Tuesday, October 10,1989
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Salinas announces
end to monopoly
on news imports
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) —
President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
said Monday he will end a govern
ment-controlled monopoly on the
importation and sale of inexpensive
newsprint in Mexico, leaving pub
lishers to buy their paper where they
will.
The monopoly has been used in
past years to retaliate against news
papers that failed to toe the govern
ment or ruling Institutional Revolu
tionary Party’s line by making it
difficult or expensive for dissidents
to buy newsprint.
“Allow me to announce that, once
we sell PIPSA, we will allow free and
total importation of newsprint, and
thus avoid a monopoly by certain
groups that could affect freedom of
press expression,” Salinas told 450
members of the Inter-American
Press Association meeting here.
Salinas was greeted with a stand
ing ovation and shouts of “bravo,
bravo” when he announced the sale
of Productora e Importadora de Pa-
pel, S.A. de C.V., popularly known
by its Spanish initials of PIPSA,
which is jointly owned by the gov
ernment and long-established news
papers.
Salinas did not give any deadline
for the sale in his speech at the open
ing session of lAPA’s 45th annual
general assembly in this capital of
Nuevo Leon state, about 150 miles
south of Laredo.
IAPA has about 1,300 members in
the United States, Canada, Latin
America and the Caribbean.
PIPSA was founded by President
Lazaro Cardenas in 1935 when
world prices of newsprint skyrock
eted and Mexican publishers were
hard pressed for money.
It imported newsprint duty-free
and distributed it among affiliated
newspapers, virtually all of which
were sympathetic to the Institutional
Revolutionary Party.
When PIPSA’s charter expired in
1965, the members voted to renew it
for another 30 years.
But Salinas has been pressing for
the monopoly’s dissolution since he
took office Dec. 1, as part of a cam
paign to cut government subsidies,
encourage competition in the free
market and encourage greater press
freedom in Mexico.
Minister maintains
subpoena part of plot
by FBI to ruin him
CHICAGO (AP) — Black Muslim
minister Louis Farrakhan contends
that a subpoena ordering him to dis
close information about a 1982 slay
ing is part of an FBI plot to destroy
him, his attorney said Monday.
The controversial Farrakhan is
not considered a suspect in the slay
ing, but he and two fellow Nation of
Islam ministers were ordered to re
veal information they gathered dur
ing their own probe of the Texas
death, said James Montgomery, an
attorney for Farrakhan.
The slaying of Nation of Islam
minister Raymond Wattlington,
whose dismembered body was found
in a river near Houston in April
1982, has never been solved.
But a grand jury was recently con
vened in Harris County after a black
Muslim imprisoned in Chicago on
federal bank robbery charges told
FBI investigators of Farrakhan’s pri
vate probe into Wattlington’s death,
Montgomery said in a telephone in
terview.
“The anti-terrorist unit of the FBI
energized the prosecutor’s office in
Harris County, Texas, to reopen this
investigation based on allegations
made by this fellow, ” Montgomery
said.
The jailed Muslim, identified only
as “Theron” by the lawyer, was “in
terrogated by the anti-terrorist sec
tion of the FBI with a view toward
getting some sort of information
that might implicate Louis Farrak
han in something criminal,” Mont
gomery said.
FBI officials declined to discuss
the case and Harris County authori
ties could not be reached for com
ment.
Wednesday
MSC POLITICAL FORUM INSIGHT: will have an informal roundtable discussion on
South African apartheid with Dr. Yarak from noon until 1 p.m. in 027 MSC.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC JOURNALISTS: will meet at 7 p.m. in
215 Reed McDonald. For more information call Suzanne at 847-0733.
WOMEN’S BONFIRE COMMITTEE: meets at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
FLORICULTURE—ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in
102 Horticulture Forestry Sciences Building.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: scholarship applications
are available in the BANA office, 401 Blocker.
HELLENIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8 p.m. at Mr. Gatti’s Pizza on
University Dr.
BETA ALPHA PSI: will have a professional meeting with Peat Marwick at 6:30 p.m.
at the College Station Hilton. Dress professionally.
PHI BETA LAMBDA: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Blocker. Check the billboard for room
number.
P.A.I.D.: will meet for a power lunch from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Dixie Chicken.
AGRICULTURE COMMUNICATORS OF TOMORROW: will meet at 7 p.m. in 214
Reed McDonald.
OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will sponsor a seminar on conservation titled
“One Earth-One Chance” at 6 p.m. at The Grove.
AGGIES ABROAD CLUB: Dr. Beeches will discuss Spain at 8:30 p.m. in 501 Rud
der.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will have Bible study with hot lunch at noon at the
Baptist Student Union.
CATHOLIC SINGLES: will have happy hour from 6 until 7:30 p.m. at Sundance.
CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD: Father Kitten and Danny Borst will discuss the
differences between order priests and regular priests at 9 p.m. in Lounge B.
NEWMAN CLUB: will take a mid-week study break anqj join in the celebration of a
creative liturgy at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Student Center.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie Supper from 6 until 7:20 p.m. at
A&M Presbyterian Church.
UNDERGRADUATE GENETIC SOCIETY: Dr. Westhusen from Grenada will speak
at 7 p.m. in 107 Biochemistry.
TAMU BAHAI CLUB: will have a discussion on world peace titled “The Promise of
World Peace" from 8:30 until 10 p.m. in 230 Rudder.
COLLEGE REPUBLICANS: Alvin Williams, Deputy Director of Black Outreach and
Youth Coordinator for the Republican National Committee, will speak at 8:30
p.m. in 701 Rudder. For more information call Joe Tremble at 847-1701.
TAMU KITEFLYERS: will meet and elect officers at 8:30 p.m. in 231 MSC. For more
information call Tamara Joyce at 696-6710.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discusssion at 8:30 p.m. For more
information call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. For more in
formation call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
NATIONAL AGRI—MARKETING ASSOCIATION: will have a meeting about re
sume writing at 7:30 p.m. in 113 Kleberg.
S.W.A.P.: will have an open poetry and short fiction reading at 8 p.m. on the second
floor of Rudder in front of the theater.
EUROPE CLUB: will have its regular weekly meeting at 10:30 p.m. upstairs at
Sneakers. For more information, call 693-3924, 693-0056 or 696-1413.
BONFIRE RELOAD CREW: will have its first training session at 7 p.m. in 701 Rud
der.
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Widow informed husband’s prisoner-of-war stories were lies
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nancy Fife never
doubted her husband had been scarred in mind
and body by his Viet Cong captors, that he was a
tarnished and troubled war hero.
The night nearly 20 years ago, when her
sneakers seemed to drive Robert Fife berserk,
was all the proof she needed. Fife told her later
that his captors used to wear sneakers when they
came to his bamboo cage to beat him and urinate
on him, and that the enemy soldier he strangled
when he escaped also was wearing canvas shoes.
Then there was the manuscript her husband
left when he died this summer at the age of 46 of
self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning — 449
pages of vivid Vietnam experiences.
But Fife had never been to Vietnam, let alone
been a hero.
Misled by Fife, his therapist. Dr. Corydon
Hammond, had concluded that he suffered from
post-traumatic stress syndrome and was “very
much a casualty of the Vietnam War.” A letter
Hammond wrote after Fife’s death included a
general account of what he believed was his pa
tient’s Navy war experience — 15 days of tor
ment as a prisoner of war after the USS Ranger-
based F-4 Fighter on which Fife was navigator
was shot down in early 1966.
“He was clearly depressed, guilt-ridden, an
gry, alienated from people and viewed the world
in a very negative manner as a result of his mili
tary service experiences, particularly as a pris
oner of war,” Hammond wrote.
But Fife’s heroic identity was adopted to cover
a lifetime of failure.
His image, maintained through 23 years of
marriage, was shattered only when his widow
tried to have his name included on the state’s
Vietnam War memorial, using the letter from
Hammond as part of her evidence.
The Utah Vietnam Era Veterans Memorial
Committee decided last month after some debate
to place Fife’s name on the granite and marble
structure, to be dedicated Saturday.
Fife’s would have been the last of 390 names
on the memorial. But while an artisan was pre
paring to engrave Fife’s name, an Associated
Press reporter who had searched unsuccessfully
for veterans who served with the dead hero told
Mrs. Fife that her husband had lied.
“I feel like I’ve been raped,” Mrs. Fife said af
ter being told of the deception revealed by Navy
records. After a great deal of anguish, she de
cided to tell the truth to her 21-year-old son and
her 19-year-old daughter.
“Intellectually I know I have the right to be an
gry,” she said, “but even with all of this I First
need to understand it all.”
Fife didn’t usually talk much about Vietnam,
but his wife had accompanied him to his first ses
sion with Hammond in 1986, when he used the
old fiction to try tojustify his life.
Fife had acquired a certiFicate, purportedly
from the USS Ranger Committee, listing the
medals he said he had burned at the time to pro
test bad treatment of Vietnam veterans. They in
cluded the Navy Cross, the service’s highest
award for valor.
At the reporter's request, Jeannie Kirk, head
of the Navy’s Awards and Special Projects
Branch, tracked down Fife’s real Navy records.
They showed he enlisted in September 1965
and was discharged eight months later as medi
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foot during childhood that hadn’t mended prop
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Fife wanted to be remembered as the hero in
his manuscript, not as a man obsessed by the cir
cumstances of his birth. Fife never knew his fa
ther and blamed his mother for making him “a
bastard,” a sister, Lynda Turcsanski, said.
Friends and relatives knew Fife as unreliable,
angry, a dreamer, a failed businessman who
gambled away $172,000 of a partner’s money, a
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MSC
Political
Forum
Insight
Noontime Roundtable Discussion
Wednesday, October 11
12-1 p.m.
027 MSC
Dr. Yarak ( History Dept.) will discuss South African
Apartheid. This will be an open forum
discussion. Students and faculty are welcome.
Admission is free.
This program is presented tor educational
purposes, and Political Forum does not
necescarily endorse any views presented.