oper
ating in South Af rica announced that a week
ago they sent Education Minister F.W. De
Klerk a 15-page memorandum urging aboli-
tiqn of racially separated education. Among
the 186 were Mobil and IBM.
A statement by the companies, their
second in two weeks on education in South
Africa, also urged immediate retraining of
100,000 black teachers and offered to help
in retraining programs.
But they said, “Reforms in education
without a commitment to the elimination of
apartheid will lack credibility in the eyes of
the majority of South Africans.”