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By Mia Moody
STAFF WRITER
layton Williams Jr.
Former student and gubernato
rial candidate Clayton Williams Jr.,
Class of ’54, told Bryan-College Sta
tion community leaders Friday he
would not tolerate the drug problem
in Texas if he wins the election.
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.
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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.
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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’
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ides west of BfI (AP) — Demonstrators shot while
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( ’ 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.