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he Battalion TATE & LOCAL 3 ednesday, March 22, 1989 d el of th e * also sai v nr on mi upset ^valued MSC. Ider. ■d to be h e plans been mansion vill l)e >ved. In it will be Vhat do lit to tithe dont, indents clash over divestiture )f South African investments |y Richard Tijerina TAFF WRITER Opponents and supporters of &M’s possible divestment from oldings in South Africa faced each her during the Texas A&M De- ate Society’s discussion Tuesday ght. I T Two speakers gave presentations preach side of the issue of divest- lent. A&M has approximately 4 million ollars invested in multinational cor- orations that have holdings in outh Africa. David Luckenbach, a sophomore olitical science major from Corpus hristi, spoke in favor of University livesdture, saying A&M must help lOUth Africans suffering under partheid. “This University faces a choice,” In o edit lelttn ’ signed <ml By Juliette Rizzo , who ah of the staii s A&M n pass of I." But it! 'ar Hymn' t even tn nee it hi ong intei 're is even ght in tit have beet extreme!! song, ia y anyotK e being Luckenbach said. “The choice is whether or not to continue the sad practice of hypocritically paying lip service to our dislike of apartheid or to stand up for the right of our fel low human beings to live in a free so ciety.” Harald Tenwolde, a senior speech communication major from the Ne therlands, presented a speech op posing divestment, saying the result ing chaos would only hurt the South African blacks the United States is trying to save. “By divesting and crippling their economy, we’re also hurting those blacks, and that’s not what we want to do,” Tenwolde said. “Is it responsible to cut short the progress, however slow, and break the economic structure of a country that is already in trouble?” Tenwolde, who used to live in South Africa, said all blacks there at least have a home in which to sleep, and the majority of them would cherish that more than political rights. “You say people in South Africa have homes, but they don’t have the freedom of speech,” he said. “If you asked a person on the street there if he’d rather like a home to sleep in or be able to speak, he’d say a home.” Tenwolde stressed education of both blacks and whites in South Af rica is the key to bringing down apartheid, not by taking giant steps like economic divestiture. Members of the audience then had a chance to get up and present their views on the subject. One woman disagreed with Tenwolde’s argument that South African blacks would rather have a home than free dom of speech. Court overturns conviction of Adams for death of cop ommons Dining Center loses for renovations STAFF WRITER The Commons Dining Center has >een closed for interior renovations ndwill reopen prior to Fall 1989 to serve students. Students with meal plans who uti lized the Commons facility have the option to eat at Sbisa or Duncan Din ing Halls. Duncan, the Corps of Cadets din ing facility, is open seven days a week with the same weekend meal chedule as the Commons. Sbisa’s schedule is also the same as the Com mons. Breakfast for civilians at Duncan from 7:15-10:15 a.m. Lunch is served from 10:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Dinner is served from 4:15-6:10 p.m. The only difference in the eating schedule for civilians is that break fast and evening meal times are scheduled around Corps’ formation times. The Corps has formation and marches to breakfast at 7 a.m. Mon day through Friday. Evening march- in to Duncan is at 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Formation begins 10 minutes be fore march-in and civilians should be aware that the sidewalks in the area are occupied and blocked by the Corps during this time. After march-in, the Corps generally takes 15 minutes to obtain their meals and be seated. Civilians can sit anywhere in the dining area prior to dinner. At din ner, when the Corps has assigned seating, civilians are requested to sit in the north end of the east wing of Duncan, which does not interfere with the Corps’ normal table assign ments. DALLAS (AP) — Randall Dale Adams, who once was three days from execution for the slaying of a police officer, was freed Tuesday under a court ruling that he didn’t get a fair trial. “This is something I’ve dreamed about for 12V2 years,” Adams told reporters after his release on a $50,000 personal recognizance bond. He said he’ll try to erase his fami ly’s pain and “from there on I will try to be happy, and I think that will be easy to do.” Assistant District Attorney Win field Scott said he intends to retry Adams for the 1976 shooting of Dal las patrolman Robert Wood, but may reduce the charge from capital murder to murder. Adams said he’d welcome a chance to clear his name. “I’ve always stated that, yes, I wanted another trial. The one that they gave me was unfair. I have been saying that for 12 years. I now have a few judges in Texas that have agreed with us,” he said. Filmmaker Errol Morris, whose documentary “The Thin Blue Line” questioned Adams’ conviction, said he was relieved by his release after more than 12 years in prison. “I felt that I pursued a three-year investigation into this murder . . . Some new evidence came out on film,” Morris said in a phone inter view from his Cambridge, Mass., home. “It’s unique that a film came out not telling about a murder inves tigation, but it is a murder investiga tion.” Adams plans to spend a few days with his attorney, Randy Schaffer, in Houston, then join his family in Grove City, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. His mother, Mildred Adams, said her mobile home there is decorated in anticipation of his return. “I’ve got yellow ribbons up and signs that we love Randy, and wel come home,” she said. Adams’ release came after a visit ing state district judge Tuesday den ied prosecutors’ allegations of bias against the judge who originally rec ommended Adams be freed or granted a new trial. Prosecutors tried to get District Judge Larry Baraka removed from the case, saying he favored Adams. The prosecutors succeeded in get ting the bond raised to $100,000 cash late Monday, which kept Ad ams in prison another night. But on Tuesday, District Judge Ron Chapman revoked the higher bond after talking to Baraka in chambers. House studies ethics of Wright’s dealings with printing firm WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Jim Wright fun- neled more than $50,000 in busi ness from his congressional office to a Fort Worth printer who at the same time was paying him $55,000 in royalties on a book venture, according to House re cords. Public records in the House clerk’s office show Wright paid Carlos Moore’s company, Mad ison Printing, for various printing jobs from his taxpayer-funded of fice account during the two years beginning in August 1985. At the same time, Moore was making royalty payments to Wright from sales of his book, “Reflections of a Public Man,” which Moore published under an agreement that gave Wright un usually high royalties. The book deal is one focus of the House ethics committee’s cur rent investigation into Wright’s fi nances. Before 1985, Wright had done considerable business with Moore through his political campaign committee but had done almost no business through his congres sional office. House rules bar official ex pense payments to anyone with whom a member has “a profes sional or legal relationship.” House general counsel Steve Ross said Tuesday he did not believe Wright’s arrangement with Moore violated that standard. “An author’s royalty does not make the author and publisher business partners,” he said. The ethics panel continued meeting behind closed doors Tuesday in its second day of de liberations on the six ethics counts against the Texas Demo crat. Rep. John T. Myers of In diana, the committee’s senior Re publican, said he believed the process would not be concluded until early April., “I just don’t see how we can finish this massive report and get it out this week,” Myers said. Committee Chairman Julian Dixon, D-Calif., confirmed that the panel also was looking into Wright’s investment in a Florida real-estate deal that yielded him substantial profits and involved the chairman of a troubled thrift institution. The committee’s special out side counsel for the Wright case, Richard Phelan, had looked into the deal but avoided interviewing all potential witnesses in an effort to keep the probe quiet. After the deal was reported by ABC News and the Wall Street Journal on Monday night and Tuesday, the committee may seek to interview additional witnesses, he said. Wright and a Fort Worth busi ness partner, George Mallick, bought into the Winderwood de velopment near Orlando, Fla., af ter Richard Swann, chairman of the American Pioneer savings bank in Orlando, began to de velop it in 1985. Swann — also an official of the U.S. League of Savings Institu tions, a lobbying arm of the thrift industry — said he did not at first know Wright was Mallick’s part ner and that when he did learn of the link, he carefully avoided asking the speaker for favors. Through their corporation, Mallightco, Mallick and Wright bought a one-sixth interest in the 20-acre housing development. Documents setting up a blind trust for Wright in 1987 list the value of the investment at $104,000. A spokesman for Wright said Mallightco put up $39,000 for its share of the deal. At the time, Wright was lobby ing federal regulators on behalf of Texas savings and loan institu tions, an activity that is the basis for one of six ethics allegations against him, , , . 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