Texas A&M
The Battalion
Monday,
1988
College Station, Texas
USPS 045360
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Roper vs. Roper
Texas A&M’s John Roper pressures Rice’s quarterback Quentis
Photo by Dean Saito
Roper during the football game Saturday at Kyle Field.
Terrorists issue
strict demands
for U.S. captives
olice continue search
ho abducted, stabbed
for man
student
|the
By Kelly S. Brown
Staff Writer
olice continue to search for a suspect
Thursday abduction and stabbing
n A&M student.
he victim was in stable condition
nday with 24-hour police protection
umana Hospital, while her assailant
lained at large.
'olice said the assailant, if caught,
most likely be charged with at-
pted capital murder,
niversity Police Department Director
to Wiatt says the student claims she
s sexually assaulted.
iatt re-creates the 45-minute inci-
ht:
[‘The student’s last class was in
Bfoeker, and around 12:30 p.m. she is
pieved to have taken a shuttle bus to
_ lot 71 near the Meat Science and
technology Center. From there, police
|nk she walked to her white Suburban,
Id as she opened the door, a man held a
pocket knife to her back a:nd pushed her
over to the passenger side of the vehicle.
He then tied her hands and drove south
of College Station to a wooded area
southeast of Lick Creek Park, where he
loosely tied her to a tree, and cut her
throat.”
Wiatt said that after the assailant left,
the victim was able to free herself and
crawl about 200 feet to the entrance of
the park, where she was found by a pass
ing motorist at about 1:15 p.m.
A sheriff’s deputy drove by several
minutes later and called for an ambu
lance. The Department of Public Safety
later sent out a helicopter to look for the
suspect, and the Texas Department of
Corrections searched the area with four
bloodhounds. Police said they could not
comment on whether they found additio
nal evidence in the searches.
In the park, however, police found
pieces of rope, and the woman’s skirt
and shoes were found close to the tree
police said she was tied to.
Wiatt is asking all students who were
on the west side of campus or rode the
shuttle buses there Thursday about noon
to report any suspicious sightings in
Parking Annex 71, or the sighting of
someone fitting the following descrip
tion:
A white male, about 29-34 years old,
of medium build, with short light brown
hair in a standard cut; with a moustache
and gold wire-rim glasses; wearing a
dominantly blue checkered long-sleeved
shirt and blue jeans; carrying a maroon
backpack.
Police say the attacker told the victim
that he was not a student — that the
backpack
said.
was just a cover-up, Wiatt
Wiatt said the UPD and College Sta
tion police are actively following leads in
the case.
Fingerprints from the victim’s car are
being processed by the CSPD, but they
are latent prints, Wiatt said, which can
not be identified until they are matched
with a suspect’s prints. The victim and
her friends all will be fingerprinted,
Wiatt said.
Anyone with information about the in
cident is asked to contact either the UPD
at 845-2345, or the CSPD at 764-3600.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Kidnap
pers holding American hostages an
nounced five demands for their release
Sunday and threatened to make the
United States pay a price that would re
flect adversely on the captives fate if the
demands were not met.
It was the second threatening
statement in three days from the pro-Ira
nian Islamic Jihad.
The threat came in a three-page type
written statement in Arabic signed by Is
lamic Jihad, or holy war, which holds
American journalist Terry A. Anderson
and educator Thomas Sutherland.
It was delivered in a sealed envelope
to the independent newspaper An-Nahar.
A picture of Anderson was later deliv
ered to a Western news agency in Beirut
-— the kidnappers’ normal method of au
thenticating statements.
The statement demanded:
“A — Release of all our mujahedeen
(holy warriors) from all Arab and foreign
jails.
“B —- Release of all Lebanese and
Palestinian Mujahedeen from Israeli jails
in the occupied lands and its surrogates
in south Lebanon’s border enclave and
(Christian) east Beirut.
“C — Withdrawal of,all Israeli forces
and their surrogates from south Lebanon
without any conditions.
“D — Non-intervention in Lebanese
domestic affairs and the discontinuation
of support for partitionist, isolationist
and sectarian forces in Lebanon.
“E — Reconstruction of south Leb
anon and Beirut . . . And payment of war
reparations to all our oppressed people in
Lebanon.”
“In case of failure to meet these de
mands and continued support of Israel’s
aggression against our people the United
States will pay the price very soon. This
price will reflect adversely on the fate of
the hostages we hold,” the statement
said.
Anderson and Sutherland are among
nine Americans held hostage by pro-Ira-
nian groups in Lebanon.
There are believed to be a total of 16
foreigners held hostage in Lebanon.
strikes on Palestinian and pro-Iranian
guerrilla bases that day, which left 21
people killed and 34 wounded.
The air raids were in apparent retalia
tion for a car bomb attack that killed
eight Israeli soldiers and wounded seven
in Israel’s self-designated security zone
in south Lebanon on Wednesday.
The statement paid tribute to the sui
cide bombers who blew up the American
Marine base and the French paratroop
headquarters in Moslem west Beirut,
naming them only as “martyr Jihad”
and “martyr Jaafar.”
“They have dramatized by their deed
that the path of martyrdom is the only
method to gain the freedom of the op
pressed and chop off the hands of the ar-
rogants,” the statement said.
Anderson, kidnapped March
1985, is the longest held hostage.
16,
Islamic Jihad said its new statement
was issued to mark the fifth anniversary
of the suicide truck bombing attack on a
U.S. Marine base at Beirut Airport in
which 241 American servicemen were
killed Oct. 23, 1983.
On Friday, the group threatened to
punish the hostages to avenge Israel’s air
A&M regents
OK contract
to remodel
The Texas A&M Board of Regents
approved on Saturday in a special
session the awarding of a $3.1 mil
lion contract to Sentry Construction
of Bryan for the remodeling of the
Commons dining facility.
All original bids for the project
were rejected for being too high.
The remodeling will begin in the
spring semester.
The special meeting was held to in
form former regents of progress made
on current University projects.
A presentation was made by Dr.
Charles Amtzen, deputy chancellor
for agriculture, about the Institute of
Biosciences and Technology, a joint
genetic engineering project with the
University of Texas Medical Center
in Houston.
Mark Money, vice chancellor for
the Research Park and corporate rela
tions, spoke about upcoming research
projects and grants to the University,
including the offshore oil drilling re
search center.
A&M President William H. Mob
ley reported on the state of the Uni
versity.
Former Regents at Saturday’s
meeting were Ford Albritton, Bill
Clayton, Sterling C. Evans, Tony
Heldenfels, Norman Moser and Lola
Smith.
aylor president
enies liberalism
MOB pokes fun at elections,
careful not to provoke A&M
iWACO (AP) — Baylor University
esident Herbert H. Reynolds’ fiery re-
jke of fundamentalists who in a recent
publication accused the school of liber-
plism may be a precursor to a showdown
at the Baptist General Convention of
Texas meeting this week.
■Reynolds on Friday refuted charges
fthat appeared in “The Founder’s Re-
iview'’ tract published by United For A
Better Baylor and he dismissed the
feoup saying they were “acting like a
punch of jackals.”
Jfhe publication, distributed two
|weeks ago at a trustees meeting in San
ptonio, claims Baylor has departed
|m its original intent to primarily train
ministers.
Jut Reynolds said the university’s
bter declares the school “is to be edu-
ftional and for the encouragement, sup-
It, maintenance, and promotion of ed-
|ation in all branches.”
jFurthermore, the university is to con
fer on students “any of the degrees
[usually conferred by similar institutions
in any of the departments or branches of
[literature, art, science, theology, law or
medicine, and to grant diplomas for the
and in all other respects to exer
cise the functions of the most favored of
prary institutions,” Reynolds said.
f‘So theology was one of the things,
but there were others, as well you can
see — literature, art, science, law, medi
cine. Baylor was chartered to be a very
ad-based kind of university,” Rey
nolds said. “We haven’t strayed from
fte vision of our founders. ’ ’
Another front page editorial attacks
Reynolds for saying he would join ten
ured faculty in a class action suit against
fundamentalists if they took over Baylor.
“These statements by the President of
Baylor University are unparalleled in the
history of Texas Baptists,” the editorial
said.
“I say that is absolutely correct,”
Reynolds said. “The reason that these
statements are unparalleled in the history
of Texas Baptists is that this takeover
movement, ‘going for the jugular’ as
Paul Pressler has stated, and the an
nounced intention of taking over Texas
and taking over Baylor, is absolutely un
paralleled in the history of Texas Bap
tists and of Southern Baptists,” Rey
nolds said.
Trustees reached by the Waco Tribune
Herald were either out of town or refused
to comment on Reynold’s statements.
Fundamentalists, who control the na
tional Southern Baptist Convention,
would like to control Baylor and the
Baptist General Convention of Texas,
Reynolds said.
The BGCT meets Tuesday and
Wednesday in Austin. To gain control of
the convention and Baylor, fundamental
ists first must capture two of three posi
tions — president, first vice president or
second vice president. All three positions
have equal votes.
The Rev. Joel Gregory, a Fort Worth
pastor, probably will run unopposed for
president. Moderates have said they will
nominate the Rev. Phil Lineberger of
Richardson and the Rev. James W. Hat
ley of Austin for vice president.
Photo by Jay Janner
A member of the Rice MOB performs at halftime at the A&M—Rice game.
By Fiona Soltes
Staff Writer
With a triumphant “Go, Rice!,” the
Marching Owl Band ran onto Kyle Field
Saturday and proved, once again, that it
is not the average college band.
The MOB played, sang, danced,
yelled and catapulted rubber chickens
across the field at halftime during the
Texas A&M-Rice University game this
weekend. The band, with an election-
year theme, poked fun at the Internal
Revenue Service, the candidates, taxes,
the deficit and campaign speeches, but
the MOB was careful not to make fun of
A&M.
Stephen Sachitano, a MOB coronet
player, said the band is known for mak
ing fun of the colleges they visit during
halftime shows.
“In general, the schools all laugh
along with us,” Sachitano said. “But not
A&M. Members of the Corps just aren’t
good enough sports. When we play
A&M, the MOB has a general feeling
that we need to be careful. We don’t
want to provoke them again.”
The MOB did provoke A&M in 1973.
Members of the band played an off-tune
version of the Aggie War Hymn and
made an out-of-step “block-T” forma
tion. They also made fun of the A&M
mascot by forming a fire plug on the
field, only one year after the death of Re
veille HI.
In a Nov. 20, 1973, issue of The Bat
talion it was reported that members of
the Corps of Cadets were so inflamed
that the Rice band “huddled under the
south end of Kyle Field for two hours
while Aggies milled around outside wait
ing for them to leave.” MOB members
were so disturbed that they refused to
travel to Kyle Field until 1980.
Bad feelings toward the MOB still run
strong among some members of the Ag
gie Band, even though 15 years have
passed.
Members of the Aggie Band had much
to say on the subject, but asked to remain
anonymous, since their opinions might
be taken as representative of the band as
a whole.
“The negative opinions associated
with the MOB are OF Army stories
passed down through generations,” one
band member said. “My father, class of
’63, used to tell me how awful it was.”
Several band members said they
thought the MOB puts on a good show,
as long as A&M’s reputation is not at
stake.
“Their antics are cool, but it’s not ap
propriate to make fun of us, since we
don’t make fun of them,” a member said.
“Part of it is in fun, but they can go too
far.”
“We had been talking about what they
might do at rehearsals this week,” an
other Aggie Band member said. “A lot
of us enjoy their shows, but there are
some who disagree. When the two most
unique bands in the Southwest Confer
ence meet, there is bound to be some
conflict.”
Another band member agreed.
“They do their thing and we do ours,”
he said. “We just have two completely
different styles.”
Even though the MOB seemed to of
fend some members of the Aggie Band,
they received a standing ovation from the
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crowd, a feat not easily accomplished by
visiting bands at A&M.
Kim Fisher, a junior economics major
at A&M, said she thought it was ridicu
lous that the MOB still would be held re-