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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, October 21, 1986
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tors Corp. announced Monday that
Bvas pulling out of South Africa, a
move that Chairman Roger B. Smith
attributed both to Financial losses
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.