A&M prof doesn't hove
good outlook for shrimpers
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Aggies' NCAA title hopes
begin today in Indianapolis
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Weinberger reveals secret
bomber program costs
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The Battalion
Serving the University community
Vol. 83 No. 156 USPS 075360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, June 4, 1986
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■ Texas stormwaters that claimed at
least one life triggered a train derail
ment Tuesday, and thunderstorms
deluged Louisiana, Arkansas and
Oklahoma while record chilly
ncather in the Northeast came on
the heels of a weekend heat wave.
I A Hash Hood watch was in effect
■uesday for most of the lower Rio
Grande Valley to northeast Texas,
Where 3 inches of rain fell over the
Honcho Valley.
■ In San Antonio, a man was killed
Monday when his nearly submerged
car overturned and crushed him,
and searchers 'in suburban Dallas
mund clothing from a 13-year-old
boy missing in a drainage canal since
Sunday.
■ Rain washed out railroad tracks to
trigger the derailment near the cen
tral Texas town of Lometa, the De
partment of Public Safety said. No
cine was injured in the 3 a.m. acci-
clent.
■ A cold front extended across
northern Minnesota, North Dakota,
northern Wyoming and southern
Montana.
1 Brisk southerly winds buffeted
the Central Plains, and gusty south
winds warmed the Great Lakes re-
gion.
I In the East, sunny skies and cold
temperatures prevailed.
I Eighteen cities broke or tied low
temperature records for the date, in
cluding Baltimore, Philadelphia, At
lantic City, N.J., Buffalo, N.Y., Lan
sing, Mich., Burlington, Vt., and
\kron, Ohio.
Today’s forecast called for scat
tered showers and thunderstorms
from the Great Plains to the South
ern and Middle Atlantic Coast,
heaviest over West Virginia, Florida
and southern Georgia, and from
south-central Texas to southern Mis-
A&M to close its
night, weekend
health services
University News Service
Due to a combination of factors,
Texas A&M’s A.P. Beutel Health
Genter will not provide night and
weekend outpatient services to Uni
versity students during the summer
semesters.
The health center will continue to
offer enrolled students its weekday
outpatient clinic, inpatient care and
ambulance service, says Dr. Glaude
Goswick, health center director.
“The decision to suspend night
and weekend outpatient services is
one we had hoped we wouldn’t have
to make,” Goswick says. “But the cost
of providing such care and the un
availability of physicians left us with
no other choice.”
Goswick noted that the health
center sees the bulk of its patients —
a daily average of 400 students —
during its regular clinic hours of 8
a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday thru Friday.
“The number of students seeking
care nights and weekends is rela-
tivelv small, w'hile the cost and prob
lems of staffing the health center
during these non-peak periods is
cpiite large,” Goswick says.
The health center will now lie
open 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday thru
Friday, treating a broad spectrum of
student ailments ranging from colds
and ingrown toenails to injuries and
infectious illnesses.
Students with conditions requir
ing medical supervision or confine
ment can still be treated as inpatients
in the health center’s 42-bed infir
mary. Conditions requiring major
surgery or special care will continue
to be referred to local doctors or
hospitals.
Goswick says that students need
ing emergency medical attention
nights or weekends will now need to
utilize local emergency rooms or
other health care providers at their
ow n expense. Should these students
require inpatient treatment, they
can be transferred to the health cen
ter hospital during its normal hours.
Chernobyl disaster
claims two more lives
Double Take
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rainy. The Albritton Tower appears to be re-
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White, Hobby visit Valley’s poor
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Gov.
T.u k White and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
pn Tuesday toured colonias — unin-
orporated areas lacking running
ivater and paved roads —and were
told bv residents they are tired of the
ubstandard liv ing conditions.
White, Hobby and members of
Jthe Texas Water Development
iBoard walked through tw'o colonias
in the Brownsville area.
Residents joined them and cle-
cribed how streets get Hooded and
hildren have to walk in the mud to
get to a school bus.
The Water Development Board
has funded a $215,000 studv, w'hich
is the first step in making the Texas
Water Plan’s long-term, low-interest
loans available to bring water and
sewers to the areas.
The study, which is expected to be
completed by November, will iden
tify which entities can provide the
water and sewer service because the
unincorporated colonias are not eli
gible for direct loans.
“We have a responsiblity to get the
sewage out of the streets and get the
water into your homes," Hobby told
a crowd of about 150 that had gath
ered outside a home in the Cameron
Park colonia outside of Brownsville.
White said, "We’re going to con
tinue to see that people are going to
be given humane living conditions.”
In the Rio Grande Valley, an esti
mated 135 colonias are home to
about 100,000 people. Many homes
in the colonias also lack electricity
and sewer facilities.
The cost to improve about 29 of
the colonias is estimated at $40 to
$45 million, according to Valley In-
terfaith, a coalition of Valley
churches working to improve living
conditions for the poor.
White and Hobby have pledged to
the coalition to work for $100 mil
lion in state monies to help improve
the colonias.
“We’re talking millions and mil
lions of dollars if we don’t (improve
colonias) when you look at the
wasted opportunities in the lives of
these voting children,” White told
reporters.
White, who is seeking re-election,
talked to numerous children during
the tour. He and Alex Flores wrote
their names in fresh cement that was
being molded into a curb in the Port
way Acres colonia.
White also talked about the state’s
education reform package and said
it was helping many of the children
he had met on Tuesday.
MOSGOW (AP) — The Cherno
byl nuclear disaster has claimed two
more lives, bringing the death toll to
25, a Soviet doctor said Tuesday. He
also disclosed that 18,000 people ini
tially were hospitalized after the acci
dent.
Dr. Leonid Ilyin, director of Mos
cow’s Hospital No. 6 where the most
seriously ill patients were taken, said
about 30 of them remain in critical
condition.
He said 18,000 people were hospi
talized for up to three days in Kiev
and other Ukrainian cities after the
April 26 disaster. But he said doctors
found they were only suffering from
anxiety.
“None of the 18,000 had prob
lems,” Ilyin said. “In any evacuation,
there is psychological stress and dif
ferent people react differently, so we
wanted . . . wanted to check every
one who was complaining.” He said
doctors concluded all 18,000 were in
“perfect health.”
Ilyin spoke at a news conference
called by International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
which won the 1985 Nobel Peace
Prize. However, he did not go into
much detail because the group’s
American co-chairman. Dr. Bernard
Lown, complained that the news
conference was to discuss disarma
ment, not Ghernobyl.
The group’s Soviet co-chairman,
Dr. Yevgeny Chazov, said last week
in Gologne, West Germany, that 21
people had died, including two
workers killed outright in the explo
sion and fire.
Dr. Robert P. Gale, an American
bone marrow transplant specialist
treating Chernobyl patients, said last
Thursday the death toll was 23, in
cluding the two killed instantly.
Ilyin said a chief concern for those
still hospitalized was a drop in their
natural immunity. “I should say that
quite a few patients are with second-
and third-degree acute radiation
sickness,” he said. He was not given
an opportunity to elaborate.
Bone marrow transplants have
been performed on the most crit
ically ill patients in an effort to pre
vent them from incurring grave in
fections as the radiation in their
bodies destroys blood cells. Doctors
have said that patients who recover
still may face higher risks of cancer
and other diseases later in life.
Chazov said last week that 1 1 of
those who died had undergone bone
marrow transplants.
Ilyin said a total of about 100,000
people — the number ordered evac
uated from the “danger zone” —
were checked by medics and doctors.
He said cases of radiation exposure
were limited to the several hundred
plant workers.
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elton ‘not recruited’ as double agent
BALTIMORE (AP) — Ronald W. Pelton,
testifying for the second day at his espionage
trial, acknowledged Tuesday that FBI agents
never told him they wanted him to work as a
double agent against the Soviet KGB.
Pelton contended, however, that during an
interrogation before his arrest last November,
he believed the FBI was trying to cut a deal
with him in return for details he allegedly
gave the Russians about National Security
Agency interception of Soviet communica
tions.
The defendant, who worked as an NSA
technician for 14 years before he resigned in
1979, faces life imprisonment if convicted of
charges that he sold secrets to the KGB intelli
gence service from 1980 to 1985.
Pelton was the only witness for the defense,
which rested its case after he stepped down.
Both sides are scheduled to present closing
arguments on Wednesday morning with the
case to go to the jury later in the day.
On the stand, Pelton acknowledged that he
told FBI agents he had entered the Soviet em
bassy on Jan. 15, 1980, that he had under
gone extensive debriefings by Russian agents
m Vienna, Austria, in 1980 and 1983, and
that he collected $35,000 from the Soviets for
the information.
Defense attorney Fred Warren Bennett is
trying to convince the jury that the FBI
tricked Pelton into the confession by interro
gating him for more than five hours before
advising him of his rights and arresting him,
and also that the suspect was under the influ
ence of alcohol and drugs for some of the
questioning.
Pelton testified Tuesday he was so con
vinced that federal agents wanted to recruit
him for counterintelligence work that during
transcript of the conversation, rendered it as:
“(unintelligible) . . . You’re only involved
(unintelligible).” The parentheses were in the
transcript.
But on the tape, replayed in open court,
Pelton seems to say, “You’re only involved
with the FBI,” and the woman makes a re
sponse which is unintelligible, except for the
initials. “F-B-I.”
Pelton said the only time he had heard the
tape before Tuesday was when it was played
“And that on the trips, you spent three to four days, eight hours a
day, writing out answers to written questions . . . and that for your
efforts you received $35,000?”
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Douglass, questioning Ronald W.
Pelton, accused of selling classified information to the Soviet Union.
a nine-hour break in the questioning he told
his girlfriend he was “involved with the FBI.’’
In a daring courtroom gamble, Pelton
claimed that his remark about the FBI was re
corded b\ a clandestine bug placed in the
girlfriend’s apartment by federal agents.
Government prosecutors, in preparing a
in court bv prosecutors last week, but that, “I
definitely told her."
The small v ictory for the defense appeared
to be overwhelmed by the damaging admis
sions that Pelton made under withering cross-
examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney John
Douglass.
Douglass asked Pelton whether, in a con
versation with FBI agents in a parking lot out
side the Annapolis hotel where he was ques
tioned, he had said “that you took three trips
to Vienna, and met with Soviet agents on two
of them.”
Pelton: Yes.
Douglass: And that on the trips, you spent
three to four days, eight hours a day, writing
out answers to written questions . . . and that
for vour efforts you received $35,000?
Pelton: That’s what I told the agents, yes.
Douglass: And that would be in exchange
for information?
Pelton: That’s what I told the agents, yes.
The defendant testified that during the
questioning he thought, “Some type of deal
might be able to be made with the agents re
garding counterintelligence. I didn’t know
what kind of work they might want me to do.
I was led to believ e that some sort of negotia
tions, it was possible, would take place,”
Pelton testified.
Douglass: You never asked them what they
meant bv cooperation, did you?
Pelton: I never asked them and they never
told me.
Lincecum
sentenced
to death
ANGLETON (AP) — A jury
Tuesday ordered the death pen
alty for a 22-year-old parolee con
victed of killing a Brenham
schoolteacher during an attack
that also claimed the life of her
11 -year-old son.
Kavin Wayne Lincecum was
convicted Monday of strangling
Kalhv Coppedge, 35, a Brenham
schoolteacher. Her son, Casey,
also was killed.
The two were found in the
trunk of their car, where the boy
suffocated, authorities said. They
had jeen abducted f rom a church
park ng lot.
Li icecum showed no reaction
whei the jury returned its pun
ishment verdict after 48 minutes
of deliberation. The panel took
onlv 30 minutes Monday to con
vict him of capital murder.
“Justice was done,” Joyce Da
vis, Mrs. Coppedge’s mother, said
See Murder, page 10