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The Battalion
'01.83 No. 143 (JSPS 075360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, April 28, 1986
omb found
t Embassy
n Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — After
^activating a powerful homemade
mil) outside the L'.S. Embassy
:re, Mexican police said Sunday
ev are looking for those responsi-
I'or leaving it in a car parked near
edowntown diplomatic mission.
Embassy press attache Vincent
lovanec said the device was deacti-
ited Salurdav afternoon and is tlte
rst time a bomb has been found
cat the Embassy, although it has re
ived numerous bomb threats in
lepast month.
Mexico City Police spokesman
lejaudro Ortiz said authorities still
nr not determined who left the
Imibin the truck of a small, blue car
Inked on a side street between the
nibassv and the fashionable Maria
label Sheraton Hotel.
■ The car was parked about 25
lids from the Embassy and il it had
iploded probably would have
used damage to one side of the
[lilding and the rear of the em-
ssy.
Hovanec said there are several of-
eson the five floors on that side of
le building, but added the offices
IT.S. Ambassador John Gavin are
rated elsewhere in complex.
Ortiz confirmed reports pub-
hed by La Jornada newspaper that
if bomb contained a gelatin explo
it, was about two feet in diameter
id weighed between 20-30 pounds
0-15 kilos). The bomb was found
ithecar truck wired to a battery.
“Effectively, these reports are
ue." he said, adding the Federal
idicial Police also are investigating,
here were no answer Sunday at the
tess office of the Federal Attorney
■eneral’s Office, which oversees the
idicial police.
La Jornada said a caller, claiming
represent a group calling itself t he
imon Holivet International Com-
land. telephoned the newsroom
uurday afternoon to report a
omb was set to explode in 50 min-
tesand asked the newspaper to ad-,
se workers remodeling a section of
lie hotel to leave the area immedi-
Jely.
The newspaper Excelsior re-
lurted that some city newspapers re-
eived calls from a group claiming
ivo names — the Command of the
olivar Army and (lie Simon Bolivar
hternational Front. The newspaper
ported the caller took responsibil-
y for the bomb threat and said it
fas it in protest to U.S. aggression
gainst Libya and U.S. interference
l Nicaragua.
La Jornada said it notified the po
ke bomb squad, known as Zorros or
bxes, who found the device about
:30 p.m. (7:30 pan. ED I ), cleacti-
ated it and carried it away in a spe-
iallv-huilt bomb squad truck.
The Embassy was closed at the
[me, with only security personnel
nd maintenace employees in the
mlding, Hovanec said. Police made
30-minute search of the Embassy
ind reported “all is well.”
Asked about increasing security at
if Embassy, Hovanec said, “We
onld hope the present security will
See Bomb, page 8
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T5.M . 7r '
Marcos tells Filipinos
he’s legitimate ruler
Photo by Greg Bailey
Over Easy
Greg Bell, a Special Olympics participant, dears the high jump
bar with a winning jump of 5 feet, 1 inches. Bell of the Corrigan-
Canulen Bulldogs and other area students met at Bryan High
School to compete in track and field events. Sec stoi v, page 3.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) —
Ousted President Ferdinand E. Mar
cos told 12,000 followers Sunday he
was the legitimate president of the
Philippines and urged them to keep
demonstrating against the govern
ment of Corazon Aquino.
He urged that they keep their
protests peacef ul and avoid violence.
“I am healthy ... I am ready to
fight,” Marcos, speaking by tele
phone from Hawaii, told a cheering
crowd that gathered for a rally at
Manila’s Rizal Park.
His wife, Imelda, referred to her
self as “your first lady” and sounded
in tears as she told the crowd she and
her husband “will do everything” to
return to their homeland.
At the rally, Marcos spoke for 20
minutes in a pre-arranged call to a
former aide, Lito Gorospe, who
hooked up the receiver to a loud
speaker.
Some people sobbed as Marcos’
voice boomed out at them.
Led by former government offi
cials and some film celebrities, loy-,
alists rallied for the third straight
Sunday to demand Marcos’ return.
For the past two weeks, Marcos
supporters also have staged vigils on
the lawn in front of the U.S. Em
bassy, accusing the United States of
kidnapping Marcos from his former
palace.
Marcos urged supporters to go
ahead with a planned rally on May 1,
which he said was not only a day for
workers, but also the anniversary of
his marriage to Imelda in 1954.
During Marcos’ 20 years in power,
thousands of Filipino workers
marked May Day each year with ral
lies to protest low wages, Marcos’
ban on strikes and alleged military
brutalities against workers.
As in previous speeches, Marcos
accused the Aquino government of
illegally confiscating his personal
property.
“I will get even,” he said in T’aga-
log. “I do not mean 1 will exact ven
geance, but I will get even with their
cruelty, their abuses and their thiev
ery.”
The government has said Marcos,
his family and associates amassed
from $5 billion to $10 billion by
plundering public coffers, through
kickbacks, and the like.
Government officials seized prop
erty he has left behind and are try
ing to track down his holdings in
other countries.
Marcos has denied charges he ob
tained his property illegally.
Reagan, ex-Philippine chief talk
HONOLULU (AP) — Deposed
President Ferdinand Marcos indi
cated in a telephone conversation
with President Reagan that he would
like to return to power in the Phil
ippines, but Reagan said nothing to
encourage him, a senior U.S. official
said Sunday.
The official, speaking on condi
tion he not be identified, described
what he called an emotional conver
sation between the two on Saturday
after Reagan arrived in Hawaii,
where Marcos has been in exile since
he was ousted by Gorazon Aquino in
February.
Marcos, the source said, got a lot
off his chest in the 10-minute talk
initiated by Reagan. The former
Philippine president knew' Reagan
would be calling and prepared what
he wanted to say, the official said.
The source said Reagan was sym
pathetic and listened quietly as Mar
cos spoke. But the president told the
20-year ruler of the Philippines,
whom he regards as an old friend
and ally, that “the Philippine people
have made their decision and ulti
mately it is their decision” to make,
the official recounted.
The source added, Reagan said
nothing to encourage Marcos to
think a return to power was possible.
A source in Manila, who called
Marcos on Saturday, quoted Marcos
as saying the talk with Reagan was
“friendly, congenial, productive and
fruitful.” I he two men discussed
Mateos’ situation realistically, but
Marcos did not elaborate, according
to the source, who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity.
After Reagan and Marcos spoke,
die men’s wives came to the phone
and spoke privately for several min
utes. A local television crew record
ing the Marcos’ end of the conversa-
tion showed Imelda Marcos
weeping, as she often has in public
since the ouster.
The U.S. official said White
House stall members were dis
turbed and surprised to learn Mar
cos had permitted a television crew
to witness the conversation, which
the source said was arranged as a
private talk between friends.
See Marcos, page 8
Landscaping incentive spurs Texas city cleanup
AUSTIN (AP) — They’re picking
up fertilizer sacks in Whitew right.
They’re finding old love letters in
the litter piles of Muenster. They’re
shaping up the ship channel in
Houston.
T exans in 191 cities are cleaning
up their hometowns in an effort to
get some of the $700,()()() in land
scaping the state is offering as an in
centive. The prizes, offered this year
for the first time, have made a big
difference in a program that began
in 1969.
“We’ve seen a 1,000 percent in
crease in entries,” said Mary Ellen
Shoop, executive director of Keep
Texas Beautiful, which is coordinat
ing the effort.
T he contest is divided into eight
categories. For example, 55 cities
with population up to 2,500 are
competing for $20,000 worth of
highway department landscaping.
On the other end, four cities with
more than 300,000 people are com
peting for $285,000 In landscaping.
"Instead of using- it (the
money) to pick up litter,
the] decided to try to put
it into prevention.'’
— Marv Ellen Shoop, ex-
ecutiye director of Keep
1'cxas Beautiful.
“This is monev that had been
spent on picking up litter on the
highwavs, " Shoop said. “Instead of
using ii io pick tip litter, they de
cided to trv to put ii into preven
tion.”
The winners will he announced in
June.
Muensn i insurance agent Gary
Fisher is the head of Operation
Clean Sweep in his Gooke County
to wn of 1.110 near the Oklahoma
border Thev take their litter se
riously in Muenster, which has a par
ticular problem with liquor bottles.
“We’re a wet town in a dry
county,” Fisher said.
The “March Against Trash” in
March netted 8,000 pounds of
picked-up litter, including every
thing from fish heads, billfolds, and
$20 hills, lie said.
“We found mostly the trash that
blows out of the back of pick-up
trucks,” Fisher said. “We found a
love letter written by'a local girl and
she’s not married to the guy she
wrote it to. It was written in 1955. It
came out of a pick-up on the way to
die dump.”
The city of Whitewright, near
Sherman in Grayson County, is com
peting in the same category as
Muenster. Martha Dollarhide is in
charge of the Whitewright ef fort.
“We have a committee of five peo-
pie and we wrote everybody in town
a letter and asked them if they would
check the things they felt they could
do to help,” she said.
“We have the problem like
they do in any farm com
munity. We have so many
fertilizer sacks that blow
off the pick-ups. ”
— Martha Dollarhide,
Whitewright cleanup su
pervisor.
The response has been great and
Whitewright gives itself a good shot
at winning.
“We have the problem like they
do in any farm community,” Dollar-
hide said. “We have so many ferti
lizer sacks that blow off the pick
ups.”
Houston is competing against
Austin, San Antonio and Dallas in
the big city category. The Houston
ef fort is a hit more formal than those
in Whitewright and Muenster.
“Good afternoon. Glean Hous
ton,” a very proper-sounding
woman tells phone callers.
Houston’s effort includes a ship
channel clean-up, trees for down
town and the addition of Victorian
trash receptacles that match historic
light posts.
Robin Blut, Glean Houston’s di
rector of public relations, said, “We
want to w'in.”
Blut said, “We’ve always been ex
cited about the program. We’ve won
in the past. But this year w'e are par
ticularly interested because Houston
does have some needs.”
Dollarhide said $20,000 worth of
landscaping would have landmark
importance for Whitewright.
“We don’t have money for that
kind of thing,” she said. “We do
good to plant the planters down
town. It would be the greatest thing
that ever happened to Whitewright.”
Captain Midnight’ hacker
interrupts HBO broadcast
3rd British tourist 28, killed in Jerusalem
I NEW YORK (AP) — A video
lacker calling himself "Gaptain Mid-
light” startled cable television view-
rs from Maine to the Plains early
unday when he interrupted a
lovie on Home Box Office with a
'tinted message protesting HBO’s
[rambling of its satellite-to-earth
V signals.
“It’s a criminal, willful interfer-
nceofa government-licensed satel-
te broadcast," fumed David Prit-
hard, an HBO vice president, w ho
aid the cable system had received
abotage threats in recent months.
Pritchard said HBO planned to
eport the incident to the Federal
ZMnnninications Gommission.
The message, printed in w hite let-
ers on a color-bar test pattern back-
;found, read: “Good evening HBO
rom Captain Midnight. $12.95 a
month? No wav! (Showtime-Movie
(diannel Beware.)''
Greg Mahanv, who was watching
in Middletown, Ohio, when the mes-'
sage interrupted “The Falcon and
die Snowman," said that at first the
picture flipped hack and forth be-'
tween the message and the movie,
making it seem like “HBO was trying
to get its signal hack. ... It looked
like a Tight for control of the micro-
wave beam.”
The message appeared at 11:30
a.m. GST and remained on the ait
about five minutes. It was seen in the
eastern two-thirds of the nation,
which accounts for more than half of
HBO’s 14.6 million subscribers.
Pritchard said the hacker, appar-
entlv w ith the use of a satellite dish
and a powerful transmitter, replaced
HBO’s signal with his own.
JERUSALEM (AP) — A 28-year-
old British tourist was shot to death
Sundav outside a ( Jn istian holy site
and an Israeli leader denounced
ihe mill del as an attempt In terror
ists to scare away visions.
Ii was the third shooting of a
tmiiist in six weeks in predomi-
uantlv Arab east Jerusalem.
The two other v ic tims surv ived.
Jei usalem police spokesman Rail
Lew said Paul Applebv of Bristol
was shot once in the back of the
head with a small caliber pistol near
|he Garden Tomb shrine, revered
In some Protestants as the hilltop
where Jesus was crucified and bur-
Police sources, who insisted on
anonviiiitv. aid thev were investi
gating whether the attack was
meant as retaliation for Britain’s al
lowing U.S planes to take off from
British soil two weeks ago to bomb
Libva.
The v ictim carried papers indi
cating he was a British citizen, po
lice said, declining to give his iden-
titv immediately.
Israel radio identified him as
Paul Applebv of Bristol, England.
He was shot in an isolated alley-
wav just outside the gate of the Gar
den T omb shrine, which is adminis-
lered bv a British-based
foundation.
Protestants believe the hilltop is
where Jesus was crucified and bur
ied. Gatholics, Greek Orthodox and
most other Christian groups believ e
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
inside the Old (Tty is the site of the
crucifixion and burial.
The Garden Tomb shrine bor
ders on the Old (Tty, which was
crowded Sunday with those observ
ing the eight-day Jewish Passover
commemorating the biblical Israel
ites’ escape from Egyptian bond-
age.
The Rev . William White of Dor
set, England, a chaplain at the site,
said a woman heard a shot ring out
around 12:50 p.m. and he ran to
call the police.
Military sources said last week
thev were trying to uncover four
terror gangs operating out of Jeru
salem's Old (Tty and the occupied
West Bank.
The sources said the gangs were
responsible for recent attacks in
and around Jerusalem, including
the March 2 assassination of the Is
raeli-appointed mayor of Nablus,
Zafer al-Masri.
As news of the shooting broke.
Tourism Minister Avraham Sharir
noted that recent attacks have re
duced tourism to Israel by 40 per
cent since January, said ministry
spokeswoman Oi Iv Yegoro.
The loss has cost the troubled Is
raeli economy $30 million in lost
revenues, Sharir said, urging
American Jewish leaders “not to
surrender to terrorism and to come
visit Israel now.”