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Vol. 88 No. 186 USPS 045360 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
Thursday, August 10,1989
Ethiopia asks U.S. to help
in search for Rep. Leland
ADDIS ABABA. Ethiopia (AP) —
Ethiopia asked for help in the searrh
for a plane carrying U.S. Rep.
Mickey Inland and 13 companion*
and America responded bv sending
a fleet of rescue aircraft Wednesday
U.S. officials said
President Bush called the disap
pearance a matter “of great concern
to us" and said Ethiopia is "going to
get all the cooperation we can give
them" in the search, now in its third
day.
Sundown ended another dav of
the air and ground search with no
trace of the De Havilland Twin Ot
ter plane, but Robert Houdek. U.S.
charge d'afTairs in Addis Ababa,
said. “There are a lot of aspects that
give us cause for hope.”
Houdek said the plane was a
“great bush aircraft" capable of
landing in close, rough terrain, and
that the pilot. Assefa f'»ebrc-('»iorgi*.
was “the best damn bush pilot in
Ethiopia."
Cienre-Giorgis. a former Ethio
pian air force pilot, “knows Ethiopia
like the back of his hand." Houciek
said.
I>eland. 44. a Texas Democrat
who heads the House Select Com
mittee on Hunger, has taken a great
interest in A Inca's refugee proolrm
and was flying to the Fugnido refu
gee camp near the border with Su
dan. 480 miles southwest of the capi
tal of Addis Ababa
The congressman from Houston
arrived on Mondav and hours later
boarded the Twin Otter — a high
winged. short takeofT and landing
aircraft powered by two turboprop
engines. With him were eight other
Americans and five Ethiopians, in
cluding the pilot and co-pilot.
The plane took off in oad weather
for the camp. (*ebre-Giorgis made
his last radio contact 15 minutes out
of Addis Ababa and the plane never
arrived
Officials said nine or 10 Ethiopian
search planes were in the air at anv
one rime Wednesday, crisscrossing
an area of about 24,00() square miles.
Police, security officials and farmers
have conducted ground searc hes
Bush told reporters in the Oval
Eight other Americans missing
ADDIS ABABA. Ethiopia (AP) —
Here is a list of eight Americans who
were on a plane with Rep Mickev
Leland. D- Texas, when it disap
peared in Ethiopia, as provided on
Wednesday bv the State Department
in Washington:
Hugh Anderson Johnson. Jr. —
Iceland staff member
Patnce Yvonne Johnson (no rela
tion)— Iceland staff memlier.
J loyce Francme Williams — a staff
e to Rep Ronald V. Drllums. D-
Calif
Ivan L. Tillem — a New York City
investment bsnlter lawver. pub-
lishet and friend of Iceland
Robert Woods — pntitic a!-eco
nomic officer. U.S. Kmbasss.
(.ladvs Gilbert — of the U.S.
Agency for International Devel
opment
Thomas W'orrick — an acting U.S.
AID represenative.
Roberta Worrit k — spouse.
Alv* on board in addition to the
Ethiopian pilot and co-plot were an
officer from the Foreign Ministtv.
an officer of F thiopia s Research and
Rehabilitation Commission, and a
foreign national employee of AID.
Office that Defense Set retarv Rich
ard Chenev was “trying to find what
assets are available" for the rescue
effort
National Security Adviser Brent
Scowcroft reported that “the Ethio
pians have asked for our help . . .
Well, they’re getting it . . . Tney’re
going to get all the eoo|>eration we
can give them "
State Department spokeswoman
Margaret Tutwiler said that Marxist
Ethiopia "agreed to an overflight of
the area by a U-2 photo-reconnais
sance plane. A C-2I aircraft will be
sent to provide support for that
overflight.”
She said an Air Force C-141 Star-
lifter medical evacuation plane was
sent from West (iemianv on Bush's
authority carrying a 20-memher
medical team and search and rescue,
weather and communications per
sonnel
“IVfense is sending a number ol
aircraft . .. T wo HC-1S0 aircraft will
be deployed from . . . (Britain) later
today,” Tutwiler said. “. . . (The De
fense Department) is considering
sendme a C-5 cargo plane carrying
five UH-tK) helicopters." *
Houdek said one cause for hope
was “that we haven't found any
wreckage" in the rugged mountains
and high plateaus along the in
tended flight path.
Analysts predict law
will reduce earning
of profits by S&Ls
WASHINGTON (AP) The
savings and loan industry will
emerge leaner and more closely
regulated, but perhaps no better
able to earn a profit, as a result of
legislation signed bv President
Bush on Wednesday, analy sts say.
The bili, enacted six months af
ter Bush first called for emer
gency action to solve a crisis in
herited from the Reagan
administration, is expected to
profoundly alter and probably
drastically shrink a business that
has enjoyed a privileged position
in the nation’s finanoal system
for more than 50 years.
Savings and loans, because
they financed the American
dream of home ownership, have
been permitted to operate under
accounting standards and capital
requirements much more lax
than those applied to commercial
banks. .
No longer. In 120 days, thrift
owners will be required to back
every $100 in lending with $1.50
in tangible capital, wnwh will act
as a cushion between future losses
and government insurance
funds. By 1995, the standard will
reach $S. *
An estimated 77 percent of the
nation's 2.946 S&Ls meet the 1.5
percent standard and two-thirds
already satisfy the S pPrcent re
quirement that is more than five
years away, according to Sheshu-
noff & Co., a consulting firm in
Austin.
Those that can’t measure up
face takeovers by government
regulators or mergers with bigger
and stronger institutions Be
cause the legislation for the first
time permits banks to buy solvent
SfcLs. even prosperous institu
tions could be quickly scooped up
bv large holding companies anx
ious to expand their retail branch
network The bill makes it easier
for banks to smoothly integrate
thrifts into their operation.
Japanese leader names
two women to Cabinet
TOKYO (AP) — (•oveming pans
leader Toshiki Kaifu became prime
minister Wednesday after an un
precedented battle in Parliament,
and he immediately began trying to
build public support bv naming two
women to the Caoinet
Women voters, angry over a new
sales tax and a sex scandal involving
Kaifu's predecessor, were seen as a
major factor in the Liberal Demo
cratic Party's poor showing in parlia
mentary elections July 23.
In that vote, the Liberal Demo
crats lost their majority in the upper
house for the first time in their 34-
year history.
The opposition Socialists delayed
Kaifu's election by supporting So
cialist Party leader Takako Doi on
Wednesday . The Liberal Democrats
hold a majority in the more power
ful lower house, which chose Kaifu.
Under the constitution, the lower
house decision prevailed
It was the first time in 41 years the
chambers had clashed over lead
ership of the government.
“Todav, the door was only half-
opened. but I am determined to con
tinue to work to fully open this door
some dav,” Doi said.
Socialist Secretary-General Tsu-
ruo Yamaguchi told the Associated
Press that "politically, the upper
house vote has proven that this ad
ministration is only half an adminis
tration. and Kaifu is only half a
prime minister."
Kaifu told reporters the upper
house's move was a "severe conse
quence of our election defeat."
The search area was expanded
Wednesday to pact* «f Sudan south
of the Fugnido camp.
“They’re putting more resources
into the area around Mi/an Trier
and Guraferda. southeast ol Fug
nido." said John Guerra, a U.S. Flm-
hasss political and ccnnomicsofficer.
Guraferda is near an area where
people reported hearing a light
C ane circling a din landing strip
ondav. Guerra said, and “we have
to reiterate that these areas are so
isolated they could have put down
anyplace.”’
Tie described the region as "with
out any communication, virtually no
roads and sparsely populated.”
The plane carried an emergency
first aici kit. he said, and “we |iist
have to keep hoping they 're OK "
Guerra conceded that the Twin
Otter could have hit one of the manv
mountains along its path, some of
which reach heights of more tha"
l2.(XX)feet.
Also on the plane were three con
gressional staff members; a friend,
four Americans, including one
man's wife, from the U.S. FLinbassv
and the U.S. Agency for Interna
tional Development, and five Ethio
pians: three government officials,
the pilot and co-pilot. ,
An artist at work
Texas Highway Dept maintenance worker
Bob Vanvoikenburg of College Station (fore-
PhtHo by Kathy Ha*
ground) and Todd Tumknson of Bryan apply
yellow paint to the median on University Drive.
Suicide bomber attacks Israeli convoy
in Lebanon as hostage crisis continues
BEIRUT, Ijebanon (AP) — A sui
cide bomber attacked an Israeli con
voy in south Lebanon on Wednes
day. wounding six people in what
the pro-Iranian He/bnllah called a
down payment for Israel's abduction
of a Shiite Moslem c leric.
He/bollah said a Shiite clergy man
drove the explosives-laden pickup
truck.
It also said the seuure of Sheik
Abdul Karim Obeki hampered ef
forts to free the 16 Western captives
in Lebanon, eight of whom are
Amencans. He/boll.ih is belies ed to
be an umbrella organization for
groups holding most of the hostages
In Washington. President Bush
promised to pursue cyfry diplomatic
channel to win freedom for the
American hostages, hut said there
would be no "trading off or negotiat
ing."
A Tehran newspaper said Iran
would help free hostages if Israel re
leased Obeid and if four Iranians
missing m Lebanon since 1982. be
lieved long dead, were located On
Tuesday, another Tehran pa|>rr
said Iran would help if Washington
released $2 billion in Iranian assets
frozen a decade ago when the U.S.
F mhassy was sei/eo.
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fad-
lallah. spiritual adviser of Hezbollah,
said of the bombing: "We tell Israel
this is a down pay ment Much more
will follow."
He/bollah, whose name means
Party of (kid, said the suicide
tmmber was Sheik \%aad Birro, a 24-
vear-otd laTianese Shiite cleric from
the Bekaa V'allev. Israel said two
jx-ople were in the pickup, which ex
ploded at rndmoming in the butfer
’ See Hostages Page 4
Bush seeks Iranian aid in release of Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prest
dent Bush issued a new appeal to
Iran on Wednesday for help m win
ning the release of Americans kid
napped in Lebanon, promising to
pursue every diplomatk ayenue bui
saying he would not engage in "trad
ing otl or negotiating for hostages."
Bush said the lives of the hostage*
are “too precious for me to be stick
ing mv head in the sand and miss
some subtlety in this highly compli
cated corner ol the world."
He made his comments in a brief
question-and-answer session after
reports indicating that Iran’s new
president. Hashemi Rafsanjani,
would help obtain freedom for the
hostages if the United States re
leased billions of dollars in Iranian
assets impounded a decade ago.
The administration has rejected
linking the hostages and the assets,
and Bush said. "Mv view is to do
Campus construction may create
headaches during dorm check-in
By MIchMl Kelley
Ol The Battalion Statt
A new rhqfk-in procedure will be implemented for
south-side on-campus students returning foi the fall se
mester as a result of the ckising of l>ot 24. the parking
lot used by most South Area residents.
Tom Murray, assistant director of Student .Affairs,
said the limited parking might make moving in difficult
for on-campus residents
“We realize the problems the construction has cre
ated. so we have developed a plan that will hopefully
ease the check-in process for the students living in the
south-side residence halls." Murray said.
Student Affairs, in conjunction with Parking. Transit
and Traffic Services. Fo<»d Services, the Residence Hall
Association, and the University Police Department, has
created a plan that will allow students to unload their
belongings onto the sidewalk, then immediately park
their cars in an approved ’red’ (student) parking lot,
Murray said.
“We are hoping to alleviate the congestion normally
associated witn students checking into the residence
halls at one tune,” Murray said. "We will use our stu
dent workers and some of the parking police to watch
the students' piles of belongings whfle ihey go park
their car."
The three areas where students can drop off their
belongings are along "Mosher Lane." Biz/ell Street, and
Lubbock Street.
Murray said students should move their cars to l.ot
56 or 61 since shuttle buses will run from these lots to
the South Area halls. The buses will run from 1:00 p.m.
10:00 pm. on August 21. and from 7 oo .* m <> 00
p.m. for the remainder of the week.
Because more than 50 percent of on-campus stu
dents check-in on the first day, students who can wait
until after August 21 to move in should do so.
To further speed up the move-in process. Student
Affairs is encouraging those students whose homes are
relatively dose to the campus to bring as few belongings
as possible while checking into their dorms. The re
mainder of their belongings can then be brought to the
dorm at a later date when there are fewer students
checking in.
Food Service* will sell concessions at the corner of
LidBhnck and Bizzell streets. Carts will be provided in
the Sbuth Area l.obby to assist studenu in moving their
belongings to their rooms.
All residence halls will open at 1:00 p.m. on Monday
August 21, and the check-in process will continue until
the end of the first week of classes. Students who have
any questions or who need more information about
moving into the residence halls should contact Student
Affairs at 845-1229.
nothing that will be seen as quid pro
quo for hostages
Bush said there were mixed sig
nals I mm Iran about its intentions.
As for himself, he recalled the rhe
torical open hand he extended to
I ehran on the dav he took olfke.
“I’m not talking about terms, Tm
talking about talking to get people
out that are held against their will.”
he said. “And I think 1 covered that
pretty well in mv inaugural address
when I said goodwill will lieget good
will. And if ever there was a dearer
signal, in my view that's it.
"And if there are changes taking
place (in Iran) and signals that are
shifting, I don't want to miss a sig-
nal”
I he president and other adminis
tration leadri* denied that the
United State* was shifting its policy
about the way it deals with terrorists
and kidnapper*
Bush's administration bad flatly
ruled out any negotiations, but Bush
seemed to hint at some change in an
interview with the Btntnn Globe.
Finals Schedule
I Tie following is the final exam
vhedule:
• Classes meeting 8-9:35 a.nv:
- Thursday from 6-8 p.m.
• Clasaes meeting i(M 1:35 a.m.:
Friday from 8-10 j
• ( lasses meeting 12-1:35 p.m.:
Friday from 11 a.m.- I pan.
• (.lasses meeting 2-3:35 p m :
Friday from 2-4 p.m.