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' 1 "’alk,'j ’■self dot you. | sj That’s A&M Parachute Club 1 House Committees Members jump to gain publicity 1 Texans gain key appointments Page 3 I Page 7 > reveal In Ten arious hij ien the^ >band, l d relax efek SothcBt rent of Hi n 1962, ind bov ie was tor hiii He kne* 1 started ston rocb arms. Sj K nowheii 1 him The Battalion Vol. 80 No. 82 CJSPS 045360 16 pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 23, 1985 Abortion vigils, rallies staged across nation lout Mjh ink he'sf o to a sta te poe® ■iing age Ijegms a when ti 1 t y stnik it. Tnsra i s don't j s all ff u might t N’S Care let 582 nter buy onal ir. Associated Press President Reagan joined with supporters ol legalized abortion l uesday in eondenming violence against abortion clinics, but otherwise the "pi o-choice ' and “pro-life'’ lorees had nothing new, and nothing conciliatory, to say to each othei Both sides mounted rallies, marches, candlelight vigils and prayer breakfasts on the i2th an niversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave women, not government, the right to < boose. “We cannot condone the threatening or taking of human life to protest the taking of hu man life by way of abortion,” Rea gan said in an address relayed by telephone from (he White House to 71.000 March for Life demon strators on the Ellipse a quarter- mile away. In events across the country, the bombs tliat have struck two dozen clinics were as much an is sue this year as Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court case which guar antees women the right to an abortion, subject to state restric tions only in the last three months of pregnancy. The Bureau of Alcohol, To- Anti-abortionists march on campus. Photo by DEAN SAno bacco and Firearms, which inves tigated the bombings, had warned new attacks might be timed to coincide with Reagan’s inauguration Monday and the abortion anniversary Tuesday. The National Organization for Women mounted vigils at 25 clin ics and family planning centers in 18 states to help prevent any vio lence. "I am convinced that our re sponse to the 12th anniversary ... must be to re-dedicate ourselves to ending the terrible national tragedy of abortion,” the Presi dent said, adding: “I want you to know that I feel these days, as never before, the momentum is with us.” However, an ABC News poll released Tuesday found that sup port for abortion on demand in creased during Reagan’s first term. Asked whether a woman should be able to get an abortion if she wants one, “no matter w hat the reason,” 52 percent, of the re spondents said yes. Forty percent supported that position in a .simi lar 1981 poll, ABC said. ABC said 53 percent of the Ro man Catholics supported abor tion on demand, as did 50 per cent of the Protestants in the sample. Local pro-life procession begins anniversary rally By KIMBERLY PETTIBON Reporter A mock funeral procession mourning aborted babies began a public rally against abortion on the Texas A&M campus Tues day. A&M Christian Fellowship and the Brazos Valley Crisis Preg nancy Service sponsored the rally to protest the Supreme Court de cision which legalized abortion on. Jan. 22, 1973. A f uneral procession started at Sbisa Dining Hall and ended at Rudder Tower, where four pall bearers placed an empty minia ture casket on a trash can. A spokesman for A&M Chris tian Fellowship Ron Tewson said, “Since the Supreme Court’s deci sion, over 15 billion babies have gone to trash cans just like the one this casket is sitting on.” Students, parents, children, faculty, staff and local citizens made up the crowd of about 150. Some carried signs that said “A- bortion —America’s Holocaust” and “Abortion is Murder.” University Police were at the scene, but the protest was peace ful despite the shouts of a lew hecklers. Every 20 seconds one of the demonstrators marked a slash on a chart which said “The Slaughter Goes On and On and On” to sig nify that an abortion takes place every 20 seconds. Several of those in the crowd cried when Beverly Boyce, a girl who had an abortion, told the crowd about the pain she went through. Tears rolled down Boyce’s face as she begged the women in the crowd to turn to adoption instead of abortion. Other speakers at the rally in cluded a local psychologist and physician that are anti-abortion. Psychologist Dale Simpson said that abortions are emotionally painful. “Women don’t really adjust af ter having an abortion,” Simpson said. Dr. George Mcllhaney, a phy sician in the Bryan-College Sta tion area, said abortions often re sult in physical as well as emotional complications. CS citizens Bryan builds juvenile detention center a - jit/ a-~3t' & Printef Reg. $2^1 .00) fTI's ice and ram." y 31,1985 ■ers (PUTERS </ Suite 152 < 77840 444 y ilia TT, All the itute tudents uarV 23 renter Din ^ m Italy elcoine Delinquents to be away from adults combat cold wave By PAM WEEMS Reporter Bryan and College Station have successfully outmaneuvered the frigid cold front which blew in Sat in day night. The cold front, which abruptly hit the area, caused a decrease in tem peratures to a record low of 10 de crees resulting in disabled vehicles, frozen pipes and an all-time high en ergy consumption. The low temperatures prompted unusual activ ities on the I exas A&M campus. Students discovered fewer shuttle buses in operation. A representative of the 1 exas A&M Bus Operations said the cold weather caused moist tire to c ollec t in the buses' air valves, which caused the valves to freeze ovei. j He said the only solution was to keep alcohol on (he valve lines. Otherwise, the brakes would lock and cause a malf unc tion. The cold weather also lesultecl in eight buses being grounded. Officials of the College Station Fire Department and Utility Depart ment agreed area residents have suc cessfully combatted the cold weather: no flooding, and lew bro ken pipes. Am official with the College Sta tion Water and Sewer Department said last year's continual freezing temperatures taught many people a lesson. He said many kept their fau cets dripping and their heat on to prevent pipe breakage. Brvan Utilities reac hed its energy peak Monday morning by generat ing more heat than any winter sea son, said Dan Wilkerson, director. Typically dur ing cold weather, there is high daily demand for electricity causing the utility to generate more electricity. Because of this increased demand for heat, natural gas burning was curtailed and oil was burned to pro duce electricity, Wilkerson said. By TRENT LEOPOLD Stuff Writer Construction on a new juvenile detention center at the corner of 1 exas Ave. and 25th Street in Bryan is nearing completion and officials anxiously wait to move in. Dan German, Brazos County ju venile detention superintendent, T uesday said the center, heralded as one of the best in the state, is some thing this area has been needing for a long time. Federal law currently states all im prisoned juveniles must he housed .separately from adults by the end of this year, German said. Juveniles are currently kept in the same building as adult offenders, but they cannot see or hear each other. “We really need this facility be cause too many young people are be ing put back out on the street when they need to be kept in a juvenile de tention center,” German said. “Cur rently we just don’t have enough room to detain the children who need to be kept in custody.” Juvenile offenders are presently being taken from Bryan to Waco if they need to be kept in custody for more than two days. Each trip to Waco costs $30 and German said the expense can quickly add up. “Police officers are picking up the same juveniles over and over,” he said. “We often can’t justify taking the young people to Waco when it costs $30 for every trip. “Also, by the time the young peo ple finally get into court they often end up facing four or five different charges because they are allowed to go back out on the streets when they are unable to stay out of trouble,” he said. The new structure was supposed to begin operations in January, but a problem with the paint peeling off the brick walls delayed the move-in date, German said. Construction on the facility began in 1983 af ter sufficient funds were obtained following a bond election in 1982. The holding cells for the juveniles are referred to as “bedrooms” by the staff. The 13 bedrooms in the center each include a bunk bed and a book case. These cells will be electronically monitored from a central control room in the middle of the building, German said. Each room also will haye an electronic door which can be Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A U.S. Air Force plane with 21 Ameri can personnel aboard went down in the Caribbean off Honduras Tues day, and searchers had to abandon their efforts for the night, after hours of battling fog and storms, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said. The C-130A transport, en route to the Honduran coastal town of Trujillo from Howard Air Base in Panama, went into the water at about 11 a.in. EST, U.S. Embassy press attache Robert Callahan said. Lt. Col. Gene Sands, a Defense De partment spokesman, said earlier in Washington, “They’re in the water. We can’t even get in for sea rescue because of the weather.” Trujillo is about 240 miles north of Tegucigalpa and is near a re gional military training center for Honduran and Salvadoran troops. Callahan said the five crew mem- opened and closed on command f rom the control room. In addition to modern operating procedures at the center, German said productive programs and a 10- member staff should help make the facility one of the best in Texas. “A lot of facilities in Texas have detention workers who simply su pervise, but don’t have any produc tive programs for the youth,” Ger man said. “We plan to be different. “Juveniles being kept here will work, go to school, play games, re ceive counseling and do things that are productive.” bers and 16 passengers were “all U.S. personnel, that’s our under standing.” The plane was assigned to the 440th Tactical Airlift Wing, an Air Force reserve unit based at Billy Mitchell Field in Milwaukee, he said. “No hostile action was indicated,” according to a statement released by U.S. military officials at Palmerola Air Base, 90 miles northwest of the capital. 1 he statement said the aircraft was on a routine airlift mission from Howard, headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command, which has ju risdiction over U.S. military activities in Central America. Callahan said the search was called off after several hours because of a combination of rain, wind and high seas. The search was expected to be resumed as soon as weather permitted. Looking Down Photo by WA YNE L. GRABEIN The rotunda in the Academic Building is a favorite spot for people to sit during the day. Looking down from the fourth floor pro vided this view of the between-class crowd. USAF plane down near Honduras with 21 Americans