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Voter turnout big in Nicaragua;
eagan calls election ‘phony’
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nica-
laguans turned out in large num
bers to vote Sunday despite an oppo
sition boycott of the first national
Elections since the ruling Sandinistas
^overthrew dictator Anastasio So-
piozain 1979.
The candidates of the lef tist Sand-
inista Front, who were expected to
yin overwhelmingly, called the elec
tions in an attempt to legitimatize
their rule and avoid feared U.S. mili
tary action.
President Reagan paused Sunday
from his campaigning for T uesday’s
presidential elections to label Nicara
gua’s elections “phony.” But Sandi-
knista junta leader and presidential
Icandidate Daniel Ortega called them
iNicaragua’s “first free elections.”
An impressive government cam
paign to get out the vote appeared to
be working in Managua and in pro
vincial capitals where housewives,
Iworkers and uniformed soldiers
pwaited for hours in sweltering heat
to cast votes for candidates rep
resenting seven political parties.
A president, vice-president and a
90-mfember Constituent Assembly
that will write a new constitution will
be elected. Preliminary election re
sults are not expected before Mon
day and winners will be announced
Wednesday.
The presidential and vice presi
dential terms are for six years.
“This is a great experience for
us,” said Ortega as he cast his vote in
Managua six minutes after the polls
opened. “It is the first time in Nica
raguan history that we are really vot
ing. It is a historic moment for our
people.”
As voters lined up at neighbor
hood poll stations throughout the
nation, the government reported
U.S.-backed “counterrevolutionary”
rebels Saturday ambushed and
killed four Sandinista soldiers in
Quilali, Nueva Segovia province,
162 miles north of Managua.
The two strongest rebel groups
fighting to overthrow the Sandinista
government had called an election-
day truce, and the government
charges could not be independently
confirmed. No incidents were re
ported Sunday.
T he Sandinistas say they expect
80 percent of some 1.55 million reg
istered voters in the nation of 3 mil
lion people to hand them a landslide
victory over the minor opposition
candidates, most belonging to par
ties that support the government.
The main opposition group, the
Democratic Coordinating Council,
boycotted the elections, charging
voter intimidation and lack of electo
ral fairness.
“1 imagine that the Committee for
Sandinista Defense is here, watching
and checking to see who is voting,”
said a government worker who re
fused to give his name at Managua’s
“Los Angeles barrio” polling place.
Lottery worker Gaetano Sanchez
disagreed.
“Well, yes, a lot of people are here
because they think the committee is
checking or that they are going to
take away their ration cards, but that
isn’t true,” Sanchez said.
Sgt. Maj. Alejandro Castillo, wear
ing olive-drag fatigues and a day’s
growth of grey whiskers, said with a
wide grin, “The (Coordinating)
Council is the cancer of the revolu
tion. With these free, democratic
elections, we are going to get rid of
it.”
And in the lakeside city of Gra
nada, a cigar-chomping woman
named Alicia Chamorro smiled and
said, “I’m for the (Sandinista) Front.
I’m for Daniel” — a view voiced by
many workers and peasants.
Timed deliberately two days be
fore U.S. elections, the Sandinistas
feel they will be in a stronger posi
tion against “imperialist aggression”
with an elected government in place.
Ortega has charged repeatedly,
including in a U.N. address Oct. 15,
See NICARAGUA, page 15
bout 2,600 will graduate Dec. 7,8
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
Graduating seniors are counting
clown. The end is in sight. Only 33
; more days until graduation.
About 2,600 students — 2,200 un
dergraduates and 400 graduate stu
dents — will receive their degrees
Dec. 7 and 8 in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
Karen Price, a staff assistant with
the Registar’s Office, said the num
ber of students graduating this se
mester is a slight increase over last
year. Less students are applying for
graduation, but more of those apply
ing are meeting the qualifications,
Price said.
Students who will graduate Dec. 7
at 7 :30 p.m. include graduate stu
dents (all masters and doctoral can
didates) and undergraduates in the
colleges of agriculture, architecture,
business and geosciences. Students
graduating from Texas A&M at Gal
veston also will receive their degrees
at that time.
Students in the colleges of educa
tion, engineering, liberal arts, sci
ence and veterinary medicine will
graduate Dec. 8 at 9 a.m.
The College of Medicine has no
December degree candidates.
At this time, no speakers are
scheduled for the commencement
services, but Sheran Riley, assistant
to President Frank Vandiver, said
speakers will probably he scheduled
at a later time.
Grades for graduating students
are due Nov. 30 at 4 p.m., Price said.
Grades will be mailed Dec. 3, but stu
dents can pick up a copy of their
grades Dec. 4 in the Pavilion.
The clear list will be posted at 8
a.m. on Dec. 5. Those students with
red dots beside their names have un
til noon on Dec. 6 to clear any blocks.
Preregistration is the start of the
process for those students graduat
ing in May, Price said.
During the preregistration proc
ess, those graduating in May should
stop by the specified table in the Pa
vilion so that their diploma fee will
be included with their fee statement.
If students fail to have the fee in
cluded on their fee slips, they must
pay their diploma fee at the Fiscal
Office in the Coke Building.
Democrats keeps plugging on in Memphis
Reagan visits Mondale’s backyard
United Press International
President Reagan, smelling a 50-
state landslide in Tuesday’s election,
made an unscheduled stop in Walter
Mondale’s home state of Minnesota
Sunday to ask for votes in the state
his Democratic rival has the best
chance of winning.
Reagan’s last minute political ma
neuver came as poll after poll
showed a big win for the conserva
tive president. The final Washington
Post-ABC poll showed Reagan
ahead 57 percent to 39 percent; with
a strong lead in 45 states and a
chance of capturing all 50.
With Reagan's re-election seem
ingly assured, Republican thoughts
turned to coattail power, especially
in close Senate races where GOP in
cumbents Charles Percy of Illinois
and Jesse Helms of North Carolina
were seen clinging to narrow leads,
while a third, Roger Jepsen of Iowa,
was slightly behind. No Democratic
Senate incumbents were in trouble
in final polls.
But there was no veil of doom in
the Democratic camp as Mondale
fought on despite the odds.
Speaking from the pulpit of a
black Baptist church in Memphis,
Mondale invoked the memory of
Martin Luther King J r. and said the
Reagan administration “has turned
its back on civil rights.
“This crowd can hear the faintest
drum, but they can’t hear the cry of
a hungry child in the street,” Mon
dale, told the congregation.
Reagan spoke to reporters in Ro
chester, Minn., during a hastily ar
ranged airport news conference,
with Air Force One waiting outside
to whisk him on to St. Louis. Reagan
said he could not resist the tempta
tion to stop in Mondale’s backyard,
“particularly when I know my oppo
nent’s spending so much time in Cal
ifornia.
“Everyone knows that we’ve never
written off any state nor taken any
state for granted. ... We’ve never
taken the voters for granted,” Rea
gan said.
Reagan sought to dismiss any no
tion that his second term might
bring an increase in taxes, reiterat
ing a firm stand against any boost in
rates while offering a more ambigu-
Monday, Novembers, 1984
Gandhi gets
new cabinet,
more fighting
United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi named a new
Cabinet Sunday and fired the lieu
tenant governor of Delhi for failing
to suppress four days of murder, ar
son and looting against Sikhs by
Hindu mobs avenging the assassina
tion of Prime Minister Indira Gan
dhi.
Thousands of terrified Sikhs cow
ered in makeshift refugee camps
and prayed for deliverance from
mob violence that left their homes
and businesses in flames and more
than 1,100 people dead across
northern India.
“We were the middle class yester
day,” said Darshin Singh, one of
15,000 Sikhs who took refuge at a
Delhi secondary school. “Today we
are beggars. This is what they have
done to us. We have nothing. We are
destroyed.”
Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace
Prize winner, read a prayer asking
for harmony Sunday before 2,000
people set out on a “peace march”
through areas of the capitol torn by
communal violence.
Officials said the level of violence
across the nation of 720 million peo
ple had fallen off sharply since Gan
dhi was cremated Saturday in a rit
ual Hindu ceremony on the banks of
the holy Yamuna River.
An official announcement said
her ashes would be scattered over
the Himalayas in northern India
Nov. 11 after being taken across In
dia in special trains to give mourners
a chance to hid farewell to the
woman who led the world’s most
populous democracy for 15 of the
past 18 years.
Gandhi, 66, a Hindu, was assassi
nated Wednesday by two of her
trusted Sikh bodyguards in apparent
retaliation for an army assault June
6 on the Sikh’s holiest shrine, the
Golden Temple of Amritsar, that
left at least 600 dead.
One of the assailants was killed by
other security agents while the other
was severely wounded and is hospi
talized under heavy guard.
The assassination triggered an ex
plosion of violence by enraged Hin
dus, who looted shops, set fire to
buildings and hunted and killed
Sikhs in their homes, in the streets
and on trains. More than 500 of the
deaths occurred in the capital.
Nine more bodies were found
Sunday in a local shuttle train at the
Maripat Station near Ghaziabad on
the eastern outskirts of New Delhi,
the Press Trust of India reported.
Scores of bodies of Sikhs were found
on Delhi-bound trains Friday at the
height of the rioting.
Reports of rioting and death from
areas outside New Delhi continued
to reach the capital, but the violence
appeared to be declining across the
country and officials say they hoped
the worst of the sectarian violence
was over.
Gandhi’s son and successor as
See GANDHI, page 15
County polling places
set in Tuesday election
ous explanation for what might be
expected from a long-awaited tax re
form study nearing completion by
the Treasury Department.
Both Mondale and Reagan wound
up Midwest campaigning Sunday
and headed for California where the
president will spend Election Day at
his ranch. Mondale will fly home to
Minnesota for the voting.
Vice President George Bush was
heading home to T exas for some fi
nal campaigning while Geraldine
Ferraro campaigned in Michigan
and planned a final swing through
New England before going home to
New York.
Reagan’s unscheduled stop in
See REAGAN, page 15
Listed below are the polling
places for each voting precinct in
Brazos County:
• Voters in precinct 1 vote at
the Millican Community Center
• Precinct 2 — Weliborn Wa
ter Supply Building, Green’s
Prairie Road
• Precinct 3 — S.P.J.S.T. Hall
at Smetana
• Precinct 4 — Carver School,
1401 W. 19th St.
• Precinct 5 — Fellowship
Hall, East Building, Tabor Road
• Precinct 6 — Edge Commu
nity Center, Edge School House
Road
• Precinct 7 — Steep Hollow
Community Center, FM 1179
• Precinct 8 — South Knoll El
ementary School, 1220 Boswell
St.
• Precinct 9 — College Station
Community Center, 1300 Jersey
St.
• Precinct 10 — College Sta
tion Police Station, 2611 Texas
Ave.
• Precinct 11 — Crockett El
ementary School, 401 Elm Ave.
• Precinct 12 — Sul Ross El
ementary School, 3300 Parkway
Terrace
• Precinct 13 — Henderson
Elementary School, 801 Matous
Dr.
• Precinct 14 — Ben Milam El
ementary School, 1201 Ridgedale
St.
• Precinct 15 — Fannin El
ementary School, 501 S. Baker St.
• Precinct 16 — Bowie El
ementary School, 401 W. 26th St.
• Precinct 17 — Travis El
ementary School, 901 E. 25th St.
• Precinct 18 -— Bryan Central
Fire Station, 801 N. Bryan St.
• Precinct 19 — Bonham El
ementary School, 2801 Wilkes
Dr.
• Precinct 20 — Memorial Stu
dent Center, Rooms 140 & 140A
• Precinct 21 — Hensel. Park
Clubhouse
• Precinct 22 — Army Reserve
Center, 511 Carson Street
• Precinct 23 — L.B.J. El
ementary School, 3800 Oak Hill
Dr.
• Precinct 24 — College Hills
Elementary School, 101 Williams
St.
• Precinct 25 — American Le
gion Hail, 2301 Texas 21 E.
• Precinct 26 — Bryan High
School, 3401 E. 29th St.
• Precinct 27 — Bright Light
Baptist Church, Harvey Road
• Precinct 28 — Peach Creek
Community Center, Rock Prairie
Road
• Precinct 29 — Brushy Com
munity Center, Brushy Lane at
FM 60
• Precinct 30 — Fellowship
Hall, W’est Building, Tabor Road
• Precinct 31 — A&M Consol
idated High School, 701 W. Loop
S. (Nueces Dr. entrance)
• Precinct 32 — College Sta
tion Fire Station No. 2, 2100 Rio
Grande Drive (incloses part of
County Precinct 2)
• Precinct 33 — College Sta
tion Lincoln Center, 1000 Elea
nor St.
• Precinct 34 —- College Sta
tion Central Fire Station, 1101
Texas Ave.
• Precinct 35 — College Sta
tion Municipal Building, 101
Church St.
• Precinct 36 — V.F.W. Hall,
1447 FM 2818
• Precinct 37 — Bryan Munic
ipal Golf Course Clubhouse, 206
W. Villa Maria Rd.
• Precinct 38 — Castle
Heights Baptist Church, Texas
21 E.
Texas A&M students living on
the south side of campus will vote
in precinct 20 and students on the
north side and in Northgate area
apartments will vote in precinct
35. For more information about
voting, call the Brazos County
Courthouse at 775-7400.
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