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Blacks continue
freedom struggle,
A&M official says
By Holly Beeson
STAFF WRITER
College Station Mayor Larry Ringer, left, and the Rev. Lee
Groce listen to a speech by Felicia James of the A&M Affir
mative Action Office during the Bluesfest Juneteenth Cele-
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
bration at the Lincoln Recreation Center. Juneteenth com
memorates the day in 1865 that Texas slaves learned of the
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth is a time for blacks to
celebrate their freedom, but the
struggle for equality, continues, a
spokesman for the Texas A&M Af
firmative Action Office said Satur
day during a Juneteenth celebra
tion.
The celebration, at the Lincoln
Recreation Center, marked the
124th anniversary of the day slaves
in Texas heard of the Emancipation
Proclamation, the document issued
by Abraham Lincoln that freed the
slaves. Even though the document
was signed on Jan. 1, 1863, the news
didn’t reach the Texas cotton fields
until June 19, 1865.
Felicia James stressed that al
though blacks have come far since
1865, they still have far to go.
“We found out we were free in
1865, but in 1989, 124 years later,
are we really free? I think not,” she
said. “No, we don’t have chains
around our feet and, yes, we have
many more opportunities today than
in 1865.”
This year’s theme, “Forward For
ever, Backward Never,” is quite
timely, she said.
“As blacks, we must move forward
— not backward,” James said. “If we
don’t look back, however, we
wouldn’t know that blacks made sig
nificant contributions to the forma
tion of this great country.”
She said that like Martin Luther
King Jr., all blacks must have a
dream.
“If we didn’t have a dream, we
wouldn’t have any goals,” she said.
“Hold that dream; for when dreams
go, life is a broken-winged bird fro
zen in the snow.”
To keep the dream alive, James
said, blacks must strive to be the best
through education and strong Chris
tian values.
“We must continue our education
past high school,” she said. “Educa
tion is not just for the young. Old
dogs can learn new tricks if you have
the patience and support to teach
them.”
Barents must instill in their chil
dren certain helpful values such as
dignity, character and honesty,
James said.
“Children live what they see,” she
said. “If you don’t place values in
your children, how will they survive?
Your life should be an example of
how to live.
“As blacks, we must have pride in
ourselves because surely no one else
will.”
Prosecutors urge judge
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran-
Contra prosecutors Monday asked
the judge to sentence Oliver North
to prison, arguing that the former
presidential aide lied at his trial,
shows no remorse and sees himself
as “above the law and beyond re
proach.”
In a memo filed four days before
North’s sentencing, prosecutors
urged U.S. District Judge Gerhard
A. Gesell to consider North’s
“breach of public trust and misuse of
public power, the destructive effect
of his criminal behavior on the func
tioning of government . . . his per
jury and his total lack of remorse.”
A prison term would also help
counteract the political appeal that
North has gained on the lecture cir
cuit — a popularity that prosecutors
argued only “reinforces his lack of
remorse.”
Independent counsel Lawrence E.
Walsh charged that “with supreme
faith in his ability to deceive, North
took the witness stand and perjured
himself’ with a false story to explain
away a charge that he pocketed
$4,300 in traveler’s checks entrusted
to him by a leader of the Nicaraguan
rebels.
“His unsupported claim that he
had a $15,000 fund in a steel box in
his closet echoed the flimsy lies of
fered by corrupt municipal officials
in the days of Tammany Hall,”
Walsh said.
“North’s attempt to use the steel
box to explain his cash purchase of a
car in two installments graphically
demonstrates North’s penchant for
weaving a tale that by its conclusion
is preposterous.”
The retired Marine lieutenant col
onel faces a possible 10-year sen
tence for aiding and abetting the ob
struction of Congress, destroying or
mutilating government documents
and accepting an illegal gratuity — a
GOP criticizes Clayton Williams
for contributions to Democrats
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
Oliver North
$13,800 security system outside his
home that was paid for by arms
dealer Richard V. Secord.
North, 45, was acquitted of nine
other counts, including a charge he
stole the traveler’s checks.
AUSTIN (AP) — Republican gubernatorial hopeful
Clayton Williams, Class of ’54, on Monday continued to
be criticized for making campaign contributions to
Democrats, with one Republican saying the contribu
tions were “obscene.”
“I am disturbed by Mr. Williams’ desire to be our
party’s gubernatorial nominee while he contributes
money to our opponents,” s,aid Diane Rath, secretary of
the Republican Party of Texas.
In a letter to State Republican Executive Committee
members, Rath, of San Antonio, said, “I urge each of
you, as I will do, to question Mr. Williams about any
other contributions to Democrats.”
Williams, a Midland millionaire and namesake of the
Texas A&M alumni center, has contributed to Demo
cratic gubernatorial hopefuls Ann Richards and Jim
Mattox, U.S. Senate contender Hugh Parmer and
members of the Legislature, according to a report by
the Houston Post.
On Monday, Williams said he made those contribu
tions as a businessman and is willing to take the heat
over them now that he’s entered politics.
“I made them, and I made them as a businessman
and job creator, not as a politician,” he said. “I will take
my lumps from this now that I am in the political
arena.”
Williams also said his GOP credentials are long, say
ing he joined the Republican Party on April 11, 1951,
when Democratic President Harry Truman fired Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
Williams, who has scheduled his gubernatorial an
nouncement for Wednesday, also said his political do
nations aren’t the issue now.
“This gubernatorial race is about who can win this
war on drugs, lead Texas into the 90s and which Re
publican can win the general election,” he said.
Frank Walter, a spokesman for Williams, said Wil
liams was a prolific campaign contributor for Republi
cans and Democrats alike for years but that his alle
giances lie strictly with the GOP.
Williams was also criticized Monday by Richard Har
vey, a 1988 Republican nominee for the Texas Senate.
Harvey, of Tyler, said Williams gave $1,000 to the
Texas Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, which
funnelled money to his opponent, Sen. Ted Lyon, D-
Rockwall, who won.
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Peng said Monday that none of the
nations criticizing China’s suppres
sion of dissidents would have shown
as much restraint, and he honored
as martyrs three soldiers killed in the
crackdown.
i “For more than 50 days our gov
ernment, army and party were re
strained,” Li told the families of the
dead soldiers at Communist Party
headquarters, apparently referring
to the weeks preceding the June 3-4
crackdown.
| “Some countries have attacked us,
abused us and created rumors,” he
said. “Can their governments be so
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Since troops attacked central Beij
ing to crush seven weeks of protests,
imore than 1,000 people have been
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Western intelligence sources and
jChinese witnesses say up to 3,000
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Morning News journalist expelled from China
DALLAS (AP) — The Chinese government ordered
a free-lance journalist working for the Dallas Morning
News out of the country by revoking his tourist visa
Monday, a newspaper official said.
Joseph Kahn, 24, went to China on May 30 and has
filed up to 15 stories for the Morning News since then,
said Managing Editor Bill Evans.
“We, the Dallas Morning News, are extremely disap
pointed in the Chinese government’s action in revoking
Kahn’s visa,” Evans said. “He’s done an outstanding
and thoroughly professional job there.”
Evans said he spoke Monday morning with Kahn,
who had been notified of his expulsion. Kahn was given
72 hours to leave the country and was expected to de
part by about 9 p.m. CDT Monday for Hong Kong,
Evans said.
In revoking his visa, Evans said, the government
cited Kahn for inciting unrest, spreading rumors and
identifying himself as a British correspondent.
“This is simply not true,” Evans said. “He has not ag
itated. He in no way incited anyone. And he didn’t
identify himself as a British journalist.”
In recent weeks, Kahn’s stories for the Morning
News detailed the riots that led Chinese officials to de
clare martial law and clear Beijing’s Tiananmen Square
with troops who massacred hundreds, perhaps thou
sands, of protesters demanding democratic reforms.
The government says fewer than
300 died, half of them soldiers.
Since declaring martial law May
20 in Beijing, Li has emerged as the
chief spokesman for the govern
ment’s hard-line position against the
student-led movement for greater
freedoms and an end to government
corruption.
Meanwhile, a special session of the
national legislature headed by a
more moderate official was post
poned.
Wan Li, the chairman of the Na
tional People’s Congress, had sched
uled a congress session beginning
Tuesday “to discuss issues of peo
ple’s common concern and prompt
the government to improve its
work.”
Wan, who has a reputation as a
moderate, called the session before
the June 3-4 crackdown. Some stu
dents had hoped it would approve
some of the democratic reforms they
were demanding.
But the congress’s press office
said the session was postponed be
cause Beijing had not yet returned
completely to normal. No new date
was set.
The legislature may be waiting
until the Communist Party holds an
anticipated Central Committee
meeting to formally oust party Gen
eral Secretary Zhao Ziyang. Zhao re
portedly already has been stripped
of his power for opposing the crack
down.
He and party propaganda chief
Hu Qili are the only top officials be
lieved purged. Wan has supported
the crackdown publicly.
Former prof indicted for failure to keep records on drug research
By Kelly S. Brown
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
A former Texas A&M University
irofessor has been indicted after
ailing to produce records docu-
lenting the usage of narcotics in his
esearch measuring the biological ef
fects of cocaine.
Michael Trulson, who was a pro-
essor at A&M from 1984 until
Ipring of 1988, was named by a Bra-
:os County grand jury June 8 in an
indictment charging failure to keep
controlled-substance records.
Department of Public Safety In-
vestigator Von Allen said an arrest
warrant has been issued for Trulson,
who they believe to be working in
the Dallas area.
Allen said narcotics officers in the
DPS began the investigation in
March of 1988 after being notified
by university officials of a possible
problem with Trulson’s inventory
records.
Trulson was doing research in the
anatomy department working with
cocaine, morphine, LSD and heroin,
Allen said.
Dr. Jackson Wagner, head of the
anatomy department in the College
of Medicine, said he did not feel it
was appropriate to comment on the
case.
ii
Frulson couldn’t show us any records after we
confronted him on two occasions in March of 1988.”
— Von Allen,
Department of Public Safety Investigator
Allen said that by law, individuals
who work with controlled substances
are required to register with the U.S.
Federal Drug Enforcement Agency,
and maintain records of the dates
the narcotics were ordered and re
ceived and how they were used.
The records are to be kept for two
years, Allen said.
Trulson did not abide with the
FDEA regulations on at least two
counts, Allen said.
“First, we noticed his license had
expired in November or December
of 1987,” Allen said. “And then
Trulson couldn’t show us any re
cords after we confronted him on
two occasions in March of 1988.”
Ed Walraven, with the Universi
ty’s news service, said part of Trul
son’s research involved studying the
biological effects of cocaine use.
“His research basically centered
around health-orientated areas,”
Walraven said. “The drugs were
used on rats and mice.”
Walraven said Trulson did most
of the research by himself, with
maybe one or two graduate students
assisting.
Allen said failing to maintain con
trolled-substance records is a second
degree felony, and that if Trulson is
convicted, he faces a maximum of 20
years in prison.
Rival Greek
parties hint
at coalition
ATHENS, Greece (AP) —
Conservative leader Constantine
Mitsotakis offered Monday to
form an interim government with
rival leftists for the sole purpose
of cleaning up scandals left by the
regime of Premier Andreas Pa-
pandreou.
Mitsotakis’ center-right New
Democracy party finished first in
Sunday’s elections, defeating Pa-
pandreou’s Panhellenic Socialist
Movement, but failed to win a
majority needed to govern.
A leftist-communist coalition,
which finished third, has
emerged as the likely power bro
ker in the battle to form a coali
tion government.
Both Mitsotakis and Papan-
dreou earlier said they would re
ject support from the coalition,
but both made conciliatory over
tures to the group after the bal
loting.
The possibility remained that
Papandreou, despite Sunday’s
second-place finish, could return
as premier if Mitsotakis cannot
form a government.
Papandreou met Monday with
President Christos Sartzetakis,
the ceremonial head of state, and
submitted his resignation. But he
was asked to remain as caretaker
premier until a new government
was formed.
Mitsotakis meets with the presi
dent on Tuesday to receive a
three-day exploratory mandate to
form a government. If he fails,
Papandreou will receive the same
opportunity to build a coalition.