Battalion Tnity I have Serving the University community ies: 1 m in , but I’m itfl if we were good faith.' ve met even nand he lie demands lie governor nd the went beyond eep the , at the slate ipolis, Maryl sembly lationtoautl liiinoretobin Vol 78 No. 123 CJSPS 0453110 10 pages 0(( College Station, Texas Monday, April 2, 1984 ondale, Hart battle r New York primary United Press International EW YORK — Walter Mondale 11 franchise, and Gary Kart slugged it out for au dit intolaw. Rer hour in a televised debate Sun- < question By as the Democratic front-runners move was it Jluled for votes in the closing hours FL franchist pel,)re Tuesday’s key New York pri- to Indianapi jjnan real tricky .Blondale took the offensive in the ughes. “TkBjate, while Hart contended that lawyers tode®w Yorkers are fed up with his con- say it is noiBu attacks. Jesse Jackson, still try- ■ toplay peacemaker in the Demo tion would indBtic contest, at one point accused ises amongfeM rivals of ignoring him. to the dtv'spiBrhe ABC-Washington Post poll, domain. Bhnli has a good track record so far In lie campaign, said Sunday the for- mei vice president has a lead in New York, where 252 national convention / (legates are at stake. KY ■The poll tracks the ups and downs / of popularity over the final days be- lorc the primary. oles ThursdrBt gave Mondale 11 percent, Hart >gey-double 28 percent and Jackson 21 percent, I-under71 ggtli a margin of error of 0 percent, •oup that int ili.it would mean Mondale is moving lampion Hjj up, while Hart is slipping at the ex pense of Jackson who continues to at tract a massive black vote. But even more important than a popular vote victory in New York is the battle for delegates. The latest United Press International delegate count gives Mondale 728 of the 1,967 needed for nomination while Hart has 440 and Jackson 101. There are 325 uncommitted. Following the debate, Mondale headed for Buffalo, the second larg est pocket of Democratic votes in the state and a steel town where he is ex pected to do well among the heavy union and ethnic vote. Hart went running in Central Park with supporters and scheduled a fund-raising dinner with John Denver, Hal Linden, Mario Thomas and author Stephen King. For the first 20 minutes of the de bate on WNBC, Hart and Mondale tried to get along, but they soon started fighting again on Central America and other key issues that have made their campaign a bitter feud in recent weeks. Mondale complained about a Hart televison advertisement “accusing me of wanting to kill people in Central America.” “When you go beyond the facts to say things of that kind, I think it is negative, it is personal, it is inaccu rate, and it raises concerns that are totally unjustified,” Mondale said. Hart replied that Mondale is lash ing out now that he no longer has a clear shot at the Democratic nomi nation. “The fact of the matter, and Pritz knows it, is within hours if not days of our upset victory in New Hamp shire ... (the Mondale campaign) went totally negative.” Mondale accused Hart of switch ing to favor moving the U.S. Em bassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jeru salem only to cater to the heavy Jewish vote in New York. “He transferred that embassy to Jerusalem the same time he trans ferred his headquarters from Chi cago to New York,” Mondale said. lashes shake Mideast United Press International liner, 54 anil ly hisihirdnKj .enl ibis year,] who shot ie TPC chan ’'^bhole^ML e * janon — Israeli gun nel^ shelled positions in Syrian-held ksurn Lebanon Sunday, ending V" 1 », filnths of quiet along the tense Is- lwllve ^JIl,-Syrian confrontation lines in ver <1IH a ' the Bekaa valley, righlwing Christian ^ ^ Israeli authorities said, a i ose up»»re s ii fighting also shook the H)uf mountains overlooking Bei- ri, with at least one government sol- pi killed in daylong mortar and , j rockei fire exchanges between Chris- Ti .JBpJed army units and Druze rebels. * h0 ^"Ihristian Voice of Lebanon radio • "i™ 5 ’ ^Morled Israeli tanks were “violently ' in Syrian positions” in the Be- 1 laa valley about 25 miles southeast of 1 ed,h 1 utei U YT S « CapUal ', i nsiderabl,® Tel Avlv i a " ! s , r 1 f el ‘ m ' Utar r , ,. ■ spokesman confirmed (he reports of 1 11S n Blling,. and said that in a separate iad birdie pn et in a bow incident, guerrillas sent two Katyu sha rockets crashing into the village of Aadyse, some 2 miles north of the Israeli border settlement of Misgav Am. The Israeli spokesman identified the Bekaa targets only as “terrorist command posts that serve as staging areas and departure points” for at tacks on Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon. Syrian officials had no immediate comment on the reports, but Voice of the Mountain, the Druze Moslem rebel radio, also reported new clashes along Syrian and Israeli lines in the Bekaa. Christian radio said the Israelis were firing from Joub Jannine, Kamed el Laouz and Mdhouka at targets just south of the village of Bar Elias. There was no immediate report on casualties in the Bekaa, where Syria’s air force lost nearly 100 planes in dogfights with Israeli jet fighters during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Leb anon. Besides the daylong artillery ex changes in the Shouf, the Christian Phalange party radio also reported shelling of the Christian residential areas of Mansouriyeh and Broumana in the Metn mountains east of Beirut. The Green Line separating Chris tian east Beirut and the mostly Mos lem western half was open to traffic, with 40 French military observers helping 300 hand-picked Moslem and Christian police to patrol the only open road Tearful Experience Photo by DEAN SAITO Texas A&M student Kim Manganaro is es corted to an awaiting car by Huntsville Prison personnel after the execution of her pen pal Ronald “Candyman” O’Bryan early Saturday morning. Manganaro witnessed the execution of O’Bryan at his request. Honduran coup helping strengthen civilian rule ambassador blasts killing oeori W/illl ased itiwj fdd Plus Tn ;o 7:00 FI ViWied Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering nday condemned the assassination rightist candidate Roberto d’Au- isson’s chief campaign adviser, w was shot to death by leftists out- lehis office. Rafael Hasbun, 58, was killed by bmachine gunfire sprayed from a ceding car as he stepped out of his fice in northern San Salvador late lurday. “It’s another act of the extreme i operating in the manner of a ath squad to disrupt the political process in El Salvador,” Pickering told reporters. The Central American Revolu tionary Workers’ Party, one of five leftist guerrilla groups operating in El Salvador, claimed responsibility for the assassination in telephone calls to San Salvador radio stations. “We have executed him for being a member of the ARENA party,” one caller said referring to the National ist Republican Alliance of d’Aubuis- son, who has been accused of leading right-wing death squads. Hasbun, who served as d’Aubuis- son’s chief campaign adviser, was the second ARENA member to be killed in a week and the fifth right-wing po litical activists to be assassinated by leftists since January. The director of Arena’s youth fac tion, Manuel Joaquin Escoto, was shot to death last weekend. The Hasbun assassination fol lowed charges earlier in the week by President Alvaro Magana that a Cu ban-organized death squad had been dispatched to kill candidates in El Salvador’s presidential elections March 24. United Press International TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The sudden military shake-up in Honduras has strengthened the civil ian government’s authority to pursue peace negotiations with Nicaragua, which welcomed the opportunity, of ficials and observers said Sunday. Gen. Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Mar tinez, chief of the Honduran armed forces, and three other top military commanders were forced to resign Saturday because of what President Roberto Suazo Cordova said was their involvement in politics. Alvarez, a hardline supporter of U.S. policy in Central America, was forced to leave Honduras in a move that some said gave the 2-year-old ci vilian government greater freedom to conduct peace negotiations with its leftist neighbor, Nicaragua. “The removal of Gen. Alvarez Martinez has given the Suazo Cor dova government more space to ma neuver,” one observer said. “The government now has more capacity to negotiate.” In Managua, the head of the leftist Nicaraguan government’s ruling three-man junta, Daniel Ortega, also said Sunday that the shakeup offered hope for dialogue between the two governments. “Gen. Alvarez was the principal agent that the United States had in Honduras. Now there is hope for the Nicaraguan government’s policy of dialogue,” Ortega said. It was not immediately clear what effect the changes in the military might have on the large U.S. military presence in Honduras or on U.S.- backed Nicaraguan rebels fighting the leftist regime in Managua from base camps in Honduras. In one sign that the government intended to maintain close relations with Washington, new U.S. maneu vers called Grenadier I began as scheduled Sunday. The exercises will include the par ticipation of some 1,000 U.S. service men in the construction of two airs trips and counter-insurgency practice. With Alvarez at the helm of the armed forces, Honduras allowed a large U.S. military presence in the country, including the installation of a regional training base manned by 120 Green Berets on the Caribbean coast. Some 10,000 American troops participated in the largest military maneuvers held in Central America, a 7-month exercise called Big Pine II that ended Feb. 8. Lixpert explains Soviet poiicy in Today’s Battalion SPECIAL EVENING