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Vol 80 ho. 14 GSPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, September 20, 1984
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United Press International
NOME, Alaska — Coast Guard
officers recovered five American
seamen from their supply boat in the
choppy Bering Sea Wednesday af ter
the Americans were detained by the
Soviets fora week in remote Siberia.
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.
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