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Friday, March 28, 1986
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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
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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.