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Vol. 74 No. 37
12 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, October 21, 1980
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
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By NANCY ANDERSEN
Battalion Stall
■he Brazos County Sheriff s Department is conducting con-
ping investigation into possible prostitution at three local mas-
e parlors which resulted in the arrest of five women on charges
Prostitution last week.
[he investigation began last July, Detective Dick Gulledge
1, after the department received numerous complaints from
jople living near Ann’s Massage Clinic, Lady T’s Massage Clinic
I the Lion’s Den Massage Clinic. All three are south of College
Sation, across from the Texas World Speedway.
The complainants said they knew what was going on out
Ire,” Gulledge said. So under the direction of Sheriff Bobby
Iger, Gulledge formed a vice squad to determine if solicitation
I prostitution and actual prostitution were occurring,
he vice squad is made up of volunteer police officers from the
lan and College Station police departments who posed as
|ential “johns” (customers) in the establishments.
his investigation resulted in 12 arrest warrants on charges of
nstitution against 11 women. Only five women have been
Jested, Gulledge said. He said it’s not an easy matter to get
i all arrested because the women are from all over the state.
[Three women were arrested when the department raided the
three clinics Thursday. They are Carol Sue Hartman, 53, of 124
Lakeside Drive in Bryan; Robin Lynn Jackson, 25, of14930 Sandy
Creek in Houston and Joanna Lynn Ryan, 27, of 161 Mobil Ave. in
Bryan. Jill L. Cooper of 1802B Potomac Place in College Station
and Joanna Wilhams were arrested Friday.
All are out of jail on a $250 cash bond except for Ryan who was
arrested on two charges and released on a $500 cash bond. The
charges are Class B misdemeanors under section 403 of the Texas
Penal Code. If convicted, these women face fines not to exceed
$1,000 and confinement not to exceed 180 days.
Gulledge said he is still investigating the possibility of aggra
vated promotion of prostitution.
“Aggravated promotion is keeping a place of prostitution where
two or more girls are kept as a stable,’’ he explained. It is a third
degree felony. Third degree felonies carry prison sentences of
between two and 10 years.
Aggravated promotion of prostitution charges would be
brought against the owners, not the masseuses, Gulledge said.
Brazos County Attorney John M. Barron Jr. will prosecute
these cases, Gulledge said.
In other action, the district attorney filed three seperate civil
suits against the establishments for being a public nuisance. The
suits seek to permanently close the businesses.
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PEC now ‘dead duck’
Iran-Iraq war freezes all pricing stra tegy
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Leading oil analysts say OPEC is “out of
isiness” until the Iraq-Iran war ends and even then will be
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r. IndiviA mpered in moves to raise prices tor two or three years,
fiddle m The analysts say the fighting between two of the cartel’s found-
s and nxSgmembers could not have come at a worse time for the Organi-
ir; and BoiipRion of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
It broke out only weeks before a planned 20th anniversary
immit which was to ratify a long-term pricing strategy designed
mu si 1 P rov ^ e some much-needed “predictability” to the world oil
Compleii ar ^ et ar| d guide OPEC through the 1980s. The meeting was
lance and! ■ rKe ^ e< h
But now, said Dr. Marwan Iskandar, publisher of the weekly
nNahar Arab Report and Memo, “OPEC is a dead duck."
Ttis out of business until the Iran-Iraq war ends, and even then
s ability to raise prices will be hampered for two or three years,”
. kandar said.
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The long-term pricing strategy called for steady but gradual
icreases in the real price of OPEC oil based on a formula combin-
ng Western economic growth rates, inflation and currency fluc-
lations.
It cannot be applied now, Iskandar said, “unless OPEC can
ontrol its production and keep the market in a rough equilibrium
to maintain its price.”
“But when the war ends,” he said, “both Iran and Iraq are going
to have to expand their production to pay for the fighting and the
billions of dollars of reconstruction.”
Iskandar estimates Iran will have to export a minimum of 3
million barrels a day — three times its pre-war exports. Iraq, he
said, will try to increase its output by between 500,000 and 1
million barrels a day.
As the war drags on, both countries are expected to make deals
for raising capital they will pay off in crude oil when the fighting
ends.
Iskandar said the best case scenario would be for Iran and Iraq
to patch up their differences and eventually enable OPEC to
function as before.
In the worst case, he said, the bitterness will continue indefi
nitely, hampering OPEC’s ability to respond as a cartel to market
conditions and encouraging Baghdad and Tehran to try to recoup
their market shares and raise capital by bringing their oil prices
down.
“But even if the other OPEC countries agree to cut back their
production to make room for Iran and Iraq,” Iskandar said, “the
best this will do is keep prices from falling.”
“The steady increases envisaged in the long-term strategy prog
ram will probably have to wait until 1982, provided there are no
other disruptions in supply.”
Mark Dutton and Troy Jenkins wheel up and down “We get lucky sometimes,” Mark said. “Someone will
the ramps of a deserted Kyle Field. The carts carry leave a key in and we can fool around.”
ice and drinks to concessions stands in the upper decks.
Saturday death ruled suicide
By JENNIFER AFFLERRACH
Battalion Staff
Justice of the Peace Carolyn Hensarling ruled suicide Monday
in the death of a Houston man whose body was found after a
shooting in a Texas A&M University chapel Saturday night.
A Texas A&M freshman, Janie Koester, 18, of Cypress, was also
shot twice in the stomach. She was listed in fair condition Monday
afternoon in St. Joseph Hospital’s intensive care unit.
Police said the dead man, Michael Bruce Duchin, 19, of 6126
Bayou Bridge in Houston, was a former boyfriend of Koester’s and
had been depressed over their recent breakup.
Duchin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the heart,
Hensarling said.
A .22-caliber automatic pistol was found at the scene, police
said.
According to police reports, Duchin had asked Koester to meet
him at the All Faiths Chapel. Koester told police Monday that
when she met him at the chapel, Duchin tried to get her to come
back to him.
When she refused, she told police, he pulled a gun from his
jacket and fired four shots.
Two shots hit Koester in the stomach and two hit a plate glass
window in the chapel, according to police reports.
Koester told police Duchin then turned the gun on himself but
she said she did not see him shoot himself.
Police said Koester went outside the back door of the church
where she was later found by Texas A&M students who sum
moned help.
Duchin’s parents told police Duchin had been very depressed
since his breakup with Koester in mid-September.
Duchin had recently withdrawn from the University of Texas,
police said.
Duchin left his parents’ house in Houston at about 6:15 p.m.
Saturday night saying he was going to the movies, police reports
said.
Duchin’s car was found parked outside the chapel after the
shooting.
His parents said they had never seen a weapon in Duchin’s
possession, police said, but he had attended a military academy
and was familiar with how to use one.
Police said they have not determined where Duchin got the
gun.
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ATLANTA — A psychic credited with solving 13 mur
der cases will give city officials her mental picture of the
person responsible for the slayings of 10 black children
and the disappearance of four others.
Police and firefighters today went into the second day of
their door-to-door canvass in search of clues to the killings
and the Atlanta City Council took steps to help solve the
case and to prevent any further killings.
The council Monday adopted an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
curfew for children under 15 and voted unanimously to
contribute $20,000 to a reward fund for information in the
cases. Private pledges to the fund, officials said, have
boosted it over $100,000.
The psychic, Dorothy Allison of Nutley, N.J., has said
she has a mental picture of a suspect and would describe it
to police when she arrives today.
Mrs. Allison, credited with helping to solve 13 murder
cases nationwide and finding more than 50 missing peo
ple, told the Trenton (N.J.) Times Monday the killings
were not “a racial thing. It wasn’t the KKK. It was done by
a person or persons of the same race.”
She said tapes of a radio interview conducted last
month in Atlanta contain the name of a person connected
to the murders.
“You have to be careful about what you say,” she said.
“You can’t say so-and-so is the murderer.”
In little more than a year, 10 children have been slain
and four are still missing. Police say although there is no
evidence linking the cases, all the victims were black.
between the ages of 7 and 15, living in low-income neigh
borhoods. Since May, a child has turned up dead or
vanished about every 3V2 weeks.
The canvass, involving 200 police officers and 224 fire
fighters armed with a four-part questionnaire, polled resi
dents specifically about anyone seen trying to force their
children or any other child into a car — the scenario
considered most likely for the cases under investigation.
Atlanta’s criminal element was reported to be sending
leads about the killings to police through a group of volun
teers, which planned a second mass search this weekend
for four children still unaccounted for. The first such hunt
last weekend led to the discovery of the body of the 10th
victim— Latonya Wilson, 7.
Possible Brilab ruling
awaited by Clayton
United Press International
HOUSTON — This is the day House
Speaker Bill Clayton says he has been wait
ing for since February, when details of his
role in the FBI’s Brilab investigation first
were publicized.
If 12 jurors agree he took $5,000 as a
gesture of tact, as he testified, and not as a
bribe, he could be free to pursue his politic
al career by tonight.
But if the jury decides today, tonight or
later that Clayton accepted the money in
exchange for influencing the handling of a
$76 million state employees insurance con
tract, he could be sentenced to as many as
60 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Robert O’Conor re
fused late Monday to acquit Clayton and
two co-defendants on six counts alleging
racketeering, fraud, extortion and conspir
acy. On trial with Clayton since Sept. 17
are Randall Wood and Donald Ray, Austin
law partners the government claims parti
cipated in the FBI-conceived scheme to
bribe the speaker.
Prosecutors suggested Clayton was oper
ating under a “code of silence.”
Clayton was indicted June 12 on charges
he accepted $5,000 from Hauser, who
posed as a Prudential Insurance consultant,
last Nov. 8 during a discussion of how bid
ding on the state employees’ health policy
could be re-opened.
Testimony concluded Monday with a pa
rade of character witnesses, including
bankers, farmers, preachers, lawyers, edu
cators and politicians.
Iranians listen
to peace proposal
United Press International
BASRA, Iraq — With two of its southern
cities besieged, Iran received an Islamic
official seeking to mediate the Persian Gulf
war and Iran’s parliament speaker prom
ised the legislature would act “very quick
ly” on the American hostages.
Tehran Radio said today Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini Monday told Habib
Chatti representing the Islamic Confer
ence of Nations he had “no objection” to a
fact-finding visit to Iran by a delegation of
several Moslem heads of state and for talks
with the delegation.
Tehran Radio Monday said Chatti asked
Khomeini to agree to setting up a mission
made up of heads of Islamic states and en
trusting “it with ending the war.” It said
Chatti reported Khomeini showed “great
interest” in his proposal.
An Iraqi commander Monday claimed
Iraqi forces were “tightening the noose”
around the refinery town of Abadan on the
Shaat al-Arab waterway. Upstream, Iran
reported “hand-to-hand” fighting and air
strikes “halted the enemy again” in Khur-
ramshahr.
Iran called for reinforcements for Khur-
ramshahr and said the “vicinity” of the city
was under Iraqi control, and Iran’s Defense
Council renamed the embattled port “city
of blood (Khuninshahr)” to mark the epic
struggle for the port. Tehran Radio re
ported both cities were shelled again early
today.
Hojatoleslam Hashema Rafsanjani, the
Iranian parliament speaker, said in an in
terview with Swedish Radio in Tehran
Monday a seven-man commission would
finish its report on what conditions should
be attached to the release of the 52 Amer
icans and submit its report to parliament.
Once the report is given to the legisla
tors, parliament should deal with the ques
tion “very quickly,” Rafsanjani said, but
refused to amplify on exactly how long it
would take for the decision on the captives,
who have been held prisoner for 353 days.
Rafsanjani also listened to the peace plan
brought by Chatti and agreed to “discuss it
with other responsible leaders and give an
answer later, ” Tehran Radio quoted Chatt:
as saying.