Texas A&M
Battalion
1988
College Station, Texas
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Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
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Officers arrest,
Dlan police lineup
for Huntsville man
By Fiona Soltes
Staff Writer
College Station and University police
officials are planning a lineup today or
Tuesday to identify a suspect arrested in
connection with the Oct. 20 rape and at
tempted murder of a Texas A&M stu
dent.
Bob Wiatt, director of security for the
University Police Department, said offi
cials must await the release of the victim
from Humana Hospital Brazos Valley
before the lineup can be held. The 21-
year-old victim is in stable condition, a
hospital spokesman said.
Wiatt said Daniel Lee Corwin, 30, of
Huntsville, was arrested at his home Fri
day night and has been charged with at
tempted capital murder, sexual assault,
aggravated kidnapping and unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle. He was being
held at Brazos County Jail as of Sunday
night. Bail was set at $50,000 on the
each of the four charges.
Officers from the University, College
Station and Huntsville police depart
ments and Walker County Sheriffs Of
fice assisted in the arrest, he said.
Corwin became a suspect on Oct. 22,
two days after the attack, Wiatt said.
Madison County Sheriff Ed Fannin
called Wiatt at the Kyle Field press box
during the Texas A&M-Rice game to re
port on an anonymous Crime Stoppers
tip from that county. Fannin identified
Corwin in connection with the tip and
told Wiatt that Corwin had been attend
ing A&M on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Wiatt said he became suspicious when he
discovered Corwin had not attended the
University since withdrawing with fail
ing grades in May 1987.
Wiatt soon discovered Corwin had
been convicted of sexual assault in Bell
County in 1976 and spent nine years in
the Texas Department of Corrections in
Huntsville. Wiatt said Corwin has been
on parole for his conviction since 1985.
Police officials put Corwin under sur
veillance Monday when they saw a com
posite sketch of the suspect, drawn by a
Texas Department of Public Safety artist
from a description given by the victim.
The sketch looked surprisingly like Cor
win, Wiatt said.
After more than 100 tips to the police,
there was not enough evidence for an ar
rest until Friday afternoon, when Cor
win’s fingerprints were matched to a set
of latent prints from a Chevrolet Subur
ban involved in the assault, Wiatt said.
A witness who had called the police
earlier in the week with a description of a
man having lunch at Olsen Field with a
woman the day of the attack was asked to
identify Corwin in a photographic line
up and did so.
Police officials obtained a search war
rant and seized several articles of evi
dence from Corwin’s apartment, Wiatt
said. He would not comment on what
items were found.
The assailant abducted the victim at
knife-point from a parking lot near Olsen
Field at about 12:30 p.m. Oct. 20. The
assailant then forced her to drive to Lick
Creek Park, south of College Station,
where he raped her and stabbed her in the
neck, she said.
The assailant left her tied to a tree, but
she managed to free herself, she said. A
county employee found her a short time
later near Rock Prarie Road.
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BEIT SAHUR, Occupied West Bank
l (AP) — Israeli troops shot and killed a
Palestinian on Sunday, and hospital offi
cials and Arab sources said at least 21
Palestinians were wounded by army gun
fire in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
[ Extra soldiers were deployed through
out the territories for fear Tuesday’s na
tional elections would bring more vio
lence. Troops in black berets were seen
moving into a girls high school in Beth
lehem.
f The military would not say exactly
how many extra soldiers were put on pa
trol.
Underground Palestinian leaders
called a general strike Tuesday to coin
cide with the parliamentary elections,
and they joined Moslem fundamentalists
in urging another strike for this Wednes
day.
1 Their leaflet, sent to news agencies in
Cyprus, repeated an appeal to Israeli citi
zens to vote for “voices of peace’’ and
promised to persist in the uprising until
an of an independent state state is estab
lished with Jerusalem as its capital.
|s Israel has declared Jerusalem its capi-
In the Gaza Strip, 18 Palestinians
ranging in age from 12 to 70 were shot
by soldiers, hospital officials said. The
army said it had reports of six woundings
in the Gaza Strip and was checking the
other reports
Two Palestinians, ages 12 and 14, also
were shot and wounded when Israeli
troops opened fire on stone-throwers in
the village of Salem near Nablus, the
West Bank’s largest city, according to
Arab reporters. They said the 12-year-
old was shot in the head.
Most clashes have pitted young,
stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli
occupation forces.
The Palestinians are demanding that
Israel withdraw from the territories it
seized from neighboring Arab states in
the 1967 Middle East war.
T he uprising and the future of the oc
cupied territories have become the major
issue in Israel’s upcoming parliamentary
elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as Mi
chael Dukakis insists there is time to
score an upset in the Nov. 8 balloting,
many Democrats already are second-
guessing his campaign strategy in antic
ipation of another national election de
feat.
“After the election, this may be the
campaign considered the worst managed
in this century,” Democratic Sen. Terry
Sanford of North Carolina said.
Like many people in his party, San
ford insisted he thought Dukakis still had
a chance to defeat Republican nominee
George Bush, but he didn’t sound overly
optimistic.
“I’d bet money on it,” he said of the
chances of a Dukakis upset. “But I
wouldn’t bet my law license on it.”
Other prominent Democrats have
urged Dukakis openly for weeks to
sharpen his responses to Bush’s steady
attacks.
“Dukakis has really got to take off the
gloves,” Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia
said. “He’s got to defend himself. ... I
wouldn’t have been a punching bag on
some of these issues.”
Democrats have lost four of the last
five presidential elections, and current
polls point to the likelihood that Dukakis
will make it five of six.
Even Dukakis recently conceded he
didn’t get his message out clearly enough
and was too slow in responding to neg
ative commercials from the Bush cam
paign. But as he headed into the final
week of the campaign, Dukakis pro
claimed, “There is time to do it.”
“They’re running a beautiful cam
paign right now,” said Ed Martin, exec
utive director of the Texas Democratic
Party. “But a proper campaign for three
months has been compressed into three
weeks. ’ ’
Among those in the ranks of the sec-
ond-guessers was New York Gov. Mario
Cuomo, who told reporters he thought
the Dukakis campaign had failed to fig
ure out a general election strategy.
“They did so well by the end of the
Democratic convention, they said, ‘OK,
now we’ll take it easy, get some rest,
take our breath,”’ Cuomo said. “The
other guy started landing jabs and upper
cuts and picking up points. ’ ’
“Every campaign has a jillion things
go wrong with it,” said John White, a
Texan and former Democratic Party
chairman who backed Jesse Jackson for
the presidential nomination. “And if
you’re behind, everybody points them
out.”
“Our timing has just been terribly
off,” White said. “In August nothing
happened, so we started August work in
September, September work in Octo
ber.”
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I Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, leader
of the left-leaning Labor Party, has
, backed the idea of exchanging occupied
lands for guarantees of peace with the
Arabs. The rightist Likud coalition, led
by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, re
jects the idea.
I Israeli officials have said election day
may bring an upsurge in violence in the
10-month Palestinian revolt against Is
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At least 305 Palestinians and six Israe
lis have died since the uprising, known
by its Arab name “intefadeh,” broke out
Dec. 8.
If An army spokesman said a Palestinian
teen-ager died when soldiers fired plastic
bullets on youths in the Christian village
of Beit Sahur, the site of the fields where
the Bible says shepherds first learned of
the birth of Jesus.
Ilprhe clash occurred after church serv
ices when youths organized a demonstra
tion and dozens of military jeeps entered
the village. The soldiers ordered the
demonstrators and nearby residents to go
inside their homes.
■Instead, many took to rooftops and
threw stones at the Israeli troops, while
others waved Palestinian flags. Soldiers
opened fire with plastic bullets, which
are intended to injure without killing.
IpVillage residents said lyad Bishara
Abu Sada, 18, was shot in the chest with
alblastic bullet and died instantly. A sec
ond Palestinian was reported shot in the
right arm.
■Uoters set fires, shouted and whistled
troops, who declared the village a
closed militaiy area and ordered report
ers out.
RHA sponsors
alternative plan
for Halloween
By Sherri Roberts
Staff Writer
Although trick-or-treating and
ghost stories may be forsaken Hal
loween traditions for many people,
Texas A&M students can indulge in a
variation of the festivities tonight
with RHAlloween.
Sponsored by the Residence Hall
Association, RHAlloween will fea
ture such attractions as a scream con
test, pie toss and costume contest,
Veronica Simmons, RHA programs
director, said.
Each booth, sponsored by two resi
dence halls, will offer various prizes,
including gift certificates from Gar-
fields Restaurant, she said.
The event is free and will take
place from 9 p.m. through midnight
at the Grove tonight.
Although RHA no longer sponsors
trick-or-treating among the campus
halls, the practice is still allowed un
der certain conditions, Nyla Ptomey,
RHA housing program supervisor,
said. Four to five halls can trick-or-
treat together if they receive approval
from their individual resident director
and assistant area coordinator, she
said.
Trick-or-treating among hall resi
dents has become increasingly regu
lated in the last few years because of
complaints that it had become a
drunken brawl. Shots of alcohol were
often passed out as treats, which led
to a high level of intoxication among
participants.
RHA began RHAlloween in 1983
in an effort to provide a safe and legal
alternative to the infamous hall tradi
tion.
Safety has become an increasingly
visible issue at Halloween due to the
rise in candy tampering and other ille
gal activities overshadowing it in re
cent years.
Bob Price, a police officer with the
College Station Police Department,
recommended that individuals keep
their homes attended, locked and
well-lighted on Halloween. He sug
gested that items such as bicycles,
garden tools and lawn mowers be put
away and locked up.
Candy that is unwrapped or tom
should be thrown away, he said,
while fruit should be cut into small
pieces.
Several local hospitals and medical
clinics are providing free screening of
candy.
By Richard Tijerina
Staff Writer
U.S. Senator Albert Gore Jr. stopped
for a brief visit in College Station Friday
to campaign for Democratic Congressio
nal candidate Greg Laughlin and to urge
voters not to give up Michael Dukakis.
Gore, D-Tenn., landed at Easterwood
Airport and spoke for close to 20 minutes
about the upcoming election on Novem
ber 8.
He emphasized the fact that even
though Democratic presidential nominee
Dukakis trails Vice President George
Bush in the polls, the election is far from
over.
Gore recalled the 1948 presidential
election in which Democratic nominee
Harry S. Truman overcame a large defi
cit in nationwide polls and defeated Re
publican nominee Thomas Dewey.
“This election is not yet over with,”
Gore said. “I remind you that Harry Tru
man was a lot further behind in his cam
paign, and he didn’t even have Lloyd
Bentsen on the ticket. He came back
from much further behind in 1948. I be
lieve Mike Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen
will be the Kirk Gibsons of 1988 and hit
a home run in the bottom of the ninth in
ning.”
Over the past few weeks, Dukakis
himself has been reminding the nation of
Truman’s come-from-behind victory of
1948. Going into the final days of the
election, nationwide polls show him nar
rowing Bush’s lead across the country,
particularly in key swing-states such as
Texas, California, Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
Gore, a former presidential candidate
himself, said he would be working
harder than anyone else for the Demo
cratic ticket in the Final days of the elec
tion. He encouraged the partisan crowd
not to give up hope and told them to be
sure to vote on election day, because
Texas would be a crucial state for Duka
kis to win.
Gore attacked the Reagan-Bush ad
ministration for running up a huge na
tional deficit, pointing out that ten years
ago eight of the top ten banks in the
world were located in the U.S., but
nowthe highest ranking U.S. bank is
27 th.
“You can’t keep borrowing money
and writing hot checks like the Republi
cans have been doing for the past eight
years and get away with it,” he said.
“It’s like an Olympic athlete taking
steroids—you can win the 100-yard
dash, but it does permanent damage to
your system.”
Gore criticized Bush for running a
dirty campaign, pointing out Bush’s at
tacks on Dukakis’ patriotism and Massa-
chussetts furlow system.
“I served in Vietnam and saw young
men come home in caskets that were
draped in American flags,” Gore said.
“No one asked if they were Democrat or
Republican, they were American. I’m
not going to let Dan Quayle and George
Bush turn the American flag into a politi
cal issue.”
He also pointed out that it was unfair
to lament on the tragedy surrounding Du
kakis’ Massachussetts furlow program,
where convicted murderer Willie Horton
raped and stabbed a woman. Gore said
Ronald Reagan had a similar furlow pro
gram that ended in similar tragedies, and
that even the federal government has a
furlow program that releases convicted
murderers and drug pushers.
Gore was introduced by Laughlin,
who is running against Republican in
cumbent Mac Sweeney for the 14th Con
gressional District, which includes Bur
leson, Washington and Austin counties.
Sen. Albert Gore Jr.
“I know his (Laughlin) opponent
scraped up $10,000 for Gerald Ford to
come here and support him,” Gore said
in reference to Sweeney’s campaign visit
by the former president. “I want you to
know that I’m doing it for free.”
Gore said he is supporting Laughlin
because they are both for a strong de
fense, and strong economic and educa
tion policies.
“I have been reverberating the need
for a strong national defense everywhere
I speak,” Gore said. “Greg Laughlin is a
part of that strong national defense. He
knows first-hand what it takes to insure a
strong national defense.
“He also knows we must have a strong
economic policy, and that can only come
from investing in a strong education pol
icy. Today’s youth will be tomorrow’s
leaders, and they’re not getting the kind
of education they should. We’ve got to
reverse that trend and reorganize the edu
cation system.”