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Tuesday, November 6, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 i Gramm ends campaign with stop at Easterwood >n ich a go ■ exas." ounted trai former th agree 1 polls.' 1 1 lers re l»| ■lemenJ 'idemarJ out ini s to the| organi By DIB WALDRIP Reporter Republican Senate nominee Phil Gramm concluded his campaign at a press conference at Easterwood Air port Monday. I Gramm and his f amily emerged from the hangar hearing chants of, “We want Phil. We want Phil,” com ing from several hundred support ers. ■ “We are going to win because we are right on the key issues that face Texas and America and our oppo nent is wrong,” Gramm said. Gramm said he has kept his prom ise that he “would be a leader in an effort to control spending, stop in flation and revitalize the American free-enterprise system.” Gramm has spent the last 14 months traveling all over Texas cam paigning for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Senator John Tower. “I’ve asked the people of Texas to look at my record in the House, to look at all of the digging I’ve done with a small shovel in the last six years working for you,” Gramm said. “I’ve asked the people of Texas to give me a bigger shovel so that I can do more work on behalf of all the people of our great state.” Gramm said in the past four years in working with President Reagan, he has helped change the direction of America by changing the policies of the federal government. “We have brought the inflation rate down from the highest levels in American history to the lowest level in 20 years, and seven million Amer icans have gone to work in perma nent, productive, tax-payingjobs for the future,” Gramm said. One out of every eight jobs cre ated in the United States in the last four years has been in Texas, he said. The Social Security system is back in the black, and our national de fense is strong again, Gramm said. Gramm said he would continue to work to ensure that “every child born in this land would have a so ciety of opportunity and freedom in which that child can use his or her God-given talents to advance them selves and their families and Ameri- Gramm said conservatives still have a job to do. Conservatives must get out and vote, he said. In 1978, Gramm won by only 122 votes. “If 62 people had voted differ ently in 1978, Tip O’Neil would be a young, virile, healthy, happy man,” Gramm joked. Gramm said his opponent has run a campaign of negativism, misinfor mation arid fear and that he (Dog- gett) will be defeated by a large mar gin. Speaker on black awareness refutes black political myths >mg, he [ traditioJ Houston] ‘ Deinocl By KATHI COOK Reporter I “The myth of black political fail- ire in Texas can be laid to rest,” Dr. ' C. Alwyn Barr said Monday night in |his presentation, Black Reconstruc- ■on Legislators of Texas. ■ Barr, the fifth speaker for the J. iT ■ ilton Nance lecture series spon- • 1/ tibrec! by the Texas A&M Depart- Bient of History, said the impres- y Hons early 20th-century historians Bve of black legislators are inaccu- Kte. ■ “The black legislators were not ■liant tools of the white republicans, . doctors a Din displayed wide differences in transplanttews, influenced by different socio- t. ■conomic levels,” said Barr, chair- y werelslperson of the Texas Tech history de- inesystal partment. nt wouldB From researching deed records, Iteart as J signed oaths of office, census re- wirds and a black newspaper, Barr said he has developed a clear cut Inage of the black legislators ol Texas. I “There were 14 men instead of the previously believed 8 or 10,” Barr said. e morel rtherspei /ild, With 120 legislators, blacks made up 12 percent of the 12th legislature in 1870. The legislators were shrewd and important representatives of the ru ral communities, said Barr. They worked for the advancement of busi nesses, public schools and funds for their districts. “They were concerned with eco nomic issues that effected the work ing class constituents, black and whi te,” Barr said. Barr said the legislators were a di verse group compared to legislators in other southern states. Ninety per cent of the black legislators were slaves before the Givil War and had been in Texas before the republican party was firmly established. The legislators held such jobs as ministers, military officers, teachers, teamsters, labor leaders and Freed man’s Bureau organizers before their political involvement. Seventy percent of the black legislators were property holders of at least $2,000 in the 1870 census, Barr said. 1,100 killed in Indian violence; cops watch journalists attacked rs wrappet cl sheriff: am. “T« it off. Ontj the otk y injured ally pi™ nd tossed ere it Hi istol and. Silver Taps to be held for Ag killed in wreck Silver Taps will be held tonight for a Texas A&M student who died Oct. 21 in a car accident south of College Station. John J. Mascart, 20, was a sophomore majoring in mechani cal engineering at A&M and a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Mascart, who went to high school in Rhode Island, and was I the quarterback of his high school football team, had been in Texas for about two years. Mascart is survived by his par ents, Jacques and Monique Mas cart, and his sister Diane, 14, all of The Woodlands; and his grandparents, Maurice and Jose phine Gamier of Belgium. United Press International NEW DELHI, India — Sikhs who survived attacks by Hindu mobs charged Monday that workers for slain Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s ruling Congress party led rioters against Sikh communities and police watched without acting. Gandhi’s assassination last Wednesday by two Sikh members of her security force unleashed a wave of violence in northern India that left an estimated 1,100 people dead — about half of them in New Delhi. Most of those who died as a result of the violence — the most wide spread since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 — were mem bers of the minority Sikh faith, killed by Hindu mobs seeking to avenge Gandhi’s murder. Monday, the ashes of the slain prime minister were put into 40 urns and placed aboard trains and ait- force planes for a tour of India’s 22 states and a last farewell from India’s 720 million people. The ashes will be scattered by aircraft Sunday over the Himalayas. Although the rioting had largely subsided by Monday, the govern ment of new Prime Minister Rivaj Gandhi, Indira’s son, was faced with an enormous refugee problem. Thousands of homeless Sikhs, many in need of medical care, were huddled in makeshift camps, schools and police compounds throughout the capital. Nobel Peace Prize win ner Mother Teresa visited some of the Sikhs in refugee camps. Some Sikhs said the government had done nothing to help them. Other Sikhs vowed to seek revenge on Hindus, the majority in India. In dia’s Sikhs, who number 14 million, are a small percentage of the coun try’s population but are among its most prosperous groups. “We were made beggars,” said one Sikh. “Why? Because we are Sikhs, they don’t give us the safety they give Hindus.” In New Delhi, journalists re ported they were subject to increas ing harassment, believed intended to restrict their reports on the violence. Three photographers working for foreign news organizations were at tacked and beaten by a mob Monday as about 60 policemen stood by with than two-to-one, got up from where they were sitting and walked away,” Ludwig said. Although the Indian government has denied it is censoring any news, television networks were unable to book satellite feeds Monday and sev eral news organizations, including Time, have had film confiscated at New Delhi airport. A number of reporters also have been chased and attacked by mobs, often in the presence of police, while trying to take pictures. In Punjab state in northern India, The Indion government has denied it is censoring out acting, the photographers and witriesses Sciid. One of the photographers, Dieter LudtVig of the Paris-based Si pa Press photo agency, said a police inspector pushed him back into the mob of about 30 men after he had broken free and pleaded for help. The other two photographers, Alon Reiniger and Dilip Metha, both on contract to Time magazine, were badly beaten but escaped without “any serious injuries,” Time corre spondent Dean Brelis said. Witnesses said the photographers were standing outside a police sta tion that was serving as a makeshift morgue in the old quarter of the cap ital when they were attacked about 10 feet from where about 60 police were sitting. “The uniformed police, who out numbered the attackers by more where most of India’s 14 million Sikhs live, press censors were tight ened following Gandhi’s assassina tion. Interviews with dozens of Sikh refu gees revealed a picture of the post assassination violence. Many said the I Hindu mobs that attacked them were led by low-level political work ers while police refused to intervene. “All the people who come here say the same thing — this was done by Congress (party) and the police,” said Udham Singh, 42, elected leader of a Sikh refugee camp in West Delhi. “If the police did not help in the attacks, then they did nothing to stop them,” he said. “Many of the mobs were egged on by local political party leaders, first from the Con gress and then by others.” The rioters and looters appeared- to have come mostly from slums. They apparently were encouraged by well-organized gangs of hood lums, known as “goondas,” who In dian officials say in recent years have been increasingly used by political parties as enforcers and have even infiltrated the police force. In the Trilokpuri area of east Delhi, Sikh refugees said the army moved to quell the violence only Suriday, three days after the mass killings of Sikhs began. “They assembled in the big park in front of my house with police watching,” said Gurdip Singh, 50. “A Congress politician from our area was directing them from be hind the trucks that brought them in.” “They were shouting ‘Indira Gan dhi Zindabad’ — Lcmg live Indira Gandhi and ‘Sikhs Murdabad’ — Death to Sikhs, and they came for my house first. “They dipped a cloth in gasoline and thpn pushed it with a stick through my window and the house began to burn,” he said. Gurdip said he escaped onto the roof of the house and watched as the mob pulled three Sikh men out of the houses on the block, beat them, poured gasoline in their mouths and set them afire. “ There was a truck full of bricks following the mob as they went from house to house, providing ammuni tion for the rioters to hurl at the houses. “It was organized — that was plain,” said Gurdip, who said he is president of his local Sikh temple or ganization. ... 5-a nies gets ong ’&T und ince icto ■ ■ MUSK THEATRE CROC? IN ASSOCIATION WTTH MUSIC THEATRE ASSOCIATES PRESENTS EXPLODING WITH THE EXCITEMENT Sc CHARM OF THE MGM MOVIE MASTERPIECE Presented by: MSC TOWN HALL/BROADWAY November 20,8:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium Master Card/Visa