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mlo\. 82 No. 176 GSPS 045360 8 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, July 15, 1986
fanada
ill be 1st
in research
park atA&M
From staff and wire reports
Granada Corp. will build its re
search and development head
quarters in the fledgling Texas
A&M University Research Park,
making it the first private cor
poration and the second research
[organization to locate in the park.
The A&M research park occu
pies about one-half of the west
campus, an area bounded by F.M.
[2818, jersev Sreet, Wellborn
Road and University Drive.
A&M recently completed a
55.4 million project, initialed in
H)84, to install boulevards,
bridges, utilities and lighting at
the site.
The announcement was made
by Dr. Mark L. Money, vice chan-
Icellor of research park and cor
porate relations and David G. El
ler, chairman and chief executive
officer for Granada and chair
man of the Texas A&M Univer
sity Board of Regents.The build
ing, under development by
McWherter Development Go. of
Houston in partnership with Gra
nada Realty, a subsidiary of Gra
nada Corp., is scheduled for com
pletion in mid-1987.
The Granada Corp. specializes
in the development of new food
and protein production tech
niques and is known for its work
in bovine genetic research and
genetic engineering.
Granada also will conduct in
terferon research at its new re
search facility here.
One Research Park will join the
National Science Foundation’s
50.5 million Ocean Drilling Pro
gram building as the initial ten-
nants of the 484 acre park. The
Ocean Drilling Program building,
which has yet to be furnished and
equipped, is scheduled for occu
pancy in November.
The Ocean Drilling Program,
which recieves $80 million a year
in public and private f unding and
is managed by A&M, examines
cores drilled f rom the ocean floor
throughout the world.
Since Stanford initiated the
first research park in California
in 1951, the legendary “Silicon
Valley,” 2b other universities
have attempted to establish such a
park. Only 5 can claim clear suc
cess.
FBI agent gets 2 life terms for spying
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard
W. Miller, the only FBI agent ever
accused of espionage, was sentenced
Monday to two life terms plus 50
years in prison for spying for the So
viet Union.
The judge who passed sentence
said he hoped Miller would “not
walk again in this country as a free
man.”
Miller, who had not spoken dur
ing his trial, broke his silence to tell
the judge he is innocent and will
FOR I WORTH (AP) — U.S. Ed
ucation Secretary William Bennett
gave a ringing endorsement Monday
to two of Texas’ most controversial
public school reforms — the no-pass,
no-play rule and teacher compe
tency testing.
“I agree with the principle of no
pass, no-play,” Bennett told the an
nual meeting of the Southern Legis
lative Conference. “I also support
no-pass, no-teach. I think if we’re
going to be rigorous in terms of our
expectations of the students, we
ought to be equally rigorous in our
expectations of teachers.”
Both ideas are strongly supported
by the majority of people nation
wide, he said.
“The American people are very
clear about this,” Bennett said. “Pub
lic opinion is very strong on both is
sues.
“It’s a sports-minded people. It’s a
people that believes very much in ex
tra-curricular activities. But it also
believes there are priorities in
school. And the first and the main
priority of school is to learn.”
Texas in 1984 adopted a statewide
no-pass, no-play rule that bars stu
dents from sports or other extra
curricular activities for six weeks for
failing any class.
Although the rule has angered
some coaches, parents and students,
Gov. Mark White has rejected all
suggestions that the rule be eased.
4Te 1984 school reform law also
required that teachers and school
administrators pass a literacy test to
keep their jobs. About 97 percent
passed the first test. The second
exam, for those who failed, was
given last month.
continue to fight for his vindication.
“I never intended to injure this
country or benefit the Soviet
Union,” Miller told the packed,
hushed courtroom. “My conduct was
of no damage to this country.”
The portly defendant faced the
judge, “I believe you are going to
sentence me as if I committed these
crimes,” he said. “But I did not com
mit them ... I shall continue to as
sert my innocence with an appeal
Although many Texas teachers
objected to the test, Bennett said he
favors requiring teachers to pass a
test that is more difficult than the
one Texas educators took.
Besides proving they can read and
write, as required in Texas, Bennett
said teachers should be tested to
prove their qualifications to teach a
particular subject.
“There is a problem in some com
munities about public credibility
about the quality of teachers, and
steps need to be taken to reassure
the public about the ability of teach
ers,” he said.
“It is in the interest of teachers to
assure the public of their compe- .
tency,” he said.
Bennett noted that members of
some professions, including doctors
and lawyers, are required to pass ex
aminations before they can make a
living in their fields. Teaching is no
different, he said, particularly with
teachers today demanding higher
salaries and other benefits.
On another subject, Bennett
urged the legislators from 15 south
ern states to back their college presi
dents in an effort to remove drug
use from campuses.
“Whatever is necessary for them
to do, what ever it takes, let them
know they have the go-ahead, they
have your support,” he said. “If you
will let your college presidents know
you are behind them on this, I think
you’ll see some results.”
Bennett noted that last week he
urged college presidents nationwide
to write letters to incoming students
this fall warning them that drugs
won’t be tolerated on campus.
that I hope will result in a new and
fair trial.”
U.S. District Judge David Kenyon,
who also fined Miller $60,000 — the
maximum — replied with an emo
tional statement in which he de
fended his rulings during the long
trial, and he denounced Miller as a
man who had everything and threw
it away because he was ungrateful.
“We re all here to learn a lesson,”
Kenyon said. “We’re not here to hate
or despise Mr. Miller. My heart goes
out to Mr. Miller. My personal im
pression is he is a tormented man.”
Kenyon said he planned to sen
tence Miller severely as an example
to the nation.
“It seems to me there should be a
recognition on the part of all citizens
of the United States,” he said, ex
plaining he felt that with the increas
ing incidents of espionage in the
United States, “we begin to take it
more lightly.”
“It seems to me a person who de
liberately, for their own personal
gain, betrays their country, should
not walk again in this country as a
free man,” he said.
Kenyon praised the FBI, saying it
acted with compassion and intelli
gence in its handling of Miller. Accu
sations that the FBI gave Miller spe
cial treatment because he was
Mormah were unfounded, the judge
said.
The case rocked the FBI when it
broke nearly two years ago.
Thousands
strike jobs,
school in
South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — Tens of thousands of black
workers shunned jobs and schools
Monday to protest South Africa’s
state of emergency, but the main ef
fect appeared to be in areas noted
for anti-apartheid activism.
The government said at least 80
percent of the nation’s 1.7 million
black students returned to school for
resumption of classes after a six-
week vacation. That would mean up
to 840,000 stayed away in response
to a call from militant youth leaders.
Black trade unions proclaimed a
national “day of action” against the
detention of more than 200 labor
leaders, who are among an esti
mated 3,500 people held without
charge.
Participation appeared spotty in
the first concerted mass protest since
the nationwide state of emergency
was imposed June 12, according to
employers and academic monitoring
groups.
Up to 70 percent of workers
stayed off the job at Port Elizabeth,
or reported briefly and left. The in
dustrial city on the Indian Ocean has
been a center of protest during
nearly two years of racial unrest in
which more than 2,000 people have
been killed.
Only scattered strikes occurred in
most parts of the country, however,
and the vital mining industry re
ported few problems.
Restrictions under the emergency
include rules that prohibit journal
ists from reporting actions of secu
rity forces without official permis
sion, publishing the names of
detained people and quoting “sub
versive statements,” which are
vaguely defined.
Bennett endorses
no-pass, no-play,
no-pass, no-teach
Photo by Tom Ownbey
Sit Down, Bus Driver!
Dan Murray takes a break from Summer Session I exams Monday
at Wofford Gain Pool, where creative diving is only one of the at
tractions. Swimmers and sunbathers also sought relief from the
afternoon heat.
Jury deliberates in torture-slavery case
KERRVILLE (AP) — Jurors be
gan deliberating Monday in the
state’s organized crime case against
two Hill Country ranchers and a for
mer ranch worker accused of con
spiring to kidnap drifters and forc
ing them into slavery.
The jury left the courtroom at
6:15 p.m. to begin considering nine
weeks of testimony in the case
against the three. They retired for
the night about two hours and 15
minutes later and were to return this
morning.
Walter Wesley Ellebracht Sr., 55;
his son Walter Wesley Ellebracht Jr.,
33; and hitchhiker Carlton Robert
Caldwell, 21, are charged with con
spiring to commit aggravated kid
napping and murder in the 1984
death of Anthony Bates.
The state claims the Ellebrachts
lured drifters like Bates to their iso
lated Hill Country ranch with the
promise of work and then forced
them to stay and work against their
will.
If convicted, they face possible life
prison sentences.
During final arguments Monday,
a prosecutor apologized to jurors for
playing gruesome tape recordings of
torture sessions at the Hill Country
ranch, but said they were necessary
to prove the state’s case.
“They were shocking,” said pros
ecutor Gerald Carruth in the trial of
three men charged with violating the
state’s organized crime law.
“But I don’t think you could sit in
judgment without that key eviden
ce,” Carruth said. “I would remind
you the state didn’t make those
tapes. The defendants did.”
The tape recordings were of tor
ture sessions involving Bates, the
one-eyed drifter from Alabama.
Prosecutors say Bates was tor
tured to death with an electric cattle
prod before his body was doused
with gasoline and burned.
Witnesses in nine weeks of testi
mony identified voices belonging to
the younger Ellebracht and Caldwell
on the tapes, which were seized after
the ranch was raided by law officers
in April 1984.
Jurors and spectators wept and
covered their ears when the tapes,
peppered with Bates’ screams, were
played earlier in the trial. In one of
the tapes, an announcer was heard
to say: “Live from the bunkhouse,
it’s shock time.”
“All that remains of Anthony
Bates are spread out before you on
the jury box,” Carruth said, refer
ring to small plastic boxes filled with
charred bone fragments found at
the ranch.
Defense lawyer Dan Cogdell, who
represents the senior Ellebracht,
said the state’s lineup of witnesses,
many of them hitchhikers who face
similar charges, testified because
they don’t want to go to trial.
Cogdell accused prosecutors of
rehearsing the testimony with key
state witnesses.
Cogdell said his client’s voice did
not appear on the tapes.
A&M prof sues Accuracy in Academia
By Michelle Powe
Editor
A Texas A&M professor has filed
a libel suit against Accuracy in Aca
demia, Inc.,- charging that the con
servative watchdog group, in a pub
lish e d syndicated coin m n
“maliciously” compared him to a
“hog charging the morning trough”
and compared “his beliefs to those of
the devil, Lucifer.”
Terry Anderson, associate profes
sor of history, filed the suit June 17
in a federal court in Minneapolis,
Minn. The suit seeks damages in ex
cess of $50,000, plus legal fees.
Anderson charges in the suit that
AIA injured his reputation, “ex
posed him to public hatred, ridicule,
contempt and degradation” and ad
versely affected “his standing among
his associates” in an October 1985
column written by the editors of the
group’s newspaper, which was sent
to campus newspapers nationwide.
The column was published in
about 10 student papers.
One of the schools which received
the column — but did not run it —
was Anderson’s alma mater, the Uni
versity of Minnesota. Anderson said
he learned of the column when an
editor of the student paper, the Min
Terry Anderson
nesota Daily, called Anderson to
confirm several facts, which Ander
son said were not true.
Although the column was not
published in the Daily, Anderson’s
attorney, William D. Harper, said
the AIA “communicated the infor
mation to the people at the univer
sity, and by communicating that
message they have published it for
the purposes of the law.”
The column is based on quotes
taken from an article originally pub
lished in The Battalion in October
1984. That article, Anderson said,
misquoted his views on marriage,
God and patriotism.
AIA reprinted the quote in its col
umn, which questioned professors’
rights to express their opinions in
the classropm. The column said that
scholars who are offered the priv
ilege of academic freedom “come
rushing up with all the restraint, dig
nity and erudition of hogs charging
the morning trough.”
AIA, the suit charges, failed to
exercise “reasonable care” to deter
mine whether the statements were
true before printing them. Ander
son said AIA did not check any of its
facts or quotes with him.
“They (the AIA) never called me
at all to see if that Battalion article
was correct,” he said. “This could
have all been avoided if they were
really concerned about accuracy.
But they’re not.”
Les Csorba, executive director of
AIA and co-author of the column,
said he attempted to reach Ander
son to check the accuracy of the
quotes in question, but was unsuc
cessful. So he attributed the quota
tions to Campus Review, a religious
magazine that published a story
based on the Battalion article.
Csorba said he contacted the au
thor of the 1984 article and verified
the quotes. However the author,
Glenda Marrou, told The Battalion
last week that she was not contacted
by anyone from AIA until April
1986 — six months after the AIA
column was published.
Anderson’s attorney said he con
tacted the AIA in December before
the lawsuit was filed and demanded
a retraction of the column. In a Jan
uary 1986 letter Csorba said AIA
would not retract the column unless
the quotes could be proven false.
Individually named in the lawsuit
are Csorba and co-author Matthew
Scully. Both were editors of AIA’s
newspaper, Campus Report, at the
time the column was written. Also
named are Accuracy in Media, Inc.,
the self-appointed media watchdog
and parent group of AIA, and its
chairman, Reed Irvine.
Csorba said AIA is considering a
counter-suit to Anderson’s suit.
Csorba said the column, as an
opinion piece, is fair commentary
and protected by the First Amend
ment.
“I have a right by the Constitution
to express mv opinion,” he said.
Bomb kills 8 in Madrid;
rulers blame terrorists
MADRID, Spain (AP) — A van
rigged as a shrapnel bomb was
detonated by remote control
Monday as a busload of civil
guards passed, killing eight
guards and wounding 44 people,
including 12 civilians, officials re
ported.
No group claimed responsibil
ity, but the governing Socialist
Party blamed the explosion on
“ETA assassins.” The Basque se
paratist group ETA has carried
out many similar attacks on mili
tary and police targets, the most
recent a car bombing April 25
that killed five paramilitary civil
guards.
Twisted metal, mangled cars
and shards of glass littered Do
minican Republic Square in a
fashionable residential district
about three miles from the center
of the capital. The bomb ex
ploded at 7:48 a.m., shattering
windows around the square and
damaging street-level shops.
“The blast was so powerful it
threw me against a wall as I was
coming up from the subway,” ra-
dio announcer Carlos Cofrades
said. “There is broken glass all
over the place.”
A spokesman for the civil
guard, whose distinctive gray-
green uniforms and patent
leather tricorne hats set them off
from other police, said 70 young
officers were being taken to a
highway patrol training center in
the bus and a trailing van. He said
the vehicle that exploded con
tained shrapnel and about 110
pounds of plastic explosives.
State television speculated that
the bombing was an ETA re
sponse to France’s deportation to
Gabon on Sunday of the separat
ist group’s reputed military
leader.
Domingo Itrube Abasolo, who
is 42 and uses the code name
Txomin, had been living in
France for 18 years as a political
refugee. Police arrested him seve
ral months ago on charges of vio
lating refugee regulations by
keeping arms in his home.