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by Jeff MacNelly
Caribbean officials meet
Reagan for summit meeting
United Press International
COLUMBIA, S.C. — President
Reagan marked the fifth anniver
sary of the Nicaraguan revolution
Thursday by warning the leftist gov
ernment that “a Soviet-style sham
election” this fall will not satisfy de
mands for progress toward democ
racy.
Branding the Sandinista takeover
“a revolution betrayed,” Reagan said
Nicaragua is an extension of the
same communist threat that pro
voked his invasion of Grenada last
October.
“What was happening in Grenada
was not an isolated incident,” he said
at a summit meeting of Caribbean
leaders. “The Soviet bloc and Cuba
have been committing enormous re
sources to undermining our liberty
and independence.”
Reagan joined officials from 15
Caribbean nations and territories at
the University of South Carolina for
two 12 hours of talks on economic
and security concerns, marked by
signs of impatience with the imple
mentation of his Caribbean Basin
Initiative, a package of trade and in
vestment incentives that took effect
Jan. 1.
While the private discussions fo
cused on trade imbalances, debt bur
dens and threats to security, Reagan
used his closing statement to level a
broadside at Nicaragua — his second
in as many days.
He also defended his invasion of
Grenada as a move to liberate its
people from Marxism and prevent
“danger and turmoil from spreading
beyond Grenada’s shores.”
Reagan, whose popularity rose af
ter Grenada, has depicted the inva
sion as a symbol of the assertive for
eign policy he brought to office in
1981 and his determination to check
the spread of communism.
Reagan charged the Sandinistas
have reneged on written commit
ments to democracy. Taking note of
an announced Nov. 4 election, he
said: “We would wholeheartedly
welcome a genuine democratic elec
tion in Nicaragua. But no person
committed to democracy will be
taken in by a Soviet-style sham elec
tion.
“The situation in Nicaragua is not
promising, but if the Sandinistas
would keep to their original commit
ment — permit free elections, re
spect human rights and establish an
independent nation — conflict in the
region would subside.”
A senior administration official
said the Sandinistas have made no
provision for independent observers
or given opposition candidates the
capability to wage “a real campaign.”
By KAREN GILES
Reporter
Remember the good of days when
you could ride your bicycle on the
campus’ unpaved roads? When the
buildings in Bryan-College Station
stood no taller than two stories? Or
how about when all you could see on
Texas Avenue was one grocery-gas
station, advertising red lead for 9£ a
gallon?
Steve Holik remembers.
Holik, a thin soft-spoken bache
lor, said he’s spent all 74 years of his
life in Bryan-College Station. “Only
time I’ve ever left the town was when
I was just a kid, and those nice cadets
would pay my train fare to go to Dal
las, Austin or Houston with them for
their corp trips, and when I went to
Mexico,” Holik boasted.
Holik, son of an Austrian mi
grant, said he grew up on a plot of
land that is now a paved area on
campus.
“I used to ride my bike through
the pillars of the old Academic
building,” said Holik. “That school
looked a whole lot different back
then. I probably couldn’t find my
way around today. The college sure
has changed, but the boys still keep
their hair short. Just like mine,” he
said, as he ran his wrinkled hand
over his white bristle-topped head.
The only changes you’ll find at
Martin’s Barbeque is the air condi
tioner they installed in the wall last
week. You can find Holik working at
Martin’s for his great-nephew, Albin
Kapchinskie.
“I do a little of everything ’round
here,” said Holik. “‘Been here since
‘46 — that’s 1946, but before that I
worked ten years in the mess hall at
the college.”
Martin’s has a comfortable atmo
sphere — one pool table, an old ciga
rette machine, and a very out-of
place video game. The walls are dec
orated with neon beer signs and a
couple of old clocks, one of which
doesn’t run. There is one picture
though, but it can’t be seen, since it’s
covered with snapshots from Ho-
lick’s 72nd birthday.
Holik likes to show off the two
barbeque pits he works in the back.
He carefully opened one of the pits
with a rope pulley. As the smoke and
steam billowed out, Holik smelled
the aroma. He boasts about how
good the meat is, and managed to
slip in that he makes “the best sauce
in town.”
The huge black ovens are still fed
Photo by PETER ROCHA |
Steve Holik checks his barbeque pit to make sure the meat
cooks just right.
with wood, so the juices drip over
the coals and the steam rises to give
the meat more flavor, said Holik.
“The customers love it!”
Most of the customers sit at the u-
shaped bar, with their eyes fixed on
a small color television across the
smoke-filled room.
“We draw about the same crowd,
sometimes a few new ones,” said
Kapchinskie as he scanned the
crowd in his restaurant. “But for the
most part, these people have been
coming here since my grandfather
built the place in 1989. Most have
died off by now, but everybody still
around knows Steve. The regulars
are all his old friends.”
Kapchinskie said that he knows
his restaurant is a little behindtk
times, but boasts that Martin’s«
the first store in town togetalicens
to sell beer.
Holik lives alone in a small whin
house behind the restaurant, kt
tween the barbeque pits and ikt
wood pile.
Between his job in the mess hail
and waiting tables at Martin's, Hoi|
said he spent a few years garden
and plowing students’ yards,
other than that, I just piddW|
around doin' this and that.”
“I’m happy with what I’m doin',|
and I don't ever plan on retirin’,
don’t like givin’ up,” Holik said,air;
he placed his final domino on theta
ble with a hearty, “Beat that,
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