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J AL ^ '.t: . :*&*£*% n.r-^Hr.mir.s.nth lUMsl^m «tarp nf Singh Bhindranwale, who was slain DELHI, India — Reported 0 roHi^B ms t ^ at ‘ l,K * Kashmir Mos- separatists blew up an Air-lndia jur lio jet highlight the turmoil in India’s two northern powder kegs — ■^■statesof Punjab and Kashmir. ■The Boeing 717 crashed into the advises Atlantic Ocean on Sunday with 329 lorthern people aboard. All aboard are be- which is |jt\,,| ; 0 have been killed. Claims of 1 warnsutlpsponsibilit; were made b^ three j ect to hone callers in the names of the n, fightinj4xtremist All-India Sikh Students’ - has mark Jederation; the Dashmesh Regi- hern \fc'»nt, believed to be its military -ter- fua. rorist wing, and the militant Kash miri .iberation Arm). ^fH^BThere was no conrirmation that tin claims were authentic. The i weread'^Bdgt'sjU, extremist political idor.Gi Ktion in Punjab called them “vi lla, SormlaW cious lies” and said Sikhs do not kill innocent people. Indian authorities said there was a strong possibilit) that a bomb caused the crash and the) were investigat ing the claims. The three groups have records of political assassina tion, random murder, hijackings, ar son and sabotage. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was murdered Oct. 31. The government sa) s her assassins were two Sikh members of her personal securit; guard, who apparentl) sought re venge for the arm) attack last June on the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs. Gandhi ordered the raid to drive out heavih armed Sikh extremists who had taken refuge inside the temple in the Punjab cit) of Amrit sar. % Sikhs sought by FBI Associated Press CORK, Ireland — Suspicions grew Monda) that a bomb plain ted b; terrorists caused an Air-ln dia jumbo jet with 329 people aboard to crash off the Insh- coast. said the) . sf£re ; convinced the ri man l)' J1 »d been captured in south Lebanon ■rs ot niffaf,,! l ie i ( l prisoner, times, ani I intact anil« Kerri and the hijackers demand Health o&j the release of all 706 Lebanese pris- ranizationi| on ers held b) the Israelis, more than pie toavoil|5h0of whom are said to be Shiites, in pchange for the Americans held Ttptive since the hijacking of a TWA diner June 14. E At the airport on Monda), gun- "en aboard the TWA aircraft sum- Joned a doctor to attend to one of idlersaid jtht American crewmen, but would ..Bat sa) which one.. T he) said he suf- 1 million feted stomach pains, luspicious^p The Amal leader told reporters: ,s. ThecotfBine advance of the htii Fleet to- d on more Bards 0 ur shores forces us to add picious blt'lo/y- more condition — this time for itial fmdiifBe Amal movement — and that is ts, Sandler® le give blwlty year, an a donor no 1, Sandler s at notificas at he isai “but we e 'mation the withdrawal of the 6th Fleet from our coast.” He has claimed that the 6th Fleet ships led b) the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz are prepared for a “militar; operation.” The Defense Depart ment denied Lebanese reports that F-14 fighters from the carrier flew over Beirut on Saturda). The warships were reported to be 25 miles off the Lebanese coast. Berri offered a glimmer of hope for an earl) solution to standoff. “The hostages are not in danger,” he said. “This (situation) should not last for too long.” The chief of Amal’s politburo, Akef Haidar, said later: “President Reagan knows that he can’t make an) militar) operation. . . . Ever)- bod) knows that the Marines can take over Lebanon in one stroke. But he can’t reall) free the hostages b) force. He would pass over their dead bodies. “We’re not going to kill them. But I’m sure that if he shells the area he’ll kill them before he kills us. He (Reagan) knows he can’t handle this thing with an arm). Israel thought so and ever) bod) knows what hap pened to them.” Two 'oung Shiites seized TWA Flight 847 on a flight from Athens to ild Army' never existed' t three-qinl jits are noj the RedCK* : sensitive 1 Simpson: Corps a lot better igJ ill Irm )5 Editor’s note: The following is the first of a two-part series on Lt. reliable ". pTen. Ormond Simpson. t/he sal'll | By JERRY OSL1N Staff Writer I During his 15 years with Texas A&M, Lt. Gen. Ormond R. Simpson J|as seen both the good and the bad in the Corps of Cadets. ■ Simpson, Glass of ’36, retired lom the Marine Corps in 1973 and ■came assistant vice president for ludent services and an informal ad- er to the Corps a year later. f The Corps today is a lot better in it was in 1936,” Simpson said, here is no comparison.” | The Corps from 1932-36 was minated by “really brutal hazing,” mpson said. I “It was brutal in the sense there ■as wide-spread use of the board lid that sort of thing for freshmen,” Bsaid. “They were haz«d unmerci- Itlly.” | Simpson, who will retire on Au- K tst 31, also said the Corps in the Os was limited in its leadership ■ aining possibilities. I “When I w as a cadet, the cadets Bade no decisions whatsoever,” he ®id. “They were told what to do by Be commandant and the Corps’ tac- ■Cal officers. Today, the Corps is a Beat opportunity to learn leader- |ip.” ■ The lifestyle of the Corps in the Vs was different from toaay’s life- lyle, he said. ■ “There were seven student-owned Automobiles and the keys were kept ^ the commandant’s off ice,” he said. 'We had no telephones in our rooms J Lt. Gen Ormond R. Simpson and the only way to get from one place to another was either by train or by hitching a ride.” Also, the Aggie Band was not as good as it is today, he said. “I was in the band back then and we didn’t know anything about the precision-type drills they do now,” he said. “The band back then was comparable to a third-rate high school of today. We were terrible, just lousy.” Simpson said the changes in the Corps since 1936 mostly are for the better. “The cadets today are a lot more mature, a lot more worldly wise,” he said. “I’m very encouraged by the willingness of the present Corps leadership to try and take the life style of the Corps out of the 60s and ists and arrested more than two dozen Sikhs in New Delhi. Separatists seeking independent homelands are active in the Sikh- dominated state of Punjab and in the predominant!) Moslem state of Kashmir. Extremist Sikhs and Moslems in the troubled states bordering largel) Moslem Pakistan claim the) are op pressed in Hindu-dominated India. In letters to newspapers, the Dashmesh Regiment pledged more violence and said it would kill an im portant person ever) da) unless the f ;overnment withdrew paramilitan orces from the Golden Temple and lifted the ban on the student group. The Dashmesh Regiment calls its members latter-da) crusaders of the 10th and last guru, Gobind Singh, who organized the Sikhs into a war rior sect to fight Moslem invaders in the 17th centur). The Sikh Students Federation was Rome. The) killed a U.S. Nav; man and released all but the 40 people now held, most of them at stops in Beirut and Algiers. The red-and-white Boeing 727 has been on the ground in Beirut since June 16, with the three-man flight crew aboard. The 37 passen gers were taken to hiding places in and around Beirut. The hijackers are believed to be from the Hezbollah (Part) of God), a radical Shiite group that organized a demonstration at the airport last Fri da) . Although Berri has taken over the negotiations, Amal and Hezbol lah gunmen are said to be guarding the hostages joint!). As the 31 Lebanese prisoners were handed over to the Interna tional Red Cross in an Israeli-con- trolled south Lebanon “securitj zone,” Berri told reporters the 40 Americans will be held until all the prisoners are freed. Israel has said that it had intended to release the prisoners, and that set ting them free is not related to the hostage situation. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said in a television interview Monda) : “When there will be quiet (in south Lebanon) there will be no reason to keep these pris- Photo by GREG BAILEY Whatever the Weather This weather vane cowpoke is too busy to bother with the what might be happening in the sky above the Forest Science Building. For the rest of the people with their feet on the ground, today’s weather will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and a high of 88 degrees. close to terrorist preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was slain in the Golden Temple attack. The D , which claimed to have several ed thousand members, was banned in March 1984 because the government said it was tn ing to raise a 150,000-man guerrilla arm) to fight for an independent Punjab. Hundreds of activists were jailed and some still are being held in Pun jab, but the government recentl) lifted the ban in an effort to resolve the Punjab problem. Kashmiri separatists are not as well-known as the Sikhs. Moslem ex tremists of the Kashmir Liberation Arm), an offshoot of the Kashmir Liberation Front, want a nation in dependent of both India and Paki stan. But both countries claim their Himala) an state. Police foil IRA plan to bomb hotels Associated Press LONDON — Police have uncov ered an Irish Republican Arm) plan to bomb hotels in 12 English seaside resorts at the height of the tourist season in mid-Jul), the head of Scot land Yard’s Anti-Terrorist Squad said Monda) night. Commander Simon Crawshaw, speaking to a news conference in London, refused to confirm press reports linking five men and two women being held in connection with the bombing campaign to last October’s IRA bomb attack in Brigh ton. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet narrowl) escaped death in the bombing of Brighton’s Grand Hotel, which killed five people. The IRA claimed responsibiht; for the attack, one of its most spectacular terrorist acts on the British mainland. Police discovered the plan for the Jul) hotel bombings as a result of pa pers found when five people were arrested in Scotland on Saturda) un der provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, Crawshaw said. Scotland Yard used the informa tion to find and defuse a bomb with a long-dela; timer at the Rubens Ho tel near Buckingham Palace on Sun- da) and to arrest two more people in London on Monda) under the same law, he said. put it in the 80s.” The attitude toward the Corps by the cadets also is changing for the better, he said. “I have been stressing, ever since I came here, that you come to A&M to get an education first and everything else is secondary, including the Corps of Cadets,” Simpson said. “It’s taken a long time but that idea is be ginning to take hold because the data from the spring semester show that the grades of the freshmen in the Corps were a little bit higher than the grades of the freshmen in the University as a whole.” Simpson said he also is encour aged by the resolve of the Corps’ leadership to protect underclassmen from severe hazing. “Curt Van De Walle (Corps Com mander) is a very fine, strong indi vidual supported by a strong staff, and I believe they will do whatever is necessary to make sure the Corps is a more pleasant place for freshmen and sophomores,” Simpson said. “There won’t be any physical hazing and I don't think you'll see anybody’s dignity insulted or any body do things that will demean somebody.” Simpson said he expects some re sistance to the anti-hazing changes in the Corps. “There will always be people asso ciated with the Corps, as in any other group or organization, who will ob ject to any change that is made,” he said. “These people are called ‘Old Army,’ but that’s a ficticious name See Simpson, page 7 Reagan cancels vacation because of hostage crisis Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Reagan, concerned about being on vacation while 40 American travelers remain hostage in Beirut, abruptly canceled plans to spend the July Fourth holiday at his ranch in Cali fornia, the White House announced Monday. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan would travel to Chicago on Friday for a speaking en gagement and might visit some fam ily members of hostages who live nearby. But Speakes said Reagan told his staff he had decided not to continue on to California for the 10- day vacation he had planned to spend at Rancho del Cielo in the Santa Ynez mountains near Santa Barbara. Speakes refused to comment on a new demand by Shiite Moslem leader Nabih Berri that the U.S. 6th Fleet withdraw from the coast of Lebanon, other than to say the U.S. warships are “not in Lebanese wa ters.” The Pentagon has confirmed that a naval task force led by the nuclear- powered aircraft carrier Nimitz is in the eastern Mediterranean, and other reports have put the naval group about 25 miles off the coast of “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the despicable acts 6; ter rorists during the past da) s against innocent travelers.” Secretan of State George Shultz. Lebanon, where TWA’s hijacked jet liner and 40 American male passen gers are still being held following the June 14 hijacking. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said in an interview Monday that the U.S. warships are in international waters and that the United States has no intention of yielding “to demands of terrorist hi jackers.” Weinberger said terrorist attacks amount to war and that the United States has the right to move its ships however it wants in international wa ters. But the Pentagon chief also said that while the administration “has reserved its rights to take whatever action seems to be proper,” the United States will not retaliate mili tarily against the hijackers just for revenge. Reagan, meanwhile, met with his top national security advisers to re view the latest terrorist incidents around the world and get an update on the Beirut situation. Deputy White House press secretary Robert Sims said after the 90-minute meet ing that diplomatic efforts would continue as the United States seeks to gain the hostages’ release. He re fused to discuss the meeting in de tail. At the State Department, spokes man Bernard Kalb labeled as “pre posterous” a Soviet charge that the United States was using the hostage crisis as an excuse for a military buildup in the Middle East. Kalb said Secretary of State George P. Shultz had sent letters “expressing our shock and indigna tion” to the foreign ministers of In dia, Canada and Japan” following the fatal crash Sunday of an Air In dia jumbo jet and the explosion of a bomb in Tokyo that apparently had been planted aboard a Canadian Pa cific flight that was being unloaded after a flight from Vancouver. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the despicable acts by terrorists during the past days against innocent travelers,” the American spokesman said.