Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1986)
I ) I ; h 3 r fo ' g. i ^ : s - $ CO (0 3 3 -CO 2 . 0 ' 01 3 o 3 O- Texas A&MV^ ^ d «• The Battalion Vol. 82 No. 208 GSPS 045360 10 pages College Station, Texas Monday, September 15, 1986 Terrorist bombs hit cities in Asia, Europe Five killed, 19 injured in Seoul blast SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A powerful explosive device blasted the crowded terminal building at Seoul’s Kimpo International Airport on Sunday, killing five Koreans and injuring 19, police said. Police said 13 victims were se riously hurt. Local news media ac counts said as many as 35 people were injured in the air terminal, the main arrival point for the Asian Games set to open next Saturday. A statement issued by Kang Min- chang, director of South Korea’s na tional police, pointed an accusing finger at communist North Korea, charging North Korea with planning “impure, barbaric and wicked schemes aimed at disrupting the suc cessful hosting of the games.” The statement said all the victims were Korean and that initial investi gation found that an explosive de vice went off outside the terminal. It said the midafternoon explo sion occurred in or near a steel trash can outside the terminal’s ground- floor waiting area. Witnesses said the blast knocked about 50 people off their feet, and sent scores screaming and running away in panic. Broken glass and debris covered the sidewalk outside and the infor mation counters and furniture in side the terminal. Shoes, scraps of clothing and bloodstains spotted the area. Security measures, always intense in South Korea, have been increased in recent weeks with the approach of the games. About 100,000 people in the national police, plus other par amilitary forces and special units have been put on alert. A heavy concentration of security forces was stationed at the airport. South Korea has feared that North Korea or others might try to mar the games and this nation’s image as a host. North Korea re fused to take part in the games, say ing they were one more event aimed at perpetuating the division of the Korean peninsula. The peninsula has been divided into communist North and anti-com munist South since the end of World War II. The 1950-53 Korean War deepened the division and a demili tarized zone separates the two sides. The police director said the explo sion was similar to two explosions in 1983 — at Taegu, South Korea, and in Rangoon, Burma. One blast damaged the American Israeli head seeks support from U.S. for meeting plan H (t X p V) > 9? z ^ r IfEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime iiister Shimon Peres flew to Wash- ingion Sunday to meet President jan and to try to gain U.S. back ing for the accord between Israel ami Egypt calling for an interna- timal conference on the Middle East. ■‘A primary purpose in my trip will be to work out with the United States a peace policy for the future,” Peres told reporters at Ben-Gurion International Airport. “The time has cone to spell out what are the needed peace initiatives.” feres, scheduled to meet Reagan May, also has arranged meetings with Vice President George Bush Secretary of State George P. Shultz. lAlso, government officials said the Israeli Embassy in Washington is trying to arrange a meeting between Pens and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Shevardnadze will be in the United States attending the United Nations General Assembly. Asked about any meeting, Peres told re porters he did not know if Shevard nadze had agreed. Peres’ weeklong trip will include stops in New York and Ottawa. The prime minister’s visit comes a month before he is due to swap jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Sha mir of the conservative Likud bloc under a power-sharing pact between Likud and the left-of-center Labor Party. Last week, Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held a two-day summit in Alexandria, Egypt. They agreed Friday to form a preparatory committee for conven ing an international peace confer ence. A U.S. government official, who requested anonymity, said in Wash ington after the summit that the United States was cool to any plan that would include the Soviet Union in an international forum. Likud members of Peres’ government also See Meeting, page 10 Daniloff calls reporters potential targets of KGB MOSCOW (AP) — In his first news conference since he was freed from a Soviet prison, Nich olas Daniloff spoke Sunday of suffering “mental torture” dur ing 13 days of interrogation, and warned reporter colleagues they also were potential KGB targets. He spoke in a room in the U.S. Commercial Office packed with Western reporters, whom he of ten called by their first names during an informal, 40-minute question-and-answer session. The mood alternated from se rious to light as Daniloff de scribed his fears as he lay in his cell, the informal courtesy code among prisoners, and the give- and-take with his KGB interroga tor over the wording of questions. Daniloff emphasized he was never physically abused during his stay at Lefortovo Prison. But Daniloff said the loneliness and the 30 hours of interrogation took their toll. “Frankly, I have to tell you, it’s mental torture, mental torture,” he said. The 51-year-old reporter, who says he was framed by the KGB in revenge for the FBI arrest of a Soviet on spy charges in New York, also had a sober warning for fellowjournalists: “All of you are potential targets for this sort of action, and it’s de plorable. One has to ask: is this an accep table way of behaving, snapping up people off the street in order to gain political leverage in some other case?” His voice was strained at times, but for the most part he was artic ulate, and even joked a little about his experiences. He was re leased Friday in the custody of the U.S. Embassy. Daniloff described his arrest by eight KGB agents on Aug. 30 af ter a meeting with a Soviet ac quaintance called Misha, a nick name for Mikhail A. Luzin. Daniloff gave Luzin some American novels as a farewell gift. Daniloff said that to his sur prise, Luzin gave him a package that Luzin said contained news paper clippings. The envelope contained secret maps and mili tary photographs. Asked whether he had second thoughts about taking the packet, Daniloff replied: “Well, you know, once you have been sandbagged by eight men on a street, totally unsus pecting, put into a van, your hands pinned behind your back, your hands in handcuffs, of course you wonder — why the hell did I do that?” Daniloff described his KGB in terrogator, Col. Vasily D. Sago- deyev, as “a civilized and sophisti cated man.” “There was a time when he gave me a leading question, which immediately suggested that I was guilty.” Daniloff said that when he pressed Sagodeyev about the wording of the question, the KGB officer agreed to change it. Death toll from quake rises to 17 I KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — Rescuers pulled seven bodies from the rubble of an apartment uilding toppled by a powerful arthquake in this southern port lity Sunday, raising the toll to at [east 17 people killed and more ihan 300 injured. A defense ministry spokesman laid more than 100 people were Bospitalized after Saturday’s quake, and 200 more were llreated for cuts and puncture wounds. Crews rescued 31 people ffrom damaged buildings, but more bodies were believed to be buried under rubble, said the Spokesman, who demanded ano nymity. The quake, measuring 6.2 on jhe Richter scale, rolled through the mountainous Messenia re- ||ion, 180 miles southwest of Athens, at 8:24 p.m. Saturday. The tremor destroyed all but fhree of 120 homes in the village >of Elaiochori, 12’A miles east of ialamata. The bodies of three ullagers were found beneath the rubble, the ministry said. Seven bodies were found else where, including two men brushed in a car when a building 'toppled over. Neither police nor See Earthquake, page 10 Decision may be left to Texas voters New lottery bill divides lawmakers By Sondra Pickard Senior Staff Writer Every day, in 22 states, half the U.S. population shells out bucks to try its luck on the most accessible form of legalized gambling available today — the lottery. But whether Texas, in its eco nomic slump, will choose to join this fast-growing, revenue-raising band wagon is a question that could be left to voters in the form of a constitur tional amendment. Legislation proposing a state lot tery in Texas has been reintroduced in the second special session of the Legislature by Sen. Hector Uribe, D- Brownsville. Uribe sponsored a lot tery bill in the regular session, but it was quickly halted. Then, in the first special session called by Gov. Mark White, another lottery bill pro gressed to the Senate floor where it was approved. The bill went to the House of Representatives but was stalled in committee. “That was the first vote (ever) in a Senate committee,” Uribe said, “and was the first time any lottery mea sure had received a favorable vote.” Although the bill still lacks a sig nificant number of votes in the House, Uribe said he expects the current lottery resolution to fare bet ter this session. Any proposed constitutional amendment must pass with a two- thirds majority in the House and the Senate. But even if lawmakers were to ap prove a lottery in this session, Uribe said the amendment wouldn’t be presented to voters in November be cause of a constitutional printing re quirement that says a bill must be prepared 60 days prior to an elec tion. Instead the amendment would be on the January ballot, he said. Arguments presented by those both for and against a state-run lot tery in Texas run deep. It would seem to most — about 68 percent of all Texas voters according to a re cent poll — that a lottery would in deed add significant dollars to an ever shrinking coffer. Comptroller Bob Bullock esti mates that a fully-operational lottery would generate more than $600 mil lion per year in net revenues to the state. George Works, director of Texans for the Lottery, says the lottery wouldn’t solve the state’s severe fi nancial problems, although it would greatly alleviate the need for tax in creases or spending cuts. “There’s probably going to be some kind of broad-based tax in crease,” Works said, “but a lottery could keep the rate lowered on that tax and could keep some services from being obliterated.” Other Texans are hesitant about the idea of the state supporting and promoting any form of gambling, but especially one which they say places an unfair burden on the poorer citizens of the state. Those against a lottery say their opponents are merely using the current fiscal needs of the state to push their cause. Weston Ware, associate director of the Christian Life Commission, a Baptist organization that lobbies on social and moral issues, said the state should not be a partner in a business where its citizens must lose in order for the state to win. “What is at hand here is the mor ality of the state,” Ware said. “As soon as the state begins to operate a lottery, it’s in the state’s interest to make as many losers as it can.” According to a fact sheet put out by Texans for the Lottery, the num ber of lottery states is growing rap idly and is projected to increase to 31 by next year. During the past 20 years, no state lottery has failed to produce a profit. The nation’s 22 state lotteries collec tively grossed more than $9 billion in 1985, and during its first six months, the new California lottery yielded more than $1.4 billion in sales. Cali fornia’s lottery thus far has paid $476 million into the state treasury, while returning $650 million back to the players in prizes. Texans for the Lottery report that, if demographics and other as pects of Texas are similar to Califor nia, then Texas — with 60 percent of California’s population — could sell 6 million one-dollar tickets per day after start up. This could bring a da ily net gain of $2 million to the state treasury. But the Christian Life Commis sion claims that, out of each dollar spent, only 40 cents goes back to the player. Twenty percent of the earn ings go to the state, and 40 percent go back into the game, Ware said. The group believes the lottery is a regressive tax which places an unfair burden on the poor, and backs up their claim with evidence they say proves the game attracts primarily the low-income market. Most play ers, according to a statement by Ware, have less than an eighth- grade education, and the typical See Lottery, page 10 Cultural Center in the southern city of Taegu, killing one person and in juring four people. The blast in the Burmese capital in October 1983 killed 17 visiting South Korean offi cials. The explosions were blamed on North Korean saboteurs. Paris bomb injures 3 at tavern PARIS (AP) — A bomb exploded Sunday in the underground parking lot of a tavern on the Champs-Ely- sees Avenue, injuring three people, authorities said. Police blocked off the area in one of the capital’s most famous tourist districts, but provided no immediate details about the blast, the third in Paris in a week. French news reports quoted con flicting accounts as to whether the injured were tavern employees or police officers. The reports said a suspicious package found on the Pub Renault premises was taken downstairs to the basement parking area when it ex ploded. Less than an hour after the explo sion, Premier Jacques Chirac said the army would help police France’s airports and border crossings as part of a stepped-up anti-terrorism pro gram. He said more than 1,000 sol diers would be involved. Beginning Monday, France will require all foreigners entering the country to obtain visas except for cit izens of other Common Market countries and Switzerland, Chirac said. He said the visa requirement will be in effect for six months. France is among 12 members of the Common Market. The premier also said tough con trols would be enforced in all public places to try to prevent future bomb- ings. “I ask all our fellow citizens to un derstand, in their own interest, the usefulness of measures of this na ture,” Chirac said in an interview on French radio. “I ask for cooperation from everyone.” Chirac met Sunday afternoon with Cabinet ministers directly in volved in foreign affairs and internal security to draw up the anti-terror- ism package, which had been planned before Sunday’s bombing. A bomb exploded Friday in a crowded cafeteria in Paris, injuring 40 people. Another bomb exploded last Monday in a post office at the City Hall building, killing one woman and injuring 19 people. A&M cadet, girlfriend found slain A 22-year-old Texas A&M stu dent and his girlfriend, 21, were found slain early Sunday morn ing in Mansfield, according to the Mansfield Police Department. The bodies of Daniel Brennon Meyer and Janet Louise Hand- cock, a University of Texas at Ar lington student from Mansfield, were found at 2:52 a.m. by the Mansfield Police Department, said dispatcher David Looney. Police said both deaths were caused by gunshot wounds. Looney said a 22-year-old Mansfield man and an 18-year- old Pantego man have been ar rested in connection with the deaths. The men have been ar raigned, but bond has not been set, he said. The suspects will be trans ferred to the Tarrant County jail Monday where charges will be filed, he said. Meyer, a member of Squadron 11 of the Corps of Cadets, was ex pected to graduate in May 1986 with an accounting degree. He was to be commissioned into the U.S. Army and assigned to Fort Knox, Ky. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Harveson-Cole Fu neral Home in Fort Worth. Ill :