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«ENIEC,\ IJLOCliTi IKS wt! WW^m Texas A&M ^ « V • The Battalion Vol. 82 No. 37 CJSPS 043360 10 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 21, 1986 eneral Motors divests from South Africa PING!* P A fiJ ■DETROIT (AP) — General Mo tors Corp. announced Monday that Bvas pulling out of South Africa, a move that Chairman Roger B. Smith attributed both to Financial losses Td South Africa’s slowness to abol- ?£) VoV;-! isha P artheicL cvrt w^lGeneral Motors is the second- 0^5 U - S - employer in South Af- ^ behind Mobil, according to the i (S Investor Responsibility Research ^ w 0 ^0 . ■nterin Washington, D.C. In 1985, $3 0 39 U.S. companies pulled out of ^ $ f) South Africa, followed by 22 so far .■ti' TH£ 1^ in 1986. fceneral Motors South African Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary, has annual sales in the $300 million Hge and a predominantly non- s we’re out of intMite 2,800-member workforce. .■t has assets worth about $140 mii- [rpeared outoliljon and makes cars by GM’s Ger- fter it lost to ti.ftan and Japanese partners, Adam id up in the ( Mel, Isuzu and Suzuki, according much too earlvj t 0 (,M spokesman George Schreck. king Cotton. E s might want iosmAISA is expected to be sold to a kv charms ion p- 0U p headed by the South African onftdence, espeiJjDanagement at its Port Elizabeth car has tu traveltdiV| 16 storm UT presidenfs office, seek divestment AUSTIN (AP) — A group of 16 young people took over the University of Texas president’s of fice briefly Monday and demanded that UT re gents get rid of any investments in South Africa. UT President William Cunningham was not in the office at the time. The Daily Texan, the daily student newspa per, said one UT policeman received a cut leg when he kicked in a glass door. The 16 arrests were made by UT police, and misdemeanor charges of disruptive activity will be filed, university spokeswoman Joyce Pole said. “It was all very non-violent,” she said. She said the arrests included 12 students, two former students and two non-students. The university issued a statement saying the protesters barricaded the entrance to Cunning ham’s office with furniture. “Demands were issued for the UT System of Regents to take action by Wednesday Oct. 22 to divest investments in South Africa,” the statement said. “The group was arrested by UT police within 20 minutes. Criminal charges will be filed.” Joe Roddy, spokesman for the University of Texas System, said the market value of UT Sys tem stock invested in companies doing business in South Africa totals $871 million. The Daily Texan said the young people knocked on the president’s office door and were admitted by a secretary. Two other employees were in the office and all three employees were asked to leave but refused. The young people then placed a chain around the handle of the glass door and locked it with a padlock, the Daily Texan said. A young woman who identified herself as a student told the Associated Press about the take over and said the group did not represent any particular group. “They are all private students,” she said. More than 180 students and non-students were arrested by UT police last spring during demonstrations on the campus over South Afri can racial policies and free speech regulations. and truck assembly plant. The pur chase price was not disclosed. A GM engine plant in South Af rica has been idle for several years and is not part of the package being sold, said Ron Theis, another com pany spokesman. Smith said GM was “struggling desperately” in South Africa because ne Raptured U.S. re than lOOweiJ ast two ganifir ses this season T leads the Ml v nd of pass dtffti shown - rzi: the league-Bs with passes® ‘.s that extra ds ling,” Jets Gad Elway is sen i itizen charged ith terrorism n >onalds 1 I ■ST EVER! NING Sun., Oct. 26aU& y. All subsequenttei »le at entry. TOW- he top percentasei ge. Class D will pai MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — | leftist Sandinista government form ally charged Eugene Hasenfus pi hearing before a tribunal Mon- S with terrorism and violating puolit order. V convicted, the 45-year-old Amtrican faces up to 30 years in >n. He was captured Oct. 6 by Brnment troops after surviving the shooting-down of a plane ferry- isupplies to U.S.-backed Contra RWls. The written charges against Ha senfus were presented by Justice Minister Rodrigo Reyes in a small courtroom packed with journalists. Reyes said the charges were “vio- Jg the public order and security, criminal association and terrorism.” The justice minister said govern ment documents turned over to the included Hasenfus’ confes sion. The court’s president, Reynaldo Monterrey, then read the accusa tions out loud. The accusations were Mozambique president killed in crash IES: Tues.,0ct.!4 ORMAT: Eaciipaw- Bliminaries.Ttrts incetothelmalsts provided; partn cold andblustens atherlThewimeiii' 1 KICKING Id on (PI- kKOMATIPOORT, South Af rica (AP) — President Samora Ichel of Mozambique, who led his Marxist nation through 11 cri- sis-ridden years of independence, was killed when his plane crashed into a rainswept South African hillside. Barcelino dos Santos, No. 2 man in Mozambique’s ruling Fre- limo party, said in a nationwide radio address that Machel, 53, and other senior officials died in the crash of the presidential i related story, page 9 me Sunday night just across the border in South Africa “in cir cumstances not yet clarified.” ! jSouth Africa said all but 10 of the 39 people aboard were killed. ; The first official confirmation hy Machel’s government came more than 12 hours after dos Santos said in his first announce ment on the radio that the presi dents jet had not returned on schedule from Zambia. The radio played solemn music throughout the day. He said Monday night that a 60-day period of national mourn ing had been declared. A The Soviet-built plane crashed 200 yards inside South Africa’s frontier with Mozambique, about 30; miles south of this border town, said the South African for eign minister, R.F. Botha. ■' Botha would not speculate on the cause of the crash. He said South Africa had proposed a joint investigation with Mozam bique and that foreign aviation experts should take part. translated to English by an inter preter. Although the government’s Voice of Nicaragua radio reported that Hasenfus had arrived, reporters at the scene saw only a green govern ment truck believed to be carrying Hasenfus pull up to the courthouse. It drove away, however, without un loading anyone. It was unclear whether he actually appeared in the courtroom. The government’s Voice of Nica ragua radio reported that Hasenfus was brought to the courtroom more than two hours after the hearing started. At 6:18 p.m. GST he was seated in a chair by the judge’s table listening to the charges. “We will demonstrate that the ac tions imputed (to Hasenfus) are in dissolubly linked to the official pol icy of the government of the United States towards the Republic of Nica- rauga, which violates the sacred ba sic principles of our internal laws and the charters of the United Na tions, the Organization of American States and other treaties in force, as well as the basic principles of cus tomary international law,” Monter rey read to Hasenfus. Hasenfus’ wife, Sally, arrived at the court moments before the ses sion began, accompanied by U.S. Consul Donald Tyson. Hasenfus’ Nicaraguan lawyer, En rique Sotelo Borgen, also attended the session. Portions of it were broadcast live on government radio. The lawyer criticized the govern ment for making it impossible to see Hasenfus before the trial started. “They have kept him isolated,” Sotelo Borgen said. “We have not managed to see him. It is not until now that the public trial opens.” Hasenfus, his Nicaraguan attor ney said, “is in a legally indefensible position because he has been unable to see his attorney or his family be fore the trial.” Hasenfus, of Marinette, Wis., was captured a day after a C-123 cargo plane was shot down by Sandinista troops. Three others aboard, two Americans and a third still not iden tified, were killed. The cargo plane was ferrying sup plies to U.S.-backed Contra rebels who are fighting to overthrow Nica ragua’s government. Hasenfus’ wife and his brother, William, arrived in Managua Sunday night and were met by U.S. Embassy officials at Augusto Cesar Sandino International Airport. They did not speak to reporters. The People’s Tribunal is a judicial body created in 1983 to prosecute people accused of counter-revolu tionary activity. Each panel consists of a lawyer and two lay people, all generally active in Sandinista organi zations. In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the tribunals were set up for the pur pose of circumventing due process in order to persecute political oppo nents. Redman also said the only visit to Hasenfus by a U.S. consular officer took place on Oct. 10. “We don’t consider that visit to have been a proper one,” Redman said. of the nation’s economy. He said the company’s sales and market share have dropped substantially in the past year and no quick improvement was forseen. “Our aim is to enable the new owners to start from a strong posi tion, to continue to provide job op portunities for the employees and to continue to serve our customers, Smith said in a statement. Smith said the proposed sale also was a result of the South African government’s slowness in eliminat ing apartheid. “The ongoing economic recession in that country, along with this lack of progress has made operating in the South African environment in creasingly difficult,” he said. The No. 1 U.S. automaker has been under pressure externally and internally to divest its South African interests. In May, in response to a proposal by an investors’ group, Smith announced that GMSA no PTflfspi J :r’' • ’• * ** ’ .IW'-'r^WSm &s .. . x.i. 'T ’7 A.i ■» Takedown Robert Simpton, left, seems to be having some dif ficulty pinning Jim Boggs. The two members of Photo by Tom Ownbey the Texas A&M Wrestling Club were taking part in the team’s practice Monday night. longer would sell vehicles to the South African police and military. However, GMSA had only sold 11 vehicles to either branch in 1986 and those sales were carryovers from 1985,Schreck said. One of GM’s board members is Leon Sullivan, the Philadephia min ister who devised the Sullivan prin ciples, a set of guidelines for the em ployment and treatment of blacks by businesses operating in South Af rica. Gary Glaser, an auto industry ana lyst with First Boston Corp., said GM’s South African operation was relatively small and the sale would have little impact on GM’s balance sheet. GM is suffering from losses not stemmed by deep-discount sales in centives it offered from late August to early October to clear out its in.- ventory backlog in the United States. It is expected to show a third- (juarter operating loss of at least $100 million when results are re leased later this week. Officials: Bill spurs market in fake forms DALLAS (AP) — Officials say they expect a huge market in bogus documents to emerge to help people living illegally in the United States take advantage of an immigration law passed Friday by Congress. Fake documents already are being tailored to the requirements in the legislation, immigration officials told the New York Times. The docu ments include fake rent receipts, utility bills, income tax forms, driv er’s licenses and birth certificates. Immigration officials in San Anto nio say they will need a supermar ket-sized facility to process illi 4 aliens now expected to seek amnesty. The immigration bill would offer amnesty to immigrants who arrived illegally if they can prove they lived in the United States since 1982. The White House says President Reagan is expected to sign the bill. Fake documents can make some one appear to be a legal resident. But the new measure will likely cre ate more demand because aliens could use the papers to become legal residents and eventually, citizens. “Probably what we’ll be seeing now is a switch from just fraudulent immigration documents to docu ments indicating that you have been here since wehatever date,” said Vin cent Henderson, an immigration in vestigator in Houston. The bill imposes criminal penal ties on employees who knowingly hire workers without proper docu ments. “We are going to have a new group of individuals creating docu ments,” said Michael McMahon, deputy assistant regional commis sioner for investigations at the Im migration and Naturalization Serv ice office in Dallas. “There will be a lot more vendors, a lot more print ing of documents.” Clubs can be held liable for customers Student sues bar after court ruling By Olivier Uyttebrouck Staff Writer A Texas A&M student has added Uncle Charlie’s, a local bar, to the defendents in a lawsuit about a traf fic accident, just one day after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that bars can be held liable for the actions of intoxicated customers. The student’s lawyer says the tim ing was coincidental. A lawsuit had been filed June 26 in the name of A&M freshman Dawn Tidwell against A&M football players Ronald Lee Glenn and Greg Dillon over a traffic accident that oc curred May 2. The suit claims Tidwell, a passen ger in the car driven by Glenn, suf fered brain damage, disfigurement, pain and loss of earning potential as a result of the accident. The suit was amended last Thurs day, adding the nightclub as a de- fendent. The suit charged both that the club’s employees served Glenn and Dillon an excessive amount of alco hol and that they “failed to observe that they were too intoxicated to leave unescorted;” A Texas Supreme Court ruling last Wednesday indicated that bars and restaurants can be held liable for the actions of customers who leave while intoxicated, a so-called “dramshop” liability. In that case the court found an El Chico restaurant liable for the death of a Houston man who was killed in an accident caused by a driver who had been drinking at the restaurant. But Tidwell’s lawyer said the tim ing of the amendment to the local lawsuit was in no way related to the El Chico decision. “It was just coincidental,” said at torney Robert Waltman, of Crowley, Waltman and Feugler, the Bryan law firm representing Tidwell and her parents, Herb and Martha Tidwell. Waltman said Uncle Charlie’s would have been named in the suit regardless of the outcome of the El Chico case. He said he has argued a successful “dramshop” case in the Bryan-Col- lege Station area in the past, al though he declined to name the es tablishment involved in that lawsuit. “I wanted to make certain of the facts before we filed against an en- trepeneur,” Waltman replied when asked why Uncle Charlie’s had not been named in the original filing. Waltman said the court’s ruling last Wednesday could make it easier for him to argue his case because both the El Chico case, and that filed in Tidwell’s behalf, involved an injury to a third person who had not been drinking at the bar named in the suit. In the El Chico case, Larry Bryan Poole was killed when a drunken driver ran through a red light and rammed into Poole’s car. According to the filing in the Tid well lawsuit, Tidwell had not been to Uncle Charlie’s, but accepted a ride from Dillon and Glenn after they re turned to campus from the club. According to the suit, on May 2, the car driven by Glenn veered off FM 2154 and struck a roadsign. The suit says the sign was sheared off, severely denting the roof of the car and striking Tidwell in the head. In a sworn deposition, Glenn said he had six or seven bourbon-and- Coke cocktails at Uncle Charlie’s. Waltman said that Glenn and Dillon then left Uncle Charlie’s and drove to Cain Hall. He said they offered Tidwell a ride at Cain Hall. According to the sworn statement, when police arrived at the site of the accident, they arrested Glenn amd charged him with driving while in toxicated. According to Dillon’s sworn statement, he had consumed five or six beers at Uncle Charlie’s that night. No traffic charges were filed against him. But Tidwell’s suit charges that Dil lon permitted Glenn to drive even though Dillon knew Glenn was in toxicated. Uncle Charlie’s owner Gary Sea- back disputes several of the statements Glenn made in his depo sition. Seaback says bartenders at the club told him that Glenn and Dillon only had “a couple” of drinks while they were at the club. Seaback also said that the two men left no later than 10 p.m. He said Glenn and Dillon were not bleary-eyed and didn’t look in toxicated. In his sworn statement, Glenn says he left the bar at 11:30 p.m. Waltman said the accident occurred at around 11:40 p.m. Seaback said that Dillon and Glenn could have consumed more alcohol after they left the club, but before the accident. Seaback also says that if Dillon and Glenn had been recognizably in toxicated, Tidwell should have known better than to get in the car with them. Dillon and Glenn could not be reached for comment.