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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 3, 1987
lA’s No. 2 official named as new director
■■WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert
.^■ates, a CIA official who reportedly
urged disclosure of secret arms sales
to Iran before they were revealed,
^^ns picked by President Reagan
Holiday to replace William J. Casey
H director of the spy agency.
HThe 73-year-old Casey, recuperat-
Hg from surgery seven weeks ago
for a brain tumor, was invited to be-
/sHme a counselor to the president
{(ij when and if he can return to work.
yHGates, 43, has been the No. 2 offi-
mHil at the CIA since April 1986 and
been running the agency in Ca-
V sey’s absence.
(jH As director of central intelligence,
—Hates will be the chief executive offi
cer of the CIA. He also will coordi
nate all intelligence agencies and as
sign their tasks through a separate
“intelligence community staff.”
The Senate Intelligence Commit
tee scheduled a confirmation hear
ing for Gates on Feb. 17.
A 20-year veteran of service in the
CIA and the White House National
Security Council as a Soviet affairs
expert, Gates is widely respected on
Capitol Hill and easily should win
Senate confirmation.
However, he is certain to be
grilled about the CIA’s role in the se
cret sale of arms to Iran and the di
version of profits to the Nicaraguan
Contra rebels. A report by the Sen
ate Intelligence Committee said Ca
sey, in testimony about the affair late
last year, “was general in nature”
and left many questions un
answered.
“I particularly look forward to
working with Robert Gates, who is a
professional in this field and for
whom I have high regard,” said Sen.
Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
Casey submitted his resignation to
Reagan in a two-sentence letter
dated last Thursday. “It has been a
great honor serving you,” it said. In
a return letter Monday, the presi
dent credited Casey with helping re
store pride to the nation’s intelli
gence services.
A longtime friend of the presi
dent, Casey became director of the
CIA in 1981 after managing Rea
gan’s White House campaign.
He suffered a seizure last Dec. 15
— a day before he was to appear be
fore the Senate Intelligence Com
mittee — and underwent surgery
three days later for removal of a can
cerous tumor.
According to an associate, Casey’s
last words before being wheeled into
surgery were, “I hope Dave Duren-
berger doesn’t think I’m copping out
on him.” Durenberger, a Minnesota
Republican, was the chairman of the
Intelligence Committee at the time.
The committee’s report, released
last week, said a CIA analyst went to
Gates last Oct. 1 and said he was con
cerned that money from the secret
arms sale to Iran were being diver
ted to Central America.
“Gates was surprised and dis
turbed and told the analyst to see
Casey,” the report said. It quoted the
analyst as saying he and Gates did
not discuss whether or not a diver
sion would be illegal.
Gates on Oct. 15 directed the
CIA’s general counsel to review all
aspects of the Iran deal to make sure
nothing was being done that was ille
gal.
The counsel later reported there
was nothing amiss from the CIA
standpoint.
According to Gates’ testimony in
the report, he and Casey urged
then-national security adviser John
Poindexter to have Reagan make the
Iran initiative public, rather than
have it leak out “in dribs and drabs.”
At that time, they warned there
might have been some diversion of
funds, the report said.
Casey testified to the Senate Intel
ligence Committee on Nov. 21 but
did not mention the possibility of
funds being diverted.
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Bicycle Built For Two?
From left, Neeley Hall resident Sherri Behrendt and roommate Mari-
KH sela Moreno take advantage of the recent warm weather hitting Col-
Photo by Bill Hughes
lege Station as they take a bicycle ride around campus. Temperatures
Monday reached into the mid to upper 70s.
A&M cadet falls
from window, rests
in intensive care
By Curtis L. Culberson
Stall Writer
A freshman cadet suffered a se
vere concussion Monday morning
when he reportedly fell from the
fourth floor ledge outside his dorm
room window, University Police
said.
Director of University Police Bob
Wiatt said Timothy Bernard Bailey
of Company G-2 was yelling for help
when he was found by students on
the west side lawn of Dorm 12 just
before 7:00 a.m.
Bailey, 22, is from Marlin, Texas,
and is a transfer student from Mc
Lennan Community College in
Waco.
He remained in the intensive care
unit of Humana Hospital Monday
night, where he was listed in stable
condition.
Bailey sustained no broken bones
or internal injuries, but lies in a
semi-comatose state, Wiatt said.
“Bailey is able to respond to com
mands, but doctors state they are not
; sure how reliable his responses are,”
Wiatt said.
Bailey’s dorm window faces a lawn
between the dorm and Coke Street.
If the window had faced the other
side, there was a good chance he
would have landed on concrete,
Wiatt said.
Wiatt said Bailey attended forma
tion, or roll call, at about 6:30 a.m.
About 15 minutes later, Bailey said
he was ill and left, Wiatt added.
A few minutes later, a student
knocked on Bailey’s door, but no
one answered, Wiatt said.
When Bailey failed to answer, the
student left, Wiatt said. He added
that it was around this time students
on the First floor of Dorm 12 heard
Bailey screaming for help.
“Bailey was alone and his room
was locked from the inside, with the
window open,” Wiatt said. “There
are no adjoining rooms or bath
rooms. He was completely locked
in.”
Wiatt said police found indica
tions that Bailey possibly was trying
hold himself outside his window, but
police aren’t sure why.
Wiatt said the investigation is
continuing and they hope to talk to
Bailey sometime today.
^Iranian terrorists threaten to kill 2 American hostages
| BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Pro-
Iranian kidnappers said Monday
they will kill Americans Terry An-
derson and Thomas Sutherland,
who have been hostages since 1985,
if the United States makes a military
attack on Lebanon.
■ Lebanon’s justice minister said the
kidnappers had “arrested” Terry
Waite. The Church of England en
voy left his Beirut hotel Jan. 20 to
negotiate for the freedom of the two
Americans and other foreign cap
tives in Lebanon.
■ Another group made the same
threat last week against three Ameri
can teachers and an Indian faculty
njcniber taken from Beirut Univer-
sftv College on June 24. The abduc
tors have said since that they will kill
the four men unless Israel releases
400 prisoners by midnight Saturday.
The official press of Syria, which
supports pro-Iranian groups, has ac
cused the United States of planning
a military attack on Lebanon after 1 1
foreigners were kidnapped in 12
days. U.S. naval forces in the Medi
terranean have been strengthened.
A typewritten statement in Arabic
delivered to the office of a Western
news agency Monday made the
death threat against Anderson and
Sutherland in the name of the Shiite
Moslem group Islamic Jihad. Ac
companying it was a photograph of
Anderson, 39, chief Middle East cor
respondent of the Associated Press.
“Any military attempt against the Moslems in the re
gion, particularly in Lebanon, will result in the death
of the captives and America’s interests in the re
gion.Our answer will be cruel. We shall have no
mercy. ”
— Iranian statement
“Any military attempt against the
Moslems in the region, particularly
in Lebanon, will result in the death
of the captives and America’s inter
ests in the region,” the statement
said. “Our answer will be cruel. We
shall have no mercy.”
The black-and-white photograph
showed Anderson with a moustache,
wearing a dark striped shirt, not
wearing his glasses.
It showed a cut on his face, appar
ently from shaving, that has ap
peared in three other pictures of
Better Business officials: Consumers beware
him released in the past three
months.
Islamic Jihad generally accompa
nies its statements with a photo of a
captive as evidence of authenticity.
Anderson was seized March 16,
1985, in Moslem west Beirut. Su
therland, the 55-year-old acting
dean of agriculture of American
University of Beirut, was kidnapped
June 9 of that year.
Islamic Jihad, which means Is
lamic Holy War, also claims to hold
at least three Frenchmen, but Mon
day’s statement did not mention
them or France.
. It said the United States, “the
great Satan,” was planning “satanic
actions” against Lebanon.
Door-to-door solicitors may be ‘bad deal’
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By Frank Smith
Senior Staff Writer
■ Terri Maggard had been inter
ested in subscribing to a magazine.
So when a fast-talking magazine
salesman with an unusual presenta-
tibn came to her apartment door,
she let him in.
,
<■ The senior electrical engineering
major was told her purchase would
I help the salesman accumulate “bo-
, nus points” toward winning a trip to
Bermuda.
^^■“If it hadn’t been for the fact that
’ Iliad been wanting to subscribe to a
niagazine for a while, I would’ve said
/ I (wasn’t interested,” she said later.
“But I was interested.”
I After choosing a publication from
a; laminated list supplied by the
salesman, she was told she needed to
.. pay the full amount up front — in
cash.
■ A few minutes later, she was out
$30.20, and possibly out of luck.
■ Two days later, she saw her mag
azine advertised for just over half
the rate she had paid. She remem
bered the salesman had told her he
had the cheapest rates available.
■ Thinking she would take advan
tage of a cancellation option listed
on her receipt, she examined the
receipt more closely. It was then that
she discovered the salesman had re
corded that only $18.20 had been
collected and that she was obligated
to mail in an additional $12 before
her subscription would be entered
with the publisher of her magazine
choice. When he presented the rec
eipt, the salesman had said nothing
about the mail-in money. Maggard
had signed without scrutinizing it.
She called College Station police,
but was told hers was a civil, rather
than criminal, complaint. A check
with the City of College Station re
vealed that the group the salesman
was traveling with had secured a
valid solicitation permit. When she
called the circulation company listed
on the receipt, she was told it
couldn’t do anything about her $12
since she had signed her receipt.
She called the local chapter of the
Better Business Bureau, and was
told that if she filed a written com
plaint about the matter, the BBB
would approach the circulation com
pany on her behalf.
Maggard’s story illustrates the
hazards of doing business with door-
to-door solicitors. And though there
are plenty of honest door-to-door
salespeople around, local BBB offi
cials caution consumers to investi
gate before they invest.
As it turns out, the BBB had a re
port on file about the clearinghouse
listed on Maggard’s receipt — a re
port chronicling a history of the
company’s “unsatisfactory” business
performance in settling problems
and eliminating causes of problems.
In addition, the BBB report identi
fies the company as having a record
of “questionable” selling practices.
The salesman who came to Mag
gard’s apartment was an employee
of an independently owned and op
erated sales organization subcon
tracting out to the clearinghouse.
The clearinghouse processes the or
ders and sees only the signed
agreements, and doesn’t get any re
cord of verbal promises made to the
customer.
Dan Bogart, arbitration adminis
trator for the BBB of Brazos Valley,
is familiar with such problems.
“The whole subject of door-to-
door solicitation is a big problem,”
Bogart said. “Unfortunately, you
guys in college are a prime target for
these types of door-to-door mag
azine or cleaning (salespeople) or
whatever. . . .
“It’s everybody’s job to look out
for themselves, protect themselves.
If somebody you don’t know comes
to your door, call the Better Business
Bureau and try to get a report on the
company before you make your de
cision.
“Everybody that comes to your
door is not necessarily bad. But at
the same time, you shouldn’t assume
that they’re all good. Investigate be
fore you spend.”
Bogart and LeRoy Balmain, exec
utive director of the local BBB, have
heard a lot of stories through the
years from people who ran into
problems with door-to-door sales
people.
Balmain painted a grim picture of
some doof-to-door operations.
“Here’s the thing about magazine
sales,” he said. “Those kids hit the
road. They’ve got a crew chief that’s
pushing them. He puts’em out there
and they do what he tells them to do.
After a week or so of training, then
they have to make so much money
or they don’t get paid.
“You sleep many in a motel room.
You travel in a van or something like
that. You go from town to town. . . .
We have heard where they have
been kicked out on the road many
states away from their home.
“They will tell you anything you
want to hear to sell you a magazine.
They get hungry. They get desper
ate. So consequently, they’re going to
do what they can to sell you a mag
azine.”
Bogart described how a typical
traveling sales crew might handle
the College Station area.
“They’ll pull into the south end of
College Station and let their crews
out and pick’em up on the other end
of town,” he said. “They’ll work their
way through the town. And then
they’ll go to the next little town and
do the same thing. Just keep on
moving.
“That, again, is why the consumer
See Solicitors, page 12
Islamic Jihad renewed its demand
for release of 17 comrades impris
oned in Kuwait for the 1983 bomb
ings of the U.S. and French embas
sies there. The Persian Gulf
emirate’s government has refused to
free them.
The group has freed three Ameri
cans in 16 months: the Rev. Benja
min Weir, a Presbyterian minister;
the Rev. Martin Lawrence Jenco, a
Roman Catholic priest; and David
Jacobsen, director of the American
University Hospital.
Its statement did not mention
Waite, the personal envoy of Arch-
hbishop of Canterbury Robert Run-
cie.
Applications
for diplomas
due Friday
The Degree Audit Office has
announced that all graduating se
niors and graduate students who
expect to complete degree re
quirements by May 1987 must
make formal application for their
degrees no later than Friday. Late
applicants will be unable to re
ceive a diploma.
Undergraduate and graduate
degree applicants who did not
have their diploma fee assessed
with their tuition fee must pay a
$15 diploma fee in the Fiscal Of
fice, 4 Coke Building. Under
graduate students then must take
their paid fee slip or diploma fee
receipt to the Registrar’s Office,
105 Heaton Hall. Graduate stu
dents must take their paid fee slip
or diploma fee receipt to the
Graduate College, 125 Teague
Building.
All graduating seniors must
complete the necessary degree
application forms which are avail
able in the Registrar’s Office, 105
Heaton Hall. Graduate students
can pick up forms in 125 Teague
Building.