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College Station, Texas
Summer movie comeback
Marlon Brando and Harrison
Ford dominate screen in new
films, The Freshman’ and
‘Presumed Innocent.’
See Reviews Page 4
Thursday, August 2,1990
f David Dennis, a third year veterinary student, Wednesday. This was his fourth time to golf, and
sets his aim at the College Station Golf Center he was practicing on the driving range.
Iraqi, Kuwaiti soldiers
clash on disputed border
KUWAIT (AP) — Kuwaiti officials said Thursday
that Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait before sunrise and
seized scattered regions in the northeastern sector of
the small, oil-rich country.
Kuwaitis engaged the Iraqi invaders with heavy artil
lery and were trying to repulse them, government offi
cials contacted by telephone from Bahrain said.
There was no immediate official word from Iraq on
the invasion.
In Washington, the Kuwait embassy confirmed late
Wednesday that Iraqi and Kuwaiti troops clashed at the
border.
The White House condemned the incursion, issuing
a statement after President Bush was informed that
said, “The United States strongly condemns the Iraqi
military invasion of Kuwait and calls for the immediate
and unconditional withdrawal of all Iraqi forces.
“We have conveyed this message to the Iraqi ambas
sador in Washington and to the Iraqi government
through our embassy in Baghdad.
“We deplore this blatant use of military aggression in
violation of the U.N. charter.
“Together with Kuwait we are calling for an emer
gency session of the U.N. Security Council,” the
statement said.
Iraqi officials on Wednesday had abruptly walked out
on talks in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, complaining that the
Kuwaiti representatives were not negotiating seriously.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had intervened be
ginning July 25 to set up the talks in a bid to cool ten
sions between the two OPEC members.
The Royal Guard of the Palace of ,the Emir, Jaber al-
Ahmed al-Sabah, said an unidentified ship tried to get
close to the Royal Palace early Thursday and that the
Royal Guard opened fire on it, according to witnesses.
It was unclear what happened to the vessel.
Kuwaiti residents said the sounds of heavy artillery
boomed at the Kuwait border with Iraq and busloads of
troops were sighted shortly before dawn Thursday
rushing north.
Diplomatic sources say about 100,000 Iraqi troops
had been massed Wednesday at the border amid a terri
torial dispute — Iraq has never accepted the demarca
tion line of its 200-mile shared southern border with
Kuwait — and claims Kuwait has stolen billions of dol
lars worth of oil from its border field.
On July 17, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused
Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates of flooding the
oil market and driving prices down, saying the move
cost Iraq $14 billion in lost oil revenue that it needs to
resurrect its economy, depleted by the 1980-88 Persian
Gulf war.
A irport includes multi-purpose 'Billy Mac’s ’
A&M plans to open gift shop,
eaterie in McKenzie Terminal
By MIKE LUMAN
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M is rushing to com
plete a combination bar, eaterie, and
gift shop called “Billy Mac’s” sched
uled to open by Aug. 16 at the McK
enzie Terminal of Easterwood Air
port.
Donald Powell, director of A&M’s
Business Services, said the establish
ment is part of the original planned
construction of the $4.5 million,
32,000-square foot terminal that
opened in February.
“It will have an eaterie and gift
shop like you find at most airports,”
Powell said. “Part of it, set off to the
side, is a place to get alcoholic bever
ages.”
He said the University applied to
the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Com
mission for a permit.
The facility also features salads,
steaks, burgers, desserts, souvenirs
and a runway view.
The terminal and collection of
services was named for Texas A&M
University System Board of Regents
Chairman William A. McKenzie,
sometimes known to his colleagues
as “Billy Mac.”
Powell said the A&M Food Serv
ices Department still was working to
complete the facility, but it should
open on the announced date of Aug.
Since the terminal opened, work
on the facility has progressed as part
of the original concept for the air
port, he said.
He said the bar, a lounge similar
to those found in most airports, was
only a small part of the establish
ment.
Easterwood Airport is served by
American Eagle, ASA and Conti
nental Express Airlines and receives
many corporate and private aircraft.
An A&M official said overall com
mercial boardings at Easterwood
had increased 20 percent since the
McKenzie Terminal opened.
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By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
Things were livelier than usual at
the Baja Yacht Club Tuesday night.
Witnesses who called the College
Station Police Department at 11:37
p.m. said someone fired a pistol to
wards a group of people in the park
ing lot of the Baja Yacht Club.
CSPD Patrol Sergeant John
Campbell said he and two other
CSPD officers responded to the call.
Witnesses at the scene said shots
were fired, and one person said a
gun had been pointed in his face by
a white male with a blue-colored pis
tol.
“There were shots fired,” Camp
See Shooting/Page 8
By KATHY COX
Of The Battalion Staff
A company-sponsored intramural
team has sparked controversy and
complaints from some competitors.
During the second summer ses
sion, various protests have centered
around a B-league softball team
sponsored by Gary Sims, owner of
Gary N. Sims’s Paint & Body Shop.
The undefeated team has out-
scored its opponents 60-12 in three
games and is the only corporate-
sponsored team this summer ses
sion.
Texas A&M student Greg Miller,
a junior journalism major whose
team was beaten by the Sims team,
said intramurals are for students
and sponsors should not get in
volved.
He also said the Sims team does
not belong in B league.
“I’m not being a sore sport,” he
said. “It wouldn’t bother me if they
played on their same level.”
Willie Shelton, one of Miller’s tea
mmates, believes businesses should
not be involved in intramurals.
“It (intramurals) is for the stu
dents ... but there is no way for the
students to compete with teams like
this,” Shelton, a senior marketing
major, said.
Matt Ferguson, a senior history
major, said teams like Sims’ use A
and B intramural leagues for prac
tice, but they should be playing in
city leagues.
“The level of competition in intra
murals is nothing near that of the
city leagues,” he said. “I thought in
tramurals was just to get a bunch of
guys together and have fun ... no
one should be beating other teams
by 20 runs.”
Miller and Ferguson said Sims
team members were recruited from
city leagues by a coach.
“If the guys had gotten the teams
together, it would be different,” Fer
guson said. “But some of the players
didn’t even know each other or talk
to each other. It takes away the fun.”
Robert Gomez, coach of the Sims
team, said he did recruit all but two
team members.
Gomez said he found players on
campus and in the Bryan-College
Station area. He said he found one
player at Wal-Mart.
“I know a ball player when I see
one,” he said.
He called Sims and asked for
sponsorship for the team.
Sims agreed, he said, and pur
chased shirts worth about $180 for
the team.
“If we lose, at least we look good
— like a team,” Gomez said.
Gomez said he signed up his team
for B league because they had never
played together before, and because
he thought they committed too
many infield errors.
He said he switches players
arotind when they start winning a
game by too many runs.
“It’s not our fault — their out
fielders drop a lot of balls,” he said.
Gomez, a Bryan resident, never
attended A&M but said he has
coached intramural and city league
softball teams since 1977. He does
not participate in the games.
The Sims team practices twice a
See Team/Page 8
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By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
Almost half the students surveyed
by The Battalion Poll this week said
there is no reason to be concerned
about racial tension at Texas A&M.
A slim majority of students also
said they would not support a
change that would require a multi
cultural course at A&M.
When students were asked if ra
cial tension at A&M was a reason for
concern, 46 percent said no, 49 per
cent said yes and 5 percent said they
didn’t know.
Asked if they would support a
change at A&M that would require a
multicultural course, 51 percent said
no, 40 percent said yes and 9 percent
were undecided.
Racial tension at the University of
Texas, the University of Michigan
and the University of California at
Berkeley has prompted educators in
those schools to enact policies to
curb future incidents.
A “hate speech” code by Michigan
was struck down by a federal district
judge. Another response, a curric
ulum change making a UT English
composition class focus on racism
and sexism, has provoked 50 profes
sors to, sign a statement objecting to
its “political” content.
Kevin Carreathers, coordinator of
the Office of Multicultural Services,
said the possibility of requiring a
multicultural class at A&M has been
discussed at various levels of the Uni
versity.
The Battalion poll is a survey of
Texas A&M students intended to
measure opinions about campus-re
lated issues.
The poll, which will be conducted
periodically, is taken from a random
sample of students attending sum
mer school. A sample of 400 stu
dents was obtained from telephone
interviews.
A random sample of 400 yields a
margin of error of plus or minus five
percentage points with 95 percent
confidence.
This implies that if the total stu
dent population were surveyed, the
results obtained in the present sam-
f de would be within plus or minus
ive percentage points.
The poll was conducted exclu
sively for The Battalion by Research
Associates, a firm operated by A&M
students Alister Miller and Mitch
Peck.
Miller and Peck are graduate stu
dents in the sociology department.
Monique Threadgill, editor of
The Battalion and senior journalism
major, asks students to call The Bat
talion office at 845-2647 if students
who participate in the poll encoun
ter any problems.
issues not major concern at A&M
Racial tension is a concern at B 49% Agree
TAMU. 46% Disagree
□ 5% No opinion
A multicultural course is needed
at TAMU.
■ 40% Agree
H] 51% Disagree
□ 9% No opinion
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