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>rs several areas Wednesday, April 10, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 13 WORLD AND NATION Funky Winkerbean I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M ACTUALS STANDING IN THE 'MEDITATION fopOPiV gardens' IN front OF EUIIS'S TOMBSTONE / (WHOA THERE NO(aJ ! DON'T <POO STEP ON MO BLUE . SUEDE SHOES / by Tom Batiuk OHj m LORD / A TALKING TOMBSTONE / IT'S A MIRACLE/ 6 killed in Vietnam War identified Remains to be returned s QM <L Jli E 5 mi Associated Press WASHINGTON — An Army lab oratory has identif ied the remains of [ six American servicemen killed dur ing the Vietnam War, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The identifications were made over the past month at the Army’s Central Identification Laboratory in | Honolulu, Hawaii, following the re turn of the remains to U.S. officials i in Hanoi, said spokesman Michael 1. i Burch. The Vietnamese had said they were returning the remains of five individuals thought to be American servicemen, but extensive tests at the lab produced six positive identifica tions, Burch said. Four of the six men identified were Air Force officers who were shot down in their aircraft over North Vietnam and subsequently listed as missing in action. The oth ers — an Army officer and a Marine Corps officer — were listed as pris oners of war who were known to have died after being captured, the Pentagon said. The Pentagon identified the men as: • Air Force Col. Melvin J. Killian, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, reported lost over North Vietnam on Sept. 30, 1965. 4 • Air Force Maj. Cleveland S. v Harris, of Birmingham, Ala., re ported lost over North Vietnam on Feb. 29, 1968. • Air Force Maj. Chambliss M. Chesnutt, of Little Rock, Ark., re ported lost over North Vietnam on Sept. 30, 1965. • Air Force Capt. Michael D. Chwan, of Bayonne, N.J., reported lost over North Vietnam Sept. 30, 1965. • Army Sgt. Gerasimo Arroyo- Bae/., of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, re ported as having been captured in South Vietnam on March 24, 1969, and subsequently dying in captivity. • Marine Sgt. Robert C. Sher man, of Danville, Ill., reported as having been captured in South Viet nam on June 24, 1967, and subse- quently dying in captivity. Burch said Arroyo-Baez and Sherman were the first American servicemen whose remains had been recovered after being captured and held in POW camps in South Viet nam. Since 1974, not counting the six newly identified servicemen, Hanoi has returned the remains of 93 Americans lost in Vietnam and one lost in Laos, including 23 who died in captivity in North Vietnam. rirkicktiiti 11 IT Former secretary of interior dealing with Indian tribes ie Gate )ril20 Yvailable ganizatiofl$| ic Bookstore, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Two years af ter declaring that Indian reserva tions demonstrated “the failures of socialism,” former Interior Secretary James G. Watt is peddling business deals among tribal leaders in the name of old-fashioned American capitalism. Watt also is traveling the lecture circuit, heaping praise on the “Rea gan revolution” and rebuking the press and Eastern liberals. He aver- ges three or four speeches a week, nd is especially popular on college ampuses, according to his agent, Harry Walker Inc. of New York. Watt charges $10,000 these days or speaking his mind, something hat cost him his Gabinet post in Oc- ober1983. He is writing a book entitled “T he >ourage of a Conservative.” He in- ists that “I don’t have any political mbitions,” and dismisses rumors that he might run for governor of his native Wyoming next year. 1'oday, Watt remains a staunch conservative, Rea gan loyalist, scourge of en viron m en talists, /1 on -fa n of the Beach Boys and tart-tongued champion of private enterprise and a strong military. A remark about appointing a Iblack, a woman, “two Jews and a cripple” to a federal commission .ended Watt’s political career. After Hie resigned on Oct. 9, 1983, Watt Keclared that he would “continue l our crusade ... to establish spiritual ■reedom and political liberty in this Country, for that is the real battle- [round.” Today, Watt remains a staunch conservative, Reagan loyalist, scourge of environmentalists, non- fan of the Beach Boys and tart-tong ued champion of private enterprise and a strong military. Among his close friends, he is known affectiona tely as “the Bald Eagle.” A few blocks from the White House, Watt runs his own legal and business consulting firm. Mounted prominently on the wall of his outer office is a wood-ca,rvecl seal of the secretary of interior, with the buf falo depicted facing right instead of the traditional left. Watt is partner with Roy H. Sampsel, a former assistant interior secretary for Indian affairs, in an other firm called First Americans Co. which promotes development projects on Indian reservations. Watt is reported to have arranged one recent deal in which the Coman- ches of Oklahoma agreed to let a Philadelphia company build a $10 million hotel complex near Lawton, Okla., in exchange for majority in terest in the property. Watt and Sampsel also are nego tiating with Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians for an oil and natural gas project on the Wind River Reserva tion in central Wyoming. If the deal goes through. Watt says, tribal in come would increase $100 million in . one year. According to local press reports. Watt and his associates would re ceive a 14 percent consulting royalty for production on existing oil and gas fields jointly owned by the two tribes.In addition, the Indians would be paid production royalties escalat ing to 50 percent after 25 years on 800,000 acres of undeveloped tracts. Some Indian leaders are wary of doing business with Watt, whom they remember not only for his “fail ures of socialism” remark but the Reagan administration’s cuts in fed eral aid to tribal governments. “It kind of concerns me,” said Burnett Whiteplume, a member of the Arapahoe Business Gouncil. “He had tl>fe chance to help us out as sec retary of the interior, and he did not.” Said Alfred Ward, co-chairman of the Shoshone tribal council in Wyoming: “I’m thinking of a car toon with Mr. Watt next to an oil well saying, ‘The only good Indian is one with oil’.” Padre Cafe presents an encore performance. Due to popular demand. Padre Cafe will continue Catfish Flight each Wednesday and Thursday. All the mouthwatering Mississippi Delta catfish filets, coleslaw and rolls you can eat for $5.95. Whether you're out for your first performance, or are a season ticket holder, you don't want to miss this show. Catfish Nights Wednesday and Thursday 5 p.m. 'til close. 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