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The Battalion
Serving the University community
Vol. 75 No. 85 USPS 045360 14 Pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, January 29, 1982
Ringleaders of kidnapping
suspected in other acts
United Press International
■VICENZA, Italy — The apparent
ringleaders of the 42-day kidnapping
of American Brig. Gen. James L.
Dozier were well known to police as a
sort of “Bonnie and Clyde” of the ter-
frorist underworld, press reports said
today.
I Antonio Savasta, 27, and his girl
friend, Emilia Libera, 28, were the
lihost important Red Brigades mem
bers among the five arrested in the
Padua apartment where police found
and freed Dozier on Thursday.
E Two of the others arrested were
Emanuela Frascella, 20, a student,
and Cesare Di Lonardo, 22, both un
known to police before their arrests.
R The fifth terrorist captured in the
90-second raid was not immediately
identified by police. But he was be
lieved to be another obscure member
of the extremist organization.
Savasta and Libera were seemingly
harmless students at the time they
first made press headlines in Febru
ary 1980 when they fought a gunbat-
tle with police outside the railroad sta
tion at Cagliari, Sardinia. Both
escaped.
By coincidence, Savasta and Libera
were sentenced in absentia to 30 years
imprisonment by a court in Cagliari
on Thursday for attempting to set up
a Red Brigades “column” in Sardinia.
In the investigation that followed
the Sardinia gunbattle, police found
evidence implicating Savasta in the
1978 kidnapping of former Prime
Minister Aldo Moro, who was mur
dered by his Red Brigades captors.
Police also believed Savasta and his
girlfriend played roles in three Red
Brigades political kidnappings dur
ing 1981 and took part in several
attacks on police.
Savasta was the head of the Red
Brigades in the Venice region, police
said. It was the Venice “column” that
masterminded the Dozier kidnap-
ping.
Meanwhile at the U.S. military base
in Vicenza, public affairs spokesman
Sgt. George Poole told reporters to
day that Dozier spent a comfortable
night. The spokesman declined to
give other details, but Dozier was
scheduled to appear at a news confer
ence at the base at 4 p.m. (10 a.m.
EST) today.
The 50-year-old Dozier was freed
by a police blitz on the hideout Thurs
day at Padua, 24 miles southeast of
Vicenza in northern Italy, as a terror
ist pointed a gun at the general’s
head.
The NATO officer was reported in
fine shape after the ordeal.
As the anti-terrorist squad was
Photo by Karen Kaley
kicking in the door to the Red Bri
gades hideout, Dozier’s wife, Judith,
47, and his daughter, Cheryl, 22,
were visiting friends in Wiesbaden,
West Germany. They immediately
flew to Italy for a reunion Thursday
evening.
“They were all alone in the room,
but there’s no doubt the reunion was
nothing less than highly emotional,”
said Sgt. George Poole, a spokesman
at the base where Dozier was under
observation.
Dozier, chief of administration and
logistics at NATO’s southern Europe
land forces headquarters at nearby
Verona, was kidnapped from his
home Dec. 17 by four Red Brigades
men disguised as plumbers.
The terrorists knocked him uncon
scious, stuffed him into a trunk and
carried him away. Mrs. Dozier was left
in the apartment tied in chains.
Reagan
wants
Dallas
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Republican
National Chairman Richard Richards
says the city of Dallas is the clear first
choice of President Reagan for the
site of the 1984 Republican Conven
tion.
And, said Richards Thursday, “We
will, of course, do everything possible
to accommodate the president’s re
quest to give preference to Dallas.”
So, although the GOP committee
has received “letters of interest” from
Photo by John Ryan
Smile for the camera
Clay Rippenhagen, a senior industrial engineering major
from Houston, passes the time with his canine friend on
a bench in front of the new Academic and Agency
Building.
Senator blames
plan rejection
on Clements
Scaffolds and ladders crowd the hallways finish in order to meet the scheduled
of Post Oak Mall as workers hurry to opening date on Feb. 17.
Coming soon
Effects of mall not known
by Bernie Fette
Battalion Reporter
;; More than 2,000 jobs will be cre
ated by the opening of the new Post
Oak Mall in College Station, but the
effect those hirings will have on an
already healthy job market and a his
torically low unemployment rate
won’t be known for several weeks,
said Walter Baker, manager of the
Texas Employment Commission in
Bryan.
“People love to work in new
places,” Baker said. “And thejob mar
ket here is very healthy and very com
petitive. One of the larger stores has
already had more than 500 appli
cants.”
However, since it takes at least six
veeks to compile employment fi
gures, it should take about that long
to determine how the local job market
will be affected by the new mall.
The business generated by the mall
also may have a serious effect on the
business of other shopping centers in
Bryan-College Station, but the mall’s
developer predicts the mall ultimately
will improve quality, service and busi
ness volume in the area.
The new mall, scheduled to open
Feb. 17, will enclose more than 1 mil
lion square feet of shopping area, said
Eugene Schimpf III, project manager
of the mall and representative of CBL
8c Associates Inc. in Chattanooga,
Tenn., developers and owners of the
mall.
Schimpf said the new mall will be
about four times the size of Manor
East Mall and seven times the size of
Culpepper Plaza.
“Initially there will be a drastic
effect on the other malls, lessening
their business,” Schimpf said. But af
ter a surge of business, expected to
last about six months, business should
level off for the other shopping cen
ters, he said.
Owners of other major shopping
centers in the area realize they may
experience a slump in business, but
do not expect the slump to last six
months, nor do they say the Post Oak
Mall will hurt their business.
“Everyone will be affected by the
grand opening,” said Susan Daly,
marketing and PR director of Cul
pepper Properties Inc., owners of
Manor East Mall, Culpepper Plaza
and the Skaggs Shopping Center.
“But we should be able to bounce
back by April after the surge — we’re
not worried at all,” she said.
Daly said the Bryan-College Sta
tion community is large enough to
easily support all existing shopping
centers plus the new mall, especially
since Manor East and the Post Oak
Mall will serve different clienteles.
The Post Oak Mall primarily will
serve the “higher spenders,” she said,
while Manor East and the other cen
ters will cater to the “lower spenders.”
Schimpf said the mall should in
crease business at all shopping centers
in Bryan-College Station. More peo
ple will choose to shop in Bryan and
College Station instead of traveling to
Houston and other larger cities, he
said.
Detroit, Kansas City, St. Louis and
Atlanta it may not be much of a con
test.
“While Dallas is clearly the presi
dent’s first choice,” said Richards,
“the site committee and the RNC
must, as President Reagan requested,
be ‘satisfied with the financial, legal
and logistical arrangements offered
by Dallas.’”
It would be the first major party
convention for Dallas. The last major
party convention held in Texas was in
1928 in Houston when the Democrats
nominated New York Gov. A1 Smith
to run against Herbert Hoover.
Republican Gov. William Clements
first suggested Dallas to Reagan in a
letter to the president last year.
Reagan replied, in a letter released
by the Republican committee, “I
think that Dallas would be an excel
lent city in which to hold the conven
tion.
“By a copy of this letter to Dick
Richards, chairman of the RNC, I am
asking him to inform the members of
the committee on the site as soon as
they have been elected of my prefer
ence for Dallas, assuming the approp
riate officials of the city of Dallas issue
a formal invitation to the RNC to hold
the 1984 convention there,” Reagan
'wrote.
The eight members of the site com
mittee will be announced today, and
Richards said the GOP convention is
tentatively scheduled for Aug. 20,
1984.
by Jean Kiser
Battalion Reporter
Texas Gov. Bill Clements played a
key role in the U.S. Justice Depart
ment’s rejection of the Texas House
and Senate redistricting plans Tues
day, State Sen. Kent Caperton, D—
Bryan, said.
The Justice Department Tuesday
rejected the plans to reapportion elec
toral representatives because they
violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The federal officials said the plans
would dilute the voting strength of
Mexican-Americans and blacks.
“The Senate passed a plan that was
a good plan, but Gov. Bill Clements
didn’t like it so he vetoed it,” Caper-
ton said, “it went to the (Legislative)
Redistricting Board, (but) he didn’t
like that plan so he and his cronies
filed a lawsuit.”
The plans rejected by the Justice
Department had been approved by
the all—Democrat Legislative Redis
tricting Board. Clements, a Republi
can, agreed with the findings of the
Justice Department and asked that a
three-judge federal panel in Dallas be
able to draw new district lines for the
legislature.
This was granted and the same
panel will be responsible for drawing
up temporary districts to serve the
state until a plan is submitted and
approved by the Justice Department.
Caperton said, “I suspect if he
doesn’t like what the judges draw
then he’s going to want to draw it
again himself.”
State senator Kent Caperton
The Legislature dealt fairly with
the redistricting process, Caperton
said, but the governor doesn’t care
about Texas voters who need to know
what district they live in “if he thinks
the interests of the Republican Party
comes first.”
“The mess that we have is a direct
result. I’m convinced, of the governor
and the kind of shortsighted leader
ship that he’s tried to establish,”
Caperton said.
“I think he’s really shown his colors
over the last months. The democratic
nominee is going to have a good
chance at beating him” in the fall
gubernatorial race.
Impulse disorders may lead to crimes
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A man who sets fire to
buildings for the thrill of seeing the flames or
a well-to-do woman who steals clothes she
doesn’t need may be suffering from similar
— yet widely varying — impulse disorders,
says a psychiatrist studying pyromania and
kleptomania.
The uncontrollable urge to set fires (pyro
mania) and to steal (kleptomania) are similar
in that both involve the inability to control
impulses. But psychiatrist James Turnbull of
the University of Texas Health Science Cen
ter says the similarity ends there.
“Pyromania and kleptomania are diffe
rent in that kleptomania is mainly a disorder
of women and pyromania is mainly a dis
order of men,” Turnbull said. “We are not
exactly sure why so many women become
kleptomaniacs, but it is probably because they
are more exposed to the responsibilities of
shopping and more likely to be in stores than
men. “Pyromania probably is more common
in men because all serious disorders associ
ated with sexuality are more common in men.
A significant number of men will have sexual
fantasies about fires and setting fires.”
Turnbull said pyromania was far more
rare than kleptomania and much more diffi
cult to treat. He said pyromaniacs often were
of below-average intelligence and were
abused as children, and therefore, had more
deep-rooted psychological problems than
kleptomaniacs.
Some pyromaniacs, described by Turnbull
as “would-be rescuers” help firefighters ex
tinguish the fires they set, while others try to
be heroes by attempting rescues before fire
fighters arrive.
He said pyromaniacs who leave the fire
then go home to watch it on television news
are the most dangerous and difficult to treat
“because they are unemotionally involved.
The fire is just an object to them.”
“There is very little you can do with those
people except lock them up because one day
they are going to kill people.”
The prognosis for kleptomaniacs is better,
the psychiatrist said. Usually, the urge to steal
can be traced to frustrations in the kleptoma
niac’s personal life. Once the personal prob
lems are resolved, the impulse to steal dis
appears.
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forecast
Today’s forecast: mostly cloudy
skies with a high in the mid-70s;
low in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 30 percent, with an increase to
60 percent Saturday.