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Vol. 87 No. 69 GSPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, December 8,1987
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, setting
foot for the first time on American
soil, said Monday he hopes to hear
“new words” about prospects for
cutting long-range strategic weapons
at the White House summit this
week with President Reagan.
The Reagan administration rolled
out the red carpet for Gorbachev
and his wife Raisa, and in a welcom
ing statement the Soviet leader
wished “peace and well being to all
Americans.”
“At the center of our discussions
Haiti strike
pushes junta
for elections
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP)
— Most businesses were closed in the
capital Monday as Haitians observed
a general strike called to force the
mling junta to allow civilians to su
pervise elections thwarted by a ter
ror campaign.
Although there appeared to have
been problems spreading word of
the hastily called nationwide strike,
most of downtown Port-au-Prince
was shut down.
There were no reports of vio
lence.
The four leading presidential can
didates endorsed the strike, which
initially was called by key labor
unions to protest the Nov. 29
cancellation of what would have
been Haiti’s first free elections in 30
years.
Bands of thugs shot and hacked to
death at least 34 people that Sunday
morning. Many of the victims had
lined up to vote. Soldiers did noth
ing to protect people.
Shocked by the killings, the inde
pendent electoral council called off
the voting. Junta leader Lt. Gen.
Henri Namphy dissolved the civil
ian-run council.
The government did not com
ment on the strike. Its offices were
open and a secretary at the Ministry
of Finance estimated 60 percent to
70 percent of the employees were
there.
Some had called for a two-day
strike seeking restoration of the elec
toral council. Others demanded an
indefinite boycott until the junta
steps down.
Some Haitians said they would
wait to see what others are doing be
fore deciding whether to open their
businesses or go to work.
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States will be the pivotal questions of
Soviet-American relations, questions
of reducing strategic offensive
arms,” Gorbachev said.
The White House summit opens
today, highlighted at 1:45 p.m. EST
by the signing of a treaty to eliminate
intermediate-range nuclear weapons
(INF), the first-ever agreement call
ing for the destruction of an entire
category of atomic arms.
A strategic arms pact eluded Rea
gan and Gorbachev at their summit
in Iceland last year because of differ
ences over the U.S. Star Wars missile
defense plan. While there are signs
of a lessening of Soviet objections to
Star Wars, American officials say
there is a lot of negotiating ahead be
fore the two leaders could sign a
strategic weapons treaty at another
summit in Moscow next year.
“On behalf of the people and the
government of the Soviet Union, I
wish to assure all Americans that we
sincerely want better relations be
tween our peoples and countries,”
Gorbachev said.
Secretary of State George Shultz,
who greeted the Soviet leader, told
Gorbachev, “We are ready.” The So
viet leader replied, “We are ready,
too.”
A half-hour after Gorbachev’s ar
rival, the treaty was brought from
Geneva by Maynard Glitman and
Alexei Obukhov, the U.S. and Soviet
negotiators, who put the finishing
touches on the accord over the week
end.
It was to be inspected by chief
U.S. negotiator Max M. Kampelman
and other U.S. officials, sent to the
National Security Council to be
checked, and was to be printed late
Monday at the State Department.
The Soviet leader said the signing
of the INF agreement completes
work “on the question which all of
the people, all of the nations of the
world have been looking to us to
Gorbachev said the center of his
talks with Reagan “will be the pivotal
questions of Soviet-American rela
tions, questions of reducing strategic
offensive arms.”
Saying he knew what he was going
to tell Reagan, Gorbachev said, “We
are hoping that we will hear some
new words on their side....
“We can neither of us shirk the
role that we are to play in world af
fairs. We must act with the utmost
responsibility to our peoples and the
peoples of the whole world.”
White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater was asked if the White
House is ready with “new words.”
“There are areas in which new
ideas can flourish,” he replied. “I
don’t want to pre-judge bow the
talks will go. But we’re willing to bar
gain and we’re willing to talk.”
Christmas shopping
Nancy Gold, a Houston petroleum engineering
major, sells a Christmas tree to Patrick Maslanka, a
Fort Worth business major. Lambda Sigma Honor
Photo by Shelley Scbluter
Society sold the trees trom Nov.30 through Dec.4
for $2.50 per foot. The group is raising money for
a its national convention here in the spring.
FAA fears 44 dead
after jet crashes
at California site
HARMONY, Calif. (AP) — A Pa
cific Southwest Airlines commuter
jet carrying 44 people crashed Mon
day after crew members reported
hearing gunfire inside the plane,
and all aboard were feared dead,
federal officials said.
The four-engine jet en route from
Los Angeles to San Francisco went
down on a ranch at 4:14 p.m., the
Federal Aviation Administration
said.
“There’s airplane parts and body
parts and luggage all over a 15-mile
area,” said cattleman Bill Hartzell,
on whose property the jet crashed.
“I don’t know how anyone could
have survived.”
There were 39 passengers and a
crew of five aboard the night, PSA
spokesman Jeremy James said.
FAA spokesman Fred Farrar in
Washington, D.C., identified the
plane as PSA Flight 1771.
“Just west of Paso Robles, the crew
reported gunshots in the back of the
plane,” Drucella Andersen, a
spokesman for the National Trans
portation Safety Board, said.
The FBI sent agents to the scene,
spokesman Fred Reagan said.
“It’s fair to say the first portion of
our inquiry will be to determine the
circumstances of the crash and if it
was caused by criminal activity,”
Reagan said.
At San Francisco International
Airport, about a dozen people wait
ing for the plane to land have been
placed in isolation, Myron Schroer,
PSA operations manager at the air
port, said.
The crash site was about 175 miles
northwest of Los Angeles, Morro
Bay police dispatcher Debbie Pascua
said.
Tornado victims receive
federal financial assistance
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Paris rounds up members of Iranian group
PARIS (AP) — Police rounded up
dozens of People’s Mujahedeen of
Iran members for possible expulsion
in a sweep Monday that the leading
anti-Khomeini Iranian group de
scribed as part of a deal to free
French hostages in Lebanon.
The crackdown came 11 days af
ter pro-Iranian kidnappers in Leb
anon released two French hostages.
At least three other Frenchmen still
are held there.
Mujahedeen leader Massoud Ra-
javi said in a telexed message to Pres
ident Francois Mitterrand the ar
rests “demonstrate the ugly deal”
between Iran and France.
Premier Jacques Chirac’s govern
ment denies any deal. “There is no
bargaining at all,” Security Minister
Robert Pandraud said.
An Interior Ministry statement
said several dozen Mujahedeen were
detained during identity checks at
the group’s French headquarters in
Auvers-Sur-Oise, north of Paris, and
at homes of members in the area.
It said the detainees might be ex
pelled for “taking part through this
organization in militant actions
which seriously disrupt public or
der.”
Mujahedeen spokesman Behzad
Naziri said those rounded up were
political refugees whose papers were
in order.
A statement from the group
claimed police beat and insulted
people during the arrests.
At least one of those taken in is
known to have a heart condition, it
said.
France is home to many Iranian
exiles, but it expelled Rajavi in June
1986 to fulfill one of three condi
tions set by Iran for normalizing re
lations with Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini’s fundamentalist Shiite
Moslem regime. Two French hos
tages were freed two weeks later.
Rajavi has headquarters in Bagh
dad, capital of Iraq, with which Iran
has been at war since September
1980. It maintains a presence in
France, other European cities and
the United States.
Officials deny allegations that
France it bargained for the releases
Nov. 27 of journalists Jean-Louis
Normandin and Roger Auque or has
made a deal to free its other cap
tured citizens.
Iran admits to influence over the
Shiite groups holding hostages in
Lebanon, but denied a role in the re
leases of the Frenchmen by the
group calling itself the Revolution
ary Justice Organization.
Extremist groups in Lebanon
hold eight Americans and at least 12
other foreigners, including the three
French hostages.
Pandraud, the security minister,
said the right to asylum in France is
conditional.
He told a news conference politi
cal refugees must not “foment at
tacks outside (France) from French
territory and not compromise
French diplomatic interests by their
presence or their statements.”
France broke diplomatic relations
with Iran on July 17 after Iranian
Embassy employee Wahid Gordji re
fused to turn himself in for question
ing about a series of bombings in Pa
ris in 1986.
GIDDINGS (AP) — Victims of
tornadoes that swept through East
and Central Texas last month have
received more than $65,000 to help
repair the damage, officials say.
The tornadoes Nov. 15-16 killed
10 people in Texas, injured 160 and
destroyed scores of buildings, in
cluding more than 80 businesses in
Palestine.
To help pay for the rebuilding ef
fort and provide help during the
process, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and other gov
ernmental bodies have set up Disas
ter Assistance Centers in the af
fected areas.
Mary Ficklen, a spokeswoman for
the federal Disaster Assistance Of
fice in Palestine, said 456 people
have visited the Palestine center, 85
have gone to Giddings and 49 to
Caldwell.
So far, 205 people have applied
for temporary housing assistance,
which consists of three months’ rent
for a, displaced homeowner and one
month’s rent for a renter.
Ficklen said 172 people have
asked for rebuilding loans from the
Small Business Administration,
while 251 people have applied for
grants, each of which has a $5,000
ceiling.
In more storms in East Texas
Sunday, homes were destroyed and
buildings damaged in rural areas of
Anderson and Polk counties, but no
injuries were reported.
Bowl tickets still available
Although many students spent
the weekend camping in front of
G. Rollie White Coliseum, Cotton
Bowl tickets still are available, an
Athletic Ticket Office spokesman
said Monday.
“There are plenty of tickets
left,” said Kristen Lydahl, ticket
office student worker. “There
haven’t been lines since 8:30 this
morning.”
Juniors can buy tickets today,
sophomores can buy them
Wednesday and anyone else can
buy them Thursday. All tickets
will be sold for $25. No guest tick
ets will be sold; only ticket-book
holders may purchase tickets.
A&M dedicates cyclotron, holds symposium
By Richard Williams
Staff Writer
Texas A&M officials dedicated
one of three existing supercon
ducting cyclotrons in the world
on the A&M campus Monday
night in front of more than 200
people.
The dedication of the cyclo
tron was held in conjunction with
a symposium on “hot nuclei” cur
rently being held at A&M.
The $8 million Texas A&M su
perconducting cyclotron was offi
cially accepted by A&M Provost
Dr. Donald McDonald, who re
minded the crowd the cyclotron
was not “a Sears-Roebuck item”
to be ordered from a catalog.
A&M’s cyclotron was finished
after 10 years of planning and
three years of construction and
will be used to research activity
of an atoms’ nucleus.
The cyclotron will accelerate
atoms to almost the speed of light
and then crash them into a thin
sheet of aluminum, causing a
flurry of atomic collisions.
The A&M cyclotron is smaller
and less expensive than those of
similar power because it uses liq
uid helium-cooled superconduct
ing electromagnets instead of
conventional electromagnets.
David G. Eller, Chairman of
the Texas A&M Board of Re
gents, said equipment like the cy
clotron is important for the ad
vancement of human knowledge.
“It is basic research that en
ables education and technology to
move forward,” Eller said. “The
partnership between Texas A&M
and the Welch Foundation has
demonstrated the strong local
commitment to go all the way
with cyclotron research.”
The Robert A. Welch Fouda-
tion provided the first funds for
the original cyclotron and the
new superconducting cyclotron,
Eller said.
“Researchers around the world
benefit from nuclear investiga
tions conducted at A&M,” Ellers
said.
Helmut A. Merklein, Adminis
trator, Energy Information Ad
ministration, U.S. Department of
Energy, said the cyclotron will be
a drawing card for A&M that will
bring in distinguished professors
and scientists.
A&M’s University System
Chancellor Perry Adkisson said
the cyclotron “is the culmination
of a long-term project and we are
very pleased this is now one of the
three finest facilities in the world
for this kind of study.”
The symposium on hot nuclei
began Monday.
Hot nuclei are atomic nuclei
that reach high energy levels
when bombarded by heavy ions.
Dr. Dave Youngblood, Cyclo
tron Institute director, said more
than 130 scientist, nearly half
from overseas, will be attending
the symposium.
The symposium will continue
until Thursday afternoon.
Photo by David Elmer
Visitors attending the cyclotron dedication get a tour of the facility.