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she ike S Texas A&M The Battalion fol. 88 No. 154 USPS 045360 6 pages College Station, Texas WEATHER FORECAST for THURSDAY: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers in the af ternoon. HIGH: 90s LOW: 70s Wednesday, June 14,1989 ner in the opult :v was accompait! ament spol Kohl briefed Gori on the NATO5K :h proposals duri: ks. , wliicii conies as i ) quell a bloodyti ie republic of UA n amid stros lioth sides than! ied to divide Euro; come that rift, tries alreadyinit; ommercial, cultut ks Tuesday by sip nts and a “conw jurpose that Kit; igmficant, evenli on will “satisfy l desire our peopi wounds of the pi ling and reconc Id a better futurt dinner, hi urged the Sm “quick progress s on reducing! men from the It! ties as far awayasl 1 and Shiraz mill td in black head-: vies clutched in tit s of mourners is ave, men beat sts with their has ng verses from: holy book, and to Khomeini’s teaf Catch the wave Escaping the steamy College Station summer climate, Bart Tra- wick, a sophomore chemistry major from San Antonio and life- Photo by Kathy Haveman guard at Woffard Cain Pool, does a lap of the breast stroke dur ing his workout Tuesday afternoon. lemseives with sit i beat slowly, a M tiring Ashura, ling for Hussein,: liritual leader it ect. spray water oveit hem in tempera® degrees Fahrent* sun. ; in unending d buses and trud trailers, in carst-' 1 rs are parked e« the thirsty throii lade and canned ided. he grave must inese officials seek arrest of students Activists led ‘counterrevolutionary rebellion,’ government says BEIJING (AP) — The government flashed pictures of 21 pro-depiocracy activists on na tional television Tuesday and said the students were wanted for leading a counterrevolutionary rebellion. “Every province, city, police department, rail way bureau, airline and transportation organ is asked to prevent them from escaping,” the tele vision and radio report said. The government also put border guards on alert to prevent the escape of China’s leading dis sident, Fang Lizhi, and his wife, Li Shuxian, who 6 .~ m:m At present our task is to restore gh open fieldsu®J orc jer and strike relentless blows at the counterrevolutionary rebels. F choking dust rad traffic. The lastli: square compow [ O-foot-shippingd tmare of shoving! y Guards women to onesidf , to keep them They wail in mou: lamentations drc] i’s chants. — Premier LI Peng [Jvere accused of counterrevolutionary propa- anda but were not on the wanted list. They were in hiding at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. I Among the students on the wanted list was |Vu’er Kaixi, who told Premier Li Peng in a tele vised meeting in May that he should “stop beat ing around the bush” because China faced a po litical crisis. Peng, who played a leading role in crushing the seven weeks of protests, told a meeting of top officials Tuesday the army had won only an “ini tial victory” when it cleared student demonstra tors from Tiananmen Square on June 3-4. “At present our task is to restore order and strike relentless blows at the counterrevolutio nary rebels,” the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Peng as saying. Chinese witnesses and Western intelligence sources say as many as 3,000 people were killed when the government turned army troops on un armed residents. The Chinese government has said nearly 300 people died, mostly soldiers. Streets adjoining Tiananmen Square were re opened to car and bicycle traffic Tuesday. Missing from the meeting with Peng were Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang and high- level party official Hu Qili, moderates who re portedly opposed the crackdown and were stripped of their power by conservatives led by senior leader Deng Xiaoping. Li also said China would not yield to foreign pressure to change its policy toward the protes ters. In Washington, the Bush administration indi cated it won’t allow Lang and his wife to be ar rested. International law forbids Chinese author ities frotn entering the embassy compound, which is regarded as American soil, without U.S. permission. Lang, an astrophysicist, did not play an active role in the pro-democracy movement. But he has long been an outspoken human rights advocate. Even before the army action, many top stu dent leaders went into hiding. The Beijing Daily newspaper reported Tuesday that some student leaders had surrendered, but it gave no names. The government wanted list indicated none of the top leaders had done so. In addition to W’u’er, it included Beijing University history stu dent Wang Dan and Chai Ling, one of only two women on the list, who sent a tape from hiding that was broadcast last week by CBS News. The list accused the 21 students of “inciting and organizing counterrevolutionary rebellion in Beijing,” and contained details about their height, hair and other features. Chinese television has more than doubled its usual 30-minute news program on recent nights to show the arrests of more than 1,000 workers and unemployed youth nationwide for alleged participation in anti-government demonstra tions. More than 50 tanks and armored personnel vehicles remained parked at the north and south ends of Tiananmen Square, and soldiers with ri fles stood every 15 feet along the plaza’s perime ter. Clayton Williams to announce entry in race for governor FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Clayton Williams Jr., Class of ’54 and namesake of the Texas A&M alumni center, scheduled an an nouncement next week in his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomi nation, campaign officials said Tues*- day. In a statement delivered to the news media, the Midland business man set his announcement cere mony for June 21 at a downtown Austin hotel. Williams, who began organizing his campaign several months ago, is one of several Republicans said by party sources to be looking at the race to succeed Gov. Bill Clements, Texas’ only 20th century Republican governor. Clements, elected in 1978 and 1986, has said he won’t seek re- election in 1990. Other possible GOP candidates include Amarillo oilman T. Boone Pickens; George W. Bush, the presi dent’s son; Railroad Commissioner Kent Hance, and Secretary of State Jack Rains. On the Democratic side, state Treasurer Ann Richards formally launched her campaign last Satur day, and Attorney General Jim Mat tox is expected to make his official announcement soon. Both have been raising money for the race since last year. Williams, 57, has started a num ber of businesses in energy, banking, real estate, farming and ranching. In 1984, he founded ClayDesta Com munications, a long-distance tele communications company, and he’s appeared in several television com mercials for that venture. Other major business interests in clude Williams Companies, an oil and gas company; ClayDesta Na-, tional Bank, and Williams Ranches and Farms, a cow-calf operation in Texas and Wyoming. “I’m approaching this race like a businessman,” Williams said re cently. “I’m traveling across Texas listening to Texans’ concerns, build ing a support base and developing our vision for Texas.” Among the other possible GOP candidates, Pickens recently said he would make a decision on the guber natorial race within the next few weeks. Hance, a Democrat-turned-Re- publican, has run three statewide races before. The former Lubbock congressman unsuccessfully sought the 1984 Democratic U.S. Senate nomination and was an unsuccessful GOP gubernatorial candidate in 1986. Three drive-by shootists injure six men in Bryan By Mia B. Moody STAFF WRITER Three men in a white car shot six men Monday night in three separate incidents. Five of the six men are in fair and one in critical condition, a spokesman from St. Joseph Hospital said Tuesday. Sgt. Choya Walling, of the Bryan Police Department, said the shootings might have been drug-related. “The six men were shot in areas that are known for drug trafficking,” Walling said. “But we are speculating that the inci dents might have been a cover-up or random shooting. Right now we are investigating to find out the details of the case.” Walling said the first man, 42- year-old Peter Earl Young of Bryan, was shot at 11 p.m. at the 1100 block of Groesbeck in Bryan. The next two victims, 33- year-old Johnie Lee Gooden and 18-year-old Lonnie Davis, both of Bryan, were shot at the V.D.O. Palace on 1400 Beck at 12:10 a.m. Walling said the last victims, Marion Leon Johnson, 38, Robert Powell, 43, and Jean Curtis Hall, 38, were shot at 1000 San Jacinto I he six men were shot in areas that are known for drug trafficking. But we are speculating that the incidents might have been a cover-up or random shooting.” — Sgt. Choya Walling, Bryan Police Department in Bryan. Johnson is in critical condition. Walling said witnesses of all three accounts gave similar de scriptions of the suspects, who drove a hatchback with a luggage rack on top. second ed State ign aid P) —Japan’s toial 22.5 percent to , making it the wK t donor after the Foreign Mir- n aid totaled al* ist year, the mi® growth in stance in dollar I' the Japanese h in foreign exclr! n terms, the $9.1* oreign aid was at se over the $7.i ; )87. y calculated dolla' government’s of: nge rate for 19-' the dollar, down' 1987. ect aid — not i international ; ed for 70.3 percf 6.42 billion, the Bush vetoes proposal to hike minimum wage :ct aid, about $3 'cent, was in loa® )ut 30.9 percen® naining 45 pen.' — was in gran® ) billion foreig 11 :al 1989 would n® 1 gest donor nat® n doesn’t weaU L ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Bush today ve toed legislation raising the mini mum wage to $4.55 an hour, set ting up a political battle with the Democratic majority in Congress. “The president signed a mini mum wage veto message” aboard Air Force One en route to Lin coln, Neb. from Wyoming, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Bush’s veto had been expected, since the Democratic-controlled House and Senate both approved legislation he had said in advance he would not sign. Neither house approved the bill by the two- thirds majority needed to over ride a veto, though congressional leaders are expected to attempt to enact the bill over the president’s objections. Bush said, “this bill would in crease the minimum wage by an excessive amount and thus stifle the creation of new job opportu nities. It would damage the em ployment prospects of our young people and least advantaged citi zens. It would accelerate infla tion. It would not help those in poverty. And thus it would fail to properly reflect the thought be hind this measure: to help our lowest paid workers.” House Speaker Thomas S. Fo ley vowed to quickly ask the House to override the veto, but conceded Bush likely would pre vail in the first domestic-policy clash between the majority Demo crats of Congress and Bush. Foley and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said Democrats would advance an other minimum wage bill if Bush prevails in the veto fight. The bill sent to the White House called for a $4.55 hourly minimum wage by October 1991. Bush offered to go to $4.25 in January 1992. The administration and Con gress also differ over whether employers should be able to pay newly hired workers a submini mum wage during a training pe riod. Bush proposed that employ ers be allowed to pay a subminimum wage to all new workers for up to six months re gardless of prior work experi ence. Democrats initially resisted any such provision but included in their final bill a clause allowing a subminimum to be paid to work ers with less than two month’s work experience. “I wish to be clear about this,” Bush said in his veto message.” He said that if Congress is un willing to accept his approach to ward raising the minimum, he stands ready instead to examine the possibility of raising the Earned Income Tax Credit to help the working poor. The credit is a rebate of federal taxes that gives the working poor more than they paid in federal taxes to offset what they pay in Social Security tax. A&M Muslims mourn Khomeini’s death By Alan Sembera SENIOR STAFF WRITER The death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has affected millions of Muslims around the world. Several countries, including Pakistan, In dia, Turkey and Syria have declared national days of mourning for the spiritual leader. The mourning has reached even the Texas A&M Muslim community, which had a memorial service for the Khomeini Saturday in Rudder Tower. The service did not attract a large number of students, but it was important to the students who attended. Abdullah Mohammadi, a member of the So ciety of Iranian Students, said most of the stu dents who attended weren’t Iranian, but were taking part in Islamic custom to honor a religious leader. “We have a memorial service for someone we know who has passed away,” Mohammadi said, “and we believe he (Khomeini) was a hero for his entire country.” But Mohammadi’s view is in the minority in the United States. Many Americans have strong anti-Iranian sentiments because of the hostage situation nine years ago. Mohammadi, who is an engineering graduate student, said this anti-Iranian sentiment really has not affected him directly. “There is no discrimination if we keep quiet,” he said. “The discrimination that we see is when you express your opinion.” Another member of the Society of Iranian Stu dents, Seyed Moosavi, agreed that there is strong pressure on Iranian students to keep their opin ions quiet. Moosavi, an engineering graduate student, said he knows of other graduate students who have had problems getting their degrees ap proved by their committees because they were politically active in support of Iran. But more Americans are accepting the fact that the majority of Iranian people support their government, he said. Official doubts Soviet military’s change to defense MOSCOW (AP) — Despite its uni lateral cuts, the Soviet military’s “overwhelming numbers” still make it the world's biggest war machine and don’t back up Kremlin claims about a switch to defensive strategy, See related story/Page 6 the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. “Speaking candidly, it is rather difficult for Americans — and those in many other countries — to see how such a massive array of power is mandated by the legitimate needs of defense,” Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. told students and instructors at the Voroshilov General Staff Military Academy in Moscow. Crowe, on an 11-day official visit to the Soviet Union, also suggested that instead of announcing more unilateral reductions, the Kremlin join the United States in negotiating mutual cuts, even of modest scale — a step he said would best promote progress in arms control. “You’d be surprised at the effect it would have, and pave the way for more dramatic steps in the future,” Crowe told his Soviet audience. The 64-year-old admiral, accom- anied by an entourage of top U.S. rass and Gen. Mikhail A. Moiseyev — his official host and head of the Soviet general staff — also visited once secret military instaljations out side Moscow to examine weaponry. It was the latest in a series of high- level military visits designed to dispel mistrust between the superpowers. The visits began in July with one to the United States by Marshal Sergei F. Akhromeyev, then Soviet chief of staff. In August, then-Defense Sec retary Frank Carlucci visited the So viet Union. In a heavy rain, Crowe and top U.S. military officers who accompa nied him were shown a training ver sion of a snub-nosed SS-19 missile in its silo at the Balabanovo base, where officer cadets are taught how to launch the ICBM the Pentagon says can carry six nuclear warheads up to 6,200 miles. At the Kubinka air garrison, So viet warplanes painted in camou flage, including the MiG-29 fighter and Su-24 attack aircraft, were parked on the tarmac for the admi ral and his entourage to inspect. Like Carlucci, Crowe also clam bered up a metal ladder to board the Soviet Union’s newest long-range strategic bomber, the needle-nosed Tu-160, better known in the West by its NATO designation of “Black- jack.” After viewing the aircraft, Crowe said he was very impressed. “We’re talking world-class aviation here,” he said. Cen. Monroe Hatch, deputy chief of the U.S. Air Force, said all 10 So viet warplanes and helicopters on display already had been seen by Westerners, some at international air shows or during Carlucci’s visit last year. “But to say many people have seen the Blackjack is an over statement,” Hatch said. I