1 ti6 Battalion
■ ________—_____— —■—— —
I Vol. 87 No. 112 (JSPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 9, 1988
) I
State results
MS-!!-
MS-lt
MW
MS-!!
is-n
MS-!
MS-!!
MS-!'
MS-S
MS-!'
M5-li!|
M54S!
MS-!!!
MS!!!;
MS!I> :
MS!I. : ,
MS!!
MSI"
MSIU
MS!!!
MM!
MM-
MSI"
MSI"
MSI"
MSI"'
MS#'
MS!'.:
MS!!'
MM1!
MS-!!*
MSI#
MS-!!!
MSS#
MSS#
MSI!: -
MSS»
MS-!!!
MSMi*
MS!#'
MS-SIS
MS-iC-
JM-St
MSSI!
MSS#'
MS-Ill!
MS-SIS
ISM!
ISW
IS-KII
ISHU
ISS! :!
IS!)!!
IS-!#!
ISIS!'
ISMSl!
IS-!!#
IS»#
ISSSf
5-SiS
5-SSii
5-5MI 1
s-ose
S-0!l!
5M«
SMW!
5-SIS!
5-MW
S-!!H
S-JSMI
SSIII
S-SM#
S-HSI
S-SS#
S-0!1 :
SOS! 1
SOM!
ssss 1
i-SSII
,-5S#
,-sim:
.ns!
IMIS’
-151! j
,!!!!
-!!l!
i-!!)!
•S!!’
•0!!l
-!*!)
)«!!
10#
0
SI#
si:s
MS#
SIS!
(Oil
M!'l
SOMI
91)1
9011
9)0'
SOS-'
Sill
59#
SSI’
SSI’
s» !
iV'i
s?: ;
ills
Following are the results of the statewide Texas Democratic and
Republican primaries as of 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Preference for Presidential Nominee
Republican:
George Bush 316,077 64.0 %
Pat Robertson 77,697 16.0%
Bob Dole 69,294 14.0 %
Jack Kemp 24,153 5.0%
Alexander M. Haig, Jr 1,771 0.0 %
Pete du Pont 1,606 0.0 %
Democratic:
Michael S. Dukakis 336,613 32.0 %
AlGore 231,721 22.0 %
Jesse L. Jackson 217,259 21.0%
Dick Gephardt 161,991 15.0%
Gary Hart 53,764 5.0 %
Paul Simon 19,205 2.0 %
Bruce Babbitt ....7,877 1.0 %
Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr 6,637 1.0 %
David E. Duke 6,052 1.0 %
W.A. Williams 4,460 0.0 %
Norbert G. Dennerll Jr 2,484 0.0 %
United States Senator
Republican:
Wes Gilbreath 178,871 35.0%
Beau Boulter 157,202 31.0 %
Milton E. Fox 97,302 19.0 %
Ned Snead ....74,589 15.0%
Democratic:
Lloyd Bentsen 976,534 84.0 %
Joe Sullivan 191,791 16.0%
Railroad Commissioner
Republican:
P.S. “Sam” Ervin 59,345 31.5 %
Ed Emmett 57,781 30.6 %
Ralph E. Hoelscher 50,859 27.0 %
Dale W. Steffes 20,548 10.9 %
Democratic:
James E. “Jim” Nugent 316,314 63.5 %
Jerry J. Langdon 109,177 21.9 %
John Thomas Henderson 72,963 14.6 %
Railroad Commissioner, Unexpired Term
Republican:
Kent R. Hance uncontested
Democratic:
Clint Hackney uncontested
Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Unexpired Term
Republican:
Tom Phillips uncontested
Democratic:
John E. Humphreys 207,133 51.3 %
Ted Z. Robertson 196,689 48.7 %
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 1
Republican:
Paul Murphy 122,835 68.8 %
George Barbary 55,613 31.2 %
Democratic:
Lloyd Doggett 317,482 71.2 %
Marsha Anthony 128,605 28.8 %
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2
Republican:
Nathan Hecht 70,210 37.7 %
Ronald S. Block 61,994 33.3 %
D. Camille Dunn 54,014 29.0 %
Democratic:
Bill Kilgarlin 255,100 56.9 %
Carol R. Haberman 193,017 43.1 %
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 3
Republican:
Charles Ben Howell uncontested
Democratic:
Raul A. Gonzalez 272,916 58.9 %
Art Vega 190,479 41.0 %
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4, Unexpired Term
Republican:
Barbara G. Culver uncontested
Democratic:
Jack Hightower uncontested
Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals
Republican:
David A. Berchelmann Jr uncontested
Democratic:
Mike McCormick 252,222 57.9 %
Ron Chapman 183,024 42.1 %
See State, page 6
Brazos County results
Following are the Brazos County totals for statewide primary
races and local races as of 1 a.m. Wednesday.
United States Representative, District 6
Republican:
Joe Barton uncontested
Democratic:
W. Alton Parish 519 39.0 %
John E. Welch 425 31.0 %
N.P. “Pat” Kendrick 386 29.0 %
uncontestedMember, State Board of Education, District 10
Republican:
C.B. “Buddy” Jones 4,089 53.0 %
Dorothy Chandler , 3,620 46.0 %
Democratic:
Will Davis uncontested
State Representative, District 14
Republican:
Richard A. Smith uncontested
No Democratic Candidates
Chief Justice, 10th Court of Appeals District
Republican:
Wesley “Wes” Peyton uncontested
Democratic:
Bob L. Thomas uncontested
Justice, 1st Court of Appeals District, Place 1
Republican:
Carol H. Lane uncontested
Democratic:
Michol O’Connor 1,339 51.0%
Geraldine B. “Gerry” Tennant 713 27.0 %
Bert Moser 541 20.0 %
See Local, page 7
Bush reaps wins in primaries
Photo by Jay Janner
Four Corps members vote Super Tuesday in the voting booths are on the right of the divider.
Republican primary at the voting cubicles in Bush won the Republican primary in Texas and
Rudder Exhibit Hall. The Democratic Primary Dukakis won the Texas Democratic primary.
Republicans approve
referendum on English
George Bush won Super Tuesday
primaries from one end of Dixie to
the other, reaping a rich harvest of
convention delegates to seize control
of the Republican presidential race.
Michael Dukakis captured Florida
and Maryland in a demonstration of
nationwide appeal and Sen. Albert
Gore Jr. emerged to split Dixie with
Jesse Jackson in the splintered Dem
ocratic race.
Jackson and Gore dueled one an
other in a series of close contests in
the 14 Southern and border states
on the busiest night of this or any
other presidential nominating sea
son.
That left Rep. Richard Gephardt
the odd man out in the Democratic
contest. He won only his home state
of Missouri and was failing to qualify
for convention delegates in several
states.
Pat Robertson’s best states were
Arkansas and Louisiana, where he
challenged Dole for second place.
Rep. Jack Kemp was in fourth place
in most of the states, and was a can
didate for withdrawal from the race.
Democrats
give Dukakis
nomination
By Tracy Staton
Senior Staff Writer
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Du
kakis pulled slightly ahead in a four
pronged race for the Democratic
presidential nomination, capturing
32 percent of the Texas vote in Su
per Tuesday’s primary and 33 per
cent of the vote in Brazos County.
Sen. A1 Gore of Tennessee was
second statewide with 23 percent,
but Jesse Jackson assumed runner-
up status in Brazos County. Jackson
won 25 percent of the county vote
with 34 of 41 precincts reporting.
In Precinct 20 on the T exas A&M
campus, the field narrowed to Duka
kis and Jackson, but neither candi
date clearly dominated. Dukakis gar
nered 38 percent to Jackson’s 36
percent of the campus vote. No
other candidate won more than 10
percent of the 105 Democratic votes
cast on campus.
By Mary-Lynne Rice
Staff Writer
Ninety-one percent of Republican
voters decided Tuesday to approve a
non-binding referendum proposing
English as the official state and na
tional language.
With 26 of 45 precincts reporting,
4487 people voted to approve the
referendum; 385 voted against it.
Across the state, 91 percent ap
proved the referendum and 8 per
cent rejected it.
Although approved, however, the
referendum — only an opinion poll
to gauge voter’s response to the pro
posal — will have no legal conse
quences.
The Texas Legislature last year
voted down the placing of a similar
Voters in Brazos County and
statewide strongly supported the
only referendum on Super Tues
day’s Democratic ballot in Texas —
to maintain the state’s current policy
of electing state judges rather
change to an appointment system.
Statewide in the Democratic pri
mary, with 19 percent of the vote
counted, 87 percent favored the cur
rent system of selecting judges, while
13 percent would prefer the ap-
referendum on the November bal
lot.
The Democratic party chose not
to include the referendum on its pri
mary ballot, claiming that it is solely
a party concern, not a state issue.
“There is absolutely no support in
the Democratic party for mandating
that English be the official language
of the United States,” said Ron Gay,
chairman of the Brazos County
Democratic Party and a member of
the Texas Democratic Executive
Committee.
“This is a multicultural society —
we are the melting pot of the world,”
he said. “It is helpful for people
coming from a foreign country to
learn English, of course, and for
pointment of judges by the gover
nor.
In Brazos County, with 34 of 41
precincts reporting and 5,538 votes
counted, 82 percent of the voters re
sponding to the referendum ap
proved keeping the election process
as is, while 18 percent of those re
sponding indicated they would like
to see it changed. There were 1,127
ballots returned without a response.
Of the 105 voters who cast their
ballots at the Memorial Student Cen
ter at Texas A&M, 65 percent of
those who responded to the referen-
anyone to be successful here, it be
hooves them to learn English.
“We need to quit being so arro
gant, and to be open to learning
other languages. The alternative
smacks a little bit of isolationism.”
But neither isolationism nor eth-
nocentrism is the issue behind the
official-language campaign, said
Lou Zaeske, chairman of the Ameri
can Ethnic Coalition.
“It isn’t a slap against anyone,” he
said. “It’s a plus for the state and the
country.”
The proposal provides for En
glish to be the only language used in
government and law — including
ballots, city street signs, general edu-
dum were for maintaining the cur
rent process, while 34 percent were
opposed to it.
The referendum, which appeared
at the bottom of the Democratic bal
lot, asked voters if they wish to con
tinue electing state judges or if they
would prefer an appointment proc
ess created by the legislature.
The executive committee of the
Texas Democratic Party put the ref
erendum on the ballot to gauge
Democratic voters’ opinions on the
issue, said Ron Gay, a member of the
See Judges, page 6
See Democrats, page 6
Bush gets
64 percent
of T exas vote
By Jamie Russell
Staff Writer
Vice President George Bush
swept the rest of the presidential
candidates under the rug in the Su
per Tuesday Texas primaries, win
ning an overwhelming 64 percent,
according to results available at 1
a.m. Wednesday.
Bush also stole the lead in Brazos
County, winning 61 percent of the
vote.
Texas State Rep. Richard Smith
of District 14, has endorsed Bush for
the Republican nomination. He said
he was impressed with the voter
turnout and participation in Brazos
County, and that he was happy with
Bush’s victory in the primary.
“It was a Bush tidal wave,” Smith
said in a phone interview.
Smith, because he did not have a
primary opponent in the state rep
resentative District 14 race, spent the
last few months working for the
Bush campaign acting as regional di
rector for a six-county area.
Bush’s victory spilled over into the
student population at Texas A&M.
In Precinct 20, in which the voters
are solely students, 67 percent of the
vote was for Bush, but since not all
See GOP, page 6
See English, page 6
State, county supports option
to keep elections forjudges
By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
Group says vandals ruined apartheid shack
By Tracy Staton
Reporter
Members of Texas A&M’s Stu
dents Against Apartheid said Tues
day that vandals damaged their anti
apartheid shack early Tuesday
morning.
Derek Kalahar, a Students
Against Apartheid member, said the
group reported the incident to the
University Police. Police reports
were not available Tuesday evening.
The shack, which was placed near
the Academic Building on Sunday,
was damaged sometime between 2
a.m. and 8 a.m. Tuesday, said David
Luckenbach, vice president of Stu
dents Against Apartheid. He said
the shack was turned over, its roof
was damaged and one wall was torn
off.
“We definitely suspect that people
took it down,” Luckenbach said. “No
wind could have done that.”
Senior journalism major Deborah
Jensen said she saw a student remov
ing a white posterboard labeled
“KKK #1” from the shack about 9
a.m. Tuesday. About 12 members of
the group rebuilt the shack Tuesday
afternoon.
Luckenbach said the shack’s door
was forcibly taken out.
“The side wall that was taken off
was fairly well put in there,” he said
“It would take a hurricane to take it
off. The only way it could be wind
would be if there was a 200 mph gust
last night.”
Luckenbach said the group will
rebuild the shack as often as nec
essary.
“They can break it, burn it, de
stroy it or take a hacksaw to it,” he
said. “But we’ll keep putting it back
up until they get tired of taking it
down.”
The group put up the shack to
draw attention to South Africa’s pol
icy of apartheid, or racial segrega
tion.
The shack has drawn complaints
that it is an “eyesore” on the A&M
campus, Luckenbach said. But de
stroying the shack also destroys its
value as a symbol, he said.
“By turning it over and messing it
up, it no longer has significance,”
Luckenbach said. “It’s just a big pile
of wood. At least before it had mean
ing and importance to lot of people.
We had a lot of positive comments.
It achieved its purpose because it
caused a lot of people to ask a lot of
questions.”
(A