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Vol. 88 No. 83 USPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
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AUSTIN (AP) — State lawmakers
land anti-abortionists on Tuesday
proposed legislation to stop what
they said is the growing practice of
women having abortions based on
[the sex of the fetus.
“Surely, this is the most frivolous
[use of abortion yet invented,” said
Bill Price, director of the Texas Co-
; alition for Life.
Price said more women are having
[abortions after learning of the sex of
the fetus. Usually, the women prefer
to have a male child and get an abor
tion if the fetus is a female, he said.
"In other words,” said state Sen.
|J.E. “Buster” Brown, R-Lake Jack-
son, “abortion on demand has given
rise to boys on demand.”
Brown and state Rep. L.B. Ku-
biak, D-Rockdale, said they will in
troduce legislation that would make
it illegal for doctors to perform an
abortion based on sex selection.
Price and the legislators conceded
it would be difficult to enforce the
law, but Price said, “All it will take is
one or two doctors . . . being pros
ecuted and it will greatly put a
damper on the willingness of physi
cians to do these kinds of abortions.”
Danalynn Recer, a local spokes
man for the National Organization
for Women, said there is no evi
dence to indicate so-called sex selec
tion abortions are on the rise.
“The anti-choice people look at
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Ourely, this is the most
frivolous use of abortion yet
invented.”
Bill Price,
director,
Texas Coalition for Life
laws and hypothesize on what kind
of atrocities could occur and then
they hype them up and make the
public believe that it is common,” she
said.
Recer said she thinks sex selection
abortions are morally reprehensible.
“It’s the ultimate in sexism,” she
said.
But, she said, any law limiting a
woman’s right to an abortion would
increase the likelihood of deaths and
injuries from illegal or self-induced
abortions.
Kubiak said he thinks the situa
tion is tragic.
“My feeling is that if you can do it
for that (sex selection), well then,
what’s next?” he said. “Why can’t
you do it for hair color? Why can’t
you do it for eye color? Where are
we going?”
Two other legislators spoke in fa
vor of a bill that would require mi
nors to gain parental approval be
fore getting an abortion.
Sen. Gene Green, D-Houston, has
filed the bill in the Senate and Rep.
Dan Shelley, R-Crosby, said he will
file a similar bill in the House.
Recer said the law would “force
teen-agers into the underground
abortion market.”
Bundy dies in electric chair
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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Ted
Bundy, a charming law school drop
out who ended years of denials that
he was a killer with emotional con
fessions to the gruesome slayings of
20 women in four states, was electro
cuted Tuesday for murdering a 12-
year-old girl.
His last words, before a black-
hooded executioner pulled a switch
at 7:06 a.m. sending 2,000 volts
through Bundy’s body, were to his
lawyer and a minister: “Give my love
to my family and friends.”
More than 100 proponents of the
death penalty waiting in a field
across from the Florida State Prison
cheered, lit sparklers and set off fire
crackers at the signal that 42-year-
old Theodore Robert Bundy finally
had been put to death for a crime
committed almost 1 1 years ago.
Three earlier execution dates were
stymied by appeals.
“Burn, Bundy, burn!” some
shouted. A group of about a dozen
people parodied an old tune by sing
ing “On top of old Sparky” — a ref
erence to the nickname for Florida’s
oaken, three-legged electric chair.
Only about two dozen people op
posed to the death penalty turned
up to keep a vigil in the field.
“The people of Florida today ad
ministered justice,” Gov. Bob Marti
nez said after the execution. “If
there’s ever been anyone on Flor
ida’s death row that deserved the
electric chair, Ted Bundy was that
individual.”
Bundy had been a quick-witted,
handsome, blue-eyed charmer
known for his cockiness and arro
gance. He was the subject of five
books and a television miniseries,
“The Deliberate Stranger.”
But he recently claimed to feel
God’s presence, and was reported at
the end to be remorseful about his
bloody trail of kidnappings, sadistic
sexual mutilations and slayings in his
home state of Washington, and in
Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Florida.
His execution, for the murder of
sixth-grader Kimberly Diane Leach
of Lake City, made him the 20th
man put to death in Florida and the
106th in the United States since the
U.S. Supreme Court allowed states
to reinstate the death penalty in
1976.
Kimberly was kidnapped from the
grounds of her junior high school
Feb. 9, 1978, just three weeks after
the killings of two women at Chi
Omega sorority at Florida State Uni
versity. The child’s body was found
three months later in an abandoned
pigsty. Bundy also was under a
death sentence for the two Chi
Omega murders.
Until near the end he had insisted
he was innocent, although he had
been suspected of as many as 36 kill
ings and disappearances.
Cisneros stands by decision
not to seek re-election in May
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Mayor
Henry Cisneros reaffirmed Tuesday
his decision not seek a fifth mayoral
term after key supporters said they
would back the campaign of his op
ponent even if he sought re-election.
In a statement released by his of
fice, Cisneros said he appreciated
the encouragement of some sup
porters, but said he was sticking by a
decision made in September not to
seek re-election in order to devote
time to straightening out personal
matters.
The 41-year-old mayor had said
Rape victim
takes stand
to retell story
SAN DIEGO, Texas (AP) —
Discussions of nymphomania will
play a role in the second trial
stemming from the reported ab
duction and gang rape of a
woman near this South Texas
city, a defense attorney told ju
rors Tuesday before the woman
reluctantly took the witness stand.
The 20-year-old woman had
submitted an affidavit Tuesday
stating she did not want to testify
in the aggravated-kidnapping
trial of Felipe Chew, 29, one of 10
men indicted last year based on
her testimony before a grand
jury.
In a later trial, Chew faces a
sexual assault charge in the same
case.
The woman said media public
ity from the case had disrupted
her life and she did not want to
continue publicity by testifying.
But District Judge Gilberto Hi
nojosa refused to dismiss the cg^e
and compelled her to testify or go
to jail for contempt of court. He
said he could not drop the charge
unless she recanted her grand
jury testimony against Chew.
She stood by her grand jury
testimony Tuesday.
earlier in the week that he might re
consider his decision, but said he
would first speak with former mayor
Lila Cockrell, who is running again,
after he returned from speaking en
gagements in Massachusetts.
He was scheduled to return Tues
day afternoon, but missed a flight
and relied on his office to deliver the
statement.
“In September, I said I would not
seek re-election,” Cisneros said in
the statement. “When I made that
declaration I, in effect, gave my
word. I stand by it. My name will not
be on the city election ballot in May.”
When he announced last Septem
ber he would not seek office, Cock
rell said she would enter the race.
She already has raised about
$40,000 and has commitments from
key supporters.
Drying out
Firemen’s work isn’t quite finished after the fire is
out. Here College Station firefighters work out-
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
side the fire department to dry their hoses after
putting out a blaze Monday afternoon.
A&M black leaders host conference
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
“Certainly the part that I least de
sired was the role that I think I
would have had to run against a
good friend, but I would have felt a
responsibility to remain in the race,”
Cockrell said after hearing of Cisne
ros’ decision Tuesday.
“I’ve already pledged that I will
continue the major thrust that he
would leave possibly unfinished. We
agreed on all major issues, and I feel
that a lot of the groundwork for the
current economic development and
growth of our city was laid when I
was mayor,” said Cockrell, who was
mayor from 1975 to 1981.
On Sunday, Cisneros said he
might reconsider his decision after
voters approved a plan to raise a
half-cent tax over five years to pay
for a $174 million, 65,000-seat
domed stadium.
Texas A&M black student leaders, hoping to create a
link between themselves and other black student orga
nizations across the Southwest, will be hosting a confer
ence this weekend on campus.
The Southwestern Black Student Leadership Con
ference (SBSLC) is being sponsored by the Multicultu
ral Services Center.
Joselyn Anglin, marketing director for the SBSLC
Conference, said the conference was created because of
a need to link black student leaders across the South
west. She said A&M student leaders attended two simi
lar conferences that served as the inspiration for the
SBSLC.
“In 1987 and in 1988, students from A&M attended
the Big Eight conferences,” she said. “They were for
black student governments, and it was to strengthen the
black student leaders at universities. We decided there
was a need for that type of conference in the Southwest.
We went tq work on it and used it basically as our mod
el.”
Several workshops will be held during the three-day
conference, including seminars on picking a major, sur
viving on predominantly white campuses, preparing
for the work world, leadership and affirmative action.
Anglin said the group’s main goal is to build success
ful communication skills between students and student
leaders.
“The conference is to build leadership skills,” Anglin
said. “We also want to start a network of leaders in dif
ferent campuses that may build interaction between
students and them.”
Kristin Ruffin, co-chairman for the SBLSC, said the
conference would help bring unity to the University
and show the A&M Board of Regents there is a group
of black students trying to do some good.
“Basically, we just want to get a little more unity on
campus,” Ruffin said. “We want the regents to see that
there are some black students who are actually doing
some good towards success and bettering themselves in
leadership-type positions.”
Anglin said special emphasis is being placed on high
school students attending the program. She said it is im
portant for high school students to attend college, and
the workshops they’ll attend may help them.
“The high school students are going to learn things
like how to make decisions about college,” she said. “We
want to encourage them to attend an institute of higher
education. We’re not pushing A&M, but are pushing
higher education itself. They’ll learn about college en
trance exams and why they should do well on them. I’m
sure they’ll learn about study skills and what courses
will prepare them for higher education.”
Tickets may be purchased at the Multicultural Serv
ices Center office, located at 151 Bizzel West. One of
two ticket plans may be purchased. The $45 ticket in
cludes all luncheons and banquets for the entire week
end. The $20 ticket buys a choice for any of the first
three meals, but does not include the banquet on Satur
day night. All seminars and workshops are included in
both plans.
Ruffin said the conference will benefit the University
because it will increase awareness of a black population
at A&M. She said more activities such as the conference
will attract more black students.
“It would be good for Texas A&M,” she said. “It
shows that there is a black population that is trying to
succeed and to fit in and show other black students that
this in not a terrible place to go.”
CIA recruitment sparks students to protest
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
The CIA wants you.
To co-op.
In recent years, the Central Intel
ligence Agency’s recruitment on col
lege campuses through cooperative
education has increased. As more
students apply, protests against the
organization have risen.
Protests on several campuses
across the country, including North
western, Duke and North Carolina,
have increased dramatically in re
cent years. However, Sharon Basso,
a spokesman for the CIA, said these
protests often enhance recruitment.
“We’ve been told by recruiters
and campus newspapers that inter
est after a protest increased among
students,” Basso said. “I think that
some of them just think about the
agency as a possible career and then
the protest sparks interest.”
Basso said the protests often cen
ter around debate about the federal
administration’s policies, not nec
essarily against the CIA.
“A lot of the protests are with the
administration, not us,” she said.
“For example, people protest the
Contra issue on college campuses.
The complaint was with American
support there. However, it’s a policy
with the Reagan administration. The
complaints are really coming to the
wrong agency. We don’t make the
policy, we implement the policy of
the United States.”
Basso said the agency doesn’t
keep track of the number of protests
around the country. She said the
agency averages 1,200 applicants a
month, and that often only 200 stu
dents are hired each term.
Dr. Steve Yates, director of
A&M’s Office of Cooperative Educa
tion, said he was apprehensive about
CIA recruitment on campus because
of student protests on other college
campuses in the past.
“I was apprehensive about it at
first because I knew other campuses
had protests about CIA recruiting in
general,” he said. “I wondered what
would happen here at A&M. There’s
been no problem though.
“The people I have dealt with at
the CIA have been very open and
above board. They will tell you pub
licly what they’re about as an agency
— to gather information about other
governments that can help keep us
informed and protect our national
interests.”
The CIA has been recruiting at
We’ve been told by
recruiters and campus
newspapers that interest
after a protest increased
among students.”
— Sharon Basso
CIA spokesman
A&M for five years, and the agency
considers the University a prime re
cruiting prospect, Yates said.
“The CIA likes to recruit at Texas
A&M,” Yates said. “There is a feel
ing among a sizeable portion of the
student body that things related to
defense and defense intelligence are
necessary to maintain a free and
strong democracy. I feel A&M prob
ably attracts more people with those
types of thoughts than maybe any
other school in this part of the coun
try. I think that’s why A&M is such a
fertile recruiting program for the
CIA.”
Kent Cargisle, the Chief of Re
cruitment for Student Programs, is
the chief CIA recruiter on the A&M
campus. He said the agency is no dif
ferent from other employers in that
they all are looking for the same type
of individual.
“I think we’re fairly no different
than most employers,” Cargisle said.
“We look at academic achievements,
campus activities, their communica
tion skills. And for us, their will
ingness to relocate to the -Washing
ton area is a definite plus,”
Cargisle will be on campus Mon
day trying to recruit minority stu
dents into the organization. He will
give a presentation on minority in
ternships with the CIA. He also will
be showing students the different
programs available for minorities
with the agency.
Shawn Mulligan, assistant coordi
nator for the Multicultural Services
Center, said Cargisle’s presentation
will be a good opportunity for mi
norities to hook up with the agency.
“We do this every semester,” Mul
ligan said. “We give them informa
tion about internships, and those
that want to apply for it can go
ahead and start the application pro
cess.”
Applications for internships with
the CIA are due Oct. 1 for Summer
1990’s program.
Minority students with a grade-
point ratio of at least 2.75 are wel
come to attend Monday’s 4 p.m. pre
sentation in 231 MSC.
Sasso said there is a variety of jobs
students will be assigned to depend
ing on their experience in different
fields of study.
“If you can think of any job, we
have it,” she said. “The thing that
makes us unique is that we have peo
ple who serve overseas in a covert ca
pacity and their job is to collect intel
ligence, which is unique. Otherwise,
we have computer specialists, math
ematicians, political scientists who do
analysis, historians and finance per
sonnel.”
Sasso said the agency often tries to
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