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Explosion, fire
damage building
Two Texas A&M University cus
todial workers narrowly escaped
serious injury last night about 6:30
when a small explosion occurred on
the 4th floor of the Oceanography
and Meteorology Building.
put out a small fire that followed the
explosion. The men used four dry-
chemical extinguishers but failed to
put out the blaze. They then called
the College Station Fire Depart
ment, which extinguished the fire.
Harry Davis, College Station fire
marshal, said two women were emp
tying trash from room 403A, an
oceanography laboratory. One of
them had just finished dumping
trash into a plastic garbage container
in the hall and had walked only five
feet back into the lab when the con
tainer exploded.
A professor who has been conduct
ing experiments in the lab said a
chemical reaction between the trash
and some percloric acid which had
been dumped into the container
probably caused the explosion and
fire. The blaze, if caused by such a
reaction, could not have been extin
guished with the conventional dry
chemical extinguishers, he said.
Both were only shaken up in the
incident. Three men who were work
ing in rooms at the other end of the
hall heard the blast and attempted to
Damage to the hallway was re
stricted to nearby walls, the vinyl
flooring and a few acoustical ceiling
tiles.
Fire!
An explosion and fire in a trash can left this mess on
the fourth floor of the Oceanography Building Tues
day night. The fire may have been caused by per
cloric acid leaking from containers in the trash.
Psychiatrist says Hearst ‘shattered
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Patricia
Hearst was a confused young woman
with “a variety of behaviors ’ and vir
tually no identity of her own in the
weeks after her arrest, says a court-
appointed psychiatrist.
Dr. L. J. West, a professor of
psychiatry and an expert on prisoner
of war torture, spent the entire day
Tuesday on the witness stand at Miss
Hearst’s trial for bank robbery.
Asst. U.S. Atty. David Bancroft,
who repeatedly questioned West’s
interpretations of Miss Hearst’s
mental state, planned to continue his
cross-examination today.
During direct questioning by de
fense counsel F. Lee Bailey, West
portrayed Miss Hearst as a “shat
tered” survivor of a 19-month ordeal
in the terrorist underground.
West said Tuesday that Miss
Hearst, who flad been giyqn tl^p
name “Tania” by her Symbionese
Liberation Army captors after she
proclaimed her allegiance to the ter
rorist band and took part in the bank
robbery, became “Pearl” for much of
her time in the underground.
Miss Hearst testified earlier that
SLA member Emily Harris gave her
the name “Pearl” after the May 17,
1974, shootout in which six SLA
members died in Los Angeles.
West said the heiress had made a
“remarkable improvement” in her
condition in the past few months but
still showed signs of anxiety and the
fear for her life that characterized
much of her own testimony.
West was one of three psychiat
rists appointed by U.S. District
Court Judge Oliver J. Carter last fall
to help determine whether Miss
Hearst was competent to stand trial.
He spent a total of 23 hours examin
ing the 22-year-old defendant and
was called as a witness for the de
fense.
The other two experts who
examined her on behalf of the court
have not testified at the trial.
Bancroft attempted Tuesday to
discredit West’s sympathetic picture
of Miss Hearst and elicited the fact
the psychiatrist had written the
Hearst family months before he ever
met the defendant.
West defended his letter to Ran-
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dolph and Catherine Hearst as “one
parent to another,” written some
time while Miss Hearst was sought as
a fugitive.
“I think I expressed some sym
pathy and told them they should not
despair of their daughter’s condition
because if she were ever returned to
them alive she might he in a condi
tion to be helped and possibly de
fended,” he said.
West and the judge confirmed that
the court was aware of the letter
prior to West’s appointment by Car
ter to the case.
The prosecution contends Miss
Hearst willingly joined her SLA kid
napers, helped them rob a bank and
remained with them on her own voli
tion until her capture last Sept. 18.
Miss Hearst contends she cooper
ated with her kidnapers and desper
ately wanted them to believe she had
joined their terrorist ranks because
she felt it was her only means of sur
vival. Any sign of betrayal or lack of
commitment, she said, would mean
death.
West said she “lived for the mo
ment as a sort of psychological ar
mor” to blot out the pain of being a
hostage of the SLA and a fugitive of
the law.
The defendant has testified that
she was raped by now-dead SLA
members Donald “Cinque” De-
Freeze and William Wolfe twice in
the weeks after her Feb. 4, 1974,
kidnaping.
She has described surviving SLA
member William Harris as a brute
who blackened her eye at least four
times and who, along with his wife,
Emily, kept her in fear after six SLA
members died in a shootout in May
1974. The Harrises are now in jail.
During another part oftiii
examination, Bancroft madei]
of mentioning that Westisap
sor at the University of Califs
Los Angeles and that the delta I
mother is a UC regent. Heal: I
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why the witness had had dims
the Hearsts and West said -
“necessary to interview thep
to gather information oi
Hearst’s background.’’
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Earlier Tuesday, West I
Miss Hearst initially couldnolij
some details of the banki
which she is on trial. “Itwasl|
dream," he quoted her ass
She did not remember twot
ders who were shot in the It
even though she had to step I'ASHI
their bodies to leave the bail P todas
“Patricia Hearst, improved: pnton,
is, still trembles at mentionfensylvai
SLA, he said. Hirto th
■he Pres
A&M offers L<
After an absence of many
the formal study ofLatinisreti
to Texas A&M.
In September the Modem
guages Department will
107, an introductory course, sii
Anne Marie Elmquist
head.
The class will be taughtatl
Monday-Friday and may fuft
guage requirement for
10:30 a.
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students. Dr. Wulf Koeph» j, ^
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Eventually, the Latin stuo®^ ^
include four semesters ofwoit Vd ,
Formal Latin study has not! y ^ ^
practiced at A&M since tit
1800S ’ h De,
W'K'K Ineoffic
Saturday is the applications Ly
line for the April 10 Graduated h,
Foreign Language Test atm .
A&M, says Urlich Crow, tesl|y oiis w
ministrator. | 0 f cha
The GSFLT, dependingoiL;
partmental guidelines, maykj»L 0 a ^
as an option in fulfilling •kdff'obvio
foreign language requirements \j ( .
Students wishing to apply®® n [ )() y a]
sign up in the Academic CoinWy] y ^
Center at the Academic Build | ers ear jj (
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The procedure for the collectijlul bid ir
the hotel-motel tax will he diso jPresident
at the College Station City &|describee
meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. auddorn*
A public hearing on YearI'BHe ser
the five-year Community Dev®esiden
ment Program will also be ®lped Fi
Federal regulations require tWaff whe
hearing on the progress of tbefj Months ;
ram be held every year. I. vn P r <
The rezoning of a 2.5-acre tn^Pons >n b
Southwood Valley from anafJpHoanc
Lira] to a commercial-industrial' uiltbyh
trict will also be the subject ofa|
lie hearing. The request is i
name of Area Progress Corporal*
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