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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.
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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, , , . M>
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