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Thursday, February 18, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5 iminars )1 Rod- aredio- able in- present Williams Aggies i/orldol l music mission P-m.in lion" at at 7:30 n.froni nonitof arsfor in 601 ole questions Bush’s Texas ties as candidates shift toward South I Associated Press The presidential campaigns Wednesday shifted their sights to 1b South, with Republican Sen. Bob Dole saying adopted Texan George Bush seems to call lots of places home. Blush, who once represented Texas in Congress, maintains his voting residence at the Houstonian Hocel. He was born in Massachu- ■ts, grew up in Connecticut, owns a [home in Maine and told New Hamp- jHre voters “I’m one of you” in cam- Bgning for the primary he won ifliesday. ■“The vice president is doing well in Texas, another one of his home Hites,” Dole cracked Wednesday : during an interview. ■Dole defeated Bush in Iowa and fm ^hed second to the vice president I New Hampshire. The Kansan’s iexas campaign chairman, Richard Collins, predicted the race would last until the Republican National Con vention in New Orleans this sum mer. “It’s going to be competitive,” Col lins said. “It’s going to be exciting and it’s going to go ... all the way to the convention.” Kevin Moomaw, Bush’s state po litical director, said the vice presi dent will do well in the Southern March 8 “Super Tuesday” primary. “We move South, and we move to the vice president’s strength,” Moo maw said. Texas, which will send 111 dele gates to the Republican National Convention and 197 to the Demo cratic convention, is the largest state taking part in Super Tuesday. Bush has been leading all Repub licans in opinion polls in Texas. Gov. Bill Clements, whose wife co-chairs the Bush campaign, said he would work for the vice president and pre dicted a Bush victory in Texas. “He’s got a great organization here in Texas,” Clements said. “And I think he will carry Texas handily and I’m going to help him.” Former TV evangelist Pat Rob ertson was campaigning in South Carolina and Florida, where he pre dicted a good showing. “We go into the South and they’re going to be playing in my back yard,” said Robertson, claiming he would win convincingly in South Carolina, which holds its GOP pri mary March 5, three days before Su per Tuesday. On the Democratic side, Tennes see Sen. Albert Gore Jr. spent Tues day night and Wednesday in Hous ton, having shunned the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire pri mary. Gore, who won endorsments from several top Texas Democrats includ ing Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and House Speaker Gib Lewis, said Super Tues day has changed presidential cam paigning but other candidates don’t realize it. “We made a decision not to spend $ 1 million on two or three delegates (from Iowa and New Hampshire),” Gore said. “We’re saving that for the 1,400 delegates here in the Super Tuesday primary.” Another candidate hoping to do well in the South is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a South Carolina native and long-time civil rights leader. “I’m a son of the South,” Jackson said. “I know its ways. I’ve worked harder and longer to make the new South new than anyone in this cam paign.” Weather Watch 'O-*! mU, jblish Up is 'em Up S tf! / s P n ' : spot* I at lltf I Ark d hin sbeiifl d. jnt rts: jokdj istonj Kay: ^ - Lightning ~ - Fog . Thunderstorms • t .Rain - Snow . Drizzle /<\ . Ice Pellets m Rain Shower • - Freezing Rain Sunset Today: 6:15 p.m. Sunrise Friday: 7:01 a.m. Map Discussion: A huge Pacific Ridge of high pressure will force a new front into ) the Central Rockies, en route to replacing the low in the southwest. This new I feature is quite strong and the attendant moisture and dynamics assure snow for I the Rockies and the Great Basin. As the low in the Southwest is ejected eastward | by the new front and southern jet. widespread precipitation will spread from Texas I to the Mid-Atlantic states, enhanced by good moisture inflow from the Gulf, overrunning, and warm air advection. A southward shift of the polar jet suggests a return of arctic air to the United States and Candian border Friday. Forecast: Today and Tonight. Overcast and mild intermittent showers and thundershowers. | High today 64, low tonight in the mid 40s. Winds northeasterly at 10 to 18 mph. Chances of rain will be 90 percent. Friday. Continued cloudy and rainy although the rains will be somewhat | diminished. High in the low to mid 50s. Northeast wind at 10 mph. Weather Fact Squall line - Any non-frontal line or narrow bond of active | thunderstorms (with or without squalls); a mature instability line. Prepared by: Charlie Brenton Staff Meteorologist A&M Departnhent of Meteorology Leave the boundaries of time and Stiof § space behind and take a front row, loslff n cer,ler seat ,0f 120 minutes of hot, " live-via-satellite rock 'n roll. Date: ^]| Thurs., & Fri. Feb. 18,19 Time: 7:15 p.m. Location: 610 Rudder CSN pe»si THfc' CHCIG6 OF A NEW G&«RAnON TOYOTA Attorney invokes First Amendment in sedition case CO-OP CAREER FAIR AND SEMINAR ON INTERVIEWING FOR CO-OP JOBS Monday, February 22, 1988, the employers listed will be on campus participating in the Co-op Career Fair. These employers will primarily be interested in hiring co-op students, but if you are interested in either summer or full-time employment, please feel free to come by. The Co-op Career Fair will be held between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. in the lobby of Zachry with a lunch break from 11:45 to 12:30. A seminar on “How to Interview for Co-op Jobs” will also be conducted at 6:00 p.m. EMPLOYER * Central Intelligence Agency - Washington D.C. Dell Computers - Austin Ft. Hood - Ft. Hood * General Dynamics - Ft. Worth * IBM - Clear Lake Kimberly Clark - Paris, TX LTV Missiles & Electronics - Dallas McNeil Consumer Products - Round Rock Motorola - Austin Nabisco - Houston NASA-Johnson Space Center - Clear Lake Northern Telecom/BNR - Richardson Northern Telecom - Dallas Texas Instruments (DSEG) - Dallas Gnion Carbide - Texas City NOTE: Representatives from IBM, General Dynamics, and the Central Intelligence Agency wil assist in conducting the Interview Seminar. FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The attorney for one of 14 men linked to white supremacist groups said Wednesday that freedom of speech is the issue at the men’s trial. During his opening statement, Ev erett D. Hofmeister of Coeur d’A lene, Idaho, attorney for Richard G. Butler, quoted former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as saying freedom of speech includes freedom for the thought we hate. Butler, 69, of Hayden Lake, is one of the 10 men on trial for seditious conspiracy, which is conspiring to overthrow the government by force. Louis Ray Beam Jr., 41, of Hous ton, also among the men, said dur ing his 90-minute opening statement that if the government will admit that the Constitution is dead and there is no freedom of speech, “I’m guilty. But if our Constitution still exists, I’m not guilty.” He said the trial is political. “I’ve been a very vocal opponent of a tyrannical government that tries to destroy tfie rights of free men,” he said. The government contended in its opening statement that leaders of right-wing white supremacist groups talked about poisoning the water supplies of New York and Washing ton, D.C. James Ellison, who is in prison, discussed a poisoning scheme in 1983 at an Aryan Nations convoca tion in Hayden Lake with Butler and Robert Miles, assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Snyder told the jury. Ellison, whose name is on the gov ernment’s list of witnesses, is the for mer leader of an Arkansas-based militaristic supremacist group called ‘The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord’ which maintained a heavily guarded compound in north Arkansas. Federal and state officials raided it in April 1985 and seized large amounts of weapons and a 39-gallon drum of sodium cyanide. At the time of the 1983 talk, Elli son had more than 200 pounds of sodium cyanide in his possession, Snyder said. At that same conclave, several su premacist leaders discussed the idea of abolishing the U.S. government and setting up an Aryan state, Snyder said. Louis Ray Beam Jr., 41, of Hous ton, a former Texas Klan leader and another of the defendants, told the 1983 conference that the time had come for war, Snyder said. Snyder said Beam told his audi ence that “the anti-God slithering homosexual” dwelt in Washington, D.C., and warned, “If you don’t help me kill them . . . you’re going to have to beg for your child’s life, and the answer will be ‘no.’ ” Miles made a speech urging the use of robberies to finance suprema cist activities, Snyder said, and six holdups during the next 18 months netted supremacists more than $4 million. Ellison “sent a paper around to be signed,” and when it came back signed by the leaders, Ellision said, “All of us today entered into a con spiracy against the government of the United States,” Snyder said. The prosecutor said no one dis agreed with Ellison’s statement and “the meeting ended with the Nazi stiff-arm hail victory salute.” CINEMA/^ FRIDAY/ SATURDAY Feb tf/Zo Rudder Auditorium $2 v/taru xd V, Ibyota Presents T ll E P R E S 1 D E S T 1 A L DEBATES The Race Is On! Tivo Nights Of Presidential Debates Join students from 600 campuses for an historic first in presidential politics. College Satellite Network’s Election ’88 marks the first time Democrat and Re publican candidates debate via satellite before students across the nation. All thirteen major party candidates will participate, moderated by journalist Roger Mudd. Plus Special Campus Features Election ’88 is more than debates. It will feature special segments created specifically for the college campus induding: • CSN’s National Student Referendum • Political Comedy • Campus Newsreels produced by and for students • CSN’s Nblunteer Refeiral Network CSN’s Election ’88 will be two memorabk* nights that you’ll find as entertaining as it is informative. CSN’s Campaign \blunteer Referral Hotline 1-800-346-4802 • 1-214-869-W2 (in Tkxas) LIVE-VIA-SATELLITE