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July 19B^ n a ^ r * e ^ moving ceremony at
Bs base in a Washington suburb,
j?.! thi president shook the hand of
Bch of the former captives as they
came off the plane that brought
Bm back to American soil. He re-
nn (led them, however, that “the
Ijpmecoming won’t be complete” un
til seven other kidnapped Americans
art returned home.
■‘There is only one thing to say,”
Rt igan said, “and I say it from the
bottom of my heart in the name of
all the people of our country: Wel-
t^nie home.”
■ At the end of the ceremony, Rea-
Bn looked around and said, with a
wide grin: “Go home!”
■ From Andrews Air Force Base,
the newly reunited families returned
■palettely to their homes across the
Bad. Nine other former hostages
Bade their own travel plans from
Best Germany, where they were
flown after their release.
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Reagan and his wife stopped at
Arlington National Cemetery en
route to the arrival ceremony and
laid a wreath and other flowers at
the grave of Robert Dean Stethem.
He was the only fatality among the
153 people kidnapped aboard Trans
World Airlines Flight 847 by Shiite
Moslem hijackers on June 14.
“They beat Robby Stethem with
out mercy, then shot him to death,”
Reagan said a few minutes later at
Andrews. “Our joy at your return is
substantial, but so is our pain at what
was done to that son of America.
“I know you care deeply about
Robby Stethem and what was done
to him. We will not forget what was
done to him. There will be no for
getting. His murderers must be
brought to justice.”
The president also mentioned the
seven Americans taken captive in
Lebanon previously and still in ter
rorist hands. “They must be re
leased,” Reagan said. “The home
coming won’t be complete until all
have come home.”
He said America was never dis
tracted from the plight of the hos
tages.
“Whatever the presumed griev
ance or political motive that caused
these actions, let there be no confu
sion,” the president said. “A crime
was cbmmitted against you. Hijack
ing is a crime, kidnapping is a crime,
murder is a crime and holding our
people prisoner is a crime.”
By tne time the president and
Mrs. Reagan arrived at Andrews,
some of the hostages’ relatives were
already aboard the TWA airliner.
The Reagans also went aboard and
the president told of having just
come from Stethem’s grave.
Presidential spokesman Larry
Speakes said the president was intro
duced to the hostages and their fam
ilies by John Testrake, the pilot of
the hijacked TWA airliner and one
of the 39 men held captive.
“We would like to express our sin
cere respect and gratitude to Presi
dent Reagan and the United States
government for the continued ef
forts which resulted in the safe and
peaceful end of our difficult situa
tion,” Testrake said later during the
airport ceremony.
Earlier in the day, Speakes was
asked if the United States would try
to take action against the TWA hi
jackers, now that their identities are
known. “We plan to take whatever
steps are available to us, both legally
and otherwise, to bring these people
to justice,” Speakes said.
Cisneros looking forward
to serving on A&M Board
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By KAREN BLOCH
Staff Writer
| Henry Cisneros, the newest mem
ber of the Texas A&M Board of Re
gents, said Tuesday he sees his role
on the board as trying to relate the
re^urces of A&M to the future of
Texas.
■ Cisneros, who was attending a
board orientation on the A&M cam
pus, was named a regent in June fol-
Bwing the resignation of H.R.
“Bum” Bright.
I Bright resigned in August after
Houston attorney Joe Reynolds was
elected the board’s vice chairman.
Bright said he objected to Reynolds
serving as an .officer because he is
not a graduate of A&M.
I A 1968 graduate of A&M, G’isne-
Iros said that he looks forward to
serving on the board as his second
highest priority after being mayor of
San Antonio.
■ “That (serving as San Antonio’s
mayor) is what I am elected to do
Bid that’s my primary obligation.
Bin,” he said, “at the same time I feel
a lleep obligation to Texas A&M for
all it’s given me.
■ “My role on the board is like that
of any other regent, to do the abso
lute best I can to make this institu-
wm the greatest University that it
can possibly be.”
B Cisneros said he wants to reach
.this goal in such a way that it meets
the needs of all Texans geograph
ically, economically, ethnically, and
in other ways that are “true to the
tradition of the land grant institu
tions that were intended to serve the
pbblicgood.”
Bl However, he said “I think I do en-
|r into my service with some partic-
! ular interests.”
| “I have a great interest in assuming
jthai A&M stays in the forefront of
fisearch so that it can lead Texas in
Be new economy and ... it can lead
Bexas in restoring the strength of its
older industry, such as agriculture.
B“1 think I have a special interest in
Baining related to the technology
Bctor. That means, not only in so
phisticated research, but in exten-
tipn.”
■ Also, Cisneros said he felt there
was a need to try to solve the prob-
fcms of the rapid urbanization of
Bexas.
■ “Texas is becoming a more urban-
Bed state,” he said. “We are the only
New Texas A&M regent Henry Cisneros
state in the country to have as many
as 28 metropolitan areas within the
state. We have, within our bounda
ries, three of the top-ten most pop
ulous cities in America.
“We must stress urban-related ed
ucation — the building of the water
systems and the transportations sys
tems and the energy systems that are
needed for the future of an urbaniz
ing Texas.”
Cisneros said that since A&M is
land grant institution the University
has an obligation to serve all Texans
and that this principle also can be
applied to the issue of women join
ing the Aggie Band.
A former commander of the
band, Cisneros said women should
be allowed to enjoy the same oppor
tunities offered men.
“For a long time,” he said, “in our
society, women have not been al
lowed the full range of opportunities
that have been allowed to some of
us.
“If restrictions had been placed in
my way that would have prevented
me from serving in the Corps or in
the A&M Band, then clearly, my life
would have been different. That was
one of the formative experiences in
my life.
“In this day and time, recognizing
the role that women play in our so
ciety and the way we have structured
our society — quite appropriately, in
terms of laws and protections for
people irrespective of race or gender
— such a thing (membership in the
band) is an important opportunity to
extend to women.”
Cisneros said he feels that there is
no justification for denying the op
portunity of band membership.
“There are important opportuni
ties in life that women have not had
a full chance at in the years past
and,” he said, “I see no damage done
to the institution by allowing women
to particitpate in the A&M Band.”
Cisneros’ term on the board ex
pires Jan. 1, 1987.
Photo by Greg Bailey
Concentration
Miss Texas A&M, Terry Fritz, spends some time Tuesday practicing
for the Miss Texas Scholarship Pageant. Fritz, a 22-year old veter-
nary student from San Antonio, will perform a baton twirling rou
tine in the talent portion of the competition. The pageant will be
held on July 13 in Fort Worth after a weekof preliminary competi
tion.
Inmates riot
at 4 prisons
in Tennessee
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rampag
ing convicts set buildings ablaze and
seized hostages in uprisings at four
Tennessee prisons over new prison
uniforms, including one that ended
only when inmates aired their com
plaints on live television Tuesday.
At the Tennessee State Prison in
Nashville, inmates first seized 20
nurses and held them briefly in the
prison hospital, then held five
guards. They freed the guards only
after speaking about their griev
ances in a news conference televised
live by the three network television
stations in Nashville.
Earlier, inmates at the Turney
Center prison in Only, about 60
miles west of Nashville, freed 20 in
mate hostages they seized in an all-
night siege that began Monday. Five
prisoners were injured during the
initial uprising, officials said.
Authorities, meanwhile, con
tained similar trouble at the Morgan
County Regional Correctional Fa
cility in Wartburg, and said convicts
at the Bledsoe County Correctional
Facility in Pikeville had gone back to
their cells.
Corrections Department spokes
man John Taylor said none of the
hostages was harmed, but an inmate
was stabbed at Turney Center. He
said the man’s name and condition
were not known.
T he new uniforms, which have
stripes along the pants legs and are
designed to make inmates immedi
ately recognizable as such, were a
factor in all four disturbances, state
officials said.
The inmates also complained
about bad food, the lack of rehabili
tation programs and overcrowded
conditions that a federal judge has
ordered improved.
Plan awaits congressional OK
Corpus Christ! gets port
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Defense
Department announced plans Tues
day to spread 29 of the nation’s
warships among nine homeports on
the Gulf Coast, sending the battle
ship Wisconsin and the training car
rier Lexington to Corpus Christi.
Corpus Christi also would get
three smaller warships under the
plan, making it the clear winner in
the competition among Gulf cities
for the Wisconsin and the job bo
nanza that often results from home-
port status.
The plan, which would spread the
vessels among nine Gulf ports, now
goes to Capitol Hill. If approved, it
would wrap up a massive planning
operation to find homeports for the
largest warships in the Reagan ad
ministration’s buildup to a 600-ship
Navy.
The plans, announced by Defense
Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger
and Navy Secretary John F. Lehman
will be implemented late in this de
cade at the earliest, the Navy said.
Weinberger said Tuesday the
Wisconsin — the last of the four bat
tleships coming out of mothballs —
woula call Corpus Christi home.
An d the Lexington would move
from Pensacola to Corpus Christi,
probably in 1992, Weinberger Said.
Houston-Galveston, which sub
mitted a joint application, was
among the other winners in Tues
day’s homeport sweepstakes.
Weinberger announced the as
signment of:
A cruiser, destroyer and mine
sweeper to Corpus Christi.
Two frigates and three mine
sweepers to the Houston-Galveston
area.
Gulf states and cities wooed the
Navy with offers of millions of dol
lars’ worth of improvements in or
der to get the Wisconsin, and Cor
pus Christi led the list, offering $50
million in “funding offsets” to cut
construction costs.
As a result of the offers, the Navy
estimated it could construct all facili
ties needed for about $ 164 million.
Weinberger’s statement stressed
the plans were contingent on envi
ronmental impact findings and
other factors. But he said he had ap
proved the overall Navy plan and
endorsed the idea of dispersing the
ships around the Gulf coast area.
When President Reagan came
into office in 1981, the Navy had 479
deployable ships. The Navy expects
to hit the 600-ship goal in fiscal
1989, and top officials have long ar
gued the extra ships should not be
concentrated at existing ports such
as Norfolk, Va., and Charleston,
S.C.
Navy sources have also said Leh
man and Weinberger were deter
mined to locate some major combat
ant ships in the Gulf region where
they could more quickly be deployed
to Central America.
The Navy said Corpus Christi can
expect to gain 5,200 naval and civil
ian personnel and an annual Penta
gon payroll of $95 million to $100
million from the decision. The fig
ures exclude dependents or private-
sector jobs generated by homeport
status but include shipboard person
nel.
The Houston-Galveston area can
expect roughly 500 military and ci
vilian personnel and an annual pay
roll of $8 million to $9 million'.
U.S., U.S.S.R. set summit date
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —President
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev have set their long-an
ticipated summit meeting for late
November in Geneva with an
agenda ranging from nuclear
weapons curbs to turmoil in the
Middle East and Latin America,
administration officials said
Tuesday.
It will be the first U.S.-Soviet
summit meeting in six years and
Reagan’s first encounter with the
new Soviet leader.
A formal announcement was
expected shortly, but White
House and State Department of
ficials said the meeting would be
held Nov. 19-21.
“We believe we can and should
resolve outstanding problems in
all areas of the agenda before us,”
the State Department said in a
statement.
“The United States is always
ready to make its contribution.”
A senior State Department of
ficial told reporters while no
agreements were ready to be
signed at the summit, there
would be “substantive exchanges”
between Reagan and Gorbachev.
Secretary of State George P.
Shultz is expected to discuss pre
parations for the Geneva meeting
at a news conference Wednesday.
Reagan, returning to the White
House after going to Andrews
Air Force Base to greet freed U.S.
citizens who were held hostage in
Lebanon, was asked, “Are you
going to have a summit?” and
nodded his head, apparently in
the affirmative.