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The Battalion 82 Mo. 43 GSPS 045360 12 pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 29, 1986 tudents hot with low-darts By Mike Sullivan Staff Writer Two Texas A&M students were ■with blow-dart guns Monday ightl by men riding around the impus area in a car, said Bob Wiatt, Trecti r of the University Police De- 'artirunt. The first student was shot on his icyde at about 7:30 p.m. while wait- igfoi the light to change at the cor- er of Wellborn Road and Westlane, _Jiatlsaid. The car, believed to be a light-col- ■older model Camaro with blue was going north on Well- : ^Koad and as it slowed down, a ■ ^Raned out the window and shot 'lestudent, Wiatt said. a local newfi Wiltt said the student was hit in t., TownTaicie hand with a four-inch, needle- t a 1971 n«;iftu-t and was taken to the A.P. anged husk eutel Health Center to have the usband saidi trt|fmoved. ay said votes The second student, who was on Ij^Rycle waiting for the light to tangs at the corner of Boyett and hurch streets, was shot in the chest fewjminutes after the first student is shot, Wiatt said. The second student, who re tested anonymity, said he was wait- « the corner when a Camaro nmerciai :: we up and slowed down in front He said a man leaned out the jjldov and he heard a pop. The car en took off. •1 didn’t know what happened at |t, hut 1 looked down and there isallow-dart in my chest,” the stu- intsaid. Folunately, he said, the dart had peletrate his jacket and shirt be- K it hit his skin, and he suffered llyai inor wound. “If ii had hit my throat or eyes, I )uld have been in bad shape,” he ed to bow ll» cratic Pam C d, “She was: a very homli t that itcora tempt to disc negative was rado’s Sew:; n Wirth sho i waving at 1 Record tseen Repu kramet. T ted twice to e cafe-racer tatisticaleffet id, "There cycle-related College k re same sire.' aid while the oca! injun a ite a few sin ? doing dam net Schnesi ’olice Depan ■d limits one e relativeli ;. nts. The student said the men in the fcht. led after they hit him, and en the car sped away. Wiatt said the second shooting ts referred to College Station po- e, while the University Police De triment is handling the first shoot- Helsaid that if the men are ught, they could face charges of gravated assault with a deadly “apon, a third degree felony that i^Ha punishment of two to 10 arsin prison. Wiatt said anyone with informa- |n about the shootings should ei- ee accide:; er contact the police or call Cri- from Sep cstoppers. gust 198b: He laid Crimestoppers will pay a 1 percent itiffi .000 reward for information lead- l to the arrest and conviction of College & e suspects, and that informants jcky statists) n request anonymity, lil the ccwr te problenu: tg mute pope. ime bomlife Spurring Them On Ed Allred helps Kevin Martinez put on his “fish spurs.” Freshman cadets are required to wear spurs made from coathangers and bottle caps ev- Photo by Mike Sanchez ery year during the week before the A&M-SMU football game. The Corps will travel to Dallas for the game this weekend. Reagan OKs proposals on arms controls U.S. seeking to expand on summit despite 'lack of effort from Soviets WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Reagan has approved a pack age of proposals for sharp reduc tions in U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear weapons and the withdrawal of intermediate-range nuclear mis siles from Europe, administration officials said Tuesday. The package puts on the negotiat ing table in Geneva the key propo sals Reagan made to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their sum mit in Iceland earlier this month. It includes a ban on all U.S. and Soviet ballistic missiles by 1996, said the of ficials, who were willing to discuss the subject only on the condition they not be named publicly. So far, Soviet negotiators haven’t seriously considered the proposals Reagan discussed with the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary on Oct. 11-12, said Kenneth L. Adel- man, director of the U.S. Arms Con trol and Disarmament Agency. “It seems they have been under instructions to be unhelpful since the Reykjavik meeting,” Adelman said in an interview. “We want to build on Reykjavik. They want to dispute.” Adelman said separate talks would be held with the Soviets next week in Geneva on improving the verification of underground nuclear tests. Reagan told Gorbachev that better monitoring procedures could lead to a treaty outlawing all blasts. A more modest U.S. arms control package was sent to chief U.S. nego tiator Max Kampelman last week. Several key items were held back, in cluding the proposed ban on U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nu clear missiles in Europe. The U.S. military chiefs wanted to consider first the impact that a mis sile ban would have on defending Western Europe from Soviet attack. NATO ground forces are out- manned by Warsaw Pact troops. The discussion was held at the White House Monday with Reagan presiding. The new instructions were trans mitted to Kampelman Monday. Reagan’s proposal on strategic weapons calls for a 50 percent re duction in U.S. and Soviet long- range bombers, intercontinental bal listic missiles and submarines within five years. A ceiling of 1,600 would be im posed on all U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear delivery vehicles. Interconti nental ballistic missiles and subma rine-launched missiles would be held to a total of 600. Strategic bombers would be limited to 350 on each side. The Soviets also have proposed a 50 percent cutback, but their for mula and the kind of nuclear weap ons to be covered by the reductions differ from the U.S. approach. Reagan’s call for a ban on ballistic missiles by 1996 carries out the posi tion U.S. officials said he took in talking with Gorbachev. The Soviets contend, however, that Reagan went further and supported a ban on all strategic nuclear forces. A U.S. official, who said records of the conversations between Rea gan and Gorbachev were still incom plete, acknowledged that Reagan “may have said that at one point.” But he and another U.S. official stressed that the president informed Gorbachev on several occasions dur ing their talks that he sought a ban only on ballistic missiles. A&M group to hold mock ’86 election The Memorial Student Center’s Political Forum committee will con duct a mock election on campus Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Natalie Hopkins, travel and spe cial events coordinator for the com mittee, said she expects about 3,000 students to participate in this cam pus preview of the 1986 Texas gen eral election. She said students will vote on can didates and issues that will be on the actual ballot Nov. 4 and will answer an opinion question on pari-mutuel betting. Tables will be set up for voting at the MSG, Rudder Fountain, Sbisa Dining Hall, the Commons and the Blocker Building. Election results will be posted in the window of the Student Programs Office 5:30 p.m. Thursday. ■thiopia recovering, crisis not over yet colorful brat ax suras up lit : Abbott Jit undofpajB, -d and tweak ^/tor’s note: Associated Press r S of the Respondent James R. Peipert, yon cruiser jND) Nairobi, Kenya, covered the is the kind feMK' Ethiopia famine. He re- itreetwithalW7l efurne ^ to Ethiopia for an ig ball taking )( k te 0/5 that country’s food situa- ?•” I. 7DIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — in falls on the fields around this B I?ri# ands ca pi ta l> an expected £lllH oi ' * ocusts Has not materia- tiand the U.N. emergency office :tion (ii Two years after the outside world aware of a devastating fam- St $ 10- ; * n '■His East African nation, glpa is gradually rebuilding its ■dstocks and supply system. But, by most accounts, as many as ifflillinn of its 42 million people II teeter on the brink of starvation f at least another decade unless -country gets a huge transfusion long-term development aid. An estimated 1 million people d in Ethiopia alone during the 84-85 Africa famine. Hundreds of lusands of other Ethiopians were 'ed only by a massive outpouring international aid. “The situation today is less alarm- ! and more within the possibility control than in those nightmare y$,” the head of the government’s Bf and Rehabilitation Commis- n, Berhanu Jembere, said in an erviev. _ But the Ethiopian official cau- ■n*3pHi ®d that the crisis of food short- Eis not yet over. ^H)rio Monasta of Italy, the jef representative in Addis Ababa -Ipfllfii'UNICEF, sa ‘d Ethiopia will re- 1 CUlv jjjj j n a situation of emergency for least 10 years. cornel am- B6 Michael J. Priestley, who heads the United Nations’ Office for Emergency Operations here, pointed out that even in a normal year Ethiopia suffers a shortfall of 400,000 metric tons of grain, and about 2.5 million people go hungry. At the height of the famine about 8 million people needed emergency food aid. Reflecting the diminished crisis, the U.N. emergency office, which opened in November 1984 to help coordinate famine relief, is closing at the end of this year. Priestley noted that staff members of the Addis Ababa office of the U.N. Devel opment Program will still deal with famine aid. Even by the U.N. official’s mea sure of normality, Ethiopia has a long way to go. Berhanu said his Relief and Reha bilitation Commission, the main gov ernment agency that coped with the famine, estimated that 6.7 million Ethiopians needed emergency assis tance in 1986, assistance that amounted to 1.24 million metric tons of food. Projections are impossible now, but if there is adequate rain in 1987, better crops are likely. “Providing there are no horren dous pest attacks, Ethiopia will have a good harvest,” Priestley said in an interview. “You can say we are guardedly optimistic.” Plagues of locusts and grasshop pers infested huge swaths of Africa this year in the wake of rains that broke the drought. The main problem in 1987, Priestley said, will be pockets of fam ine caused by insufficient rainfall, a - See Ethiopia, page 8 Governor’s race fires up in last week White: Clements 'secret plan' would rob education fund SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Republican guberna torial candidate Bill Clements’ so-called “secret plan” to balance the state budget would require robbing public school and state university trust funds, Gov. Mark White charged Tuesday. Although Clements refused to reveal a de tailed plan for solving the state’s $2.8 billion cash crisis, the former governor repeatedly has crit icized White for the temporary sales and gasoline tax hikes passed by the Legislature last month. But White said taking money from the Perma nent School Fund and the Permanent University Fund endowments is the only way Clements could have balanced the budget without taxes. “That’s exactly the plan that they had in mind,” White said in an interview following a speech to the Texas Association of Broadcast ers.“The only way they could have balanced that budget without a tax increase is to go rob the uni versity fund and the Permanent School Fund.” The billion-dollar trust funds receive income. primarily oil and gas royalties, from state-owned lands. Interest earned on the trust funds is spent for public school aid and on state colleges and universities. White said Clements refused to make his plan public because of the cries that went up when Re publicans in the Legislature offered such a plan during this summer’s two special sessions. “The reason they kept it a secret is they saw the reaction to the (GOP) plan on the floor of the House,” White said. White also accused Clements of failing to per suade President Reagan to stop playing politics with the faltering Texas oil industry. White said he is convinced Reagan will impose a tariff on imported oil — to help keep the price for domestic oil at a profitable level — after the Nov. 4 election. “The reason they won’t do it before then is it would be devastating to them in (U.S.) Senate ra ces,” White said. White continued to display an upbeat mood Tuesday. When asked by the broadcasters about Clements’ allegations that White wasted $3.5 mil lion on a new gubernatorial jet, White said the new plane is cheaper and safer than the one Clements used. “That plane that we purchased was a reduc tion in cost from the one he had been flying back and forth to Dallas in. He spent about $100,000 of the state’s money flying himself back and forth to Dallas. “It was about $4,000 to fly from Austin to Dal las and back. That’s the plane he preferred. The one that we have now . . . costs about $500 (for the same length trip),” he said. Grinning, White also touted the safety of the newer jet. “Quite frankly, I can understand why he wanted me to fly around in that old, old, old plane ... I’d rather be a former governor than the late governor.” Former Dallas Cowboy campaigns for Clements at rally LONGVIEW (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, saying Texas’ busi ness climate needs help, campaigned Tuesday for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Clements. “We’re suffering in almost every industry across the board, from agriculture to real estate to finance to our energy sector and the high tech areas of our economy and something has to be done,” Staubach told a rally. “You need to have political savvy and Gov. Clements has proven through his experience in the past he’s got that experience, but he’s also proven he’s a hard-tested businessman who I be lieve sees the ability of this state to take some pos itive steps in the future,” Staubach said. Staubach, now a Dallas businessman, said Clements’ political and business experience would be beneficial to Texans. He said he was too tied up with business and family and did not have political aspirations yet. Clements and Staubach were joined in Long view by GOP attorney general candidate Roy Barrera Jr., a state district judge in San Antonio who faces incubment Jim Mattox. Clements, who faces Gov. Mark White on Nov. 4, told supporters the campaign was going well and urged them to get out the vote. “Not only are we in the fourth quarter of a tough football game, but the two-minute whistle has blown,” Clements said. Clements and Staubach also planned stops in Sherman, Abilene and Fort Worth. They began the day in Dallas where Clements assailed White on economic and education issues. Clements, who was ousted from the governor’s office by White in 1982, also said the incumbent is running a campaign full of scare tactics. He is pushing a six-point jobs plan, and he said his polls indicate voters want to hear about the state of the economy, which he charges has dete riorated under White. “They don’t want to talk about lap dogs,” Clements said. “They don’t want to talk about scaring the elderly. They don’t want to talk about denying food stamps to people. “They don’t want to talk about kicking people out of nursing homes. That’s nonsense. That is worse than political rhetoric. “That’s demagoguery of the worst kind and it is bordering on bringing into this issue, this cam paign, racial overtones and bigotry, which I de plore.” Clements said he would not make cuts that White’s campaign said he would favor. “I have said on occasion after occasion after occasion that these are out-and-out untruths,” he said.