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L THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1980 JUNIORS ARE YOU AN ACTIVE, INVOLVED AG WITH A 3.25 GPR & 75 CREDIT HOURS? □ YES □ NO IF YES, YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO BE CONSI DERED FOR MEMBERSHIP IN CAP & GOWN CHAP TER OF MORTAR BOARD, THE SENIOR HONOR SOCIETY AT A&M. INTERESTED □ YES 062 NO. B&M BOOKSTORE nation has a wide variety of paperback books for all to enjoy INFORMATION SESSIONS FEB. 6 FEB. 7 7:00 PM 7:00 PM RM. 601 RM. 301 RUDDER RUDDER Fiction Mysteries Westerns Best Sellers Magazines Comic Books Prison war of race and revenge launched by contraband liquor IF UNABLE TO ATTEND INFORMATION SHEETS WILL BE AVAIL ABLE IN YMCA 110 AND FROM DEPT. HEADS & COLLEGE DEANS. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 845-5974 Collectors stamps and supplies Largest selection of science fiction in the area 3602 E. 29th St. Bryan United Press International SANTA FE, N.M.—What seems certain to become the bloodiest pris on riot in American history began with a handful of prisoners drinking contraband liquor in the recreation room of Dormitory E. Two guards, making their 1:30 a.m. check, tried to break up the party early Saturday. They never had a chance. They were quickly taken hostage and the rebel prisoners were on their way to the administrative building where they threw the master switch es, unlocking entire cellblocks in the and EAT WELLTOO! SAFEWAY Yellow Popcorn asSSf Town ^*^4 House 2 ib. . Bag Siiiiifi m Scotch Buy Rice * W" Lon 9 s Grain 2 lb. (4 Lb. Bag ... 99*) Bag • Fruit on the Bottom • ••••••• 8 Ox. Ctns. A & W Root Beer Regular or Sugar Free itij c 16 0z. Btls.9 6-Pack Carbonated, Reg. or Diet Cragmont Soft Drinks €| C!' 1 Dairy-Deli Foods! Margarine Md? 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Within 30 minutes,, about 250 of those inmates had seized control of the New Mexico State Penitentiary, taken 14 guards hostage and begun their 36-hour war of racial violence and revenge against “snitches.” Inmates were hacked apart with homemade knives, tortured with blow torches, castrated and raped. “When this thing started people just turned into animals,” said one inmate who told of being bound and raped by 10 prisoners. “I’m lucky to be here.” By early Tuesday the bodies of 35 men — all inmates and most of them Mexican-American — had been rec overed and another 15 inmates were missing. Officials said they expected to find more bodies in the still smol dering buildings, and this riot could surpass the bloody record of 43 killed in the Attica, N.Y., riot in 1971. Buildings were set ablaze, with many of the prisoners dying of smoke inhalation. Damage to the facility was estimated as high as $40 million. Once they had taken over the pris on, the inmates’ team of negotiators demanded an end to overcrowding, better food and more visiting pri vileges. But the rebels were more con cerned with revenge than reform. They rifled administrative files to find where the informants — the de spised “snitches” — were housed. A “death squad” armed with homemade knives, clubs and a blow torch went from cell to cell, maim ing, killing and raping, surviving in mates said. Authorities said they could not confirm there was a “death squad.” They said while some of the atroci ties were for revenge, others were racially motivated. The rebels’ fury was fed by drugs from the prison infirmary, where they gobbled down incredible mix tures of tranquilizers, sleeping pills and insulin — anything they thought would get them high. Some inmates also sniffed solvents and glue from the prison’s industrial facilities. Seven of the deaths were attri buted to self-administered drug overdoses, and prison officials say the violence was heightened by drug-crazed inmates. Prison officials reported some of the dead had their eyes gouged out, their sexual organs removed and their arms and legs severed. On Monday, as the surviving pris oners huddled in the 20 degree cold, separated in groups of 50-60, a small flock of buzzards hovered in the skies above the smoky stench emanating from the prison, v Denver gold probably safe atop Capitol United Press International DENVER — Thousands of dollars worth of gold lies atop the Colorado State Capitol, but officials aren’t worried about thieves. They say even with the soaring cost of gold it would take a thief with acrobatic skills of a monkey and brains of a gnat to try to chip a for tune off the statehouse roof. “There’s only one way to get to the roof and it’s constantly guarded,” said Hugh Fowler, a Republican state senator. Fowler said it would be an impos sible task for someone to try to re trieve the gold. He said natural ele ments have taken their toll and muclni of the gold “is probably all over the Capitol Hill neighborhood.” The impressive dome, which sits 272 feet above the ground, was firs tz covered with 24 carat gold in 190 S when the Colorado Mining Associa tion donated 200 ounces of the mate — rial to adorn the structure. In 1950, another 50 ounces were donated for repair and refurbishing . Legislators have appropriated fund s for a similar job later this year. It A 2 no cheap task these days with tlx ^ price of gold now about $700 xar ounce. Fowler said if anybody was wil H. ing to work for about 10 cents a_Ti hour, they might scour some goL •« out of the gutter, but it could hardA be worth anyone’s time. Lee White, director of the Color^3« do Department of Administratioin which is charged with overseeing tlm- capitol and other state building-r^ said when the new gold is applies later this year, the most expensiv-^— cost to the state will not be the metx but the labor to put up the scaffolc= ing and the actual application of tl—^ gold. The gold to be applied will 1—=z .004 inches thick. Only 40 ounces: will be used. “Probably very little gold is ev<= up there now,” White said, have had guys on bosun’s chairs r spect it, and it is very heavily pitte- It’s almost all gone in very man places.”