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76 No. 128 USPS 045360 16 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 6,1983
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United Press International
)SCOW — The Soviet Union
quiet reception Tuesday to 47
itizens who were expelled f rom
e for allegedly taking part in the
st spy operation smashed by a
rn nation in more than a de-
nong those expelled were" five
yees of Soviet commercial
s, the chief of the Soviet news
yTass in Paris and a Tass repor-
'rench news reports said the
of KGB operations for France
also was on the list.
There was speculation that Vladi
mir Kuzichin, a KGB secret police
major who defected in October, ex
posed his former comrades as spies.
British government sources said he
helped oust three Soviet officials
from Britain last week.
The French expulsion was the
largest involving Soviet citizens in a
Western nation since 1971 when 105
Soviets were ordered out of Britain
on espionage charges.
T he 47 Soviets and about 100 fami
ly members flew into Moscow’s top-
security Vnukovo 2 Airport, reserved
for official delegations and visitors.
The only official Soviet response
came from Moscow’s embassy in
Paris, which in a statement de
nounced the French action against
the mission’s 86-person staff as “un
justified and arbitrary.”
The embassy accused France of
acting for domestic political reasons,
saying, “all responsibility for the
adverse consequences on the de
velopment of relations between
France and the U.S.S.R. rests there
fore on the French side.”
But the French government said
the people expelled had been en
gaged in scientific and military
espionage.
“The f requency and gravity of the
acts on behalf of a foreign power
through these agents, usually profit
ing from their diplomatic status, justi
fied the departure of the persons con
cerned,” the French Interior Ministry
said.
buttle mission going smoothly
7
United Press International
PE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
ed the radio relay satellite they
:red is safe in space, the pilots of
buttle Challenger today looked
1 to their next big job — Thurs-
spacewalk in the freighter’s
jy cargo bay.
jhe four spacemen were given a
night at 11:24 p.m. Tuesday
!ugh they were not scheduled to
in for the night for another
, when Challenger was circling
t for the 25th time.
They had had another busy day,
running a series of experiments with
a space medicine-making machine
and rehearsing space rendezvous
maneuvers needed for an extraordin
ary attempt to repair a cripped sun
watching satellite next year.
Before going to bed, astronaut
Story Musgrave reported the crew
was engaged in some housecleaning
chores.
“We have Col. Peterson dutifully
cleaning the WCS,” he said, referring
to the ship’s toilet, otherwise known as
the waste collection system. “I’m mor
al support from a distance.”
Musgrave, who is a surgeon, was
downstairs in Challenger’s cabin to
fiddle with the $2 million space suits
he and Peterson will wear when they
leave Challenger’s airlock and enter
the open cargo bay Thursday after
noon.
He reported replacing four dead
batteries in the space-suit’s life-
support apparatus and said he would
have to figure out a way to fix a strap
that holds a check list to one of the
spacesuit cuffs.
Musgrave and Peterson were sche
duled to put on the pressure suits
tonight to make sure everything
works.
The spacewalk will be the first from
a shuttle and it is the last major objec
tive of this five-day, 2 million-mile
mission set to end Saturday with a
landing at Edwards Air Force Base in
California.
The primary mission goal was the
launch of the tracking satellite Mon
day night.
hree races to be run Tuesday
uring campus run-off elections
By Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
ause the names of three candi
running in last week’s student
[ions initially were left off the bal-
those three races will be re-run.
Aections for junior yell leaders,
peering senator at-large and
lomore engineering senator will
eld in conjunction with run-off
ions Tuesday.
he three candidates whose names
:omitted are James C. Becker Jr.,
lidate for junior yell leader; Chip
th, candidate for engineering
tor-at-large; and Jim Collins,
ndidate for sophomore engineer-
senator.
ilection Commissioner Les Asel
during the election that the deci-
i to re-run the three elections
lid be among the candidates in the
fee races and himself.
‘The way I see it, it’s the candidates
to are in jeopardy one way or
ther; therefore, their opinion is
most important to my decision,”
1 said. “I will make my decision
led on their input. Candidates in-
)|ed in (other) races have absolutely
o input into what happens.”
Asel said Tuesday that he has de
cided to repeat the elections although
no one has appealed them, and said
he decided to re-run the elections
without consulting the candidates.
His decision is final unless it is
appealed to the judicial Board and
overruled.
Candidates have until tonight to
appeal Asel’s decision.
The temporary omission of the
names of the three candidates from
the ballot was not the only problem
with the election, Asel said.
“Up until the point at which the
campaign started, everything was
going very smoothly,” he said. “Then,
at the last minute, everything fell
apart on me.”
Asel said the problems were not
due to a lack of organization.
“It’sjust some things have come up
that unfortunately interfered with
the functioning of the election,” he
said.
One of the problems with the elec
tion was the unfair and illegal cam
paign tactics of some of the candi
dates, Asel said.
“First of all,” he said, “many of the
candidates were continually overstep
ping the boundaries of the rules and
regs. They’re college students and
they have to use a little common
sense. Yet many of the candidates
have not done so.”
So far most of the violations have
been minor, Asel said.
Some candidates, however, repe
atedly committed minor violations, he
said. The types of violations include
stealing signs, erecting signs that were
too large, placing campaign flyers on
the windshields of cars in student
parking lots and distributing flyers,
that were too big.
He said he has not considered dis
qualifying any of the candidates,
which is the ultimate punitive power
Asel has at his disposal. He said he did
consider placing candidates on prob
ation and telling them not to cam
paign for short periods of time, but
never did.
Another problem with the election
was a lack of people to staff the polls
during the election, he said.
Asel said he runs the elections for
four student organizations: Student
Government, the Residence Hall
Association, the Graduate Student
Council and Off-Campus Aggies. In
return, he said, they are required to
supply the needed pollsters.
But both the graduate student
council and OCA failed to supply a
sufficient number of man-hours, Asel
said. He added, however, that he
couldn’t place all the blame on those
two organizations because he couldn’t
come up with the extra pollsters
either.
Asel said that many of the prob
lems in the election Were due to a lack
of a permanent system of holding
elections.
staff photo by Irene Mees
The claustrophobia cube
Eight second-floor residents of Keathley Hall totter in a
two-foot cube during a one-second crush contest. The
contestants cannot touch the ground outside the lines.
This event, which was held in the grass area beside
Keathley Saturday, was a part of the Keathley Olympics.
RHA, OCA election
results announced
“My experience as election com
missioner has been trial and error 100
percent,” he said.
Asel said he has learned from his
mistakes and would like to use that
knowledge in setting up a permanent
system.
“I’m going to try and be election
commissioner again,” he said. “I’m
hoping we can work out all the prob
lems in the election within the next
year, to where we can get it down to a
working system and pass it down
from election commissioner to elec
tion commissioner with no prob
lems.”
Election results for Residence Hall
Association officers and Off-Campus
Aggies officers are:
RHA
sophomore, IDIS, Taft
OCA
president
Kelli Kiesling
junior, accounting, Vernon
vice president
Christopher Stanley
sophomore, psychology, Houston
treasurer
Kathy Terry
junior, Houston, industrial en
gineering
secretary
runoff between:
Doug Houston
junior, mechanical engineering,
Richardson
Mike Hunt
president
runoff between:
Kevin Goodwin
sophomore, mechanical engineering,
San Antonio
John Robert Survil
junior, mechanical engineering, Dun
canville
vice president
Stacey Roberts
sophomore, finance, Houston
treasurer
Michelle Davis
freshman, computing science,
Houston
secretary
Lisbeth Lowe
freshman, psychology, Houston
Suspect in snake stealing critical
after being bitten by deadly viper
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Doctors were
closely monitoring the progress of a
teenager today who was bitten by a
deadly African viper he is suspected
of stealing from the National Zoo.
Louis Morton, 16, was still in critic
al condition, but was responding to
antivenin serum shipped from the
emergency stocks of five East Coast
zoos, a Children’s Hospital spokes
man said.
Morton, who neighbors said loved
snakes and kept several in his home,
boarded a District of Columbia bus
near the zoo Monday night, carrying
two 5-foot-long Gaboon vipers in a
brown plastic bag. The exotic black,
blue and yellow African reptile is one
of the most dangerous snakes in the
world.
He stepped off the bus in the heart
of downtown with the bag slung over
his shoulder, but quickly turned
around and, slumping over almost
immediately, called to the bus driver.
“He grabbed his shoulder and
came running back toward the bus,”
driver Jane White said. “He leaned on
the door and said, T’ve been bitten by
a snake.”
Morton was immediately rushed to
Children’s Hospital and was given the
life-saving antivenin kept at the zoo
after the snakes were identified. A
policeman, who once caught and
milked rattlesnakes for money and is
adept at snake handling, recovered
the vipers.
Thick glass cages at the Reptile
House at the National Zoo were
smashed and the two vipers stolen
sometime Monday evening, zoo
police said. The cage of a poisonous
water moccasin also was broken, but
the snake was left behind.
Zoo police Sgt. Thomas McFarland
said the youth is a suspect in the theft
and D.C. police said Morton faces
charges as a result of the break-in.
The viper is “one of the two or
three most poisonous snakes in the
world,” Dr. Murray Pollack said.
Five zoos along the Eastern Sea
board responded to an emergency
call for vials of the antivenin serum.
New York police mobilized an Illinois
Civil Aif Patrol aircraft in the area to
fly the serum to National Airport.
Dr. Muriel Wolf, a doctor who tre
ated the boy, said he was “bleeding
quite severely and had problems with
his blood pressure when he arrived”
at the hospital.
Dr. Dale Marcellini, the zoo’s dire
ctor of herpetology, said the person
or persons who took the snakes “were
not snake professionals, just someone
who got a crazy idea.”
He said the thief apparently
“stayed on after 7:30 p.m., broke the
windows, then broke into the cages.”
The Gaboon vipers, he said, are
very placid snakes.“They are quite
beautiful,” he said.
McFarland said the zoo did not dis
cover the theft until they were asked
to identify the snakes.
“You got to put two and two
together. The guy from snake house
met the D.C. police at gate and identi
fied them as to the kind they were,”
the zoo policeman said. “He realized
they were ours. You don’t have those
things running around the street. I’m
waiting for somebody to come up and
steal a polar bear tonight.”
Publications editors named
staff photo by Bill Schulz
Touche’, Old Girl
Friday afternoon outside Spence Hall, freshman Jerri
Leppert, a mechanical engineering major from Auburn,
Ala., shows Carrie McElroy that she (Leppert) has the
fastest ice cream cone in Aggieland. Their messy battle
started at the creamery and lasted about thirty minutes.
McElroy is a sophomore from Spring majoring in wildlife
and fisheries.
Hope E. Paasch was elected 1983
summer and fall editor of The Batta
lion and Dena Brown was elected edi
tor of the 1984 Aggieland by the Stu
dent Publications Board Tuesday
evening.
Paasch is ajuniorjournalism major
from Burleson. She is city editor of
The Battalion and was previously a
reporter for the newspaper.
Brown, ajuniorjournalism major
from Lake Jackson, is one of the clas
ses section editors for the 1983 Aggie
land.
The editorships are subject to the
approval of Dr. Gordon P. Eaton,
provost and vice president for acade
mic affairs.
The Battalion summer editorship
term lasts from May 18 to Aug. 29.
The fall term lasts from May 2
through May 11 and from Aug. 30 to
Dec. 9.
The Aggieland editor serves until
the final pages of the 1984 book have
been completed.
Faculty members of the Student
Publications Board are: Gary Halter,
associate professor of political scien
ce, Davis A. Fahlquist, professor of
geophysics, Carolyn Adair, director
of student activities, and R. William
Barzak, associate professor of En
glish.
Dale Collins, Mark Stromberg and
Jeff Anthony are the student mem-
bersof the board. JoeJordan serves as
alternate.
Applications may be picked up be
ginning next week for positions on
the summer and fall Battalion staffs.
Applications will open soon for
positions on the staff of the Aggie
land.
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. . . 3
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... 2
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. . 13
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... 5
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.. . 7
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... 4
What’s up
.. 12
forecast
Mostly cloudy today with a 40 per-
cent chance of showers and
a high
of 64. Cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of rain tonight with
a low
near 50.