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slamic Dawn may
ree second hostage
College Station, Texas
Monday, April 30, 1990
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113 Si! BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A group
"lling itself the Organization of Is-
nic Dawn announced Sunday it
free American hostage Frank
d within 48 hours and said he
5 _carry a message for the U.S. gov-
lernment.
■ In Iran, a newspaper quoted an
Banian official as also saying Reed’s
tV Blease was expected by Tuesday
»V Hght after “extensive talks” between
Re kidnappers and Iran.
The announcement from the pre
viously unknown Islamic Dawn
'oup was delivered to the indepen-
•nt Beirut newspaper An-Nahar
Rree hours after an earlier un-
K ned communique said the U.S.
ucator — held for more than S'/a
Bears — will be freed by Tuesday.
I The later statement was accompa-
lied by a black-and-white picture of
■ bearded, smiling Reed to prove its
aullienticity. It claimed responsibil
ity for the earlier statement, sent
vith two other pictures to the inde-
fendent newspaper and a Western
lews agency.
The communiques were released
|ne week after a pro-Iranian Shiite
Moslem group freed American hos-
age Robert Polhill. Polhill, the first
American hostage to have been
reed since November 1986, was re-
:ased with the help of Syria.
Reed, 57, of Malden, Mass., is
narried to a Syrian Moslem woman.
Both statements were typewritten
n Arabic. The later one contained a
lenial of news reports that the first
ommunique promising Reed’s re-
ase was signed by the Organization
if Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar
Moukhtar Brigade, a shadowy
group that had initially claimed
Reed’s abduction on Sept. 9, 1986.
The statements, which did not say
what the message to Washington
would contain, left President Bush
and Reed’s relatives hopeful but cau
tious.
“I just won’t say anything,” Bush
said while golfing at Andrews Air
Force Base outside Washington. “If
that proves to be true, that’s wonder
ful.”
Leota Sprague, Reed’s 91-year-
old mother, said she has “to keep
faith.”
“It’s an awful thrust in your side
when you find out these things
aren’t true,” she said from her home
in Malden, Mass.
Bob Langston, Reed’s son-in-law,
said from his Malden home, “We’re
feeling cautious. It would be won
derful if this really happened. But
there have been so many false
alarms with the other hostages.”
In Iran, the Tehran Times quoted
the unidentified Iranian official as
saying “extensive talks” were going
on between the kidnappers and Iran
and a release was expected by Tues
day night.
The English-language newspaper,
considered close to Iranian Presi
dent H^shemi Rafsanjani, said in its
Monday edition that Iran asked the
kidnappers to free another captive.
The statements in Beirut were ac
companied by the first two photo
graphs of Reed to be released since
he was kidnapped and contained the
first news of Reed since his abduc-
Student shoots man, faces charfes
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DfThe Battalion Staff
A Texas A&M student faces ag
gravated assault charges after alleg-
:dly shooting a man Friday af-
ernoon during target practice
lutside a Bryan fraternity house.
A&M junior Heath Patrick Aber-
lathy, 21, was shooting a .22-caliber
ifle Friday outside the Sigma Alpha
ipsilon fraternity house in Bryan,
when a bullet went through the shed
he was shooting at and struck a man,
said Sgt. C. Farris of the Bryan po
lice.
Bart Collinsworth, 31, of Bryan,
was shot in the left arm and shoulder
outside Bruegging Paper Stock,
1919 S. FM 2818, while delivering
paper to be recycled.
Cpllinsworth/an employee of the
A&M Ocean Dplling Program, suf
fered minor injuries and was treated
and released from St. Joseph’s Hos
pital.
Abernathy was arrested on aggra
vated assault charges and released
on bond Friday.
Farris said the target was a ply
wood sign hanging in a tin shed be
hind the fraternity house where
Abernathy livi; At least onerf the
bullets fired Ji the targeljwent
through the vld and metalfiid hit
Collinsworth,Irris said.
The shed about 50 ftjjfrom
the Bruegginiuilding, he stj.
Several frarnity memb»f were
present neatlhe house win the
shooting occfred, but pole said
Abernathy w> the only pern near
the shed win Collimwoh was
shot.
Aggravate assault is a tird de
gree felonylarrying a mximum
punishmentif up to fie ears in
prison and/c a $10,000 Ine
B-CS escapes area tornado threits
By SUZANNE CALDERON
Of The Battalion Staff
Residents of College Station
and Bryan had a scare Friday eve
ning as a severe thunderstorm
passing through Brazos County
spawned numerous funnel
• See Cleanup/Page 3
clouds.
The Bryanand College Station
police departrents and the Bra
zos County Sheriffs’ Office said
they received no reports of dam
age from tie storm.
An offcial with t College
Station Police Depanent said
there were no reporof torna
does touching dowm College
Station. The only refts of tor
nadoes were in srounding
counties.
Jake Canglose, heof Brazos
County Civil Defer said the
only reports of desttion were
from Camp Allen Navasota
and across the Bra River on
Farm Road 60.
Bill Hookf, mainance man
ager at Camp Allenid the con
ference center at (camp and
one of their motelildings re
ceived extensive iiage from
the tornado.
He said appnnately 100
people were in tlconference
center at about m. Friday
when the tornado ck; but for
tunately, there weiD injuries.
“There were nirous funnel
clouds spotted B/CS) that
never came do Canglose
said. “They lookeme like clas
sic tornadoes, bt; were very
fortunate none iem got on
the ground andyed on the
ground. Most ciiem weren’t
what I would clasas real large
tornadoes.”
He said most rts in Bryan
and College Staiivere hail re
ports. There w%ne sightings
of baseball-sizec, he said, but
most reports Vof pea-sized,
marble-sized tgolfball-sized
hail.
It is normz have severe
weather this tiityear, but tor
nadoes in thisfjon’t happen
very often, Cat<e said.
“We do bbig thunder
storms quite ffntly, but they
don’t always in tornadoes,”
he said. “To iq tornado, you
have to get filiation of the
vortex withir thunderstorm
... once you ($ t hat it’s like a
miniature hq ie and away
she goes.”
i by Mike Mulvey
A funnel douches down
west of Bry-jday evening.
Speaker discusses
reforms in Poland
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
A member of the Polish Academy
of Sciences said Friday that peres
troika played a large role in the
downfall of the communist Poland
government and allowed major re
forms to occur in the former War
saw Pact country.
Dr. Janusz Reykowski, a Polish
psychologist and a former member
of the Polish Politburo, spoke during
a symposium on conflicts within and
among groups.
The symposium was sponsored by
the Texas A&M Department of Psy
chology.
The lecture centered around the
recent negotiations between the for
mer communist government in Po
land and Solidarity, the country’s
most powerful labor union.
Reykowski said $oviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika
policy was a large influence on the
reforms.
"Perestroika undermined the sup
port for the Polish government
gradually,” he said. “As a result, the
reformists got the upper hand.”
Reykowski said another major in
fluence leading to negotiations was
the Polish people had grown weary
of the government and openly op
posed it.
“The control of the government
gradually diminished,’ he said. “The
government based on this (commu
nist) system lost its use. They faced
growing opposition.”
A dramatic increase in college-ed-
See Poland/Page 7
Closet collects items
for student needs
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
If Texas A&M cups threaten to
overwhelm cabinet space in the
kitchen, there is a place to take them
where they will be appreciated.
The International Loan Closet
collects sheets, towels, plates, pans,
silverware, small appliances and
other household items, including
toys and A&M cups, for newly-ar
rived international students.
International students are told
during registration that the base
ment of Bizzell Hall West is left open
and they are welcome to take what
ever they want or need, Suzanne
Droleskey said. She is the assistant
international student advisor for the
Office of International Student
Services.
“That always surprises them,” she
said. “We operate completely on the
honor system, and we’ve had good
success with people taking what they
need.”
Droleskey said international stu
dents especially like the A&M cups
because they have the school’s name
on them. She estimates that if 1,000
cups are donated, at least 500 are
Texas A&M cups, and they go fast.
Keeping the closet in operation is
hard work, Droleskey said, but cam
pus offices, church groups and indi
viduals in the community have been
supportive.
Fish Camp and Student Services
donate lost and found items from
Fish Camp, like sheets and towels, if
they aren’t claimed after several
weeks.
Items for donation don’t have to
be in perfect condition or in com
plete sets.
“If having three mismatched
spoons bothers you, give them to
us,” Droleskey said. “They can make
a difference.
“If you have things you want to
donate but can’t get here because
you can’t drive or the items are too
heavy to lift, call us and we’ll either
arrange for someone to pick it up or
we’ll meet you at the bottom of the
stairs or the curb and bring it up for
you.”
Droleskey said that because most
airlines only allow two pieces of lug
gage per person, students do not
have room to bring household items
or toys for their children.
“They bring enough clothes to get
them started and allow their chil
dren to bring their favorite toy,”
Droleskey said. “Toys and childrens’
books go very fast.”
Other factors besides airline lug
gage limits make the closet a neces
sity for many students.
Like the American student pop
ulation, the international student
population is varied, Droleskey said.
Some students are the children of
foreign dignitaries or wealthy busi
nessmen while others have to scrape
up enough money to afford air fare.
More often than not, students are
not wealthy in their own countries.
Most could be Considered middle
class, but the rate of exchange is
sometimes skewed in favor of the
U.S. dollar, so they end up being
poor in the United States, Droleskey
said.
For example, someone from a
country with a poor rate of exchange
might have to work twice as many
See Closet/Page 7
Students stage |
demonstrations
in South Korea
UJLSAN, South Korea (AP) —
Thousands of workers and stu
dents fought running street bat
tles with riot police Sunday, and a
dissident tabor group called for
sympathy strikes to protest a po
lice raid on a strike-bound ship
yard. : ;
In Seoul and elsewhere, radical
students staged violent street,
demonstrations in protest against
the mid Saturday that crushed a
three-day strike at the world's
largest shipyard, the Hyundai
Heavy Industries Co. complex in
this port city 200 miles southeast
of Seoul.
Police reported some injuries
and arrests but gave no overall
figures.
In Ulsan, scattered street fight
ing continued amid a dense fog
of tear gas near the shipyard
throughout Sunday as about
3,000 workers staged running
battles with riot police.
Groups of up to 200 workers
attacked police with firebombs,
rocks and other projectiles after
grouping in alleyways near the
shipyard. Some workers used
slingshots to shoot rocks at the
police, who retaliated with tear
gas.
“Down with (President) Roh
Tae-woo!” workers shouted as
they raised clenched fists into the
air.. .
At one point, about 300 riot
police were driven by workers
into a small factory, where they
were cut oil for more than one
hour. Workers blocked the exit
piling broken furniture at the
I ni’s gate and setting it on fire.
e pdice were later rescued by
colleagues.
Angry' workers also used fire
bombs to torch a janitor’s office at
a Hyundai subsidiary near the
shipyard.
Some residents, believed to be
families of shipyard workers,
jeered at police. A young woman,
carrying a baby on her back,
pelted police with several eggs.
A police helicopter flew over
head.
Police in Uisan and other in
dustrial regions were put on an
increased state of alert Sunday as
a major dissident labor federation
called for a nationwide general
strike Tuesday, the May Day
workers’ holiday, in support of
the Hyundai shipyard workers.
The National Consultative
Council of Labor Unions, which
claims a membership of 180,000,
issued the strike appeal, charging
the police raid on die shipyard re
flected a new government crack
down on labor.
The government has vowed to
deal firmly with the current wave
of labor’unrest, saying the survi
val of die national economy is at
stake. ;
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