mnumm Interventionism to be subject of Wiley Lecture Series Page 3 it rr ►ndj;" m EIN1 Pre>j. r lOSti 'Hi. 12 Em JPrt- •IB. E U.S. Embassy reports Contras holding Sandinistas prisoner Page 6 Hitting needs to improve for Ags to upset No. 13 Hogs Page 7 mm wi^mtmmtmmmmmmmtmmmmm Te x as A&M 1 • The Battalion 'Me: rPc Mari. )1.83 No. 123 USPS 075360 10 pages College Station, Texas Friday, March 28, 1986 Deal caller ays drug oisoned / P . prt: cond tn Bo it frr y Scott Sutherland Assistant City Editor \n unidentified caller told a Bryan Jini.icist March 21 that cyanide Ifoei n placed in packets of Dexat- i, a diet aid, according to a Bryan ice Department report. Robert Clayton, a Bryan pharma- , ®id he was told that FBI agents L e!L edlother local pharmacists to keep ini dent quiet until an investiga- n Ipd been completed. j n 2 According to the police report, the jj ))x . lei told an employee of Medical 11-is Pharmacy, 200 W. 26th St. in yan, that he had placed cyanide in xatiim capsules. The employee .ed the caller what he had said and : caller repeated it. The employee then asked another pllyee to pick up the phone and ; caller repeated the threat. The ‘pllyee asked the caller his name He caller said he was not going to I I him. The caller again said he had PIPIfoan cyanide in the Dexatrim and up the phone. The employees mediately called Bryan police. a reinfoiH’an Police Chief Charles Phelps Nicar d the case was immediately turned er to local FBI agent Mike Wil- ps hi’! ms. whertClayton, a pharmacist at Twin be tniiti l 'es pharmacy in Bryan and oper- e AnicritH>f a local pharmacists’ hotline, Ril/terhe was informed of the inci- 1 aboud'Btm notified other local pharma- ■SandiifS' ontra tflMlien Clayton noticed that some e Hoi Bifmacists weren’t getting the four sfd. he called a few to check into the alter. He says he was told that FBI ficials had asked pharmacists to ep the incident quiet until an FBI Happy Easter Photo by Brian Pearson Chance Brandon (left) and Jarred Phillips ask for Beta Sigma Phi, an area service sorority, sponsored more candy from Easter bunny Sharon Dent, a Denton’s hop to Frills and Freckles Nursery in lecturer in the Texas A&M Department of English. Bryan Thursday. See Local, page 10 Senate OKs aid program for Contras WASHINGTON (AP) — The Sen ate on Thursday revived President Reagan’s plan to send $100 million to aid Nicaragua’s Contra rebels on a narrow 53-47 vote, but imposed a three-month delay in lethal aid to give negotiations a final chance. Following the roll call vote attaching the conditions, the Senate approved the president’s aid prog ram on a pro forma voice vote. That sent the measure back to the House, which a week ago rejected 222-210 the plan to put military pressure on the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicar agua. Republicans had hoped that word of the Nicaraguan raid on Contra positions inside Honduras over the weekend would give them a bigger margin of victory. But only 11 Democrats joined 42 Republicans in voting for the aid re solution while 36 Democrats joined by 11 Republicans voted against it. The Senate wrote into the legisla tion promises made by Reagan not to provide the Contras offensive weapons for 90 days in order to give negotiations a chance. However, Democrats contended that the White House had attached so many conditions to that promise as to make successful negotiations impos sible. In Santa Barbara, Calif., President Reagan said he wad “deeply pleased†by the vote, adding that it would send a “profoundly reassuring signal to the freedom fighters in Nicaragua and to Nicaragua’s threatened neigh bors.†Reagan’s plan would give the Con tras $70 million in military aid and $30 million in non-lethal help in their effort to oust the Sandinistas. The current U.S. aid package, which ex pires Monday, contains $27 million in non-lethal assistance, including uni forms and medicine. After the vote, Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., who led efforts to reshape the president’s plan, told reporters, “Frankly, I think the vote was so close you cannot call it a victory for admi- See Reagan’s, page 10 r ilopefuls for student body president debate comm® breach *1 ment ® : By Frank Smith Staff Writer , The five candidates for student :l ' dy president met Thursday night ! discuss and differentiate their plat- s ne f ‘ps in a debate before an audience 1 1 n in ibout 30 in the Memorial Student > lanes %ur. Jim Cleary, Mike Hachtman, Mar- oneoh Rous, Brett Shine and Mike Sims e contrt'Bvying for the presidency. Stu- ibmarii^lts will cast their ballots on April 2. the candidates fielded questions the AwHa five-member panel comprised ystems Donna Banfield, Student Y Asso- “lion president; Katie Shuman, H Political Forum chairwoman; ^^^^Oslin, The Battalion’s city edi- CJ‘1' h Rob Liles, Off-Campus Aggies ij fasurer; and Garland Wilkinson, H[986-87 Corps Commander. Clihary emphasized the diverse pposition of Texas A&M’s student fy+K filiation and the need for all stu- U I ruts to be served. pSER0 * think that, unfortunately, in minds, some students, and also me faculty members and some iministrators seem to remember af , e AL&M of old, which was a quality id emis- IP'fl'-but it was a different school,†an wires I think what we’re going to eiis and f e f° do-if we haven’t yet—is wake buratot 1 realize that there are a lot of dents that are different from us, ho) have different needs, come Candidates for Texas A&M student body president discussed their platforms Thursday night in the Memorial Student Center. From left, Photo by John Makely they are Marty Roos, Mike Hachtman, Mike Sims, Jim Cleary and Brett Shine. from different backgrounds and are not necessarily Texans and realize that Student Government is not just Student Government for certain stu dents, but it’s a Student Government for students that have very diverse interests and very diverse back grounds.†Cleary also said Student Govern ment needs to establish better rela tions with the school’s faculty and administration. A lot of students view faculty members and administrators as foes, he said, but those differences can be bridged by uniting with them on common problems, such as rela tions with the Board of Regents. Cleary added that to be effective. Student Government must be com prised of intelligent, dedicated peo ple who will approach their jobs as challenges, and not as “a line on a resume.†Sims, when asked about the future role of the Corps of Cadets, also addressed the subject of A&M as a changing institution. “Although a changing University, I feel that if Texas A&M is to con tinue to be an original school — I | 95 1 4CyL JR mean the only Texas A&M — then they’re going to have to continue to rely on the Corps to be the keepers of tradition, to be our roots in the tradi tion,†Sims said. “However, as a changing University, we’re going to have to be able to gather input from all sources.†To do that, Sims said he would See Candidates, page 10 President urges aid for rebels NEW ORLEANS — President Reagan, looking beyond the Con tra-aid vote Thursday in the Sen ate and toward a second chance for his plan in the House, said the Nicaraguan incursion in Hon duras this week was a “slap in the face†to those House members who opposed aid to the Contras. On a fundraising visit here for Republican Senate candidate Henson Moore before proceeding to California for an Easter vaca tion, the president cited the incur sion by Nicaragua’s Sandinistas as an example of their intransigence. “The Communists in Managua are not seeking dialogue and plu ralism,†Reagan said. “They want total power in their hands, and they have no respect for the bor ders of their neighbors. This San dinista offensive is a slap in the face to everyone who voted against aid to the (Contras) think ing it to be a vote for conciliation.†Last week, the House voted 222-210 to refuse the president’s request for $ 100 million including $70 million for weapons in aid to the iebel Contras. It is scheduled to take up the issue a second time on April 15. Both House and Senate oppo nents of the president’s plan have insisted that he make good-faith efforts to negotiate a peace settle ment in Nicaragua before getting the arms assistance for the rebels. Reagan, pointing to the Sandi nista cross-border raids against Contra enclaves in Honduras this week, maintains that Sandinista leaders have no intention of bar gaining for a settlement that en tails sharing power. Even as he offered the Hon duran incursion as a sign of Sandi nista perfidy, debate within the administration intensified over the size, scope and meaning of the assault. At the Pentagon and other agencies, the size of the Sandinista strike, which apparently came at three points inside the Honduran border wasjudged to be somewhat smaller than initially estimated. |.S. 6th fleet finishes exercises off Libyan coast WASHINGTON (AP) — The ips and planes of the 6th Fleet with- ew from the Gulf of Sidra off Byi’s coast Thursday as President fcagan and other officials declared Bnited States had accomplished ’ mission of defending freedom of e |eas. ■ne"! ^*4The exercise is over,†Reagan " miuneed in early afternoon as he ipbed in New Orleans for a speech [ 1 route to a California vacation. We have completed our exercise tie Gulf of Sidra, and it was in try way a successful operation,†s f|nse Secretary Caspar W. Wein berger told reporters at the Pen tagon. “This exercise has demonstrated once again what it set out to do, which is our right and the right of all nations to operate in international waters,†he said. “If Libya’s radical claims and aggression against our forces were to go unanswered, no peaceful nation could safely rely on freedom of the seas anywhere.†The withdrawal came four days af ter the 6th Fleet began operations in the Gulf of Sidra and two days after Libyan forces gave up any pretense of further military challenge to the 30-ship battle group led by three air craft carriers carrying about 250 planes. The firing of surface-to-air mis siles at American planes on Monday touched off U.S. attacks on the mis sile site and on Libyan patrol boats. At least two of the vessels were re ported sunk. No American casualties were re ported, and Weinberger said the Un ited States had no estimate of Libyan losses. Adm. William Crowe, the chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Libyan strongman Moammar Kha- dafy acted rationally for a change in deciding to abandon military action against the U.S. forces. Reagan charged that Khadafy was planning terrorist operations against Americans even before the confron tation in the gulf, and he pledged, “The United States will not be intimi dated by new threats of terrorism against us . . . Mr. Khadafy must know that we will hold him fully accountable for any such actions.†Without being specific, he said, “We’re aware of intensive Libyan preparations that were already under way for terrorist operations against Americans.†The president telephoned the 6th Fleet commander, Vice Adm. Frank B. Kelso, to praise the servicemen for their bravery and “tireless response to Libyan threats.†The withdrawal of the U.S. battle group began Thursday morning with a gradual reduction in the number of fighter flights over the gulf and orders to a cruiser and two destroyers inside the gulf to begin steaming northward. Although Crowe and Weinberger refused to discuss future movements, Pentagon sources said the fleet had been ordered to take up stations in the central Mediterranean north of Libya and to remain there at least through the weekend. Khadafy claims the Gulf of Sidra as Libyan territorial waters. Last Janu ary, in the wake of U.S. charges he had supported the Dec. 27 terrorist attacks on the Rome and Vienna air ports, he drew an imaginary “line of death†across the top of the gulf, vow ing any U.S. ships or planes that cros sed it would be subject to attack.