The Battalion
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Vnl 78 No. 45 JSPS 0453110 12 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 1, 1983
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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
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Classified 6
.ocal 3
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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.