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Around town
Rape prevention program tonight
The Department of Student Affairs will hold a program
on “Rape: The Crime Against Women,” at 7:30 tonight in
308 Rudder Tower. The program — which will discuss
security awareness, rape prevention, the legalities of rape
prosecution, and the newly formed rape crisis center — will
be presented by Bill Turner, assistant district attorney.
Defensive driving course offered
The Brazos Valley Safety Agency will offer a defensive
driving course tonight and Tuesday. The sessions will be
held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Ramada Inn. Registration
^Jis $18, and participants can register at 5 p.m. on Monday or
'^■pre-register by calling 693-8178.
lA&M-SMU is annual switch-off game
United Press International
DENVER — The family of
John W. Yinckley Jr., accused of
shooting President Reagan, has
Filed a f5 million claim against
the federal government alleging
harrassment of the family-run
oil Firm.
Documents filed with the
Energy Department claim the
family was treated prejudicially
in an audit following the March
30, 1981 assassination attempt,
for which young Hinckley was
acquitted by reason of insanity.
Scott Hinkley, son of John W.
Hinckley Sr. and president of
the Denver-based Vanderbilt
Energy Corp., said the family
Filed suit as a matter of principle.
“We are simply putting the
DOE on notice that we’re not
going to roll over and play
dead,” he is quoted as saying in
an article in Sunday’s Denver
Post. “We feel like our integrity
has been questioned, and it’s not
something we’d like them to get
away with.”
The audit began as an oil
E rice check on the firm, one of
undreds the Energy Depart
ment routinely conducts. Hink
ley family members say the audit
mushroomed into a government
vendetta.
The Energy Department says
Vanderbilt Energy Corporation
owes $372,666 in overcharges
on oil produced from several of
Vanderbilt’s Texas wells.
Said Hinkley family attorney
Craig Dodd: “It’s the most
oppressive, outrageous, inex
cusable, heavy-handed govern
ment action that I’ve ever heard
of. But for the assassination
attempt, this case would have
died long ago.”
Energy Department official
Rayburn Hanzlik said the audit
was handled no differently from
any other. It was authorized in
mid-1980 and began in Febru
ary of 1981, more than a month
before the shooting of Reagan
and three others.
Energy officials met with
Scott Hinckley on the morning
of the assassination attempt, and
told him they had uncovered
what looked like overcharges.
Vanderbilt and government
auditors disagreed on the aver
age production of the wells. The
discrepancy added up to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in
potentially illegal overcharges.
FBI checks background
of accused hijacker
United Press International
NEWARK, N.J. — FBI inves
tigators Sunday were delving
into the background of a Haitian
native who commandeered a
People Express jet, diverted the
flight to Atlantic City and held
up the crew for the ticket money.
Jean-Robert Ambroise, 27,
an East Orange resident also
known as “Jamile” and “Robert”
Ambroise, was in Cape May
County Jail pending arraign
ment on federal air piracy
charges Monday in U.S. district
Court in Camden, said FBI
spokesman Michael McDonnell.
“We’re checking out his back
ground,” McDonnell said. “We
don’t know a lot about him right
now, just that he goes by these
three names.”
Ambroise was arrested Satur
day afternoon after a hijack dra
ma that began shortly after the
Newark-bound flight left the
airport in Buffalo, New York.
Flight 104, with 101 passen
gers and five crew members
aboard, was over Pottstown, Pa.,
when Ambroise stood up,
shouted he had a gun, took a
female flight attendant hostage
and demanded to go to Atlantic
City, McDonnell said.
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The Traditions Council of Student Government has
announced that the Oct. 29 Texas A&M-Southern Method-
list University football game will be the annual ladies’ choice
“Switch-off for the Kick-off” game. Women will have the
responsibility of asking and paying for a date to the game.
Workshop hones publicity techniques
Texas A&M student organizations and local community
groups will be given an opportunity to learn how to reach
heir audiences more effectively at a Publicity Workshop
sponsored by Women in Communications, Inc.
The workshop, which will be held Saturday, (OCt. 22), is
designed to teach individuals or groups how present their
messages. Megen Looney, an advertising representative
from “The Press,” will conduct a seminar on the basics of
idvertising design. Student WICI members will hold ses-
ions on writing press releases, designing flyers and reaching
the local media.
Participants will have a chance to design some work of
heir own at the workshop, and prizes will be awarded to
outstanding work.
The Texas A&M chapter of WICI is part of a national
organization of communication professionals.
,, , Registration deadline for the second annual workshop is
i >re ’ ' n 3 - phesday, (Oct. 18) , and the fee is $10 for each organization
or individual. The sessions will be held from 10 a.m. to 3:30
p.m., in 014 Reed McDonald.
I For more information, contact Kim Schmidt at 260-0056.
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ijackson to decide
on ’84 candidacy
United Press International
R DALLAS — Rev. Jesse Jack-
1 PP son ^ as promised Texas Demo-
1 Ll'-T cratic supporters he will decide
by the end of this month
whether he will run for presi-
QIl dentin 1984.
I Jackson met Saturday with
about 200 Dallas leaders and
ditical activists to raise the
1,000 needed to be on the bal-
he Repiftfjt in the 1984 Texas primary,
irters last ''}He told supporters and black
ention to 4 lommunity leaders that he is in
yt establish the “final stages” of deciding his
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plans for the next presidential
election.
At a news conference, the
Chicago-based civil rights leader
said it he runs, it will be as a
Democratic candidate, not as an
independent.
Jackson called his supporters
a “rainbow coalition” drawing its
members from blacks, Hispa-
nics, whites, peace activists,
women, “and those who are
locked out.”
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