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The Banal ion
Serving the University community
76 No. 106 USPS 045360 14 Pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 1, 1983
staff photo by David Fisher
Hitting the jackpot
Brett Kendall, a senior physical education major from Hempstead,
raises his arms in victory after making a freethrow shot from
midcourt during half time of the Texas A&M-Texas basketball
jame in G. Rollie White Coliseum Monday night. Kendall won a
Free trip through the Texas A&M Travel Service. He said he’d
either go to Cancun or Las Vegas. Kendall was the first person to
make the midcourt shot in the contest that is held during the half
time of each home basketball game.
Editorial broadcast
nay get court ban
Casinos add security
after bombs found
United Press International
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Police sear
ched today for an escaped prisoner
suspected of placing dynamite at
three gambling resorts but were sidet
racked by fake bomb threats.
Hundreds of guests had to be
routed from their rooms Monday at
the Stardust, Frontier and Desert Inn
hotel-casinos after bombs — contain
ing nine or 10 sticks of dynamite each
— were found.
Bomb squads transported the ex
plosives to a remote desert area where
they were exploded. There were no
injuries.
“They were all very active bombs,”
said a police spokesman. “The one
they found at the Stardust would have
gone off if it hadn’t been for a loose
wire.”
The chief suspect was Dennis
Waugh, 30, who escaped four days
ago from a federal prison where he
was serving a sentence for attempting
to extort money from several Las
Vegas casinos in 1981.
“We definitely want to talk to him,”
Police Chief John Sullivan said Mon
day. “He tried to extort money with
threats of explosive devices in Las
Vegas before. He is a fugitive from
justice and an escapee. There is an
all-points bulletin for him.”
No extortion demands were re
ceived Monday, but the hotel bombs
were found one day after the Parkway
Theater, 2 miles east of the casinos,
paid $2,000 in response to a tele
phoned extortion threat. No bomb
was found in the theater and the
money had been picked up before
police were informed of the threat.
Police strengthened their forces al
ter the threats and major hotels had
extra private security guards on duty
today.
“We’ve had telephone calls from
people demanding money and some
saying a bomb will explode,” said a
police spokesman. “We have to treat
each one as realistic.”
Soviet missiles
Mideast crisis,
United Press International
Lebanon charged Israel hardened
its position today in troop withdrawal
talks near Beirut as U.S. officials ex
pressed concern a Syrian buildup of
long-range, Soviet antiaircraft mis
siles aggravated the Middle East
crisis.
The session in the southern Beirut
suburb of Khalde marked the 19th
time Lebanese and Israeli negotiators
have met since the talks began Dec.
28. The talks alternate between
Lebanese and Israeli sites.
Today’s talks focused on the thor
ny issues of security arrangements in
southern Lebanon and on future re
lations between Lebanon and Israel,
Lebanese government sources said.
Dr. Daoud Sayegh, the Lebanese
spokesman at the Khalde talks, said
the Israelis “expressed a hard line on
Lebanon’s suggestions.”
Sayegh did not elaborate on the
Lebanese suggestions but govern
ment sources earlier said Beirut was
insisting on a specific timetable for
the withdrawal of all foreign forces
aggravating
officials say
from the country.
“There has been progress on some
points, but there are issues which are
awaiting the outcome of U.S. envoy
Philip Habib’s current mission to
Israel,” one Lebanese government
official said.
U.S. defense officials confirmed
reports from Tel Aviv quoting Israeli
military sources as saying Syria instal
led four surface-to-air batteries with
six missiles each, two at Damascus and
two at the western city of Homs.
The SAM-5s, manned by Soviet
crews, have a range of 155 miles and
can rise to 95,000 feet — threatening
nearly all Israeli air space and high
altitude U.S.-built Israeli E-2C Haw-
keye radar aircraft, which direct
fighter jets.
Secretary of State George Shultz
told a Senate Appropriations sub
committee Monday the SAM missiles
in Syria is “a sobering and destabiliz
ing event in the Middle East,” and the
United States has expressed that view
to the Soviets.
Hotline depends on volunteers
to serve Brazos Valley callers
Editor’s note: The names in the fol
lowing story have been changed to
protect the confidentiality of the Cri
sis Hotline program.
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
The telephone rings. As she picks it
up, Sally wonders if it will be a chronic
caller, a prank caller, a questioning
caller or someone contemplating
suicide.
“Crisis Hotline, can I help you?”
she answers.
Sally isn’t a professional counselor
— she isn’t even a psychology major
— but she is a trained volunteer for
the Brazos Valley Crisis Hotline.
Crisis Hotline exists because of
such volunteers as Sally; it has its own
governing board of directors and
hold its own training programs for
new volunteers.
The training program consists of
six hours in a classroom, a two-hour
role-playing session and a nine-hour
observation period. Before a volun
teer can answer the crisis telephone,
he must complete the classroom ses
sion and pass a written test, partici
pate in the role-playing evaluation
and spend time observing a volunteer
on duty.
To continue as an active volunteer,
he must work at least two shifts, or six
hours a month. If a volunteer fails to
do this, the board may request that he
go through training again.
During training, volunteers are
taught basic techniques for handling
callers. The confidentiality of each
call is stressed and discussion of hot
line activities while not at work is
grounds for dismissal.
Randy, who is working on his mas
ter’s in psychology here, has been an
active volunteer for almost two years
and is on the board of directors at
Crisis Hotline.
He said that he first heard about
the hotline through a girlfriend and
thought it was a worthwhile organiza
tion to join. Hotline gives those in
need of help an outlet in the com
munity, he said.
“Crisis Hotline helped me to get a
sense of myself and a way to help the
community at large,” he said.
Most of the volunteers are stu
dents, but some are people between
jobs with free time to fill or counselors
wanting to expand their field experi
ence, he said.
“Although most of the volunteers
are psychology majors getting experi
ence, we welcome anyone who wants
to be a volunteer," he said.
Crisis Hotline has 20 to 25 active
volunteers, but is seeking more so
operating hours can be expanded.
Randy said they eventually would
like to have volunteers work 24 hours
a day. Volunteers now are on call
from 3 p.m. until midnight every day.
Most volunteers try to average one
three-hour shift a week, he said.
The training program, although
not difficult, is effective in determin
ing who is a serious volunteer.
Jenny just completed the clas
sroom and role-play training and is
waiting to observe a volunteer in ac
tion.
see HOTLINE page 14
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
iourt has agreed to decide whether
te government’s efforts to block
olitical propaganda can include a
an on editorializing by public broad-
asting stations that get federal
toney.
The government appealed a Cali-
arnia ruling that the curb on the tele-
ision and radio stations violates free
peech guarantees. It argues the ban
oth protects the stations from gov-
rnment interference and keeps
tiem from using lax money to “prop-
gate controversial private views.”
The justices Monday decided to
ake up the issue with a ruling ex
acted next year.
The 1967 Public Broadcasting Act
trohibited editorializing or support-
ng political candidates by all public
tations, not just those accepting pub
ic funds.
Under 1981 amendments to the
avv; Congress barred stations that re
vive funds from the Corporation for
’ublic Broadcasting from airing ex-
tressions of opinions or views on pub
ic issues.
Pacifica Foundation, a nonprofit
:orporation that operates radio sta-
ions WBAI in New York City, WPFW
n Washington, KPFK in Los Angeles,
(PFA and KPFB in Berkeley, Calif.,
and KPFT in Houston challenged the
law in 1979.
Pacifica’s lawyers argued that by
“categorially proscribing the express
ion of the views of CPB-funded non
commercial broadcasters on issues of
public importance,” the public is dep
rived of access to information and
ideas.
Holding the limits were not sup
ported by any compelling gov
ernmental interest, U.S. District
Judge Malcolm Lucas ruled for the
stations.
Fear of governmental pressure was
unfounded, he said, because the Cor
poration for Public Broadcasting is an
independent, nonprofit, private cor
poration, which bases it decisions on
objective criteria.
Because broadcasters legally are
bound to present differing view
points under the Federal Communi
cation Commission’s “fairness doc
trine,” they are barred from present
ing “onesided political propaganda,”
he said.
Because the judge overturned a
federal law, the government
appealed directly to the Supreme
Court. It argued the statute not only
protects the stations from political in
fluence, “but also prevents the use of
public funds to propagate controver
sial private views.”
inside
forecast
Around Town 4
Classified..' 8
Local 3
National 8
Opinions 2
Police Beat 4
Sports 11
State 6
What’s up 10
Mostly sunny and warm today with
a high of 77. Southwesterly winds
near 10 mph. For tonight, dear
skies and a low near 54. Clear and
warm for Wednesday, but becom
ing partly cloudy or cloudy in the
evening. The high will be about 82.
M*A*S*H
leaves
on serious note
Characters say farewell
to fans and each other
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
After 11 years of patching up sol
diers in a war that lasted only three
years, the 4077th Mobile Army Sur
gical Hospital said goodbye Monday
night.
The war finally ended and every
one went home. But before the war
was over, the 4077th M*A*S :(: H had
worked its way into the lives of mil
lions of viewers — and to the top of
the rating charts.
But M*A*S*H was more than a
show about the Korean War — it was a
show about human relationships and
how they change and mature.
The two-and-a-half hour movie
ended the war and closed down the
M*A*S*H unit forever, excluding re
runs. The doctors and nurses said
their final goodbyes in front of an
audience that was expected to be one
of the largest in television history.
But the characters didn’t seem the
same. Hawkeye was in a psychiatric
ward, B.J. was going home early,
Klinger was in love and everyone else
was making plans for the end of the
war.
Even the camp looked different.
Homeless South Korean refugees
and North Korean and Chinese
POWs filled the camp and the shell
ing seemed closer than usual.
From the beginning, it seemed
more serious than the typical
M*A*S 5,: H episode, which usually
brought more laughter than tears.
Hawkeye had his usual sharp wit
and snappy tongue, but he was dis
guising deeper fears and anxieties —
he was in a psychiatric ward for part
of the show, trying to forget the war.
B.J. still wanted to get back to his
wife and daughter and seemed un
able to express his emotions or tell his
camp-mates goodbye.
Klinger fell in love and married a
Korean refugee and decided to stay
and help her find her parents. After
all those years of wearing dresses to
finagle his way back to the States, he
was the one to stay behind.
Father Mulcahy began to lose his
hearing after saving a group of POWs
during a shelling attack oh the camp
and decided he wanted to work with
the deaf.
Winchester happened upon five
Chinese POW’s, who also were musi
cians. When he discovered they could
play Mozart, he made it his duty to
improve their touch, but became
emotionally involved in the process.
They were shipped out, much to his
sadness, and later returned as
corpses.
“Music used to be a refuge for me,”
Winchester said, “but now it will be a
constant reminder.”
Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan
couldn’t decide what to do after the
war. Her father kept sending her sug
gestions for military work outside the
States. But at the end she decided to
do what she always wanted — to be a
nurse at a civilian hospital.
Col. Sherman Potter gave his horse
Sophie to the orphanage and went
home to his wife and corn on the cob.
As the final notes of the theme
song, “Suicide is Painless,” were play
ed, it was like leaving a bunch of old
friends — friends who provided in
spiration in the almost barren waste
land of television.
staff photo by J orge Casari
Freshman Kyle Kerbow, left, an electrical engineering major from
Houston, and sophomore Stewart Goulden, an animal science
major from Spring, proudly display the outfits they wore for the
last episode of M*A*S*H.