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By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
Three men who police say may
connected to the theft of two
)tor vehicles were arrested
ednesday and charged with fel-
|iy theft as well as other counts
latingtothe incident, following
takeout and car chase by Texas
StM University Police.
Bob VViatt, director of security
d traffic at A&M, said Univer-
y Police on surveillance spotted
ie suspects acting in a supicious
inner near a 1977 Chevrolet
onte Carlo in Parking Annex
near the Zachry Engineering
enter.
“At a little after noon, we de-
cted a white van with tinted
ndows driving through several
the parking lots,” VViatt said.
Ve observed an individual get
it and look into several cars."
■ Wiatt said the officers saw one
I the suspects break into the
ionte Carlo, start the engine and
Inve off, with the white 1979
prd van following.
University Police then stopped
|e Monte Carlo as it was leaving
[e area, said.
He said that as the officers
lopped the Monte Carlo, the van
Imped a curb and stai ted to go
[ross the polo field. University
blice say they eventually stopped
be van at the corner of New
fain Drive and Biz/ell Street.
After the arrests, Wiatt said,
: University Police discovered
at the van had been reported
[olen Tuesday from Houston.
Wiatt said the suspects claimed
be from Houston but had no
entification at the time of ar-
:St.
Wiatt said the suspects gave
atements indicating they were
legal aliens, but. he said, the sus-
ts, if convicted, would have to
ice the charges resulting from
lis arrest even if they are illegal
iens.
He said the three were charged
ith felony theft, unauthorized
Jse of a vehicle and burglary of a
lotor vehicle. All three charges
re third-degree felonies, and
ch charge carries a maximum
ine of $5,000, or a 2-to-K) year
rison sentence or both.
The driver of the van also was
Jharged with evading arrest, a
lass B misdemeanor carrying a
Photo by JOHN MAKELY
ft. Russ Kline and Officer Roy Horner of the University Police
escort a suspect to Brazos County Jail after his arrest.
possible prison sentence of up to
six months, a maximum fine of
$ 1,000 or both.
Wiatt said the stakeout, w r hich
led to the arrests, was the result of
a recent rash of car thefts at
A&M. However, he said that at
this time the suspects have not
been connected with other car
thefts in this area.
Three cars were stolen from
various parking lots at A&M Jan.
15.
“All three cars were reported
stolen from late morning to early
afternoon,” Wiatt said. “We did a
study of all the cars stolen last
year and found that a lot of them
were stolen on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays (at about the same
time the three Jan. 15 thefts took
place).
“So we started very intensive
and sophisticated surveillance
techniques Tuesday and today
(Wednesday).”
Wiatt added that University
Police will begin working with the
Houston, College Station and
Bryan police departments among
other law enforcement agencies
to try to solve the other car thefts.
U.S. may renew aid
to Nicaraguan rebels
Associated Press
Washington — President Reagan
has “approved in principle” a plan to
resume military aid to rebels fight
ing the Marxist-led Sandinista gov
ernment of Nicaragua, a White
House official said Wednesday.
The official, revealing the military
aid offensive on condition he not be
identified, said the plan calls for $90
million to $ 100 million and would do
away with a congressional ban on
paying for ammunition or weapons.
Administration and congressional
officials say the success of Reagan’s
expected request hinges on persuad
ing moderate House members that
the United Nicaraguan Opposition,
UNO, the rebels’ principal umbrella
group, poses a unified and effective
democratic alternative to the Sandi-
nistas.
A U.S.-sponsored Nicaraguan re
bel unity group doubt that renewed
American military aid can avert an
ultimate defeat as long as the
movement is run by leaders the
exiles contend are hand-picked by
the U.S. government.
The group — central to President
Reagan’s plan to resume military aid
to the insurgents — has failed to heal
the deep divisions that have plagued
the war against that nation’s leftist
government, prominent Nicaraguan
exiles say.
Several of the rebels added that
the only realistic hope now for oust
ing the Sandinista government is di
rect U.S. military intervention to
crush the Soviet-supplied Nicara
guan army — an option the Reagan
administration has repeatedly re
jected.
“UNO will have to show that it is
the legitimate political leader of the
Contras, that it controls the military
and has a platform for a democratic
society for Nicaragua,” Sen. Richard
Lugar, R-Ind., Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee chairman, said
Wednesday.
But Nicaraguan exiles, inter
viewed by The Associated Press,
questioned UNO’s success in unify
ing and controlling rebel ranks after
it was created at the administration’s
urging last June. The AP inter
viewed 22 anti-Sandinista Nicara
guan exiles about their views on the
political and military situation.
“UNO is designed to do battle in
Congress, not to do battle in the
front lines, with the people of Nica
ragua,” said Silvio Arguello-Carde-
nal, a former Nicaraguan vice presi
dent, now living in Miami. “It owes
its existence . . . exclusively to . . .
U.S. intelligence agencies that pro
vide it direction and exercise strict
every-day control over its military
operations and political pronounce
ments.”
Jose Medina Cuadra, a Nicara
guan attorney living in Miami, said
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Plunging oil prices cause concern
Associated Press
DALLAS — The oil price plunge
on the spot market has sent shivers
through state officials in oil produc
ing areas who may find themselves
millions of dollars short in their state
budgets.
Texas, for example, planned on
oil being at $25 a barrel this year,
and each $1 drop below that means
the loss of 25,000 jobs, $100 million
in tax revenue and $3 billion in gross
state product, according to the state
comptroller’s office.
Oil on the spot market was trad
ing Wednesday at less than $21 a
barrel.
“We’re just getting over the shock
of seeing that $20 price on the spot
market and looking with super con
cern at what’s happening,” Tony
Proffitt, tax information director in
the comptroller’s office said.
A sustained price of $20 on the
contract, or “posted price,” market,
where 95 percent of the oil business
in Texas takes place, could mean a
“devastating” loss of $750 million
from Texas’ $22 billion biennium
budget, Proffitt said Wednesday,
“and $15 would be a real deal, a real
deal.”
Lite story is the same throughout
the oilpatch.
Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh said
his state, which planned on an aver-
“The clouds are right out
there. Our concern now is
what happens if all this
spills over onto the con
tract market. ”
— Tony Proffitt, tax in
formation director in the
comp troiler’s office.
age price of $23 a barrel, stands to
lose $33 million in tax revenue if the
price drops to $20 or below. Nigh
has pledged there will be no tax in
creases.
The price declines were accele
rated by slack demand and increased
output in recent months, leaving
prices 18 percent lower in one week
and 35 percent since November.
Analysts say prices could drop below
$20 a barrel if OPEC countries con
tinue to aggressively chase market
share.
One week ago a barrel of West
Texas Intermediate, a major U.S.
benchmark, cost $25.15 on the spot
market, where surplus oil is sold on
demand. The spot price closed
Tuesday at $20.10. In November it
had been $32.
Officials say the drop in prices on
the spot market won’t immediately
translate into a major decline in the
oilpatch since most transactions are
done on contracts.
But the spot market decline may
be a bad omen, they said.
“This could be either a mild
shower or a very big rain storm,”
Proffitt said. “The clouds are right
out there,Our concern now is what
happens if all this spills over onto the
contract market.”
Prices on the contract market are
still about $25 per barrel, Proffitt
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ummer school calender gets revised
By BRIAN PEARSON
Senior Staff Writer
May 31 and classes began around
June 2 or 3.
he Texas A&M summer session
ndarhas been revised to accom-
Jate high school graduates and
>lic school teachers affected by
use Bill 72.
louse Bill 72, passed by the
as Legislature in the summer of
Estates that public schools can-
start classes prior to Sept. I, thus
hing the end of spring sessions
most public schools into the be
lling of June.
listorically, A&M students regis-
:d for summer school around
Registrar R.A. Lacey said the
summer calendar had to be revised
to keep A&M summer classes from
overlapping with the schedules of
public school teachers and graduat
ing high school students wanting to
attend the University. High school
students are not scheduled to grad
uate until around June 4, 5 or 6.
“In the summertime here we have
our provisional program for stu
dents who do not meet the full ad
mission standards,” Lacey said. “We
did not want to move it (provisional
program) to the fall or to the
spring.”
Students in the provisional pro
gram are allowed to take classes at
A&M in the summer and will be ad
mitted if they meet with the Univer
sity’s academic standards.
“That’s another reason why we
worked very hard trying to realign
the calendar to fit in with the public
school calender — so we could go
ahead and offer the provisional pro
gram to students who don’t fully
qualify,” Lacey said.
Registration for the 1986 summer
session at A&M will begin June 7
and classes will begin June 9.
Registration for the second term
will begin July 14. Second session
classes w ill begin July 15.
Because of the later starting date
for A&M summer classes, the S'/i-
week and 11-week summer class
terms will be reduced to 5-week and
10-week summer class terms.
Lacey said that because a student
must spend 2,250 minutes in class a
semester for each three credit hour
course, the time length of each class
will be extended.
“Instead of going from 8 a.m. to
9:30 a.m., a student will have to go
from 8 a.m. to about 9:45 a.m. to get
enough time,” Lacey said.
Report blames bomb
for Air-lndia disaster
Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — A re
port by Canadian investigators
says that a bomb in the cargo hold
of an Air-lndia Boeing 747 off
the Irish coast last June causing it
to crash, killing 329 people, a Ca
nadian official said Wednesday.
Canadian investigator Bernard
Caiger confirmed the previously
undisclosed report and its conclu
sions, prepared by Canadian Avi
ation Safety Board, in testimony
before the Indian High Court.
Under cross-examination by
Steve Bell, a lawyer representing
the Seattle-based Boeing Aircraft
Corp., maker of the airplane,
Caiger said he had only “briefly”
seen the report.
Pressed repeatedly by Bell,
Caiger finally confirmed the re
port’s conclusions.
Indian investigators have the
orized that Sikh extremists angry
with the Indian government
planted a bomb aboard the India-
bound plane.
housands protest on anniversary of Roe vs. Wade decision
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Cheered on by
sident Reagan, thousands of anti-abor-
fti demonstrators marched to the So
me Court Wednesday to mark the 13th
liversary of a landmark decision they
I the president want overturned,
ater, two anti-abortion leaders quoted
igan as saying in a private meeting that
might consider pardoning abortion
ic bombers on “a case-by-case basis.”
wever, a White House spokesman said
president said no such thing and oth-
at the meeting said they interpreted
president’s remarks differently.
I'm proud to stand with you in the king
ch for the right to life,” Reagan told
crowd via a telephone hook-up be
en the White House and loudspeakers
!te the marchers rallied 200 yards
ty' , .
darch organizer Nellie Gray, crying
Jk how strong we are’ to the demon
strators, estimated the crowed at about
100,000.
However, District of Columbia and U.S.
Park Police estimated the crowd at 36,000-
to-37,000 — a bit more than half last year’s
crowd, which Park Police estimated at
71,000.
Many of the protesters left to lobby
members of Congress after completing the
two-mile march 'to the Supreme Court
building. However, several dozen moved
through police lines at the building and
knelt to pray and to chant “Stop The Kill
ing” and other slogans.
They were warned they would be ar
rested if they remained, and after several
minutes police began taking people into
custody.
Reagan praised the marchers and con
demned abortion during a five-minute
speech interrupted frequently by applause
and shouts of approval.
“We’ll continue to work together with
Congress to overturn the tragedy of Roe
vs. Wade,” he said, referring to the 1973
high court decision to allow abortion.
The president, who opposes abortion
except to save a mother’s life, also voiced
his support for a constitutional amend
ment outlawing abortion and said, “Each
child who escapes the tragedy of abortion
is an immeasurable victory.”
After listening to more than an hour of
similar remarks from members of Con
gress, the crowd left the parklike Ellipse
behind the White House and began a long
procession up Pennsylvania Avenue to the
Capitol and the Supreme Court.
Already at the high court were 10 mem
bers of the National Organization for
Women, silently holding aloft a banner
reading, “Thank You Justice Blackmun
for Keeping Abortion Safe and Legal” — a
reference to Harry A. Blackmun, principal
author of the 1973 decision.
In stark contrast to Wednesday’s upbeat
mood, though, were the messages the
marchers were carrying.
Near the head of the procession, young
people carried 13 white coffins symboliz
ing millions of abortions since the Su
preme Court decision.
And signs raised high carried such
words as: “Stop the American Holocaust,”
“Abortion Kills Babies,” “No Exceptions,
No Compromise,” “Stop Terrorism in the
Womb" and “Pro-Choice Means No
Choice for the Baby.”
Many called for adoption as an alterna
tive to abortion.
And one woman held a placard with a
personal plea: “Give Your ‘Unwanted’
Baby to Me.”
At the rally on the Ellipse, the biggest
cheers aside from those for Reagan were
for Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and for Rep.
Mark Siijandef, R-Mich., who held his 8-
month-old daughter high and declared.
“This is why I’m pro-life.”
Earlier in the day police arrested 30
anti-abortion demonstrators at a local
abortion clinic and the hospital office of a
doctor who performs abortions.
Police said the clinic was bombed about
a year ago.
The National Organization for Women
scheduled events in 97 cities, including
vigils in alleys “in memory of women who
died from illegal abortion.”
NOW president Eleanor Smeal con
ceded Tuesday that the president is “a for
midable foe” in the fight for public sup
port on the emotional issue of abortion.
But Kate Michelman, executive director of
the National Abortion Rights Action
League, said, “It is a minority view that he
represents.”
A poll last November by Louis Harris &
Associates showed support was about
evenly divided on the Supreme Court de
cision, which held that women had a con
stitutional right to abortion. Fifty percent
favored the decision and 47 percent op
posed it. On the question of a constitu
tional ban, 55 percent opposed it and 35
percent favored it.