The BaiTaiion
Serving the University community
78 No. 48 USPS 0453110 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, November 7, 1983
Kinetic Energy
by Dean Saito, Battalion staff
Texas A&M tennis player Greg Hill
eturns a serve Friday during the Texas
4-Way Tennis Tournament. Hill
advanced to the quarterfinals in singles
and doubles competition. See related
story page 9 .
/oters to decide on
Droposed amendments
by Elaine Engstrom
Battalion Staff
exas voters will take a look at
veil proposed constitutional
endments in Tuesday’s state elec-
i.
The underlying theme of almost
he amendments is government re-
ues, either state or local.
The proposed amendments, in the
lerithey will appear on the ballot,
• Amendment 1: Permits fewer
inside
round town 5
lassified 8
ical 3
ational 5
pinions 2
Kirts 9
ate 6
hat’s up 7
forecast
artly cloudy, with a high of
round 80.
justice of the peace and constable pre
cincts in counties with populations of
less than 30,000. Currently, every
county, regardless of size, must have
between four and eight precincts.
• Amendment 2: Changes the
urban homestead exemption in a
forced debt sale to a limitation based
on size rather than value. Exempted
homesteads, which now may not ex
ceed $10,000 in value, would be
changed to one acre or less in size.
“Urban homestead” includes business
property in some cases.
• Amendment 3: Authorizes the
Legislature to grant associations of
agricultural producers the power to
collect refundable assessments on
their product sales.
• Amendment 4: Provides for tem
porary succession to the office of state
senator or representative if an incum
bent is unable to carry out his duties in
the event of an enemy attack.
• Amendment 5: Allows use of the
$3 billion Permanent School Fund
and its income to guarantee bonds
issued by school districts.
• Amendment 6: Allows wages to
be withheld to pay court-ordered
child support. Current law prohibits
withholding of any wages to pay any
debts or bills.
• Amendment 7: Authorizes the
Veterans’ Land Board to issue $800
million in bonds to purchase addition
al land for veterans and to provide
home mortgage loans for veterans.
• Amendment 8: Allows local gov
ernments to exempt veterans’ and
fraternal organizations from paying
property taxes. Currently only public
charities are exempted from property
taxes.
• Amendment 9: Allows probate
court judges to serve in other courts
where there is a backlog of cases.
• Amendment 10: Allows cities re
placing or relocating sewer lines to
enter into agreements with private
property owners to connect the house
to the main sewer line.
• Amendment 11: Changes the
Board of Pardons and Paroles from a
constitutional agency to a statutory
agency and eliminates the Governor’s
power to revoke paroles.
Presidental alarm
set off by moth
_. _ . * u.,
United Press International
TOKYO — A giant moth triggered
an ultra-sensitive alarm system instal
led for President Reagan’s visit to
Japan, sending scores of security per
sonnel hunting for an intruder, police
said Sunday.
About 40 police in Hinode, a
sleepy village at the foot of Mount
Fujiyama where Prime Minister Yasu-
hiro is to entertain Reagan next week,
scrambled when the alarm sounded
Saturday.
Police searched for 50 minutes un
til they discovered the alarm was trig
gered by a 3-inch-long moth that be
came caught in the detecting device,
which is equipped with infrared ray.
The device was installed at the
Tachihirai Middle School in Hinode,
a foothill town some 40 miles west of
Tokyo.
The school, whose schoolyard had
been converted into a helicopter land
ing pad, is near Nakasone’s private
cottage.
Nakasone had invited Reagan to
visit his mountain resort on Friday to
give the American leader a chance to
view Fujiyama, Japan’s pride, and see
the countryside.
Grenada: Graves
of victims found
United Press International
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — U.S.
officials found several bodies Sunday
in mass graves where Grenadian sol
diers reportedly buried Prime Minis
ter Maurice Bishop and dozens of
others killed by troops during last
month’s coup.
Elsewhere on Grenada, the com
mander of U.S. ground forces on the
Caribbean island 1,900 miles south of
Miami said American troops will have
to stay until the threat of a Cuban-led
counterattack is eliminated.
“If we took them out now, they will
have to come right back in again,” said
Brig. Gen. Jack Ferris. “The whole
idea, though, is to get out soon and
the sooner the better.”
The graves were found at the town
of Calivigny, east of Grenada’s
Cuban-builtjet airport. Andrew Anti-
ppus, a counselor at the newly estab
lished U.S. Embassy, said 100 to 150
people may be buried there.
U.S. officials located the army
truck driver who hauled away bodies
of people — presumably including
Bisnop — killed Oct. 19 by soldiers
firing into a crowd of more than 3,000
people who freed Bishop from house
arrest, Antippus said.
An American intelligence officer
said there were at least two grave sites
and said some bodies had been found
in shallow trench-type graves. The
bodies were not identified.
A minister from Trinidad said last
week he was told by a soldier of the
People’s Revolutionary Army that
Bishop’s body and others had been
dumped in a mass grave and burned.
Former Agriculture Minister
George Louison told visiting U.S. con
gressmen Sunday that soldiers had
buried or dumped at sea the bodies of
at least 90 people killed at the mas
sacre at Fort Rupert, the army head
quarters.
Five leaders of the coup that
ousted Bishop — including the head
of the defunct Revolutionary Military
Council, Gen. Hudson Austin, and
Deputy Prime Minister Bernard
Coard — were transferred Sunday
from the USS Guam to Richmond
Hill Prison.
A prison guard, Devil Bowen, said
the five were brought to the hill on a
heavily-guarded bus, handcuffed,
blindfolded and placed in individual
cells.
Coard’s wife Phyllis, who reported
ly encouraged her husband to topple
Bishop, also was transferred to the
prison.
Rep. Dan Burton, R.-Ind., part of
the 14-member congressional delega
tion on a fact-finding trip to Grenada,
said Coard and Austin may be ac
cused of murdering Bishop and could
be dealt with severely.
Coard was captured Oct. 29 by
U.S. Marines at a house just outside
St. George’s, four days after the
American-led invasion. Austin was
captured the next day.
Rep. Tom Foley, D.-Wash., chair
man of the delegation, said U.S.
troops might have to stay longer than
planned to provide security while a
government is organized to replace
the Marxist regime toppled in the in
vasion.
British-appointed Governor-
General Sir Paul Scoon has told the
American congressmen that a U.S.
military presence might be needed
for several months to provide stability
while elections are organized.
Scoon will name the members of
the island’s interim government by
Wednesday, a spokesman said.
Both houses of Congress have in
voked the War Powers Act calling for
American forces to be pulled out
within six months from the island na
tion of 110,000.
Some 3,000 U.S. soldiers remain
on Grenada of the 6,000 troops that
were sent in by President Reagan.
In Cuba, some 2 million people
gave up their day off to work on “Red
Sunday” — Cuba’s “largest ever”
voluntary labor force honoring coun
trymen killed or wounded in the U.S.
invasion, Cuban officials said.
The Cuban government news
agency also charged that the United
States was delaying the return of the
bodies of Cubans killed on Grenada.
Havana estimates not more than
25 Cubans died. None of the bodies
has yet been brought out and Cuba’s
ambassador and some 35 Cuban
embassy personnel have vowed to re
main until all prisoners and bodies
have been sent home.
All of the captured Cubans should
be home by Tuesday if the returning
flights from Grenada continue at the
proposed rate of two per day.
Cadet Court
Student will be tried for honor violation
;puty Corps Commander Brian
ill said Clarence “Buddy” Brown
by Wanda Winkler
Battalion Staff
A junior in the Corps of Cadets will
be tried in Cadet Court Tuesday night
for fabricating a story about saving a
woman from being attacked by three
men.
Det
Terrell said Clarence “Buddy’
will go before Cadet Court, which in
vestigates the matter and determines
whether or not a violation of the hon
or code took place.
Col. Henry C. Hill, acting Com
mandant of Cadets, said when a cadet
lies, the normal procedure is to hear
the case in Cadet Court.
“It’s part of a leadership-training
program,” he said.
The jury of nine senior cadets fol
lows very strict procedures, Hill said.
“It makes sure everyone gets the
best possible deal,” he said. “He’s
(Brown is) judged by his peers, so it’s
to his advantage.”
Hill said the court will hear the
charges brought against Brown, listen
to any character witnesses, and make
recommendations to him if disciplin
ary action is needed.
Terrell, head of Cadet Court, said
the court proceedings must have
Hill’s approval to be finalized.
Corps Commander Preston Abbott
said if Cadet Court finds Brown guil
ty, he could be expelled from mem
bership in the Corps.
Expulsion is a possibility, but not
necessarily a probability, he said Sun
day.
“Cadet Court has full range of pun
ishment,” Abbot said.
Although Brown had considered
voluntarily leaving the Corps and
Texas A&M, Brown said he now plans
to stay here and face the Corps
charges.
Brown’s commanding officer, Rus
sell Jones, said, “Everyone (in Squad
ron 3 — Brown’s outfit) is pretty
much supportive of Bud.
“Because we(the Corps) are diffe
rent, everything we do is watched and
scrutinized. Sometimes things we do
get blown up.”
Jones said Brown “should definite
ly be punished” but should not be
kicked out of the Corps.
“One top person who is involved (in
Cadet Court) said it would be better
for him (Brown) in the long run to
stay in the Corps and stick it out,”
Jones said.
When Abbott first said Brown
would be tried by Cadet Court, he said
the Corps was “going to get to have a
shot at him.” The main reason for the
court hearing is that the Corps doesn’t
tolerate lying, he said.
“It’s part of the Aggie Code of
Honor,” Abbott said. “Brown hurt
our image, but we’ll get over that.”
Brown, a health and physical edu
cation major, originally told police
and the press that he fought for five
minutes to save a woman from three
attackers in the student parking lot
west of Wellborn Road.
He took a polygraph test at the re
quest of University Police. Bob Wiatt,
director of security and traffic, said
the polygraph “showed great areas of
deception” and provided the missing
pieces to a five-day police investiga
tion of Brown’s Oct. 16 report of
being assaulted with a weapon by one
of the three attackers.
After the polygraph. Brown admit
ted to police that he had exaggerated
the story because he actually had in
terrupted a boyfriend-girlfriend
argument, Wiatt said.
Brown then said he had tried to
cover up with a story because he was
embarrassed about the incident.
Wiatt said University Police would
not press charges against Brown for
the misdemeanor offense of fur
nishing false information to a law en
forcement agency because he had suf
fered enough already.
Brown, who was a Guardian Angel
trainee, resigned from the Bryan-
College Station chapter of the crime
fighting organization after he took
the polygraph test.
Austin signs stolen
Four cadets arrested
by Steve Thomas
Battalion Staff
Four members of the Texas A&M
Corps of Cadets were arrested Fri
day morning and accused of stealing
signs on Interstate 35 north of Au
stin.
The four cadets were reportedly
taking a fourth sign, an Austin city
limits sign, when they were arrested
at 1:30 a.m. and charged with class A
misdemeanor theft, punishable by
fines of up to $2,000 each. Justice of
the Peace Guy Herman released the
cadets later that morning on $500
personal recognizance bonds.
Curtis Weeks, a spokesman for
the Travis County sheriffs depart
ment, didn’t seem to understand
why the cadets were interested in the
signs.
“They said they were gathering
material for the Aggie bonfire,”
Weeks said, “but we. understand the
signs were metal.”
The students, identified as David
Carter of Fort Worth, John Black of
Houston, and Thomas Belleville
and Dave Ray House of Tyler, had
three signs in their car that listed
distances from Austin of 44, 24 and
16 miles.
Corps Commander Preston
Abbott said that the decorations for
bonfire are the responsibility of
Aggie Band members and that he
didn’t know anything about the inci
dent.
“That sign business is strictly
B.Q.’s,” he said.
Abbott said he did not condone
stealing as a method of obtaining
such decorations, and added that
activities like this are tolerated much
less now than they used to be. He
attributed this change in standards
to “the media.”
Signs and other decorations have
been used in the past on Aggie bon
fires, but Abbott said he’s never con
sidered what methods people might
use to obtain them.
“The thought never even crossed
my mind as to where (they) came
from,” he said.
Black, Belleville, Band Comman
der Dayton Robertson and Cadet
Corps Deputy Commandant Henry
C. Hill were not available for com
ment. Dave House and David Carter
refused to comment.
Tom Kallina, Commander of C-
Battery, had no comment concern
ing the involvement of Black and
Belleville, members of his outfit. A-
Battery Commander Kim Fuschak
also refused comment, though
House, a member of his outfit, was
implicated in the crime.