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Apartheid protest draws 100
Photo by Mike Sanchez
Kevin Weaver and Jeff Jarvis post an anti-apartheid sign on the A&M golf course Friday.
Iceland summit
closes without
arms decision
Students,
:faculty urge
divestment
By Hal L. Hammons
Reporter
I Chanting “Board of Regents —
I Divest!" about 100 students and
I faculty marched through the
I Texas A&M campus Friday, con-
Idetuning the University for its in
vestments in South Africa.
Initiated by Students Against
Apartheid, the march coincided
I with National Anti-Apartheid
I Day.
the march was highlighted by
■ speeches made outside the Rud-
I tier Theater Complex and on the
■ steps of the Systems Administra-
Ition Building. Speakers included
I Dr. Larry Yarek, an A&M history
I professor and faculty adviser for
I Students Against Apartheid; and
■ the Rev. Mark Wilburn, an Epis-
|copal chaplain.
Norman Muraya, president of
Students Against Apartheid, said
the march might be enough to
convince the regents to grant the
group a hearing on its proposal
for divestment of University
funds.
Yarek, who teaches a class on
South African history at A&M,
spoke strongly for economic sanc
tions against the country, saying
I all motives behind a reluctance to
I impose sanctions are based fun-
I damentally on racism.
“Apartheid is the most perni-
I cious political and social system
I that exists on earth today,” Yarek
I said.
I Wilburn said, “Twenty-two
■years ago, I was a racist and a seg-
■regationist.”
I He said that in the past he used
Ball of the arguments for favor-
litism based on race that he now
■hears from the other side.
I “It does not hold water,” Wil-
Iburn said of apartheid, “because
■it's wrong.
I “It’s a nice way of saying, ‘We
■treat our slaves nicely.’
I Much of Yarek’s speech cen-
Itered on addressing the argu-
Iments against divestment.
I Regarding the argument that
Idivestment will hurt black South
■Africans, Yarek said, “It is the
■wish of black South Africans that
Iwe do divest.”
I He said black South Africans
■know their suffering is unavoid-
lable, and are willing to endure
■sanctions now to avoid further
discrimination by their govern
ment in the future.
He said another argument is
that divestment will cause the
University to lose money. He
said, however, that equal or
greater returns on investments
were available for the University.
He said that actually, most uni
versities that have already di
vested earned more money after
divestment than before.
Wilburn said, “You and I have
a calling: to remind the Student
Senate and the regents of this in
stitution that if we choose to teach
values, we have to practice va
lues."
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) —
President Reagan and Mikhail Gor
bachev, on the verge of an
agreement to destroy all their offen
sive nuclear weapons over the next
10 years, ended their summit in dis
appointment Sunday over a dispute
concerning the testing of American
“Star Wars" technology.
The hangup involved the Soviets’
insistence that research on the anti
missile system be confined to labo-
See related story, page 10
ratory work. Reagan declared, “This
we could not and will not do.”
Gorbachev said that he made
“very serious, unprecedented con
cessions and accepted compromises
that are unprecedented.” But he
said there was a “rupture” over U.S.
insistence on being allowed to test
space weapons outside the labo
ratory.
The Iceland impasse was so com
plete that the leaders did not set a
date for a third superpower meet
ing, and the future of arms control
talks was left in doubt.
Gorbachev told reporters, “The
Americans came to this meeting
empty handed,” and top Soviet offi
cial Georgi Arbatov described the
summit here as “the dead end to
which they (the Americans) have
driven the whole issue of arms con
trol."
Secretary of State George Shultz
said the two sides had verbally
agreed to slash long-range missile
and bomber arsenals in half in five
years and completely by 1996. In ad
dition, thev were prepared to elimi
nate all but 100 medium-range mis
siles on each side — including all
those deployed in Europe — during
the first five-year phase and the bal-
ant‘e of thd'se in 19f)6 as well, Shultz
said.
“A tremendous amount of head
way was made,” he told a news con
ference here, “but in the end we
couldn’t make it.”
The problem: U.S. insistence on
proceeding with testing of the Strat
egic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
with the idea of using, it a decade
from now as an “insurance policy” to
prevent any enemy from launching
a successful nuclear strike, Shultz
said.
Shultz said U.S. leaders were
“deeply disappointed” in the out
come. His early evening statement,
the first yvord on the summit out
come, folloyved hours of high hopes
built upon statements of progress is
sued bv both sides.
Gorbachev told reporters in his
post-summit neyvs conference, as he
did after the 1985 Geneva summit,
that “the yvorld situation is very dan
gerous" and that “there is a shortage
of neyv thinking” among U.S. arms
control experts. Nonetheless, he said
the progress in some areas
amounted to “substantial gains here
in Reykjavik.”
Reagan, talking to American mili
tary personnel at Keflavik Naval Air
Base just before he boarded Air
Force One for the nearly six-hour
ride back to Washington, said the
tyvo sides had “moved toward
agreement” on drastic reductions in
intermediate-range yveapons in Eu
rope and Asia and on other issues.
But, the president said, “there re
mained at the end of our talks one
area of disagreement . . . The Soviet
Union insisted that yve sign an
agreement that would deny to me
and to future presidents for 10 years
the right to develop, test and deploy
a def ense against nuclear missiles for
the people of the free yvorld.”
Shultz told reporters, “The two
leaders just decided they yvere not
able*to agree. At that point, the tyvo
leaders, being unable to agree, ad
journed."
Asked yvhether there would be an
other summit meeting between Rea
gan and Gorbachev, Arbatov said,
“If the Americans do not change
their position on this basic issue, I
am afraid not."
Shultz said the leaders had nearly
agreed on yvays “to deal effectively
yvith intermediate range missiles,”
and had made progress toward an
agreement on limiting underground
nuclear tests, but that the potential
agreements failed to materialize t>e-
cause all the parts yvere interrelated.
“It became more and more clear
that the Soviet Union’s objective was
effectively to kill off the SDI pro
gram," he said.
Max Kampelman, the chief U.S.
negotiator at the Geneva arms talks,
said the summit yvas “in every way
except the end a fantastic thing. . . .
It yvas the most appealing package
ever negotiated by the two coun
tries.”
3 survivors pulled
from quake rubble
in Salvadoran city
■SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador
: (AP) — Rescuers digging through
Spllapsed buildings pulled out three
lElire survivors Sunday, but of ficials
jlsakl it was impossible to say lunv
jjliiiianY people remain buried after an
Hrthquake that killed hundreds.
■Rescuers pulled at least 24 survi-
i Its from tyvo buildings on Saturday
Uni! worked through the night un-
pei lights in hopes of finding others,
gjiefshocks from Friday’s quake
continued to lock the city.
■“It is impossible to say how many
Hire are trapped,” said Dr. Antonio
Siha Carranza, a member of a vol-
ilteer Guatemala rescue squad.
■There yvas no official casualty
cfiint.
■The International Red Gross said
if Geneva on Sunday that 350 peo
ple were killed and 6,800 injured,
"|lh 600 requiring hospitalization. It
Freshman
election sites
I Voting hours for today’s fresh-
fitian runoff elections will be from
a.rn. to 6 p.m. in the main
; lounge of the Memorial Student
[Center, in front of Sterling G.
Bans Library and outside Sbisa
lining Hall.
■ In the event of rain, the Sbisa
situ will be moved to the A-l
lounge.
■ Freshmen must present a cur
rent Texas A&M I.D. card at the
polling site in order to vote.
t-
said about 30 people yvere still
trapped under debris.
The organization said immediate
medical needs have been met and no
epidemics are feared. It said electric
ity has been restored to about 60
percent of San Salvador, the capital.
Telephone service is being restored
and distribution of Water has begun.
Many countries, including the
United States and El Salvador’s
neighbors, Mexico and Nicaragua,
pledged to send aid, including emer
gency supplies and rescue teams.
Four American volunteers yvith
trained dogs helped in the search for
bodies, crayvhng yvith their animals
through dark tunnels and passages.
“It takes experience and some
guts,” said Garoline Hebard, 42, of
Bernardsyille, N.J., yvho also helped
in the rescue efforts in the Sept. 19,
1985, earthquake in Mexico Gity that
killed at least 9,500 people.
“You look at the building and as
sess the risk," Hebard said. “Eve
seen some buildings so shaky that I
yvouldn’t go in."
On Saturday, 21 people yvere
pulled alive from the five-story Ru
ben Dario clotvntoyvn office building,
and three tvomen yvere rescued from
the presidential palace.
John Carroll, 33, a member of the
Miami, Fla., Metro Fire-Rescue De
partment, helped supervise the ex
acting rescue effort at the Ruben Da
rio building.
“We listen for the voices and start
digging toyvard them, and sooner or
later yve can get to them, yve can
touch them, yve can reassure them,
yve can comfort them a little bit and
keep them from losing it mentally
until yve can get them out,” he said.
Children find fun, therapy at clinic
Photo by Anthony S. Casper
Patrick Nichols rides through an obstacle course set up to teach the
children some “rodeo-style” riding Saturday.
By Janet Goode
Reporter
The Texas A&M Horseman’s
Association gave handicapped
and learning-disabled children
and young adults a little therapy
and a lot of friendship Saturday
at the association’s Special Stu
dents Riding Clinic.
Forty-five participants chosen
from Bryan-College Station spe
cial education classes learned how
to ride horses rodeo-style at the
Louis Pearce Pavilion.
Terri Estes, riding clinic chair-
yvoman, said three groups, each
composed of about 15 children
yvho attended the clinic, are ex
pected to return for. the remain
der of the program Oct. 17 and
Oct. 24. The participants, rang
ing in age from three to 22, rode
in relay races and took part in
games after a brief orientation.
Toyvard the end of the class,
they learned the “how-to’s” of
brushing and saddling a horse.
In each event, the safety proce
dures for the clinic were elab
orate. Three group leaders su
pervised each rider, and two
medics from A&M’s Emergency
Gat e Team yvere on hand.
Estes said the leaders rode the
horses Friday night to yvear them
out a little. “If there’s a horse
that’s the least bit spooky, yve
don’t use it," she said.
Estes said most of the leaders at
the clinic are members of the as
sociation, animal science majors,
and have had previous experi
ence in working with hand
icapped children. But Estes said
the organization encourages peo
ple to volunteer.
Jodi Murray, publicity officer,
said that yvorkers are needed be
cause usually more children ap
ply for lessons than the associa
tion can handle.
Usually yvhen this happens,
Estes said, the children yvho the
association and the special educa
tion teachers think yvould benefit
the most are accepted.
Estes also said this is the first
time she knows of that deaf chil
dren have attended the clinic.
The main emphasis at the rid
ing clinic is on fun, Estes said.
Each Saturday, the clinic will have
a different theme, she said, such
as circus or rodeo day.
At the last session all the partic
ipants yvill Yvin prizes. Last year
they received trophies but Estes
said this year the leaders are con
sidering T-shirts.
Jeff Lemons, vice president of
the association, said the leaders
have just as much fun as the chil
dren. He said he tries to keep the
friendships made at the clinic by
staying in touch with the children
throughout the year.
Besides fun, Murray said the
riding lessons give the children a
sense of control.
“It gives them a chance to have
a responsiblity,” Murray said.
EsteS said the clinic gives the
participants a break from their
everyday routine.
“The clinic gives them the op
portunity to do something differ
ent,” she said. “As (the children)
come here throughout the years,
they gain confidence.”
One parent, Jamie Templeton,
said she believes that’s held true
for her son, who has attended the
clinic for seven years. She said be
cause her son has autism, he
really can’t express w'hat he gets
out of the program. But Temple
ton said she knoyvs he enjoys it.
“It makes him a more complete
person,” she said.
Another watchful guardian,
Joe Fabian of Schulenburg, said
14-year-old Patrick broke the
splints on his legs playing ball and
needed to go to Houston. In
stead, Fabian patched the splint
yvith tape and glue anc} drove him
straight to Gollege Station.
“Patrick wouldn’t miss it (the
clinic) for the world,” Fabian said.