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The Battalion
Vol. 82 No. 62 (ASPS 075360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, November 26,1985
FBI arrests
American
espionage
Car Bash
Century Singers members J.D. Wallace and Dan Milford demonstrate
their form during the Beat the Hell Outta t.u. Car Bash. The group
Photo by GREG BAILEY
will be taking donations today from people wanting to take their frus
trations out on the “t-sip mobile.”
How’s your credit?
mily economist says people can change poor credit rating
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By ANTHONY S. CASPER
Reporter
poor credit rating doesn’t have
tolstay with a person for the rest of
his life, says Nancy Granovsky, a
fabily economics specialist with the
Texas A&M University Agricultural
Extension Service.
[‘Under the Federal Trade Com-
iiission’s Fair Credit Reporting Act,
detrimental information in a credit
report may be removed seven years
after it occurred,” she says. “And if
the discrepancy is not resolved be
fore the seven years are up, you may
explain your side of the story in 100
Words or less which will be included
in future reports.”
{Reports are kept at credit bu
reaus, which can be found in most
cities across the country.
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ast years Outdoor
Dr. Marjorie Smith, also a family
economics specialist for the A&M
Agricultural Extension Service, says
it is up to the lender or creditor to
determine the legitimacy of a per
son’s reasons and whether or not to
take them into consideration.
Smith says that incorrect, incom
plete or unverified information may
he included in credit reports without
the person’s knowledge.
“In the first place, just as with any
reporting system, sometimes there
are mistakes that are made,” Smith
says. “And if you are the average
person, then you just might have
some mistakes, just like a hank may
make a mistake with your account.
You probably won’t know there is a
mistake in your report until a lender
denies you credit on the basis of the
inaccurate information.”
Moving to a new location, as when
students graduate, also may be a rea
son to be denied credit.
“Sometimes if you move to a new
area and don’t request to have some
of your credit files moved to that
new region, they (the lender) might
not have enough information about
you,” Smith says.
Granovsky says that the removal
or correction of inaccurate informa
tion in a credit record may depend
on an individual’s records.
that charge because it was in fact
something you didn’t make,” Gran
ovsky says. “If you had cleared the
matter up with the creditor and it
was still on your credit record, then
you should take a copy of the receipt
to the credit bureau and have the
bureau check the information from
their end.
“Doing this may speed up the cor
rection process and the individual
also may avoid paying a charge to
the bureau to trace out the informa-
Doctor: Woman died
of infection, starvation
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — An 87-
year-old woman died of over
whelming infection and starva
tion at an Autumn Hills convales
cent home, a physician testified
Monday in a murder-by-neglect
trial.
Dr. William Steffee, a specialist
in internal medicine in Cleveland,
said he studied the nursing home
records for Elnora Breed, a pa-
ftieiU at the Autumn Hills home in
Texas City in 1978.
He said he found notations
showing the woman had classic
[symptoms of starvation and se-
jrious infections.
“From your review of the re-
[cord of Mrs. Breed’s 47 days at
| Autumn Hills nursing home, did
I you reach a conclusion as to what
[caused her death?” prosecutor
J David Marks asked.
I “My conclusion is that Elnora
Breed died of overwhelming in
fection and starvation,” Steffee
said.
Steffee’s comments came as the
10th week of testimony began in
the state’s case against Autumn
Hills Convalescent Centers Inc.
and five of its current and former
employees. They are charged
with murder by neglect in the
Nov. 20, 1978, death of Breed.
The defense contends the el
derly woman died of Cancer.
Steffee also said he studied re
cords from another nursing
home and a hospital where Breed
stayed before entering the Au
tumn Hills home in October
1978.
He said the records showed she
had a urinary tract infection and
a stable weight of slightly less
than 90 pounds. Her nutritional
status, he said, “was stable with
very few reserves.”
She says tire process should be
started by directly contacting the
company responsible for the infor
mation.
“Say there was a charge on your
Visa or MasterCard and you had
written to them and followed an ap- letter or phone
propriate procedure for questioning credit bureau.
Hightower urges change
tron.
Important as a person’s credit his
tory is, Smith says many people don’t
take the time to find out what is in
cluded in their credit record. She
adds that it’s as easy as a quick visit,
call to your local
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A former Na
tional Security Agency communica
tions specialist, originally implicated
by turnabout defector Vitaly Yur
chenko, has told the FBI he sold
U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and
became on Monday the fourth
American arrested on espionage
charges in five days.
Early Monday at an Annapolis,
Md., hotel, the FBI arrested Ronald
William Pelton, 44, who worked
from 1965 to 1979 for the super-se
cret NSA, which spies on foreign
communications and breaks codes.
In a court affidavit, FBI agent Da
vid Faulkner said Pelton told the
FBI in an interview Sunday that he
met with KGB officer Anatoly Slav-
nov on several occasions from Jan
uary 1980 throughJanuary 1983.
Pelton admitted receiving cash
from Slavnov several times, includ
ing a $15,000 payoffs as a result of a
trip to Vienna, Austria, in January
1983, according to the affidavit.
A federal source, who requested
anonymity, said Pelton had been
fired by the NSA for reasons not
linked to the charges against him.
Several sources said Pelton was
the second former U.S. intelligence
official whose work for the Soviets
was disclosed by Vitaly Yurchenko,
the KGB general-designate who de
fected to the West in August and re
turned to the Soviet Union three
month later.
The FBI said Pelton went to the
Soviet Embassy in Washington in
January 1980 to offer to spy for the
Soviets in return for cash.
On that occasion, the FBI said, he
provided information about “a
United States intelligence collection
project targeted at the Soviet
Union.”
The Pelton arrest came on a day
replete with spy developments in the
capital:
• The United States concluded a
spy swap with Ghana, allowing Mi
chael A. Soussondis, 39, a cousin of
Ghana’s military leader Ft. Jerry
Rawlins, to return to Ghana while
close to 10 Ghanaians “of interest to
the United States” were allowed to
fly to an unidentified African coun
try.
Soussoudis pleaded no contest to
charges under the espionage act and
was sentence to 20 years in prison,
but that was reduced to time served
since his arrest July 10.
• Israeli officials, who demanded
anonymity, said their government
was investigating whether someone
at their Washington embassy over
stepped his authority in buying clas
sified U.S. documents from Jona
than J. Pollard, 31, a Navy civilian
counter-terrorism analyst who was
charged last Thursday with selling
secrets to a foreign power identified
by U.S. sources as Israel.
• Pollard’s wife, Ann Henderson-
Pollard, 25, who was arrested Friday
night, was formally charged before a
magistrate with unauthorized pos
session of documents relating to the
national defense.
Farmers need to diversify
By SCOTT SUTHERLAND
Staff Writer
Agriculture Gommissioner Jim
Hightower said Monday that Texas
agriculture may be a big problem in
our economy today, but the future
will show that “there is a lot more
economic zip in corn chips than mi
cro-chips.”
Speaking at the Messina Hof Wi
neries in Bryan, Hightower encour
aged farmers to join in on his plan to
put Texas agriculture on its feet.
He said the plan encourages
farmers to diversify their cash crops
by planting higher risk crops that
yield higher returns.
“We don’t want to say ‘Don’t grow
wheat or feed products,’ ” High
tower said. “What we’re saying is
look at something else, maybe a
product with a litte higher risk but a
greater return.”
Hightower said that along with in
creased agricultural dollars, the state
can hope to prosper from the thou-
Jim Hightower
sands of spin-off industries that
would be fueled by an upswing in
farming.
Hightower said he would first like
to bring the processing and market
ing of Texas agriculture products
back to the state.
In the past, Hightower said,
Texas raw food products have been
sold to processors and marketing
firms outside of the state. Proc
essors, firms that can and package
food, and marketing firms, grocery
store chains, make the best profits.
Thus farmers in Texas were mak
ing smaller profits by selling to out-
of-state firms that profited by selling
to consumers.
Hightower said it’s time to balance
the system.
“Texas is the second largest
grower of food in the nation,” High
tower said. “Yet we process only 5
percent of the country’s food. By
selling raw and buying back finished
food products we are losing billions
of dollars that could be kept at
home.
“What we’re talking about here is
a reinvestment in the pioneering
spirit that built the Texas economy
in the first place.”
Hightower complimented Paul
and Merrill Bonarrigo, owners of
Messina-Hof Winery, for pioneering
the Texas wine industry.
A&M services
modified for
Thanksgiving
University News Service
Most services at Texas A&M
will be curtailed during the two-
day Thanksgiving holiday period.
All non-essential administra
tive offices will be closed Thurs
day and Friday.
All activities in the University
Center, including the Memorial
Student Center and Rudder
Tower, will close at 5 p.m.
Wednesday with the exception of
the bookstore and Food Services,
which will close at 6 p.m. and 7
p.m. respectively.
The MSG main desk will be
open 24 hours throughout the
holiday period, while the Rudder
Information Center will be open
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday
and Thursday but will not be
open Friday.
On Thanksgiving Day the
Tower Dining Room will be open
from 11 a.m. to the 7:15 kickoff
of the Texas A&M-University of
Texas football game at Kyle
Field. The MSG Rumors Snack
bar will be open from 9 a.m. until
the end of the game and the base
ment snackbar will be open from
1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The MSG bookstore will be
open Thursday from 9 a.m. to
7:30 p.m., and the Association of
Former Students office will be
open from 10 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.
The A.P. Beutel Health Center
will be closed Thursday through
Saturday and reopen at 6 p.m
Sunday.
The University Police Depart
ment and essential physical plant
operations will maintain regular
operations throughout the holi
days.
All University activities will re
sume normal hours Monday.
Egypt: Commandos used to avoid a massacre
Associated Press
■ VALLETTA, Malta — Egypt said
■Monday that it sent commandos
Jsiorming into a hijacked jetliner to
||ert a massacre. But the hijackers
Rsponded with fire grenades that
turned the plane into a blazing cof-
ifin for scores of passengers.
I Nine of the 59 victims were chil
dren. One of the five hijackers sur
vived the assault on the Egyptair jet
and underwent surgery at a hospital,
;said Paul Mifsud, the Maltese gov
ernment spokesman.
■ Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud
Bonnici of Mahal said he approved
the raid because “we wanted to show
we would not give in.”
“The Egyptian forces assured us
that this would be a quick operation .
.. and that the assault would come to
a good ending,” he said.
“Mifsud Monnici said he refused
the hijackers’ request for fuel and
told them that “other forces’’ might
intercept the jet if it left Malta.
The gunmen threatened to blow
up the plane in flight if it was “accos
ted,” he said, and “we felt this was a
very real possibility.”
Egypt blamed the hijacking on re
negade Palestinians working for an
Arab country it did not name.
Government sources in Cairo said
the country was Libya, Egypt’s
neighbor and arch rival.
In Moscow, the official Soviet
news agency, Tass, said Libya denied
involvement.
It quoted Ali Abdussalam Treiki,
the Libyan foreign minister, as say
ing his country “condemns the latest
seizure of hostages as all seizures of
hostages in general.”
The commandos stormed aboard
the plane Sunday night, 24 hours af
ter the hijackers commandeered the
Boeing 737 on a flight from Athens,
Greece, to Cairo and forced it down
at Luga Airport on this Mediterra
nean Island.
The gunmen killed an American
passenger before the assault and
threw her body from the plane.
The Egyptian government said it
sent the commandos in to avert a
massacre.
It claimed the passengers died as a
result of the phosphorous grenades
thrown by the gunmen, and that
none were killed by the assault
troops.
Hani Galal, the pilot, said at a
news conference that the hijackers
told him they would kill a passenger
every 15 minutes unless the aircraft
w r as refueled.
They did not say where they
wanted to go from Malta.
Officials said the hijackers made
no demands other than that the
plane be refueled.
The prime minister said Monday
night in a speech to Parliament that
he told the hijackers that if they left
malta, “steps would have been taken
by other forces to force the plane to
land in other territories.”
Government spokesman Paul Mif
sud said the Socialist Labor premier
was “bluffing” in hopes the gunmen
would surrender, and “there was
definitely no plan or any indicatio-
n”of such intervention.
The same Boeing 737 was carry
ing Palestinian hijackers of the Ital
ian cruise liner Achille Lauro out of
Egypt last month when U.S. Navy
jets forced it down in Sicily.
Murder committed on Maltese
soil was another reason for denying
fuel, the prime minister said.
“In no way should the impression
of weakness be given on our part in
the face of cruelty and the inhuman
ity of the hijackers,” he told Parlia
ment. “After the actions, which show
great cruelty and cold-blooded indif
ference on their part, the hijackers
were informed that in no way would
they be granted the fuel they
wanted.”