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Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, January 19, 1984 Man questioned for robbery, abduction United Press International HOUSTON — A 28-year-old man charged with the Jan. 3 aggravated robbery of a grocery store was arrested again Wednesday for questioning in a second robbery at the store in which the manager was shot to death, police said. Houston Robbery Lt. Don McWilliams said the suspect, Bobby Wayne Bartoo, was being questioned in the robbery- abduction of Terry Oringderff from the Cashsaver Warehouse Foods store in north Houston. The body of Oringderff, 32, was found on an isolated road in Harris County Monday about seven hours after a masked gun man abducted him from the store. “We have a person in jail and charged with the first robbery Jan. 3. Naturally, he would be a suspect to the second robbery- abduction. But at this point we have not connected him with the robbery-abduction,” McWil liams said. Bartoo is the brother of a woman who was a friend of Oringderffs. Oringderff had told em ployees of the store that the kid napper had strapped six pounds of explosives to his back, but none was found on Oringderffs body. An autopsy revealed Oring derff, who had been blindfolded with a diaper, Was shot seven times in the back, face, left ear and left hand. However, examiners ruled Oringderff died from the three gunshot wounds in his back. Detectives said the gunman apparently forced his way into Oringderff s apartment Sunday night and held him hostage until Monday morning, when he forced Oringderff to drive him to the grocery store he man aged. The gunman robbed the store’s safes, reportedly getting $20,000, and each of seven em ployees as they arrived at work. He locked the employees and two deliverymen in a cooler. They were later freed by another deliverman. Theta Chi Spring Rush ’84 Thursday, Jan. 19 - Planter’s Punch Party •White Rock Hall at Eastgate Thursday, Jan. 26 - Taco & Tequila Party •El Toros in Bryan 500 N. Sims All parties start at 8:00 pm For more info call 696-3390 693-0754 Global project needs resources United Press International WASHINGTON —The U.S. Information Agency needs more people, money and power to meet the Soviets in a global “war of ideas,” an advisory com mittee reported Wednesday. In its annual report to the president, the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Policy said the United States needs to update equipment and add staff to counter the international wave of “disinformation” com ing from Moscow. As a first step, it recom mended that the USIA director be made a statutory adviser to the National Security Council and that the director be given more power as the principal adviser to the president on fore ign public opinion and public di plomacy.- The report, submitted to President Reagan, Congress, Secretary of State George Shultz and USIA Director Charles Wick, also said the agency’s $660 million 1984 fiscal budget is in sufficient for its global informa tion-dispensing mission. “Measured in constant dol lars, USI A’s budget has declined 27 percent since 1967, and its personnel level has dropped 34 percent,” said commission Chairman Edwin Feulner Jr. “Even more disturbing is the drop in the number of USIA employees overseas, where the work of explaining U.S. actions and supporting U.S. policies takes place,” he said. The agency has been forced to compete in the war of ideas with inadequate resources and obsolete equipment, the report said. There was no immediate re sponse to the commission re port, although White House de- puty press secretary Larry -5 5. 846-9927 DM ft I. TrfJay fVuiM , jMMrf Qj) @ 6'0Dy*- mwc by 'RircudcX*... Proceeds benefiting Texas A&M’s village of hope, Christian Chiklerns fund, Inc. Now! Layaway your Diamond for your Aggie Ring! 30% off Diamonds for Aggie Rings We also buy scrap gold at highest prices. 415 University Dr. 846-5816 Speakes said Reagan met with the panel. He said the president has not decided whether the USIA director should be a statu tory member of the National Security Council. The purpose of the USIA is to report U.S. activities and poli cies abroad, frequently through the use of broadcasts into un friendly countries. The commission noted the controversy surrounding Wick and his former practice of tap ing telephone conversations without advising the party on the other end. It said the tapings could affect the USIA’s ability to perform abroad and its credi- One commission member, Olin Robison, president of Mid- dlebury College in Vermont, resigned from the commission in protest of Wick’s actions. Feulner said, however, that improvements in the USIA last year “have far outweighed what ever shortcomings might be seen in the agency." The commission report re commended the creation of a task force to study how other countries use international broadcasts for their own politic al purposes. It said the United States should join the battle of words with the Soviet Union, in which the Soviet bloc has used per verted words such as “people,” “liberation” or “democracy” to describe forms of communist totalitarianism, the report said. The Voice of America, although it now has 42 language services, needs new equipment, the commission said. More than 35 percent of VGA’s transmitters are 30 years old or older, the report said. The commission recommended de veloping direct satellite broad casting for the “superpower” transmitters. Gatherin to fight murderei United Press Internatioi MONROE, La.-More 75 police officers Wednesday to swap noteso cross-country death spre two admitted mass killersa send a message to criminal “we’re coming after them The officers want to i mine whether Henry Lee or Ottis Elwood Toole c tied to unsolved murde their areas. Toole and Lucas have charged in the slaying Northeast uisiana Universi ed, and Toole has beenac of killing an Iowa, ^a.,w near Lake Charles and at ger near Monroe. Both men remain sus[ numerous unsolved slai and officers hope to needed evidence to file against them. Monroe Chief Willie Buffington Lucas and Toole “human its lowest form.” The officers also plam compare notes on at lea! other men believed respo for slayings in several stat “Law enforcement is getting together to fight tl minal element,” Ouachita. Sheriff Laymon Godwin “It is obvious we have to together and spread our ledge in our criminal a catch the criminal elemen “By you being here tot sends the message lout clear to the criminals that coming after them,” Gt said. More than 100 officer 22 states were expected three-day conference, but day attendance was limit stormy weather. Officers from across tl tion also gathered in M last October to compare on Lucas and Toole. Th quested the second conft at the time. Lucas, a one-eyed d convicted of killing his m and Toole, a convicted an have detailed for police sli they committed both aior together. Lucas has admittet slayings, and has been ch with seven Texas killing one in Louisiana. /T direcdine,. ‘The Smart Alternative For Long Distance Service. We Confess... We are Cheap. Directline/Hasp is cheap because we have no monthly service charge. Our competition does. 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