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A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM DOUBLE DAVE It's been a great year in AGGIELAND From the sharply-pitched excitement of a great Football Fall. . . Now Spring Break is past It's the last leg of the school year, a mellower time. We are tom between being lulled by this gorgeous Spring and the need to complete our studies for the year. SO HERE'S THE PLAN ... Hit the books hard 'till 9 p.m. Then join your friend(s) at DoubleDave's, work on warm feelings, friendship, and your GLOBAL BEER DEGREES. y Pixzaworks J ENJOY GLOBAL BEER NIGHTS AFTER 9 PM EVERY NIGHT ALL IMPORT BEERS $1.25 .?5c PIZZA SLICES with any beer purchase EVERY 10th CUSTOMER GETS A $5 DOUBLEDAVE'S GIFT CERTIFICATE 326 Jersey St. szci/z 211 University Southside 696-DAVE Northgate II1IS1K&' AFTER COLLEGE: AIR FORCE EXPERIENCE, Graduating soon? Tied to an unchallenging job? Get involved. Move up fast with Air Force Experience. You’ll do important work in your chosen field. Experience a challenge. Opportunity. A special life style. Talk to your Air Force recruiter today. Let Air Force EXPERIENCE start you toward A GREAT WAY OF LIFE. Contact SSgt Paul Broadus at (409) 696-2612 Page 10/The Battalion/Thursday, April 10, 1986 First Time Ever Video Aggieland will be available in the Fall of 1987 Sign up at Registration The approximately 2-hour tape (both Beta and VMS will be available) will be like the world’s largest and best yearbook, AGG1ELAMD, in that it covers the whole year-full of activities and interests for all Aggies, present and past. But it will be more than that, too. Color and action and noise and living it as it is, right in your frontroom for the rest of your life. Don’t Miss! You have three Choices Aggieland ’87 only - $20 plus tax ($21. 03 ) will be on the regular sign-up sheet Video Aggieland only - $45 plus tax ($47. 31 ) or Video Aggieland plus The Book - $50 plus tax ($52.56) will be available through spe cial check-off which you must call to the at tention of the Registation Terminal Opera tor. Don’t Miss this First Time Ever chance to have your Aggie Year on Videotape Social scientists searching for methods to stop terrorists ROME (AP) — A long-haired German construction worker. A so ciology professor from Florence. A Belgian printer. A laid-off Yugoslav factory hand. Eacn took “Der Sprung” — “The Leap” — as the Germans call it, going underground to plot, bomb and kill with the radical bands wag ing terror wars across Europe. Social scientists are trying to discover why. “If we want to stop terrorism,” says University of Rome psychiatrist Franco Ferracuti, “we must under stand terrorists.” Ferracuti and other investigators, undertaking independent studies of the terrorist mincf, have found com mon traits: They frequently are lon ers, have lost parents while young, were failing professionally or educa tionally. They usually are middle- class, with above-average schooling. Although citizens may consider them deranged, “the studies have found conclusively that the large majority of terrorists are not psy- chotics,” behavioral scientist JerroId Post, who has studied terrorists for the U.S. government, noted in a tele phone interview. Law-enforcement officials agree. “Their ‘fanaticism’ is extremely overrated,” Raymond E. Kendall, chief of the Interpol police network, said in a Paris interview. “. . . . They prepare their operations very care fully.” The range of personalities and political causes makes generaliza tions difficult. But Post categorizes terrorists according to their feelings toward their parents. “Anarchic ideologues,” such as and Italy’s Red Brigades, are disloyal to parents who are loyal to the exist ing system, Post says. “Nationalist se paratists,” such as the Palestinian guerrillas and Irish Republican Army, are loyal to families disloyal to the regime. With the support of family and ethnic community, the nationalists are usually better “adjusted” and may operate relatively openly. Ferracuti, in an interview in his Rome office, noted that the Palestin ians, for example, have achievable, non-utopian goals, “and that makes it easy to recruit members.” But Western Europe’s far-left ter rorists “are trying to impose a uto pian dream on a world saying, ‘Leave us alone,’ ” and therefore must lead clandestine lives, the 58- year-old psychiatrist said. Ferracuti, who has written widely c : ted studies of Red Brigades mem bers, Puerto Rican separatists and other radicals, traces tne European terrorist movement to the student upheavals of the late 1960s, when university graduates could not find jobs and the Vietnam War was radi calizing Western youth. Post believes that terrorists justify personal failures by blaming the sys tem — “The idea that ‘It is not us, it’s them.’ ” In a sense, the terrorist group is the first real family they have found, he said. The psychologists — and security officials who know terrorists well- agree that the conversion process is slow, step-by-step. But occasionally a critical event occurs. Ex-Red Army Faction member Michael Baumann wrote in an auto biography that when West Berlin police shot and killed a friend dur ing a 1967 demonstration, Baumann had a “tremendous fiash” that even tually convinced him “we must now fight without mercy.” Many other terrorists also feel they are on the defensive against a powerful aggressor state, the special ists say. Ferracuti describes it as a “fantasy war.” The terrorists’ termi nology reflects it — they are “ar mies” and “brigades” that engage in “military operations” and demand "prisoner of war” status when cap tured. “These people lose their sense of reality,” said Hans-Werner Kuehn.a top West German anti-terrorist po lice official. “In their writings, they see themselves as if they could fight and defeat the ‘imperialist’ system- a blatant misjudgment of their own capabilities.” They also are found to have little remorse about killing people they view as agents of “tne system” - whether policemen, industrialists,la bor leaders or others. But they are not uniformly ruth less. The specialists say terrorists have disclosed in interviews that each escalation of violence stirs dis sent in their ranks. Eventually the more violent prevail. Eastwood celebrates victory in mayor’s race CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. (AP) — Clint Eastwood, cast by vot ers in the role of mayor-elect, said Wednesday he was ready to tangle with City Hall like his movie charac ter “Dirty Harry” and promised to “bring a little fun back to Carmel.” Champagne flowed freely into the wee hours at Eastwood’s restaurant in this tourist village after he grabbed a fistful of votes — 72.5 percent of those cast — to defeat in cumbent Charlotte Townsend and two other opponents. Townsend conceded 90 minutes after the polls closed Tuesday night in this town of 4,800. Gordon Simpkins, 75, owner of the Carmel Pipe Shop, said of Eastwood’s new role, “You can al most feel it in the air. There’s an at mosphere of optimism and confi dence in the future and progressiveness in the community without injuring the aesthetics of the area.” Eastwood, who became a top box- office star for roles as tough detec tive “Dirty Harry” Callahan and the sharp-shooting gunslinger of spa ghetti Westerns, bristled when townsfolk started calling him Mr. Mayor. “Just Clint,” he said with his char acteristic economy of words. The actor said he will give the $200-a-month job priority over act ing and credited his victory margin to “a lot of dissatisfaction” with the current city council. The 55-year-old, gray-haired su perstar entered the race because of anger at the city’s “second-hand” treatment of the business commu nity, including its initial rejection of his plans to develop a small property next to his restaurant-bar, tne Hog’s Breath Inn. Illegal explosives factory source of fire, officials say SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An il legal explosives factory was the prin cipal cause of the explosion and fire that demolished a block-square in dustrial complex and killed up to nine people, authorities said Wednesday. Fire Chief Emmet Condon said arrest warrants are being sought for three or more people in the opera tion. The federal warrants sought were for conspiracy, and additional war rants could be issued for the man ufacture of explosives and possibly murder in the Friday blast at the $10 million Bay View Industrial Park, he said. Its owner had no idea this was an illegal operation and had been told it was a storage company, Condon said. “It’s a clandestine operation,” he said, adding that fire inspectors had gone through the two-story building containing 126 shops during the past year. “We have yet to determine the cause of ignition,” he said, but the heavy damage was due to the explo sives operation. Investigators found high-explosive black powder and a “charging table” used for assembling explosives, he said. U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello said he met with agents of the fed eral Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on Tuesday to discuss their search for records of telephone calls by people in the suspected fire works operation. District Attorney Arlo Smith said his office may obtain search war rants to check telephone records and other material. San Antonio's need for new military hospital limited: GAO WASHINGTON (AP) - A General Accounting Office re port has concluded that a new nospital at San Antonio’s Brooke Army Medical Center is not nec essary unless it clearly contributes to overall military readiness and functions as a training facility for military doctors. The GAO report was re quested by U.S. Sen. Jeff Binga- man, D-N.M., according to Jose Rosenfeld, a staff member for U.S. Rep. Albert Bustamante, a San Antonio Democrat. Bingaman, a member of the Armed Service Committee, asked the GAO to assess several military medical facility construction pro jects from a purely cost-effective ness standpoint, Rosenfeld said Wednesday. Dr. William Mayer, assistant secretary of defense for health af fairs, is expected to make a rec ommendation regarding the pro posed 450-bed hospital by May 1 to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. David r. Baine, associate direc tor of the GAO’s human re sources department and the su pervisor of the study, said Wednesday that his office did not consider whether the present Brooke facility should be closed. The GAO study said the most cost-effective action would be not to replace Brooke, but rather to rely on civilian hospitals and" ford Hall at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. 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