Weather
Mostly cloudy and mild Thursday and
Friday with 10 per cent chance of rain
both days. S-SE winds 7-10 mph. High
today and tomorrow 73; low tonite 61.
Cbe
Battalion
Vol. 69 No. 53
College Station, Texas
Thursday, Dec. 4, 1975
Hijackers shoot
Dutch hostage
\
~y~
_K_
T
v
'ampus
1
o «f
V?ampI I
THE MBA-LAW DAY Conference will he
Id Saturday in Rooms 205 and 206 of the MSC
ginning at 10 a.m. with a coffee. Speakers will
former Texas A&M students who have done
ill in the fields oflaw and business. Represen ta-
tfrom the seven Texas law schools and sev-
alofthe major business schools are expected to
present. The conference is designed to help
dents determine whether or not their career
lerests would he better served by obtaining an
BA or Law degree. Luncheon reservations will
$3 per person and shoidd be placed before 5
m. Thursday at the MSC Director’s Office
15-1914).
•
THE ANNUAL Engineering Technology Soc-
t)’Banquet will be held in rooms 225 and 226 in
* MSC December 10. Harold Hill, the Presi-
:nt of Curtis Engine Co., will be the featured
eaker, Tickets for ETS members will be $3;
lets for non-members will be $6.50. Tickets
ay be purchased in the Engineering Technol-
y Department Office on the first floor of Fer-
ierHall. The deadline for buying tickets is Dec.
THE CENTURY SINGERS and the Bryan-
College Station Orchestra will present the Bach
Christmas Oratorio Thursday at 8 p.m. in the
Rudder Theater.
•
THE 21st SCONA conference is planned for
Feb. 11-14. It will assemble 200 delegates from
20 U.S. states, Mexico and Canada, including 30
delegates from Texas A&M. Delegates will be
chosen by interview from student applications
due in the Memorial Student Center director’s
office by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The topic will be “Global Power in Transition:
Emerging Aggregates of International Influ
ence.’ Global power shifts will be studied in the
three-day conference through examinations of
global corporations, increasing power of develop
ing nations and U.S. policy that points to the
transition.
Speakers confirmed for the conference are Rex
Grey, former IT&T president for the Middle East
and North Africa, and Admiral Noel Gayler, U.S.
Navy Pacific Fleet commander.
There will be other key speeches and delegate
roundtables that allow informal seminar-type
discussions.
Texas
Associated Press
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands — Indone
sian rebels opened a second front in Holland
today, taking over the Indonesian consulate in
Amsterdam while others holding a hijacked train
in the northern part of the country for the third
day shot another hostage, officials said,
i The rebels are South Molucan nationalists
seeking independence for their islands in the
Indonesian Archipelago once under Dutch colo
nial sway.
Police said six men armed with a carbine, a
pistol and knives took control of the consulate at
midday. A police spokesman said three members
of the consulate staff were thought to have been
wounded. A large number of people were be
lieved to be in the building which was quickly
sealed off by security men and armored cars.
Police said members of the consulate staff fled
as the gunmen stormed in. It was not im
mediately known how many escaped.
Witnesses said three men escaped from the
second floor by climbing down a rope. One of the
men was wounded when the gunmen opened fire
and the two others were injured when they
jumped to the sidewalk, officials said. Police fire
forced the gunmen to pull back and all three
escapees were hospitalized.
In northern Holland, authorities said the five
gunment holding hostages in a stranded train
pushed a man to the door and shot him. He fell to
the tracks and was believed dead.
The hijackers killed the engineer and another
man when they seized the train Tuesday and have
threatened to shoot their 37 remaining hostages
one by one unless they are given a flight out of the
country.
The shooting on the train occured just after a
mediator, a South Moluccan resident of the
Netherlands selected by the gunmen, left the
train. The Indonesians then called the mediator
on a field telephone and listed new demands,
Dutch officials said.
They repeated their demand for a bus to
Schiphol airport and a plane to fly to an undis
closed destination. Then they asked for more
food, drink and medical supplies, five railway
lanterns and 10 batteries.
Authorities also released a statement appa
rently typed aboard the train by the gunmen and
handed to the mediator. Written in Dutch, it
said:
“We are doing this because the people in the
train and the Dutch people did not approach the
Dutch government 25 years ago when great in
justice was done to our people. Queen Juliana
said on Nov. 25, 1975: ‘Each people has the right
to independence.’ People of Holland, we are not
murderers, but we are prepared to fight for our
country and kill again for the future of our country
and independence and also be killed.”
The statement was signed by the “Free South
Moluccan Youth.”
The South Moluccan islands passed to In
donesia in 1949 and in 1950 the islanders staged
an unsuccessful revolt.
Justice Minister Dries Van Agt said the hijac
kers would not be allowed to leave the country
because they killed the engineer and another
man when they took over the train Tuesday.
The Rev. S. Metiary, a South Moluccan na
tional, delivered the gunmen’s demands after
meeting with them for an hour. He said one of the
men told him: “Now we have started this action,
there’s no pint in giving up. We’re going on.”
The hijackers were said to be members of a
South Moluccan youth organization campaipung
for independence for their ancestral islands in the
Indonesian archipelago.
Police said they believed there were 38 hos
tages still aboard the train following the escape or
release of 25 Tuesday and Wednesday. They said
an earlier estimate of 72 hostages resulted from
telephone calls from anxious relatives of those
aboard.
Four passengers were released shortly after
the takeover; three others escaped later Tuesday,
and 18 ran to safety under the cover of darkness
Wednesday night from the unguarded rear sec
tion of the train.
They said the remaining hostages included 13
women and 25 men, several of them over 60, but
no children as officials had previously reported.
About 150 police, army marksmen and marine
commandos ringed the four-coach train, which
was standing in an open field with the bodies of
the two dead men beside it. The cordon stayed
about 650 yards away.
Officials said the gunmen had attached explo
sives to one of the coaches.
Authorities supplied the train early Wednes
day with food, medical supplies and blankets.
Officials said the train was heated but without
lights.
Dutch authorities brought in Johan Alvares
Manusama, self-proclaimed leader of the 40,000
South Moluccans living in Holland, to speak with
the gunmen. But officials said his 15-minute con
versation with two of the young men produced no
results.
A spokesman for the South Moluccan youth
organization said the hijacking was spurred by
recent arrests in Indonesia of South Moluccan
militants and was intended to draw attention to
the plight of South Moluccans living in Holland.
The South Moluccas, also known as the Spice
islands, are between the Celebes and New
Guinea and were the scene of an unsuccessful
revolt in 1950 against Indonesia.
35
o
0TTAMPI
STUDENT PRODUCTIONS’ One Act Plays
ill be presented December 4-6 at 8 p.m. in the
oram Theater. Thursday night "The Respectful
rostitute” by Sartre, “He” by O’Neill, “Lou
Arig Did not Die of Cancer” by Miller, and
Mo from Bertha by Williams, will be pre-
infed. The Man With the Flower in His
louth’’ by Saroyan, “The End of the Trail ” by
lulbertson, “The Gift of the Magi’ by Henry,
nd'The Eldest" by Ferber will be presented
riday; and “Welcome to Andromeda by
%te, "Rats” by Harowitz, “Rise in Flame
Iriedthe Phoenix” by Williams, and “Thursday
ivening” by Morley will presented Saturday. All
ickets will be 75 cents, and are available at the
dSC Box Office.
City
THE REDMOND TERRACE Post Office
branch will be open on Saturday during the next
two weekends to help speed up the Christmas
mail rush.
In order that all College Station residents can
mail their letters and parcels by the Dec. 10 and
Dec. 15 deadlines, the Redmond Terrace station
will be open from 10a.m. to2p.m. on Saturdays,
Dec. 6 and Dec. 13. All services will be provided
except food stamps.
TWO MAJORS in Fort Hood who served two
tours each in Vietnam say the U.S. Army is get
ting rid of them while they are taking medical
treatment merely to keep them from getting full
pension benefits.
•
CORETTA SCOTT KING said in Dallas last
night that American blacks should pressure the
government to find out what political forces are at
work in Africa. King, who spoke at a dinner in her
honor, said that blacks have little knowledge of
what is going on in Africa and when anything
happens there blacks do nothing. She said that
this is unlike the Jewish community that makes
its views known about Israel.
National
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE of Cities passed a
resolution in Miami Beach yesterday asking Con
gress to waive its new budget procedures in order
to re-enact general revenue-sharing quickly next
year. ^
EDWARD H. LEVI, attorney general, unlike
most of his predecessors, says he insists on super
vising the FBI and is voicing criticism of the
agency’s past misdeeds. He says his major effort
to control FBI conduct lies in a comprehensive
set of guidelines now being drafted to prevent
future abuses such as those described to a Senate
committee Wednesday.
World
THE LAOTIAN PEOPLE’S Congress elected
Prince Souphanouvong, the titular chief of the
Communist Pathet Lao movement, to be presi
dent of the new People’s Democratic Republic of
Laos, and Communist party chief Kaysone
Phomvihan to head the new government as pre
mier, Vientiane Radio announced.
Bike Rack Removed
Students were able to see their $1.50 bicycle registra
tion fees at work today as a bulldozer ripped out an old
bicycle rack to make way for a new one.
Staff photo by Glen Johnson
351
UlfE
iflif
51
bslem-Christian war
Looting continues in Beirut
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Armed thieves and
iligans are picking the spoils during a lull in
ieirufs Moslem-Christian war.
Three armed men entered a businessman’s
tment in the center of the so-called “safe”
lainra Street shopping district one noon this
k and started loading up valuables.
The maid started screaming. The screams
irought guards from the Palestine Research
inter around the comer. The guards opened
ire, killing one of the robbers and wounding
mther one. They, too, were Palestinians.
That night a gang knocked down the wall of a
hevrolet agency with a bulldozer. They drove
Iwith 23 cars worth more than $100,000.
The next night British Broadcasting Corpora-
fon correspondent Chris Drake came home to
his apartment in the “safe” seaside Rauche resi
dential district. Shortly after, the doorbell rang.
Through the peephole he saw the building’s
doorman with two others. He let them in. Wav
ing a Russian rifle and a Luger pistol, the two
strangers shouted “Fellous! fellous! — Money,
money.”
Drake was relieved of $400, and the bandits
drove off in a Mercedes sedan.
Security forces are struggling with a wave of
looting, holdups and thievery, a breakdown of
law and order produced by eight months of civil
war.
Nearly every man and boy in Lebanon has a
weapon. Common criminals pose as political ac
tivists when confronted by the police, who are
supposed to remain neutral in the civil war bet
ween religious and political factions. Swaggering
members of the private Christian and Moslem
armies feel themselves above the law and suc
cumb to the temptation to loot and steal.
Moslem looters following the advance of Mos
lem private armies picked clean the comfortable
apartments and expensive shops of the Qantari
district.
Christian militiamen who occupied the Holi
day Inn as a firing post looted the hotel of food,
drink and television sets. Thev also punched a
hole in a wall and carted off the neighboring First
National City Bank’s calculators, typewriters and
other office equipment.
The police blame much of the stealing on poor
Palestinian refugees from the crowded, squalid
camps around the city. The organized Palestinian
guerrilla groups deny their men are involved, but
their names are being used.
Prof evaluation
not distributed
to 1,000 classes
More than 1,000 undergraduate classes have
not yet been surveyed in Student Government’s
instructor evaluation program. Most of the uni
versity’s 5,000 undergraduate sections being
taught this semester have only three or four class
days remaining.
The forms are supposed to be distributed by
the College Councils in most of the university’s
departments. The Councils from the Colleges of
Liberal Arts, Education, Geo-Sciences, Agricul
ture and Business have not yet picked up their
questionnaires from Student Government.
Only the College of Science is cooperating
completely with Student Government by dis
tributing the forms in class and having the profes
sors return the questionnaires for processing.
Federal offices
hit by bomb blast
Career in space
not for Michelle
Williams Gets Membership
President Jack Williams received honor-
[ ary membership to the Pakistanian Student
Association. Wajahat Mirzar, president of
the organization, and Syed Hussein El-
Edroosl, vice-president made the presenta
tion. Photo by Glen Johnson
Associated Press
EL PASO, Tex. — Michelle McCarthy, a
laughing three-year old girl from Lordsburg,
N.M., returns home this week after a suc
cessful operation that turned part of her
colon into an esophagus that will help her
lead a normal life.
The only problem, doctors said, as they
bid farewell to Michelle, is that she will have
to eat in a sitting or standing position and she
can never go into outer space.
Michelle, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles McCarthy, was born without an
esophagus, an occurrence in one of every
5,000 births, but her condition was spotted
right after birth and she was rushed to Provi
dence Hospital here. Doctors inserted an
eight-inch tube through the newborn’s
stomach going directly to the abdomen and
made a hole in her throat to drain fluids and
allow her tastebuds to get used to food when
she finally could eat.
Then for the next three years, Mrs.
McCarthy fed her child by pouring milk and
bits of food into the tube stomach.
On Oct. 3 Michelle returned to the hospi
tal for a two-stage operation.
The doctors who performed the operation
declined to release their names. One said
that the first stage of the operation consisted
of having a 12-inch section of her colon dis
connected and placed into her stomach. Five
weeks later in the second phase of the opera
tion doctors connected the colon transplant
with Michelle’s throat.
Doctors said they waited three years for
the operation because they wanted Michelle
to grow a bit and to allow more room for
surgery in the throat area.
Monday Michelle had her first real meal.
Since then she has had three meals and two
snacks a day and nurses said that chewing was
the hardest part since she is not used to it and
she tires easily.
One of the surgeons said the artificial
esophagus would grow with Michelle, but
would not “work the way a normal esophagus
would” meaning that it would not “work the
food down” and that is why she would have to
rely on “gravity.”
Associated Press
MIAMI — Guards were posted at all govern
ment buildings in Miami early today after four
federal offices were rocked by bomb blasts Wed
nesday night, police said. One other bomb was
defused.
No injuries were reported. Several officers
narrowly escaped harm when one bomb, found
during a city-wide search for other explosives
after the first blast, went off before an attempt
was made to dismantle it.
That blast was at a local Social Security office. It
caused minor damage, mostly broken windows.
Similar damage was reported at the local FBI
headquarters and two post offices.
Police said they were searching for a man and
woman seen speeding away from one of the post
offices. But investigators said they had no idea
who was responsible for the bombs.
Various Cuban exile groups have claimed re
sponsibility for a number of bombings that have
occurred in the Miami area in recent months.
By early today, however, no one had claimed
responsibility for Wednesday’s blasts, which
came about a year after a similar wave of bomb
ings. Those bombings, also unclaimed, were on
the anniversary of the death of Cuban freedom-
fighter Antonio Maceo on Dec. 7, 1898.
Officers said the first explosion Wednesday
came at 8:18 p.m. when a small pipe-bomb went
off outside a three-story building housing the
Miami offices of the FBI and the Justice Depart
ment.
An FBI spokesman said several bureau
employes were inside at the time. The bomb was
set behind a newspaper rack outside the build
ing’s lobby.
Police Sgt. William Maltz characterized the
device, made with a 2 Vi-inch galvanized steel
pige, as “a wake-up” bomb.
“It’s just to let us know they’re around,” Maltz
said.
The second explosion occurred at 8:50 p.m.
outside the downtown post office.
The third came 10 minutes later at a post office
branch.
The fourth detonated outside the Social Sec
urity office at 9:40 p.m.
An unexploded device was found near the
Florida State Employment office when a derelict
picked up a brown paper bag he thought might
contain a wine bottle, police said.
The man took it with him until he discovered it
was an explosive device; he then called police.
A pedestrian was the victim of a hit-and-run
accident near the scene of one of the bombings,
but police said the incidents were not related.
Bomb-squad experts carefully examined two
other bags found on sidewalks during the search
but they contained only trash.
Loch Ness Monster?
Lawyer shows slides
Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. — A researcher has shown
a photographic slide of a rust-colored object pur
ported to be the legendary Loch Ness monster.
The object appeared to have two front appen
dages, a long neck and a head.
The slide showing was the latest in a series of
revelations both in the United States and Great
Britain in recent weeks concerning a group of
pictures taken underwater by an American
photographic team last June at Loch Ness in Scot
land.
The team was headed by Boston patent attor
ney Robert Rines, who is also dean at the
Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord. He
showed the slide to a group of about 50 students
and friends Wednesday night.
The slide depicted an object with distinct fea
tures, including the frontal appendages, a trunk
Rines said was 12 feet broad ana a neck Rines said
was 8 to 1 feet long.
“We think it will electrify the world,” Rines
said.
He said there were other, clearer photographs,
some of which were shot at the considerably
closer range of 4 feet. He said the monster was
“looking right at us with its mouth open.”
Rines showed the slide in Concord two days
after an announcement was made in London that
a scientific symposium scheduled for Dec. 9 and
10 to see Rines’ pictures was canceled because of
what the sponsors called excessive publicity in
Britain.
First word of Rines’ discovery and photos came
on Nov. 22 in a copyright story in the Boston
Globe. Since then, a number of scientists who
have seen one or more of the pictures, have
commented publicly. Most have praised the clar
ity of the pictures.
Wednesday night’s showing of one of the slides
was the first to a lay audience. Rines said the slide
was taken by an underwater camera at a depth of
45 feet with a strobe light.
Rines was angered by the publicity given the
photographs, particularly in the British press,
and had asked that the description of the slide
shown Wednesday night not be made public.
A spokesman for Rines emphasized in a tele
phone interview that Rines and other members of
the Academy of Applied Science — the Boston
group which undertook the Loch Ness photo
graphic expedition — were leaving it up to the
scientific community to determine exactly what
the objects photographed are.
British naturalist Sir Peter Scott, who has seen
the complete set of Rines pictures, announced in
London on Monday the cancellation of the sym
posium of eminent scientists who were to
examine the photos.
The decision, “in no sense reflects in the smal
lest degree on the nature of the evidence or the
integrity of those who obtained it,” said Scott,
chancellor of Birmingham University.
Scott told reporters shortly after word of the
photos leaked last month that the Rines photo
graphs helped convince him the Loch Ness
monster is a living prehistoric reptile which may
be 40 feet long.
This week, Prof. Herbert J. Howe, a Purdue
University paleontologist, said he believed the
monster may be a prehistoric reptile dating 70
million years. He said the Rines photographs may
reveal the monster is a plesiosaur or ichthyosaur,
types of reptiles believed extinct for more than 50
million years.