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mmm Loan repayment program Dorm students to be required Schow puts on show as A&M set up for young physicians to check out earlier this spring takes 2-of-3 from Houston — Page 3 Ini — — --Ml ■ — Page 5 — Page 9 The Battalion 'ol. 83 No. 119 (JSPS 075360 12 pages College Station, Texas Monday, March 24, 1986 Iryan police nvestigating eath of M student The Bryan Police Department is ivestigating the Friday night death fa Texas A&M student involved in slabbing incident. A spokeswoman said Chris Hol tons, 24, a senior business major, ■taken to St. Joseph Hospital with 7'iiich knife in his chest. Sgt. Doug Coburn of the Bryan oltce Department said it is uncer- lin whether Holmans died of a self- illicted wound. Although no ruling Ibeen made on Holmans’ death, teKminary police reports termed isdeath a suicide. Coburn said a witness told police lolmans, who lived in an apartment i the 3900 block of Old College lad in Bryan, was seen with the nife in his chest at the complex’s mndromat at about 10:30 p.m. Fri- ay. police said the witness called po- cfe and stayed with Holmans until ledical help arrived. The St. Joseph assistant director f nursing said Holmans was “alert nd oriented” when he arrived at the ospital. The spokeswoman said lolmans died during surgery from loss blood caused by the wound. I'Funeral services for Holmans will eheld at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mi- Kel and All Angels Episcopal ihurch in Dallas. ^eople show anti-U.S. sentiment ill i •V|l s 'l™ fill A 00l0 ^ > ■ \ > Breaking Training Catcher Mark Yeluerton looks on as Samantha Nauck hits a pitch during practice for the Century Photo by JOHN MAKEL Y Singers softball team Sunday afternoon on the in tramural fields near Wellborn Road. U.S. senators to start debate on Contra aid Associated Press WASHINGTON — The running congressional battle over aiding Ni caragua’s Contra rebels shifts to the Republican-controlled Senate this week where leaders of both parties are searching for bipartisan accom modation. President Reagan said Sunday he may have to agree to minor changes in his $100 million Contra aid pack age in order to swing votes his way. Senators who contend Reagan has been too quick to abandon diplo macy in his effort to curb Nicara gua’s left-wing Sandinista regime say that so far he has offered only a badly flawed “fig leaf compromise.” They predict that unless the ad ministration commits itself to a se rious effort to achieve a negotiated solution in Central America — be fore arming the Contra rebels — the Senate fight over the $100 million aid package will be as fierce as that in the House, where the Reagan plan was rejected 220-210. The Senate will begin debating the issue Tuesday and is expected to vote by Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., and Sen. Richard Lugar, R- Ind., chairman of the Senate For eign Relations Committee, are pre paring to insert into the legislation promises made verbally by Reagan last week that if the aid is approved he will give the Contras only “de fensive” arms for the first 90 days while pushing negotiations. Lugar said that the plan would al low extension of the 90-day period under some circumstances, and would include assurances that hu man rights abuses by the Contras would be curbed. And he said “there might even be economic aid to Nica- See Senate, page 12 Only 1 of 3 women remains in A&M band Pakistani government ‘in last days’ Associated Press RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pen ile by the tens of thousands shouted nti-government and anti-U.S. slo- ans Sunday and opposition leaders aid President Mohammed Zia ul- laqs pro-American government as in its last days. The Movement for the Restora- >n of Democracy, an alliance of 1 1 pposition parties, held one of its liggest rallies since martial law was fted Dec. 30. About 60,000 people marched trough this city of about 1 million ind listened to anti-government jeches. The opposition staged lens of smaller demonstrations ss the nation to commemorate istan Day, celebrated as indepen- me day here. ne speaker asked the huge |\vd that waved the red, black and pen opposition flags, “Did we cre- I Pakistan so the army could rule? Did we create Pakistan so the people |ld be whipped? Did we create Pa- “If we want democracy in the country we must rid Paki stan of American influence, we must struggle against the Americans. ” — Afzal Zahda, a leader of the Peasants and Workers Party kistan so the people could be op pressed.” Speaker after speaker asserted that Zia’s military government will fall soon for lack of support, and said this entire nation of 88 million people hungers for the return of de mocracy. The United States was repeatedly criticized for supporting Zia, the army chief of staff who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977. Afzal Zahda, a leader of the Peas ants and Workers Party, said, “If we want democracy in the country we must rid Pakistan of American influ ence, we must struggle against the Americans. “American imperialism should stop interfering in the internal af fairs of Pakistan.” The crowd chanted “Zia is a dog!” and “Down with the Americans!” as speakers called for abolishing the government, the end of military in fluence in politics and immediate free elections. Hundreds of riot police armed with rifles, bamboo clubs and shields were stationed around the city. Zahda charged that Zia’s govern ment wanted Pakistanis to fight the communist regime in neighboring Afghanistan to serve U.S. interests. He held up political and social changes in Afghanistan as an exam ple to be emulated. “In Afghanistan they have de stroyed capitalism and oppression, so the generals want us to fight against Afghanistan. But we do not accept this,” he said. The Pakistani and American gov ernments support and aid Islamic anti-Marxist guerrillas fighting the Afghan communist regime. The United States has become a close ally of Pakistan since Soviet military forces intervened in Afghanistan in 1979, and is now its main source of economic and military aid. Zia ended martial law Dec. 30, but remains as president and army chief-of-staff. The government is run by his civilian appointee, Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo. Pakistan Day commemorates the concept of founding Pakistan as an Islamic nation. After making history as the first three women admitted into the once all-male Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band, only one remains in the ranks with the rest of the 285 male cadets. Andrea Abat and her trombone are still hanging on. One of the orig inal three quit at the end of last fall, and the other threw in the towel at the beginning of this semester, Abat said. They dropped out because of the rigorous physical demands that are made of band members, she said. In fact, the 18-year-old Houston fresh man said women considering mem bership in the band next year should think about just how physically de manding it can be. “Every single day we’re running and we’re doing pushups,” she said. On the most recent physical test, the 6-foot-2 freshman said she scored 285 points out of a possible 300. She is almost impossible to notice when she’s marching in formation with the other cadets since her long, blond hair is pinned up under her hat. Abat admits having her share of days when she is fed up with the rig ors of life in the school’s 2,000-mem ber Corps of Cadets, but plans to stick it out for the duration of her college life. “I’m aiming for the leather on the legs,” she said, referring to the mili tary riding boots worn only by senior cadets. “I just applied for a three- year scholarship with the Army. Hopefully I’ll hear something soon.” Earning the scholarship would ob ligate her to stay in the Corps and then spend at least six years in active military duty. Her father, Paul Abat, said many people ask why his daughter chose to be one of the first women to join the band. “The real reason she joined is be cause she just wanted to be in the Aggie Band,” he said. “She didn’t want to be special. She wanted to be another fish. “If someone thinks she ruined a tradition, I just tell them to pick out the one (in the marching formation) who ruined it. At least eight out of 10 are wrong.” Her mother, Mary Lou Abat, said she was worried about how her daughter would be received into the tightly-knit band. But now the Abats say they feel their daughter has been treated in a better and fairer manner than they had thought. Students flood resort's phone lines Associated Press SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Thousands of vacationing high chool and college students are draining the telephone system of his resort island to the limit, offi- :ials say. “We’re seeing a 100 percent in- rease in traffic,” says Fred Sua- ez, district manager for South- ivestern Bell. “On a normal day, |ve process 6,500 calls. Now, we’re processing about 12,400.” Within the last two weeks, hrongs of students have de fended on South Padre Island for spring break. Chamber of Commerce officials say that by aster Sunday about 150,000 eople will have visited the area, leaving behind about $8 million. Suarez says spring break, the Fourth of July and the Labor Day weekend are peak periods for South Padre Island. But he says telephone traffic this spring break has been dra matic compared to past years. “We are seeing an overflow of the coin-operated traffic out there,” Suarez says. “Where coin people would go and pick up coins every two or three weeks, now they’re picking it up every two or three days.” He says there are 170 coin-op erated phones and 3,400 private phones at the island. “But there’s also lots of traffic coming in that we haven’t even looked at,” he says of his proc essing figures. Suarez says telephone com pany officials are monitoring phone traffic. He says it may take some peo ple a few tries to get through the lines during peak periods. When the coin-operated tele phones are full, he says, the coins will return and the customer will not be able to complete the call, unless it is operator-assisted or a credit card is used. Suarez says employees are sent out as quickly as possible to collect coins from the telephones. “We have everything working out there right now,” he says. “We have no equipment out. “We can’t afford to have any thing out of service at this time.” More visitors are expected Monday and Tuesday during two f ree rock concerts. “Telephone traffic will proba bly get worse because we haven’t seen the big influx yet,” Suarez says. “It’s amazing — we over-en gineered for these peak periods. “Being a resort area, we have the big bursts of traffic that all of a sudden hit you.” Jewish group: Waldheim listed as suspected Nazi Associated Press NEW YORK — The World Jew ish Congress says it has found a 1948 U.S. Army document listing former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim as a suspected Nazi war criminal. The document identified Wald heim, a candidate for president of Austria, as a German military intelli gence officer, and said Yugoslavia sought his apprehension, the con gress said Saturday. Under the heading “reason wanted,” the document said “mur der,” the group said. Waldheim, secretary-general from 1971 to 1981, denied any wrongdoing in a statement released Sunday in Vienna by his press spokesman. “The hints dropped in the now al legedly surfaced document were evi dently considered as untenable from the beginning and, therefore, never pursued,” the statement said. A photocopy of the Army docu ment released by the congress was not legible. Elan Steinberg, a spokesman for the World Jewish Congress, said the copy was made from microfilmed Army records on file at the National Archives in Washington. Waldheim denied earlier this month that he belonged to Nazi groups before World War II. He said he served as a translator in a German army unit in Greece but did not know that the unit deported Jews to death camps. Some of the charges stemmed from an investigation by the World Jewish Congress, which on March 4 released a photograph purporting to show Waldheim with a Nazi general, Alexander Loehr, in Yugoslavia in 1944. The statement by Waldheim press secretary Ceroid Christian de nounced the organization’s pursuit of the matter, saying: “Following ac cusations made by the World Jewish Congress in New York today, Dr. Waldheim stated that they, like the previous allegations, are without foundation whatsover and are being categorically rejected. “It is the evident attempt of the WJC to continue the . . . slander campaign toward degrading Dr. Waldheim’s reputation.” It said Waldheim “was in no way involved in actions he is (now) charged with.”