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Tuesday, June 25^ 1985
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Separatist groups suspects in Air-lndia crash
advisoj Associated Press dotis lies” and said Sikhs do not kill 11 dominated state of Punjab and in the close to terrorist preacher Jarnail
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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 <ra*h of the.':
Boeing .747, which went, down
Sunday on a flight from Canada
to India, was caused b) terrorists,
. Mam international airports in
creased securit) after the crash.
An Air-lndia Boeing 747 about to
leave London for New York on
Mondaj was evacuated after the
airport received an anonjmons
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A wave of bombings killed at least
87 people Ma) 10-11 in northern In
dia. No group claimed responsibil-
it), but police blamed Sikh extrem-
leader demands
removal of U.S. warships
Associated Press
BBEIRUT, Lebanon — The Shiite
leader who has taken re-
spmsibilit) for 40 American hijack
inrmed,i':w^ s t a g es added another condition
Ifnoc(pB oru [ a , p ()r dieir release: withdra-
s are coi)»»i 0 f s. warships that have taken
onor 15 ” up positions off Lebanon.
• “iHNabih lierri, chief of the Shiite
’ l0n ' ....Bilitia Amal and Lebanon’s justice
01 ^“fpBinister, also dismissed as a “politi-
avoid inljiji z jnr Za o-” Israel’s release of 20
p r cun LKi
' ■tiites and Five Sunni Moslems who
>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
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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.”
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Flight 847 on a flight from Athens to
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Simpson: Corps a lot better
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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
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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.