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
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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
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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-
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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.