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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 2, 1983
iiruckers’ strike
barks violence
■ United Press International
Snibings and vandalism forced
: ptruck drivers off the road today,
■■g them unwilling participants
^^■Independent Truckers Assoca-
Htrike, but others armed them-
depended on state police
-yA ji^Beamsters for security.
Ttjuckers were advised to travel in
“arm ravins and many parked their rigs
—nm(i. ernight, preferring to drive during
ghost M lei daylight hours,
ftingssmtiCTon-striking truckers were the
rgeis of bullets, bomb threats, rocks,
icksand nails to get them to join the
Mst against the 5-cent fuel tax in-
and higher road-use fees.
United Press International
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dgling
. vcari
count showed more than 270 inci
dents of violence had been reported
in 28 states since the strike began ear
ly Monday. A Teamster Union driver
in North Carolina was killed and 11
other people have been injured, two
seriously.
The Des-Lan Trucking Co. of Wal-
kerton, Ind., shut down Tuesday af
ter a driver said he had two tires shot
out Monday near Beloit, Wis.
“We’re tired of the violence and are
really afraid one of our drivers will
get killed,” said Weston Brigham, a
dispatcher for the firm.
While a North Dakota trucker was
in a Mandan, NT)., truck stop, his
milk transport was stolen, driven into
a ditch and set on fire. A bomb threat
was received at the Rosspoint Truck
Stop in Newpoint, Ind., but no explo
sive was found.
The JTA, which claims to repre
sent 100,000 drivers who own their
rigs and haul loads for a fee, called the
strike to protest the Reagan adminis
tration’s program to hike taxes on
fuel and road use. Between 50,000
and 60,000 drivers are striking, the
ITA said.
A Department of Transportation
spokesman said the department’s
“conservative estimate” was that less
than 20,000 independent truckers
had joined the strike.
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jtalian police expose
ot to murder Pope
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HvrcD!®" United Press International
- 11 1 MILAN, Italy — Italian authorities
Air flat feuvered a new attempt to assassirr-
-lyofMifct ?°P e J°h n Paul II, arresting a
Air!
Urkish citizen on charges he plotted
i.shoot the pope during his sche-
tal Quart!Mi
visit to Milan in May, police said
•dernsf gal.
iict yOU!|pi)lice identified the Turk as Mus-
► ) 727-1 ®P ava k- They released no details
..uipiMdiately on Savak, his arrest or
e alleged assassination plot.
1_^W# ,li:ln P°l‘ te already are holding
«> Turks and a Bulgarian on
larges they conspired with Turkish
Mnan Mehmet Ali Age a to assassin-
|he pope in a shooting at Rome’s
Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981.
U.S. and Italian news reports,
some of which have been confirmed
by Italian authorities, have claimed
Agca was part of an elaborate interna
tional plot involving the Bulgarian
secret police and the Soviet KGB "to
kill the pope.
Bulgarian and the Soviet Union
have repeatedly denied the charge,
calling the reports “absurd inven
tions” with “all the attributes of a
cheap detective story.”
T he State-run Italian radio said
that Savak was arrested at Rho, near
Milan, after an informant told police
the Turk had contacted “several peo
ple” to organize an attempt on the
pope’s life.
The Vatican had announced last
month that the pope would travel to
Milan in May, as part of his con
tinuing travels to all parts of Italy-
The arrest marks the third time
John Paul has been targeted for assas
sination.
On May 12, 1982, a renegade priest
wielding a bayonet lunged at him at
the Portuguese shrine of Fatima
where John Paul went to pray for
thanks for his recovery from three
bullet wounds suffered in the St. Pe
ter’s Square shooting.
Agca, 24, was convicted in Rome in
July 1981 of shooting the pope with a
9mm Browning pistol and sentenced
to life at a top security jail near Ascoli
Piceno in east-central Italy.
Smile and say cheese!
.staff photo by David Fisher
Pam Branden poses with the Harlem Globet
rotters as James “Twiggy” Sanders takes her
picture. Branden was taking pictures of the
Globetrotters from the stands when team mem
bers pulled her onto the court for a photo
session. See related story, page 14.
Two UT students arrested,
suspected of stealing tests
ourt schedules inmate’s
ppeal after execution stay
United Press International
JEW ORLEANS — The 5th U.S.
-liMuit Court of Appeals has stayed
corue (scheduled Feb. 10 execution of
Ms death row inmate Henry Mar-
Aet Porter and scheduled a hurry-
U 3 nearing March 21 for his appeal.
Morter, 41. of San Antonio, was
pcenced to death by injection for
leNov. 29, 1975, shooting death of
M Worth policeman FTP. Mailloux.
'he state of Texas did not oppose
S uesday’s stay of Porter’s execution
entling a hearing.
ipefense lawyer Deniz Tor in Cor-
uslChristi said defense attorneys will
lebriefs outlining grounds for Por-
kamplet r’l appeal by Feb. 15.
„ I, He said that the def ense brief
jjDiild contain the same arguments as
in the thorough 50-page docu-
00
ment submitted to the 5th Circuit
Monday.
“We don’t want the same thing to
happen to Porter that happened to
Brooks,” Tor said.
Tor said he believed Charlie
Brooks, 41, was denied a stay by the
5th Circuit and became the first per
son executed in Texas in 18 years on
Dec. 7 because an application for stay
was thought to be perfunctory.
The “skeleton” stay application for
Brooks was only three pages, he said.
Deniz’ primary argument against
Porter’s conviction was what he called
the judge’s improper exclusion of
prospective witnesses because they
said they might not be able to assess
the death penalty.
“Six jurors stated a reluctance, but
not an irreversible stand, to give the
death penalty. Courts have found
that excluding jurors for a reason
other than an irreversible stand is im
proper,” he said.
Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme
Court prevented the state from car
rying out the execution of Texas
death row inmate Thomas “Andy”
Barefoot, 37, for the shooting death
of a Central Texas police officer.
The high court said it would use
Barefoot’s case to set up guidelines on
how federal courts should handle
emergency requests for stays of ex
ecution from condemned inmates.
The Supreme Court scheduled an
April 26 hearing on the Barefoot mat
ter, but indicated it might not rule in
the case until July.
by Donn Friedman
Battalion Reporter
University of Texas officials are in
vestigating rumors that fraternity
members were involved in large-scale
scholastic dishonesty — including the
stealing and selling of exams for
profit.
During finals week last semester,
two UT fraternity members were
drrested for using a duplicate key to
break into the Business-Economics
Building. According to an article pub
lished Monday in the Daily Texan,
the UT student newspaper, a closet
was found unlocked at the time of the
arrest. UT police said the closet con
tained exam materials stored by the
chairman of the marketing depart
ment.
Gregory Brown Wallace and Har
ry Hayden Fouke, both Acacia frater
nity members, were arre'sted and
charged with burglary of a building
— a second-degree felony.
At a meeting of the Acacia frater
nity Tuesday night, Wallace was re
moved from the active member list;
Fouke had been inactive in the frater
nity this semester.
UT Acacia president Pat Stone
said Tuesday: “I’m sure our frat will
be cleared of everything. The rumors
are just getting built up.
“A guy who was a member of our
fraternity was arrested, so he was sus
pended from our chapter until the
charges are cleared up. The accusa
tions that the fraternity was involved
stem from the Daily Texan stories.”
The Daily Texan reported Monday
that UT officials have not commented
on speculation that Wallace and
Fouke were members of a 2-year-old
organized ring that made money sell
ing stolen tests and forging UT iden
tification cards.
Nation’s first contingent of B-l
bombers to be based in Abilene
United Press International
ABILENE — Congressional legis
lation proposes to base the nation’s
first contingent of B-l bombers in
Abilene, replacing 13 aging B-52s.
A spokesman for the office of Sen.
John Tower, R-Texas, said the prop
osal was made in the 1984 military
construction budget submitted Mon
day by the Armed Services Commit
tee. The plan set aside $8.4 million for
the Dyess Air Force Base, which
would receive 26 of the new B-1 bom
bers.
The base will gain an additional
510 military personnel and 20 civi
lians.
“It always has been evident to me
that Dyess (Air Force Base) is the most
suitable site for the first B-l bom
bers,” said Sen. John Tower, R-
Texas, chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, in mak
ing the announcement Monday.
“I am delighted that the decision
now is official,” he said. “The men
and women of Dyess Air Force Base
and the citizens of Abilene have a
proud history of service to the nation.
This tradition is certain to continue as
the B-I bomber becomes part of na
tional defense system.”
The bombers will replace the B-52s
by the end of 1985 and they represent
the first basing deployment of the
sophisticated aircraft.
lay showcases black history, leaders
staff photo by Irene Mees
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.
Dubois in his one-man show dramatizing
nine black leaders Tuesday night.
by Michelle Powe
Battalion Reporter
The first day of Black History
Month was recognized Tuesday
with the performance of the
play “Can I Speak For You
Brother?” in Rudder Forum.
The one-man show, spon
sored by the MSC Black Aware
ness Committee, was performed
by Phillip E. Walker of the Afri
can American Drama Company
of California.
Walker, who helped establish
the company in 1979, has toured
with the San Francisco Mime
Troupe and won critical acclaim
for his performance in “Cere
monies In Dark Old Men.” He
also played in the NBC-TV
series “The Duke,” with Robert
Conrad.
In “Can I Speak For You
Brother?” Walker brings to life
nine black American leaders, in
cluding Martin Luther King,
Frederick Douglas and W.E.B.
DuBois.
Through words and thoughts
expressed by those leaders. Wal
ker takes his audience through
time, beginning with the arrival
of slaves to America and ending
in the present.
By presenting black and Afri
can plays for American audi
ences, the company hopes to en
courage people to read black
American history and to further
the development of young black
leaders-to-be.
That view' corresponds with
the purposes of Carter Godwin
Woodson, the founder of Negro
History Week, which later was
expanded to Black History
Month.
Woodson said he wanted
young blacks to grow up know
ing their own possibilities by
knowing of blacks’ contributions
to history.
“If a race has no history,” he
said, “if it has no worthwhile tra
dition, it becomes a negligible
factor in the thoughts of the
world, and it stands in danger of
being exterminated.”
Negro History Week may
have been his proudest accom
plishment because, Woodson
said, no other thing “has done so
much to dramatize the achieve
ment of persons of African
blood.”
The MSC Black Awareness
Committee says that the pur
pose of Black History Month is
to study and recognize black his
tory and culture.
The committee is sponsoring
several events this month in rec
ognition of black history and
culture, including the film “Mal
colm X” and a speech by civil
rights activist Dick Gregory.
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United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 2, the
33rd day of 1983 with 332 to
follow.
On this date in history:
In 1848, Mexico signed a treaty
giving Texas, New Mexico, Arizo
na and California to the United
States for $15 million.
In 1876, the National Baseball
League was formed, comprised of
teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincin
nati, New York, Philadelphia, St.
Louis, Louisville, Ky., and Hart
ford, Conn.
In 1933, two days after gaining
office, Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hit
ler ordered dissolution of the
Reichstag, the German * parlia
ment.