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WEDNESDAY
June 8, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 153 (6 pages)
“Serving TexasA&Msince 1893”
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Briefs North Korean nuclear push fuels tensions
Killeen girl sees
father, friend killed
KILLEEN(AP) — Killeen police are
investigating two deaths, trying to
determine if the case is a double
homicide or a murder-suicide.
Killeen police Lt. Michael O’Keefe
said a 9-year-old girl told authorities
that an intruder entered her bedroom
window about 1:40 a.m. Monday. The
girl said the man shot her father and
his girlfriend and left through the
window while she hid, O’Keefe said.
Police have not released the
victims’ names. The incident
occurred at a home in north Killeen, a
city about 60 miles north of Austin.
Not quite official:
Gramm to run in ‘96
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) —
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm came about as
close as he could to declaring his
candidacy for president.
“If I had to decide today I’d run,
but I may come to my senses
between now and then,” Gramm said
Monday.
Gramm, R-Texas, said he will
make a final decision about the 1996
presidential election after this fall’s
Congressional election.
A&M researcher:
U.N. sanctions
looming over
North Koreans
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The conflict between North
Korea and the United Nations
over the development of nuclear
weapons is likely to intensify,
Texas A&M University re
searchers said.
Cory Ortigoza, a research fel
low for the Mosher Institute,
said he believes sanctions will
be imposed by the United Na
tions on North Korea in the
near future.
“It seems like we’re very
close to an imposition of sanc
tions,” Ortigoza said. “It is in
the process of occurring right
now. They (U.N. officials) have
already made some informal de
clarations.”
North Korea claims the nu-
South Korean official says North must be foiled
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Any North Kore
an attempt to develop nuclear weapons must be
foiled “at whatever cost,” a senior South Korean
official said today.
Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hong-koo, speaking
at a meeting of officials, accused the North’s Com
munist government of deliberately increasing ten
sions on the peninsula with threats of war.
“At whatever cost, we will retaliate for North
Korea’s attempt to develop nuclear weapons,” Lee
said. “The North is taking advantage of our posi
tion against war.”
Lee, who also serves as unification minister,
said his government would seek punitive sanc-
clear plants are for peaceful pur
poses, but its long refusal to ac
cept inspections has heightened
suspicion that it is developing
nuclear bombs.
Ortigoza said recent actions
by North Koreans, denying offi
cials to inspect nuclear facilities
and claiming that any sanctions
will be taken as an act of war,
are pushing the U.N. to act.
“They have no choice,” he said.
“This (the actions of the last
tions against North Korea in close concert with
the United States and other allies.
North Korea on Monday sent a letter to the In
ternational Atomic Energy Agency reiterating its
threat to quit the Nuclear Non-proliferation
Treaty if what it considers IAEA bias against it
continues, said a North Korean radio report moni
tored in Seoul.
The letter accused the Vienna-based nuclear
watchdog agency of bias in trying to get North Ko
rea to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities.
Tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula are
running high as the United States and its West-
Please see Official, Page 6
“It will be difficult for the Unit
ed States to act alone,” he said.
“That will cause a direct conflict
between the two nations.”
Ortigoza said China is the
main pressure point when it
comes to imposing sanctions on
North Korea.
“If you’re talking specifically
about sanctions, China is the key
player,” he said. “It is doubtful
they would approve sanctions.”
Please see Sanctions, Page 6
month) was the straw that broke
the camel’s back.”
Dr. Joseph Dawson, director of
the Military Studies Institute
and associate professor of histo
ry, said he also believes sanc
tions will be imposed.
“This is with the qualification
that China will have to either
vote for the sanctions or abstain
from the vote,” Dawson said.
“China’s role is going to be very
important.”
North Korea’s
nuclear facilities
As North Korea continues its
secretive work with plutonium,
leaders say they will defy any
sanctions the United Nations places
on the nation. The U.N. believes
North Korea is building a powerful
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Logging to resume
at owls’ expense
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge
[has lifted his 3-year-old ban on
I logging in national forests inhabited
| by the threatened spotted owl, but no
[ one is predicting that many trees will
begin falling soon.
U.S. District Judge William Dwyer
[•ruled Monday that President Clinton’s
iNorthwest forest-management plan
addressed the concerns raised by an
environmental lawsuit that had
prompted the 1991 injunction.
The ban had virtually halted
, logging on millions of acres of
(•government land in Northern
California, Oregon and Washington.
The judge noted that his order
does not constitute final approval of
the Clinton plan, and he scheduled a
Sept. 12 hearing for challenges to it
: by groups that filed the original
i complaint. The judge could ultimately
| reimpose the ban.
GM, auto workers
i reach agreement
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — General
Motors Corp. and the United Auto
Workers reached a tentative contract
agreement in the 5-day-old strike by
3,500 employees at GM’s technical
center.
The designers, analysts and other
vehicle-development employees are
scheduled to vote on the agreement
Wednesday and could return to work
immediately if they ratify it. The
agreement was reached late
Monday.
Terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.
The employees went on strike
Thursday over GM’s use of outside
contractors. A strike by 850
employees at the Chrysler
Technology Center in Auburn Hills
began May 31 over similar issues.
The walkouts do not involve
workers who assemble cars or build
parts and have not affected vehicle
production.
Mandela to grant
political amnesty
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP)
— President Nelson Mandela’s new
government announced plans
Monday to grant amnesty for political
crimes, but only with a full
confession.
The proposals would fulfill a
campaign promise by Mandela to
confront murder, torture, terrorist
bombings and other crimes from the
apartheid era in a bid for racial
feconciliation.
Justice Minister Dullah Omar told
reporters the purpose was to make a
"clean break” with the past and
create "a culture of human rights.”
He refused to discuss specific
cases, but said the cut-off date for
political crimes eligible for amnesty
would be Dec. 6, 1993.
Civil war cease-fire
violated in Yemen
SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — A top
northern official said southern
warplanes bombarded northern
forces Monday morning, violating an
hours-old cease-fire aimed at ending
Yemen’s civil war.
The northern government had
declared the cease-fire Monday to go
into effect at midnight.
“Aden aircraft are bombarding all
around ... since 6 a.m. this morning,”
Planning Minister Abdul Karim el-
Eryani told The Associated Press.
Stew Milne/ The Battalion
Play that funky music
Chris Johnson, a senior geography major from his radio program on A&M’s alternative cable
Colleyville, prepares to mix in the next song in radio station, KANM.
Library ‘task forces’
focus on safety, quiet
By Monique Lunsford
The Battalion
The Sterling C. Evans Li
brary may receive some atmos
phere and security changes
within the next few months if
evaluations by two special task
forces determine the changes
are needed.
These task forces, set up by
the library administration, are
designed to be quality improve
ment teams that will explore
ways of making the library envi
ronment safer and more con
ducive to study and research.
One team, operating under
the name “Pollutions,” will deal
with issues such as the noise
level and tidiness in the library.
The other task force will focus
on security measures.
Dr. Fred Heath, dean and di
rector of Evans library, says
that creating the task forces is
the library’s way of taking a pro
active role in the safety and
comfort of its users.
“The real focus is how to
make security safer than it is,”
he said. “We want to put some
thing in now, so that it doesn’t
take an incident to prompt
changes.”
The task forces consist of rep
resentatives from the library
staff and the University Police
Department.
Sgt. Betty Lemay of UPD said
the police department’s involve
ment will be advisory.
“We will let them know the
needs that we see as a law en
forcement system,” Lemay said.
The areas of interest for the
security task force will include
the lighting in the library, moni
toring of the floors, librarjr
hours, an alarm system and
emergency telephones.
Under the current policy
nightly security checks are con
ducted one hour before the li
brary closes and two hours after
ward.
This includes security officers
checking to see that everyone is
out of the building, checking the
outside of the library and lock
ing up the entire facility.
Task force representatives
Please see Library, Page 6
Colombian v illage
buried in earthquake
Strongest tremor
in decades kills
100, leaves 2,000
seeking shelter
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) —
An avalanche triggered by an
earthquake wiped out a village
in southwest Colombia, killing
at least 100 pe^nle and leaving
2,000 more homeless.
The U.S. Geological Survey
said the quake was the
strongest in Colombia since one
measuring 6.8 on May 24, 1957.
The village of Toez was
buried Monday afternoon when
ice, mud and rocks tumbled off
the slopes of Nevado del Huila
volcano, said Julio Enrique Or
tiz, governor of Huila state.
The volcano is 14 miles east
of the epicenter of the quake,
which had a preliminary magni
tude of at least 6.0.
The was felt as far away as
Bogota, the capital, 200 miles
away.
“It’s a tragedy on a grand
scale,” Ortiz told Caracol radio.
He flew over the site in a heli
copter.
“There are many deaths but
we have hopes that people were
able to seek refuge on higher
ground,” Ortiz said. “But the vil
lage of Toez has disappeared.”
Quake triggers
avalanche
AP graphic
Reports that the volcano had
erupted were erroneous, said
Ivan Dario Cardona, director of
the government’s disaster relief
office. He said residents mistook
the roar of the avalanche for an
eruption.
The epicenter of the quake
was near Toribio, a city in Cau-
ca state, the Andes Geophysics
Institute reported.
The Colombian institute put
the preliminary magnitude at 6.0,
while U.S. officials put it at 6.4.
An earthquake measuring 6.0
is capable of causing severe
damage.
West Texas A&M settles racism charge
DALLAS (AP) — West Texas A&M University
has agreed to let a Dallas man re-enroll in the
school, which he had complained kicked him out
during his senior year because he is black.
West Texas, located in Canyon near Amarillo,
confirmed Tuesday that Homer Johnson Jr. was
being readmitted.
Johnson’s re-enrollment was part of an agree
ment between the school and the U.S. Education
Department’s Office of Civil Rights. The deal
means the 6,640-student university won’t lose mil
lions of dollars in federal aid.
The complaint filed by Johnson resulted from a
1990 incident during which he was arrested and
jailed for 17 days after a profane outburst fright
ened workers in the school’s graphics center. He
was forbidden to return to the school.
Johnson said he was harassed because he didn’t
get due process and was treated unfairly because
he’s black. The federal agency agreed.
“It’s good that they made some type of conces
sion,” Johnson said of West Texas A&M, whose
student body is 97 percent white. “But I really feel
it doesn’t address the real seriousness of the prob
lem they have with the racial situation up there.”
The university says it didn’t do anything wrong.
“Our willingness to resolve the issue should in
no way be construed as an admission of guilt,”
West Texas A&M president Barry Thompson said
in a statement. “We made concessions and compro
mises in the interest of a speedy resolution to an
unfortunate situation,” he said.
Remains of 16 possible American MIAs
turned over to U.S. officials by Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) —
Vietnam on Monday turned over
16 sets of remains believed to be
those of U.S. servicemen missing
from the Vietnam War.
American officials received
the remains, the largest number
recovered in at least a year, at a
ceremony at Hanoi’s Noi Bai In
ternational Airport.
An honor, guard placed the re
mains into transfer cases and
loaded them aboard an air force
C-141 cargo jet.
They were to be flown to the
Central Identification Laborato
ry at Camp Smith, Hawaii, for
further analysis.
The turnover is the third
since President Clinton removed
the 19-year U.S. economic em
bargo against Vietnam on Feb.
3. Clinton has said the future es
tablishment of diplomatic rela
tions between the United States
and its former enemy depends in
part on continued help in the
repatriation of U.S. remains.
The remains were recovered
during a 34-day search in cen
tral and northern Vietnam.
Teams of American and Viet
namese specialists excavated
some of them at helicopter and
jet aircraft crash sites. Local vil
lagers voluntarily turned over
others, said U.S. Army Lt.
Colonel John C. Cray, comman
der of the MIA Office in Vietnam.
Cray described the turnover
as “the biggest one since I’ve
been here.” Cray assumed his
post last June.
Vietnamese officials, soldiers
and ordinary citizens have
shown a high degree of coopera
tion with U.S. search efforts dur
ing the past year, he said.
“One thing I’ve noticed that is
significant is the level of prepa
ration that the Vietnamese show
in support of our operation,”
Cray said. “And it continues to
get better and better.”
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