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il. 73 No. 155
10 Pages
Wednesday, May 21, 1980
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
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Bush takes surprise win
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United Press International
Ronald Reagan had the 1980 Republican
esidential nomination at his fingertips to-
ly with a strong primary win in Oregon —
spite a thrashing by George Bush in
lichigan.
President Carter racked up his sixth
raight primary win over Sen. Edward
ennedy in Oregon and advanced to within
;6 delegates of sewing up the Democratic
imination at the August convention in
ew York.
Reagan’s strong Oregon win and his los-
•’s share of the big Michigan delegation in
aesday’s primaries brought him within 12
the 998 delegate votes needed to win the
!0P nomination in Detroit in July.
The former California governor almost
irely will get enough of the 65 GOP dele
te at stake Tuesday in Idaho, Kentucky
id Nevada to get a mathematical lock on
the nomination, if declarations by uncom
mitted delegates don’t do it for him before.
Carter added to his wide lead over Ken
nedy in Oregon, but Michigan’s Democra
tic delegates were allocated earlier and
there was no contest between the leaders in
the state’s beauty contest.
There are 151 Democratic delegates at
stake Tuesday, but with any kind of show
ing, Kennedy probably can keep Carter
from going over the top. That nomination
almost surely will be decided in the eight
Democratic primaries on June 3.
The vote in Tuesday’s primaries:
Michigan: With 86 percent of the vote in,
Bush had 319,268 or 57 percent and 53
delegates to Reagan’s 177,614 or 32 percent
and 29 delegates.
Oregon: With 48 percent of the vote in,
Reagan had 52,758 or 57 percent and 18
delegates to Bush’s 30,552 or 33 percent
and 11 delegates. Carter had 57,195 or 59
percent and 26 delegates to Kennedy’s
31,224 or 32 percent and 13 delegates.
Some delegate counts showed Reagan
over the magic 998, and he said “I am very
pleased, whichever figures are right,”
adding:
“There is the smell of roses in the air.
Today’s results make us more certain than
ever that we will achieve the nomination of
the party.’’
Bush said the Michigan win gave him
“more energy and encouragement to keep
battling and that’s what I intend to do.” His
campaign manager, James Baker, said
Michigan showed the voters “don’t think
the game should be over.”
White House press secretary Jody
Powell said, “In the West, the president is
running better in the primaries and cau
cuses this year than he did in 1976. This can
be a big help in giving us a running start
into the summer and the fall campaign.”
Kennedy simply dismissed Oregon,
saying, “We didn’t expect to win there,”
and pointed to June 3 as “the real super
bowl of the Democratic primaries.”
“That will be the day I think that we’re
looking forward to and we’re very hopeful
about,” Kennedy said.
Bush, who just about abandoned any
Oregon campaign to concentrate on Michi
gan, not only carried the Republican sub
urbs of Detroit, but also dominated the
smaller cities outstate. Reagan’s only
strength was in rural areas.
Michigan was no factor in the Democra
tic contest Tuesday. Michigan Democrats
divided their delegates, 71 for Kennedy, 70
for Carter, at caucuses several weeks ago.
The vote Tuesday did not include Carter
and Kennedy and, for the record, was won
by “uncommitted.”
Protesters overrun one town, threaten
iikeover of another in Korea rioting
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United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — Hundreds of
lousands of anti-government demonstra-
Ors and angry residents overran the town
tKwangju today, then carried their pro-
sts to a second town, threatening to take
over, reports said.
The town of Kwangju, 170 miles south of
eoul, seemed under the control of demon-
rators, reports said. Army paratroopers
pened fire on thousands of protesters, but
)uld not halt their advance against govern-
lent buildings and began pulling out of the
iwn s downtown areas described as
beyond control.”
UPI photographer Tony Chung, who
in Kwangju early today, said students
irried M-16 and M-l rifles and at least one
rmy armored car was being driven by
me of the demonstrators who apparently
seized it.
The protesters raced through the streets
in trucks, city buses and cars to break
through police and military cordons,
Chung said. Some reports said the vehicles
numbered 200.
Other news reports said army troops and
police were guarding a provincial govern
ment building in Kwangju to keep it from
falling into the hands of rioters.
Chung said some of the rioters, now
motorized with commandeered vehicles,
also were rampaging in the town of Chang-
sung 15 miles north of Kwangju. As Chung
was talking over the phone, shouts of de
monstrators could be overheard in Seoul.
An unofficial tabulation by reporters of
casualties in the Tuesday clashes had seven
dead and more than 50 injured. The dead
included three protesters and four police
men. An official report had six deaths in
cluding five policemen and soldiers and
one civilian. Civilian injuries were not
given officially.
Telephone communications and traffic to
and from Kwangju were cut off and Chung
had to walk back to Changsung to file the
report.
Other reports reaching Seoul said troops
fired on protesters twice today causing
more injuries.
It was the second straight day that the
soldiers fired into ranks of the protesters,
who were demonstrating against the milit
ary’s near total control of the country and
were armed with “whatever was available”
— from rocks to picks.
The riots broke out after the government
expanded martial law Sunday, banned all
political activity and closed campuses,
where the original protests against limited
martial law began.
Reports said scores of people were
sneaking into the provincial city, bypassing
police and military cordons that attempted
to seal off the city of 800,000 people.
“The police concluded the situation in
the city is beyond control and troops began
packing to withdraw, ” the reports said. “All
important government documents also
were evacuated by helicopter.”
The protesters shouted for the resigna
tion of President Choi Kyu-hah, Prime
Minister Shin Hyon-hwack and new milit
ary strongman Army Lt. Gen. Chun Doo-
hwan.
Kwangju’s four radio stations were des
troyed by the demonstrators.
Phone strike in sixth day
Glis Koeplin, one of about 550 General Telephone employees on
strike in Bryan-College Station, pickets despite the afternoon sun at
Culpepper Plaza Tuesday. GTE employees have yet to reach an
agreement in the dispute over better employee benefits. About
8,000 GTE employees are on strike in four southwestern states.
Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
)PEC starts new rate hikes
Unfair practices charge filed
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iraq and Qatar
)day joined five other OPEC nations in
lising oil prices, setting off what analysts
ly is another chaotic worldwide increase
icrude oil rates.
The Iraqi and Qatari announcements
ame hours after Kuwait, Indonesia and the
Inited Arab Emirates increased tbeir
rices by $2 a barrel retroactive of May 1,
Me Algeria increased the cost of its ben-
hmark crude by $1 per barrel, back-dated
) May 16.
The sources in the Gulf predicted Libya
fould also boost its prices, with other
members in the 13-nation cartel following
suit.
Venezuela increased its prices by $1 to
$3.50 a barrel, depending of the crude
quality.
Sudden oil price hikes of up to $2 a barrel
by four OPEC nations are the opening sal
vo in a new round of increases worldwide,
analysts say.
Oil industry analysts noted an increase in
OPEC oil prices will prompt the world’s
major non-OPEC oil producers — Mexico,
Egypt, Norway, Britain and Oman — to lift
their rates as well, since their policies have
always been to stay a few dollars ahead of
the average OPEC rate.
The spate of price hikes apparently was
caused hy Saudi Arabia’s decision last
Wednesday to lift its rates from $26 to $28
per barrel. The Saudi prices had been the
lowest in OPEC.
Although the Saudis said they raised
their price to help narrow the gap between
themselves and the other OPEC produc
ers, and make it easier for the cartel to
restore a single unified price, their move
has had the opposite effect.
“The Saudis raised the floor price,”
noted one Western oil analyst, “so the
others just pushed up the ceiling.”
United Press International
SAN ANGELO — A Communication
Workers of America spokesman Tuesday
said an unfair labor practices complaint was
filed against General Telephone of the
Southwest because some workers who
joined the strike in its fifth day were fired.
The company dismissed the charge,
however, saying a probationary employee
was fired by mistake and later reinstated.
“A supervisor let a probationary em
ployee go, not realizing what that action
constituted. And when this was recognized
by higher management levels the em
ployee was immediately reinstated,” said
Joe Collins, GTE’s vice president of public
affairs. “No one has been fired for joining
the strike.”
Earlier, CWA issued a statement from
bargaining committee chairman T.O.
Moses announcing the filing of an unfair
labor practice charge.
“National Labor Relations Board unfair
labor practice charges were filed against
General Telephone of the Southwest for
firing employees who joined the strike in its
fifth day.
“Apparently, General Telephone of the
Southwest is engaging in an attempt to in
timidate its employees who may wish to
join the strikers by notifying them when
they do that they are fired,” Moses said.
“CWA will file charges with the NLRB
whenever and wherever this occurs as any
employee now working has a right to
strike.”
The union said the charges were filed as
soon as the district office in Austin learned
of the dismissal of a worker.
Meanwhile, the union scheduled a meet
ing in Dallas for today to apprise its national
representatives on the issues that led to
Friday’s walkout.
A CWA spokeswoman said a dozen na
tional representatives from Texas, Oklaho
ma, Arkansas and southeastern New Mex
ico — the areas where GTE-SW operates
— will be assigned during the meeting to
assist striking CWA leaders and local
leaders.
Both union and company spokesmen re
peated Tuesday that stalled contract talks
will not be resumed in the immediate fu
ture.
The company also reported Tuesday that
incidents of cablecutting sabotage that
totaled 47 through Monday apparently had
ceased.
GTE officials also said 743 craft workers
— representing about nine percent of the
CWA bargaining force — had returned to
their jobs. As recently as Sunday, the com
pany said, only 382 of the nearly 8,000
employees were at work.
A mailout detailing the company’s three-
year contract offer was sent to all em
ployees, officials said.
Quebec referendum puts brakes
on move to secede from Canada
A picture tells all... we lost
A despondent Texas A&M baseballer cradles head
in hands after the Aggies were eliminated from the
Southwest Conference post-season tournament.
The Aggies lost to Arkansas and Texas Tech, while
regular season champion the University of Texas
won the tournament. For more on the tournament,
see page 8
Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
United Press International
MONTREAL — The people of Quebec
voted in record numbers to keep their
French-speaking province in Canada by
giving a resounding “no” vote to independ
ence in a landmark referendum that could
have led to the breakup of country.
Tuesday’s rejection of a mandate to pur
sue independence as a new North Amer
ican state was a bitter blow to Quebec Pre
mier Rene Levesque’s dream of a “rendez
vous with history.”
“It hurts,” a shaken Levesque said after
Quebecers voted overwhelmingly to keep
Quebec in the 113-year-old Canadian
federation rather than take the road to
secession.
In the 107-word referendum question,
Levesque asked 4.36 million eligible voters
for a mandate to negotiate for Quebec
“sovereignty” while maintaining only an
economic “association” with the rest of
Canada.
A record 83 percent of eligible voters
trooped to the polls in the first time they
have ever been asked directly whether
they wanted to remain in Canada — and
their answer was conclusive.
With 98 percent of the ballots counted,
unofficial results showed 59.4 percent
opposed to Levesque’s plans for separate
nationhood and 40.6 percent, in favor, rep
resenting a “no” vote of2,155,622 Quebec
ers and a “yes” vote of 1,469,370.
It was a sound, across-the-board defeat
for Levesque that may imperil his leader
ship of the Parti Quebecois and force a
provincial election this year.
T have never been as proud to be a
Qubecer and a Canadian,” said Canadian
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who,
although a Quebecer, entered politics 15
years ago to counter the rising threat of
Quebec nationalism.
“All of us have the opportunity to show
the whole world that we are not the last
colonials on Earth, but among the first peo
ple to free themselves from the old world of
nation-states. ”
Quebec Liberal Party leader Claude
Ryan, who had headed the pro-Canada
forces opposing Levesque’s plans, basked
in the victory.
“We said tonight we hold Canadian roots
dearly and intend to develop them,” Ryan
said. “The verdict clearly showed our in
tention to continue searching for a future
on the road to Canadian federalism.”
The Quebec Liberal leader said the the
rejection of Levesque’s proposals required
him to call a quick election. But the dimi
nutive, 57-year-old Levesque said the
“rendezvous with destiny” was only de
layed.
Bathed in waves of thunderous chants of
“Le Quebec Libre” and “Rene, Rene” that
rolled through the local sports arena, he
addressed 8,500 supporters after the re
ferendum, telling them not to lose heart.
“If I understand you rightly, you are
trying to say ‘until next time,”’ Levesque
said.
Levesque, fighting to choke back tears
following an eight-minute standing ova
tion, made no attempt to conceal the pain
and bitterness of his loss of a goal sought for
the better part of two decades.
The French make up 80 percent of
Quebec’s population but only 25 percent of
Canada’s. Levesque contended the French
cannot protect their cultural and linguistic
rights unless they attain sovereignty.
U.S.-built
hall collapses
in Berlin
United Press International
BERLIN — West Berlin’s American-
built Congress Hall collapsed today, trap
ping visitors inside, police said.
“There are definitely people inside the
building,” a police spokesman said. “But
we just don’t know how many. ”
A technician who escaped from the
building’s main hall told reporters “only a
few people” were in the building at the
time.
He said there was a “slow rumbling, then
the building began to sway and there was a
big bang. Windows started falling in.”
The building gave way about five mi
nutes before the start of a press conference
to mark the opening of a German stock
brokers meeting in the auditorium, which
is frequently used for conventions.
The American-built Congress Hall was
the United States’ contribution to the In
ternational Building Exhibition held in
Berlin in 1957.