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The return of the Frieda K. to U.S. custody appeared to be going smoothly and on schedule, the State Department said in Washington. The cutter Sherman rendez voused as planned Wednesday eve ning with the ship, according to a ra dio report from the Coast Guard, which was relayed to the State De partment. At the appointed time, the Coast Guard officers boarded the ship, the Stale Department said, and the next step was that the Soviets were to re linquish custody. The captured ship was to be either towed or escorted to the nearest port, Gambell, on the is land where U.S. and Soviet terrori- ties nearly meet. The turnover was being mon itored via an open telephone line in the State Department and the skip per of the Sherman, Capt }. F. bil- linglon, was authorized to sign a rec eipt for the men and the ship. The 120-foot supply boat Frieda K. was returning from a supply run to a seismic exploration vessel above the Arctic Circle when it was de tained Sept. 12 for allegedly enter ing Soviet waters near the Bering Strait. State Department officials said Wednesday there had been no indi cation of any lack of cooperation on the part of the Soviets concerning the release of the Americans. But the State Department for mally protested the Soviet delay in informing U.S. officials of the deten tion. Washington was told two days after it occurred and another three days lapsed before the U.S. embassy in Moscow made telephone contact with the men. “Their voyage was innocent and the Soviets should have been aware of that,” State Department spokes man John Hughes said. The freeing of the seamen came less than two weeks before a meeting at the White House between Presi dent Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko which Secretary of State George Shultz said would center on “a more construc tive relationship” between the two countries. Tab Thoms, skipper of the Frieda K, said Tuesday he was sure he had not strayed into Soviet territory and he refused to sign a document stat ing he had. “I checked out my navigation equipment, which showed I was in U.S. waters, hut they wanted me to sign a paper saying I was there and not here,” the 25-year-old seaman said in a telephone conversation from Ureliki, near the Bay of Provi dence. The crewmen were identified as the captain’s brother, Tate Thoms, Mark Halpin, Robert Miller and Charlie Burrall, the cook. All are from Homer, Alaska. The Sherman was diverted from its duty patrolling fisheries in the Bering Sea to pick up the sailors in international waters. They were ex pected to be taken to Nome, Alaska. The seizure came after the Frieda K. docked next to what turned out to he a Soviet warship to ask how best to avoid reefs that surround Little Diomede Island — in U.S. territory. “About 15 soldiers in uniform, with machine guns, knives and pis tols boarded the ship,” Thoms said. “T hey took me to the pilot house and kept my crew on the deck. They shut off the radios and unplugged our communications. It waS a very military type of operation. “The first thing we asked was to call our families, but they said, ‘You have no rights. You have broken the law and in our country you don’t have rights,’” he said. Burton discusses the effects of cadet’s death on Corps By SARAH OATES Staff Writer His fellow employees almost didn't recognize University Police Chief Elmer Schneider Jr. when he returned to work after a summer of dassesat the FBI National Academy inQuantico, Va. “1 left 25 pounds and four inches from my waist in the hills of Virgin ia," Schneider said Wednesday. 'The guys in my section at the Academy called me ‘the terminal man’ because every time they saw me, there was less and less of me.” He graduated Sept. 14 from the Academy, which is attended by law enforcement officials from all over the world. Its rigorous 11-week training program includes special ized law enforcement training plus 14 hours of college-level classes and a strenuous physical fitness pro gram. "They have an obstacle course called the ‘yellow brick road,”’ he said. “It’s 2.8 uphill miles of log jumps, wall climbs and rappelling.” Schneider said the specialized training he received in management, criminal investigation and firearms is the most applicable to the Univer sity Police Department. “I'd like to re-evaluate the in-serv ice training here,” he said. “I want to add some new techniques in criminal investigation and crime prevention.” Schneider said, for example, that officers are taught at the Academy to “profile crimes” by researching a suspect’s background for dues as to why a crime was committed. This is not a new technique, he said, but in the past it was not stressed as much as it is now. More officers today are being trained to do this kind of research. The college classes taught at the Academy — which include behav ioral science, communications, socio logy and psychology — are geared toward police work. For example, the psychology course teaches investigators to judge a criminal’s character by looking for certain clues at the scene of a violent crime. “There are two types of charac ter,” Schneider said. “There’s the or ganized criminal and the disorga nized criminal. Each type leaves different dues.” He said that investigators deter mine whether a criminal is orga nized or disorganized by looking at the type of weapon used and the lo cation of the crime. A disorganized criminal may take a victim’s clothing or a piece of jew elry as a souvenir, Schneider said. The organized criminal is more likely to take a body part in an at tempt to shock the public, he said. T he courses didn’t focus only on techniques, Schneider said. Guest lecturers, such as Justice Depart ment of ficials, spoke to several of the classes. The woman whose struggle with a split personality inspired the book “T he Three Faces of Eve” spoke to the psychology class. “Split personality is often used as a criminal defense,” Schneider said. “They invited her to tell us about her experiences. She showed us art work done by the different personalities and you could really see a differ- See FBI, page 7 United Press International JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Shimon Peres will ask President Rea- an as “a thing of urgency” for up to 950 million in additional U.S. aid as part of a recovery plan for Israel’s ailing economy, government sources said Wednesday. Peres, who has made the Israeli economy a priority since taking of fice six days ago, will travel to Wash ington next month for a “working visit,” meeting with Reagan Oct. 9, four weeks before the American election. Congress is completing action now on an aid package it increased Bombing United Press International MONTREAL — American Thomas Brigham yanked down his pants in court Wednesday and pro claimed that his underwear proves him innocent of a bombing that killed three people in Montreal’s main railway station. He was ordered to undergo psy chiatric exams prior to a hearing to determine whether he is fit to stand trial on the charges. Brigham demanded the right to make a statement and said he is not responsible for the Labor Day blast that killed three French tourists and injured 41 people in Central Station. Quebec Sessions Court Judge Bernard Grenier ordered Brigham held for 30 days for psychiatric ex- By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer amination and set a hearing for Oct. 3 to determine if he is mentally com petent to stand trial. As prosecutor Claude Parent questioned court-appointed psychia trist Dr. Charles Daoust, Brigham jumped on a chair in the prisoner’s dock and shouted: “I want to make a statement. I have not had a chance to speak. “I want to present my evidence,” Brigham said, pulling down his trou sers and pointing to his exposed un dershorts. “I was doing my laundry” he yelled. “How in the hell could 1 plant a gram, explaining that cadets will un dergo training only under safe tem perature and humidity conditions. T he program will follow rules from an Army field manual, and outfit trainers will receive special instruc tion, he said. Burton said the Corps’ physical training program was altered be cause he has been “unhappy” with the program since last spring. The new program will achieve the de sired result without endangering the cadets’ health, he said. “It’s going to be body building, it’s going to be confidence building,” Burton said. “And it’s going to be motivational.” Burton said students, faculty and staff should report to him any prob lems they observe concerning the treatment of cadets. In spite of the recent problems and bad publicity incurred by the Corps, the organization remains an asset to the University, Burton said. “I’m biased, but I still consider the Corps of Cadets to be a most valu able asset to Texas A&M,” he said. “I’m concerned that the majority of the student body expects the Corps on this campus to lead, and it will.” bomb when I was doing my laundry? Why would I be sitting on the can when the bomb was going off next door?” Brigham, a 65-year-old native of Rochester, N.Y., said “Montreal is a symbolic sacrifice for the second coming” and predicted further bombings in the city. But he denied he has been or would be involved in any bombings. “That bomb was only the kickoff,” he screamed. “They’re going to be 10, 20, 30 more bombs and the first target is going to be the Jacques Car- tier Bridge.” The bridge spans the St. Law rence River and connects Montreal to Quebec’s south shore. The Corps investigation into abuse of authority concluded Wednesday, and the results will he presented to the Texas A&M Board of Regents, Rollins said. The investi gation included listing every hazing activity that has occurred since the Corps seniors have been enrolled at A&M, he said. “We’re not going to be afraid of ‘Oh, my God ... that really hap pened? People are going to find us out,”’ Rollins said. “We’re not going to be afraid of that, because we don’t have anything to fear. The worst of anything that could happen has hap pened.” Following the speeches, the Sen ate elected Mike Cook as vice presi dent of the Rules and Regulations committee, and Wayne Roberts as vice president of Student Services. The Senate then passed a bill for formation of the University Center Finance Executive Committee, a joint committee of Student Govern ment and the MSC Council which will give students more input in top ics such as the operation of food services. Brigham also predicted firebomb- ings at all Montreal strip clubs and the homes of civic officials who ap proved of strip clubs. “I’m not part of the bomb squad or the fire squad,” he said. “I’m part of the truth squad.” During his five-minute outburst, he threatened to launch lawsuits against the city over his detention and prosecution. He said he had tried to assist peo ple injured in the railway station bombing. “I stayed around for hours af terwards to help people,” he said. He was arrested after police tra ced letters — at least one of them threatening the pope who is on a 12- day visit to Canada — to him. Photo by Frank Irwin Sully Symposium Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services, talks with a group of students Wednesday during the second in a series of Sully symposiums. See story page 3. Corps Commandant Col. Donald L. Burton and Corps Cmdr. Chuck Rollins spoke about the state of af- -fcairs in the Texas A&M Corps of-Ca-. dels during a Student Senate meet ing Wednesday evening. Burton’s speech centered on the changes which have occurred in the Corps since the Aug. 30 death of sophomore cadet Bruce Dean Good rich. Baton also spoke about the af fect of Goodrich’s death on the Corns. “It’s pretty obvious we’ve had a pretty serious incident at Texas A&M,” Burton said. “To say that the campus was shaken is an understate ment. The Corps was devastated.” However, both Burton and Roll ins said morale is high among Corps members despite the problems en countered in recent weeks. T hough a “mass exodus” of freshmen cadets was predicted following Goodrich’s death, this fall’s freshman dropout rate is less than half of the fall 1983 rate, Burton said. Burton outlined the changes in the Corps’ physical training pro- police chief attends Israel’s prime minister to request FBI National Academy increased U.S. aid for recovery to $2.6 billion, all in grants, from the $2.2 billion in both loans and grants Reagan submitted for approval in February. “This is a thing of urgency,” a government source said. The reception that Peres’ request for an additional $750 million to $950 million will get may depend on what steps Israel takes at home to bring the economy under control. U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis reportedly told Peres and new Fi nance Minister Yitzhak Modai in re cent days that the Reagan adminis tration views Israel’s economic situation with seriousness and at taches great importance to taking corrective measures as soon as possi ble. The Israeli media reported that Lewis bluntly told Modai the United States would not see its aid funds channeled toward raising the Israeli standard of living and establishing new Jewish settlements on the occu pied West Bank. But the Israeli sources said the United States has made no demands that Israel must meet to get the addi tional aid. The sources also said the amount of U.S. aid to Israel barely covers Is rael’s payment on its debt to the United States, adding: “It is a matter of principle that we pay all our debts.” Israel’s inflation has been running at an annual rate of 400 percent — double t hat of last year. Israel radio reported that the gov ernment had approved increases of 30 percent in electricity charges and 60 percent in postal rates. The new Cabinet, in one of its first decisions, has ordered a cut of $1 billion in Israel’s $22 billion bud get. suspect drops pants in court