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Sf r death) several 'tile be- ii Mei 'Icen n yin her arancej classk fhe Pic- “Green st Time Benin servicer meten', een tie- in the he Ben 'ned in sode of: <■ ■ — Teachers may someday have to share their apples with computers Cagers overcome adversity to stand alone atop SWC — Page 13 TEXAS AGGIES 'Tl£ xa ^ M D ^ J.4. ^ 12 ^ M 1 ne tsattalion 82 No. 79 GSPS 075360 20 pages College Station, Texas Monday, January 20, 1986 Wagon train short on money Associated Press NACOGDOCHES — The trail s been long and hard for partici- nts in the Texas Sesquicentennial [agon Train, who say profits are and participation is lagging in he 3,000-mile trek across the state. Even hay for horses has been a ■ j stly proposition since the wagon- I asters hit the trail at Sulphur ■rings two weeks ago on a six- ■ ■mth journey billed as “The Ride la Lifetime.” .26M*The wagon train has received no foie funds. iNTEB' *EP "We are meeting our expenses, [d we will continue to do that,” said harles Oliver of Dallas, president the Irving-based nonprofit orga- zation that is staging the trail ride. J'But we have no vast resources,” he said. I Huge crowds have been turning oui to watch the procession winding ■rough cities along the route but Inds raised so far to pay for the ocession are barely keeping pace ith expenses. The parade on opening day con- hted of 200 riders and 82 wagons, pt there are now fewer than 100 | tiers and 45 wagons. Organizers ■id they expected attendance to de- ■ease somewhat after the first lew davs. [The wagon train’s operating ex cises will be raised through private id corporate donations and by roy- lies from sales of concessions and Jficial wagon train souvenirs, Oli- [He said the journey will cost about ! million but, so far, his organiza- bnhas raised less than $300,000. Hanging Around Charles Cipionne (right) and Dewayne Curtice, both freshmen at Texas, take advantage of the warm weather in College Station to play a game of Photo by John Makely football outside Moore Hall. The forecast for to day includes a high in the mid-70s and a 20 per cent chance of rain. 93 reported dead in crash in Guatemala Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY — Shuttle flights resumed late Sunday when the weather improved and brought most of the bodies here from the northern jungle site where 93 peo ple perished in Guatemala’s worst air crash. Eight Americans were among the victims. A twin-engine Caravelle jet oper ated by the private airline Aerovias crashed Saturday as it approached the Santa Elena airport, about 150 miles north of Guatemala City, while flying tourists to the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal. All aboard were killed. Officials at a hanger at the Guate mala City airport that is serving as a temporary morgue said planes brought the bodies of 33 identified victims there Saturday and late Sun day. They said a Guatemalan air force plane flew to the capital Sun day night with the remains of 42 vic tims that have not been identified. Relatives identified and claimed the bodies of the 18 other victims at the Santa Elena airport, according to the officials. The airline earlier put the death toll at 90, including six Americans, but Sunday it said two other Ameri cans and another Guatemalan were among the victims. The cause of the crash has not been determined. A Guatemalan air force captain said the bodies of many of the vic tims were mutilated or burned be yond recognition, and they were brought to the capital in hopes rela tives could make identifications. U.S. Consul Dora Trujillo said two recovered bodies were believed to be Americans, but positive identi fication would require further tests. Firemen helping transfer the bod ies said it was believed that the two Americans were John Puffett, an Agriculture Department employee, and Teresa Rodriguez. Their home towns were not known. Aerovias had rented the French- built plane from the Ecuadoran air line Saeta to fly tourists to Santa El ena, about 25 miles south of the Mayan ruins in Peten state. The Santa Elena control tower last con tacted the pilot at 7:58 a.m. Satur day, 33 minutes into the 40-minute flight from Guatemala City. The control tower said there was no indi cation of any problem with the plane. Jorge Escobar of the National Weather Center said the crash oc curred in “good weather, the winds were calm and the visibility unlim ited.” Some crash victims had come to Guatemala for Tuesday’s inaugura tion of President Vinicio Cerezo, elected Dec. 8 as the nation’s first ci vilian president in 16 years. They included Aristides Calvani, 67, a former foreign minister of Venezuela who once headed the Christian Democratic Party there. His wife, Maria Adela, and daugh ters Graciela, 23, and Maria Elena, 25, also were on the flight. ficials wants to avoid another Yurchenko case FBI may take over defector cases from CIA Associated Press [WASHINGTON — The Reagan dministration, unhappy with the lA’s handling of former Soviet TB agent Vitaly Yurchenko, may Iduce the CIA role in defector Jsesand give primary responsibility Jo the FBI, informed sources say. 3 1 think it’s a great move,” said a ior White House official, who tended that defectors invariably ■ve been able to establish much Twer relations with FBI personnel 7:204<Pan CIA officers. r25-i:f The official, who insisted on ano- 3 mity, said the proposal has been der consideration for some time dwas given additional impetus by rchenko’s surprise decision to re- rn to the Soviet Union last Novem- “Nobody could have han dled that case (the hand ling of former Soviet KGB agent Vitaly Yurchenko) worse than the CIA. ” — Donald Jameson, a for mer CIA official. ber after three months in CIA cus tody. White House spokesman Edward Djerejian acknowledged that the procedures for dealing with defec tors are being reviewed but declined comment on the options under con sideration. FBI and CIA spokesmen refused to discuss the issue. Discussing Yurchenko, Donald Jameson, a former CIA official who has had extensive experience with defectors said, “Nobody could have handled that case worse than the CIA.” Yurchenko, who defected in July, fled from his CIA handlers on Nov. 2 and returned to the Soviet Union four days later after turning himself in to the Soviet Embassy. He is regarded by U.S. officials as a genuine defector, although, he claimed he was abducted, drugged, tortured and held incommunicado by the CIA before his escape. Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., who has taken a special interest in the defector issue, said the CIA has made defector resettlement a “dead end career assignment.” He advo- “The CIA makes zombies of defectors. ” — Nicolae Horodinca, a Romanian defector who has had no contact with the agency in more than four years. cates giving FBI the leading role for dealing with defectors. Nicolae Horodinca, a Romanian defector, expressed profound disil lusionment with the CIA, contend ing that the agency broke promises to provide him with a job, a house, life insurance and medical insur- “The CIA makes zombies of de fectors,” said Horodinca, who has had no contact with the agency in more than four years. Asked for comment, the CIA said it never discusses its treatment of de fectors. At present, the CIA has statutory responsibility for defectors but FBI personnel often become involved on an ad hoc basis. According to one analyst, the bu reau is much better equipped than the CIA to assist defectors who settle outside' Washington because of the FBI’s nationwide responsibilities and superior manpower. He added that transfer of respon sibilities to the FBI also makes sense because defector resettlement work has higher status in the FBI than the CIA. All-U Night to feature athletes Coaches and players of spring sports will be introduced tonight at 7:30 during the second annual spring All-University Night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Thomas Buford, head yell leader, says that while spring All- University night will be sirniliar to the fall semester’s, it will be “less formal.” He says assistant athletic direc tors John David Crow and Lynn Hickey will speak. The Aggie Band will play, and a yell practice will conclude All- University night, which Buford says should last about an hour. Mu participates in events honoring ing’s birth Sunday I y 1:40 ne p Associated Press South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu joined Sunday in events honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as Americans of all races remembered the slain civil rights leader on the eve of the first national holiday marking his birth. A candlelight memorial service was planned Sunday night at King’s tomb in Atlanta, in ad vance of Monday’s official holi day. His widow, Coretta Scott King, was to place a wreath at the tomb Monday. Tutu was among those sched uled to participate Sunday in an international conference in oppo sition to South Africa’s apartheid system at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Bap tist Church, where King was pas tor. He also spoke earlier at Ebe- jnezer’s Sunday morning service. Monday’s scheduled obser vances included “Living the Dream,” a musical celebration by several top recording stars and others in Washington, New York City and Atlanta. Performers will include such people as Bob Dy lan, Joan Baez, Quincy Jones, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Patti Labelle and more, with Harry Belafonte and Bill Cosby as co-hosts. In Philadelphia, the city and Jackson’s People United to Serve Humanity planned a celebration of brotherhood and freedom. In previous years, the city had spon sored a prayer breakfast in honor of King, and PUSH held an sepa rate ecumenical service. In South Carolina Cov. Dick Riley, Sen. Ernest Hollings, NAACP national President Wil- See Tutu, page 20 A&M tops at retaining minorities University News Service Texas A&M has compiled the best record in the state among public in stitutions in keeping minority stu dents enrolled and headed tward graduation, reveals a report by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. The report shows that 81.5 per cent of undergraduate black stu dents enrolled at A&M in the fall of 1983 returned in the fall of 1984 to begin the ’84-’85 school year. The rate was even higher for undergrad uate Hispanic students at 83 per cent. Fall 1984 is the most current pe riod for which comparative data is available, the Coordinating Board report indicates. A&M’s retention rates for both black and Hispanic students are even better for the current school year than for the period covered by the Coordinating Board report, and more of both categories of minority students are now enrolled, A&M President Frank E. Vandiver says. “We are proud to be the leader in having minority students succeed to the point that they want to continue their studies and work toward de grees,” Vandiver says. “That’s the goal for all of our students — to have them succeed and graduate — but we find it especially gratifying to learn that we compare so favorably with the other public universities in the state in helping minority stu dents move toward attainment of their aspirations.” He points out that A&M still has a proportionally small number of mi nority students in relation to the to tal student body but he emphasizes that significant increases have been realized in recent years in enroll ment of both black and Hispanic stu dents. “We hope this new information about our success in both enrollment and retention of minority students will help us in attaining our goals to attract even more qualified students in both categories,” he says. Vandiver says he emphasized “qualified” because that is the key to the University’s success — attracting students whose records indicate they have the ability to meet A&M’s high standards and then providing maxi mum assistance to help them during their college careers. “We would be doing everyone concerned a disservice if we enrolled students whose academic records in dicate that they had no chance to perform the rather demanding course work and ultimately be grad uated,” he says. Among institutions with signifi cant numbers of black and Hispanic students, A&M was the only one to have a retention rate of at least 80 percent in both categories for un dergraduates. Texas A&M at Gal veston, which awards its degrees through the main campus at College Station, retained eight of its nine Hispanic students during the report ing period — an 89.9 percentage. The University of Texas at Austin placed second in both categories with 76.7 and 79.4 percent respec tively. Sam Houston State University ranked third in retention of black students with 72.2 percent and the University of Houston-Clear Lake was third in Hispanic retention with 77.3 percent. The average for the 31 institutions included in the report were 63.1 for black students and 66.3 for Hispanics. A&M also was the only institution to have 100 percent of its minority students returning for their second year of professional school. A&M’s figures covered medicine and veteri nary medicine. Texas Tech, the Texas Tech Health Science Center and the UT Medical Branch at Galveston also had all of their black students return for the second year. The UT Health Science Center at Houston placed second in Hispanic students return ing with 98 percent, the UT Health Science Center at Dallas and the UT Medical Branch tied for third with 96.8 percent. The state averages were 85.3 and 92.9 percent respec tively. A&M also had the best record in the state in retention of undergrad uate white students at 86.5 percent. The University of Houston-Down town Campus placed second with 83.6 percent, followed by UT-Austin with 83.3 percent. The state average was 72.7 percent. A&M compiled the best record for retention of white undergrad uate students, even though, it had the second-largest number in that category. It had 23,327 returning white undergraduate students in See Minorities, page 20