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LAUftki ic it ere il on a rec ■mg indii •tlightwl Justly will ngtonsta it was Iked ini' ia, carryint lamburga I tor him vorkers w tributedt y the Ul d die fora ■ the Dei 23-year Fn ■Jondale® said lhai Itical dil re’s pn n’s visit, tale cap as: ; Tempo-’ Browns I to shall I possibly e his point Thursday, April 12, 19840116 Battalion/Page 13 What’s up THURSDAY BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: A Bible study and lun cheon will be held on MWF from 12-12:50 p.m. and on TTH from 11:15 a.m.-noon at the BSD (behind Kin- ko's). Contact Mike Jack at 840-7722 for more informa tion. CIRCLE K: There will be a meeting at 7 p.m. in 305 A&B Rudder Tower. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS: Joe Barton will be speak ing at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder Tower. Everyone welcome! Call George Gump at 846-3901 for more information. FINANCE ASSOCIATION: Clayton Williams, Jr. will Blocker. AH business majors welcome! Contact John Hopper at 846-3443 for the time. ISRAEL CLUB: “But Where is Daniel Wax?”, an Israeli movie with English subtitles, will be shown at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder Tower. Tickets are 75#. Contact Larry Rose at 693-7952 for more information. LUTHERAN COLLEGIANS: A Bible study wilt be held at 7:30 p.m, in 226 Sterling Evans Library. For more information, call Philip Strucely at 845-3778 or 260-2175. MSG CEPHEID VARIABLE: “The Andromeda Strain” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. in 701 Rudder Tower. Tickets are $ 1. MSC VARIETY SHOW: Tickets are available at the MSC Box Office for the variety show. The show is sched uled for Friday at 7 p.m. Student tickets are S3 and non student tickets are $3.50. TAMU FENCING CLUB: There will be a general meet ing at 7 p.m. in 267 E. Kyle. The party and upcoming tournaments will be discussed. For more information, call Russell Smith at 260-4670. TAMU THEATRE ARTS: “Romeo & Juliet” will be per formed through Saturday at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. For more information, contact Gay at 845-2621. TAU ALPHA PI: The ET Honor Society will hold a gen eral meeting at 7:15 p.m. in the conference room of Fer- mier Hall. Contact Glenn Dubcak at 693-7998 for more information. TEXAS A&M EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: A meet ing will be held at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Officer elec tions will be held. For more information,.call Tim Isaac son at 845-4038. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: A women’s Bible study will be held at 7 p.m. at 1002 Pershing. Call Mike Miller at 846-1221 for more information. VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: An elec tion meeting for the ’84-’85 staff will be held at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder Tower. Contact Dang Q. Huan at 260-1488 for more information. FRIDAY ISRAEL CLUB: A celebration to end the Israel Fest will be held at noon near Rudder Fountain; Drop by and say “Shalom”! For more information, call Larry Rose at 693- 7952. Brow jlant marli k by paign to recovery! for his pti lical benei . reap, S led the« [leaning ly laxpaw (Continued from page 1) .ush re-elil ■Reasons for remaining in the ( ( | !U , jjpi during drills vary from LtributKtiffPujS to not being able to troubles ire bi the alarm. But failure to f Iaran alarm is just about im- 3si»r ? le ’ Fcmssaid - | [hev co« ‘ ,|re protection systems are I ritertls iced differently in the various s 1 rm styles, but next fall that mnthesiil lchange, Ferris said, a have! House Bill 2046, which ent (h°P ! lSSec * * n ^ ie ^ ast ^ e gi s * at - ure > re ~ nen( jij |ires smoke detectors to be ' ] peed inside each dormitory pm. j'There will be one installed weach room of the balcony le ck\ra\s>, vAk vbe VraVi vype Itttis(modulars), all the apart- nts in married student hous- jand Cain Hall” he said. Modular dorms, such as dements and Underwood, esently have alarms in the re ft air ducts of the air condi- Ining systems. “It takes a large volume of pke to set off the alarms,” ■rris said. “So we needed mo- Ferris said Texas A&M was iady planning to place the lectors even before the bill 8 passed. “We already have protection systems, but we felt they needed to be up-graded for better noti fication of emergency,” Ferris said. The installation will not be completed until sometime next fall, he said. The present fire alarms are sensitive to both smoke and heat, Ferris said. They also are equipped with a four minute time delay. That means that the alarm in the head resident’s room blinks a signal as to where the fire is, but the actual alarm doesn’t sound until four min utes after the smoke or heat hits the alarm. “This gives the head resident a chance to check out the val idity of the fire,” Ferris said. “It Vnev v vs, wo &«., d\e head resi dent can silence the alarm.” If there is a fire, an alarm sounds in the radio room of the Physical Plant and in the radio room of the police station. If fire destroyed a dormitory and all its contents, each resi dent would be responsible for his own belongings, Ferris said. The University insures only the dorm itself and furnishings within the dorm, he said. “I suggest students take out their own renters insurance or go under their parents policy,” he said. M *l! GET SPOTTED WITH SOFTOUCH J Thur-Sat. 10-6 PM Shiloh Place College Station 764-3187 Estes (continued from page 1) all the information, and none of them would do any thing until the information had been published in a newspa per.” As a last resort, he said, the results of the investigation were printed in a series of articles in the local paper —the Pecos In dependent and Enterprise — of which Dunn was part owner. “I filed the report as an indi vidual,” he said. “When it be came obvious that no one was going to do anything, then I gave the material to our editor and told him ‘write it up in proper order, put your name on it and you’ll get a Pulitzer,’ and he did.” Dunn pointed out two rea sons why his report was ig nored. “First of all, there was too much political pressure from Lyndon Johnson and Ralph Yarborough,” he said. Johnson and Yarborough had close political ties with Estes — Estes supplied them with generous donations to their re spective campaign funds in re turn for favors, he said. “Plus, the magnitude of it all was such that a lot of people thought ‘It couldn’t be,”’ he said. In grand jury testimony last month, Estes implicated John son and three other govern ment officials in the fraud and possible murders of four men connected with the agriculture department. Serious doubt has been raised as to the validity of Estes’ testimony, since he’s waited 20 years to point a finger at any one. “The reason Estes did not testify about these others until now,” Dunn said, “is because he didn’t have the assurance that he would be alive after he did, and he also didn’t have immu nity from prosecution. “He was offered immunity by the Kennedys if he would testify in Washington in the 1960s, and he came by and talked to me before he went, to tell me that he would testify and tell the whole story and who was in volved with Johnson. “When he got up there, he took the Fifth Amendment on everything. From what I have been told, word was gotten to him that if he did testify, his family would be killed. Not him, but his wife and children. “So he didn’t feel at liberty to testify until now because there is no one left around to hurt him.” The reason Estes needed im munity from prosecution, Dunn said, was he could have been charged as an accomplice to the murders. “He was an accomplice not in that he helped plan the murder, but in that he was aware of it and who was involved,” he said. Dunn is somewhat defensive of Estes because, strange as it may seem, the two were — and are — friends. Estes apparently doesn’t hold a grudge against Dunn for his exposure, because Estes Wrote in Dunn’s copy of the book “Bil lie Sol” (written by Estes’ daugh ter Pam Estes): “To a very long and beloved friend, John Dunn, with much love and every good wish in this world and the world to come. Much love, Billie Sol Estes.” Dunn said they’ve always been friends. “Even during the bitter part of it there was never any per sonal animosity between us, he said. “We were not close social friends, but he would often come by my office and talk to me. “His brother, John L., was a very close personal friend of mine, though.” Dunn said the ordeal put a lot of strain on their relationship, not for personal reasons but because of blood ties. “It was kind of like, ‘You hurt my brother, you hurt me,’” he said. “I guess blood is more im portant. “My motive was not to ruin Billie Sol and put him in jail, hut to expose Johnson for what he- was doing.” Dunn feels that Estes has been punished too harshly, but said he thinks there was no way Estes was going to get out of jail as long as Johnson was alive and in power. See ESTES page 20 Finance Association presents: An Informal Session with CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. speaking on: Small Business Formation Blocker 144 8:30-10:00 Thurs. April 12 ,h All Business Majors Welcome! Nixon Transfer & Storage 779-6333 Moving Yourself? Before you decide to move yourself, check out North American Van Lines' WE-DRIVE program. The concept is simple: you pack, you load, and a professional North American Van Lines' driver moves your belongings to your new home in a custom-designed "air ride" van. You can still save money by doing part of the work yourself, and leaving the hard part to us. It's the worry-free alternative to a rent-a-truck move. northArnerican® College Republicans present Joe Barton Candidate for U.S. Congress, Sixth District * Thursday, April 12 *7:00 p.m. 1 * Room 301 Rudder 4^ TJIi — Chosen by President Reagan as a White House Fellow. — Assisted President Reagan's Cost Control Commission, the Grace Commission. — Proven Cost Cutter Come meet and talk with Joe! Brim* Republican U.S. Congress presents Friday 13th is “Thriller” Night Come as your favorite Thriller Video Character for Best Costume or Make-up Contest, And win one of these Great Prizes: VHS or Beta Video Records Video Disc Cash Prize Happy Hour 4-7 7-Close All drinks 50# s si s s s s s s s S Si s: S Ni s S N S si