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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.
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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
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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
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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