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lL N.O.W, discusses how women con acquire and keep power — Page 3 Denver picks former Aggie in fifth round of NBA draft — Page 5 Cheese food poisoning cases reported in Fort Worth area — Page 3 x i IX X appoints T9- ■HHHpm < 1H| Texas A&M A The Battalion : DOUBLE 'ing at read Serving the University community ions, thesi nes. Typinj 3 stop. Oil’ University p. 79 No. 160 CJSPS 045360 8 pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 19, 1985 Reagan says U.S. won’t make concessions o 10x30 to $77 y*” WASHINGTON Associated Press President ■n. declaring that the United ids is “being attacked by interna- lal terrorists who wantonly kill,” ;ed Americans on Tuesday night teer clear of countries in the Mid- Fa it that do not condemn the sei- Hf the TWA airliner and its pas- g|s- \t a nationally broadcast news iffflence, his first in almost three ntl s, Reagan announced a series ueps to promote safety of Ameri- is traveling abroad. He also called tliout condition” for the release the almost 40 Americans held Hive in undisclosed locations in n ui FOUNt A ,ne . r ‘ ca never make conces sions to terrorism ... to do so will only invite more terrorism,” the president vowed. Reagan directed members of his Cabinet to consider putting more U.S. sky marshals on international flights and to study halting Ameri can service to Athens, where the armed hijackers boarded Trans World Arlines Flight 847 last Friday. He also advised American citizens against traveling through the Athens airport or to “any country that does not . . . publicly condemn this atroc ity.” “I’m as frustrated as anyone,” Reagan said of the situation. “I’ve pounded a few walls myself, when I’m alone, about this. It is frustrat ing. ... You have to be able to pin- Some hostages return, families of others waif Associated Pres* More Americans released by Arab hijackers were welcome/! home with embraces Tuesday, but some said they felt guilty at leaving others on the plane, and families of those still held m Leb anon tied yellow ribbons and urged the government to help. *Tm home and real glad to be here,” Penny Bam ford, 34, said Tuesday from her parents’ home at Hanover, Pa. She refused to discuss her or deal, hut her father, Kichard, said she had been mentally tortured by a hijacker placing an unloaded See Hijack, page 8 point the enemy. You can’t just start shooting without having someone in your gunsights.” Despite his stern demeanor and insistence on a prompt release of the hostages, the president acknowl edged he was frustrated and was in hibited from taking strong action in retaliating now. To do so, he said, would amount to “sentencing a number of Ameri cans to death.” Reagan, noting that only an hour earlier, the body of slain Navy Petty Officer Robert D. Stethem, 23, had been returned home, told the na tional audience: “It underscores the inescapable fact (that) the United States is a nation tonight being at tacked by international terrorists who wantonly kill.” Asked if he would accept any solu tion to the 5-day-old crisis that would not free seven Americans kid napped earlier in Lebanon, Reagan responded: “We cannot give up on them ... It is an extremely difficult, seemingly impossible task . . . No, we haven’t given up on them.” Among those kidnapped is Terry Anderson, chief Middle East'corre spondent of The Associated Press. Nabih Berri, the Shiite Moslem leader who has been playing a key role in the drama, said earlier Tues day that if Israel released some 700 Shiites held near Haifa that hostage taking would he solved within 24 hours. Reagan said, however, that “we have not dealt with them on that . . . We have not interfered.” Under questioning, he said he thought Israel had violated the Ge neva convention by taking the Shiites from Lebanon as Israeli forces withdrew. giJew IDO head SH lays he’s ready o go to work i, silver diamorj eryRei ease. Associated Press londs HlNTSVILLE — The new head Texas prison system says he’s ^ ^ covered he does not need a lot of 5 COIN e P anf * believes in visiting prisons ANTE ^' e Huddle of the night. pine McCotter, 44, who describes versify Df, |*lf as “compulsive to get things ■8916 ne ’’ might get accustomed to exasAve. jpwess nights. il Chico,BrfThe pace was too much for Ray- 7662 )ncl Procunier, the man McCotter —■a—places at the helm of the nation’s -ond-largest prison system. On nday, the 61-year-old Procunier 'nlunced his retirement, saying he Bout of gas” af ter 13 months. CondC” ■ CUnier s tas ks included dealing ..■unprecedented violence — in to A&M iding the recent burden of a iers-dn# 1 ' s ^ eat b — and reorganizing a , ' ,000-inmate system saddled with a ecuntyMai court mandate for reform, more f 1 i°b> he said, was 100 times more fflult than he expected, even with y DaC/(- tensive experience in the field, inds 4B ard °f Corrections Chairman ’ .)bert Gunn, in an interview pub- n08Q| (lied Tuesday in The Huntsville "7 ?m said the intensity of negotia- to resolve a 13-year-old civil in. io moniMMs lawsuit — and the reluctance icw, now .. ,o ov Mark White to go along with -'Bettlement — prompted Procu- ■d.goodtonto'Ll t() 0 ff er hj s resignation several --nes. Gunn said it was necessary for xiied,shaft^jodunier t 0 remain. |“I don’t know if the courts would ive approved thy settlement if Pro- mier hadn’t been there,” Gunn id! “We had to have him on board kway, 322like F n tlie signing took place. nonth.7i3-6>Kj“He was pretty upset that T^tek when we couldn’t get the gov- back-up, pfc Tior to go along. He (Procunier) nT-fiii W d say ‘Oh, I’ve had all this 411shit that I can stand.’ rt-)4.oi)tiiny.|VVhite’s criminal justice aide, ershel Meriwether, denied there ——<l a lack of support from the gov- Caicuiaiori . n()| ^ n{ j p rocun j er on Monday n Beogram . . / 3-7732. Bsed the cooperation he received -Tall levels of the state bureaucracy. last So far this year, there have been 13 homicides behind prison walls, running at a pace equal to a year ago, when 25 killings occurred. Nearly 400 stabbing incidents were reported in 1984. Two weeks ago, a female prison guard was slain. On Sunday, an in mate died after being stabbed 58 times. “I don’t think it will ever go away,” Procunier said. “No level of violence is ever acceptable.” Procunier also said the slaying of guard Minnie Houston contributed to his decision. “You can only bear so many trage dies in life,” he said. “I had my last one.” McCotter, meanwhile, said the vi olence problem would be the top priority of his administration. “There will always be violence but there’s no reason why we mast ac cept this,” he said. McCotter came to Texas last July after a career in the military, retiring with the rank of colonel. In Viet nam, he was with headquarters of the 18th Military Police Brigade. He also served with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. McCot ter also was commander of the mili tary’s only maximum security prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was White’s choice to direct Texas prisons at the time the job went to Procunier, who had headed the nation’s largest prison system in California, as well as the Virginia and Utah systems. But the prison board selected Pro cunier instead and named McCotter to the No. 2 job. Procunier replaced half the war dens at the system’s 27 prisons, took new steps to concentrate the most troublesome inmates at fewer pris ons, beefed up a depleted staff in both numbers and morale, in addi tion to his role in reaching the law suit settlement to be signed next month, Future Fireman? David Owens, 6, of College Station, helps hold a firehose Tuesday during the 18th annual Camp Fun and Frolic. The camp, spon- sored by the Bryan-College Station Jaycees, enables handicapped Photo by Anthony S. Casper and learning-disabled children to experience the joys of day camp. Camp activites include fishing, horseback riding, swim ming and bowling. Discovery — 2 down, 1 to go Satellite launched for Arab League Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Dis covery’s astronauts launched a com- munications satellite Tuesday for an Arab world so volatile that the device required safeguards to stop any one country from sending unwelcome messages to another. With a Saudi Arabian prince-as tronaut as an enthusiastic observer, the Arabsat satellite spun flawlessly out of the shuttle’s cargo bay after giving a false indication that one of its solar panels had opened prema turely, a condition that would have prevented launch. “Very, very good job,” said Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud. “It never looked better. As a matter of fact, it looked much better than the More los deployment.” The Morelos-A satellite was de ployed Monday to provide commu nications for Mexico, giving the as tronauts an orbit-delivery score of two down and one to go. A satellite for AT&T is scheduled for release today. When it is in operation, Arabsat will serve as a space switchboard for telephone and data transmission and for regional and community tele vision tor 22 Arab League members, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and such countries as Libya, and Syria and Iraq — who are ,1*111 icvcis ui me siaic uuicautu acy. motun. ouuan oaiman /vi-oauu. 11 ncvei ruoya, ana Syria ana Iraq — wno are Soils aid sexually-abused children I CARE / bitter enemies. “We have a board of directors and we have a general assembly,” Arab sat director Ali Al-Mashat said. “Pal estine is represented there as one of the members.” He said the league recognizes the PLO as the legal representative of Palestine, which he said is paying only two-tenths of 1 percent of the total cost of the satellite operation. The PLO lays claim to Palestine, the land now shared by Israel and Jordan. In its covenant, the organi zation is committed to the overthrow of the Jewish state. The satellite, built by Ford Aero space and the French firm Aerospa tiale, can be encrypted to avoid polit ical problems among the Arab user countries that could arise from the content of television programs or other transmissions. The United States considers Libya a terrorist state, has poor relations with Syria and only recently restored relations with Iraq. The consortium of Arab nations is paying the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $11 million to launch the $45 million Arabsat, the same price the Mexican government paid for Morelos-A — that country’s first communications satellite. T7Z By BRIAN PEARSON an.WW J Staff Writer \NTED M ie Biyan and College Station ^^ilice departments have provided a d immcdiaiif el’icate method for sexually-abused 442 1 s. iew nildi e n to relate their experiences y using dolls resembling Cabbage uiaiMk liar* 'at, ^ g K l s ''jHtt'itionli^wetective Sgt. Ted Tumlinson of ' ilTri ! r ® r y an Police Department, said a "" ‘" 1u " ■ng victim of sexual molestation — an illustrate the acts of sexual abuse i sir or w anatomically correct dolls. umlinson said the use of the bl :: has been “very effective” be- afise for some children explaining a lory with actions is easier than giv- a strictly verbal version. Idle sessions are conducted as a Hit-on-one meeting between child tnd interviewer and are videotaped, tesaid. ■Tumlinson said the children, who tre usually under 12 years old, do Nine out of ten kids / talk to feel guilty about what they’ve done. The dolls help children talk about their experiences with less shame and embarrassment. When they finally get h all out they say, "Why didn f l say something before?”— Detective Sgt, Ted Tumlinson in. Plumbin| s not have to go through the painful process of verbally describing the in cidents to the court since the video tapes are used in court as evidence. Kevin Roby, juvenile investigator of the College Station Police Depart ment, said the interviewer usually is a juvenile officer or a representative from the Department of Human Re sources. “We have to determine who the child will talk with,” Roby said. “So metimes a little girl will not talk to a guy and we have to determine who thev feel most comfortable with.” Roby said an interviewer has to be able to communicate well with a child. “It takes a certain type of person to get down on the floor and play with kids and play with dolls,” Roby said. Tumlinson said, “Nine out of 10 kids I talk to feel guilty about what they’ve done. They feel they’ve brought the attack upon themsel ves.” He said the dolls help children talk about their experiences with less shame and embarrassment. “When they finally get it all out they say, ‘Why didn’t I say some thing before?’ ” Tumlinson said. Roby said the videos have been used successfully in court. “It comes out a lot better to a jury or a judge to see the kids actually demonstrate, through the dolls, what happened to them,” Roby said. Currently, the CSPD does not own any dolls but has ordered 12, Roby said. The anatomically correct dolls, he said, will not resemble the Bryan department’s Cabbage Patch models. He said the College Station de- f tartment has borrowed the dolls rom the BPD and other organiza tions to use in 15 cases of child mo lestation over the past two years. The eight dolls the Bryan depart ment owns, Tumlinson said, have been used by children in about 50 cases of sexual abuse over the past two years. Red Cross asked to learn status of Shiite prisoners Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States, refusing to negotiate with hi jackers of a TWA jetliner holding Americans hostage, has requested the International Red Cross to con tact Israel and determine the status of its plans for releasing more than 700 Lebanese Shiite prisoners, the White House said Tuesday. Release of the prisoners, captured during the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, is a key demand of the hi jackers, who seized the airliner last Friday and still hold about 40 Amer ican passengers hostage. The New York Times in today’s editions quoted unidentified White House officials as saying that Presi dent Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz will meet Thursday and Friday with Alexander Hay, president of the International Red Cross, and his chief operations offi cer, Jean-Pierre Hocke. White House spokeswoman Denny Brisley said Tuesday night, “I don’t know if there are firm plans” for such a meeting. The U.S. officials said they hoped the Red Cross could help arrange the end of the hostage crisis without seeming to compromise the refusal of the United States or Israel to deal with terrorists, the Times reported.