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^The Battalion sal \\\W | 1 ///y WEATHER MM- FORECAST for WEDNESDAY: Sunny and hot, with mild temps in the evening. HIGH: 90s LOW: 70s :redits ' the measure, Stt| , said it was lui ion of child care s are given certe ageiraes, we [hiri s, Dodd said. 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During a luncheon at the Plaza Club in Bryan, Williams told the group of about 100 leaders and Re publican followers that drugs are causing the people of Texas to lose three important values: freedom, opportunity and rules. “If I am elected, I will not have a state that is friendly toward drugs,” he said. “I plan to end the drug problem by increasing punishment measures for drug-offenders. I also would make law enforcement stronger, which will make criminals think twice before they commit a cri me.” Williams said people in prisons are living a college-campus lifestyle and if he is elected governor he will change this. “I would like to start a rehabilita tion center that would introduce first offenders to hard work,” he said. “They .would be sent to some thing similar to a boot camp. This would hopefully curb their appetites for crime.” Williams, who is vying for the GOP nomination, said he plans to use some of the values he learned while attending Texas A&M to be successful. “A successful governor has to be a successful salesman, persuader and problem-solver,” he said. “I have ex perience in these areas because I am a business man. I have created over 100,000 jobs in Texas cities, dealt in real estate and helped to solve prob lems at A&M.” Williams graduated from A&M in 1954. He has donated millions of dollars to the University, including $2.5 million for the funding of the Association of Former Students building. State Treasurer Ann Richards, a Democrat, and Buck Bonner, a Fairfield rancher and former justice of the peace, also have announced their candidacy. Mattox: Radioactive waste diposal plant may endanger west Texas’ water supply ODESSA (AP) — A controversial radioactive vaste disposal site in southeastern New Mexico ould damage West Texas’ limited water supply, ttorney General Jim Mattox said at a hearing Monday. The U.S. Energy Department is rushing too quickly to open the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., and should wait until the S. Environmental Protection Agency develops new groundwater standards, Mattox said. The Texas attorney general threatened to jblock the plant’s opening with a lawsuit if the de partment doesn’t respond to groundwater con- terns. “The public lacks confidence in this project and with good reason,” Mattox said. “The DOE (Department of Energy) is not ready to open the facility at this time.” Mattox echoed the concern of others who have commented during other public hearings in the last couple of weeks that leakage from the site could seep into groundwater and end up in the Pecos River, which he described as “a precious resource in this very arid part of the state.” Monday’s hearing in Odessa was one of several across the United States in which citizens were to comment about WIPP, where the government plans to store plutonium-contaminated, defense- related waste in a salt formation 2,150 feet un derground. pla open the site in October, but that probably would be before the EPA’s new groundwater standards are adopted. Hereford resident Georgia Auckerman, a member of a group opposing the project, agreed that the department should wait until the EPA standards are issued. “There’s no rush to put in that waste,” she said. “Why move it to someplace that isn’t re ady?” All the buildings at WIPP are completed and nine miles of tunnels have been bored into the salt. Pact will give A&M sister school in Taiwan FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS Students and faculty from the Medical College at Texas A&M will be teaming up with students at the Chang-Gung Medical Col lege of Taipei after a “sister school” agreement was signed Monday in Taipei, Taiwan. President William Mobley, Dean of Medicine Richard De- Vaul and Chang-Gung Medical College officials cemented the pact, which will open an ex change program between the two schools while giving students and faculty an opportunity to share research. Y.C Wang founded Chang- Gung Medical College in 1986 in memory of his father, and also founded four hospitals in Tai wan. Chang-Gung is a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, where Wang is chairman and chief executive. ns paws. Grouch, scowiinj the 8-foot-2-inci lower walls of tlif wheels to form ture to count the ‘Sesame Street’ 1 fun,” said mz Cooney's >p to help disad- ,e transition from ■ ision debut Nor lark iior scientist at ft a nographic Inst®- setts, said structun 1 him that the fe re battleship rat® rrender or allowiif vn by British firt ships tend to in one piece, appears the ett 1 ng its entire letijti >ded, stemtosterr ermans didn’t wa! orize,” he added at two years ear® he German pod pee scuttled afe the neutral port iguay, and attach . Hitler apparef ' the British fo crets of the l® on and weapons ittle, the Bismart 1 quickly knocked® $ British ships ler secondary g" 1 it was helpless of hits — its sin! All the Quad’s a stage The W.T. White High Caballeras practice a routine on the Quad Sunday. The Caballeras are at A&M for the American Drill Team Photo by Fredrick D.Joe School. They arrived Saturday morning and will return home to Dallas on Tuesday following an award and farewell ceremony. Chinese show no mercy toward protesters; officer says they ‘got what they deserved’ ourse 9,11 . was found by f n 15,000 feet of' 1 ides west of BfI (AP) — Demonstrators shot while it was in remaiv; . . J v , • , , i r ede ’-■mt well P ;1 fesist - in S t * ie arm y s drive to crush seven weeks ol ( ’ pro-democracy protests “got what they de served,” a senior military officer said Monday. | The official press said the Communist Party was prepared to expel members who participated in the student-led movement for a freer China, Suggesting a full-scale purge following Saturday’s announcement that moderate party chief Zhao Ziyang had been ousted from his party posts. » A U.S. Embassy spokesman said two Ameri- | Cans — a teacher and a student at Nankai Univer- | Sty in nearby Tianjin — were ordered to leave . Bhina by Friday. | Teacher Mark Radicia and student Helen Qu- Hain were being expelled because “evidently they ster phone: were very involved in the student movement,” he r | said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The ■ Hvo, whose ages and hometowns were not avail- tillable, were questioned by security forces, he said. 1S|Ba U.S. official said Monday in Washington that a group of 11 Americans who went to China ■gainst State Department travel advice were giharged by police in Kunming with distributing religious literature and ordered to remain in the I The Americans’ names and hometowns were Rot disclosed. The official, who spoke on condi- m tion of anonymity, said a U.S. diplomat was ! bound for Kunming from Chengdu to look into lie situation. He said the charge evidently was Hot a serious offense. I Li Zhiyun, one of the commanders of the June 3-4 military assault on Beijing, said he had “no Tied regrets” about what Chinese and foreign wit nesses have said was a massacre of unarmed resi dents and students. Li, speaking to foreign reporters invited to “When our troops moved to the square we received persistent resistance ... We were forced to defend ourselves. This group of people got what they deserved.” — Li Zhiyun, Chinese army commander tour Tiananmen Square, stressed the govern ment line that no shots were fired at students during the assault to remove thousands of stu dent activists from the square. “The whole process was non-violent. No one used guns,” he said. Li said troops shot into the air once, when “thugs” occupying a building to the southeast of the square opened fire, wounding one soldier. He acknowledged some innocent people “may have been wounded” when troops battled their way to reach the square, but he said people had been warned not to go out on the streets that night. “When our troops moved to the square we re ceived persistent resistance,” Li said. “Individuals even used guns to kill our warriors. We were forced to defend ourselves. This group of people got what they deserved.” The government puts the death toll from the assault at about 300 and says most were soldiers who were attacked by mobs. Chinese witnesses and Western intelligence reports say up to 3,000 people were shot to death or trampled by tanks as the military stormed the city. During a tour of the square, he said black burn patches on the pavement were caused by stu dents who set fire to tents to stop the troop ad vance. He called stories that troops had burned the bodies of students were “totally untrue.” The monument was decorated with banners reading “carry on the will of the revolutionary martyrs” —a reference to soldiers killed during the attack — and “promote the glorious tradi tions of the troops.” Bushes and grass around the monument had been replanted, and newly planted flowers bloomed in boxes between the monument and the mausoleum where Mao Tse-tung’s body lies in state. Li said the troops had “returned the square to the people” but could not say when it would be reopened to the public. He said some armed “thugs” were at large. About 1,800 people, including up to 500 in Beijing, have been arrested nationwide since the crackdown in Beijing prompted disturbances in many Chinese cities. Retarded Texas inmate escapes death sentence by High Court’s ruling HOUSTON (AP) — Mentally re tarded Texas death row inmate Johnny Paul Penry could have his sentence commuted to life in prison or face trial again now that the U : S. Supreme Court has thrown out his death sentence, attorneys said Mon day in the wake of the high court ruling. See related story/Paqe 6 The court ruled 5-4 Monday to uphold the constitutionality of exe cutions for mentally retarded people convicted of murder, but vacated Penry’s sentence by a 5-4 vote be cause a judge refused a defense at torney’s request at Penry’s 1980 trial for further instructions to a jury. “It doesn’t look like it’s saying our statute is invalid,” Bob Walt, an assis tant attorney general who handles capital cases, said Monday. “Ob viously, they also held that the Con stitution allows the execution of the mentally retarded.” The court rejected arguments that capital punishment always is im permissible for retarded murderers. But the justices said Penry’s trial judge should have agreed to defense requests and instructed jurors about the defendant’s retardation. “It looks like it’s (the court’s) say ing that in a very narrow holding, in some cases, on request there should be instructions given on consider ation of mitigating evidence in an swering special issues,” Walt said. “It would affect him and probably those people who requested special in structions. Normally, people don’t.” In Texas, jurors must agree on three questions before sentencing a convicted killer to death. Among the uestions is whether the killing was eliberate. One of the instructions sought by Penry’s trial attorneys was a definition of “deliberately.” “Prom what I read, it may only af fect Penry or everybody whose attor neys had enough sense to ask the judge to give the jury those instruc tions,” Curtis Mason, Penry’s attor ney, said. “It could affect more people than Penry. And there are quite a few death penalty cases where request has been made and the Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled there was no error in not giving further in structions.” Jurors who sentenced Penry were told they could consider all evidence presented by the defense, which in cluded testimony about Penry’s re tardation. Penry has an IQ estimated at between 50 and 60 and the rea soning capacity of a 7-year-old. Soviet nuclear submarine catches fire off Norway OSLO, Norway (AP) — A so viet nuclear submarine caught fire Monday off Norway, the sec ond such accident since April, but the Soviets said no radiation was released. Norway complained of a long delay in reporting the acci dent. Fire began on the Echo II class sub, built in the 1960s, when a re actor broke down 70 miles off the coast, Soviet and Norwegian offi cials said. The reactor was shut down and there were no casualties, the So viet Defense Ministry said. The vessel was bound for the Soviet naval base at Murmansk under auxiliary diesel power, accompa nied by other Soviet vessels, the ministry said. Adm. Vladimir N. Chernavin, the Soviet navy commander, said on Soviet television Monday eve ning the submarine’s nuclear weapons were safe after the acci dent and no radioactivity was re leased. He did not give the sub’s name. The authoritative British handbook “Jane’s Fighting Ships” says Echo II submarines are 380 feet long with crews of 90 and have eight missile silos built for cruise missiles. Johan Joergen Holst, the Norwegian defense minister, said “We were not Kv the Soviets but had to find out for ourselves” about the fire. He would not say how Norway learned of the accident, citing se curity considerations. Press re ports said a radio distress signal from the sub to its base probably was intercepted. Holst said Norway would test air and water in the area because “the information we have is not detailed enough to know if there was a radiation leak.” In Washington, the State De partment said Soviet claims of no radiation could not be confirmed until tests were completed. Norwegian intellegence learned of the accident at 5 a.m. and air force F-16 fighters con firmed half an hour later that smoke was billowing from it, he said. A cable from the Soviet For eign Ministry at 10 a.m., respond ing to an official Norwegian re- ? [uest for information, said the ire started at 4:30 a.m., Holst said. The Norwegian rescue center received word shortly before 10 a.m. that its helicopters and res cue vessels would not be needed. The center cooperates with the Murmansk rescue center under a 1988 agreement covering emer gencies at sea.