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The Battalion
Vol 80 Mo. 102 GSPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 22, 1985
Sheriff probes local woman’s fatal shooting
By TRENT LEOPOLD
Staff Writer
A woman was killed Thursday
night about six miles east of here at
her Tiome on Bark-N-Holler ranch
off Farm Road 1 179.
ttfazos County Sheriff Ron Miller
saiaate Thursday Sandra Black, 37,
was shot with a pistol at her home on
Sleepy Hollow Road about 6 p.m.
He would not comment on the type
of pistol used, where Black was shot,
or now many times she was shot.
Thatcher won’t
say when ships
carry weapons
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — British Prime
Minister Margaret T hatcher con
cluded two days of talks here Thurs
day with a stern warning that Britain
will follow America’s lead in refusing
to yield to New Zealand’s demand to
know whether ships entering its
ports are equipped with nuclear
weapons.
I “I shall be very disappointed if the
Royal Navy ships cannot visit New
Zealand,” she said at a press confer-
‘‘But I cannot answer, and will
ot answer, that question.’’
^Hiatcher’s emphatic statement
■designed to help the Reagan ad-
, , - ministration put to an end any no-
Y CniCiHion othpr countries may have to fall
in step behind New Zealand Prime
Minister David Lange.
ders . ‘All otir ships are seconded (as
signed) to NATO,” she said. “At any
'moment they might have to take up
ii NATO positions and therefore they
if" 5 must carry whatever is appropriate
to their NATO task.
‘|\nd I have no intention what
soever of revealing whether or not a
nuclear armament is part of their
• Iljweaponry on any particular ship,”
jfFyVm haicher said.
I^Eange’s action several weeks ago
^Hed the United States to cancel
several joint military exercises with
New Zealand, as well as other activ
ities ,
^Hiatcher, whose departure from
Washington was delayed by bad
weather in Britain, also said she had
no fready-made answers” to the eco
nomic problems caused by the
strong U.S. dollar.
fferexpirt -pp e {} r j t j s h pound, along with
other Western European currencies,
Texas82f‘' lias l * :,een driven to record lows
i Maria82^ a S a ' nst the surging American dollar.
5 iuo ttJffrhacher’s Conservative Party has
as ' blamed America’s $200 billion defi-
^ycit |for siphoning capital from
around the world, weakening,other
currencies and driving up interest
rates abroad.
On another topic, the prime min
ister suggested the United States
spend more time talking to Soviet
leaders to increase understanding
that could aid in the quest for arms
control agreements.
“I found — particularly in my
talks with congressmen — a very,
very strong interest in making a
greater effort at dialogue with the
Russians and getting to understand
their viewpoint better,” she said.
* § et
better results in arms control talks,
we have to have more dialogue and
more understanding of one an
other,” Thatcher said.
rrectlon
Thursday’s The Battalion a
for the Chem Busters pic-
page one was partially in-
e caption said Michael Goad
~ tioning the chemistr y de-
unem’s policy of assigning
dents to teaching assistants.
«wever, this is not what he said,
What Goad said is that he is
g;erned with students and
understanding of freshman
unistry, not the policies of the
artistry department,
fhe Battalion regrets the er-
“She was shot with a pistol and we
are waiting on an autopsy report be
fore we make any further
statements,” he said. “Mrs. Black was
apparently the only one in the house
at the time of the shooting.”
At 9:30 p.m. investigators had not
found anything missing inside the
Black’s house, but Miller said a van
taken from the house was found at
the Safeway store in Bryan at Briar-
crest and 29th Street. The store is
about four miles from the Black’s
residence.
Investigators were continuing to
probe the van and its contents for
evidence related to the incident,
Miller said.
Miller said some teenage children
were in the house late Thursday
while investigators continued to look
for evidence in the case, but were
not there at the time of the shooting.
No suspects were being sought
late Thursday in connection w ith the
homicide, but Miller said the investi
gation would continue throughout
the night.
“We aren’t searching for anyone
in particular,” Miller said. “We
haven’t found anything missing
from the house at this time, but two
investigators are still inside looking
for evidence.
“Some people have called in with
some information about the case and
we will continue to investigate to
night. I’ll be out awhile (looking into
the incident).”
Carl Gentry, a neighbor of Black’s
who lives across the street, said the
Blacks moved into the house about,
five years ago.
“There never seemed to be any
problems over there,” he said. “Bob
(Sandra’s husband) was an electri
cian and Sandra worked at a nurs
ery. Things seemed fairly quiet
around there.”
Ifs Safer This Way
Photo by CATHERINE CAMPBELL
If you want to play with “Hersh, ole
boy,” it’s much safer to do so behind a thick
pane of glass according to Nancy Burgess, a
senior English major from Dallas. Burgess
bought the three-month-old “attack kitty” at
Post Oak Mall.
Gentry said it was usually quiet in
the country neighborhood at night.
“It certainly isn’t very quiet to
night,” he said. “We don’t need this
kind of excitement around here.”
Black worked at the Happy Face
Nursery at 1015 Winding Road in
College Station.
Funeral services for Black are
pending at Memorial Funeral Cha
pel in Bryan.
Regents
gain new
member
Senate gives
Mays the nod
From staff and wire reports
The Texas Senate confirmed the
appointment of L. Lowry Mays of
San Antonio to the Texas A&M
Board of Regents Thursday by a 28-
0 vote.
Mays said, “I am very honored
that I was appointed and ! was very
proud. I look forward to serving on
the board for the next six years and
helping the Texas A&M System in
any way I can.”
Mays, 49, graduated from T exas
A&M in 1957 with a petroleum engi
neering degree. He is president of
Clear Channel Communications,
which owns San Antonio radio sta
tion WOAL.
Mays has served on the Universi
ty’s visual arts committee and the
Memorial Student Center Council.
Two other appointments to the
board by Gov. Mark White — Royce
E. Wisenbaker of Tyler and John
Mobley of Austin — have not yet
cleared committee.
A controversy has developed over
the appointment of Mobley. Sen.
Kent Caperton, D-Bryan, objected
to Mobley’s appointment because
White ignored ms recommendation
of Don Mauro of Bryan, Caperton’s
former law partner, to the board.
Ex-cadets charged in Goodrich case
Plea hearings scheduled for Monday
L U n I T T T A TJ TV "
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
Plea hearings for four former
Texas A&M students are scheduled
for 1 p.m. Monday.
The hearings for former Corps of
Cadets juniors Jason Miles, Anthony
D’Alessandro and Louis Fancher III
and former Corps senior Gabriel
Cuadra originally were scheduled
for March 25.
A spokesperson from the Court
Administrators Office, which sched
ules court dates, said County Court-
at-Law Judge Carolyn Ruffino de
cided to move the court date up for
the four former students. Ruffino,
who has imposed a gag order on ev
eryone associated with the case, was
not available for comment Thurs
day.
The four former students face
charges of hazing in connection with
the Aug. 30 death of cadet Bruce
Dean Goodrich, 20, who collapsed
and later died of a heat stroke after
participating in an early morning
exercise session. Miles, D’Alessandro
and Fancher also face charges of
criminally negligent homicide.
Cuadra, who now attends Miami-
Dade Community College in Flor
ida, was found guilty Jan. 31 of tam
pering with evidence in connection
with the case. The six-woman jury
advised a punishment of a $500 fine
and a jail term to be decided by Ruf
fino. The jury also advised proba
tion for both punishments.
Monday - night Ruffino an
nounced her decision of one year’s
probation, with no jail time, and a
$500 probated fine for Cuadra.
Like the charge of tami
with
large ot tampering
e charge of criminally
negligent homicide carries a penalty
of up to one year in jail and a fine of
up to $2,000. Hazing carries a jail
term of 10 days to three months, and
a fine of $25 to $200.
Reagan defends plan
to cut agricultural aid
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan said Thursday night he
would not “pull the rug out ... in
stantly” from under the nation’s
farmers, but that government agri
cultural programs have not worked
and he wants to return the “farm
economy'into the free marketplace.”
He said he plans to retain his con
troversial budget director, David
Stockman, who angered embattled
farmers by questioning their right to
government bailouts. “I can under
stand a fellow blowing his cool,” Rea
gan said of Stockman. Asked if he
wanted Stockman to stay on the job,
Reagan said yes.
At the first news conference of his
second term in office, Reagan also
said his goal in Nicaragua is to re
move the Sandinista government “in
the sense of its present structure,”
but said he would not seek to oust
the government “if they say uncle.”
“It is not a government chosen by
the people ... we believe we have an
obligation to be of help where w'e
can ... and we’re going to try to per
suade the Congress that we can legit
imately go forward,” he said.
Congress last year imposed a ban
on covert aid to the Nicaraguan re
bels known as “contras” and Reagan
has said he will seek to reinstate the
financial assistance.
Reagan also renewed his calls for
Congress to pass tax overhaul legis
lation this year, and to summon the
“political courage” needed to enact
his program of spending cuts.
With the Senate embroiled in a
dispute over emergency aid to cash-
strapped farmers, the president told
the nationally televised news confer
ence he supports a short-term pro
gram including $650 million in loans
and loan guarantees.
In addition, he said his adminis
tration would be presenting legis
lation on Friday to try to get the
farm economy back into the free
marketplace.
“We won’t pull the rug out from
under anyone instantly” who relies
on government programs, he said.
But, the president added quickly,
“The government programs did not
succeed. Many of the problems they
(farmers) face today are the result of
government ivolvement.”
Reagan also repeated his opposi
tion to a tax increase, saying the is
sue was debated and decided on
Nov. 6.
Reagan has called on Congress to
enact nearly $50 billion in spending
cuts in his 1986 fiscal year budget,
and while many of his proposals
have provoked sharp controversy in
Congress, he said, “protecting recov
ery will require political courage.”
Senate bill honors
Aggie post-mortem
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
The Texas Senate Thursday
approved a memorial bill honor
ing James William “Bill” Robin
son, a Texas A&M University se
nior who died last August as a
result of a one-car accident.
“Bill Robinson led an exem
plary life...this personable young
man was on everyone’s list of
most admired students of his se
nior class at Texas A&M,” states
Senate Resolution 141, intro
duced by Sen. Lyndon Williams
of Houston.
The Senate adjourned Thurs
day in honor of Robinson.
Williams was not available for
comment.
“I can’t speak for the senator,”
said Patsy Goldwater, administra
tive assistant in Williams’ Austin
office, “but I think he wanted to
honor a fine young man with an
excellent academic record.”
Charlie Burnham, administra
tive assistant in Williams’ Hous
ton office, said Williams “is a big
supporter of Texas A&M.”
Robinson, 22, was a senior
journalism major and editor of
The Battalion at the time of his
death.
He had planned to work as a
writer after graduating,
Robinson’s father, Jim Robin
son of Round Rock, said, “It’s
kind of unique for a student
leader to be honored this way.”
Mr. Robinson, deputy director
of the state property tax board,
said Williams called him last week
to tell him the resolution would
be introduced in the Senate.
Robinson’s parents established
the Bill Robinson Memorial
Scholarship fund to help jouna-
lism majors at Texas A&M.