Sleet rain expected
for primary election
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March Silver Taps
to be held tonight
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NCAA penalty rules
changing this year
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Vol 78 No. 104 CISPS 0453110 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 28, 1984
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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-
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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.
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■ 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.
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icizact i?vtdv * veiU out ant * lurne d °ff the electric-
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[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.
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lines on 31st Street and caused an
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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.
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Maria, a pole top caught on fire caus
ing outageson Villa Forrest, La
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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-
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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)
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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.