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8 Texas A&M :own The Battalion WEATHER FORECAST for SATURDAY: Mostly sunny and warm. Watch for possible showers Sunday. HIGH:78 LOW:55 Vol. 88 No. 157 USPS 045360 6 Pages r on I College Station, Texas Friday, June 16,1989 taff Police seek third suspect in shooting rampage luting just. 199 | olice say killings stemmed from dispute between drug dealers, counterfeiters tungjust ■3. Going into only Ryan, at s Mike Moore, I taining hitters | run average of has the lowest okie qualifying standing in the ■ar-old pitchet in said, are ex- an effective tics outfieldet went 2-foh -1 victory over ay night —the s fared against angeup would y unstoppable good sinker,! good breaking aid. “I wasjus contact.” it thinking so row it, let mj • over," Browr cess 1 certainly ic of the most s A&M fromfc pson, who was; [S. s expected this mine which Aggies next to bring S.ggie football well. The vithout almost; lighly touted back Bucky ined by events Lance Pavlas his fall, ill be on the :;s J ackie Shern. 1 be less A final verdifl tidal is expecte: er wait of next fall in I which will hit rtimer won’t be- FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS Police said Thursday they have issued an rrest warrant for a third suspect in a shoot ing rampage that killed one man and in jured five others during an apparent dis- iute between drug dealers and ounterfeiters. Bryan police arrested Carl Alvin Crad- lock, 40, of Dallas late Tuesday night out- ide a local convenience store. Early Wednesday, they arrested Bruce Kevin Bannister, 30, of St. Petersburg, Fla., at a Bryan home. Both men remained in the Brazos County Jail Thursday with bond set at $100,000 each, authorities said. Police spokesman Sgt. Choya Walling said Thursday that Ray Craddock, 31, of rural Brazos County also had been charged with murder and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He is Carl Craddock’s brother. “X I he shootings appear to be where the retaliation culminated. We had two sides mad at each other.” — Sgt. Choya Walling, police spokesman Six men were shot late Monday and early Tuesday outside bars and on a nearby street. One of the victims, Marion Leon John son, died late Tuesday night from gunshot wounds he received to the head. Two 12-gauge shotguns, two .22-caliber pistols and a .25-caliber pistol were found at the house where Bannister was arrested, police said. Walling said informants have told police that in recent weeks, the suspects in the shootings had tried to purchase drugs in Bryan using counterfeit $20 bills. Drug dealers, he said, discovered the money was fake, then declined to deliver the drugs. “The shootings appear to be where the retaliation culminated,” Walling said. “We had two sides mad at each other.” Walling said police have not been able to find out which of the victims, if any, were involved in drug deals. No charges have been filed against any of the victims, he said. Fore! Graduate student Duncan Rhodes hits a ball at the Texas A&M driving range during his intermediate golf class Thursday af- Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack ternoon. Rhodes said he took the freshman level course to off set his strenuous graduate course load. Rains resigns post; still undecided on bid for governor in 1990 FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Jack Rains, Class of ’60, resigned as Texas Secretary of State Thurs day, a possible prelude to a 1990 race for the Republican gubernato rial nomination. Rains, a Houston businessman be fore joining Gov. Bill Clements’ ad ministration, said he will enter a pri vate law firm and decide on the governor’s race in 30 to 45 days. “I have a lot of people who are anxious to support me in that race,” he said. Rains, a top adviser to Clements in past campaigns, last year said he was 95 percent certain about making a governor’s race. He said Thursday he was not interested in any other office. “I’m not a committee man,” he said. “I’m an executive.” Rains, who holds a bachelor’s of business administration from Texas A&M and a law degree from the University of Houston, was a founder of a Houston design firm. He will join the Houston office of the law firm of Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest & Minick. But politics remains on his mind, and he said he will talk with friends, family and others about the gover nor’s race. A poll published by the Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News last month showed Rains with the lowest name identification of five potential Republican candidates. Leading that survey was George W. Bush, the president’s son. Rail road Commissioner Kent Hance, an unsuccessful GOP gubernatorial candidate in 1986, was second, and Amarillo oilman T. Boone Pickens was third. Midland oilman Clayton Williams, Class of ’54,set to launch his guber natorial campaign Wednesday, also ranked ahead of the secretary of state. But Rains said he wasn’t con cerned. “If you compare me to someone who has run six times in 12 years (Hance) and spent millions of dollars — I’ve never run a race, I’ve never spent a nickel. I would expect to be behind them,” he said. “I wouldn’t bet the farm on an early poll.” Rains also said he has no worries about funding a gubernatorial bid, which many political consultants say could cost $15 million or more. “I’ve been a (political) fundraiser in Texas for some 20 years. I think I’ve demonstrated a track record that I can put money together. My political base is in Houston, and it’s known for being able to back candi dates,” he said. Clements praised Rains as “a su perb” secretary of state, but he stopped short of endorsing Rains as his successor. Mattox says allegations of bribery are ‘hot air’ AUSTIN (AP) — Breaking a |jhree-day silence, Attorney General ‘im Mattox branded as “hot air” Thursday allegations that $125,000 vas slated for him to intercede in an insurance lawsuit. Mattox also charged that the cam paign of his Democratic gubernato- ial primary opponent, state Trea surer Ann Richards, is behind pub licity about the allegations which be gan surfacing Monday. Her cam- paign denied it. I “There have been allegations made that money was given to bribe me,” Mattox said. “There have been allegations made that monies were given to bribe my assistant who han dled the case. Allegations were made there were monies given to bribe the judge. All of which is a bunch of | nonsense.” I A reference to the payment alle- .. gation was made in a f raudulent in surance lawsuit that was related to fjhe Dallas bankruptcy case of Joseph | F. Landis and his Intercon Reinsur ance Brokers, Ltd. I The company, Landis and others also are named in a related civil suit in U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders’ court in Dallas. In that suit, Lloyd’s U.S. Corp., alleges fraudu lent practices by Landis’ company. In January proceedings in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing involving Landis, his company and Lawrence Dale St. John, another defendant in the Lloyd’s lawsuit, the $125,000 was discussed. According to a transcript, Samuel D. Rosen, a New York attorney for Lloyd’s, asked bankruptcy trustee Don Navarro if he was “aware that Mr. Landis and Mr. St. John have testified under oath that this $125,000 payment of Mr. Landis’s money was for the purpose of con veying it to the attorney general of the State of Texas?” Navarro said he had heard about that testimony, and had heard that Landis’ $125,000 was given to an in termediary, Dallas businessman Gail Cooper, a campaign contributor and fundraiser for Mattox. But Navarro said he also under stood that Landis’ lawyer said he gave the $125,000 to Cooper as a consulting fee for his help in locat- Chinese sentence three men to death Officials parade other arrested pro-democracy activists on television Jim Mattox ing a new insurance carrier for Landis. Following Cooper’s involvement on Landis’ behalf, a judge reversed his $3.2 million default judgment against Landis after the attorney general’s office presented him with an overriding court order, the Dallas Morning News reported in a copy right story Thursday. BEIJING (AP) — Arrested pro-democracy activists with shaved heads and placards hanging around their necks were paraded on Chinese television Thursday, and three others were sentenced to death for torching a train during a riot. The executions, ordered by a Shanghai court, were the first in the nationwide crackdown on the student- led demonstrations for a freer China. Television news also said a student leader surren dered to authorities. More than 1,000 people have been arrested nation wide since army troops and tanks moved into Tianan men Square in Beijing on June 3-4 to suppress the movement, which called for freedom of the press and an end to official corruption. The violent confrontation touched off demonstra tions and riots in cities throughout China. On June 6, crowds set a train ablaze after it ran through a barricade erected by demonstrators near Shanghai station, killing six people. Official media reported 21 railway security officials were beaten by protesters. It said the rail line was closed for 50 hours, nine train carriages ruined and 900 bags of mailed burned. The three condemned men “frenziedly smashed the railway carriages and set fire to police motorcycles and the carriages” during the attack, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. “They also prevented firefight ers from extinquishing the fire and beat them cruelly.” Xinhua identified the men as Xu Guoming, a con tract worker at a brewery, Bian Hanwu, who is unem ployed, and Yan Xuerong, a radio factory worker. They were given three days to appeal. Seven more people were on trial in the case, Shang hai radio said. Another 26 workers were shown on the noon TV news being led by armed police onto a stage before a packed hall in the northeastern city of Changchun. Several had large placards around their necks giving their names and their sentence to labor reform, a type of prison. They were accused of instigating social un rest and spreading rumors. The placards were similar to a practice during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when ultra-leftist Red Guards paraded their victims through the streets wear ing humiliating signs on their chests. Senior leader Deng Xiaoping, who won the power struggle after Mao Tse-tung’s death in 1976, was among those persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. At the top of the government’s wanted list of dissent ers are 21 members of the student union that led the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. Official media announced Wednesday that two had been arrested. Television reports on Thursday said Xiong Wei, 23, a student at Qinghua University, turned himself in to Beijing police after traveling from the northeastern city of Shenyang with his mother. “He handed over materials he wrote to show his will ingness to fully resolve his problem,” it said as several documents were shown. The three top student leaders — Wang Dan, Wu’er Kaixi and Chai Ling — were among the 18 fugitives re maining on the wanted list. n't iur ness nb. 5-2611 /ertise ttalio 11 Feds issue drug indictments against TINS workers BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A six-month un dercover investigation has led to federal drug jindictments against nine people, including seven who worked at an Immigration and ’ laturalizadon Service detention center, au thorities said. The indictments, issued Tuesday in McAl len, were ordered unsealed Thursday after seven arrests were made, Assistant U.S. At torney John Crews said. Seven of those indicted had worked either lor the INS or a private security firm at the |Port Isabel Service Processing Center, where tndocumented aliens are detained before de ntation, authorities said. The center Thurs- lay had a detainee population of about 1,300. Eight suspects appeared Thursday af ternoon before U.S. Magistrate Fidencio ^arza and each was released on a $ 10,000 un secured bond. Garza scheduled their arraign- tent for Wednesday morning. The indictments allege that cocaine and marijuana was sold to someone working in co operation with investigators. Crews said. “The amounts of drugs are relatively small,” he said. “What makes it exceptionally Crews said no detainees were involved in the alleged offenses. Arrested and charged in indictments with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute “Wha. makes it exceptionally significant, to us, however, is that the offenses are alleged to have occurred either at the service processing center or by individuals employed by the United States.” — John Crews, Assistant U.S. Attorney significant, to us, however, is that the offenses are alleged to have occurred either at the service processing center or by individuals employed by the United States. “And it’s the position of this office that any amount is too much when it comes to that. We won’t tolerate it.” and possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilos of marijuana were Joe Rice, 25, of Brownsville, a Burns International Secu rity Services officer at the center; Orlando Castro, 29, of Brownsville, also a Burns offi cer; Jessie Hernandez, 33, of San Benito, a Burns officer; Conrado Medrano, 31, of Brownsville, an INS cook at the center; and Enrique “Ricky” Chavez, 31, of Brownsville. Arrested and charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and posses sion with intent to distribute less than 500 grams of cocaine were Conrado Medrano; Is rael Perez, 31, of San Benito, an INS deten tion enforcement officer at the detention cen ter; Jose Serna, 40, of San Benito, a Burns officer; and David Medrano, 25, of Brownsville, brother of Conrado Medrano. One men who was a detention officer at the processing center also has been charged in in dictments but was still at large late Thursday. Edmundo Nieto of Brownsville, who also was a detention enforcement officer, was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to dis tribute less than 50 kilos of marijuana. Nieto resigned his post with the INS in the past month, according to INS spokesman Vir ginia Kice. 23-year-old found dead in motel room A 23-year-old man was found dead Thursday afternoon in a room at the Ramada Inn at 1502 Texas Ave. A press release by the College Station Police Department said preliminary investigation indi cates a probable suicide. An autopsy has been ordered for the man, a resident of Port land, Ore., and an investigation is pending.