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Wright denies revealing any military WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Jim Wright denied Thurs day that he revealed anything classi fied when he criticized a covert CIA operation in Nicaragua, while Re publicans pressed for formal ethics and intelligence investigations of the speaker’s remarks. Wright, who has become a light ning rod for Democrats on Central America policy, found himself again embroiled in controversy for his rev elation two days earlier that the Cen tral Intelligence Agency had insti gated demonstrations aimed at provoking the leftist Managua gov ernment and sabotaging peace talks with the Contra rebels. The speaker repeated that asser tion to reporters, but contended such CIA activity was already well : known through news reports. “I didn’t say anything that was re vealed to me as classified informa tion,” Wright, D-Texas, said. While he denied breaking rules against disclosing secrets, Wright did not specify how he had learned of the covert operation in Nicaragua. He and other Democrats sought to focus attention on the administra tion’s action rather than the propri ety of Wright’s disclosure. “In late August of last year I be came aware that elements of the U.S. government were seeking to disturb the domestic tranquility in Central America, to foment disturbances with a view to seeing if they could provoke” the Sandinistas into a crackdown that would derail peace talks, Wright said. “That seems to me just intolerably two-faced,” he said. Wright added that he had been given “indirect as surance” that the practice has now been halted. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois and Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo., chairman of the House Republican Conference, for mally requested investigations in both the Intelligence Committee and the ethics committee, which has re sponsibility for enforcing non-dis closure rules. The ethics panel, formally known as the Commitee on Standards of Official Conduct, already is investi gating Wright on unrelated allega tions. Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, said the speaker’s comments had ap parently violated non-disclosure rules and jeopardized the bill. College Station council OKs utility rate change By Sharon Maberry Staff Writer College Station utility rates will change beginning October 1. The College Station City Council approved utility rate changes Thurs day decreasing electric rates and in creasing water and sewage rates. Electric revenues have been sup porting water and sewage revenues which were- working at a deficit, Mayor Larry Ringer said. This is the second year of a five- year plan to adjust utility rates to a more equitable distribution, Deputy Director of Finance Glenn Sch- roeder said. “Our original proposal was a fairly significant increase in water and sewer rates,” Schroeder said. “But that was very massive to do all atone time.” Last year, the city council decided to phase in these changes in a five- year period, he said. Sewer rates would increase over a three-year pe riod, water rates would increase over a five-year period and electric rates would decrease over a five-year pe riod. Schroeder said this year electric bills for single-family residences will decrease about 4.5 percent and bills for master-metered residences, in cluding large apartment complexes, will decrease about 10 percent. Water rates will increase about 10 percent and sewage rates will in crease about 13 percent, Schroeder said. The increases in water and sewage rates are offset by the decreases in electric rates, he said. “A small (decreased) percentage in electricity equates to a fairly signif icant increase in water and sewage (because electric rates are much higher than water and sewage ra tes),” Schroeder said. The council also approved in creases for sanitation services and drainage assessment fees. Sanitation fees will increase from $4.20 per month for single family homes to $5.25 per month. A drainage assessment fee will in crease from $.50 per sanitation cus tomer to $.70 per sanitation cus tomer. Schroeder said that even with these utility rate increases, the aver age customer’s monthly bill will only increase by about $3.00. Sanitation costs are rising because City staff recognized that sanitation payments were being paid from the general fund, Schroeder said. “Appropriately, sanitation should be paying these costs,” he said. “In essence, the sanitation depart ment is paying the general fund for administrative services. If sanitation is receiving services, it should be paying for it.” Woman testifies in gang rape case SAN DIEGO, Texas (AP) — After breakingdown on the witness stand, a tearful 19-year-old woman Thurs day afternoon continued her graphic, horrifying testimony of the night she said she was gang raped. She hugged a stuffed animal throughout her daylong account of how a group of men allegedly took turns raping and sodomizing her. “I was screaming and telling him to stop,” she said Thursday of 23- year-old Orlando Garza, the first to goon trial of 10 men indicted in the case. “He was holding my legs. I was trying to push him off.” Later during her testimony Thursday, the woman was overcome with tears. Counselors from Crisis Services of Corpus Christi escorted her from the small courtroom Barnes wins silver medal Former Texas A&M shot putter Randy Barnes won an Olympic silver medal with a toss of 73-5 l A. Barnes attended A&M in 1986 and'87. Barnes qualified for the finals in Seoul Friday with a throw of 68-4. Barnes’ effort easily topped the 66-6 qualifying mark for the finals. Ulf Timmermann of East Ger many won the gold. packed with a standing-room-only crowd of about 150. She testified that Garza had raped her at her house three days before the alleged gang rape incident, but that she had been afraid to tell any one about it, including her husband. Defense attorney Albert Pena at tempted to discredit her testimony by asking it she was arunk the niglu of the alleged gang rape, whether she had a previous relationship with Garza and why she waited several hours to report the incident to the police. “How many other times did Or lando Garza rape you?” Pena asked her. The woman, a mother of two, said the gang rape incident began while she walked a short distance home from a relative’s residence about midnight on March 26.Garza is be ing tried on a charge of sexual as sault. He also faces a charge of ag gravated kidnapping. The woman said Garza stayed in the backseat with her and forced her to perform oral sex, while the others went to see the roosters fight. “I was trying to pull myself up, but I couldn’t because he was push ing me down,” she said. After that, she said Corando Perez walked back to the car and told Garza, “to save him some.” Perez, 26, of San Diego, also faces sexual assault and aggravated kid napping trials in connection with the alleged gang rape. Lebanon gains new leadership BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s army commander will be the prime minister of a six- man military government, President Amin Gem- ayel said in a decree issued in the last minutes of his presidency Thursday. GemayeTs stunning choice of a military Cab inet, led by army commander Gen. Michel Aoun, came after civilian Moslem figures refused to take part in an interim Cabinet headed by a Ma- ronite Catholic premier. Gemayel, 45, had to name a transtition gov ernment because the deeply divided Parliament failed to choose a new president Thursday. The constitution bars Gemayel from seeking another presidential term. Earlier Gemayel was trying to form a civilian overnment under business tycoon Pierre Helou, 0, a Maronite Catholic who is a Parliament dep uty. The shift to a military Cabinet appeared aimed at heading off the formation of two govern ments, one Christian and one Moslem, that would have further cemented the sectarian can tons that have formed during a 13-year civil war that has left more than 150,000 dead. The decrees appointing the Cabinet members, who represent the six main sects in Lebanon, came five minutes before GemayeTs presidency expired at midnight (5 p.m. EDT). Also Thursday, Moslems and Christians clashed around the dividing Green Line, and three top commanders of Amal, the main Shiite Moslem militia, were assassinated. Aoun, the Maronite army commander, and his five ministers will continue serving as the army’s Supreme Defense Council, which controls Leb anon’s military. The decrees, effective immedi ately, also named Aoun as defense and informa tion minister. He remains the army commander. “I leave the presidency today worried and filled with anxiety,” Gemayel told the nation in a five-minute farewell address televised nation wide before issuing the decrees. “Today should have been a festival in which we rejoice over the election of a new president that would take the helm and the oath of office as I and my predecessors did,” Gemayel said. “But the people of war were stronger than peace.” Moslems and Christians fought after Parlia ment speaker Hussein Husseni postponed a Par liament session to elect a president. Police said a Christian militiaman was killed and two soldiers of the predominantly Shiite 6th Brigade were wounded in a two-hour duel around the Green Line, which divides Beirut into Christian and Moslem sectors. Several mortar rounds crashed around the Parliament building in Moslem west Beirut’s Nej- mah Square, protected by 1,000 6th Brigade troops and Moslem policemen, police said. A police spokesman said Amal leaders Daoud Daoud, Mahmoud Fakih and Hassan Sbeiti died instantly after gunmen raked their car with ma chine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades in south Beirut’s seaside Ouzai district. Daoud and Fakih led an Amal crackdown on Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Party of God, that ousted the fanatic group from most of south Leb anon last April. The confrontation killed 60 peo- E le and wounded 150. Security sources said Hez- ollah vowed to kill them, but no group immediately claimed responsibility. Lebanon’s unwritten covenant specifies that the president be a Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Moslem and the speaker of Parliament a Shiite Moslem. Moslems had warned that should Gemayel ap point a Christian prime minister, they would de clare their own republic in territory they control, breaking up Lebanon into rival states. Ugandan ambassador visits A&M By Juliette Rizzo Staff Writer His Excellency Stephen Ka- tenta-Apuli, ambassador to the United States for the Republic of Uganda, visited Texas A&M Thursday and met with Ugandan students as part of a four-day Texas trip to promote better aca demic, economic and cultural ties between Americans and Ugan dans. Katenta-Apuli, who became ambassador in July, and Francis K. Katana, minister-counselor to the Ugandan Embassy in Wash ington D.C., arrived in Austin Wednesday to begin the trip by meeting with University of Texas President William Cunningham and UT students. The ambassador arrived at A&M Thursday and was met by Dr. John Norris, director of the Office for International Coordi nation. While on campus, he met with Ugandan students and seve ral professors from the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering and Veterinary Medicine. After leav ing A&M, the ambassador also will meet with various state offi cials including central Texas civic, government, academic and busi ness leaders. The ambassador, through vis its to the United States, is trying to make the country more aware that Uganda has emerged from dictatorial rule and is aiming to establish a democratic system un der President Yoweri Musevani. By talking to students at universi ties, he said economic and cultu ral ties can be strengthened. In 1962, Uganda gained inde pendence from Great Britain and set up a constitutional govern ment, but Milton Obote, the country’s new prime minister, as sumed dictatorial power. In 1971, Major General Idi Amin over threw Obote and continued an eight-year “reign of terror.” Photo by Kathy Haveman Stephan Katenta-Apuli, the ambassador to the U.S. for Uganda greets Jennifer Mukasa. The Tanzanian army, along with Ugandan civilians in exile, including current President Mu seveni, organized and drove Amin out of Uganda. But again, in 1980, Obote assumed power after rigging a national election. Obote’s abuse of power through torture and murder caused a five-year civil war to break out between Obote’s sup porters and the National Resis tance Movement led by Muse veni. Obote was overthrown in 1985 by his own army and in 1986, Mu seveni and the National Resis tance Movement gained control of the government. The drafting of a new constitution is under way, and the government has said free elections will be held in 1990. Museveni is trying to improve the country’s relationship with the United States and other west ern democratic nations. To get the country back on its feet, Katenta-Apuli said Uganda is looking to Texas and other states to help strengthen the na tion’s economy through invest ment and new technology. “By visiting institutions like this, we can promote and encour age individual contact between the two countries in academics, business and other areas,” he said. After a luncheon in the Memo rial Student Center, with Dr. Donald McDonald, provost and vice president for academic af fairs standing in for A&M Presi dent William Mobley, who was called out of town on University business, the ambassador met with Ugandan A&M students. Sitting at a table with five Ugandan students and Dr. Charles Bassenyemukasa, A&M visiting assistant professor of computer science, the ambassa dor addressed the issue of ex tending ties with Americans through the students’ own ties at the university, in the community and in the United States.