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: Y. hri£ xa j4 &M D ^ 4.4. ^ 12 ^ 1 tie Battalion WEATHER FORECAST for WEDNESDAY: Cloudy to partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunder storms. HIGH:90s LOW:70s Vol. 88 No. 150 USPS 045360 10 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, June 6,1989 hinese soldiers continue terrorizing capital Jr, “ 9 BEIJING (AP) — Soldiers terror ized the tense and chaotic Chinese Japital on Monday with random Rhooting of unarmed civilians and ■he army reinforced its positions in The city’s center. Reports spread of a f split in the army and a battle be tween military factions. Late Monday, thousands of troops ^nd tanks occupying Tiananmen Square lined up along the northern I See related story/Page 3 erimeter facing the former impe- ial palace. Gunfire could be heard rom behind the palace. Other tanks took up new positions n key intersections off the huge quare that was the focus of pro-de- locracy demonstrations crushed by Hilary force in an operation that laimed hundreds of lives. It appeared that the new deploy- ents were defensive. Chinese and iplomatic sources said a split in the 'eople’s Liberation Army over the Vlay 20 declaration of martial law in Beijing was deepened by the mas sacre that began late Saturday. Artillery shelling was heard in a far northwest suburb of the city dur ing the day. Asked about talk of sol diers fighting soldiers, one Western diplomat said, “It’s more than (talk). There is solid evidence.” He spoke on condition he not be identified and refused to elaborate. Huge crowds demonstrated in Shanghai, Nanjing and other major Chinese cities to protest the slaugh ter in Beijing. According to some re ports, soldiers shot dead as many as several thousand people in a cam paign to suppress the popular upris ing for freedom. At least three more people died and four more were injured Monday as troops armed with machine guns and automatic rifles kept up spo radic, indiscriminate firing. Residents in Beijing spent the day preparing for food shortages in the increasingly chaotic city, with lines forming for milk, oil, soy sauce and other staples. Army patrols, shoot ing and a lack of public transporta tion added to the tense atmosphere. Blockades of buses and burning vehicles made major streets impassa ble, and many Beijing residents stayed home from work out of fear of the roaming bands of trigger- happy soldiers. “What are we going to do, go to work and get shot?” asked an office clerk. The Hong Kong government sent a special flight Monday to evacuate residents of the British colony. The United States and several other countries began moving their na tionals from Beijing university cam puses, possible targets in the military Bush outlines plan to protest bloodshed in Beijing George Bush Battalion file photo WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush suspended U.S. arms sales to China on Monday to protest the mili tary’s bloody weekend crackdown, declaring Chinese leaders must learn “it’s not going to be business as usual.” Bush accused the Beijing government of “brutally suppressing popular and peaceful demonstrations.” But he also said he would not withdraw the U.S. am bassador, take any other steps toward severing diplo matic ties or take abrupt actions, including economic sanctions, that could “hurt the Chinese people.” On two other international subjects, Bush spoke ap provingly of a strong showing by Solidarity-backed can didates in Polish elections and said that if the Iranian government wants to improve relations after the week end death of the Ayatollah Khomeini it should use its influence to free American hostages from Lebanon. He said the events in China the past few days, in which hundreds of Chinese demonstrators were killed and many more wounded as the army moved to clear Tiananmen Square, were being followed in horror by people around the world. Bush, at a hastily called morning news conference, said the United States would: •Immediately suspend military sales to China by the U.S. government as well as commercial exports of weapons. •Halt visits between U.S. and Chinese military lead ers. •Give “sympathetic review” to visa extensions for any of the 40,000 Chinese students studying in the United States who were afraid of returning home. •Offer humanitarian and medical aid through the Red Cross to those injured in the assault. Bush held out the possibility of further steps if the situation worsens. However, he said, “I don’t want to see a total break in this relationship and I will not en courage a total break in this relationship.” He also said keeping an ambassador in Beijing pro vided a “good listening post.” Bush’s steps won praise from Democratic and Re publican leaders on Capitol Hill. “I think there was a general consensus for the president’s position,” House Majority Leader Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., said after a See Reaction/Page 8 sweep against pro-democracy activ ists. “Many of the (Chinese) students have left the dormitories to go home or to find shelter in Beijing because they fear an imminent attack by the army,” said a Beijing University stu dent standing at the campus gate. Much of the shooting Monday was in the city center near Tiananmen Square. Chinese witnesses said at least three people were shot to death near the square, including a man machine-gunned from his chin to his stomach. The wounded included a girl shot in the chest when troops charged up a narrow residential street. One convoy of 50 to 100 military trucks rumbled through the diplo matic quarter firing indiscriminately, a U.S. Embassy official said. More than 40 soldiers later swaggered down the main street. “1 Communists admit Solidarity landslide in Polish elections '4 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Solida rity won Poland’s freest elections in four decades by a landslide, the rul ing communists conceded Monday, urging the opposition not to abuse lits triumph by stirring anarchy in the country. The astounding admission of de feat, two days before the official re sults were to be released, came amid signs that a special slate of promi nent government officials was over whelmingly rejected by voters. Despite the Solidarity landslide in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, the communists still are expected to retain control of the legislature be cause election rules guarantee it a majority of seats. The party acknowledged the Soli- fdarity triumph in a statement at the \ start o f the evening newscast by | party spokesman Jan Bisztyga, who | was shown sitting next to Solidarity [national spokesman Janusz Onysz- j kiewicz. “The results are genuinely unfa vorable for the (party) coalition,” Bisztyga said. “Solidarity got a de cided majority.” “We will not back away from the ;! road of democracy and reforms,” he promised, but he called on the oppo- : sition to also show “co-responsibility | for the country. “If feelings of triumph and ad- I venturism cause anarchy in Poland, democracy and social peace will be j seriously threatened. Authorities, : the coalition and the opposition can- ; notallow such a situation,” he said. Onyszkiewicz cautioned that some I returns were still coming in. “But de spite that, it is a victory,” he de clared. “It’s too early for congratulations and we don’t have complete infor mation yet,” Solidarity leader Lech Walesa had said earlier in the day in Gdansk. In its first dispatch on results, the official PAP news agency on Monday night confirmed overwhelming Soli darity victories in at least 11 cities. It cautioned that the results were unofficial and might vary in other places. Only a few Solidarity candidates to the new 100-seat Senate appeared unsure of first-round victory, Onysz kiewicz said at an afternoon news conference, indicating firm opposi tion control of the East bloc’s first freely chosen legislative chamber. Under the historic accords be tween the Solidarity-led opposition and the communist government, all 100 seats in the Senate were up for grabs in Sunday’s balloting. The opposition also was allowed to run for 161 seats, or 35 percent, in the 460-seat Sejm, the lower chamber. The rest of the seats were re served for the ruling communists and their allies. Thirty-five of those reserved seats are for prominent government and party officials who face no challeng- But those uncontested party can didates must win 50 percent of the vote to be seated, and there were widespread reports that voters were overwhelming rejecting those candi dates. m mmm. .Si '■m&m wit 111 >|f Move it, ladies Stephanie Stark, left, a sophomore from Col lege Station, and Judy Page help Page’s Photo by I'heian M. Ebanhack daughter Sherri Benedict move into Neeley Hall Sunday. Sherri is an incoming freshman. Gorbachev: Careless workers responsible for blast MOSCOW (AP) — Careless workers con- jtinued pumping gas into a ruptured pipeline : until it filled a valley and exploded into a fire storm that destroyed two passenger trains, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Monday. Tass quoted a Civil Defense spokesman as saying the number of confirmed dead in the explosion and fire Sunday was 190, but the toll appeared certain to rise. The official news agency said 137 bodies were found at the scene in the Ural Mountains and 53 died in hospitals. The civil defense spokesman told Tass 706 victims had been admitted to hospitals but 272 of the 1,168 people on the two Trans-Si berian Railroad trains still were missing. Izvestia, the government newspaper, said a mile-long “flame front” consumed the trains, destroying hundreds of yards of track and telegraph lines. Gennady K. Dmitrin, editor of Evening Chelyabinsk, a newspaper published in one of the largest cities in the Urals, said by tele hone his paper had a list of 500-800 dead ut it was based on preliminary information. Dmitrin said children under age 8 do not gf have to buy train tickets, which meant the R number of passengers on the two trains could p be greater than reported. Some of the dead were children bound for B summer resorts, Gorbachev told the Soviet ^^11 Congress after visiting the site 750 miles if southeast of Moscow. Battalion file photo Mikhail Gorbachev “How could it be that again there is incom petence, irresponsibility, mismanagement, disgrace?” he asked “Comrades and I, and all the residents there, said there will be no pro gress if we have such laxness.” Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev, military chief of staff, told Tass the explosion at 1:14 a.m. Sunday had the strength of 10,000 tons of TNT. He said the blast “was so powerful that it felled all trees within four kilometers” and hurled two locomotives and 38 passenger cars off the rails. He said most of the cars were in cinerated. “Military units are searching the adjacent forest and mountains in the hope that some of the passengers may have escaped the tor nado of fire,” Tass said. Sixteen severely burned children were taken to Yuryuzan, where “doctors are strug gling to save their lives,” it said. Gorbachev, whose remarks were broadcast live on national television, said the liquefied gas pipeline half a mile from the rail line burst and, instead of investigating the pres sure drop, technicians activated pumps to in crease the pressure. When gas vapor reached the electrified line, a spark touched of an explosion of “frightening might,” Gorbachev said. He said the two trains, traveling in opposite directions, had made unscheduled stops near each other in a remote region between the city of Ufa and the town of Asha. Gorbachev said investigators would exam ine why the pumps were turned on despite the leak and why the trains stopped on the line between Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia, and Adler, a Black Sea resort. “We will have to learn hard lessons from what happened,” he said. Mayor Mikhail A. Zaitsev of Ufa said 400 of the injured were taken to his city 60 miles west of the site. “Helicopters are constantly arriving with more injured,” he said by tele phone. A special flight brought 65 of those most badly burned to Moscow for treatment. The victims, skin blackened and peeling in places, were put into waiting ambulances at Vnukovo Airport. Soviet cities began blood drives, sent doc tors to the Urals and dispatched relief sup plies, Tass said. Gorbachev told Congress all major burn treatment centers in the country had been mobilized. Flags over the Kremlin and at other gov ernment buildings throughout the country flew at half-staff or were trimmed with black ribbon to mark an official day of mourning. The 2,250-member Congress stood tor a min ute of silence, heard Gorbachev’s report and adjourned early. Eight mourners crushed during Khomeini’s wake TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two mil lion mourners crowded into a Teh ran square Monday to glimpse the white-shrouded body of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and at least eight were killed and hundreds hurt during the huge show of mass grief. State television showed scores of people being carried from the dusty Mousalam Square. The crowd swayed around the glass-covered bier in which the revolutionary pa triarch lay, his trademark black tur ban on his chest. Iranians fiowed into the north Tehran square under a blazing sun, drawn by the tightly shrouded body in its air-conditioned cubicle on a platform hastily assembled from shipping containers. Mourners beat their chests and heads with fists in a traditional Shiite Moslem expression of grief, chant ing, “Oh Khomeini, why have you left us?” Some scratched their faces until they bled, and threw ashes over their clothes. “Imam Khomeini was our great leader. . . . Nothing can ever replace him,” said Mohammad Mahdi, an aircraft technician. Iranians called Khomeini their imam, or spiritual leader. The official Islamic Republic News Agency said the dead were crushed in a stampede to the bier and many people collapsed in the heat, which reached a temperature of 104. Khomeini died Saturday of a heart attack suffered 11 days after surgery for internal bleeding. His death created Iran’s most serious po litical crisis since he was swept to power in the 1979 Islamic revolu tion. Ahmad, Khomeini’s son, read a section of his father’s political testa ment over the radio. It called for na tional unity and warned of “enemy conspiracies and world-devouring America.” In Washington, President Bush said: “There’s a way for the relationship with the United States to improve and that’s for the release of the American hostages” held in Lebanon by pro-Iranian kidnappers. In its first official reaction, Iraq called for a lasting peace with Iran. The official newspaper Al-Thawra daily newspaper said in an editorial that Iraq wants “a comprehensive and just peace beased on good- neighborly relations and non-inter ference in each other’s affairs.” A U.N.-mediated cease-fire sus pended the 8-year-old war Aug. 20, but peace negotiations are dead locked. The extract of Khomeini’s politi cal testament read by his son said nothing of who would succeed him as leader of the revolution. President AH Khamenei, 49, was appointed caretaker leader Sunday, winning 60 of the 74 votes cast the Assembly of Experts chosen by Kho meini in 1979 to handle the succes sion. Khamenei, a moderate with close ties to the merchant class, has been president since 1981 but is barred by the constitution from a third four- year term. A presidential election and a ref erendum on constitutional reforms, are scheduled for Aug. 18.