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College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 3,1990
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
David Peeters and his girlfriend Bonnie McCain fields during Wednesday afternoon’s windy
fly a Trlby Six-Pack stunt kite on the intramural weather. Winds are expected to continue today.
Task Force makes 19 arrests
Official: Roundup stems from 45 drug-related grand jury indictments
By KATHY COX
I Of The Battalion Staff
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The Brazos County Narcotics
Task Force arrested 19 individuals
indicted for drue-related activities
and seized 10 vehicles Wednesday,
Brazos County Sheriff Ron Miller
said.
The task force, which consists of
members from Bryan, College Sta-
|tion and University police depart
ments, teamed up with officials from
| the Brazos Valley Narcotics Task
Force and the Department of Public
Safety in the busts, which spanned
three counties, Miller said.
“We feel like the operation was a
success,” he said.
Officials hope to net 46 individu
als and 16 vehicles in this series of
busts.
Miller said the roundup is a result
of 45 drug-related indictments by a
grand jury. Most of the indictments
concerned cocaine, he said, but a few
were for marijuana.
Officials normally try to limit
these operations to about 50 sus
pects, Miller said. They hope to be
gin another similar operation soon,
he said.
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Federal crackdown on racial crimes
puts white supremacists behind bars
DALLAS (AP) — Five white su-
f iremacists convicted under a new
ederal crackdown on hate crimes
were sentenced Wednesday to jail
terms ranging from four to nine
years for conspiring to violate the
civil rights of minorities.
The sentences will put other hate
groups on notice that racial crimes
!carry a heavy penalty, said the lead
prosecutor in the case against the
itive members of the Confederate
Hammerskins.
“The message today was sent by a
l federal district court judge in the
form of some very substantial sen-
! tences,” said Barry Kowalski, a pros-
i ecutor with the U.S. Justice Depart
ment’s civil rights division.
An all-white jury found the skin
heads guilty March 1 of defacing a
| synagogue and Jewish community
! center in 1988 and chasing African
| Americans and Hispanics from Rob
ert E. Lee Park in Dallas that same
| year.
Former Confederate Ham
merskins had testified the group
I planned to pump cyanide gas into
| Temple Shalom. Defense attorneys
j said the group intended only to cut
an air-conditioning unit hose, de
priving the temple of cool air.
U.S. District Judge Barefoot
Sanders sentenced Jon Lance Jor
dan, 19, of Garland, to eight years,
five months in prison and Daniel Al-
vis Wood, 20, of Dallas, to nine
years, six months. They were both
convicted on two counts of conspir
ing to violate the civil rights of mi
norities and one count of firearms
violations.
The other three were convicted of
two counts of conspiring to violate
the civil rights of minorities.
Sean Christian Tarrant, 20, of
Dallas, got a nine-year term. Michael
Lewis Lawrence, 22, of Tulsa, Okla.,
was sentenced to four years, nine
til
It’s a good and a bad
day. It’s a bad day we have
to do this kind of thing. It’s
a good day the system
worked.”
— Kenneth Roseman,
rabbi
months while Christopher Barry
Greer, 25, of Irving, was sentenced
to six years, six months.
The men could have faced up to
10 years in prison and fines of
$250,000 on each count.
Sanders emphasized he was not
sentencing the so-called “skinheads”
for their beliefs, but rather for en
dangering the community.
Skinheads, characterized by their
closely shaven heads, generally es
pouse a philosophy of intolerance
Mandela, de Klerk meet
Both South African leaders call for abolition
of apartheid, discuss cessation of minority rule
CAPETOWN, South Africa (AP) — President F.W.
de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson
Mandela on Wednesday urged the swift abolition of
apartheid and began historic talks aimed at ending
white-minority rule.
The three days of meetings are to remove obstacles
to full-scale negotiations on a new constitution that
would give the 28-million black majority a voice in na
tional affairs for the first time.
De Klerk and Mandela, standing on the lawn of a
Dutch colonial mansion where the talks were held, said
South Africans of all races want swift change. All politi
cal parties must work toward a peaceful solution to ra
cial and political divisions, they said.
Nearby, the pro-apartheid Conservative Party
walked out of a debate in Parliament to protest the
talks. The Conservative leader, Andries Treurnicht,
said the government should not negotiate with an orga
nization that has carried out guerrilla attacks and still is
committed to armed struggle.
“South African law forbids all these actions,” said
Treurnicht, whose party is the main opposition in Par
liament’s white chamber. The tri-cameral Parliament
also has chambers for people of mixed-race and Indian
descent. Blacks are excluded.
Mandela, in a statement before the talks began, said,
“The pace at which we move to arrive at a just solution
should be informed by the fact that the black masses of
our country demand and expect fundamental change
now, and not tomorrow.
“The people as a whole want the peace and stability
that can only come about as a result of the total aboli
tion of the apartheid system,” he said.
But de Klerk warned that violence that has claimed
more than 500 lives in the past three months threatens
such change. Much of the violence has been among
black groups with differing views of a future South Af
rica.
“The vast majority of South Africans desire the nego
tiation process, aimed at a new constitution, to get
started in all earnestness,” de Klerk said. “The govern
ment wishes this to happen as soon as possible and is
consequently approaching the talks with the utmost ear
nestness.”
The ANC demands the release of all political prison
ers, lifting of the state of emergency and the return of
exiled activists as preconditions to constitutional nego
tiations.
The government, meanwhile, is demanding the
ANC, a guerrilla movement, renounce its largely dor
mant armed struggle.
The talks are the first between a white government
and an ANC delegation since the organization was
founded in 1912. The discussions are being held at the
Groote Schuur estate, once the official home of South
African presidents.
The two sides said they plan to make no further com
ment on the talks until they adjourn Friday.
Seven arrest teams with five mem
bers each worked to make the ar
rests, Miller said.
Texas Alcohol Tobacco and Fire
arms agents were also on hand,
Miller said. Federal charges could be
served if an arrestee is found to be
violating parole by carrying any
weapons, he said.
Tnree individuals already had
been arrested Monday and Tuesday
using warrants under the organized
crime statute, Miller said.
Arrests took place in Bryan, Col
lege Station, rural Brazos County
and two other counties, he said.
against Jews, African Americans,
Hispanics and homosexuals.
Only Wood appeared in court
Wednesday with his head shaved.
Sanders ordered each to pay resti
tution to the synagogue and Jewish
community center. Each defendant
was ordered to pay $877, except for
Jordan, who was ordered to pay
$4,385.
The judge also ordered three
years’ supervised probation for each
of the five following their release
from prison.
Wood was previously sentenced
by a state court to 10 years in prison
and fined $5,000 for spraying swas
tikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the
synagogue. His federal sentence will
run concurrently with the state sen
tence, Sanders said.
Defense attorneys appealed for le
niency, citing the youth of the men
and their family backgrounds. Seve
ral are married and have children.
“It’s a good and a bad day,” said
Rabbi Kenneth Roseman of Temple
Shalom. “It’s a bad day we have to do
this kind of thing. It’s a good day the
system worked.”
Roseman, who watched the sen
tencing with a concentration camp
survivor, praised Sanders for his “re
markable” handling of the case.
Roseman and Kowalski noted
Sanders imposed longer prison
terms in each case than recom
mended by federal sentencing
guidelines.
Engineering
professor faces
assault charges
By BILL HETHCOCK
Of The Battalion Staff
Assault charges have been filed
against a Texas A&M civil engi
neering professor as a result of a
confrontation over College Station
leash laws.
Jamie Russell, 26, of 211 Fairview
in College Station said she filed
charges against Derek Victor Morris
after he allegedly assaulted her Sat
urday in front of his house at 501
Kerry Street.
Russell, a Texas A&M graduate,
said she was walking her three-
month-old dog in the vicinity of
Morris’ home when he came out and
told her she was breaking the law be
cause the dog was not on a leash.
Russell said she told Morris the
dog did not have to be on a leash be
cause it is trained to respond to voice
commands.
Russell said Morris then shoved
his chest into her and the two en-
g aged in a struggle in front of his
ouse.
Both sustained minor injuries,
and Russell’s shorts fell around her
ankles in the scuffle, she said.
Morris’ wife called the police and
an officer was dispatched to investi
gate the civil disturbance.
According to a police incident re
port filed on the scene, Russell’s in-
uries included a bruised jaw and
ruises on the inside of her right
arm.
The report said Morris’ injuries
include scratches above his right eye
and on his upper lip.
Russell said she has had previous
verbal confrontations with Morris,
but before Saturday these con
frontations never had been physical.
Russell said she is pressing
charges to discourage this from hap
pening to anyone else.
“He attacked me just because my
dog was in his yard,” Russell said.
“He said I was trespassing, but I was
in the street. I’m pressing charges
because this could happen to some
one else.”
Morris said he believes the inci
dent is being blown out of propor
tion but had no further comment.
“I really have nothing more to
say,” Morris said. “The matter is
closed from my point of view.”
Fatal motorcyle accident
ends life of A&M freshman
A Texas A&M student died in
an accident Sunday.
An official in the Student Af
fairs Department said Scott A.
Nall, a freshmen, died in a motor
cycle accident.
Nall was a business administra
tion major from San Antonio.
Information about funeral
services is unavailable.
Students get Aggie Bucks refunds
, Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Aren Sikes, a junior civil engineering major from Houston, stud
ies for finals after removing the loft from her dorm room.
By JILL BUTLER
Of The Battalion Staff
DU.
Students who want a refund of their remain
ing Aggie Bucks have to make a written request
to the Department of Food Services office in the
basement of Sbisa Dining Hall by May 11.
Lloyd Smith, Department of Food Services di
rector, said students can apply for a refund in
person or by mail.
To receive a refund, a student’s name, student
identification number and address must be given
to the Department of Food Services.
“Students who want a refund need to make
sure that over the summer they will be living at
the address they have given the Department of
Food Services,” Smith said.
“Many students have listed their local address
with the department and won’t be living here
over the summer,” he said.
After students apply for a refund, the request
will be sent to the Fiscal Department to make
sure the student does not owe money to the Uni
versity.
If the student owes money, the Aggie Bucks
bng
ance. If the student does not owe money, the re
fund check will be mailed to the address given to
the Department of Food Services.
Smith said he is not sure when students will re
ceive the refund checks.
He said by next fall the computer system will
Many students thought the
accounts were just like last year’s
and were trying to spend their
leftover money before the expiration
date.”
— Ty Clevenger,
Student Body President
be programmed to give automatic refunds of ex
tra Aggie Bucks.
He said, however, setting up the system takes
time and will not be ready this semester.
He also said beginning next fall the expiration
date of Aggie Bucks will be changed from one se
mester to two semesters.
Money put into an account in the fall will carry
over to the end of the spring semester. If more
money is deposited in the spring, the expiration
date will be extended until the end of the next
fall semester.
“The reason we have an expiration date is so
we can monitor the status of the accounts and
make sure nobody has left town and left money
in an Aggie Bucks account,” Smith said.
Fliers posted around campus stating
the expi
ration date of Aggie Bucks did not include infor
mation about refund requests.
Ty Clevenger, student body president, said the
fliers were misleading because many students are
not aware they can receive a refund of extra Ag
gie Bucks.
“Many students thought the accounts were just
like last year’s and were trying to spend their left
over money before the expiration date,” Cle
venger said.
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