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SS in the fame i went fro J ‘ ts Aen a!|| ^ it sure |« The Battalion Serving the Texas A&M University community Vol. 74 No. 42 MU this Jl 12 Pages 11 in Dali) f the shot., ^’C Saturdij Tuesday, October 28, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 JETS A bath? It's not even Saturday... Photo by Bob Lewis Children from Bryan/College Station look a tad intimi dated by McClain, an elephant from Circus Vargas. One little girl got a special treat as she got to hose McClain down while he visited a car wash on Texas Avenue Mon day for a bath. Tonight is the last night for Circus Vargas. READ GATl . A. O. S. considers disbanding Id's I® runners rf > the Hurts Marathon - CrocM ie 30-39 a? Marathon i 8th in By JANE G. BRUST ■■■ Battalion Staff J Because of an Oct. 18 shooting incident that left a man ad and a woman wounded, a Texas A&M University lib might temporarily disband. lAndrew Getz, former officer of Killing As Organized bort, K.A.O.S., said Dr. Rod O’Connor, the club spon- 6r, suggested that club members disband their organiza- ion. JGetz said O’Connor told him this was an “inopportune ime’for K.A.O.S. agents to play their game. K.A.O.S. members stalk each other with plastic guns at shoot suction-cup darts. Once an assassin kills his rget, he then stalks the victim’s victim. The object of the ime is to elude one’s own assassin while everyone else is sing killed. The lone survivor at the end of the semester ins the game. Twenty of the original 120 players have been hit since e game began here Oct. 13. Club officers asked O’Connor to sponsor the group so latthey might receive University recognition. Sean Pat- ck, K.A.O.S. vice president, said the officers have com- ieted the necessary application forms, but have not yet ibmitted them to the University. Getz resigned his position Wednesday saying he would ot play the game for at least the rest of the semester. However, current K.A.O.S. President Mark Ollington lid he simply wants to freeze the game until Monday, }ov. 3. “Two weeks is enough time for the whole thing to cool he said. “I can see how it would be in good taste not to lay it for a while, but I don’t think we should cancel the 'hole thing. ” O’Connor said his main concern was that other students may be upset by K.A.O.S. agents shooting each other now that a real shooting has occurred on campus. The man, Michael Bruce Duchin, 19, of Houston, com mitted suicide with a .22-caliber automatic pistol. The woman, Janie Koester, 18, of Cypress, received two gun shot wounds in the stomach. She was transferred to a Houston hospital last Thursday in stable condition. She is a freshman at Texas A&M. Two Texas A&M students found Duchin and Koester at the All Faiths Chapel the night of Oct. 18. O’Connor said another concern was the potential dan ger involved with students carrying toy guns around cam pus. Getz said O’Connor told him a campus policeman might mistake a toy gun for a real one. Thomas Parsons, director of security and traffic for the University Police, said, “There’s always the possibility of a serious mistake with such guns.” Parsons said he told Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services, that the gun found at the chapel Satur day night resembled the gun pictured in The Battalion’s Oct. 16 issue of Focus. The Battalion ran a feature story about K.A.O.S. Parsons said that early last week a student armed with a toy gun confronted an officer. “The officer said someone pulled a gun and said, ‘Bang! Bang!”’ Parsons said. “I asked him what his reaction was, and he said he almost drew his gun. To us, that’s a danger. ” Parsons said he did not know if that student was a K.A.O.S. agent. A local FBI agent had heard of the K.A.O.S. game being played elsewhere, but had not heard of any related problems, Parsons said. Parsons said that if he sees anyone walking around campus with a gun in a sleuth-type operation, he will report it to Ron Blatchley, director of student affairs. “It’s just not very wholesome to me to play like you’re murdering somebody,” he said. Ollington said he does not know how his club will be affected by the incident with the campus policeman. Patrick said the K.A.O.S. rules state that agents are not to shoot anyone who is not playing the game. Getz said people have asked him if it was a K. A. O. S. agent involved in the campus shooting. The man was not a student here and had withdrawn from the University of Texas at Au stin. Getz said one agent who is a friend of Koester quit the club and other members who know her may also want to discontinue the game. He said he would join K.A.O.S. again only with the approval of Dr. Charles H. Samson Jr., acting president of Texas A&M. Patrick said he would like to continue the game if the other players want to. However, he said, targets may have to be reassigned because some players, thinking the game has been officially canceled, have begun turning in their victims’ files. Getz said getting new players would be no problem because the officers have received a lot of calls from other students wanting to play the game. That response came after the article appeared in The Battalion. Ollington said he wants to continue the game as it is presently set up. “The game can go on without officers, without direc tors,” he said. “I’m leaving it up to the players — they put money into it.” Each K.A.O.S. member paid $2 to cover cost of the guns and the winner’s prize. Ollington began the club after reading about the game in a magazine. The Weather Yesterday High 86 Low 63 Rain 0.02 inches Today High 55 Low 47 Humidity wet Chance of rain . . excellent Candidates debate today United Press International Tonight’s debate between President Carter and Ronald Reagan will last only 90 minutes — but will be viewed by an esti mated 55 million to 60 million Americans and could determine the nation’s course for the next four years. The president arrived in Cleveland Monday, telling reporters “I feel good,” but smilingly declining to answer whether he thought he would win. Reagan, who has been in six debates already this year and who practiced for tonight’s event with an unidentified stand- in for the president, was reported by aides to be relaxed and confident. He remained in his rented estate in Mid- dleburg, Va., today, planning a late after noon flight to Cleveland, where the debate will begin at 9:30 p.m. EST at the Conven tion Center. Three new polls released Monday show the race to be so close a perceived winner of the debate could well acquire the needed push to win the election a week from today. But Baker did not agree Reagan needed a debate victory. He argued the “burden of proof on President Carter is far greater be cause he’s the incumbent,” and said, “We don’t have tp win it. We don’t even have to tie. A close loss is a good performance.” A Gallup Poll published in today’s Washington Post said Carter gained six points in two weeks and now leads by 3 points — 45 percent to 42 percent. A sur vey by Louis Harris had the exact reverse: Reagan with 45 percent to Carter’s 42 per cent. And an NBC-Associated Press poll indicated Reagan leading 47 percent to 41 percent among decided voters, and holding a slight edge among the undecided. The debate format will be different from the one used for the Reagan-Anderson con frontation or any of the other League of Women Voters debates in previous elec tions. During the first 40 minutes, each candi date will be questioned in turn by a mem ber of the panel, with time provided for a follow-up question and answer session and a rebuttal by the opposing candidate. There will be four rounds, each 10 minutes long. During the second half there will be no follow-up questions, but each candidate will be allowed not only to rebut his oppo nent, but to respond to his opponent’s re buttal. At the end, each candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement—not subject to challenge. Carter, who won the toss of a coin, will have the last word. Gerald Ford had lunch with Reagan Monday and told him to “anticipate some show of typical Carter meanness, typical Carter vindictiveness,” he told reporters. Carter previewed the tack he will take tonight when he addressed an airport rally in Huntington, W.Va., en route to Cleve land. He said he didn’t know what “role” Reagan will be playing, “because as we get closer and closer to the voting time, he has flip-flopped on almost every conceivable issue, depending upon what audience hap pens to be listening to him at the particu lar time.” Fear of child- killer may halt trick-or-treat United Press International ATLANTA — Fear may bait Halloween celebrations this year in the poor neighbor hoods and housing projects where 14 black children have been abducted in the past 14 months. A black mother and anti-crime activist, haunted by the specter of a killer in cos tume, is urging parents in those areas to keep their children indoors for Halloween. “We have got to ban trick-or-treating this year,” Grace Davis, a founder of Women Against Crime, said Monday. “We have been tricked enough. Our ‘trick’ has been 14 missing and killed kids.” Davis warned the killer may roam public housing complexes and poor neighbor hoods “dressed up in costume. It could be disastrous.” Parents are being urged to plan Hallo ween activities for daylight hours Saturday, the day after Halloween, instead of allow ing any wearing of costumes or parties Fri day night. Police said Monday there were no new developments in the cases. Police say the only certain links among the killings that began July 20, 1979, are that all victims were black youngsters —12 of them boys — from impoverished areas and all were between the ages of 7 and 15. Prompted by the fear that has galvanized the community, Mayor Maynard Jackson and the City Council have declared an 11 p.m. to6a.m. curfew for youngsters 15 and under, and the council also passed a resolu tion asking parents to keep their children home Halloween night. “We are all afraid,” says Theresa Gofer, 20, a neighbor of Camille Bell in the hard core poverty of the McDaniel-Glenn hous ing project. Bell’s 9-year-old son, Yusef, who disappeared on Oct. 21, 1979, was found strangled in an abandoned school three weeks later. Gofer, who is blind in one eye, says she keeps a constant watch on her daughters, Iona, 2, and 8-month-old Lakesha. “I go to the clothesline. I’m gonna carry mine with me, ” she said. “I just ain’t gonna let mine go to nobody, unless they my own mother or father. ” 5 the winnc ed divisiot ,e sighted rk Wallace shot 2 en* i from 20, iy’s score* ce’s 95 en scored 1 ; sighted did No pre-election freedom or hostages, Iran says -ears* 11 ' runn er ' iring tl,e United Press International Iran’s parliament interrupted its debate ;n the U.S. hostages for a one-day Moslem oliday today, but Iranian diplomatic urces said the captives will not be freed inti! after next week’s presidential elec- The United States said Monday a iecemeal release of the 52 Americans, earing one year in captivity, was “un- icceptable” and warned Iran of “grave con- jequences” if any of the captives were tried s spies. Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, met in two [eparate closed-door sessions Monday without reaching a decision on freeing the Americans and adjourned until Wednesday. But even the Wednesday session may rot produce a decision on the Americans, is an official Sunday told UPI the legisla te has scheduled an “open session” on Hiursday. As the legislators broke for the Shiite Moslem holiday, Tehran Radio brushed iside rumors of an imminent release of the ostagesas U.S. “daydreaming” and “wish- iil thinking. ” Senior Iranian diplomatic sources in Beirut, Lebanon, focused attention on the \’ov. 4 anniversary date of the captives seizure, also the U.S. election day. A special envoy from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said the hostages will not be freed before the U.S. elections because Khomeini doesn’t want their freedom to sway the election. “Khomeini is neither pro-Carter, nor pro-Reagan,” the envoy said. “He does not want the hostage issue to be decisive in the American elections. He does not care who wins.” The envoy said the message, directed to Carter, that the Americans will be freed after the elections at the earliest, was pas sed to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Wal dheim by Iranian Prime Minister Moham med Ali Rajai when he visited New York earlier this month. At the world body, Waldheim’s spokes man Rudolf Stadjuhar said, “I’m not aware of any message relayed through the secret ary-general to President Carter.” In Washington, State Department offi cials said there has been no communication from the Iranian authorities about the tim ing of the release of the Americans, held for 360 days. The State Department, however, reacted strongly to reports the Americans might be freed from their 12-month ordeal in stages or that some might be tried as spies, calling this “totally unacceptable.” “We seek the release of all the hostages,” State Department spokesman John Tratt- ner said in Washington. “Holding one would be just as unacceptable as holding 52.” “The trials of any of our hostages would be totally unacceptable and would have grave consequences for Iran,” Trattner said, adding, “I am not going to spell this out.” The Iranian parliament debate on the hostages began Sunday with the introduc tion of a secret report by a seven-man com mission to the legislators, who are charged with deciding the fate of the Americans. But the parliament immediately voted to make its deliberations secret because of an Iraqi rocket attack on Dizful, and to protest “U.S. interference” in the 5-week-old Per sian Gulf war, and nothing of substance has leaked out of the debate since. “Today’s program is a continuation of yesterday’s,” a member of the Iranian par- hament secretariat told UPI in London by telephone Monday, from Tehran. The twin sessions together lasted seven hours. But earlier Hojjatleslam Mousavivi Khoyeni, head of the hostage commission, said there would be no stiffer terms laid out besides Khomeini’s four principles for freeing the Americans. Khomeini’s four conditions are release of about $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets in the United States, return of the late shah’s wealth, a pledge to drop all legal claims against Iran and a promise not to interfere in Iranian affairs. 30 Americans return from Cuban prisons United Press International MIAMI — After 17 months of fish heads and rice in a Cuban prison, Michael Seitler, a “New York boy,” came home to pepperoni pizza; Walter Clark, a Southern man, sat down to fried chicken. They were among 30 Americans who returned to Miami Monday following their release from Cuba’s Combinado del Este prison, with food and freedom uppermost on the minds of all but five of them. Five of the repatriates were taken into custody by U.S. marshals. The quintet included Melvin Charles Gale, 29, Henry Dee Jackson, 33, and Lewis Douglas Moore, 35, all accused of the 1969 hijacking of a Southern Airways jet; Athony Garnet Bryant, 42, accused of another plane hijacking, and Terry Lee Byerly, 34, wanted at Greensboro, N.C., for parole violation. Three men, Jeffrey John Hoban, 33, Lester Perry, 33, and Charles Hill elected to remain in Cuba. Hill and Per ry are both wanted in the U. S. for plane hijackings and Hoban for parole viola tion. The Miami Herald reported in a dispatch from Havana that Hoban and Perry planned to leave Cuba and go to some other non-Communist country. It said Hill planned to stay in Cuba. The 30 — convicted on charges rang ing from drugrunning to religious pam phleteering — returned from Havana’s Jose Marti Airport to Miami’s Tamiami Airport aboard a chartered Air Florida Boeing 737 Monday afternoon. Rela tives and friends were on hand to greet them. One of the arriving men shouted, “I haven’t had a beer in a year. ” Melvin Bailey, 33, jailed in Cuba for distributing religious tracts, said, “Praise the Lord, I feel great.” Edward King, 37, said, “I flew 222 combat missions in Vietnam and never really saw the enemy. I have seen him now. ” Douglas Miklos, 27, said, “Now we know what this thing called liberty and freedom is all about.” Sonny Seitler, Michael’s mother, said she let her son choose his welcome- home dinner. “He’s a New York boy. He wanted pizza. He had his with pep peroni, sausage and mushrooms. We had ours plain.” Clark’s wife prepared fried chicken and all the trimmings with both cake and pie for dessert. But Clark said, “I had a very small appetite. I haven’t had this type of food for 20 months.” “Then I had a drink of Heineken (beer)—just one — I never was much of a drinker. But you wouldn’t believe how good it tasted.” Scary stories featured for Halloween Odd things happen in the “Dead of Night.” Blood coming from elevators, hands reaching from rubble, a heart beat coming from a house, and a bird crying, “Never more.” “The Dead of Night” is a program being presented by the speech faculty of Texas A&M University to honor Halloween, according to Bill Strong, a lecturer in En glish at Texas A&M. The free presentation will be October 29 in 701B Rudder Tower at 9:30 p.m. The works of Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King will be featured in the hour- long program. Poe is one of the best known horror writers of all time. Some of his works include The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven and Murders in the Rue Morgue. King, Poe’s modem day counterpart, is known for his books, Carrie, The Shining, and Fire Starter. “The program will be along the lines of ‘Twilight Zone’ or ‘Night Gallery,’ in that we will have a narrator, and then someone telling the stories,” Strong said. “We will use sound and slides to help present the stories.” “This program will be like the ghost tell ing sessions when we were kids,” Strong added. “Everyone will sit on the floor in a circle and listen to the stories.