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Loan repayment program
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set up for young physicians
to check out earlier this spring
takes 2-of-3 from Houston
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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.
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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.”