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■ TexasA&M 4- —I S lie Battalion And that’s all she wrote ... Today’s issue of The Battalion is the last of the Fall 1990 semester. The newspaper will print one interim is sue Jan. 9 before returning to its daily status starting Jan.14. The staff and management of The Battalion wish you and your families a pleasant holiday season. . 90 No. 69 (JSPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 12, 1990 oviets urge Bush to avoid war in Middle East MOUSTON (AP) — Soviet Foreign Min- • fir Eduard A. Shevardnadze urged the [TJVPJ] Bh administration Tuesday to make a ■■ditch diplomatic effort to avert, war in /"'i 1 fiPersian Gulf. vJlUy( gk is also my strong hope that U.S. Ill <\V) rP s w '" not see act i° n ’” Shevardnadze ... ..I i~ : ^ at a news conference near the end of a meeting here with Secretary of |teJames A. Baker III. to the high-level talks Presi- as proposed with Iraq, the So- iet foreign minister said, “We pin much e on the coming contacts.” ut Baker said Baghdad still had not eed on a date for him to go to Iraq to see sident Saddam Hussein. He offered any e between Dec. 20 and Jan. 3, but again cted any Iraqi attempt to delay the visit " .““ Btiljust before the Jan. 15 deadline set by glad thefflBu.N. Security Council for Iraq to pull ve recogm ou| or f ace prospect of military mea- (hscoiiragt j Ures . proves th&Bkyhile Baker gave a positive account of B U.S.-Soviet meetings held in his home oted on bi tov nj no agreements were announced ex- and coaclielL that Shevardnadze said the two sides awlings SpBl decided to suspend weapons shipments Bvarring factions in Afghanistan. - all-time Icafiy VP n on that point, however, the foreign aortstop, honor. He arlof t h ''»Ma v win Golti - i list of nir.t noted Wt Rush i baseball National ryer, joined^ be only fai ears. Barn with 14 assj elder and thi We are facing a difficult task. We have to complete a his toric agreement and have it ready for signing by the time President Push pays a historic visit to Mos cow. m • Eduard A. Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister minister said the date for the cutoff had not been set. And Baker said he did not expect an agreement on such issues as assistance to rehabilitate the war-torn country “in the near term.” Shevardnadze bluntly appealed for U.S. food aid before a meeting Monday with Baker. Officials in Washington said the White House could unveil an economic as sistance package for the Soviet Union as □ Related column/Page 2 early as Wednesday when Bush meets with Shevardnadze. Extensive discussion of the Persian Gulf crisis apparently slowed consideration by Baker and Shevardnadze of remaining roadblocks to a treaty to reduce U.S. and Soviet long-range weapons stockpiles. However, they planned to meet Tuesday night to consider the results of bargaining between their arms experts. Shevardnadze said no date had been set for Bush to go to Moscow to sign the treaty at a summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. “We are facing a difficult task. ... We have to complete a historic agreement and have it ready for signing by the time Presi dent Bush pays a historic visit to Moscow,” Shevardnadze said. Among the unsettled issues are how to police the treaty to make sure provisions to reduce U.S. and Soviet long-range bomb ers, missiles and submarines by about 30 percent are not undercut. The crisis in the gulf that began with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait Aug. 2 dominated ors, maldia 1 of his caree ; of the Ctj >rd shared til auk White il second basJ er Sandy if the year, -time Gold merican include rk McGwire an Kelly Gr x shortstop Ken Grifft enate vote avors $2M library aid I MIKE LUMAN [The Battalion Staff he Texas A&M Faculty Senate epted a package of 41 proposals , Monday to upgrade University li- u u i Btries, including a $2 million li- Boddicker. ast seasonal bng ary budget increase. ;.“ to te lsl d ever Cy Youn: , r jAfter proposing several changes xansas r tQ ^ p ac j ca g e submitted by the Ad Hoc Committee on Libraries, the , s ? n ? Bnate voted to send the draft of t k ut ■j 0 p Osa ] s to a&M President William Jobley |Dr. Harrison T. Meserole, library Committee chairman, said the pro- ,, BOsals constructively criticize A&M’s gMaddus* rarysituation nst-time«,‘ We hope our report makes clear „ Ip quick fix is possible to remedy the W ®Boblems we have identified, not , a . n< pen the sudden infusion of a con- 1 c . e ' n siderable sum of money,” Meserole rd mtheAlM^ 7 If The proposals, mostly for Sterling ed from pa; c. Evans Library, deal with holdings, — -^facilities, staffs and budgets, ut we can» Df- Tarry Hickman, library com- s against lij m ' ttee vice chairman, said the Medi- s ChristkfM Sciences Library is included in t, a J-l rtj the package. He said improvements i of the k to Evans library probably will carry over to other campus libraries. ) put theirs# The $2 million budget increase, :y mustw ft° wever » is the minimum amount On sevenlfbf money needed to upgrade the li- lie team's 1 B' ar y> Hickman said, has glare;# “If the library is crawling now, it fore theoifihght be advisable to have it walk be- yone p hire it runs,” he said. # A&M libraries presently rank 63rd among the top 100 research li- iraries in North America, the report leads. E' Hickman said the committee’s ill a yearo[|P ro P osa l s are aimed at moving A&M tous run iiP 0 the 25th position. s prone toj ets in tram is the ottf 1 dest. Ion, whidi eludes the he 23rd-i Houston Dr. John Quarles, however, dis- jgreed with some of the proposals, eluding the $2 million budget in ease. “Why are we asking for $2 million J (5-l)anil| t0 get into the 25th percentile?” he k starts a lay hostto g See Faculty Senate/Page 7 6 Georsi® in Summit rsas plan 5 N in one used game FREDRICK D. JOE/The Battalion Shannon O’Brien (above) apparently is pleased with the amount of money she re ceived for selling her books back at a Univer sity Bookstore trailer. The trailer, one of four the bookstore had on campus, was located on Ireland St. Tuesday and will be by Blocker Building today. Charles Gentry (left), an assis tant manager of the bookstore, retrieves some of the books the store purchased Tuesday. Graduation lates, speakers consider | ion of tht re playinf that resptf rence is vouldbe®L „ : : lannounced I Texas State Rep. Wilhelmina Delco, Penn State President Emeritus Dr. Bryce Jordan and U.S. Ambassador Sally Shelton- Colby will speak at Texas A&M’s December Hi r . fi omr r iencernent exercises. /mgtheft® Ceremonies are scheduled at 2 and 7:30 ,.thereisjm.m. Friday, and at 9 a.m. Saturday, all in t '°. n P' Rollie White Coliseum, h I Also scheduled as part of the ceremony oach like ^Saturday is commissioning for 45 cadets en- build me ering the military. ggtes im/ Corps of Cadets Commandant Major rise IroE ^ en Thomas Darling will administer the ) the prof )al h to t h e new officers. dersandt i g e p [) e i co w in S p e ak at 2 p.m. Friday for inning® itudents in the Colleges of Agriculture and ingjusd jf e Sciences, Liberal Arts, and undergrad- heckow lates j n College of Veterinary Medi- ollieWbiK ;me 8 7 t makeitfi Dr. Jordan will speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday for those receiving diplomas from the Col leges of Architecture, Business Administra- ion and Graduate School of Business, Geo- ciences and Science. . Ambassador Shelton-Colby will speak at ’ polk'.^9 a.m. Saturday to students from the Col- efense ( p e ges 0 f Education, Engineering and Texas at prod® ost even® Jury announces verdict in rape case Teen convicted of attempted murder of Central Park jogger NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old on Tuesday became the first defendant convicted of attempted murder in the gang rape of the Central Park jogger. A second youth was acquitted of the same charge and convicted of lesser charges. Spectators erupted in anger and shock when the verdicts were returned against Kevin Richardson and Kharey Wise after 12 days of jury deliberation. Richardson’s mother, Grace Guffey, fainted and the courtroom was cleared while she was treated with oxygen at her seat. “You’re going to pay for this,” Wise told prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer as he was led from the courtroom in hand cuffs. “Jesus is going to get you. You made this ... up.” Richardson, 16, was convicted of at tempted murder, rape, sodomy, rob bery, assault and riot. Wise, 18, loudly cursed Lederer after he was acquitted of 10 of 13 counts against him, including attempted murder, rape and sodomy. He was convicted of first-degree assault, sexual abuse and riot. Three other teen-agers were con victed in August of rape and assault in the case. Richardson and Wise were jailed with out bail pending a Jan. 9 sentencing. Richardson, charged as a minor, faces a maximum prison term of five to 10 years. Wise, charged as an adult, could receive nearly nine to 26 years in prison if the judge orders him to serve the terms concurrently. Wise admitted in a videotaped statement that the April 19, 1989, attack on a woman investment broker “was my first rape, and it will be my last.” Wise’s lawyer, Colin Moore, argued that police coerced the statement from his client. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said he was pleased the jury had rejected that allegation. “A jury has rejected spurious claims that the police manufactured evidence and used coercive tactics to obtain con fessions,” Morgenthau said. The woman was not widely identified because she was a sexual assault victim. Her case generated enormous public in terest and debate. Critics of the national media attention attributed it to her status as a white in vestment banker in a city where minority crime victims get less attention. Others cited her dramatic fight for life, her re covery and return to work, and her quiet bravery. The verdicts came in the second trial stemming from the attack on the woman, now 30, along a jogging, path in Central Park. She still suffers vision, bal ance and olfactory problems. Wise and Richardson wept and hugged each other when the verdicts were read. “I am obviously shattered, very, very disappointed,” said Richardson’s attor ney, Howard Diller. “I’m really dis mayed the jury found him guilty on ev ery single count. It’s shocking.” Moore said “a fair and just verdict would have been an acquittal on all counts.” Both attorneys said they would ap peal. the talks held at a Houston hotel. “I still hope it will be possible to find a way out of that difficult situation,” Shevard nadze said. “I still hope a peaceful solution is possible.” He and Baker meanwhile denied a re port that Baker had proposed the Soviets contribute a token military force to the gulf and that Shevardnadze had turned him down. “This option is not under consideration, this option is non-existent,” Shevardnadze said. Baker said, “We did not talk about the possibility that Shevardnadze would send forces there. The subject was discussed in previous meetings.” In Washington, meanwhile, congressio nal sources said Tuesday that Senate appro val of a new treaty limiting conventional weapons in Europe will be delayed by at least two months because U.S. intelligence has discovered large discrepancies in ac counts of Soviet weapons. The figures provided by the Soviet Union understate the weapons they would have to destroy, with the most significant problem in the area of tanks, said the sources, who commented only on condition of anonymity. Researchers focus fight on drug use By JULIE MYERS Of The Battalion Staff A drug prevention program for secondary school students will be one of the first experiments of the new Institute for National Drug Abate ment Research (INDAR) at Texas A&M. Jane Mills Smith, infor mation spe cialist for the Texas Engi- . . neering Ex Joe Barton periment Station (TEES), said the program probably will start in Jan uary. Surveys to measure the program’s effectiveness will further refine the institute’s goals, she said. U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, announced the institute’s $1 million federal grant Thursday during a briefing on the program for the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. TEES, a research agency of the A&M System* will administer the new program. The institute will develop entry- level and advanced law enforcement techniques, test and develop sensor technology, study information col lection techniques and explore new forms of drug education. Federal agencies, state prganiza- tions, engineers and physicians working with the institute will use the grant to determine new methods and techniques of combating illegal drugs. “This funding will allow INDAR to focus some of our best research minds on the drug problem and what can be done to counter this epi demic,” Barton said. INDAR also will act as a commu nications clearinghouse for the ex periment. It will coordinate data and See Drugs/Page 7 Foreigners leave gulf; tension stays Associated Press Hundreds of foreigners, including about a dozen Americans, left Iraq today as the exodus of hostages drew to a close. But ten sions remained high in the Persian Gulf as Iraq and the United States both bolstered their forces. Earlier today, two Iraqi Airways Boeing 707s chartered by Britain brought 240 for eigners, mostly Britons, from Kuwait to the Iraqi capital. A third American charter returned to the Iraqi capitial with only one Irishman and two Canadians aboard. There were no Americans on any of the flights from Ku wait. “We must have gotten them all,” one American consular official said, referring to earlier evacuation flights from the emi rate and speaking on condition of anonym- ity. About 160 Japanese, including 14 diplo mats from the Japanese Embassy in Kuwait, left Baghdad today on a flight for Bangkok, Thailand. Diplomats said just 14 Americans were See Hostages/ Page 12 See Graduations/Page 7