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Monday, April 23,1990
Hostage freed
Pro-Iranian captors
release U.S. prisoner
Vol.89 No.137 USPS 045360 14 Pages
EARTH DAY ’90
Movement’s anniversary
rejuvenates public interest
in environmental protection
Associated Press
Millions of Americans cleaned up
beaches and roadsides, planted trees
and listened to music with a message
as they celebrated the 20th anniver
sary of Earth Day, the “environmen
tal teach-in” that launched a
movement.
In all, some 3,600 American cities
and towns mustered forces to reju
venate the environmental movement
that was launched by the original
Earth Day in 1970.
“I get a real sense of a renewal,
and a kind of rededication, that will
provide the support for change at
the grass-roots level,” said John Mc-
Lachlan, scientific director at the
National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences in Research Trian
gle Park, N.C. “There’s a sense of
urgency that hasn’t been there.”
Thousands watched a hot-air bal
loon — decorated as the Earth —rise
in New York’s Times Square where
the ball falls on New Year’s Eve. The
Environmental Protection Agency
unveiled a fleet of cars and trucks
powered by alcohol, natural gas and
electricity in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Students at Susquehanna Univer
sity in Pennsylvania buried a paper
mache “Old Earth” containing a
plastic foam cup, aerosol can, dispo
sable diaper and container of leaded
gasoline.
At a gathering of 125,000 people
at the U.S. Capitol in Washington,
several activists criticized President
Bush for spending the weekend fish
ing in Florida.
One was Peter Bahouth, president
of Greenpeace USA, who brought
with him a life-size cardboard cutout
of Bush.
Gaylord Nelson of The Wilder
ness Society, who originated the first
Earth Day when he was a senator
from Wisconsin, called for a grass
roots campaign to keep the spirit of
Sunday’s celebratio/rs alive in the
years to come.
“I don’t want to come back here
20 years from now and have to tell
your sons and daughters that you
didn’t do your duty,” Nelson, 74,
told his listeners. “We’ve got to raise
aconservation generation.”
Pennsylvania’s Gov. Robert P. Ca
sey led an “All Species Parade” in
Philadelphia, playing the pied piper
to children dressed in animal cos
tumes made from recycled materi
als, and at least one marcher got the
point.
We must recycle, said eleven-year-
old Lauren Derby of Philadelphia,
Earth Day In Mexico/Page 14
“so that the future generation can
have a nice Earth and a nice environ
ment.”
Hall and Oates, the B-52s, the Sat
urday Night Live Band and Edie
Brickell and the New Bohemians
were among the performers in New
York’s Central Park, where an esti
mated 300,000 people turned out.
On an expressway near the
Charles River in Boston, artists used
biodegradable chalk to draw a half-
mile-long, multi-colored tableau of
birds, butterflies, flowers and mes
sages like “Recycle!” and “Save The
Earth.”
Photo by Fredrick D. Joe
Nineteen-year-old Gena Wood
brought her world to the Earth
Day celebration at the A&M Re
search Park Sunday.
Crystal Johnson, a student from Oakwood Middle
School, pets a Kemps-Ridley turtle that was on
display at the Earth Day fair Sunday at the A&M
Photo by Steve Noreyko
Research Park. The turtle was exhibited in order
to promote awareness of endangered animals
such as Kemps-Ridley turtles.
Top officials believe communism dying
By TIMM DOOLEN
Of The Battalion Staff
Gorbachev is for Lithuanian inde
pendence, said Nikolay Shishlin, ad
viser and friend to Mikhail Gorba
chev, Friday night at the Wiley
Lecture Series.
“But it is impossible to solve all the
problems in one night,” said Shish
lin, deputy chief of the Propaganda
Subdepartment of the Communist
Central Party. He said the Soviet
Union must worry about economic
ties and the interests of national mi
norities.
Dr. Kenneth Adelman, Director
of the Arms Control and Disarma
ment Agency under Ronald Reagan,
refuted Shishlin’s arguments by say
ing, “the Soviet Union itself has not
been so gracious in protecting mi
norities.” He also said he does not
approve of the way Gorbachev is try
ing to coerce Lithuania by cutting
off energy and food. “What the Lith
uanians are saying is they have the
right to independence,” he said. Ad
elman said most of the governments
in the world, including the United
States, have been “way too soft” on
the Lithuanian situation.
Shishlin said he believes Lithuania
will be independent, but other coun
tries should not interfere in the
process. He said outside interfer
ence would be comparable to inter
ference by the Soviet Union during
See Communism/Page 12
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Pro-
Iranian kidnappers freed American
hostage Robert Polhill in Beirut Sun
day after nearly 39 months of captiv
ity. He was the first American hos
tage to be released in nearly 3-and-a-
half years.
The White House said a U.S.
plane would take Polhill to West
Germany for debriefing and a medi
cal exam before he returns to the
United States. Spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater thanked Iran and Syria for
their roles in the release.
“I’m very happy and grateful to
all the people who spent time on my
case,” Polhill said in a Syrian TV in
terview. But he added: “I’m still
deeply concerned about my two
friends and others who are still held
in the conditions I was held in.”
Seventeen Western hostages re
main in Lebanon, .including seven
Americans.
Polhill, 55, of New York was freed
near the seaside Summerland Hotel
in Moslem west Beirut at 5:15 p.m.
(10:15 a.m. EDT) and driven imme
diately to Damascus. He was to be
handed over to U.S. Ambassador
Edward Djerejian at the Foreign
Ministry, Syrian sources said.
Terms of the release, which fol
lowed a series of communiques from
the Shiite Moslem kidnappers, were
not known.
Polhill’s mother, Ruth Polhill of
Fishkill, N.Y., was overjoyed at the
release and said she hoped to see her
son when he returns to the United
States.
“Maybe I’ll have control of myself
by that time,” she told CNN.
Guards outside the Summerland
Bush makes comments/Page 13
who witnessed the release said Pol
hill appeared thin and hunched as
he stepped out of a car that
screeched to a halt in a street about
50 yards from the hotel.
He was immediately picked up by
a three-car Syrian convoy and driven
off at high speed.
The Syrian TV footage showed
Polhill being driven through Beirut,
sitting in the back of a car and puf
fing heavily on a cigarette. He ap
peared drawn after his long ordeal
and smiled wanly several times.
Polhill, a professor • of business
studies and accounting at Beirut
University College, was one of three
American educators held by the pro-
Iranian Islamic Jihad for the Liber
ation of Palestine since Jan. 24,
1987.
The other two are Alann Steen, a
native of Boston who turned 51 on
Sunday, and Jesse Turner, 42, of
Boise, Idaho. The three were kid
napped from the Beirut University
College campus by gunmen dis
guised as police officers.
The last American hostage to be
freed was David Jacobsen, former
director of the American University
Hospital in Beirut. He was kidnap
ped in Beirut May 28, 1985, and was
released Nov. 2, 1986.
Polhill’s Lebanese wife, Feryal,
went to Damascus from Beirut after
the kidnappers said they would re
lease one hostage. It was not known
whether they had been reunited.
Officials seize drugs,
arrest 2 A &M students
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
Two Texas A&M students face
narcotics charges after local law
enforcement officials seized a
mailed package containing almost
one pound of mushrooms and
discovered several suspected
marijuana plants in their home.
Brian Patrick Wieland, 19, was
arrested Friday night on a charge
of aggravated delivery of psilocy
bin, a mushroom derivative, a
charge of possession of mari
juana, and a charge of aggravated
possession of narcotics.
Todd Randall Ehrlich, 20, also
was charged with possession of a
controlled substance and posses
sion of marijuana.
Wieland posted bonds totaling
$16,000 — a $10,000 bond for
the aggravated delivery charge,
$5,000 for the possession of mari
juana charge and $1,000 for ag
gravated possession.
Ehrlich posted bonds totaling
$11,000 — a $10,000 bond for a
possession of the controlled sub
stance charge and $1,000 for the
possession of marijuana charge.
Agents with the Brazos County
Narcotics Task Force intercepted
a package bound for California
on Thursday containing 420
grams, approximately one
pound, of a substance suspected
of being psilocybin. It later was
determined to be the mushroom
derivative by the Department of
Public Safety laboratory in Aus
tin.
Police said Wieland’s name and
address were listed on the pack
age as the return address.
A search warrant was obtained
for Wieland’s home, where police
said they founds 15 suspected
marijuana plants valued at
$7,500, a bag containing less than
two ounces of suspected mari
juana, a bag containing suspected
psilocybin and paraphernalia.
Both men were arrested at that
time and charged by police.
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Animal Science professor goes beyond his call of duty
By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
Mentor, educator, friend.
These are only a few words one Texas
A&M professor is decribed as by many of
the students who swarm to his office for ad
vice.
Dr. Howard Hesby, an associate profes
sor of animal science, has been teaching at
A&M since 1971 and has helped students
with classes and getting jobs. He also has
helped graduated students who have come
back to talk to him.
“I think he is one of the few faculty mem
bers who is truly concerned with students
and not only concerned with the material
he is teaching,” Jud Chappell, a senior ani
mal science major, said. “Dr. Hesby is al
ways available, and even though he is very
busy he always finds time to talk to stu
dents. He’s practically in the Kleburg build
ing 24 hours a day.”
Presently, Hesby teaches classes such as
ANSC 107, Introduction to Animal Sci
ence, and an Animal Science Agribusiness
Preparatory Course, called the “barbecue
dass.”
“The barbecue class is like a resume
course in which it helps students with their
interview skills and how to get a job,” Hesby
said. “The main purpose is to help students
get ready to do interviews and help them
find what they want to do after they grad
uate.”
The barbecue class meets every Wednes
day night, and acquired its name because
it’s an informally structured course, Hesby
said.
Chappell said the barbecue has helped
him improve his resume and interview
skills.
“Even though I already had my resume
done, I’ve improved it even more through
the barbecue class,” Chappell said. “It has
helped me with my interview skills because
of the practice I get with the interview room
and Dr. Hesby’s advice.”
Hesby also has an interview room with
cameras in which students can practice
their interview skills for the class.
He said the room is open to all animal sci
ence majors and that it is helpful for the
students to learn to sell themselves to the
employers.
In the room, the students participate in
mock interviews so they get a feel of what it
is like to interview as well as to be inter
viewed, he said.
Sharon Maberry, a senior agricultural
journalism major, said Hesby helps prepare
students for their future.
“He has helped students with interviews
outside of class and writes recommendation
letters for students to companies they want
to work for," Maberry said. “He has also
helped me a lot in writing many recommen
dation letters.”
One student said Hesby helped her find
the kind of job she would enjoy when she
graduated.
“He really helped me focus on what I
really want to do career-wise,” senior ani
mal science major Kristen Sheely said. “I
knew what I wanted to do but I didn’t know
what area I would work in the best and Dr.
Hesby helped me with that. He really does
care about students. He even helped me,
find the job I have on campus now.”
Outside the classroom Hesby teaches the
January Animal Production Field Study
Course trip. He takes students to areas sucha
as West and South Texas to help them bet
ter understand animal production and see
different operations.
One class field trip he sponsors and orga
nizes every year during spring break is the
Animal Science Agribusiness — Public Af
fairs Field Study Course.
This year he and assistant instructor
John Walter organized the trip to Washing
ton D.C., New Jersey and New York City.
The group met with the National Cattle
men’s Association, the USDA, various con
gressmen, toured the United Nations
Headquaters and the New York Stock Ex
change and did a lot of sight seeing.
“Dr. Hesby is the major force to instigate
trips and the trips he organizes are always
great programs,” Maberry said.
Having been raised on a livestock farm in
Eastern South Dakota, Hesby has come a
long way. He received his undergraduate
degree in animal science from South Da-
See Hesby/Page 8
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
Robin Thomas, a junior animal science major, talks to Dr. Howard Hesby
about a possible career path. Hesby’s duties include undergraduate tea
cher, advisor, career counselor, placement director of co-op edu
cation/internship coordinator and swine researcher.