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Friday, August 3, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 I convenin lotel rooc | fig and a ime bad: maken, n ;y )uldbefe nokinj» Wet jockeys KANM disc jockeys, Tom Mongoven, left, Sol Paley, and Scott Swearingen enjoy Rudder fountain at KANM’s First Annual Live Broadcast and Float. Mongoven and Swearingen are students at Texas A&M and Paley is a graduate. Former Carter budget director CS Lance quits Mondale campaign ;h choice :o wort e ■ed if tlw lould be) .cused be 3 with ibt itionPOm rk is M r get re peopt alary's re id perfot- ; stepfaik logical!' For asceii' ind, bol ie systen , make it You have main, bm to moit Analjfl ; they art he game re diffet lurna/isn United Press International NORTH OAKS, Minn. — Former Carter administration budget direc tor Bert Lance resigned Thursday as general chairman of Walter Mon- dale’s Democratic presidential cam paign in a major shakeup following Mondale’s first official swing through the South. Lance was absent when Mondale and vice presidential nominee Ger aldine Ferraro made their dual cam paign swing in Mississippi and Texas this week before returning to Mon dale’s home in North Oaks. Lance had been touted as the ticket for gaining Mondale votes in President Reagan’s Southern strong hold but there had been widespread rumors that Lance was on his way out. Newspapers in Georgia and Los Angeles reported earlier this week that Lance was seriously considering resigning his post if he was confined to a strictly regional role. Lance’s tie to the Mondale cam paign appeared to be doomed from the start. The former vice president had First contemplated naming Lance as chairman of the Democratrc Na tional Gommittee just days before he accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. But a firestorm of protest erupted when the news leaked before the convention, and present chairman Charles Manatt retained his posi tion. Lance was then named general chairman of the campaign, but the protest over questions of impropri ety during his tenure in the Carter administration continued. Demo cratic leaders said they felt the nam ing of Lance would take away their argument that there is a “sleaze fac tor” in the Reagan administration. Allegations in the Carter adminis tration against Lance involved mis use of bank funds — mostly huge, bank-covered overdrafts on per sonal and family accounts. He denied wrongdoing before a Senate committee but additional re ports of questionable transactions continued to surface. He resigned on Sept. 21, 1977, after serving only 242 days in the administration. Lance was later indicted on a se ries of federal charges involving his banking practices — including bank fraud. But he was acquitted on nine counts and 13 others were thrown Astronaut ready to walk, sightsee United Press International Houston —Shuttle astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, scheduled to be come the second woman to make a spacewalk, says she can’t wait to get a first-hand view of Earth from orbit. “Flying in space is something I can remember being intrigued by and enthralled by very early on back in the original days of Mercury and Gemini,” she said. “I followed each flight very avidly.” Sullivan holds a doctorate in geol ogy from Dalhousie LJniversity in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was qualified as a systems en gineer operator in NASA’s high-alti- tude research aircraft and had par ticipated in several remote sensing projects in Alaska. Scheduled for blastoff Oct. 1 aboard the shuttle Challenger, Sullivan will conduct a spacewalk with David Leestma to demonstrate the feasibility of orbital refueling. A Russian became the first woman to make a spacewalk in July. The refueling technique could pave the way for servicing satellites that have run out of gas. “With the advent of the shuttle there was even a role in space for someone with the kind of broad sci entific and technical backgrounds that I had,” Sullivan said. “So it’s not a childhood dream, but it’s something I’ve been excited by all my life. I don’t really think it’s sunken in yet that I’m going to get to do that.” Astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, also is a crew member for the October flight. Land south of mall may be rezoned By ROBERT MCGLOHAN Staff Writer The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission Thursday rec ommended partial approval of a re quest to commercially zone almost 30 acres of land immediately south of Post Oak Mall and to the east of Post Oak Village. The land, now zoned R-l (single family residential) and reflected as multi-family residential on the city’s comprehensive plan, is owned by the Sypcon Construction Corporation of Bryan. Larry Wells and Jerry Bishop and Associates, a College Station surveying and engineering firm, represented Sypcon Construction at the commission hearing. The request called for the rezon ing of 23.28 acres of land as C-l (commercial) and 6.32 acres as A-P (administrative and professional). The land is situated so that it will en compass the intersection of Holle- man Drive and Dartmouth Street when the two are extended. Commissioners voted to recom mend approval of a portion of the C- 1 request, by a 2-1 margin with one abstention. They failed to make a recommendation on the remainder of the request. Jim Callaway, the city’s assistant director of planning, told the com missioners that the city staff couldn’t recommend denial or approval of the request. He said the request is not compatible with the city’s com prehensive plan, but recent rezon- ings in the area have altered the situ ations under which the plan was made. The staff’s primary objection to the request is the far southeastern corner of the plot, Callaway said. That portion of the land abuts single family residential housing on Rich ards, Sterling and Crest Streets. It was on that portion of the request that the commission failed to make a recommendation. In other business, the commission recommended approval of a request to rezone as single family residential a 3-acre tract of land on the outskirts of town near the intersection of Rock Prairie Road and Garter Lake Drive. And it also recommended ap proval of a request by the Peace Lu theran Church for a conditional use permit. The church wishes to oper ate a children’s learning center Three hijackers free all 46 hostages, surrender United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon — Three hooded hijackers armed with gre nades marched 46 terrified hostages off an Air France jetliner in Tehran Thursday, then blew up the plane’s cockpit and surrendered to end a terrifying, 47-hour skyjacking or deal. The 44 passengers, including two Americans, and two crew members whose lives had been threatened re peatedly with guns, knives and ex plosives, all were released unharmed and taken to a Tehran hotel. The three air pirates, who had vainly demanded France release five jailed pro-Khomeini terrorists, gave up about 20 minutes after the explo sion ripped through the cockpit of the Air France Boeing 737 at 5:28 p.m. local time (8:58 a.m.), the offi cial radio said. Another set of explosives in the plane’s cabin failed to detonate, Ira nian officials said. “The hijackers of the comman deered Air France jetliner surren dered themselves to the Islamic Re public authorities,” the official news agency, IRNA, said in a dispatch from Tehran monitored in Beirut. French government spokesman Roland Dumas in Paris said the Ira nian government took the hostages to the Esteqlal Hotel, formerly the Hilton, where they joined 14 hos tages released earlier. All were re ported in good condition. The freed hostages included an unidentified American man and his son. In Tehran, French Charge d’Af- faires Jean Perrin said the hijackers, believed to be Lebanese, surren dered because “the ordeal began to get prolonged and they realized they were at an impasse.” He said the French made no con cessions to the hijackers, who had demanded the release of four Irani ans and a Lebanese who were im prisoned for trying to assassinate exiled former Iranian Prime Min ister Shapour Bakhtiar in Paris in 1980. Four are serving life terms and the fifth a 20-year term. The three hijackers seized the Air France Boeing 737 with 64 people aboard Tuesday. Prosecutor charges Henry Lee Lucas in unsolved strangulationcase )b jts /immeR s swim- ent who for an )ion.” m.” iod in 3 pie who ; in the n whe| ,ol. Jus' breast have 3 ho win* ng list' etscul- players neriear N’obod' iks mill 1 under- rant i s2 1 ry a 35- airport athle |e signed to kid je rep' icating- fount! ai l° ss ; : eutica> espera- jr stef United Press International BENTON, Ark. — Saline County prosecutor Bob Alsobrook Thurs day said he probably had closed the books on a 6-year-old strangulation case by charging mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas with capital mur der in the death of a Hensley woman. Alsobrook of Benton said it was unlikely the case would go to trial be cause of the long list of charges na tionwide against Lucas, who claims to have killed more than 360 people. V Pizzaworks J Friday After Noon Club 500 Pints $2.00 Pitcher $1 Import Bottles 696-DAVE 326 Jersey St. (Next to Rother’s Bookstore) OPEN 11 a.m. Humana Hospital Bryan-College Station Has an immediate opening for an RN in ICU/CCU department on the night shift. 1 -2 years experience in ICU preferred. Contact Personnel Office 775-4200 extension 233 EOE M/F Lucas, who returned to a waiting prison cell in Texas on Wednesday after three days in Arkansas, will be served a warrant in Texas charging him with capital murder in the death of Doris Litherland. The charge was filed in Saline County Circuit Court at Benton Thursday. The decomposed body of Lither land, 51, was found Oct. 21, 1978, on a trail through woods about seven miles southwest of Bauxite, Ark. Saline County Sheriff James Steed said Wednesday that Lucas was able to offer “amazing” detail on the slay ing when he was led by authorities to the crime scene, about 20 miles southwest of Little Rock. Steed said Lucas was taken Mon day to the scene of the Saline County murder, one of several he was ques tioned about during his three-day visit to Arkansas. 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