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The Battalion
Vol. 88 No. 20 GSPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, September 23, 1988
Wrestling instructor Bob Kohl gives a few pointers on the “switch”, a building. Kohl’s wrestling class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays in
wrestling manuver, to members of his wrestling class at the Read Read.
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.