The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 154
10 Pages
Wednesday, May 14, 1980
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President Carter and Ronald Reagan,
w within easy reach of the 1980 presiden-
nominations, won nearly 50 new dele-
ies each in Maryland and Nebraska —
tories sweetened by the memory of de-
its four years past.
Carter beat Sen. Edward Kennedy and
agan bested George Bush in the two
imaries Tuesday. The results gave Carter
percent of the delegates needed to lock
the nomination; Reagan had about 88
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Kennedy called the outcome “a reason-
close split on the delegates” but
1, “Quite frankly, I would fyive hoped
it we could have done better in both of
jse states.”
Bush, with little solace to be found in the
returns, looked toward next week.
“On to Michigan and Oregon,” he said.
Reagan was elated, saying, “I can’t help
but feel very good about it because it’s
more than I expected.”
Carter’s campaign chief, Robert Strauss,
praised Kennedy and talked more about
party unity than the latest victories.
“Senator Kennedy has run a good cam
paign the last couple of months,” Strauss
said, adding the Carter camp will do every
thing it can to soothe any “natural irrita
tions that develop in a campaign like this.”
Strauss said he believes “those we’ve run
against will be responsive.”
The primary voting:
Maryland: With all of the precincts in,
Carter had 221,656 or 47 percent and 32
delegates to Kennedy’s 178,517 or 38 per
cent and 26 delegates. Reagan had 79,116
or 48 percent and 18 delegates to Bush’s
66,756 or 41 percent and 12 delegates.
Nebraska: With 92 percent in, Carter
had 66,095 or 47 percent and 14 delegates
to Kennedy’s 53,442 or 38 percent and 10
delegates. Reagan had 140,010 or 78 per
cent and 24 delegates to Bush’s 29,236 or
16 percent and 1 delegate.
Rep. John Anderson of Illinois, who
dropped out of the GOP race to run as an
independent, was on the Republican ballot
in both states. In Maryland he got 9 percent
and no delegates, in Nebraska 6 percent
and at one point pulled one delegate out of
Reagan’s column.
Reagan swamped Bush in Nebraska, but
Anderson held the balance in Maryland.
Had Bush taken all Anderson’s votes, he
would have gained a virtual tie with
Reagan.
“Anderson!” exclaimed Dorann Gunder
son, Bush’s Maryland coordinator. “And
the man is not even in the Republican
race!”
Carter captured less than 50 percent of
the vote in each state.
In what some observers believe is a signi
ficant trend, 10 percent of the Democrats
trekking to the polls in Nebraska and Mary
land voted for uncommitted delegates — or
registered a hostile “none of the above.”
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MISSELS, Belgium — Secretary of
Edmund Muskie told NATO nations
lythe U.S. commitment to the alliance
onger than ever, but Washington also
ts unequivocal support from its part-
lie alliance was holding a joint meeting
foreign and defense ministers for only
i second time in its 31-year history to
uss NATO’s response to the Soviet in
lion of Afghanistan.
Diplomatic sources said the ministers
e agreed to accelerate several defensive
[igrams to enable the United States to use
es that had been earmarked for NATO
; Persian Gulf, instead, if this becomes
sssary.
e NATO meeting coincided with an
ordinary session in Warsaw of the
munist Party chiefs, foreign ministers
|d defense ministers of the Soviet-
inated Warsaw Pact nations. Soviet
iident Leonid Brezhnev and Premier
xei Kosygin both were present at the
level meeting.
Polish leader Edward Gierek appealed at
opening of the meeting for detente and
icussions between the power blocs, and
ilomats speculated some kind of diplo-
jtic initiative might be forthcoming,
luskiewill meet Soviet Foreign Minister
idrei Gromyko in Vienna on Friday.
While Muskie, according to U.S. offi-
ds, stressed the need for “coherence” in
e alliance, one European minister de
nounced the United States for lack of
leadership and coherence itself.
Outgoing Belgian Foreign Minister
Henri Simonet told Muskie and other
ministers, “If leadership is not always
understood, its because there isn’t always
much to understand, and if therefore coh
erence does not appear clearly, it’s quite
simply because there isn’t any.”
U.S. officials said Muskie told the allies
the United States wants specific support
over Afghanistan and Iran “that goes
beyond rhetoric. ”
He said that concrete steps had to be
made now, not in the interest of confronta
tion with the Soviet Union, but to lessen
the chance of confrontation later on.
Muskie said the burden of the West must
be shared in ways that are equitable and
efficient, the officials said.
He told the allies that President Carter
had displayed “6 months of incredible pati
ence,” and that his actions had been as
moderate as possible given the mood of the
U.S. public and Congress:*
The U.S. officials quoted Muskie as
saying he expected the nine European
Common Market nations, all but one of
which are also NATO members, to live up
to the spirit and letter of their agreement
April 22 to impose stiff economic sanctions
on Iran if by May 17 there is no decisive
progress toward releasing the U.S. hos
tages in Iran.
Common Market foreign ministers were
scheduled to meet in Naples on that date to
decide whether to go ahead with the sane-
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MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — At
lunch time or after school, Jason, 16,
and Dawn, 15, would lead their
friends in long talks about suicide
and reincarnation. No one knew how
serious they were.
No one knew, that is, until early
Monday when Jason Perrine and
Dawn Swisher stole a 1972 Chev
rolet Camaro, roared at top speed
across the North Mercer Junior High
parking lot and smashed through the
concrete wall of the school s gymna
sium.
Jason, behind the wheel, was kil
led instantly. Dawn, who apparently
had a change of heart and dived
under the dashboard at the last
second, was hospitalized in serious
condition.
Dr. John Eisele of the King Coun
ty Medical Examiner’s office said a
note, signed by Jason and found in
the car, was “sufficient evidence” the
cause of his death was suicide.
The tragedy stunned the teena
gers of the affluent Seattle suburb,
particularly the couple’s close
friends, who said they had “jokingly”
discussed detailed suicide plans with
them many times.
“It was a game. It was just a big
game,” Sheryl Riebman, 15, said,
shaking her head, on the verge of
tears.
“They took the idea too far, I
think,” said Michael Mead, 16,
another friend.
Sheryl, a blond junior high stu
dent with braces on her teeth, said
she, Jason, Dawn and two other
teen-agers began talking about rein
carnation months ago after Dawn
read the book, “Illusions,” by
Richard Bach.
“We re hoping to get Richard
Bach to just talk to Dawn when she
comes out of it,” she said.
In a fantasy hatched by the group,
Sheryl said, Jason and Dawn were
supposed to steal a red Italian sports
car. They would die in a flaming
crash at their old junior high school
and move to a “higher plane of exist
ence.”
A year later to the day, Sheryl and
another teen-ager would kill them
selves in the same way, except in a
green sports car.
Instead of a red Ferrari or Maser-
ati, Jason and Dawn took a car be
longing to Dawn’s sister, Diane.
They crashed into the school shortly
after 5 a.m.
“I didn’t really want to commit
suicide and I thought they didn’t
want to either,” Sheryl whispered,
her eyes downcast. “No one knew
they were serious.”
Friends and families said both
Jason and Dawn were troubled,
alienated kids who despite seeing
psychologists were having extreme
difficulty adjusting to their first year
of high school.
They lost interest in classes and
pleaded for permission to drop out
and move into an apartment
together. Because the couple had
stopped attending school anyway,
their parents reluctantly allowed
them to withdraw, effective last
Friday.
Lawrence Smith, principal of
Mercer Island High School, said he
was “very concerned” that students
could be so unhappy with their lives
they would consider suicide.
“If there is a group of students
thinking along those lines, there are
some things that have to be done,
some rather drastic things,” Smith
said.
tions. But there is some disagreement
whether the sanctions should apply to ex
isting contracts.
One official said that disappointment was
the mildest word that could be used to
describe Muskie’s feelings about the deci
sion of the French National Olympic Com
mittee to participate in the games.
Tornadoes
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Two tornadoes tore through downtown
Kalamazoo, Mich., killing five people, in
juring 85 others with flying glass and de
bris, and possibly trapping others in flat
tened buildings.
Civil Defense spokesman Ken Swisher
said authorities found and identified five
bodies — downgrading a previous death
toll of seven persons. He said some of the
victims apparently were counted twice.
Gov. William Milliken mobilized 200
state troopers to patrol the streets today
and stop looters who roamed the debris-
strewn downtown area and a wrecked shop
ping mall after the twisters late Tuesday
afternoon.
“It’s bad, it’s just chaos here,” said one
resident surveying the downtown.
A state of emergency was declared by
Mayor Edward Annen and all available
police officers were called to patrol the sea
led-off downtown area. A curfew was im
posed until 7 a.m. today, when officials
planned to resume a search of the debris for
more victims.
Five twisters touched down throughout
the state — two in Kalamazoo, one in sub
urban Kalamazoo Township and one each
near the southeastern locations of Howell
and Fowlerville.
The National Weather Service also re
ported three twisters in Ohio and three in
Texas, one of them in Calvert. Twenty-five
twisters have touched down throughout
the country in the last two days.
The dead in Kalamazoo included two
people crushed when the back wall of a
department store collapsed, a man trapped
in a laundromat that caught fire when a gas
line ruptured, a man blown from a scaffold
in Kalamazoo Township and a motorcylist.
Scores of other people, battered by
flying glass and falling debris, were treated
in local hospitals.
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Cooling it
What looks like a girl caught in Tuesday’s thunder
showers is actually a girl taking a break in Rudder
Fountain last week. Melissa Witt, a junior range scien
ce major, decided the fountain was as good a place as
any for a cooling dip.
Photo by Dave Tollefson
Judge to decide this week
on suit by 18 Olympians
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge says
he will rule this week on a lawsuit by 18
American athletes who are challenging the
U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision to
boycott the 1980 Moscow Games.
The deadline for a final U.S. decision on
whether to enter a team in the Moscow
Games is May 24.
TPEA local
meeting set
for tonight
The Texas A&M University chapter of
the Texas Public Employees Association
will meet tonight at 7:30 in 402 Rudder.
Gary Rodgers, state president, will be
the keynote speaker at the meeting. He
will be accompanied by other state and
local TPEA dignitaries.
TPEA is an organization which works for
improving the working conditions of state
employees.
U.S. District Judge John Pratt, who is
hearing arguments on the legality of the
American boycott, said he will rule on the
issue by the end of the week.
In arguments Tuesday, lawyers repre
senting the 18 athletes said the USOC lacks
power to refuse to send a team, as re
quested by President Carter in retaliation
for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
However, a USOC lawyer contended the
committee has full authority to accept or
reject invitations to Moscow.
The 18 athletes filed suit on April 23,
contending their constitutional rights were
violated by the boycott.
The suit argued the committee has no
authority under the 1978 Amateur Sports
Act to prevent U.S. participation.
On April 12, the USOC House of Dele
gates approved a resolution to boycott the
games unless the Soviets withdraw 100,000
troops from Afghanistan by May 20.
“I can’t find anything wrong with the
members of the House of Delegates
agreeing with the president of the United
States,” committee lawyer Patrick Sullivan
said. “That’s not against the law.”
Attorney William Allen, representing
the athletes, said when Congress passed
the Amateur Sports Act it “very deliberate
ly withheld” from the committee any au
thority to deny athletes the right to com
pete in the games.
He said the USOC is “not authorized to
go beyond sports-related considerations,”
and it clearly “has made a political deci
sion.”
Plaintiffs in the suit include 1976 gold
medal winners Arnie Robinson, a long jum
per, and Mac Wilkins, a discus thrower;
Anita DeFrantz, a member of the women’s
eight-oared shell and a bronze medal win
ner at the 1976 Montreal games; weightlif-
ters Philip Grippaldi, a member of the 1976
team, Robert Giordano, Louis Mucardo
and Terry Manton; rowers Carol Brown, a
bronze medal winner in 1976, Judy Geer
and Jan Polchikoff, both 1976 team mem
bers, Carlie Geer, Jan Harville, Patricia
Brink, Patricia Spratlen, Charles Alter-
kruse, and Robert Espeseth, an alternate
on the 1976 team; fencer Bruce Jugan; wa
ter polo team member Peter Schnugg; shot
putter Allan Feuerbach, a member of the
1972 and 1976 teams; Robert Ernst, coach
of the 1980 U.S. rowing team, and Burton
Shaw, chairman of the national governing
body for water polo and a member of the
executive board of the Olympic Com
mittee.
U. S. protests ‘buzzing’ by Cuban planes
Bahamas denies vessel linked to CIA
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NASSAU, Bahamas — The Bahamas
government has rejected Cuba’s latest ex
planation that the U.S. Central Intelli
gence Agency provoked the fatal Cuban
fighter plane attack on the Bahamas’ De
fense Forces vessel Flamingo.
Bahamian External Affairs Minister Paul
L. Adderley denied late Tuesday that his
government is involved in any way in
American intelligence activity.
“I don’t want the Cubans to think they
can use us as a pawn in their international
affairs and we do not propose to let them,”
Adderley said.
Adderley made the statement following
receipt of a message from Cuba’s Foreign
Affairs Minister Isidore Malmierca saying a
diplomatic delegation would not be coming
to Nassau Tuesday as scheduled for a
second round of conciliation talks with
Bahamas officials on the Flamingo affair.
The message included an editorial from
Granma, the official Cuban newspaper,
which Malmierca said accurately stated his
government’s position.
The editorial again claimed the 103-foot
Flamingo attacked and shot at two un
armed Cuban fishing vessels in internation
al waters without warning, boarded them
and towed them away. This created “the
appearance of a pirate attack, which is what
caused the incident,” the editorial said.
“We do not blame the government of the
Bahamas — the CIA works through
agents,” Granma said. “In the Bahamas,
complete Maffias (sic) of Yankee gangsters,
which monopolize smuggling, gambling
and drugs, operate. The government of the
Bahamas itself is a victim of the action of
these elements.
“It is very difficult to think this is not one
more provocation organized by the
Yankees.”
Adderley said in the talks with Cuban
diplomats Monday, “Cuban Vice Minister
of Foreign Affairs Dr. Pelegrin Torras com
municated deep regret for the sinking of
the Flamingo and the loss of lives, which he
described as a ‘regrettable mistake.” He
said Torras also acknowledged violation of
Bahamian territorial integrity at Ragged Is
land Sunday when Cuban MiG fighters
buzzed Duncan Town for several hours.
Torras said disciplinary measures will be
taken by the armed forces against the air
men, Adderley reported.
The Granma editorial did not say how
the CIA instigated the “Flamingo inci
dent.”
“Cuban-United States’ problems have
nothing to do with the unprovoked attack in
sinking of the Flamingo or killing of Baha
mians and subsequent violations of Baha
mian territory and harassment of Duncan
Town, Ragged Island, ” Adderley declared.
The United States Tuesday strongly pro
tested the third incident of aggressive acts
by Cuban fighter planes in three days —
Monday’s buzzing by two MiGs of a U.S.
Coast Guard helicopter helping search for
the four victims of Saturday’s attack on the
Flamingo. Bahamas Prime Minister Lyn-
den O. Pindling also protested the harass
ment of the U.S. helicopter.
The U.S. Coast Guard said the cutter
Courageous would travel today to the area
of the patrol boat’s sinking to help search
for the bodies of the missing crewmen.
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