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Sleet rain expected for primary election See page 3 March Silver Taps to be held tonight See page 4 NCAA penalty rules changing this year See page 10 Texas A&M Battalion Serving the University community Vol 78 No. 104 CISPS 0453110 10 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 28, 1984 viciories. The win 0 11 F. Austin wastkSUl t's career and his II h of Texas A&M, Winds cause injury eiu will .start counin .iinel pete in the 1 tournament, tach Jan Cannon, 1 placed 11 thin the ji Arizona team to By KARI FLUEGEL iday when the Uniw® Reporter >a invades theOtmtiBWinds of up to 52 mph swept nis Center fora 15 through Bryan and College Station :h. Monday resulting in power outages he men will travel it and the injury of a student on cam- Christi this weelffpus. pete in the Corp , j< | iKRoger R. Gekiere, a freshman gen- tational tournamentleral studies major, was struck on the the team needsilad by a piece of sheet metal that ving there to prepttj blew off the roof of the Blocker the SWC season nU Building, said Wanda Cook, the carn- MarchBO. pus police officer investigating the [ hat tournamentv - incident. for the restofouriflHGekiere was hit by a 15 pound, 3 t says. |feei by 3'/z feet galvanized metal he women’s teamiccBeet that was being used to cover the • season record toh top of an exhaust fan on the north- over New MexicoSaj east corner of the Blocker Building. J LSU, 5-4. BOekiere was admitted to St. Joseph he women will no*d Hospital for observation with a travel to Provo, Ij dosed head injury. He is in stable condition and is expected to be re used later today. jThe wind, which averaged be tween 30 mph and 40 mph, caused several power outages throughout . ago, says her plaid Bryan. Floyd Weisse, senior engineer ident about theirifWtl: the Bryan utilities company, paid that 80 workers worked to repair ^jihe damage. About 3,500 customers vere out of service for various Tgths of time between 7:15 a.m. % M \ and noon, Wiesse said. ^ # 1 iThe damage included two 69 KV ■ a 1 roles which broke on Villa Maria be- I tween the Nall Lane sub-station and | the Atkins Power Station. Repair lews braced the poles back into posi tion and will repair them today. lOn Highway 21-West, a conductor icizact i?vtdv * veiU out ant * lurne d °ff the electric- j l.v 1,111 ity in the area from FM 2818 along CORNING Highway 21-East to Sandy Point [pad; from Highway 21 along Sandy [pint Road to Old Spanish Road and Tom Sandy Point Road east along .lid Spanish Road to Highway 6. Tree limbs were blown into power lines on 31st Street and caused an SOFTBALL W outage from 29th Street to Coulter for the Pe# Bong Texas Avenue and in some tcDonalif I. LAN THY ■ies Tourney open esday, March 6. The >e held Friday thrc ch 23-25. There Is ai 1 100 per team faculty, staff and may enter. Division-' nen and corecteam ir more information imural-Recreational 159 East Kyle, 84H areas along College Avenue. A telephone line which was blown into a conductor downed the electric ity on Highway 158-East along to the East Bypass, and when a conductor blew loose on Highway 158 it put out all of Highway 30 including the Har vey Road area. The Sleepy Hollow area was out due to a malfunction ima 69 KV oil circuit breaker in the east substation on Highway 158. And on FM 2818, north of Villa Maria, a pole top caught on fire caus ing outageson Villa Forrest, La Bresa, Westwood Main, and Villa Maria. Jones' venue questioned .ING:Entries for lo# close today at M :00 p.m., in themed 3 East Kyle. The co? : ‘ he matches begins 28 at 8:00 p, and' I be posted in the !* Office following iW lasses are as follows^ 8, 126, 134,142,$ 191, and unlimited, United Press International AN ANTONIO — A stale judge jlonday postponed ruling on a Tnge of venue motion for vocatio- al nurse Genene Jones, who is rged with injuring a child, hut [ranted a prosecution request for a ample of the nurse’s handwriting. Jones, 33, who was convicted and entenced to 99 years in prison for he drug injection murder of a 15- nonth-old Kerrville girl, is charged n. Bexar County with injury to a iAn indictment charged Jones with ijecting Rolando Santos with the lood-thinning drug heparin at Med- |1 Center Hospital’s pediatric inten- <YLE Id. sive care unit in 1982. The child sur vived. In a pretrial hearing, State District Judge Pat Priest postponed ruling on a change of venue filed by defense attorneys Royal Griffin and David Weiner, who said they did not specify a location for the trial. Chief Deputy District Attorney Nick Rothe, who helped prosecute Jones in her Georgetown murder trial, said he had not decided if he would oppose a change of venue. But Rothe said a segment of the ABC television program “20-20,” in which Jones was interviewed, would have an effect on the choice of a site to hear the trial. “We need to talk about (whether) TENNIS SINGLES:!) md come join us in ompetition. Entries cW fp^p^feovernors meet with president ch 7. Play schedules ( t the bulletin boards cf imural-Recreatioua! j; er 2 p.m., Thursday/ she can get a fair trial here (in San Antonio),” Rothe said. “What I’m concerned about is Bexar County. It (case) is more emphatic here.” Griffin said the trial should be moved from San Antonio because “the same people who hear the testi mony have to go back and live in the community.” Priest granted Rothe’s motion to obtain a sample of Jones’ hand writing for comparitive purposes, but Rothe declined to elaborate on the request following the hearing. Priest also granted a defense re quest for proseuctors to turn over a hand-written letter Jones allegedly wrote to a Texas Ranger. U.S. warship fires shots at Iranian patrol plane Photo by Gordon Carruth Roger R. Gekiere, a freshman general studies major, is at tended to by the Texas A&M Emergency Care Team after he was hit on the head by a piece of sheet metal blown off the Blocker building by Monday’s strong winds. He was taken to St. Joseph Hospital and is in stable condition. Weisse estimated that the cost to repair the damage would total ap proximately $22,000. In College Station, the wind caused minor power outages throughout the city. Joe Guidry, elec trical superintendent for the Public Utilities Department, said fuses were blown on several transformers, in cluding one main line fuse, hut the cost of the damage was very minimal. The Oak Forest Mobile Home Park, the Windwood subdivision and a few residences on the south side of College Station had temporary out ages. United Press International ABU DHABI, United Arab Emi rates — Iraq said its warplanes at tacked tankers at a key Iranian oil terminal Monday and American offi cials revealed a U.S. vessel fired warning shots at an Iranian patrol plane during the weekend. Iraq claimed its warplanes attacked tankers at the key Iranian Kharg Is land oil terminal and that the planes also were enforcing a blockade that the Islamic regime in Tehran has warned would force it to close the Strait of Hormuz. President Reagan has repeatedly vowed the United States would use warships stationed in the Arabian Sea to keep open the vital strait, through which 20 percent of the West’s oil flows. Britain has said it could join in such an action. In Washington, administration of ficials who requested anonymity said the U.S. guided missile destroyer Lawrence fired warning shots with machine guns and flares at a U.S.- made Iranian P-3C propeller-driven patrol plane and warned off an Ira nian frigate by radio Sunday. It marked the first shooting inci dent involving American warships in the Persian Gulf since a small Middle East force of destroyers and frigates took up station in the area after the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The officials said the patrol plane and the Iranian frigate came within 5 nautical miles of the warship in viola tion of a U.S. warning notice issued Jan. 20. Both turned away from the U.S. destroyer without further inci dent, the officials said. In other developments, the United States said reports of Iraqi aircraft at tacking oil tankers at Kharg Island were a “matter of serious concern.” “This is a matter of serious con cern, and we are following events clo sely,” a State Department spokesman said. “If the reports are true, such an attack would represent an unfortu nate new level of escalation in the war.” Iran did not immediately com ment on the Iraqi claim that Kharg Island was attacked. There also was no word on casualties or damage in the latest attack of the 42-month-old Persian Gulf War. “Iraqi warplanes Monday mounted destructive attacks on a number of oil tankers berthed at Kharg Island,” said the Iraqi news agency INA, monitored in Abu Dhabi. “With this strike, the first day of the blockade has started.” Iranian Parliament Speaker Ha- shemi Rafsanjani, in a radio and tele vision interview, said Iran’s naval forces would be us.ed to disrupt the security of the Persian Gulf “if nec essary.” Iran said last week it would block the Strait of Hormuz if Iranian oil shipments were hampered by Iraq. Most of Iran’s oil shipments pass through jetties at Kharg Island. Iraq’s communique warned ship pers to stay away from Iranian oil. “We hope the concerned parties will take this warning into consider ation when sending their vessels to the area,” it said. “Iraq will not take any responsibility for any losses that may be incurred by the parties that ignore these warnings.” London shipping sources could not immediately confirm Iraq’s at tack, citing poor communications. U.S. oil company officials also said Monday they could not confirm the attack on Kharg Island. Iraq announced the attack without explaining how it was carried out. Last year, Iraq acquired French Su per Etendard jets that launch Exocet missiles. More than 8.8 million barrels of crude oil a day — about 20 percent of the West’s oil — passes through the 30-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, situ ated South of Iran and north of Oman and Abu Dhabi. That includes about 2 million barrels exported by Iran. Kharg Island was declared a war zone by Iraq after naval fighting erupted alongside ground battles in September 1980. But Iran paid high insurance fees and discounted its oil price to attract buyers of crude, boosting its earnings to $2 billion a month recently. Iraq’s exports, however, ground to a halt and Iraq had to depend on a pipeline through Turkey for only 650,000 barrels a day of exports. The sudden flareup in the 42- month Persian Gulf war came amid international anxiety about Iran’s threat to close the stratetic strait Fighting continues in Beirut; Marines watch from offshore United Press International BEIRUT — Fighting between Moslem rebels and the Lebanese army shook Beirut and the overlook ing mountains Monday, and for the first time in 17 months, U.S. Marines watched the clashes from the safety of ships offshore. The new battles, which intensified in the mountains as evening ap proached, came on the day President Amin Gemayel originally had hoped to reconvene peace talks among the warring factions begun last October in Geneva. Druze Moslem rebels traded in tense artillery fire with Lebanese army troops in the mountains, with Christian Phalange radio saying shells crashed near the presidential palace and the residence of U.S. am bassador Reginald Bartholomew. Clashes also occurred along the “green line” separating Moslem west Beirut from the Christian east of the city. Phalange radio reported a 10- year-old boy had died, and 15 people were wounded in fighting in the city. Offshore, the U.S. Marines watched from the safety of 6th Fleet ships, a day after the completion of the withdrawal of the U.S. contin gent to Lebanon’s multinational peace-keeping force from the Leb anese capital. Units of the Lebanese army, who refused to fight the rebel takeover of west Beirut, settled into the Beirut airport compound which the Ma rines had occupied since September 1982. Three weeks ago, even as the streets of the capital erupted in fight ing with the Moslem victory, govern ment officials had spoken of resum ing the national reconciliation talks. But Moslem leaders have de manded government concessions be fore returning to Switzerland to con tinue the discussions, and fellow Christians are warning Gemayel against giving away too much. Instead of more talks, which had been scheduled by the government in the Swiss resort of Montreaux, E eace efforts of any sort appeared to e stalled awaiting the return of Saudi mediator Rafik Hariri. Hariri, who had been expected back in Beirut, decided to stay in the Saudi capital to meet with King Fahd and Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington who has been involved in Lebanese peace talks. The official Lebanese news agency, reporting the delay, said it was not known when Hariri would return. The radio stations of both sides in the mountain war reported heavy ex changes of artillery above the capital, with Druze radio saying several vil lages came under “intensive bom bardment ... from positions of the ruling family’s army.” The Christian Phalange radio and the pro-government television sta tion countered that the Druze shel ling was hitting the Christian suburb of Baabda, site of the palace and va rious ambassadors’ residences, in cluding Bartholomew’s. The fighting inside the city was sporadic, but radio stations warned residents on both sides of the green line to “be careful and take all nec essary precautions.” President advised on federal deficit In Today’s Battalion Local United Press International WASHINGTON — The nation’s [overnors warned President Reagan Monday that his proposed $100 bil lion “down payment” on the federal Ificit is not enough protection for America’s debt-strained economy. Governors, in town for the winter meeting of the National Governor’s soda lion, pressured Reagan dur- ®g a White House meeting to ignore lection-year politics and attack the deficit with greater fervor. “We want to do more this year,” nsas Gov. John Carlin said after e meeting. “And we’re not satisfied ith what we heard in the sense that **‘** ^so-called down payment would be Jiough. I think we’re going to need ®uch more.” Carlin, a Democrat and vice chair man of the governors’ association^ said “one of the strongest points made” during the meeting was that Reagan’s plan for $100 billion in def icit reductions over three years “is not enough.” “We’ve got to go further to get more done this year to avoid whait many predict will be a very signifi cant downturn in the economy next year, with the deficits raising interest rates and making the recovery come to a quick end,” he said. Despite the pressure from the gov ernors and from Congress, Reagan deviated little from his view of how and when deficit reductions can and should be achieved. He left open the possibility of tax increases next year — but only after other steps are taken to curtail the deficit. And he held fast to his view that the down payment is the most that can be accomplished this year, aides said. “It would be very difficult to attack the major reforms that would be needed” to bring the deficit under control, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said. Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard said Reagan expressed “a fear of incur ring the wrath of the voters” with controversial budget-cutting propo sals such as tax hikes or reductions in entitlement programs. Speakes, how ever, denied Reagan made such a comment. The session with the governors, described by the White House as “a frank exchange,” was closed to re porters and came on the eve of a fourth meeting on the deficit be tween administration and congres sional negotiators. Despite Reagan’s pledge that “ev erything is on the table,” the White House rejected a proposal by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., to trim $80 bil lion from projected defense spend ing over the next three years. “We do not believe you can design a program that would serve our na tional objectives at that level” of funding, Speakes said. “We ought to get down business and put a package together,” Dome nici replied. • The English Dept, and the liberal arts college are presenting a series of famous films beginning today. See films and showing times, page 5. • A University Police Department official discusses the dismissal of a University police officer. See story page 5. State • During 1983, state revenues for Texas fell for the first time in 40 years. See story page 5. • A Houston man donated his dead son’s organs to sci ence — and saved the lives of three different people. See story page 6. • Two Texas teens lose a legal battle and had to give up $500,000 they allegedly found in an ice chest. See story page 6.