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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 42
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Tuesday, October 28, 1980
College Station, Texas
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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.
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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. ”
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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.