Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1984)
April S, S Bill Nir CSISD swears in new board member See page 5 K.C. Chiefs get first player from USFL See page 9 Old Ag donates $2.5 million to A&M See page 4 TV ioiier, says ill verexposure. i 0l so much fhere may e " Duke af the gait en some e\| The Battalion Serving the University community n 1 i i ' 'p j :, ilk b,i: ei f J 179 ho. 128 USPS 0453110 12 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 10, 1984 rofitract for lire league /ednesday re picked up exposure on i days. In ion game ,j jd west dui Ground broken bell tower )r i much ig so .eiball, play more in ten id to a pro! learnings! |, what I'm By ED CASSAVOY Reporter [Ford D. Albritton firmly grasped silver shovel, decorated with ma in and white ribbons, and threw first shovelf ul of dirt into the air iofficially begin construction of the bell carillon. televisional j’| ie groundbreaking ceremony Jen says. arn in collej ;nds, Monday afternoon. nd I meanii esofaspeffl |j rman Q f the Board of Regents, an mstanl lps said (he ed to parity me reason ,t talking abt ," Phelpsiai j,“The tower will forever change nine, 10, day” skyline of A&M.” McKenzie then introduced Keith o professioi 0[ ) e) chaplain for the Corps of Ca ls, who said a short prayer as the seball. fevocation for the tower. This university is limited only by magnitude of imagination.” R.J. ; familiar *i oaching stylt eseteamsph )| m g reen S ays. “'Fliis tower will lift ’s why you where then ^ERY held for faculty, students and Mr. William A. McKenzie, vice sided over the 30 minute cere- my and praised Albritton for the of the 135-<bot tall tower. McK- e says the lower will he corn- led by Aug. 2. This carillon will be a dominant dmark on campus.” McKenzie was scheduled to begin after the groundbreaking ceremony. Surveyor’s sticks were already in place, and an orange spray-painted X stained the center of the intersec tion. A constuction worker sat be hind the wheel of a bulldozer squat ting against the curb, impatient to get to work. “I feel that there is a need to per petuate this project,” Albritton says, “that’s Why I have endowed the caril lon project with sufficient funds to ensure that the bell tower will be maintained properly.” “The 47 bells are engraved with the names of family members, friends and associates that I wish to honor,” Albritton says,“I have even added two more bells, with the larg est hell now weighing 7000 pounds.” spirits of all students with the rit of Aggieland.” Holmgreen, an se friend of Albritton’s, said the iei will dramatically change the ysical face of the University. David Alders, 1984-85 Student dy President, represented the stu- itbody at the ceremony in the ab- iceof Joe Jordan. Jordan was mar- d two days ago and is on his neymoon. Other guests attending the itindbreaking were College Sta- mayor Gary Halter, Bryan yor Ron Blatchley, state represen- ive Bill Presnal, and Sterling ans. smiling Albritton was intro- iced to the large crowd that galli- d in the warm afternoon sun- Pete Husak, the project superin tendent for the Turner Construction Company, said, before the cere mony, that the 47 bells are being cast in France. He estimated the cost for the entire project, including the cost of the bells, to be $800,000. Husak says the official dedication ceremony will be Sept. 22nd. The construction of the bell tower will be broken up into two phases, Husak says. The first phase will demand the closing of the right lane of Old Main Drive and Jones Street. Two-way tra ffic will be restricted to the left lane of Old Main Drive. Albritton says aesthetics is the n consideration of the project, thanked the architects and con- uction officials warmly for their irk on the tower. I’m just turning a little dirt,” Al- tton said, “but soon we will be ninga lot of dirt.” “T his has been dream fora long, long time.” Construction work on the project The second phase of construction reverses the process,, with the left lane of Old Main Drive closed. Traf fic will be allowed only in the right lane. Husak says parking will not be af fected along most of Old Main Drive. Albritton, flanked by McKenzie and regent Royce E. Wisenbaker, posed after the ceremony for pho tographers, all three tossing a lot of dirt around with their shovels. Mondale, Hart ‘duel for votes’ United Press International PHILADELPHIA — Walter Mon dale and Gary Hart dueled Monday for the popular vote in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania presidential primary, but Mondale is likely to win big in the contest for the state’s 172 Democratic delegates. The outcome of the popular con test may hinge on how many votes civil rights activist Jesse Jackson at tracts, especially in Philadelphia where more than 40 percent of the registered Democrats are black. Mondale has the edge on national convention delegates, however, be cause he has full slates of 117 dele gates running in separate races in the 23 congressional districts. Hart had only 47 delegates of his own and had to borrow 70 more from candidates who dropped out of the race. An other 55 delegates are apportioned statewide based on the outcome of the delegate races in the congressio nal districts. Hart’s 70 adopted delegates are not identified with his name on the Pennsylvania ballot, making it diffi cult for his supporters to tell which ones to choose. A Philadelphia Daily News poll on the eve of the primary showed the candidates were neck and neck in the contest. Mondale had 30.7 percent, Hart 26.6 percent and Jackson 9.2 percent, with 32.1 percent saying they had not yet decided how to vote. The poll of 885 registered Demo crats was taken Friday through Sun day. “As president I’ll put Pennsylvania back to work,” he said in Wilkes- Barre. Asked how he expects the voting to go Tuesday, the former vice presi dent said, “I’m hoping to do well here. I think it’s very close.” “It’s been a tough — a tough cou ple of months for me,” he said in Scranton. “But I’m fighting back.” Hart told longshoremen on the Philadelphia docks that the differ ence between him and Mondale is, “Nobody owns me.” But one dockworker told the sen ator from Colorado: “If you’re not owned, you’re not going to make it. If you do make it, you’re going to get shot.” “I hope you’re wrong,” Hart said with a laugh. Hart told the group of his pro gram to modernize ailing industries and retrain workers and to use some of the billions of dollars, saved by canceling the MX missile and B-l bomber, to dredge the Delaware River and create jobs. Pollsters said a significant number of those questioned were not positive about their preference and might change before election day. “I am not a career politician. ... Af ter I’m president, I’m not going to run for office anymore, because my goal is not to hold public office,” he said. “It’s to do something for this country and for my children, partic ularly the nuclear arms race.” The Washington Post-ABC poll, taken Wednesday through Sunday, also showed a close race with Mon dale at 41 percent, Hart at 39 percent and Jackson at 14 percent, with a 4 percent margin of error. Jackson, who was denouncing the mining of Nicaraguan harbors with the support ofthe Central Intelli gence Agency, said he will go to Ma nagua within a month to meet with the Sandinista government and with rebel leaders. Photo by DEAN SAITO “This is probably the smallest crowd we’ll ever have at the tower,” joked McKenzie. Ford D. Albritton (center) is congratulated by William A. Mc Kenzie as Royce E. Wisenbaker looks on, following the ground breaking for the new bell tower at the west campus entrance. Hart and Mondale blitzed the state Monday in a last-ditch scramble for votes while Jackson began the day in Pittsburgh and finished it in his Phil adelphia stronghold. On a five-city tour. Mondale pledged to help Pennsylvania if he is elected president. “The mining of those harbors is very close to an act of war,” he said. “It is provocative. It is wrong.” Jackson was headed for Nicaragua in February before the New Hamp shire primary but decided to delay the trip. Spokesmen said he hopes to meet with the rebel “contras” and the Sandinistas in late April or early May, but no definite date has been set. Nicaragua files suit against United States United Press International des 1 aw, androl senger. evel r :35 alcome ai be accom Nicaragua filed a suit against the nited States at the world court in he Hague Monday, demanding an id to alleged acts of American ag- ession including the mining of its rrisand the destruction of bridges, ispitals and airports. Nicaragua has presented a de- and asking for a declaration in pth on the violations and aggres- ons of the United States,” Nicara- Ambassador to the the Nether- nds, Carlos Arguello, told the Tidal government radio station, Le dzde Nicaragua. -nation cof’ n at the Id' ral Sports East “These activities include the min ing of ports, the destruction of bridges, hospitals and airports and all military attacks against my coun try,” Arguello said in an interview in The Hague. Arguello said Nicaragua also asked the court that it issue provi sional and immediate orders to in sure that the damages inflicted by the mines do not become “irreparable.” Some 12 ships, including Dutch, Soviet and Japanese — have struck mines off Nicaragua in the past two months. Arguello said the suit was the first filed by Nicaragua against the United States and also the Central American nation’s first request for a ruling un der international law to the Interna tional Court of Justice in over 20 years. “We are all in agreement that there does not exist the least doubt that the government of the United States is obligated to accept the juris diction of the court,” Arguello said. But the suit came a day after the State Department in Washington said the world court was being mis used “as a forum for a propaganda campaign” and would ignore any court ruling on the charges of min ing Nicaraguan ports. Nicaraguan rebel leader Edgar Chamorro Coronel, of the Nicara guan Democratic Force (FDN), said in a telephone interview that “the FDN, not the Central Intelligence Agency, is responsible for mining Ni caragua’s ports.” “Yes, we have mined the ports, and we will keep mining them while the Marxist government is in power in Nicaragua,” said Chamorro. In Costa Rica, authorities investi gating the crash of a transport plane near the Nicaraguan border said they found the remains of two bod ies, but that identification of the vic tims or the aircraft was not immedi ately possible. Costa Rican radio said Sunday the transport plane carried seven people, four of whom were believed to be Americans and that all had been killed and buried at the site. Radio Sandino, the official voice of Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista govern ment, charged Sunday the plane was carrying arms and ammunition to Costa Rican-based rebels of the Dem ocratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE). Costa Rican authorities said they found the wreckage of the aircraft Friday near the town of San Carlos, 12 miles from the Nicaraguan border in an area where ARDE rebels are based. Judicial and civil aviation authori ties who visited the site of the crash Sunday said the unmarked plane, a DC-3 converted for cargo use, was completely destroyed in the crash and all its occupants apparently killed. )oviet Union charging Reagan Olympic athlete harassment In Today’s Battalion United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet Union cased President Reagan Monday f using the Olympics for political lain, charging there have been “slan- erous allegations” and “open treats” of violence against Soviet thletesand officials. The U.S. administration i& trying j usethe Olympic games on the eve fthe elections for its selfish political said a statement from the So- ■et National Olympic Committee, arried by the official news agency ass. Moscow has not yet said whether it II participate in the summer games Los Angeles. The United States veral other Western nations boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olym pics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. “President Reagan submitted to the International Olympic Commit tee written guarantees of the U.S.. government’s respect for the tradi tions, rules and provisions of the Olympic charter,” the statement said. Facts show, however, that these obligations and guarantees are not respected in a number of major mat ters, the statement charged. In particular, the statement said, “a coalition called Ban The Soviets, enjoying the support of the U.S. offi cial services, has been set up.” The group, headed by an Ana heim, Calif, businessman, was _ formed after the Sept. 1 downing of a South Korean jetliner by a Soviet fighter jet. Members say they will stage protests at the Olympics against the Soviets and encourage defections by Soviet athletes, spectators and journalists. The Soviet statement charged that “open threats of physical victimiza tion and provocative actions are made to sportsmen and officials of the U.S.S.R. and other socialist coun tries.” It did not give examples. Also, it said, “slanderous allega tions are being made that the partici pation of a Soviet delegation in the Olympic games would presumably threaten U.S. security.” In March, the U.S. State Depart ment rejected a visa application by Oleg Yermishkin, the Soviet selection for Olympic attache, on national se curity grounds. In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes declined direct comment on the accusations from Moscow, but said in general, “we’ve tried to be very accommodat ing to the Soviets” in preparation for the Olympics. Moscow said it “is becoming ob vious that the Department of State believes it to be its duty constantly to correct the actions of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and merely to replace it in certain mat ters.” Local • Funeral services will be held today for a Texas A&M student and assistant professor who were killed in a car ac cident. See story page 3. • The A&M German Club will present a folk drama tonight. See story page 4. • Pizza sales are skyrocketing in Bryan-College Sta tion. See story page 6. National • An 18-year-old New Mexico athlete who was bound for Texas Tech this fall was found shot to death — an ap parent suicide. See story page 7. %