THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1978
Page 9
Aggies meet
Red Raiders
The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band
will perform once again during
the halftime show at Saturday’s
football game. The military band
formed their famous block “T”
formation last week at the first
home game this year. As in the
past, the formation brought the
crowd to its feet.
Old Aggies, new Aggies and
even some future Aggies will be
in attendance when the Texas
A&M University football team
meets the Red Raiders of Texas
Tech University in the fourth
game of the season. The game
will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Kyle
Field. The Corps of Cadets will
march onto the field at noon.
The Aggies lead the nation in
total defense and rank third in
total offense. The Aggies also
lead the Southwest Conference
in scoring with 132 points and
are second in defense against
scoring, having allowed only 12
points last year the Aggies beat
Texas Tech 33-17.
ubmarine plot sinks;
arrested, 1 sought
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[ e cont«®r. LOUIS (UPI) — Two men
he w«Je been arrested and a third is
hy the il n 8 sou ght in what the FBI says
d I 't to steal a U.S. Navy nuclear
larine and possibly fire a nu-
missileat New London, Conn..
lother East Coast city to cover
;etaway.
e FBI said the conspirators told
eral undercover agent they had
rchaser for the submarine, the
Trepang, based in New Lon-
In announcing the breakup of
jizarre plot Wednesday night,
ts said the identity of the pros-
ve buyer — if any — was not
ir “Hy 16 ^ ot 'Hduded sinking a ship
tiidiii kr ,ew London harbor to create a
ptembeiI ersion ’ boardin 8 die Trepang,
■ing its crew, and sailing into the
a story f 111 ^ the FBI said '
en theta)A emar( j p eene y 0 f tl u , pm j M
u Ha Ven , Conn., said at least 20
*' I Upts have been working on the
M< in earnest since August, al-
pngh at first the agency had trou-
taking the plot — reminiscent of
ames Bond thriller — seriously.
and cold
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>n a pile
lit sounds like a Woody Allen
[vie when you hear it for the first
Feeney said.
But, he said, "The documentation
was there for us to believe they
were serious . And you’ve got to nip
it in the hud. You can’t let these
things run their course.”
The suspects, Edward J. Men
denhall, 24, a life insurance com
pany employee from Rochester,
N.Y., and Kurtis J. Schmitt, a 22-
year-old carpet cleaner formerly
from St. Louis and now living in
Kansas City, Mo., were arrested
Wednesday in St. Louis.
They were to be arraigned Thurs
day before a U.S. magistrate on
charges of conspiring to steal a sub
marine, punishable by a maximum
of 10 years in prison and a $10,000
fine.
Roy Klager, special agent in
charge of the St. Louis FBI office,
refused to give details of the arrest
of Mendenhall and Schmitt other
than to say the men were unarmed.
Klager said a fugitive warrant was
issued for a third suspect, James W.
Cosgrove, 26, of Ovid, N.Y.
Klager said Mendenhall, Schmitt
and Cosgrove traveled from St.
Louis to New York last month to
meet with an undercover FBI agent
to plot the theft of the Trepang from
its harbor at New London
“They explained their plan to
train a 12-man crew to steal the
submarine and take it to a destina
tion in the Atlantic Ocean where it
would be turned over to a pur
chaser, Klager said.
The FBI said Cosgrove gave the
agent a written plan that described
an attempt to board the Trepang
from a submarine tender, a vessel
used to maintain submarines.
“They intended to use plastic ex
plosives to sink the tender in the
New London harbor to create con
fusion and block other vessels,”
Klager said. “They then would
board the Trepang, kill the crew
members on board and steam out of
New London harbor.”
He said to create a diversion and
to cover the flight, several alterna
tives were mentioned, “in
cluding firing one of the sub’s mis
siles at New London or, alterna
tively, on one of several principle
East Co
The authoritative reference book,
Jane’s Fighting Ships, says the Tre
pang carries nuclear missiles. A
Navy spokesman in Washington said
the vessel’s primary armaments
were cnventional torpedoes, but
confirmed it is equipped with mis
siles.
,ies
forecast
election
Democrats John Hill, Bob
Krueger and Phil Gramm are lead
ing their opponents, according to a
local survey conducted by students
at Texas A&M University.
The students, enrolled in political
science courses, interviewed some
200 residents of the Bryan-College
Station area.
Residents' names were picked at
random from a telephone book and
asked questions that dealt with vot
ing plans for the coming election.
Everyone included in the survey is a
registered voter and eligible to vote
in November.
Democrat John Hill led Republi
can Bill Clements 48 percent to 20
percent in the race for Texas gover
nor.
Bob Krueger, Democratic Party
candidate for United States senator,
edged GOP incumbent Sen. John
Tower, with 36 percent of those
surveyed supporting Krueger.
Tower received 33 percent of the
surveyed voters’ support.
Phil Gramm, Democratic Party
candidate for the 6th Congressional
District, led Republican opponent
Wes Mowery 51 percent to 15 per
cent.
Out of the 200 people surveyed,
approximately 60 percent said they
were definitely going to vote during
the November election.
Political science Professors James
Dyer and Bob Berstein stressed,
however, that while the poll is a rel
atively accurate representation of
the voters’ current feelings, a month
remains before the actual election.
The Texas A&M student surveys,
conducted the past three years,
have a reputation for accuracy. Stu
dents polling voters before the 1976
presidential election were able to
come within 5 percent of the actual
outcome.
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