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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
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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