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Wednesday, June 19, 1985
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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
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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.
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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
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Soils aid sexually-abused children
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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
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''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.