The Battalion .82 No. 143 GSRS 045360 14 pages College Station, Texas Friday, April 24, 1987 toreponia telemark: action on i 'HI not lx it ommittee confirms unding of Contras bvestigators trace over $1 million l IVASHINGTON (AP) — Con gressional investigators, relying on Swiss bank records and other ■terial provided by businessman Stert Hakim, have confirmed the Hersion of more than $1 million in . Iranian arms sale profits to Contra Kbtls fighting the Nicaraguan gov- Bment, sources said Thursday. now have a way to trace the liey from Tehran” to the rebels, said one source, who asked not to be identified by name. No precise estimate of the size of the diversion was available, although sources said investigators have told members of House and Senate com mittees that the amount was over $1 million. It was not clear whether investiga tors have been able to confirm a di version in the range of $ 10 million to w 95 pfliel cilled wfef more ofia i thiscoiE | iy doe noil onallys is affect:,-! tendne pra ouse approves ew bill banning pen containers I bv Chse: odraDz' alia. Je iei ice Offot ded to it 1 te at tlx I ■8a.ni.Tu Mrs. Bti ulting Ixt irijab " ■ AUSTIN (AP) — The “open ftntainer” bill that bars drinking ■hile driving won final House ap- loval Thursday, sending it back t| the Senate with minor amend- tients. I The measure would go to Gov. flill Clements if the Senate con- dns in the amendments, which Rake no substantial changes in ftp bill as approved by the Sen- til'’ ■ Clements supports the ban on (linking alcoholic beverages vliile driving, and, pending a re view of the bill, plans to sign it into law, according to Jay Rosser, alpokesman for the governor. ■ House members gave voice- vote final approval to the bill Thursday. ■ ItiflVeddy had won preliminary House approval Wednesday. ■Under the proposed law, po lio could issue a summons to a di ver caught drinking an alco holic beverage. ■ The bill is somewhat weaker than similar measures proposed in past years in the Texas Legis lature. Some of those proposals would have allowed fines for mere possession of alcoholic bev erages by a driver. The bill, authored by Sen. Bill Sarpalius, D-Amarillo, won final House approval with no debate. Rep. Paul Moreno, D-El Paso, re iterated his opposition to the bill. During Wednesday debate, Moreno called the measure “just another of those bills that confuse the public. “You know very well that un der present law if an officer sees a driver with a can of beer in one hand he is going to stop that driver and see if he is drunk,” he said. But bill supporter Rep. Bill Blackwood, R-Mesquite, said, “People who operate a motor ve hicle have a responsibility to op erate it in a responsible manner. And when a driver drinks in pub lic it becomes a public matter.” $30 million that Attorney General Edwin Meese III referred to on Nov. 25, 1986, when he first disclosed the movement of funds. The confirmation of the diversion by congressional investigators came as Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate investigating committee, told reporters that Sen ate investigators probably will never be able to trace the affair’s complex, international money trail com pletely. Inouye said that “on a scale of 10, we’ve got nine.” Inouye spoke after a closed-door committee session at which lawmak ers voted limited immunity from prosecution in order to compel the testimony of two witnesses. He described the two as “very mi nor figures” but refused to identify them. Inouye also said that a key figure in the case, former Air Force Major Gen. Richard Secord, may agree to testify voluntarily at committee hear ings. Other principal figures, including former National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his former NSC aide, Oliver North, have cited their constitutional rights against self-incrimination in refusing to tes tify. Poindexter has been granted lim ited immunity, and investigators are expected to begin questioning him in private on May 2 or shortly after. The public hearings are sched uled to begin on May 5 and last through July. Hakim was questioned under a limited grant of immunity in Paris on Monday, and the material he pro vided gave investigators a major break in their effort to track money from the Middle East to Central America. It was not clear whether Hakim, in addition to providing Swiss bank records, also handed over records from Caribbean bank acounts where money reportedly was placed for use by the Contras. Here To Spay Fourth-year veterinary student Cindy Allen fin ishes spaying a pet ferret. Female ferret pets often Photo by Bill Hughes are spayed because they may die from blood loss if they don’t mate when they are in heat. )ffiCi Jpeculator pleads guilty to violating SEC laws ■EW YORK (AP) — Ivan F. Boesky, the millionaire stock speculator whose meteoric I Ifvk Wall Street career crashed in an insider trad- _ ingjscandal, pleaded guilty Thursday to one com of violating federal securities laws. ■ Hi faces penalties of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced Aug 21 by U.S. District Judge Morris E. I’ 1- ' Lask;r. irentsii’-jMajkgj-, who has a reputation among de- fensi attorneys as a fair judge but a lenient ll - 1 ftnttncer, cautioned Boesky that in view of ^yVo iplpublicity surrounding the case and the to starts ''' rancisBrt'i sentencing practices of some judges at Man hattan federal court, “I want to talk turkey.” He then asked Boesky if he understood that it was in the judge’s power to sentence him to the maximum. Boesky said he did. The 50-year-old financier, looking sub dued and exhausted, entered his plea in a courtroom packed with nearly 200 reporters, sketch artists, lawyers and other defendants. He was released without bail and, flanked by his two lawyers, left the courthouse tographers swarmed around the limousine that whisked him away. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Nov. 14 that Boesky had set tled charges that he engaged in illegal insider trading, or the illegal use of non-public infor mation to profit from securities trades. Boesky, who had been the leading specu lator in stocks of companies that were poten tial takeover targets, settled the charges by paying the government $100 million. He agreed to cooperate with the continuing in vestigation into stock trading improprieties and to plead guilty to a criminal charge which was left unspecified until Thursday. The count to which he pleaded guilty charged him with conspiring to make false statements to the SEC. He admitted to conspiring with others, who were not identified, to file a false regis tration statement with respect to purchases of stock in the Fischbach Corp. in 1984. The registration statement must be filed with the SEC when an individual or an entity acquires at least 5 percent of a company’s stock. M professors plan research in hot field Superconductivity studies proposed By Olivier Uyttebrouck Senior Staff Writer iat t'ott '* ' werepotj ipaitislu" art. If' 1 ; I At least four Texas A&M profes- Ijcdw fors are planning research projects Spanish, Involving the new breed of high- Spatiish temperature superconductors devel- )a ignsa» l! |pe