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The Battalion Serving the University community Vnl 78 No. 45 JSPS 0453110 12 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 1, 1983 r Trick Donn Friedman, Battalion Photo Ghosts and goulish goblins wandered through the Texas A&M campus Monday night in search of treats. But everyone didn’t get treats. Here, Jill Borris, a freshman pre-dentistry major, receives a trick from two warriors with baseball bats. The warriors, freshmen Frank Barnett, left, and Mike Kerutis, were at Crocker Hall during the Resident Hall Association annual Halloween festivities. or Treat? Donn Friedman, Battalion Photo Meanwhile two devils were wandering through the first floor of Davis-Gary Hall in search of candy. Here, Susan Ernest, left, and Laura Williars await candy treats. Ernest and Williars both are sophomore business majors from Houston. Nuclear race described as U.S. security threat by Steve Thomas Battalion Staff “The nuclear arms race is not only a toss waste of taxpayers’ dollars, but, Fish runoffs to be today Freshmen runoff elections will be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.rn. today in the Memorial Student Center main lounge or the Pavilion. Freshmen piust bring a Texas A&M I.D. card fvhen they vote. inside Ground town 7 Classified 6 .ocal 3 ''Jational 5 )pinions 2 iports 11 itate 4 Vhat’s up 9 forecast unny and warm today, with the lighs reaching the mid 80s. ironically, a real threat to our national security,” says Dr. Paul F. Walker, a private consultant in national security policy and Soviet-American relations. The MSC Great Issues program today will feature Walker speaking against atomic weapons and what he feels are the dangerous government strategies behind them. The program will begin at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. Walker, who served as a Russian intelligence specialist with the U.S. Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War, is a severe critic of the arms race and nuclear proliferation. “The deadly nuclear brew of war- fighting, first-strike strategies and of cold-war atmospherics is pushing us all toward atomic Armageddon,” he says. Walker has worked as a consultant foY his firm, Klein Walker, for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Congressional Re search Service and a senatorial SALT Advisory Committee among others. Before starting his consulting firm, Walker was director of Education and Program for the Physicians for Social Responsibility Modern-day ‘ark’ bound for Korea United Press International GRAND PRAIRIE — A really modern-day Noah’s ark, loaded with 400 animals from all over the world, is making an odyssey from a Dallas sub urb to a brand new zoo in Korea. The shipment from International Wildlife Park to Seoul’s Grand Park Zoo, where it will comprise about 60 f jercent of the exhibits, was to start oading at midnight and take off aboard a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 at 6:30 a.m. today. “As far as we know this is the largest single air shipment of animals in history,” park spokeswoman Hayley Spencer said. “They’re due to arrive just in time for the Nov. 5 grand opening (of the Korean zoo).” The shipment includes an Indian rhinoceros and four young African elephants, as well as hyenas, seals, jaguars, ostriches and 19 different species of primates. Aside from the problem of “com fort” facilities, the staff of the wildlife park will have to provide a variety of in-flight meals. “We’ll be carrying a one-week supply of food for the animals on spe cial diets,” Spencer said. “That in cludes hay. The hay in Texas is diffe rent from the hay in Korea, so space has to be alloted for that.” Allocating space for each animal is vastly more complicated than just sorting passengers out as smokers and non-smokers. “Of course weight distribution is a key factor,” park manager Mickey Hunt said. “But we must be careful about placing compatible animals next to one another in their crates.” Committee nixes nerve gas funds United Press International WASHINGTON — The Senate Appropriations Gommittee dealt the Reagan administration a setback Monday by voting 14-12 to delete all production funds for two controver sial, new nerve gas weaipons. The amendment, offered by com mittee Chairman Mark Hatfield, R- Ore., deleted $124 million from a $252 billion military spending bill for 1984. The committee declined to take a vote on another major issue, whether to appropriate funds for producing the first 21 MX missiles. Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., who sponsored an amendment to delete $2.1 billion in production funds, with drew his amendment on the advice of Hatfield, another MX foe, who sug gested it did not have sufficient com mittee support and could be more substantially debated on the House floor. The nerve gas vote was a signifi cant defeat for program backers, who were depending on the Senate com mittee to act, and could mean the program is dead in Congress this year. The House Appropriations com mittee deleted all nerve gas produc tion funds Oct. 20 and backers had decided not to bring the issue to the full House, which had soundly re jected the program earlier this year. In every budget he has presented to Congress since his inauguration. President Reagan has been seeking to resume chemical weapons production for the first time since 1969. The Pen tagon wants the money to produce 155mm binary artillery shells and the “Bigeye” binary bomb. In binary weapons, two non-lethal chemicals are kept separate until they are mixed in the shell or bomb, pro ducing a lethal gas. They are consi dered safer than older, single- chambered weapons that may leak. Congress ref used to break the un ilateral U.S. production ban in 1981 and 1982, and last summer the House refused to authorize the program. However, the Senate approved the program when Vice President George Bush broke a 49-49 tie vote and House negotiators deferred to their Senate counterparts when the two bills were reconciled in a conference committee. Asked after the vote if it had been in doubt, Hatfield said, “No. We had our heads counted.” Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chair man of the appropriations defense subcommittee, said he was not sure whether an ef f ort will be made to res tore the nerve gas funds when the military bill is taken up by the full Senate. If so, it will probably be offered by Sen. John Tower, R- Texas, chairman of the Armed Ser vices Committee, Stevens said. The committee completed work on virtually all of the bill in its third day of meetings. However, it scheduled a closed session Tuesday for work on a classified section of the bill. In its work Monday, it restored $138 million in cuts made by the de fense subcommittee, including $168 million to provide for annual produc tion of 840 M-l tanks instead of 720; $23.5 million for further research into laser weapons systems; and $37.6 million for equipment to be ware housed in Europe for ready access in case of war. Overall, the committee added $550 million to the subcommittee ver sion, Stevens said. Time after time, he objected to re quests to restore funds. Campaign 47 percent of United Way goal collected by Michelle Powe Battalion Staff With three weeks of its eight-week campaign left, Texas A&M has raised 47 percent’ of its $ 111,000 goal for the 1983 Brazos County United Way campaign. Texas A&M’s drive is broken into three parts: the Texas A&M Universi ty units, the Texas A&M System units and the students. So far the University has raised over $28,000 — nearly 51 percent of its $56,000 goal. The System has raised over $22,000 — 50 percent of Moreno bond, by Brigid Brockman Battalion Staff The 24-year-old man accused of killing five people in Texas, two in College Station, faced four indict ments on Oct. 25 in Waller County — two of which were for murder. Bond was set Oct. 27 at a total of $200,000. The bond has not been paid, and Eliseo Moreno is being held in the Waller County Jail in Hemp stead. t It began Oct. 11 when Juan and its $45,000 goal. Texas A&M students have raised $1,567 — nearly 15 percent of its $10,000 goal. John Mark Stephenson, coordina tor for the student drive and presi dent of the Student Y, says that sever al fund-raising ideas for the United Way campaign are in the making, although most have not gotten off the ground yet. One fund-raiser which will be held this Saturday is a golf tournament sponsored by Schuhmacher Hall. The tournament will begin at 8 a.m. and Esther Garza were found dead in their Doux Chene apartment, for which Moreno has not been formally charged with two counts of murder in Brazos County. Moreno then drove to Hempstead where he is accused of shooting a DPS trooper. He was indicted Oct. 25 for: •capital murder in the shooting of 25-year-old Russell Lynn Boyd, with bond set at $100,000. •two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in Hemp- will probably last until 1 p.m., says Schuhmacher President Bill Benham. He said about 20 four-member teams have signed up for the tourna ment so far. The entry fee is $20 without a cart and $35 with a cart. Prizes and trophies will be awarded during a bar becue immediately after the tourna ment. Benham said he hopes people will come out to the Texas A&M golf course Saturday and make donations. He said the dorm residents hope to raise $2,000 for the United Way cam paign at the tournament. stead in the shootings of three elderly eople, the Bennetts, with bond set at 50,000. •aggravated kidnapping, with bond set at $25,000. He is accused of taking a family of five hostage in Hempstead as he tried to flee police. The family was freed unharmed. •aggravated robbery, with bond set at $25,000. He is accused of taking a car from Jenaro Cibrian, at gunpoint. faces $200,000 four indictments Texas reps comment Marines ‘sitting ducks’ United Press International WASHINGTON — The Marines in Beirut are “sitting ducks” and vul nerable to a terrorist attack similar to the one that killed 229 of their comrades, two Texas congressmen said Monday upon returning from a weekend visit to Lebanon. Democratic Reps. Sam Hall and Solomon Ortiz, who were among the 11 members of Congress that toured Beirut and the West German hospit- al where wounded American Marines are recuperating from the Oct. 23 attack, said they were im- ressed with the Marines’ morale ut feared for their safety. Hall, a fifth-term congressman from Marshall, is a member of the House Veteran Affairs Committee while first-term Corpus Christi Con gressman Ortiz is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. “It appears to me that the mission to keep the peace and end the vio lence was destined from the begin ning to end in failure,” Hall said. “Upon observation on the ground, it is clearly evident that American forces are literally ‘sitting ducks from at least two sides.’ “There is no way to adequately protect our soldiers from what hap pened on Oct. 23. We can take all necessary precautions, but there is no precaution that we can take that would prevent Marines from being killed by artillery or mortar fire that would originate in the hills immedi ately surrounding the American sector. “I have been in the middle of the area; I have talked to both officers and enlisted men — they all agree that they are entirely and completely vulnerable.” Ortiz told UPI he also believed security is inadequate for the Marines in Beirut. “In my own personal opinion, I felt that we did not have the adequ ate security we should have had,” he said. “I say this because of what I saw last week and what I saw on my last trip. “When I was in Lebanon in April I did not see precautions being taken but now, I saw mounds of dirt in front of the perimeter, old buses and trucks being used. “This leads me to believe neces sary precautions were not there and they are not going to be immune from another attack,” he said. “Some of the Marines were not car rying live ammunition or did not in sert it into their weapons.” Military officials said following the attack that sentry guards were following policy by not carrying loaded weapons in the Beirut situa tion. Ortiz said the visit convinced him that American Marines must remain in Lebanon. “After talking with the Marines, I have to support it,” he said. “I’ve never seen morale this high. I talked to a 12-year veteran from my dis trict, Sgt. Alfonso Hernandez of San Benito, and he said they are begin ning to see the government of Leba non being stabilized. “If the Marines had told me we were not accomplishing anything, then I would have said they should come back,” he said. He said he questioned why if the Marines were not supposed to pro vide security at the airport, they could not be moved to safer loca tions arid also would ask military officials to establish a policy on when the Marines could defend them selves from sniper fire. Other congressman making the trip were Veterans Affairs Commit tee members Rep. Sonny Montgom ery, D-Miss., John Paul Hammers- chmidt, R-Ark., and Bill Richard son, D-N.M. Armed Service Com mittee members also included Ike Skelton, D-Mo.; Earl Hutto, D-Fla., Roy Dyson, D-Md., Bob Stump, R- Ariz., and Larry Hopkins, R-Ky.