Muster speaker
has been named
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Aggie women lose
to Texas Tech, 76-55
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—--Texas A&M • __ __
The Battalion
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College Station, Texas
' Thursday, March 1, 1984
Momentum swinging toward Hart
United Press International
Gary Hart said Wednesday “peo-
e know who I am now and contri
tions are pouring in after his upset
-tory in New ftainpsfiire, while
ai'er Mondale went Soutii and
lailenged the Colorado senatoi i<>
)battle for the vote-t u h Sun Belt.
1 he first-in-the-nation New
ampshire primary was the last hur-
h tor Sen. Alan'(a anston of Cali-
ril ia who dropped out of the race
Tuesday, telling a news confer
eein Concord, N H., “I know the
Terence between reality and
earns.”
•cannot hide my disappointment
that I won’t be the Democratic nomi
nee for president,” the 69-year-old
Cranston said.
Another New Hampshire also-ran,
former Gov. Reubin Askew of Flor
ida, said in Miami he was pondering
his situation and would have a major
announcement later in the week.
Hart, passing through Boston en
route to Denver, told reporters,
"We’re going to be campaigning
hard in Massachusetts” for the
March 13 primary. ‘*W 7 e think this is a
good state for us.”
Reminded that Mondale also said
Massachusetts is a good state for him.
Hart, who will begin a Southern
swing Thursday, joked, “Thai’s what
he said about New Hampshire.”
Mondale was back on the trail for
the “Super Tuesday” states, which in
clude Georgia, Alabama and Florida,
with a promise to try harder to gel
his message across.
The former vice president told re
porters in Atlanta that Hart had said
te might actively contest only one
Southern state, and added: ’’that’s
not good enough. In my opinion a
potential presidential nominee of the
Democratic Party cannot write off a
major part of our country.”
If Hart makes a serious challenge
in the South, he said, “I’m confident
that when the people of the South
see the contrast between us, I’ll win.”
Joking and maintaining good hu
mor about his stunning loss, Mon
dale tried to quash any interpretation
that he represents the politics of the
past. “My whole purpose is to serve
the future,” the former vice presi
dent said in Boston before beginning
his long tour through the South. “If I
haven’t been communicating that ef
fectively, then I will.”
Mondale campaign manager Jim
Johnson told reporters Mondale now
considers Hart his main rival but re
mains confident he will win the nom
ination and plans no fundamental
changes in his campaign.
Mondale admitted defeat to a mob
of supporters, telling them that “I
won one, and lost one,” referring to
his victory last week in the Iowa cau
cuses. He predicted that in the 25
primaries coming up in the next
three weeks he would defeat Hart.
With 100 percent of the total vote
reported, Hart had 39,062 votes or
40 percent; Mondale, 27,710 or 29
percent; Sen. John Glenn, 12,041 or
13 percent; civil rights activist Jesse
Jackson, 5,280 or 6 percent; former
Sen. George McGovern, 5,145 or 5
percent; Sen. Ernest Hollings, 3,583
or 4 percent; Sen. Alan Cranston,
2,087 or 2 percent, and former Gov.
Reubin Askew of Florida, 1,023 or 1
percent.
Those percentages would translate
into 10 delegates for Hart and eight
for Mondale.
Mischief making conservatives or
ganized a campaign to have indepen
dents write in Reagan’s name on the
Democratic ticket and he got 5,032
votes — putting him ahead of three
Democrats. Reagan had only token
opposition on the Republican side.
Wo men
charged
n theft
By SARAH OATES
Stall Writer
Two men were jailed Wednesday
n charges of stealing Texas AftM
Mipmetequipment valued at more
•an $30,000 from the Blocket
'•hlcling early W'ed nesday morning.
College Station Police Lt. Greg Le-
ls > investigating a confidential tip
•ata burglan was going on, said the
m men were seen carrying com-
ntcr components wrapped in cart
as mailbags out of the building.
Hie nen were identified as Roy
hsen Worthington, 36, a wrestling
D ach for the College Station Parks
mi Rec reation Department, and
ferny Samuel Campbell, 45, a
•icsnian for the Aplo Music Co. of
buston. Lewis said the men made
m trips back and forth as they
•atled the components into a station
'agon parked on the northeast side
bhe building.
He said that after the components
' er e loaded into the car, Campbell
01 into the station wagon and Wor
kington got into another car. The
"'ll men then drove off campus, Le
ns said.
College Station police pulled the
•cn over as they drove through the
block of University Drive, he
a| (i The University Police were
alkd to the scene.
Lewis said he saw computer key-
oavds in the front seat of the station
fagon, and several components par
tly covered by a quilt in the back.
Lour Texas Instruments cornput-
p. including four disk drivers, four
•splay terminals, four keyboards
ml tour printers were recovered.
Photo by JOHN RYAN
Detective Bill Wade, of the Campus Police is shown here with
some of the computer equipment recovered in an attempted
theft from the Blocker Building.
Two of the printers were Diablos.
Several computer manuals also were
recovered.
Boh Wiatt, director of security and
traffic for the University Police De
partment, said the equipment is
worth more than $30,000.
“We are certainly going to look at
these two characters in previous com
puter thefts can campus,” he said.
Campbell and Worthington were
in the Brazos County jail Wednesday
morning. Bondwas set for each at
$ 10,000 surety or $400 cash.
Student credit hoax costly
By MARK E. LISH
Reporter
Students tempted by advertise
ments guaranteeing credit cards
without the hassle of credit checks or
income requirements, may find the
“unconditional moneyback guar
antee” is something less than that.
A consumer alert by Attorney
General Jim Mattox, dated Feb. 3,
warns that many people have lost
money to companies making such
guarantees.
On the same day, The Battalion
ran an ad paid for by First National
Bancard of San Jose, Calif, which of
fered “the easiest, fastest, and most
certain way for students to get a Mas
terCard...all for just $30.” The ad
said there was no risk involved be
cause of “First National’s Guarantee:
if you should fail to get a MasterCard
after following the simple step-by-
step instructions, you will receive a
full ref und.”
Mattox writes that many guar
antees apply only if the instructions
mentioned in the ads are followed
explicitly. The instructions, which
usually are received after an initial
investment of about $30, often re
quest an additional $300 for an ac
count at the bank issuing the card.
The $30 is refunded only if a second
check has been sent and credit is den
ied.
The Battalion attempted to con
tact First National Bancard’s adver
tising manager. Ivy Daniels, at the
company headquarters in San Jose to
find out more about the offer stated
in the advertisement. Daniels’ an
swering service said he was unavail
able for comment.
The Better Business Bureau in
San Jose said it tried to contact First
National Bancard in August to estab
lish an informational file on the com
pany, but the company never re
sponded.
“I don’t think I can call it a fraud,”
Dan Usiak, Texas A&M legal adviser,
said Thursday. (Feb. 16) “They tell
you what your rights and obligations
are. They just put it in fine print and
hope you don’t read it.” Usiak said
that legal action can be taken only if
an ad is proven to be fraudulent.
For those intent on getting a credit
card, Attorney General Mattox wri
tes,“If you have an extra $300 to put
into a savings account, you could
probably get a bank to issue you a
credit card.”
Banks in Bryan-College Station
contacted by The Battalion say they
don’t issue credit cards unless credit
references are provided. Their ad
vice to students: get one through
your parents.
Trudeau stepping down
United Press International
OTTAWA — Canada’s flamboy
ant prime minister, Pierre Elliott
Trudeau, announced Wednesday he
was retiring after nearly 16 years in
office.
“The experience of being leader
of our great party has been one of
the joys of my life. But I now feel this
is the appropriate time from some
one else to assume this challenge,”
Trudeau said in a letter to Liberal
Party President Iona Campagnolo.
Stepping down as leader of Cana
da’s Liberal Party automatically
means Trudeau will leave the post of
prime minister. It was not clear when
the resignation would take effect.
The news of Trudeau’s decision
broke as his staff was summoned to
an emergency meeting. Trudeau
then left his office and went to his of
ficial residence to inform his three
sons.
Asked why he picked Wednesday
to resign, he said:
“Why today? Well, because it’s a
good day,” Trudeau told reporters
outside his Parliament Hill office.
“It’s the first day of the rest of my li
fe.”
Trudeau recently met in Moscow
with the Soviet Union’s new leader,
Konstantin Chernenko, as part of a
series of visits to world capitals on a
self-styled international peace mis
sion aimed at nuclear disarmament.
Speculation had been rife for
months that Trudeau, 64, who has
been Canadian prime minister for all
but nine months of the last 16 years,
was preparing to step aside.
No clear successor has emerged.
Trudeau has said that he would re
main as prime minister until a lead
ership convention could be held.
Conservative Party Leader Brian
Mulroney was informed of Tru
deau’s resignation while on vacation
in Florida and his press aide, Bill
Fox, said Mulroney had no immedi
ate comment. It was uncertain
whether he would return.
Trudeau can count among his ma
jor achievements creation of a new
constitution with a Charter of Rights,
official bilingualism for Canada, cre
ation of a national oil corporation
9nd a national energy policy.
.ar bomb wrecks apartment
n Beirut, 3 killed, 43 injured
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A car bomb
we apart a Beirut apartment build
up Wednesday, killing ai least three
•topicand wounding 43 others, only
•ours after Defense Secretary Cas-
)ar Weinberger made a surprise visit
othe capital.
President Amin Gemayel was wel-
flnied with a 21-gun salute in Dam-
Bcus by Syrian President Hafez As
ad to discuss the cancelation of
tfbanon’s May 17 troop withdrawal
Kcord with Israel.
Gemayel, battered by Syrian-sup
ported Moslem rebels and with U.S.
iupport eroding, was reported ready
ocave in to Syrian demands for the
ancelaiion of the May agreement
Bat had ended Lebanon’s state of
»arwith Israel.
Weinberger, after a visit to Lon
don, helicoptered from Cyprus to
the 6th Fleet off the Lebanese coast
to thank U.S. Marines for what he
tailed “the toughest and I suppose
•ne of the most miserable tasks that
•asever been assigned.”
Weinberger also made a quick un
announced trip to the U.S. Embassy
along the Beirut waterfront to see
the Marines who remained behind
after the withdrawal of the U.S. con
tingent in Lebanon’s multinational
peace-keeping force.
Less than three hours later, the
blast of a 100-pound car bomb
roared through the heart of west Bei
rut. No one immediately claimed re
sponsibility for the blast.
“There was a massive explosion,
the biggest I have heard,” said a
woman who asked not to be identi
fied. “I was standing in the kitchen
and the blast blew me to the floor.
There was glass flying everywhere.
My mother and I were lucky not to
be killed.”
The blast blew' glass and debris for
blocks and sent huge clouds of smoke
billowing into the sky. The fronts of
two high-rise buildings were de
stroyed. Dozens of smashed cars lit
tered the streets.
The radio station of the Sunni
Moslem rebels, Mourabitoun, said
the bomb ripped open the front of
an 11-story apartment building, kill
ing three people and wounding 43
others, police said.
The car bomb was only the most
spectacular attack in a day of shelling
and shooting that saw ambulances
racing through the streets and burn
ing gas tanks lighting up the sky in
Christian east Beirut.
Another three people died and 20
were wounded in unusually heavy
shelling on both sides of the “green
line” that divides Christian east Bei
rut from the Moslem west, police
said. Witnesses saw a 5-year-old child
with shrapnel wounds in the head
and neck.
Christian radio reported shelling
of east Beirut both by the rebels in
the other half of the city and in the
mountains overlooking the capital.
Druze Moslem shelling from the
mountains also hit the last Lebanese
army stronghold in the mountains,
Souk Al Gharb, and along the Chris
tian-populated coast stretching north
from Beirut.
Moslem rebels in w'est Beirut fired
in the air to celebrate Gemayel’s first
visit to Syria since taking office 17
months ago. He was met at Damascus
airport by Assad who ordered the 21-
gun salute for the Lebanese leader.
A Lebanese government source
said the Gemayel-Assad talks would
deal mainly with the “Lebanese-Is-
raeli troops withdrawal agreement
and a suitable way to abrogate it.”
The agreement, brokered by Sec
retary of State George Shultz, gave
Israel military and political conces
sions in return for an Israeli promise
to end the occupation of south Leb
anon.
It amounted to a peace treaty —
the only Arab country other than
Egypt to sign a formal accord with Is
rael.
There was immediate reaction
from Christian leaders who have
warned against cancelation of the
accord signed in the aftermath of the
Israeli invasion. Israel also has
warned against canceling the
agreement.
“I am still attached to my position
and oppose the abrogation of the
May 17 agreement ... if it is not con
ditional on the withdrawal of Syrian
troops,” said Christian militia leader
Fadi Frem, who had earlier warned
the cancelation would “ignite” the
Christian community.
In Today’s Battalion
Local
• A used-bicycle auction will be held Friday morning
at Rudder fountain to benefit “Operation; Mop-Up.” See
story page 5.
• For students who’d like to vote absentee in the
March 10 election and don’t feel like driving to city hall.
State Rep. Candidate Richard Smith is financing a shuttle
bus system to get you there. See story page 6.
» “Leverage,” a board game designed by an Aggie, is
currently being sold by Milton Bradley. See story page 3.
State
• Braniff Airlines is scheduled to be back in the sky to
day with many new changes. See story page 8.
Nation
■
• A Louisiana man went to the electric chair Wednes
day, but not before proclaiming his innocence for the last
time. See story page 5.