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Vol. 88 No. 153 USPS 045360 8 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, June 13,1989
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A&M lecturer left Tiananmen
1 hour before shooting began
By Mia B. Moody
STAFF WRITER
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The Tiananmen Square mas
sacre turned what should have
been a routine business trip into a
scary event for an A&M lecturer
who was two miles away from the
bloody tragedy.
Lawrence Wolken, a lecturer in
the business department, went to
Beijing with the intention of dis
cussing and setting up programs
on how to improve trade relations
and joint ventures with China,
but ended up escaping a massacre
by one hour.
“I had no idea that a massacre
would occur in Beijing,” Wolken
said. “1 knew what was going on,
but I thought that there was little
risk because I had seen the peo
ple of Beijing stopping troops on
television.”
Wolken said the Square was
calm when he was there an hour
before the massacre began.
“I was in the Square at 7 p.m.,”
he said. “It was crowded not only
with students, but also with chil-
Photo by Kathy Ha veman
Lawrence Wolken
dren and the elderly. When I left
the Square at 8 p.m., I ran into a
large group of people who were
blocking army trucks. In this
group, vendors were selling hot
dogs and drinks, people were
talking to the troops, and chil
dren were sitting on the troop’s
tanks. As far as I could see, the
troops had no weapons and ev
erything was just fine.”
Wolken said he felt differently
later that night when he talked to
his daughter on the phone.
“My daughter was supposed to
come to China, so I was calling
her to say it was OK for her to
come,” he said. “She told me she
had heard that shots had been
fired in Tiananmen Square. I told
her that was probably a minor oc
currence and that it would still be
safe for her to come. I was mis
taken.”
Wolken found out about the
massacre, two miles away from
him, by watching Cable News
Network. He knew more about
what was going on than other
people in China who didn’t have
satellite television.
Wolken said once the massacre
began, he stayed away from Tia
nanmen Square.
“I could tell that everything
was out of control,” he said. “Sol
diers were shooting at anything
that moved. I was supposed to
move to a different motel the
next day, but I decided to stay
where I was.”
That night Wolken decided to
cut his two-week trip short and to
come back to College Station.
“I made reservations the next
day,” he said. “I spent the night in
the airport and flew home the
next day.”
Wolken said he believes the
U.S. Embassy did little to help
Americans.
“Other embassies reacted
quicker and did more to help
their people than the U.S.’s did,”
Wolken said. “I didn’t even
bother to leave my name with the
U.S. Embassy because I remem
ber how inadequately they helped
me three years ago w’hen I was
there. The people who did leave
their names were given little help.
They were told that everything
was OK, and they could use their
airplane tickets to come home. I
had sense enough to come home
immediately.”
Bush unveils plan
to remove smog,
reduce acid rain
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush, declaring too many
Americans “breathe dirty air,” un
veiled an ambitious plan Monday to
E urge urban smog from most cities
y the year 2000 and to sharply re
duce acid-rain pollution.
Environmentalists praised his ef
fort but said he should go further.
The coal industry said he was trying
“too much too soon.”
To curb smog-producing ozone.
Bush recommended that automak
ers be required to build and sell
methanol-powered cars in nine ur
ban areas plagued by dirty air. And
he recommended that limits on tail
pipe emissions of ozone-producing
hydrocarbons in existing cars be
tightened by almost 40 percent.
Bush also proposed a 10-million-
ton reduction in sulfur dioxide emis
sions from coal-burning power
plants, a major cause of acid rain. If
achieved, that would be a 50 percent
cut.
Moreover, he said industry should
be required to use new technology to
curb the release of cancer-causing
toxic chemicals into the air.
Bush outlined his legislative pack
age at the White House in a speech
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China intensifies
crackdown; U.S.
harbors dissidents
BEIJING (AP) — The govern
ment on Monday gave police and
soldiers permission to shoot people
who stir unrest and banned all inde
pendent student and worker groups
as it intensified its crackdown on the
pro-democracy movement.
China’s hardline leaders also re
newed criticism of the United States
for harboring two prominent dissi-
’■dents in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing
fand broadcast their pictures on na
tional television.
“Don’t let these people flee,” an
announcer said. “They are wanted
for counterrevolutionary crimes.”
In Washington, the Bush adminis
tration indicated that it would not al
low authorities to arrest the two, as
trophysicist Fang Lizhi and his wife,
Beijing University assistant profes
sor Li Shuxian. The standoff has
further chilled once-warm relations
between the nations.
Security forces made hundreds of
new arrests, including several lead
ers of independent labor unions,
bringing the number of arrested to
more than 1,000 across the country,
according to Chinese media reports.
All the developments pointed to a
strengthening of the government’s
effort to suppress the student-led
movement for a freer society and an
end to official corruption.
The crackdown began June 3
when thousands of soldiers from the
People’s Liberation Army invaded
Beijing and marched on Tiananmen
Square, which was occupied by thou
sands of students.
The Chinese government says
only 300 people were killed, mostly
soldiers.
See related story/Page 8
In memory of...
Huawei Qiu and Sun Zhong, graduate students from Beijing,
stand next to a memorial for their friend Xiao Bo during a candle-
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
light vigil Saturday night in front of the Academic Building. Xiao
was killed during the military assault on protesters in Beijing.
to members of Congress, governors,
and industry and environmental
groups.
Later, keeping the focus on the
environment, he was heading to
Yellowstone National Park in
Wyoming for a first-hand look at
damage from the fires that black
ened nearly half of the park’s 2.2
million acres last year.
William Reilly, chief of the Envi
ronmental Protection Agency, said
cleaning the air “will neither be free
nor easy.” For example, electric bills
are expected to increase by 2 percent
in some states to clean up coal-fired
electric plants.
At a briefing before Bush’s
speech, Reilly estimated the overall
program would cost between $ 14 bil
lion and $19 billion a year
Richard Ayres, chairman ot the
National Clean Air Coalition, said
Bush’s plan had strong provisions
for dealing with acid rain. However,
in the area of urban smog, he said he
was concerned that not enough was
being proposed to deal with pollut
ion from existing gasoline-powered
See related story/Page 3
Foreign press
faces danger,
fear in China
BEIJING (AP) — Foreign report
ers covering China’s crackdown on
pro-democracy protesters no longer
have bullets whizzing past their
heads, but some said Monday their
job has become harder in the grow
ing climate of fear.
Television crews have had their
film or equipment confiscated and
been forced to write “self-criticisms.”
Other reporters have been stopped
by police from talking to people on
the street or have had notebooks
taken. A British reporter was ex
pelled from Shanghai.
The Australian Embassy ex
pressed grave concern Monday over
the safety of its country’s journalists,
saying, “From what we’ve seen the
last few days we can’t seriously ex
pect the police or troops to be fussy
about who they shoot.”
Sources also are drying up.
Chinese people said they fear talking
to reporters even in private as the
number of reported arrests in con
nection with seven weeks of pro-de
mocracy protests neared 1,000.
“You have to be so careful,” said
Jan Wong of the Toronto Globe and
Mail. “I don’t want to ask people (on
the street) their names . . . for their
protection.”
TV crews that already were taking
precautions when shooting photo
graphs to avoid detection by security
officials said a new damper was put
on their work by the government use
of an ABC videotape to track down a
Chinese man.
China Central Television appar
ently intercepted the unedited video
as ABC sent it by satellite to New
York.
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Faculty Senate calls for insurance counseling service
By Kelly S. Brown
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
E The Faculty Senate Monday ap-
; proved a resolution creating a Bene-
Kits Counseling Service to help em-
1 ployees of the Texas A&M System
vvho find it difficult to decide which
insurance benefits will optimize their
pverage.
I The resolution, which came from
I pie Personnel and Welfare Commit-
lee, stated that because many em
ployees experience frustration in at
tempting to exercise their options
■md in significant cases make deci-
■ions which do not optimize their
■overage, such a counseling service
■s necessary.
I Another resolution approved
■rom the Personnel and Welfare
Committee recommended the Sys-
■em Benefit Office look at establish-
png a Preferred Provider Organiza-
Bon, which is an institute that
■ssures a lower group medical cost
HE By contracting with selected health
^ Care providers in the Bryan-College
Station area.
I A need exsists for such an insti
tute because health care providers
are often charged fees beyond what
ON is considered reasonable and cus-
ijpmary, according to the resolution.
Chancellor says he will move office off campus
By Kelly S. Brown
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Dr. Perry L. Adkisson, chancellor of the Texas
A&M University System, said Monday he plans
to move his office from the Texas A&M campus
to a “more neutral” location in hopes of ending
the confusion about the relationship between the
president of A&M and the system chancellor.
Adkisson said he believes that because his of
fice and that of the president are both on cam
pus, people aren’t clear about which role is
which.
An example Adkisson gave of the confusion
between the offices of the president and of the
chancellor is when people want to go to “the top
person in charge.
“The chancellor is the chief executive office of
the TAMUS,” Adkisson said. “My role is to look
at the scope of the University, its goals, to deal
with the legislature and fiscal aspects, as well as to
carry out basic policy and appoint CEO’s.
“My job is not to oversee the day-to-day opera
tions of the University,” he said.
He said he has had good relationships with
former President Frank Vandiver and President
William Mobley, and in order to maintain the
harmony it’s necessary for him to vacate the Sys
tem Administration Building, probably around
1991.
“And in the future maybe even further,” he
said, “to Austin or Houston.”
When Adkisson addressed the Senate, he dis
cussed three points, the first being state appro
priations.
“We didn’t do as well as I would have liked,”
Adkisson said, “but we received a larger increase
than most universities. A&M received a 12 per
cent increase, whereas the University of Texas
received a nine percent increase.
“My number one goal as chancellor was to re
store funding to what it was in 1985, and we have
done that,” he said.
Other news Adkisson delivered was that fac
ulty salaries were raised five percent for 1990,
and three percent for 1991.
“This isn’t as much as we wanted,” he said.
“The Coordinating Board asked for 10 percent.
Had the governor approved a cigarrette tax, we
might have gotten more than a five percent in
crease, but he was against the tax.”
Adkisson said he hopes the expansion of the
TAMUS continues past the recent mergers with
the University System of South Texas.
“There may be more mergers in the future,
but we also need to look at, and appeal to, a
broader ethnic group,” he said.
Adkisson mentioned the long-range planning
of the University needs to be prioritized because,
“we can’t do it all.”
one of the following subject areas:
history, philosophy, literature, the
arts, culture or language. The
course also should demonstrate one
or more of the following objectives:
seek to recover, transmit, anaylze
and interpret artistic or creative ex
pressions of human culture; develop
an appreciation for and an ability to
analyze or interpret aesthetic struc
tures; promote self awareness, self
analysis, or the ability for ethical rea
soning; promote an understanding
of the historical context of science,
the arts or culture; and promote a
philosophical understanding of the
principles of science, the arts or cul
ture.
In other meeting action, the Sen
ate approved the following additions
to the Core Curriculum Guidelines:
• That a given course normally
be included in no more than one cat
egory of the Core Curriculum.
• That the category Cultural
Heritage be changed to Humanities
to represent more accurately the na
ture of the courses in this category.
• That no course be included in
the Core Curriculum in the Human
ities or Social Sciences areas which is
concerned predominantly with voca
tional training.
• That no student be permitted
to satisfy all Core course require
ments in the categories of Humani
ties and Social Sciences by courses
having the same prefix.
Two guidelines approved are in
tended for the use of submitters and
the members of the Core Curric
ulum Oversight Committee:
• To be included in the Core
Curriculum in the category of Hu
manities a course should address
• To be included in the Core
Curriculum in the category of Social
Sciences, a course should address
one of the following subject areas:
anthropology, economics, political
science, geography, psychology, so
ciology, or communication.
A course also must demonstrate
one or both of the following objec
tives, according to the guidelines:
promote a scientific or analytical
study of social institutions and/or the
behavior of individuals or groups in
relation to these institutions, and
See Senate/Page 7