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United Press International
CHICAGO — Authorities say a
couple held on extortion charges in
the cyanide-Tylenol poisonings were
linked to death threats against Presi
dent Reagan by postmarks on the ex
tortion letters.
Leann Lewis was held today on $5
million cash bond after surrendering
Tuesday. Her husband, James Lewis,
was captured Monday in New York
and also is jailed in lieu of $5 million
bond.
Authorities announced Tuesday,
Lewis sent a death threat to President
Reagan and had written at least four
other letters to Midwestern news
papers.
U.S. Attorney Daniel K. Webb said
the Lewises mailed a letter to the pres
ident, “alluding to the Tylenol
tragedy and went on to the threaten
the president and the lives of others.
Lewis said he had a complaint against
certain policy positions taken by the
White House.”
Webb refused to release details ex
cept to say the letter was mailed after
an extortion note was sent to the mak
er of Tylenol demanding $1 million
in early October. The extortion letter
followed the deaths of seven people in
the Chicago-area from cyanide-
tainted Tylenol capsules and author
ities want to see if the Lewises were
involved in the poisoning.
Mrs. Lewis'is not charged with ex
tortion, but “she is intricately involved
in the extortion scheme,” Webb said.
“Her husband sent a letter to the
manufacturer of Tylenol,” he said. “It
was an extortion letter. He said he was
the Tylenol murderer and demanded
$1 million.
Star light, star bright
staff photo by David Fisher
These students seem to take ‘group study’ seri
ously. The group was studying for an astronomy
final Sunday night on the third floor of the
Sterling Evans library. The library is open 24
hours during finals week.
Rehab center has help,
hope for handicapped
’WRAP
EEK
Lebanon fighting ends
short cease-fire, 25 die
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United Press International
Fierce fighting erupted between
pro-and anti-Syrian militias in Leba
non’s second largest city, breaking a
short-lived cease-fire, killing 25 peo
ple and wounding 50 others, security
sources said today.
State-run Beirut Radio said two
districts of the Syrian-occupied city of
Tripoli, 53 miles north of Beirut,
were cut off without water, electricity
and telephones by the nightlong bat
tles that continued well into the day.
The radio said one of Tripoli’s
largest city hospitals announced it
could not accept new patients because
it was running out of blood and essen
tial medicines.
Security sources said the ninth day
of fighting between pro-and anti-
Syrian militias closed schools, shops
and businesses and left 25 people
dead and more than 50 others
wounded over the past 12 hours.
U.S. envoy Morris Draper met with
President Amin Gemayel in Beirut to
discuss Washington’s latest proposals
for the pullout of all 40,000 Syrians,
10,000 Palestinian guerrillas and
30,000 Israelis from Lebanon.
Israel Tuesday offered a partial
pullback of its forces in Lebanon in
return for simultaneous moves by
Syria and the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
In Israel, Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon predicted troubles for U.S.
envoy Philip Habib on his shuttle mis
sion resuming today because he has
tried to link the withdrawal of foreign
forces from Lebanon to the Palesti
nian problem.
While Sharon has said Israel would
agree to withdraw its forces from
Lebanon, he expressed his govern
ment’s firm resolve to maintain con
trol of territories seized from Jordan
in the 1967 Middle East War.
Draper flew into Lebanon Tuesday
and Habib was expected in Israel to
day, nine days after returning to
Washington for consultations on
their stalled efforts to pull out the
foreign forces, which occupy two-
thirds of Lebanon.
An unofficial cease-fire called by
militia leaders had restored some
calm to Tripoli, Lebanon’s second
largest city with 250,000 people,
Tuesday after a week of fighting.
The right-wing Phalange Voice of
Lebanon said three people were kil
led Tuesday before the cease-fire.
The latest casualty figures bring the
death toll from the week’s fighting in
Tripoli to 64.
by Kathleen Hart
Battalion Reporter
The little building on East 29th
Street is quiet and unpretentious. Red
brick, no bright colors. But it is one
place where dreams can come true.
Mark was in a mid-air airplane col
lision and dislocated a vertabrae in his
neck. He was paralyzed from the neck
down. After a year in the Veterans
Administration Hospital with virtual
ly no improvement, he was released
and told he never would recover.
A friend brought him to Bryan
and sent him to the small building on
East 29th Street. Now, two years later,
Mark needs only a cane to walk. He
drives his own car and is working on
his doctoral degree in civil en
gineering.
The Brazos Valley Rehabilitation
Center is that place on East 29th
Street. Last year, its 18-member staff
helped more than 2,000 people like
Mark.
Now money is scarce, says the cen
ter’s executive director Jim Thomp
son. They’ve outgrown the little red
building and have a $1.8 million plan
for a new center, which they want to
start building in 1983. However, they
are $573,000 short of their goal.
To help solve the problem, Bryan
and College Station have started a
community Christmas tree. The 40-
foot cedar, donated by the Texas
Forestry Service, was placed at the in
tersection of University Drive and
Texas Avenue on Dec. 2.
For a $10 donation, residents can
have one of the lights on the Christ
mas tree dedicated to the memory of
someone. The star on top of the tree
brought in a $5,000 donation.
Although the center needs money
to operate, no one is turned away,
Thompson said. The center tries to
find third-party reimbursements,
which include insurance and com
pensation pay. Patients are encour
aged to pay as much as they can
afford, even if that amount is $1 for a
$24 treatment, he said.
“Unfortunately, a lot of people fall
in the crack and are not eligible for
any third-party reimbursement,”
Thompson said.
When that happens, money often
comes from community donations,
which make up 45 percent of the cen
ter’s $415,000 annual budget.
Community donations and in
volvement always have been impor
tant to the center, which was started in
1957 in an old house on West 28th
Street to serve crippled children.
In 1969, BVRC moved to its pre
sent building to offer physical ther
apy and speech therapy.
BVRC now offers not only physical
therapy and speech therapy, but also
occupational therapy, audiology and
social and psychological services for
patients and their families. In addi
tion, the center has supportive ser
vices, which involve local physicians
and the center.
“That gives us the physician’s in
put as well as our staff s in
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Big Event’ to give 40,000
hours to local organizations
by Myra Retta
Battalion Reporter
Student Government’s Big Event
— 40,000 hours of volunteer time —
has received good response from
volunteers and groups who want
them, project organizer Joe Nuss-
baum says.
Students who volunteer for the
event pledge four hours of volunteer
labor to local civic and community
organizations. An estimated 10,000
students are expected to participate
in the project, which will be from 1:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 20.
On that day, student volunteers
will provide 40,000 hours of labor in
one afternoon, Nussbaum said.
“About 5,000 students have
already responded favorably,” he
said. Some students are volunteering
service through student organiza
tions and others are volunteering in
dividually, he added.
The Corps of Cadets, the Resi
dence Hall Association and Off-
Campus Aggies are among a few of
the organizations who have volun
teered for the project. Such service
groups as Alpha Phi Omega and Cir
cle K, along with academic and honor
societies are volunteering services,
Nussbaum said.
“We would like to encourage all
student, faculty and staff and com
munity organizations ... to volunteer
in the project,” he said.
Volunteer organizations can
choose to help such organizations as
local United Way agencies, churches,
schools, the Brazos County Beautifi
cation Association and any others that
express the need for volunteer
workers.
The organizations that need volun
teer workers will provide the mate
rials for the jobs they want done.
Nussbaum also said he hopes the
project will build better relations be
tween Bryan-College Station and the
University.
“Our labor is our best resource,”
Nussbaum said.
The Student Government commit
tee is matching the list of volunteers
with the list of jobs for volunteers.
Those interested in volunteering for
the Big Event should contact the Stu
dent Services Committee.
Community organizations and in
dividuals who want volunteer help
should contact the Student Govern
ment External Affairs Committee.
Participation forms should be
turned in to the Student Programs
Office by Friday.
Santa Claus is coming
staff photo by Irene Mees
With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time
to hurry up and get those packages ready to be
put under the tree. But if you don’t have time,
the Student Y will do it for you. Susan Aycock, a
freshman from Beaumont studying business ad
ministration, and Mark Monoe, a freshman from
El Paso in pre-medicine studies, wrap packages
in the MSC. The service is provided by Student
Y through Friday.
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Battalion schedule
Today is the last issue of The Batta
lion for 1982.
The next issue of The Battalion will
be Wednesday, Jan. 12. A regular
publication schedule will resume
when spring semester classes start
Jan. 17. /
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Classified 6
Local 3
National 9
Opinions 2
Sports 11
State 3
What’s up 4
forecast
Today’s forecast: Continued
cloudiness today with a high in the
high 60s and a 20 percent chance of
rain. The low tonight will be in the
upper 30s.
Thursday will be fair and cool
with the high near 60 and the low in
the upper 30s.
Stories conflict in Cain pizza incident
by Frank L. Christlieb
Battalion Staff
Sgt. Bill Wade of the University
Police says conflicting stories from
students involved in the Dec. 6 assault.
of a pizza delivery man in Cain Hall
are keeping his staff from completing
its investigation of the incident.
Although head football coach Jack
ie Sherrill has dismissed two players
from his team after a Texas A&M
Athletic Department investigation of
the incident, the University Police are
still interviewing Aggie athletes and
the assault victim. Sherrill, who re
fused to reveal the names of the play
ers he’s removed from the squad, said
several other players have been “se
verely disciplined” for their indirect
involvement in the assault.
Wade said Tuesday that the victim,
a 20-year-old Texas A&M student,
wants criminal charges to be filed
upon completion of the police probe.
In his original complaint, the man
said he was assaulted by two large
black males after realizing that he’d
been called to deliver a pizza to a
broom closet in the athletic dormi
tory. One of the men grabbed the piz
za and the other man pushed the vic
tim down the stairs between the
second floor and the first floor.
Wade said his investigation should
be completed during the week.
“I had the two students involved in
(Monday) afternoon at 5 and got
statements from them, but they don’t
match with what I was told (by the
victim) about how the robbery occur
red,” he said. “So more than likely,
we’ll have to go to the polygraph
(test).
Wade said that if charges are filed,
one of several directions could be
taken.
“It’sjust robbery,” he said. “It’s not
aggravated, because there was no se
rious bodily injury, which is defined
as “an injury that incapacitates an in
dividual for a long period of time with
recuperation involved.”
Wade said the athletes could be
charged with either robbery, assault
or theft in the incident, but that the
crime will be classified as robbery un
til he can “get the stories straight.”
Police have classified the crime as a
second-degree felony.
“Within the week, I would expect
criminal charges to be filed,” Wade
said. “As far as I know, (the victim)
wants them filed, unless he’s changed
his mind since I talked to him (Mon
day). But like I say, his story and the
stories of the two involved don’t cor
respond.”
But Wade said polygraph results
could cause him to file another com
bination of charges.
“If the polygraph shows me some
thing else,” he said, “then I can go
with theft on the student who took the
pizza and assault on the one who
shoved the victim. The assault charge
will have to be (made) by the victim,
because it’s his word against the guy
that shoved him. I can file the robbery
charge through my investigation and
use (the victim) as a collaborating wit
ness.
“But if I do drop it down to assault
charges, then (the victim) will have to
sign the complaint.”
Although Sherrill has taken disci
plinary action, the University may
choose to take action as well. Bill Kib-
ler, assistant director of student
affairs, said steps can be taken when
he receives a final report from the
police.
“When we get that final report
from the police, which we should get
pretty shortly,” he said, “we will deter
mine what possible violations of Uni
versity policy have taken place. We
will put (them) in the form of charges,
which we will send to (the violators) in
a letter of charges.
“They will be required to respond
in three days (upon receipt of the let
ters). They must contact us and set up
an administrative hearing. University
policy states (that they have) three
class days, so given the time that we
have, those students could elect to re
spond and have that hearing some
time during the (holiday) break. Or,
we could wait until January. That ball
will really be in their court more than
in mine.”
The hearing will be “an opportun
ity for the violators to present their
point of view and to examine the evi
dence that the University has against
them,” Kibler said. In the final analy
sis, he said, a decision must be made
about whether the students are guilty,
and if so, about what kind of action
should be taken.
The University’s disciplinary mea
sures could involve any of a number
of actions. Kibler said.
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