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ol. 76 No. 171 USPS 045360 8 Pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, July 12, 1983 harges to be filed soon n church firebombing case by Robert McGlohon Battalion Staff Fbrmal charges against a man ■sted after last week’s rash of hirch firebombings have not yet ■> filed in Brazos County but prob- Hwill be filed soon, sheriffs detec- Ve Buford Thorton said Monday. B^orris Eugene Moss is the only ' jspeet in the case, Thorton said, but pmBe concrete evidence is needed be- H charges can be filed. Moss [ya Jfready has been charged in Milam ■nty with one of the firebombings. he m.o. (method of operation) is Jsame,” Thorton said, but added nk that officers are waiting for results of lab tests before filing charges here. Moss, 34, of Houston, was arrested by Houston arson investigators Wednesday at Bill McDavid Oldsmo- bile, where he is employed as a car salesman. He then was taken to the Milam County Courthouse in Camer on and formally charged Thursday with one of last week’s eight fire bombings. Moss did not enter a plea at the arraignment. Bond was set at $50,000. The string of firebombings began early on the morning of Independ ence Day. Four small Milam County churches were set on fire that morning. The Perry Memorial Church of God in Christ, located in Cause, was destroyed. Two other Cause chur ches were damaged by fire. The Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church was heavily damaged and the Stephen Chapel AME Church sustained minor damage. The Hoyte Church of Christ, lo cated north of Cause, was the first to catch fire and was heavily damaged. The firebombings continued the next day. Early on the morning of July 5, four more fires were set, this time in Robertson, Franklin and Bra zos counties. The Shiloh Baptist Church, near Franklin, and the old Masonic Hall in Hearne, which is the regular meeting place of the Church of God in Christ, both sustained minor damage from the fires. The Friendship Baptist Church, north of Bryan, was heavily damaged. It was gutted and the rear half of the building destroyed. The fourth fire, although it is be lieved to have been set about the same time as the other Tuesday morning fires, was not discovered until the next day. ommittee selections focus f Faculty Senate meeting by Jill Slay man Battalion Reporter the newly-established Faculty Sen- tlselected an eight-member execu- ■ committee and an eleven- number election committee Monday luring its second meeting. (The executive committee will be ponsible for the budget, advise the ikerof the Senate and implement the programs and decisions of the Senate. Members of the executive commit tee include: •Thomas Kozik, College of Engi neering •Ethel Tsutsui, College of Agricul ture •Linda Parrish, College of Education •John Hoyle, College of Education •Jaan Laane, College of Science •Robert Albanese, College of Busi ness •M.H. Milford, College of Agricul ture •William Barzak, College of Liberal Arts The 85-member Senate also selected William Barzak, professor of English, as secretary-treasurer. The faculty representatives elected an eleven-member election commit tee and an eleven-member committee on committees. Revisions also were approved for the bylaws and the transition commit tee reports that were established dur ing the Senate’s first meeting last month. eagan files may be reviewed H United Press International ^WASHINGTON — The chairman )f the House subcommittee probing ^sible campaign espionage by aides Tonald Reagan said today he has [ed the Hoover Institution for per- inssion for staff investigators to se cure Reagan campaign tiles and allow us staff to review them. ■“I want to be sure that the original ipies do not leave the files,” Rep. pnald Albosta, D-Mich., said. | In a telegram sent during the weekend to Molly Tuthill, curator of the museum at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Albosta asked for permission for his staff to inspect ori ginal copies of the files, among which documents from the Carter White House have been discovered. Tuthill has been looking through the files and sending to the White House — and more recently at the White House’s request to the Justice Department — materials that appear to be documents from Carter White House and political strategists. The telegram requested that the facility confirm that all originals of the Reagan file be preserved and that only copies would be sent to the Jus tice Department. Albosta is pressing the Hoover In stitution to release only copies of the files and to keep the originals intact. He said he felt his request is “just good policy.” Some former Carter aides privately have expressed suspi cions that Reagan’s staff might be tampering with the files and Albosta said, “Reagan still has his people out there overseeing the whole opera tion.” Albosta said he plans to send staff investigators to the museum in the next day or two. He said if the Hoover Institution for some reason declines his request for congressional review of the files, the panel would consider issuing a subpoena. His Post Office and Civil Service three-member subcommittee on hu man resources is scrambling to carry on the spreading probe of presiden tial campaign practices. staff photo by Brenda Davidson A bit of ground work Nellie Pittme, a full-time employee of the University, keeps the landscape around the Chemistry Building in full bloom. She says she enjoys working outside and doesn’t even mind the heat. Ecuadorean jet explodes, crashes Campus utility signup planned for this fall This fall, students can sign applica tions for utilities and pay utility de posits without leaving campus. Area utility departments will take student applications for utility service at the Memorial Student Center be fore the fall semester begins. Utility workers hope the service will speed utility hookups and put an end to long lines at the utility offices. The sign-up service will be avail able from Aug. 22 to Sept. 1. Louann Schulze of the Off- CampuS Housing Center says forms for utility service may be obtained at her office in Puryear Hall prior to the sign-up. There are about 26,000 Texas A&M students who live off campus during the school year. Valerie Ellison, a Bryan utility su- E ervisor, says the sign up service will enefit students and the utility offices by reducing lines. United Press International QUITO, Ecuador — An Ecuado rean jetliner carrying 116 people ex ploded and crashed in flames today as it approached for landing at the southern city of Cuenca. All aboard were believed killed, an official said. Officials said the TAME airlines Boeing 737 exploded and crashed in the suburbs of Cuenca at 8:30 a.m., two minutes before it was to land at the Mariscal Lamar airport. “We don’t know the cause of the explosion but an investigation will be gin immediately. We believe all the passengers died,” an official at the air port said. The plane, on a domestic flight from Quito, crashed in the suburbs of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third largest city with a population of 150,000. The city, 190 miles south of Quito, is lo cated in the Andes mountains. A military battalion from nearby Fort Machangara was dispatched to search for possible survivors and re cover the dead. A spokesman for the state-owned Transportes Aereos Militares Ecuatoriano, TAME, the country’s largest domestic airline, said most of the passengers were Cuenca residents returning to the city after a weekend in Quito. The plane was piloted by Gen. Juan Pena. In 1978 and 1979, two TAME air liners crashed in the Cuenca area and the remains were never recovered. The crashes prompted demands that the airline buy new planes better suited for flying over the region’s rug ged mountains. A TAME spokesman in Quito said the plane that crashed today was one of a new fleet of Boeing 737s purch ased by the airline in the past year. End to martial law in Poland forecast United Press International WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Communist government signaled it was edging closer to lifting martial law and Cardinal Jozef Glemp said he ex pected the country’s 19-month state of emergency would end in 10 days. A ranking official of the national parliament, the Sejm, said late Mon day the deputies would meet next week on the martial law issue, appa rently to write into law some of the special police powers assumed during the military takeover of the govern ment in December 1981. Glemp told reporters he hoped lifting martial law would be accompa nied by an amnesty “of a general char acter” for political prisoners and activists who went underground when the Solidarity free trade union was outlawed. “The church has thought about this for a long time, is waiting for the moment and wishes for it to occur,” the cardinal said. “God grant that it might be so.” Glemp, who returned Monday from a 10-day trip to Italy that com bined a vacation with talks at the Vati can, said his “expectation” was that martial law would be lifted July 22, the national holiday of socialist Po land. He did not say, however, if he had any private assurances from members of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s govern ment about that date. The primate said he and the other Polish bishops were “enormously satisfied” with Pope John Paul IPs visit to his homeland last month. Reports in the state-run press have linked the outcome of the papal visit — specifically the lack of any anti government ' protests more wide spread than those that did occur — to the decision on whether to lift martial law, which was imposed Dec. 13, 1981. The regime suspended martial law last December. But a series of tough regulations enacted earlier remains in effect. Taking part in strikes, public pro tests and demonstrations are still pun ishable by up to three years in prison, job dismissal and expulsion from school. Military courts are still hear ing cases for people accused of politic al crimes and other offenses against public order and security. Alabama colleges first targets of Reagan’s desegregation effort P-c intomationoi states have experienced similar” students for public higher edt Onty 4.) staff photo by Brenda Davidson Who wanted a trashcan? A little bit of trash didn’t stop Texas A&M students from paying fees Monday in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Wednesday is the deadline to pay fees for the second session of summer school. United Press International WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration, under severe critic ism for its civil rights policies, has made public universities and colleges in Alabama the targets of its first school desegregation lawsuit. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Ala., the Justice De partment charged Monday the state maintained and perpetuated a system of “racial dualism” at 16 campuses. In Alabama, Gov. George Wallace, one of the defendants in the suit, said he would study the situation before determining how the state would react. “I am not surprised inasmuch as I have noted recently that several other states have experienced similar’ pressure to desegregate schools, Wal lace said in a statement. The government suit asked the federal court to bar the state from maintaining and perpetuating “racial dualism” in the state-supported sys tem of higher education and to re quire them to develop plans to elimin ate all segregation. The Alabama case is one of three school desegregation cases that have been authorized by the Justice De partment. The other two, which in volve secondary or elementary schools, have not yet been filed. The government charged that Ala bama has provided black students with fewer opportunities than white students for public higher education and denied them opportunities avail able to whites. The state was ordered to allow blacks to attend its colleges in 1963. “As a result of defendants’ racially discriminatory practices and policies of admission, faculty hiring and assignment, and provisions of facili ties, resources and curricular and ex tracurricular programs and activities, the institutions of the Alabama system of public higher education remain largely segregated by race,” the gov ernment said. Reynolds said the suit was filed fol lowing more than a year of negotia tions with the state. inside Classified 6 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 7 State 4 National 8 forecast Partly cloudy today with a 20 per cent chance of showers and a high of 92. A 20 percent chance of thun dershowers tonight with a low near 72. Partly cloudy Wednesday with a 20 percent chance of thunder showers and a high of 91.