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Local / State .^touAAT, 24, 1901 \'i\ JFK assassination dispute continues JFK death focus for group Staff photo by Dave Einsel By RANDY CLEMENTS Battalion Staff The assassination of John F. Kennedy not only involved orga nized crime, but also was covered up within the government, Har vey Yazijian of the Assassination Information Bureau said Monday. Yazijian, sponsored by MSC Great Issues, said evidence begin ning with the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald and continuing through the Warren Commission report indicates the assassination was a conspiracy. Oswald claimed he was a patsy and was being set up throughout the arrest procedure, Yazijian said. “He (Oswald) was interrogated for hours, yet there are no records of the interrogation,” he said. Even though Oswald was in the custody of the Dallas Police De partment for about 45 hours, he never got to see an attorney, he said. Regardless of Oswald’s inno cence or guilt, he said, the whole concept of the “lone assassin” is inconsistent with the evidence. The Zapruder film, a home movie taken of the assassination, shows the fatal shot came from the front to Kennedy’s head and not from behind, as was believed, Yazijian said. The film shows that after the fatal shot, Kennedy’s head was violently thrust toward the rear of his car. The Warren Commission, Yazijian said, chose to ignore this part of the film. Yazijian said also that police and on-lookers immediately ran to ward a grassy knoll, to the right front of the motorcade, where wit nesses said they thought the shots came from. Kennedy was shot from behind, Yazijian said, but the bullet en tered his back and was not fatal. The autopsy should have proven this, he said, but there are many discrepancies between the findings at Dallas’ Parkland Hos pital and the official autopsy re port. Yazijian said the best evidence in any murder case is the body. The medical evidence, however, was tampered with, he said. “The brain would have indi cated the bullet’s entry and direc tion,” he said. It was removed, and is now missing, he said. There were three bullets found, none in Kennedy’s body, he said. The bullet attributed as the fatal shot was found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital. “No one was sure if Kennedy was even on that stretcher,” he said, “or if it was Connally (who was also shot).” Wisconsin neighbors will miss Playboy retreat United Press International LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — At least some of Lake Geneva’s citizens will miss the glittery Playboy Resort and the glamour it brought to southeastern Wis consin. “They’ve always been ex tremely good neighbors,” George Hennerley, executive vice president of the local Chamber of Commerce, said. “We’ve always considered Play boy to be part of the city of Lake Geneva.” Playboy Enterprises Inc. said it will sell the resort to Eugene Golub, a Chicago realtor who is president of Romanek-Golub and Co., and to Americana flotels Corp., a Chicago hotel firm. The club will be renamed Americana’s Lake Geneva re sort. Harvey Yazijian of the Assassination Infor mation Bureau discusses evidence related to the assassination John F. Kennedy. A&M AFROTC gets third merit of former President unit award By MARY JO RUMMEL Battalion Staff The Air Force ROTC unit at Texas A&M University has been awarded the Air Force’s Out standing Unit Award for the third time. The citation is presented to Air Force ROTC units for “exception ally meritous service or exception ally outstanding achievement that dearly sets it apart from other un its, Maj. Donald G. McCroskey, public affairs officer for the Texas A&M detachment, said. Only 10 out of the 150 AFROTC units across the nation were selected for the honor. Texas A&M is the only unit honored in Texas. The Air Force unit has 795 cadets; total enrollment in the Corps of Cadets is 1,949. The award was officially pre sented to the unit Nov. 17 by Brig. Gen. Chris O. Divich, comman dant of AFROTC at Maxwell Air Fprce Base in Montgomery, Ala. The unit was commended for recruiting and sound academic in struction. Those characteristics have allowed it to become the largest producer of commissioned officers for the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in the na tion, McCroskey said. In 1979, 35 cadets became com missioned officers, and in 1980, 62 became commissioned officers. The citation covers the unit’s activities from Jan. 1, 1979, to Dec. 31, 1981. The Texas A&M Air Force de tachment was also recognized in 1969 and 1975 for outstanding ser vice. The award, established in 1954, is presented by the secret ary of the Air Force, McCroskey said. Each unit submits a report of what it considers supeiior per formances over the two-year period of time, he said. “The units are chosen for what they’ve done above and beyond what is expected of them,” McCroskey said. Worldwide hunger can be abolished, singer says United Press International DALLAS —- Singer John De nver says world hunger can be eli minated “in our generation” if citizens have the political will to put America on a humane path. Denver, who spent two years as a member of former President Carter’s Commission on World Hunger, spoke Sunday at the In terfaith Conference on Hunger at Dallas First United Methodist Church. Denver said one of the commis sion’s major conclusions was that the world actually has the power to eliminate hunger. “We produce enough to pro vide every person on earth with 3,000 calories per day from grain alone, Denver said. “That’s not counting range-fed beef, beans, vegetables — things like that. There is enough to go around. Denver said the commission also found that, in order to elimin ate starvation, there must be the political will to do so. “When President John Ken nedy made his inaugural address, he said he wanted to do two things,” Denver said. “One was to put a man on the moon. But the other was that we had the ways, means, the capacity to eliminate hunger in our generation. “If it gets to be the will of the people, that will make it political. “I want to change the way we live in the world, Denver said. “It is no longer ‘you or me;’ it is you and me. ^Ve are interdepen dent.” He added that if people learn to live together, a world of peace can be built. Denver, who opposes the pro duction of grain-fed beef, criti cized ranching interests, saying that the grain with which the cat tle in this country are fed would feed most of the deprived people in the world. Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 Ken’s Automotive Bryan 421 S. Main — 822-2823 "A Complete Automotive Service Center” • Tune-Ups • Brakes • Clutches • McPherson Struts • Front End Parts Replacement • Standard Transmission Repairs All American Cars VW-Datsun-Honda Toyota (Master Card & VISA Accepted) KLOUPOT'SH BOOKSTORE At Northgate Across from the Post Office WE BUY BOOKS EVERYDAY! 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She expects to know today if Duffy will completely recover. Gorrell said the dog apparently barked too much and annoyed the burglar, who found a butcher knife in the kitchen and stabbed the animal Friday night. AUTO«FIRE»LIFE •COMMERCIAL RON ALLEN, AGENT 707 TEXAS AVENUE SUITE 110-A 696-9351 The MSC CRAFT SHOP Is sponsoring ^ CRAFT WORKSHOPS CHRISTMAS in STAINED GLASS & ETCHED GLASS ORNAMENTS Registration begins 10:am on Nov. 30 and continues until the classes are full. For more information please call 845- 1631 . DR. JAMES JONES Author of to speak Tues., Dec. 1, 1981 #207 Harrington 7:30 p.m. TOPIC: The Study of Syphilis effects on unknowing black males in Alabama from 1932-1972 under a U.S. federal program. presented by WOMEN STUDENTS TAMU HISTORICAL BLACK ORGANIZATION SOCIETY AWARENESS TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY BECCI EGGLESTON LET YOUR SCHLITZ COLLEGE REP BE YOUR CAMPUS CONTACT FOR PARTY PLANNING AND FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR. FOR INFORMATION CALL: G. F. 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