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Vol. 82 No. 46 GSFS 045360 18 pages College Station, Texas Monday, November 3, 1986
American hostage released in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Shiite
Moslem kidnappers freed American
hospital administrator David Jacob
sen on Sunday after holding him for
17 months and said recent U.S.
moves might lead to release of other
American captives in Lebanon.
Jacobsen, 55, of Huntington
Beach, Calif, was turned over to
U.S. officials on a street in Moslem
west Beirut. A U.S. Embassy official,
who insisted on anonymity, said Ja
cobsen was in good health and was at
the embassy compound in Christian
east Beirut.
Anglican Church envoy Terry
Waite flew in from Cyprus, met with
Jacobsen, and then told the Asso
ciated Press in a telephone interview,
“David is well. He and I had a con
versation together for some hours.
He is looking forward to seeing his
family and friends.”
Waite, an emissary of Archbishop
of Canterbury Robert Runcie, re
portedly has been shuttling among
See related story, page 9
Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus since
Thursday in an effort to free foreign
hostages in Lebanon. It was not clear
what role, if any, he had in Jacob
sen’s release.
Waite was seen Sunday boarding a
U.S. military helicopter in Larnaca,
Cyprus, in his first public appear
ance since Friday.
Islamic Jihad, the underground
extremist group that held Jacobsen,
still holds two other Americans,
journalist Terry A. Anderson and
educator Thomas Sutherland. It
said last year that it killed U.S. diplo
mat William Buckley, but no body
was found.
Three other Americans were kid
napped — Frank Herbert Reed, Jo
seph James Cicippio and Edward
Austin Tracy — and other groups
claimed to be holding them. Chris
tian radio stations and television re
ported over the previous two days
that six kidnapped Americans and
two of eight French hostages would
be let go. But in Washington, a State
Department source said U.S. offi
cials expected only one hostage to be
released. The source spoke on con
dition of anonymity.
Islamic Jihad said in a statement
issued after Jacobsen’s release, “We
hold the American government fully
responsible for the consequences of
any failure to take advantage of this
opportunity and proceed with cur
rent approaches that could lead, if
continued, to a solution of the hos
tages.”
The typed statement, written in
Arabic and delivered to a Western
news agency in Beirut, did not say
what approaches the United States
had made. It said if they were not
continued, “we shall take a totally
different attitude.”
In Santa Barbara, Calif., Presi
dent Reagan said he could not di
vulge details of what led to the re
lease, but that “we have been
working through a number of sensi
tive channels for a long time.”
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said in Santa Barbara there
was no change in the U.S. policy
against “giving in to the demands of
terrorists.”
He said Jacobsen appeared to be
in good health but would be taken to
the U.S. military hospital in Wiesba
den, West Germany, for an exten
sive medical examination.
Asked about the remaining Amer
ican hostages, Speakes said it was
difficult to make predictions but “we
remain hopeful.”
In Paris, a Foreign Ministry offi
cial, speaking on condition of ano
nymity, said “no new element” had
emerged in efforts to free the
French hostages.
Jacobsen’s sister, Doris Fisher, in
Glendora, Calif., said, “It’s ... all too
ood to be true. I’m just dying to see
im, to see how he is.”
Jacobsen was the third American
hostage released by Islamic Jihad, or
Islamic Holy War.
A&M phone registration
to replace waiting lines
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Get Horse, Aggies
Junior yell leader Doug Beall leads the A&M-SMU football game. The Aggies 39-35
Twelfth Man in a yell during Saturday’s win was their first on SMU turf since 1978.
TAMUS counsel calls lawsuit
simple bill collection matter
By Bob Grube
Staff Writer
The associate general counsel for
he Texas A&M University System
laid Friday that his countersuit
igainst a former System chancellor
s simply a matter of trying to collect
)n a legal bill.
Jerry Cain said in a telephone in
terview Friday that he filed suit
against former Chancellor Arthur
G, Hansen in response to a suit Han
sen filed Oct. 13. Cain filed a coun
tersuit Oct. 14. Both suits were filed
in Brazos County District Court.
Hansen was contacted by phone
Friday in his hometown of Zions-
ville, Ind., but declined comment on
the cases. Hansen’s attorney, Ste
phen Rodgers, and Cain’s attorney,
Steve Haley, cited ethical consider
ations in refusing to comment on the
cases.
The men are disputing whether
Cain represented Hansen in a law
suit against the University of Texas
System. Hansen had a hernia opera
tion at M.D. Anderson Hospital and
Cancer Institute, a part of the UT
System, in November 1984. During
the operation, a nerve leading to his
right leg was damaged. No lawsuit
was filed, but an out-of-court set
tlement was negotiated with UT law
yers for $350,000.
Cain’s suit says that he negotiated
that settlement for the former chan
cellor, but Hansen’s says he did not.
Cain is suing Hansen for legal fees
and what he claims is “a reasonable,
usual and customary fee for his serv
ices.” The amount is one-third of the
settlement, $116,666.67.
In a telephone interview Friday,
Cain said Hansen received and
cashed the check in early July. Cain
said that after several unsuccessful
attempts to work out a payment with
Hansen, the check was put into es
crow in early August.
Hansen’s lawsuit says that Cain
never represented Hansen, “. . . en
tered into a course of conduct that
was deceptive,” and violated the De
ceptive Trade Practices Act. The suit
does not specify how the act was vio
lated.
Cain said he violated no such law
and that he filed the countersuit
against Hansen in response to Han
sen’s suit. Cain said he didn’t want to
See Lawsuit, page 18
By Mike Sullivan
Staff Writer
Waiting lines have been replaced
with telephone lines by the regis
trar’s office, and pre-registration for
the spring semester will simply be a
phone call away, says Don Carter, as
sociate registrar.
The new phone registration sys
tem will be in full gear Nov. 10, and
graduate students and seniors will
get to make the first calls, Carter
says.
He says students can call from
their dorm rooms, the Dixie Chicken
or just about anywhere in the United
States if they have access to a touch-
tone phone.
“Students will be able to call up
from any touch-tone phone in the
country and register,” Carter says.
By following the step-by-step pro
cedure that will be included in the
spring class schedule and distributed
around campus this week, students
will be able to call the Student Infor
mation Management System (SIMS)
and set up their schedules the way
they want them, Carter says.
And, he says, students will be able
to call at just about any time they
Fires damage
CS store,
nightclub
By Jo Ann Able
Staff Writer
A nightclub and a store on Harvey
Road in College Station were dam
aged in two separate fires Saturday
morning.
Fari Estakhri, owner of MC2, 815
Harvey Road, said he received a
phone call saying the club was on
fire at about 6:45 a.m. He said he
went to the club and was there for a
few minutes when he heard that The
Christmas Store, 504 Harvey Road,
was on fire as well.
Estakhri estimated the cost of the
damages to MC2 to be between
$50,000 and $60,000. He said be
cause the fire department was fight
ing the MC2 fire, it caught The
Christmas Store fire so quickly that
only the outside was damaged.
Estakhri said Sunday that he be
lieves the cause of the fires was ar
son.
He said he thinks someone put
gasoline or kerosene under the floor
of the club to start the fire.
“I don’t understand why people ...
do things like that,” he said. “It sur
prises me.”
Estakhri said the damage to the
building was too extensive to open
the club Saturday night, but the club
will reopen Wednesday at its old lo
cation, 109 Walton Drive. Estakhri’s
present nightclub at this location,
Eastgate Live, temporarily will be
closed until the fire damage is re
paired at the Harvey Road club.
Estakhri said these repairs should
take a month or two, so he also plans
to remodel before reopening the
building in January.
An article in Sunday’s Eagle said
M.L. “Red” Cashion, owner of The
Christmas Store, said Fire Marshall
Harry Davis reported the fire at the
store when he spotted smoke there
while driving from the site of the
first fire.
He said Davis put the fire out with
a water hose before trucks arrived,
and there was no serious damage.
Cashion said it looked like the fire
was started by someone throwing
something that was burning at the
store.
College Station fire officials were
not available Sunday to comment on
the causes of the fires.
want. The 32 phone lines will be
open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mon
days through Thursdays and from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Satur
days.
Convenient and efficient registra
tion is the goal of the new system,
but to reach that goal, students
should be aware of the procedure
changes that will come along with
the new system, Carter says.
The phone system will allow stu
dents who are not blocked from reg
istering to completely bypass the ad
vising stage, he says.
“Academic advising is going to be
the students’ responsibility,” Carter
says. “If students aren’t blocked,
then they won’t have to go to their
department before registering.”
But, he says all first-semester
freshmen, first-semester transfer
students and first-semester interna
tional students will have to see an ad
viser before they can register.
Students may be blocked from
registering if they are on scholastic
probation or have outstanding park
ing tickets, among other reasons,
Carter says.
Deans also will be able to block
students from registering if they feel
students need advising, Carter says.
He says students should plan their
schedules carefully and sensibly be
cause students still will be held ac
countable for meeting their curric
ulum requirements.
“If you take classes out of se-
S uence, you could get kicked out of
ass,” he says. “But you can’t come
up four years down the road and say
‘Hey, nobody told me I couldn’t do
this.’ ”
The phone system will not be able
to check whether a student has taken
a prerequisite course when he regis
ters for a course requiring one, Car
ter says.
But, he says, professors will be
able to scan their enrollment sheets
and find out if students have met the
prerequisites or not.
If students have not taken the
necessary courses or don’t have
enough nours to be in a course, the
professors will be able to drop the
students from class. Carter says.
He says the class schedule will in
clude a disclaimer warning students
See Registration, page 18
Polling sites listed
for general election
The following are the names
and locations of the polling pre
cincts in Brazos County for Tues
day’s general election. In bold are
some of the precincts most heav
ily populated with students.
Voters’ precinct numbers can
be found on their voter registra
tion cards.
The polls will be open from 7
a.m. to 7 p.m. The League of
Women Voters will answer ques
tions on election day from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. at 846-4014.
1. Millican Community Center:
downtown Millican.
2. Wellborn Community Cen
ter: FM 2154 (Wellborn Road)
first road past the post office.
Greens Prairie Road.
3. S.PJ.S.T. Hall of Smetana:
Silver Hill Road, about six miles
west of Bryan on the left side of
Highway 21.
4. Carver School: West Martin
Luther King Street.
5. Fellowship Hall (East): FM
974 (Tabor Road), about a quar
ter-mile north of East Bypass.
6. Edge Community Center:
Edge.
7. Steep Hollow Community
Center: Cnurch at FM 1179 and
Steep Hollow Road.
8. South Knoll School: South
west Parkway between Langford
and Lawyer streets.
9. College Station Community
Center: 1300 Jersey St., College
Station.
10. College Station Police Sta
tion: Texas Avenue South, across
from K-Mart, behind Informa
tion Center.
11. Crockett School: Sulphur
Springs Road and Cavitt.
12. Sul Ross School: Villa
Maria Road and Parkway Ter
race.
13. Henderson School: Sharon
Drive and Matous Street.
14. Ben Milam School: Palasota
Drive and Beck Street.
15. Fannin School: 501 S.
Baker and 29th Street.
16. Bowie School: West 26th
Street, five blocks west of Texas.
17. Travis School: East 25th
and Pierce streets, three blocks
east of Texas.
18. Bryan Central Fire Station:
19th and Bryan streets.
19. Arena Hall: Old Hearne
Road.
20. Texas A&M University:
Memorial Student Center.
21. Hensel Park Apartments
Portable Building: Avenue A,
off University Drive.
22. Army Reserve Center on
Carson: Carson Street, two blocks
west of College Avenue.
23. Brazos Center (east end):
3232 Briarcrest, Bryan.
24. College Hills Elementary
School: Francis and St. James
Street, College Station.
25. G.W. Williams Tabernacle:
Waco Street, Bryan.
26. Brazos Center (west end):
3232 Briarcrest, Bryan.
27. Bright Light Baptist
Church: Highway 30, about one
mile past intersection of FM 158
and Highway 30 on right.
28. Peach Creek Community
Center: Rock Prairie Road, about
six miles east of Highway 6 South.
29. Brushy Community Cen
ter: west on Highway 60, right on
Vincent Road.
30. Fellowship Hall (Portable
Building): FM 974 (Tabor Road)
about a quarter-mile north of East
Bypass.
31. A&M Consolidated High
School: FM 2818 on north side of
road.
32. College Station Fire Sta
tion #2: FM 2818 on south side
of road.
33. College Station Lincoln
Center: Holleman Street, corner
of Eleanor and Holleman.
34. College Station Central
Fire Station: Texas Avenue
South, east side of road.
35. A&M Presbyterian
Church: Church Street, one
block east of Wellborn Road.
36. First Freewill Baptist
Church: Villa Maria Road, 1228
West Villa Maria.
37. College Heights Assembly
of God: 4100 Old College Road.
38. Castle Heights Baptist
Church: Highway 21 East, across
from Gooseneck Trailer Co.
39. Southwood Athletic Com
plex: Rock Prairie Road.
40. Aldersgate Methodist
Church: 6501 East Highway 6
Bypass.