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Jett in’ ready
Dallas police, FBI agents learning
to counter terrorism at convention
United Press International
DALLAS — Dallas police
iFBl agents are scheduled
Is week to begin tactical
lining in countering terror-
Ji and recovering hostages
ai the Republican National
Convention in August.
[Meanwhile, city officials
[planning to lay in a sup-
pltofblood in President Rea
d's type; to write conlin-
|icy plans for everything
Im hospital fires to arrests
of delegates; and to work up
a list of specialists to cover
mergencies ranging from
lorn clothing to lost dentures.
Tit’s an enormous opera
tion." said former Secret
Seniee agent J. Walter
[Coughlin, security consultant
to the Republican National
[Conmiittee.
■Contingency preparation
for the convention, which is
Ipected to draw 2,235 dele-
lies and a fair number of
Ives, staff members, and
dignitaries, falls on two
groups.
First, a coordinating com
mittee of law enforcement
agencies is working up plans
that respond to crises with a
minimum of confusion and
overlap, officials said.
The Secret Service will
have some 600 people in
town to protect President
Reagan and Vice President
George Bush; the Dallas po
lice department will assign
1,100 officers and the FBI
will move in 25 extra agents
and a special hostage rescue
team.
In addition, the GOP Na
tional Gommittee plans to
hire its own security guards,
and 12 Republican governors
will bring state police body
guards, officials said.
Training for the Dallas po
lice begins Thursday for spe
cial squads earmarked for cri
sis management. They are to
train with FBI observers, offi
cials said.
“Our operational plan is
complete except for the con
tingencies,” said Assistant Po
lice Chief “We’re into the
training phase now. God for
bid that something should
happen.”
While all that is going on,
the non-partisan Dallas Wel
coming Committee is coordi
nating medical and city serv
ice agencies with law
enforcement agencies
The committee has ar
ranged for medical care at
the convention, and has
worked up a list of special
services available through a
round-the-clock hot line.
“Let’s say someone in the
media gets picked up for
DWI,” she said. “Through
the bar association, whose
number would be on our list,
he can get in touch with a bail
bondsmen.”
Parkland Memorial Hospi
tal, which has the area’s best
trauma facilities, has its own
plan for dealing with emer
gencies ■
Faculty Senate committee
begins election evaluation
By D AIN AH BULLARD
Staff Writer
The first general election of
the Texas A&M Faculty Senate
concluded Friday afternoon
with the announcement of the
results of a run-off election in
the College of Engineering.
With the votes counted and the
elections completed, the Senate
Election Committee now can
evaluate its job.
“The committee feels that the
election went smoothly, but
there are a couple of things
we’ll do differently next year,”
said committee chairman Wil
liam L. Perry.“The night of the
general election, we’ll wait to
give out results until numbers
are certain. Another thing we’ll
do is have unified polling pla
ces.”
Perry, an associate professor
of mathematics, said the com
mittee organized the election
using Senate bylaws as
guidelines.
“We proposed a bylaw in No
vember last year, and all but
one part of it passed,” Perry
said. “That part (the failed part)
had to do with apportionment
— the number of senators for
each elective unit. The other six
parts of the bylaw, the commit
tee took to be the working rules
for the election.”
The election bylaw provides
for a two-week nomination pe
riod ending two weeks before
absentee voting begins. The by
law states that absentee voting
will take place from 9 a.m. until
5. p.m., Monday through Fri
day, one week prior to the regu
lar election day. The bylaw also
states that the regular- election
of senators will take place
within the first two weeks of
April every year. The election
process had to conform to the
bylaw’s time restrictions, yet ac
commodate spring break, Perry
said.
“The reason for an April
election was that at the May
meeting, new senators are to be
seated and new officers elec
ted,” Perry said. “Having the
regular election April 4 gives us
time to have run-off elections
and let the new senators know
about the election of officers in
the May meeting so they can
participate fully.”
Perry said a smaller percent
age of people participated in
the run-off elections than in the
regular elections. Voting partic
ipation in the regular election
ranged from a high of 68 per
cent in the Sterling C. Evans
voting unit to a low of 11 per
cent in the Gollege of Medicine.
A total of 770 faculty members
voted in the regular election.
“Roughly speaking, we had
about a 38 percent turnout in
the regular election,” he said.
“Participation in the run-off
election was lower than before.
I’d say it was roughly one half
of what it was for the big elec
tion.”
Run-off elections for the col
leges of education and science
were Wednesday. Leonard D.
Ponder was elected Place 6 sen
ator for the Gollege of Educa
tion, and James P. Henderson
was elected Place 11 senator for
the Gollege of Science.
The run-off election for the
Gollege of Engineering was Fri
day. Walter L. Bradley was
elected Place 14 senator for that
college.
Ponder, Henderson, Bradley
and 25 other newly elected sen
ators will be certified by the
Senate at the May meeting. Af
ter being certified, the new sen
ators will assume their official
responsibilities.
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ceive awards at meet
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I Ida total of nine awards at
0 Jouthwest Journalism Con-
competition Saturday,
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idential candidate Jesse
[son placed third in the cat-
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Halloween issue of At Ease.
Former At Ease editor Re-
beca Zimmermann placed sec
ond in Best Magazine Layout,
third in Best Magazine Photo
Essay. She also placed second in
Best Column with a piece on
drunk driving.
At Ease also placed first for
Best Original Artwork.
Former sports editor John
Wagner placed first in the cat
egory of Best Sports Column
with his column on the use of il
legal drugs in professional
sports.
In the magazine sweepstakes
competition, At Ease finished
third behind Texas Christian
University and Lamar.
The Battalion tied for sixth
place overall with the Daily
Texan, the student newspaper
of the University of Texas at
Austin. The overall winner was
by Texas
Tech, the University of Texas at
Arlington, the University of
Oklahoma and North Texas
State.
“I’m really pleased with how
At Ease placed this year,” Zim
mermann said. “We competed
against magazines which had
full-color photos on slick paper,
while we’re a newspaper
supplement printed on news
print.”
Wagner said his win was un
expected.
“It’s such a tough competi
tion that you never know what
— or who — will win,” he said.
“I think it’s an honor to even be
considered for an award.”
Twenty schools in Texas, Ok
lahoma, Arkansas and Loui
siana competed in the compet-
ion.
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