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i andhi assassinated by two bodyguards United Press International I NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassi- rfited Wednesday by members of her own security force, the Press Trust of India reported. She was 66. I “Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gan- dlu, is no more,” the domestic news fcency reported in a flash bulletin. Mn‘ official police spokesman said Unisl jit| lo bodyguards hit tire prime min- lier in the chest and stomach with II to malic gunfire at 9:40 a.m. She lln S) was tt 01 "I'troiil er ofdinatypJ 1 I staweei, nas reported dead less than four lours later. Indian President Zail Singh is ex pected to name an interim leader from among senior cabinet mem bers. A special plane has been dis patched to bring Gandhi’s son, Rajiv, back to the capital from Calcutta. The Press Trust of India reported Gandhi was shot at least eight times by two members of her security force as she walked from her resi dence to her office in an adjoining building. She was rushed to the op erating room at the All India Insti tute of Medical Sciences. The assailants gunned down the prime minister with a burst of bullets from an automatic carbine and a re volver, according to witnesses quoted by the Press Trust. They immediately raised their arms and surrendered to other secu rity guards. Police said the two men were undergoing interrogation. The Press Trust said the attackers were Sikhs — one wearing the tradi tional beard and one clean-shaven. Gandhi has been the object of threats by radical Sikhs — an offshoot of Hinduism — who blame her for ordering an Army attack on the Golden Temple of Amritsar, the religion’s holiest shrine, in June. The temple attack, which left at least 600 people dead, was an at tempt to halt a separatist terror cam paign masterminded by Sikh mili tants barricaded inside. Earlier this month, police arrested four Sikhs who said they were on their way to New Delhi to assassinate national leaders. More than a dozen doctors, in cluding cardiologists and neurosur geons, began operating to remove what was thought to be at least eight bullets from her body, with doctors saying they have found 16 bullet marks. She was given continuous blood transfusions during the operation, doctors said. Thousands of people have gath ered outside of the Institute where the doctors were operating on the prime minister. Gandhi, prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to now, often See GANDHI, page 14 Indira Gandhi jy K in g thatEjj ns °n bectuKi Texas A&M Battalion Serving the University community f th mi.81 No. 45 (JSPS 045360 16 pages ed iHali$i$,N|K ft member; mion, Taney of tit to do not die Bile College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 31,1984 Fed judge OKs A&M band suit United Press International AUSTIN — A federal court judge has tentatively approved the set tlement of a lawsuit that would clear the way for women to join the all male Texas Aggie Band, Attorney General Jim Mattox said Tuesday. The attorney general said U.S. District Judge Ross Sterling has scheduled a hearing on the set tlement in Houston on Jan. 24. Mattox announced last week he approved the terms of the set tlement of a 1979 sex discrimination complaint filed by a former A&M student who said she was excluded from the band because of her sex. The attorney general signed the settlement of Melanie Zentgraf s suit even though it went against the wishes of the University’s leaders. The settlement calls for A&M to allow women in the Aggie band and several other previously all-male Corps organizations. Although some A&M officials sought to continue the court fight over Zentgrafs suit, Mattox said he had been contacted by “many Aggie alumni who support the consent de cree, and who believe that the state should not continue expenditures of public monies on this case.” Texas wilderness bill becomes law Blood donations Photo by WAYNEL. GRABEIN Count Dracula and his bride are only two of the cast of ghoul ish fiends appearing at Hotel Terror sponsored by the Bryan- College Station Jaycees. The haunted hotel is in downtown Bryan in the LaSalle Hotel. Hours are from 7 p.m. to mid night tonight. Admission is $2.50 for adults and $1.75 for children. United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan signed the Texas wilderness bill into law Tuesday, forever pro tecting 34,346 acres of East Texas forest from clearcutting and devel opment. Reagan signed the compromise bill without fanfare, giving Texas its second wilderness area and doubling the amount of wilderness in the Lone Star State. The widely supported compro mise bill prevents development and clearcutting of timber in five areas of four East Texas forests — Sabine, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and Angelina. The areas involve less than one- quarter of 1 percent of the state’s timberland. The House gave final approval to the Senate-passed measure Oct. 4 in the last days of the 98th session. The bill had first passed the House earlier in the year after con gressional hearings and a compro mise was struck between Democratic Reps. John Bryant of Dallas and Charles Wilson of Lufkin. Wilson originally introduced a bill to protect just 9,000 acres in his dis trict while Bryant and Dallas GOP Rep. Steve Bartlett sponsored a mea sure to set aside 65,000 acres. After the Wilson-Bryant compro- See Wilderness, page 12 ocial role of strong government debated By ROBIN BLACK Senior Staff Writer Professor John Kenneth Galbr aith told a crowd in Rudder Audito rium Tuesday night that he could speak with candor, detachment and consistency about the actions of the Reagan administration. Try though he might, neither Galbraith nor his adversary William F. Buckley could remain detached about the subject of the social desira bility of strong government. The two economists — Galbraith representing the liberal views, Buck- ley the conservative — debated gov ernment’s role in society in a pre election presentaton sponsored by the Memorial Student Center’s Great Issues Committee. What actually resulted from the debate were two long-winded politi cal endorsements. The debate was originally titled “Is Big Government Socially Desir able?” but was changed to “Is Strong Government Socially Desirable?” at Galbraith’s request. Galbraith said he felt the phrase “big” government had negative con notations. Galbraith asked the audience to go to the polls guided not by com pulsive ideology but by common sense and social concern. He en dorsed Democratic candidate Walter Mondale. Buckley cited the president’s eco nomic record and told the audience that Reagan should be sent tri umphantly back to Washington. The debate, with A&M economics department head John Moroney moderating, allowed Buckley and Galbraith each 15 minutes to present their argument with a short follow up rebuttal. Galbraith said a strong central government — stronger than the one under Reagan —- is needed to preserve what he called a compassio nate government. A compassionate government, he said, doesn’t disre gard social programs the way the present administration has. Buckley said there is no such thing as a compassionate govern ment since government is an inani mate object and therefore devoid of feeling. Galbraith blasted Reagan’s eco nomic record by listing what he called three reckless experiments: Friedmanized monitoring of the economy, Keynesian deficit financ ing and a ruthless attack on social programs. The first two experiments, he said, were tried and then abandoned when they failed. Under the eco nomic monitoring, he said, more small businesses and farms failed than did during the Depression. With the deficit financing, Galbraith said, a controlled increase in the na tional deficit got out of hand and has become self-enlarging. Buckley used recent economic re ports to dispute Galbraith’s claims and sarcastically questioned his op ponent’s credibility. William F. Buckley ark to mesh research, business 200 students cheer Barefoot’s execution Meet I s! Classil ditor’s note: This is the third of a vepart series on the Texas A&M Re search Park By ROBIN BLACK Senior Staff Writer ■Texas A&M is a university with a reputation for being research- oriented — a reputation solid to the ,poiut of being a cliche. Now, how- evfi , that cliche is being turned into aliusiness. I'l In' amount of money appropri- jpted each year for research has a lot | to no with that reputation. A&M was first place among other Texas col leges and in the top 10 in the coun try by spending more than $ 120 mil lion on research last year. I Tl. e Texas land-grant college now is approaching research from a busi- I hess standpoint in the form of the new Texas A&M Research Park. ^■The park will provide space on the west campus for research foun dations and private firms to build fa- Hlities for research. he park occupants will lease the land and will have access to Univer sity facilities and faculty to conduct joint research projects with the Uni versity. If successful, the park will become the seventh survivor of a very popu lar trend — the research business. Instead of just selling patents of their new-found technologies, uni versities — through the parks — can fund, develop and eventually com mercialize their research. The first of these parks was started at Stanford University in Gal- ifornia in 1951, arid is probably the most successful. The park and the surrounding area has developed in the computer industry’s silicon val ley. Since then, 26 other parks have been started and only five besides Stanford have been clearly success ful. The parks are good for businesses because they have access to univer sity facilities as well as the know-how of university faculty. The parks are good for universi ties because they receive the much- needed capital the businesses pro vide, an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to work outside the university and the ability to mar ket breakthroughs. As the large percentage of failures shows, the competition among uni versities to acquire park occupants is fierce. In a report earlier this year, A&M’s research park Vice Chan cellor Mark Money questions whether there is enough high-tech industries to satisfy all the parks at tempting to attract such companies. “The competition is intense,” he said. “It’s greater now than it ever has been because more of these parks are opening up.” Money said companies are very reluctant to move to research parks because of all the factors involved in a move. Any move, he said, is not taken lightly by companies. There is a cer tain amount of risk involved in any move, but especially in one to a re search park in its early stages since there is no guarantee that the park will be successful. Companies must also do extensive feasability studies before they move, he said. For large companies in particular, moving the offices and the plant to a different part of the country is a monstrous task. Building the new fa cilities is an equally ominous chore. “Companies take a long time to decide to move,” he said, “it would probably take at least three years from the time a company is con tacted to the time it actually occupies a park.” Money said a company takes into account many variables when it looks into moving to a university-affiliated research park. “Besides having a university that’s research-oriented, as A&M defi- See RESEARCH, page 12 United Press International HUNTSVILLE — Thomas Andy Barefoot died a sudden, death by le thal injection early Tuesday strapped to a prison gurney in a baby blue death chamber with col lege students rejoicing less than 250 feet away. “Don’t Answer the Phone, It May Be the Governor,” read one sign hoisted by one of approximately 200 Sam Houston State University stu dents supporting capital punish ment. The students jeered about 30 Am nesty International members who held a candlelight vigil to protest the execution of the 39-year-old former oilfield roughneck from New Iberia, La. Barefoot’s execution occurred at 12:24 a.m. six years to the day after he went on trial for the Aug. 7, 1978 murder of Harker Heights police of ficer Carl LeVin. The central Texas officer was shot once in the head with a .25-caliber pistol while investigating a nightclub arson. The weapon was found in Barefoot’s pocket when he was ar rested the next day in Houston. Barefoot killed LeVin after escap ing seven months earlier from a New Mexico jail where he was being held on charges of raping a 3-year-old Grants, N.M., girl. The crowd of students, most in a party mood, began arriving at the prison around 11:40 p.m. Monday. About 10 of the 200 prison guards and policemen ringing the area be tween the Texas Department of Cor rections administration building and prison walls were moved nearer the crowd. Carolyn Herbert, coordinator of death penalty activities for Amnesty International, said the pro-death See EXECUTE, page 12