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Tuesday, September 30,1986
aniloff released, flies to West Germany
SUN OLASSESl
|IANKFURT, West Germany
American journalist Nicho-
flaniloff flew to the West and
pom Monday, released in a still-
pve U.S.-Soviet agreement that
help shake off a deepening
a superpower relations.
i related story, page 10
[New York, a Soviet bloc source
United Nations said Gennadiy
[arov, charged with being a So-
S , would be exchanged for
. But there was no immedi-
jfficial announcement on the
ic of a deal.
lesident Reagan, visiting Kansas
City, Mo., said, “We didn’t give in,”
and said details of the arrangement
would be disclosed today.
Daniloff, U.S. News 8c World Re-
f iort correspondent in Moscow for
ive years, told reporters after land
ing in Frankfurt: “I’m grateful to the
president of the United States. I’m
free, I’m in the VVest. I cannot tell
you about any other arrangements ..
. . All I know is that I am free.”
The 51-year-old journalist ap
peared to be in good health but
tired.
“It’s obvious to everyone what has
happened,” he said. “I was arrested
without an arrest warrant. The case
against me was fabricated.”
He said he was taken into custody
to give the Soviet Union leverage in
its efforts to obtain the release of
Zakharov, who was arrested in New
York a week before Daniloff was
picked up.
“The KGB did not punish me,” he
added. “The KGB punished itself.”
His wife Ruth held up a T-shirt
reading “Free Nick Daniloff.”
In Moscow Daniloff had said: “I
leave more in sorrow than anger.” _
In an emotional departure, he
read a verse by 19th-century Russian
poet Mikhail Lermontov that bids
farewell to “unwashed Russia, land
of slaves,” and to its “all-seeing
eyes . . . all-hearing ears.”
He and his wife then boarded a
Lufthansa flight that landed in
Frankfurt three hours, 40 minutes
later, at 8:55 p.m. (3:55 p.m. EDT),
ending a suspenseful month during
which his arrest had threatened to
derail relations between the world’s
two most powerful nations.
On hand to welcome Daniloff was
Richard Burt, U.S. ambassador to
West Germany.
The KGB secret service jailed
Daniloff as an accused spy Aug. 30,
in what U.S. officials described as re
taliation for the arrest in New York a
week earlier of the 39-year-old Zak
harov, a physicist and Soviet U.N.
employee.
Although the U.S. administration
had insisted there would no swap of
the two men, Secretary of State
George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard Shevardnadze ne
gotiated for long hours in Washing
ton and New York in recent days
over their fate.
Some sources in the United States
had said a broader deal also might
include the release of some Soviet
dissidents.
And the Soviets, at the same time,
were seeking relaxation of a U.S. or
der expelling 25 Soviet U.N. diplo
mats from the United States. The
U.S. government alleges that some
Soviet U.N. employees are engaged
in espionage.
At the United Nations, the usually
well-informed Soviet bloc source
said Shultz and Shevardnadze had
agreed during a meeting Sunday
night that Daniloff and Zakharov
would be exchanged. But the source
provided no further details.
In Washington, a source at the
U.S. Justice Department, which
brought the charges against Zakha
rov, would not say what deal, if any,
had been made for Daniloffs re
lease. He did say, however, that Zak
harov would not leave the United
States on Monday.
Like the Soviet bloc source, he in
sisted on anonymity.
Earlier, the U.S. attorney’s office
in the Brooklyn borough of New
York City said there was no change
in Zakharov’s status.
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By John Coles
Reporter
|Nine people spent Monday af-
oon taking breathalyzer tests,
nding on one leg and “toeing
line” for police officers. But
re was a catch — they had vol-
teered for ttie job.
1 , ■The volunteers drank free as
I 11 sobriety instructor’s
Id J.l.Ull(urse held by the Law Enforce-
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fion of the Texas Engineering
Btension Service and the Texas
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kT 0111 vWIp’S,” the volunteers began
[inking at about 1:30. Two
urs and several drinks later,
y took the three-step intoxica-
^ ^ dficn test, some of them with blood
jBohol levels of more than .14
Six of the nine were legally in-
itated, with blood alcohol lev-
Bofmore than . 10 percent.
M % ■"It all depends on your toler-
K B Bee level,” said Paul Battaglia,
■ ■ pstant training specialist for the
■ M pension service. “But it doesn’t
B Bite any difference whether a
Brson drinks rum, gin or what-
ler. It all works at getting you
drunk.”
■And get drunk they did. After
Be drinks, one volunteer spilled
ir drink on her dress. Later she
set a napkin on fire while trying
to put out a cigarette. Shoes were
Shed as the drinks went down and
tEegroup got louder.
■ The volunteers then were
liven the three sobriety field tests
| officials.
1 First they walked nine steps
del to toe, turned around and
diked back.
Then they tried standing on
peleg and counting to 30.
JFinally they were checked for
Ipid involuntary eye movement,
lithe test, which Battaglia said is
accurate 77 percent of the time,
[Subjects tried to follow the
lovement of an object from left
!toright in their peripheral vision.
The involuntary eye
pvement is hard to detect in a
iber person, Battaglia said, but
hen a person is intoxicated, the
iky movements are more bla-
Jlouisiana state trooper D.D.
pido III said the tests provided
•good opportunity for people to
iclate their blood alcohol level to
|e number of drinks they’d had.
| But some of the volunteers had
Idifferent idea: As one said, “We
i)uldn’t be drinking here for
free if it wasn’t for the fed.”
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GSU accepts proposal
for 7% . increase
By Craig Renfro
Staff Writer
College Station residents may pay
slightly higher utility bills following
Gulf State Utilities’ approval of a 7
percent rate increase for its whole
sale electric customers, a College Sta
tion official said Monday.
North Bardell, Lone Star Munici
pal Power Agency executive direc
tor, said the College Station City
Council must approve the settlement
before the rate change takes effect.
He added, however, that even if it
is approved, residents will still be
paying less for electricity than they
did two years ago because of sagging
oil prices.
“With the realities of the gas price
situation residents will be paying less
than they did two years ago,” Bardell
said.
The LSMPA serves as an advisory
agency to College Station in energy-
related decisions, Bardell said.
Bardell said that under the propo
sal the city will buy large bulks of
electricity at reduced rates and pass
the savings on to the fconsumer in
the form of a 4 percent increase.
If the council approves the con
tract, a residential customer who was
paying $100 a month will now pay
$104, he said.
Mayor Larry Ringer said the
council and city consultants will re
view the contract thoroughly before
deciding its fate in a special session
early next week.
If the council approves the con
tract it then must be approved by the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commis
sion, which regulates wholesale
rates.
GSU public affairs officer Sharon
Englade said she expects to hear
College Station’s decision by the
middle of October. In a telephone
interview from GSU headquarters in
Beaumont, Englade said the con
tract will reflect the current oil situa-
Englade said cheaper fuel and
coal will allow GSU to pass lower en
ergy costs on to its wholesale custom
ers. Englade said that she didn’t
know if a provision allowing for a
fuel cost adjustment will be included
See Utilities, page 10
Senate committee
OKs temporary
sales tax increase
AUSTIN (AP) — Facing a no
amendment warning from the
House, the Senate Finance Commit
tee approved Monday an $869.2 mil
lion temporary increase in sales and
gasoline taxes.
Leaders said they hoped for a vote
by the full Senate today, which
would bring the Legislature near the
end of its second special session.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, when asked
what he thought of the tax measure,
said “I hope we get out of here.”
The temporary tax package
would raise the sales tax from 4'/a
percent to 514 percent, and add 5
cents to the 10-cent per-gallon gaso
line tax.
Both would take effect Jan. 1 and
expire on Aug. 31.
Also included is a provision to al
low counties and cities not now col
lecting a transit tax to add a half
penny to their local sales taxes.
A companion spending cut plan,
which also has received a House OK,
would trim the budget by $582 mil
lion, eliminate nearly 2,000 state jobs
and wipe out a 3 percent state em
ployee pay raise scheduled for 1987.
The Senate panel’s favorable tax
vote — without amendments —
came after House leaders said any
changes made by senators would de
lay or possibly kill the tax bill in the
House.
House Ways and Means Commit
tee Stan Schlueter, D-Killeen, noted
that only 69 House members voted
for all parts of the tax bill on Satur
day, and he said mustering 76 votes
to accept Senate amendments would
be very difficult.
“It’s not a threat,” Schlueter said.
“It’s just saying that there’s not but
69 votes over here.
“I just really believe it’s dead if
they send it back.”
House Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort
Worth, who helped muscle the tax
hike through his chamber, said any
Senate amendments “mean we can
probably be in session for another
week or a month or however (long).”
Chairman Grant Jones, D-
Temple, said he would seek to sus
pend Senate rules and bring the tax
bill up for a vote today.
If the Senate OKs the bill as is, the
legislation would go to Gov. Mark
White, who Monday said he favored
it.
Search for
missing pilot
to resume
From Staff and Wire Reports
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) —The
search for a former commander
of the Texas A&M Corps of Ca
dets and another Marine flier,
missing off the coast of Georgia
since their jet collided with an
other fighter jet last week, is ex
pected to continue today.
A spokeswoman for the Coast
Guard in Miami, Fla., however,
said Monday that the number of
aircraft and services involved in
the search was not known yet.
Two military aircraft covered
700 square miles during Mon
day’s search for 1 st Lt. Charles K.
Castleberry Jr., 26, Class of’82, of
Lake Jackson, Texas, and Maj.
Christopher J. Brammer, 37, of
Cortez, Colo.
Castleberry was Corps com
mander at A&M in 1981-82. He
was a recipient of the Brown-
Rudder Award, presented to an
outstanding graduating senior,
and earned a bachelor’s degree in
agronomy.
The search had been called off
Friday night and the men were
declared lost at sea and presumed
dead. But some lawmakers in
Texas apparently persuaded
searchers to try again.
“We received some contact
from some senators and con
gressmen in the Texas area and
we have resumed searching,” Lt.
Jennifer Yount, officer on duty
for the Coast Guarcl in Miami,
said Sunday. She said officials
would determine on a daily basis
how long the search would last.
Castleberry, the pilot, and
Brammer, the radar intercept of
ficer, were on a routine training
mission when their F-4 Phantom
and another F-4 collided Tuesday
night. The crew members in the
other F-4 were picked up by a
fishing vessel .
29% of Brazos voter registrations invalid in 1985
By Patty Pascavage
Reporter
iAs the deadline for voter registra
nt approaches, officials in the Bra-
County registrar’s office are
rloaded with stacks of rejected
lications.
ferald “Buddy” Winn, Brazos
mty tax assessor-collector, said
two common problems with
las A&M students’ voter registra-
applications this year are incor-
permanent addresses and incor-
birth dates.
Winn said he’s concerned with the
lication problems because more
m 29 percent of the total applica-
ns received in Brazos County last
— 17,782 out of about 60,000
ere rejected. The majority of the
ctions were student applications.
Students naturally write their
Cents’ address for their perma-
®nt address on the cards because
it’s the normal procedure for all
campus documents,” Winn said.
However, the permanent address
written on the voter registration
form must be the applicant’s current
street address within the county in
which he wants to vote, he said. Post
office boxes are not acceptable, and
will be rejected.
“Applications are also rejected if
today’s date is written in place of the
voter’s date of birth,” Winn said.
Incomplete applications or appli
cations containing either of these
two errors cannot be processed and,
therefore, are rejected from the sys
tem. Rejected applications immedi
ately are returned to the sender for
corrections, but it is the applicant’s
responsibility to return the card to
the registrar before the final dead
line.
“If people would just take a little
more time when they fill out their
cards, it would save us and them a lot
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To alleviate registration errors,
Winn said he has deputized 80
Texas A&M students. He said he
hopes the deputies will keep regis
tration running smoothly from the
outside this year by answering ques
tions for students when they register
to vote.
Deputy voter registrars keep a log
of the number of cards distributed
and must return completed cards to
the County voter registrar within 10
days. The only requirement for a
deputy voter registrar is to be a reg
istered voter in the county.
The voter registration deadline
for the 1986 Texas general elections
is Sunday. The elections will be con
ducted Nov. 4.
Tracy Smith, a deputy voter regis
trar in Brazos County, said the office
has received more applications than
it had at this time last year.
To vote, individuals must be:
• At least 18 years old on or be
fore election day.
• A United States citizen.
• A Texas resident.
Voter registration cards are avail
able in the registrar’s office, on cam
pus, and in banks, churches, and
pofet offices in Brazos County.
Completed cards must be re
turned to the office of the county tax
assessor-collector, or to a volunteer
deputy registrar, who returns com
pleted cards to the county voter reg
istrar.
Applications for voter registration
also will be accepted by mail. Mail-in
applications must be sent on official
voter registration cards approved by
the State of Texas and postmarked
by Oct. 5. No postage is necessary
for mail-in applications.
Voters can be registered in only
one county, so registration will be
cancelled in the previous county
each time an applicant files a new
card in the registrar’s office. The
voter will not be notified of the
cancellation, but all registered voters
will receive a new voter’s certificate
every two years.
Accepted registration forms then
are passed to a deputy voter regis
trar who enters each name into a
computer and places them into pre
cincts to begin processing.
Voter registration becomes effec
tive on the 30th day after registering
in person at the registrar’s office or
on the 30th day after the mail-in ap
plication is postmarked.