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lights, “but those lights,” said Jim
Irhompson, executive director of the
Bryan Rehabilitation Center, “are
■shining all the way up to heaven.”
I These lights, placed on the 40-
Boot Community Christmas tree,
..were turned on in a lighting cere-
■jnony Thursday night. The cere
mony was held at the site of the tree,
'on tne corner of University Drive
nd Texas Avenue.
Thompson, who welcomed the
owd of about 200, said that the
;ree represents the “principles of
truth.”
“The more a person gives, the
lore he gets back,” Thompson said.
The Bryan Rehabilitation Center,
.which has sponsored the Commu
nity Christmas tree for three years,
iold each light on the Christmas tree
or $10 each.
Harold McCullough, director of
development for the Rehabilitation
Center, said that the lights were
lought to either memorialize or to
honor someone.
“It’s for the people of the commu-
|iity to enjoy,” McCullough said,
fand the money raised helps keep
the children’s program going at the
Rehabilitation Center.”
I McCullough predicted that there
are about 1,800 lights on the tree
nd said that lights can be bought
until Dec. 19.
McCullough also said that while
the lights are sold at a fixed price,
the top star is sold to the highest bid
der.
“Our opening bid was $5,000,” he
said. “But we’re going to wait to an
nounce the highest bidder until all
the bids are in.”
McCullough said that on
Christmas Day, the Eagle newspaper
will print the names of those persons
memorialized or honored with a
light on the Christmas tree.
The Stephen F. Austin Jr. High
school cnoir of Bryan sang
Christmas carols at the ceremony
and they were joined by members of
the Deaf Choir of Sul Ross Elemen
tary, who sang along in sign lan
guage.
Bryan High School Coach Merrill
Green sang a solo of “Oh Holy
Night.”
Margaret (Mrs. Earl) Rudder and
the Susannah Kendall, the Easter
Seal Child, arrived midway through
the ceremony in a firetruck and
pulled the switch to light the tree.
McCullough said that the tree,
which was a gift of the Texas Forest
Service, was lit now so it can be en
joyed before the Aggies leave for
Christmas vacation.
“It’s really one of the great joys of
our Christmas,” McCullough said.
“And just looking at it lit up like that
makes it all worth while.”
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I TAIPEI, Taiwan — Rescuers
|vielding picks and shovels failed
hursday to reach 62 coal miners
.eared dead in a cave-in that left
them trapped behind tons of fallen
ock.
The bodies of 32 other miners
ave been found in the poison gas-
ilied pit since the collapse Monday
it the Hai Shan Tunnel No. 1, once
onsidered one of the safest mines in
the country.
The cave-in prompted at least one
leading public official to call for the
llosure of all 120 mines on the is
land.
1 Ninety-six men were working in
side the 7,600-foot shaft at the time
and one managed to scramble to
safety with minor injuries.
Rescue teams, wearing oxygen
masks because of the deadly level of
carbon monoxide gas in the mine,
pulled the only other known survi
vor out after 10 hours of work
Wednesday. He was hospitalized
w ith severe burns and lung and kid
ney injuries.
The 32 bodies were recovered
from around the cable carts which
had carried the men into the mine to
relieve other workers minutes be
fore the cave-ins began at 12:50 p.m.
Wednesday, officials said.
Nearly all of the bodies were cov
ered by severe burns, officials said,
contradicting earlier denials by po
lice of a fire or explosion inside the
pit.
But rescuers were unable to clear
away tons of fallen rock that trapped
the remaining 62 miners at the end
of the shaft. Industry Commissioner
Huang Ching-Feng said the opera
tion might take days.
At least 74 miners were killed in a
mining accident in June and a total
of 103 died in two mishaps in July.
Chu Chuang-Huan, governor of
Taiwan, Thursday told the provin
cial assembly he was going to pro
pose the closure of all 120 mines on
the island, where the coal industry
employs 16,600 workers who earn
$1,000 per month, twice the coun
try’s average salary.
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Performances:
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Feb.25, 1985
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April 10, 1985
CIA manual ruled unlawful
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The CIA
broke the law with a guerrilla war
manual for Nicaraguan rebels, the
House Intelligence Committee said,
chastizing the spy agency for confu
sion and negligence in its production
of the booklet.
One panel member said CIA Di
rector William Casey confessed to
“negligence in management” during
a two-hour appearance before the
committee to review the manual,
which critics charge advocates politi
cal assassination.
A majority of the Democratic-con-
trolled committee concluded that al
though the spy agency violated a
1983 ban on spending rrioney on op
erations against Nicaragua with the
manual, it did not intentionally vio
late a presidential ban on U.S. par
ticipation in or planning for assassi
nations.
“The entire publication and distri
bution of the manual was marked
within the agency by confusion,” the
committee statement said.
“The incident of the manual illus
trates once again to a majority of the
committee that the CIA did not have
adequate command and control of
the entire Nicaraguan covert opera
tion.”
Committee member Rep. Wyche
Fowler, D-Ga said the committee will
recommend changes to avoid what
he termed the “politicization of the
CIA,” and added, “There will be
specific changes in the management
of the agency” in both Washington
and Latin America.
President Reagan promised dur
ing his re-election campaign to fire
anyone found responsible for the
booklet but the only people pun
ished were several mid-level CIA of
ficials, who were reprimanded or
suspended for their involvement in
editing it.
Win sparks sales of memorabilia
By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Staff Writer
Texas A&M’s unexpected victory
over archrival University of Texas
has not only glorified the football
team, but also helped local mer
chants. Area businesses are reaping
the profits from game memorabilia.
An abundance of t-shirts, sweat
shirts, buttons, posters and pictures
emblazoned with a “Hornbusters”
slogans or the 37—12 score now
cover storefronts and displays.
Store owners described sales of
the various items as ranging from
“fantastic” to “very well.” The bulk
of the sales seems to be T-shirts and
sweatshirts.
“This has been the main thing (t—
shirts),” said Chris Wortham, owner
of the T-Shirts Plus outlet in Post
Oak Mall. “Everyone has been buy
ing these,” he said. “People are more
pleased than they were with the
A&M athletic record. If you beat
UT, the rest of the season can be cow
chips and it wouldn’t matter.”
Wortham estimates he sells 75 shirts
with the score daily.
John Robison, president of the
Society for Entrepreneurship and
New Ventures (ENVE), said his
group sold several thousand of the
popular “Hornbusters” shirts since
Monday. ENVE’s prior arrange
ments with a shirt company enabled
them to sell the shirts Monday.
In another ENVE-sponsored
event Athletic Director and Head
Coach Jackie Sherrill will autograph
bonfire posters Saturday in Post Oak
Mall from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Sales of photographs of the pre
game bonfire and the scoreboard
were very strong, said Terry Mar-
saw, advisor to the MSC Camera
Committee. “We didn’t initially ex
pect sales to be this high,” Marsaw
said. “With the win of the game,
sales shot up dramatically and we ex
pect them to remain strong through
the graduation ceremony.”
But it is not only T-shirts and pho
tographs that are selling like hot-
cakes. Cookies are too.
Employees of the Chocolate Chip
Cookie Co. said several people a day
were asking for cookies decorated
with the victory score.
The surge in popularity of game
souvenirs may have spilled over into
other Texas A&M mementos. Aggie
Unlimited Manager Elaine Beaird
said sales of the game products were
“great” and may be contributing to
the increased sales of other items.
“It’s hard to tell with the Christmas
rush starting, but people are defi
nitely buying Aggie,” Beaird said.
The number one song last week
on the KKYS—FM request chart was
not by Duran Duran, Wham or Chi
cago; the Doormats easily defeated
the competition with the hit “Horn
busters.”
“It was a very clever idea,” KKYS
Program Director Skip Bishop said.
“It was well done and well produc
ed.” KKYS was the only station to ac
cept the ENVE—sponsored song.
Bishop said, and he thinks the sta
tion improved its communication
with the students by airing it,
For those who do not know the
song, sing it to the tune of “Ghost
busters.”
“When the Horns come round
and they’re Cotton bound,
Who ya’ gonna call? Horn Bus
ters.
Hunger’s up, and the steaks are
down.
Who ya’ gonna call? Horn Bus
ters.
We’ve got an Aggie band and a
bad Twelfth man.
Who ya’ gonna call? Horn Bus
ters.
We’ll win this fight for maroon
and white.
Who ya’ gonna call? Horn Bus
ters.
Horns are goin’ down, down,
down.
Called up old Fred and said,
‘Fred, your boys are dead.’
Now, we’re gonna call Horn Bus
ters.”
Photo by ANTHONYS. CASPER
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