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THe Battalion
Serving the University community
Vol 78 No. 99 (JSPS 0453110 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 21, 1984
\/londale’s the winner
I
in the Iowa caucuses
United Press International
)ES MOINES, Iowa — hornier
:e President Walter Mondale won
thh Iowa precinct caucuses Monday,
|, nvn to W ;p v pi whelming the other seven Deni
son, andl! 0(: f' al ' c contenders in the first major
pangs of [I 011 of' the 1984 presidential cam
ming tobeJ'S 11 -
■Mondale combined the best carn-
, playedjBgn organization in the stale with
’,l a r jfjjojBarmy of union volunteers to grab
iKtnnwillliyrly half the total vtite. The other
iv inHouit® mocrat ‘ c contenders ran far be
lli | )e ,, hind, with Sens. Gary Hart of Colo-
Ho, John Glenn of Ohio and Alan
CJanston of California and former
lid not pliBn. George McGovern of South Da-
firsthalfi®ta fighting for second,
hut final) BNBG said Hart could finish sec-
;horhsSai.pd. Glenn, who had been consid-
’Btd as Mondale’s closest rival, was
nvhile, hjBnning back in the pack in the early
14-poini t returns.
eightminiiiBAl 9:05 GST, with 28 percent of
after forcidt' 1 precincts , reporting, Mondale
st Baylorf® ( 111,400 or 47 percent; Hart 3,261
;ars,73-6’.!! or 11 percent; McGovern 2,747 or 11
te gamer pe" eiit; Cranston 2,255 or 9 per-
20-foot iiidebt; uncommitted delegates had
Is to go d|59 votes or 7 percent; Glenn
isketintlit^>|92 or 6 percent; former Florida
Bv. Rueben Askew 795 or 3 per-
foughtofllijm; dvil rights activist Jesse Jackson
ts hopesahB^ or B percent, and Sen Ernest
lish whichw[^ n gs, 55 or 0 percent,
rye pasttl*BThe first round votes were only an
VCtoumasBr ca O° n of Mondale’s popular
Bength. Before the final taliy in the
pucuses which decides the allocation
ol delegates the figures could change
but the results will be overwhelm
ingly in Mondale’s favor.
President Reagan, seeking to steal
some of the spotlight from the Dem
ocrats, spoke at large rallies in Water
loo and Des Moines and denounced
the eight Democratic challengers as
captives of a “dinosaur mentality”
with a record of failed leadership.
The Iowa caucuses are the first
public vote of the 1984 contest. Mc
Govern got his start toward winning
the nomination with a strong and un
expected second place finish here in
1972 and in 1976 an almost un
known Jimmy Garter scored an upset
by winningdowa.
Democrats began gathering at 8
p.m. GST in informal meetings in
church basements, fireballs and liv
ing rooms in the state’s 2,495 pre
cincts, divided into groups according
to candidate preference and cast a
public ballot for their favorites. They
also can vote for uncommitted dele
gates.
At stake are 50 delegates to the
Democratic National Gonvention in
San Francisco in July. Monday’s cau
cuses actually are only the first step
in the selection process but the
breakdown by candidate will be clear
after the voting. Eight other dele
gates will be selected by the Demo
cratic party.
The turnout in the Democratic
race was expected to he less than the
100,000 who came out in 1980 in the
bitter battle between a victorious
President Garter and Sen. Edward
Kennedy.
The weather was balmy for Iowa
in February — sunny and clear with
temperatures in the high 40s. But
many lowans were expected to fol
low their normal pursuits including
the first round of the state high
school basketball tournament.
“The candidates in the other party
have already laid out a strategy of
promising everything to everybody,”
Reagan said. “Yes, we Republicans
make promises, but not to special in
terest groups to be paid from the
public treasury and not promises that
cancel each other out.”
Asked whether Reagan was refer
ring to Mondale, White House
spokesman Larry Speakes replied,
“If the shoe fits, wear it.”
As he arrived in Des Moines to
prepare for a victory celebration,
Mondale gave an indication of what a
general election campaign might be
like, hammering away at Reagan for
high budget deficits, unfairness and
a stepped up arms race.
He said Iowa Democrats would tell
Reagan, “You can fool all of the peo
ple some of the time and you can fool
some of the people all of the time.
But Mr. President, in 1984, you’re
going to find out you can’t fool all of
the people all of the time.”
Hollings wrote off the Iowa re
sults, saying the first vote of any sig
nificance is next Tuesday’s New
Hampshire primary.
Photo by JOHN RYAN
But will it float?
Joe McGraw, a professor in the Environmental Design Depart
ment works on his 15-foot motor/sail Pocket Cruiser in the
Building Construction workshop in building B of the Lang
ford Architecture Complex.
French
miners
striking
United Press International
PARIS — Coal miners went on
strike and virtually halted produc
tion Monday, bringing new labor
troubles to France as a truckers strike
that had stalled traffic for days began
winding down.
Italian customs workers, whose
strike last week contributed to the
truckers’ protest, renewed a limited
job action Monday, refusing to work
after 2 p.m. for the rest of this week.
In most regions of France, drivers
removed highway blockades in antic
ipation of a meeting between union
leaders and government officials on
the truckers’ demands for faster cus
toms clearance and reduced road
and fuel taxes.
But three major highways re
mained blocked despite union ap
peals to end the protest. Others had
only one lane open.
Unionized drivers in the Alpine
region of Savoie who met with gov
ernment officials Monday in a pre
lude to Tuesday’s talks with the
transport minister and said the gov
ernment appeared ready to concede
to demands to allow border crossings
during customs strikes, longer work
weeks and border crossings on week
ends.
An estimated 60,000 mining jobs
will be eliminated in the plan to cut
deficits in nationalized industries by
1988.
ebanese army units attacked by Moslem rebel
United Press International
BF4RUT — Moslem rebels probed
|e defenses of the government’s last
ironghold outside Beirut Monday,
acking army units in the moun-
Kns east of the capital. Rebel leaders
■H^Msaissed opening a new offensive
font the north.
■A Saudi Arabian diplomatic effort
to slop the fighting shifted to Damas-
I Bs, where a Saudi mediator arrived
M to brief Syrian officials and the visit-
Ig Saudi crown prince on his talks
[iih Lebanese officials in Beirut.
[A spokesman for the U.S. Marines
heavy equipment and some non-
inbat troops were being evacuated
*****"" % 0 in the airport base for the second
aight day. The main contingent of
lout 1,220 troops had no orders to
Inove, he said.
■Renewed fighting broke out Mon-
lay morning in the mountains over
looking Beirut, where Moslem forces
are massed against Souk al Gharb, a
town that guards the entrances to
President Amin Gemayel’s palace in
the east Beirut suburb of Baabda.
“Armed men tried to launch an
other attack at 6 a.m. on our forces in
Souk el Gharb Monday from a clus
ter of deserted buildings on the out
skirts of the nearby village of Kai-
foun,” a Lebanese army spokesman
said.
The two sides traded heavy artil
lery fire during the day, although the
shelling died off after nightfall.
Flashes of gunfire continued over
Souk al Gharb into the evening.
A Lebanese military spokesman
said 15 anti-government militiamen
were killed or wounded in the Mon
day fighting and another 16 rebels
were killed on Sunday.
The artillery battles that began late
Sunday were the heaviest since the
Druze drove the crumbling Lebanese
army from its other positions in the
mountains. Souk al Gharb is the last
army stronghold outside Beirut.
The army and Shiite militias also
exchanged mortar and heavy ma
chine-gun fire across the Green Line
dividing the Ghristian and Moslem
sectors of Beirut. The Moslems are
fighting for a greater share of power
in the Christian-dominated govern
ment.
The government also faced a pos
sible new threat. Amal Shiite militia
chief Nabih Berri met with other re
bel leaders near the northern port of
Tripoli to discuss opening a second
front against government-held east
Beirut.
Sources close to Berri said he met
with Gemayel’s main Christian rival,
Suleiman Franjieh, who has about
1,000 troops in his Marada militia in
northern Lebanon.
Franjieh, a former president, has a
blood feud with Gemayel’s family,
which leads the right-wing Christian
Phalange Party. “All Phalangist el
ements should be cleansed from the
Lebanese government,” Franjieh
said after the meeting.
Druze Moslem leader Walid Jumb-
latt, Franjieh and former prime min
ister and Sunni Moslem leader
Rashid Karami make up the Syrian-
backed National Salvation Front
fighting Gemayel.
In Damascus, official Syrian radio
monitored in Beirut said Saudi
Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul
Aziz arrived in the Syrian capital
Monday. The prince was reportedly
following up on a Saudi initiative that
ended in failure last week when Syria
rejected an eight-point peace plan.
Gemayel recalled Foreign Minister
File Salem, who was headed to Wash
ington, after a call to “Lebanese offi
cials” from Saudi Arabia’s Lebanon
mediator in Beirut, Rafik Hariri, the
Central News Agency said.
Salem, Gemayel and Hariri met
late Monday at the Baabda presi
dential palace before Hariri flew to
Damascus, state-run television said.
The Syrians object to the peace
plan, a blueprint for the withdrawal
of all Syrian and Israeli forces from
Lebanon, saying it implies that Syria
is on an equal footing with the Jewish
state, which Syria does not recognize.
The fighting around Beirut did
not affect the smooth withdrawal
from Beirut of the last of 1,100 Ital
ian soldiers from the multinational
peacekeeping force. About 300
members of the crack San Marco ma
rine battalion were to remain off
shore on an Italian troop transport
and 100 were to stay in Beirut to
guard Italian institutions.
Shiite militiamen quickly moved
into Beirut’s Palestinian refugee
camps, which the Italians had
guarded since the September 1982
massacres of hundreds of refugees.
In Tel Aviv, the Israeli military
command reported a soldier was
wounded in an ambush at the “south
ern approaches of Sidon,” a southern
Lebanese port. It was the second re
ported attack against Israeli soldiers
in the occupied city in 24 hours.
ailbreak
Deputies predict capture of escapees
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United Press International
ALEXANDRIA, La. — Authori-
s received tips they believe will
d them to the capture Tuesday of
jmurder suspect and another fugi-
Je who broke out of the parish jail
fjtlt seven other prisoners this week-
FjKl, a deputy said Monday.
Nine inmates hacked through
letal bars on the fourth-floor Rap-
tles Parish Jail late Friday, broke a
Indow and scaled to freedom down
a h>pe made of ripped bedsheets and
bwels.
At least seven have been recap
tured.
Two Pineville men, however, re
mained at large late Monday. Au
thorities said they were searching for
Bryan L. Brown, 19, awaiting trial on
charges of first-degree murder and
attempted murder, and Bruce Ox-
ner, 21, awaiting trial on a burglary
charge and 13 theft counts.
Deputy John Betar said Monday
he believes the two remaining fugi
tives will be back in their jail cells
Tuesday.
Deputies were unaware of the
nine-prisoner jailbreak until 8:30
p.m. Friday — two hours after the
breakout — when they arrested es
caped inmate Larry O. Jackson alleg
edly trying to burglarize the R.J.
Jones 8c Son hardware store in Alex
andria, officials said.
Jackson was serving a 10-year sen
tence for a 1983 burglary conviction.
Deputy H.M. “Buddy” Norman
said the escape was undetected for
two hours, because the inmates fled
between the time dinner was served
and jailers checked the cells at night.
Steven Beech, 20, of Alexandria,
who was awaiting trial on charges of
burglary and contributing to the de
linquency of a minor, was recaptured
several hours after the twilight brea
kout.
Five other fugitives were arrested
Saturday, including Lee Gredeur, 22,
of Lafayette and Leonard Erving, 40,
Jerry Lee Hampton, 30, Edward
Kirts, 27, and Richard Dennard, 19,
all of Alexandria.
iearch intensifies for missing fugitives
United Press International
[MASON, Tenn. The search for
zesterntf ■ “ extreme *y dangerous” fugi-
' | es moved 23 miles southwest Mon-
j |y to near Mason where a Tennes-
|e Highway Patrol officer reported
jilting one of the prisoners in a cul-
[ert.
• Ijl* |“A highway patrolman definitely
eachW'Bottcd one of the convicts in Ma
to:
\ITS
■Staurah- kin,” said Dick Baumbach, spokes-
as Aver Ipn f rom q ie s t a t e Gorrection De-
aff, giap* 1 '; Hrtment. “The focus of the search is
ell and ^ Ww shifting toward Mason.”
Baumbach said the inmate was
seen about 5:20 p.m. A large group
of searchers were being sent to the
scene, about 23 miles southwest of
Brownsville where the three prison
ers had been spotted Sunday.
Haywood Gounty Ghief Deputy
Jim Parks said earlier the men had
apparently eluded a dragnet of po
lice and bloodhounds and slipped
out of a forest near Brownsville.
Authorities believe they saw two of
the escaped convicts running down a
railroad track Sunday night, but
Parks said a sweep of the area turned
up no sign of them.
Authorities helped Brownsville
area residents search their homes
and outbuildings for the fugitives
Monday and one elderly woman was
evacuated from her remote home be
cause the convicts have already held
two families hostage.
The three were among five con
victs who produced pistols appar
ently left for them in a field at Fort
Pillow Prison, 40 miles from
Brownsville, and escaped Saturday.
The three believed traveling to-
gehler were identified as Ronald
Freeman, 41, serving 198 years for
two murders; Riley Arzeneaux, 26,
doing 25 years for murder, and
James Glegg, 30, serving life as a ha
bitual criminal.
Randolph Oliver, 32, a convicted
murderer, was caught Sunday walk
ing down a road. The fifth fugitive,
Sylvester Alexander, 23, serving 40
years for armed robbery, was be
lieved to have fled the area in a Ga-
dillac stolen at a Brownsville market.
In Today’s Battalion
Local
• Dr. Annette M. Lopez ,the new affirmative action of
ficer at Texas A&M, says getting people to realize their
prejudices is her goal while she holds the office. See story
P a S e 7 -
• The Houston Cougars basketball team jumps to
third place in the UPI College ratings. See story page 9.
• The Student Wellness Network is trying to get stu
dents and others interested in in the service and in becom-
ming members. See story page 5.
State
• A Texas education subcommittee endorses longer
school days, mandatory tutoring. See story page 3.
• Texas police are considering bringing charges on a
Vietnam veteran with a history of mental illness for taking
a hostage in an Air Force hospital. See story page 5.
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