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What’s up
Wednesday
MSC HOSPITALITY: applications for the 1985 Miss TAMU
Scholarship Pageant are available in the MSC Main Hall.
For more information, contact Amy Glynn 764-1724.
WRITING OUTREACH: Kim Brewer will teach a session on
“(?!—...;): The Other Punctuation Marks” at 1 p.m. in 303
Halbouty.
TRADITIONS COUNCIL: is selling boutonnieres for
SWITCH OFF FOR THE KICKOFFTrom 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
all week.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CLUB: is meeting at 7
p.m. in 112 O&M. Aggieland pictures will be taken at 6
p.m. in front of Zachry.
CLASS OF ‘86: applications for class ball sub-chairman posi
tions will be accepted until 5 p.m. Oct. 26. Applications are
available at Jodie s desk, 216 MSC.
MSC INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS COMMITTEE: is
meeting at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder. Officer applications are
still available.
HONDURAS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: is meeting at 7
p.m. in 502 Rudder.
CATHOLIC SINGLES: is meeting at 9 p.m. at 503 Dogwood
in College Station to have a home mass and fellowship.
OFF-CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will meet at 8 p.m. in 612 Bra
zos House Apartments. All Catholics living in Brazos
House, Old Oak Tree and Peppertree Apartments are in
vited for an evening of fun ana relaxation.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: presents ittybitty con 5, featur
ing Real Musgrave and the robot monsters at 7:30 p.m. in
301 Rudder.
STUDENT Y: is meeting at 7 p.m. to discuss current and new
programs.
INTRAMURAL-RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will have a
swim meet information and scratch meeting at 6 p.m. in
167 E. Kyle. Races that require preliminaries will be an
nounced.
CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will have a time
of worship, small group sharing and teaching at 7 p.m. in
308 Rudder.
FENCING CLUB: will have a business meeting in 267 E.
Kyle. A practice will follow. Beginners are welcome.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battal
ion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to
desired publication date.
Violence erupts
from coal strike
United Press International
LONDON — Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher Wednesday
vowed “no surrender” to Britain’s
striking miners despite a decision by
pit foremen to join the the 7-month-
old stoppage and raise the chances
of national power cuts.
In the coalfields, new violence
erupted in four locations between
police and pickets, leaving at least 26
people injured including a po
liceman hit in the cheek by a dart.
The 17,000 foremen are responsi
ble for safety measures in Britain’s
175 coal mines. Their decision to
walk off the job next week could
force the remaining 55 working pits
to shut down because it is illegal to
work the mines without safety super
vision.
Financial analysts said a total shut
down — which could halt coal sup
plies to the power stations — would
hasten the need to make electricity
cuts in order to ration the nation’s
power.
Speaking at her first public ap
pearance since an IRA bomb attack
against her Friday, Thatcher again
rejected the striking miners’ demand
that all pits must be worked until the
last recoverable ton of coal is dug
out.
“The coal industry must be man
aged efficiently,” Thatcher told a
business meeting. “That responsibil
ity cannot and will not be surren
dered.”
The National Union of Mine-
workers began the strike March 12
to try to block the state-appointed
Coal Board’s plan to close 20 money
losing mines and eliminate 20,000
jobs. But 55,000 miners have defied
their union and continued to work.
Thatcher criticized the strike deci
sion of the foremen whose union is
named the National Association of
Colliery Overmen, Deputies and
Shotfirers, NACODS.
“Solutions to the specific NA
CODS grievances have been of
fered,” Thatcher said. “I find it diffi
cult to understand and I’m sure
some NACODS members will find it
hard to understand why this strike is
being called.”
A charity organization called Help
the Aged warned that the number of
elderly people who die of cold this
winter — estimated at 600 — could
rise if power cuts are put into effect.
Near the Rossington mine in
Youth Yorkshire police clashed with
pickets who erected a flaming barri
cade to try to block the entry of five
working miners.
In the pit town of Grimethorpe,
young residents angry at police set
vehicles afire and stoned the local
police station.
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United Press International
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — U.S.
arshal Gene Abdallah said a South
akota prison walkaway who was
bnsidered dangerous was captured
ednesday in Texas.
Abdallah said his office notified
iuthorities in the Houston suburb of
)eer Park T uesday night that Daniel
Icott, 37, could show up in the area
iccause he had relatives living there.
Abdallah said the U.S. Marshal’s
iffice in Houston arrested Scott and
»is wife, Connie, at a local motel
ariy Wednesday. Abdallah said the
bo gave up without a struggle.
He said the U.S. Marshal’s office
in Sioux Falls would ask a grand jury
to indict Connie Scott for aiding and
betting a fugitive. He said a federal
scape warrant already has been is-
a for Daniel Scott.
farm near Hartford Friday night.
He was a federal prisoner from Ala
bama being kept at the state prison
facility.
Abdallah said it was unusual that
Scott surrendered without a strug
gle. “It was a little surprising based
on his past convictions of crimes of
violence,” he said.
He said Scott’s 20-year criminal
record included involuntary man
slaughter and attempted murder.
Abdallah said Daniel and Connie
Scott would be arraigned Wednes
day before a federal magistrate in
Houston. He said the U.S. Marshal’s
office in South Dakota would try to
extradite the couple next week.
Abdallah said a motel owner in
Canton, S.D., notified authorities
the couple had spent Saturday night
at the motel under an assumed
Scott walked away from a prison name.
United Press International
SALEM, Org. — Gov. Vic Atiyeh,
in an attempt to dispel tension in Or
egon about the commune of Indian
guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, has
issued a “fact sheet” for citizens.
The state police have established a
rumor hot-line in a further effort to
ease tensions.
State troopers now take about 75
calls a day in Bend and The Dalles.
Earlier they were getting up to 1,000
calls a day, said Oregon State Police
Col. Duane Pankratz.
“A lot of them are concerned
about arms and ammunition,
whether they (the commune) are an
armed camp, whether they have all
these guns, why doesn’t the gover
nor or the state do something, why
don’t we go down and throw them
all out,” Pankratz said.
Atiyeh issued the rumor “fact
sheet” Tuesday for state police to
use in dealing with the public’s calls,
most of which appear to come from
the Portland area, Pankratz said.
The eight-page guide cited one
rumor that the guru’s city, Rajneesh-
puram, is patrolled by three heli
copters equipped with mounted ma
chine guns. The fact sheet said the
guru’s commune has one helicopter
which is unsuitable for use with such
a weapon.
Other rumors have surfaced that
the commune, 150 miles east of
Portland, has been turned into an
armed camp. The (act sheet reports
that state officials, on a recent in
spection trip, saw no evidence of
this.
Semi-automatic rifles and revolv
ers are carried by members of the
Rajneeshpuram Peace Force and by
the guru’s security officials.
Area residents have expressed
fears that disciples have brought
3,500 street people from inner cities
around the country to Rajneeshpu
ram to build the commune’s voting
strength. Disciples plan to run two
write-in candidates for the county’s
three-member governing board.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge
Edward Leavy denied a request by
commune lawyers to temporarily re
strain election officials from requir
ing eligibility hearings for street peo
ple .
ponvicted California rapist commits suicide
14 pro*
United Press International
■SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fingerprints
taken from the scarred walls of a
Kloset converted into a macabre
holding cell for kidnap victims could
ink a convicted rapist to the deaths
of as many as six young women, po
lice said Wednesday.
■ “Obviously it’s a frightening crime
to the community. We’d like to reas
sure people and say this is the guy
bvho killed those women, but we’re
professionals and aren’t making pre
dictions. Our conclusions will be
based on fact,” Police Chief Joe Mc
Namara said.
The existence of the closet-cell
was disclosed by detectives investi
gating the roadside suicide of Fer
nando V. Cota, 38, a rapist who
served eight years in a Texas prison.
Cota was stopped Sunday night by
two California Highway Patrolmen
because his car was weaving on the
highway. The officers demanded
that he open the door to his van.
Instead, Cota shouted, “I’m a sick
man. Kill me,” and put a gun to his
head and shot himself. He died an
hour later.
Inside the van, the officers found
the partially nude body of Kim Dun
ham, 21, Milpitas, Calif. Her hands
were bound behind her back and she
had been strangled.
Investigators searching Cota’s San
Jose apartment found a closet where
they believe he kept other manacled
kidnap victims and watched their
suffering through a crude peephole
bored through the door.
His van had also been modified so
his victims could be tied down with
ropes and easily transported, Lt.
Don Trujillo said.
“The closet had been modified so
that there were metal brackets se
cured to the floor that were used
with chains and manacles to hold the
victims prisoner,” Trujillo said.
The six victims police are attempt
ing to link to Cota were all young
women who had been either stran
gled, stabbed or beaten to death.
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The Brazos Civil Liberties Union and the TAMU Civil
Liberties Union present: Gara LaMarche, director of
the Texas Civil Liberties Union.
Friday, Oct. 19
7:30 p.m.
at the
College Station Community Center, 1300 Jersey
Open to the Public at no charge
Topic: Why the ACLU is the most conservative
organization in Texas
Asocial will follow with wine, beer, soft drinks and munchies.
March right on Down
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the yearbook
today.
Here’s the Schedule for 1985 Aggieland Photos
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YEARBOOK ASSOC*
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Oct. 15-26
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