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College Station, Texas
Monday, February 18, 1991
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Bush administration said Sunday
that there was “nothing to be lost by
talking” but vowed to continue the
allied bombing campaign while the
Soviets seek a diplomatic solution to
the Persian Gulf War.
“We say no cease-fire, no pause,
get out of Kuwait,” said Secretary of
State James A. Baker III.
President Bush, vacationing in
Kennebunkport, Maine, told report
ers, “We are determined to finish
thisjob and do it right.”
The administration reiterated its
resolve as Iraqi Foreign Minister Ta-
riq Aziz headed to Moscow for talks
aimed at Finding a peaceful solution
to the crisis. He is scheduled to meet
Monday with Soviet President Mik
hail S. Gorbachev.
Bush said he did not know what
would come of the talks, but he said
Gorbachev was “trying very hard to
seek an end to this conflict.”
“He knows very well that the ob
jectives spelled out by the United
Nations ... must be met in their en
tirety,” Bush said.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
said the only thing that could slow
the allied military campaign was the
start of an Iraqi pullout from Ku
wait.
“The only thing we can really be
lieve is action,” Cheney said on
ABC’s “This Week With David
Brinkley.” “We have to see him with
draw from Kuwait.”
“We have a certain tempo to our
military operations now and ... we’re
not going to break that tempo unless
it is clear that he is complying with
the (U.N.) Security Council direc
tive,” said Bush’s national security
adviser, Brent Scowcroft.
Baker, interviewed on CNN’s
“Newsmaker Sunday,” said the Sovi
ets were welcome to seek a diplo
matic solution, but he expressed no
See War/Page 6
Troop supporters participate
in parade on A&M campus
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lege Station residents march in
Saturday’s Operation Desert
RICHARD S. JAMES/The Battalion
Support parade. Many of the
marchers have family or friends
in the Persian Gulf.
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The Battalion
More than 170 Bryan-College Sta
tion residents turned out on a chilly
and rainy Saturday morning to par
ticipate in an Operation Desert Sup
port parade and rally.
Singing “My Country ’Tis of
Thee” and holding signs that read
“God Bless the U.S.A.,” the crowd
marched along the streets of Texas
A&M to Simpson Drill Field, where
several speakers addressed the
crowd.
Retired Air Force Col. James Ed
win Ray, Class of ’64, told the crowd
that troops in the Gulf are depen
dent on people at home for support.
Ray said he was shot down over
Vietnam in 1966, captured and held
prisoner by the North Vietnamese
until 1973.
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“human shield” to protect military
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for missing professor;
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JAY JANNER/The Battalion
The search for A&M professor Dr. Peter John
Sharpe, missing since Jan. 24, continued this
past weekend, as divers from Montgomery
County (top) and specially trained search dogs
from Dallas (bottom) were employed by the Bra
zos County Sheriffs office. Both the dogs and
the divers failed to turn up any clues to the bi
oengineering professor's disappearance.
By Timm Doolen
The Battalion
The search for a missing Texas
A&M professor in the Brazos
River proved fruitless this week
end, despite the use of specially
trained search dogs.
Brazos County Sheriff Ronnie
Miller said Dr. Peter John Sharpe,
50, is still considered missing and
the search will continue.
The bioengineering professor
was last seen Jan. 24, the same day
his van was found abandoned
along the river near a bridge on
Highway 21.
Miller said officers have
searched around the bridge and
30 miles downstream, as far as
Highway 105 near Navasota.
Four dogs from Children-Edu-
< ation Search and Rescue (CE
SAR) of North Richland Hills
near Dallas covered about eight
miles of river downstream from
the bridge Saturday and Sunday.
Tim Samsill, head of CESAR,'
said the dogs — two German
shepherds, a bouvier and Labra
dor retriever —can smell body
fluids.
Miller said the sheriffs depart
ment is not Certain Sharpe’s body
is in the river.
“We’re keeping an open mind,”
Miller said. “The door’s always
open something else happened,
but the way everything points is
that he’s in the river.”
He said at least eight men a day
have been looking for Sharpe
since his disappearance more than
three weeks ago.
They have searched by boat,
plane, helicopter and on foot, and
have dragged several miles of the
river.
The dogs showed some signs of
activity at a few points, but divers
See Search/Page 6
Brazos County complies with state DWI regulation
n other peof t * ons P er y ear an d som e do not report at all.
By Mike Luman
The Battalion
A driving-while-intoxicated conviction in
Brazos County means a permanent black
mark on the offender’s statewide record, but
many Texas counties are letting repeat DWI
offenders roam the state’s highways unno
ticed.
State law requires all 254 Texas counties to
report DWI convictions to the Department of
Public Safety in Austin.
The conviction goes on a motorist’s perma
nent record. When a driver is stopped, a state
trooper or local peace officer can retrieve the
information from the DPS computer in min
utes.
Robert Owen, Austin DPS assistant man
ager of driver improvement and control, says
many counties report only a few DWI convic-
id s
He says Brazos County regularly reports
DWI convictions to Austin.
Ann Morris, a Brazos County deputy dis
trict clerk responsible for sending felony
DWI convictions to Austin, says about 99 per
cent of local DWI convictions are sent to DPS
headquarters.
Barbara Johnson, a chief deputy with the
county clerk’s office, says her office sends all
misdemeanor DWI convictions to Austin.
Brazos County Attorney Jim Kuboviak says
a repeat DWI offender could be picked up in
Bryan-College Station and treated as a first
time offender, if prior convictions never were
reported.
“Theoretically, it could be a problem if
other counties don’t report,” Kuboviak says.
“It would stop the driver from getting higher
punishment.”
First and second DWI offenses are misde
meanors that carry fines and short manda
tory jail terms. Third and subsequent offenses
are felonies and carry larger fines and longer
mandatory jail terms.
An Austin DPS official, on condition his
name not be used, released the names of
some counties that “have problems reporting
convictions.”
Duval County in South Texas has not re
ported a DWI conviction since 1981, and Ed
wards County, also in South Texas, has re
ported only one DWI in 10 years, he says.
Other “problem” counties include Hemp
hill, Colorado, Kenedy, Glasscock, Borden,
Crane, El Paso and Caldwell, he says.
Owen says reasons other than negligence
contribute to lack of reporting in some court-
ties.
Some counties, including El Paso, use a
pretrial diversion plan, Ow ? en says. Under the
plan, DWI offenders can avoid a conviction
by going through a counseling and probation
program.
He says motorists can rack up several DWI
“first” offenses by using a pretrial diversion
system.
pilots in Iraq.
“As much as we hate to send
troops to war, there are times when
such values as justice and the protec
tion of the innocent must override
peace,” he said. “That’s why I’m glad
to see events like this, to let them
know the job they’re doing is appre
ciated.”
Matt Hedding, one of the organiz
ers of the parade, said Operation
Desert Support was created to focus
community support for soldiers in
the Gulf.
“It looks like the war is going to
continue, so we’ll keep this organiza
tion up all semester,” Hedding said.
“Hopefully, it won’t be needed much
longer than that.”
Becky Conner, a Bryan High
School student, said the war con
cerns many high schoolers because
of the possibility of escalation.
“Everyone’s very supportive of
See Parade/Page 6
Donations
exceed goal
of telethon
By Twila Waddy
The Battalion
The Give Five Telethon Saturday
raised more than 700,000 volunteer
hours — more than double last
year’s total — for nonprofit and vol
unteer organizations in the Brazos
Valley.
The telethon, sponsored by Texas
A&M’s KAMU-TV and co-spon-
sored by Post Oak Mall, asked com
munity members to donate time in
stead of money, said Rod Zent,
director of educational broadcast
services at KAMU-TV.
This is the second year of the tele
thon. Last year 2,000 Brazos Valley
residents pledged 348,000 hours.
This year’s goal was 2,500 individ
uals and 450,000 hours of dona
tions, but the results far exceeded
expectations.
“There was a lot more awareness
of the campaign this year since it was
the second year and more people got
involved,” Zent said.
Donations were phoned into the
KAMU studio or given at the mall at
one of the 20 different booths rep
resenting the organizations.
Some of the organizations in
cluded the American Heart Associa
tion, Boy Scouts, Brazos Beautiful,
Brazos Valley Head Start Program,
Girl Scouts, March of Dimes, MADD
and Twin City Mission, Inc.
“We identified 20 organizations
that we featured in the telethon, but
we try to raise hours for any organi
zation,” he said.
People were asked to donate five
hours a week, but organizations ac
cepted any amount of time. The low
est amount of time donated was one
hour a week, Zent said.
“There were a lot of people, dif
ferent groups out trying to gather
hours before hand,” he said. “And
there are still people bringing in
pledges.”
Zent said names of people who
donated time will be sent to the orga
nizations they volunteered for and
that organization will contact them.
Different bands and groups pro
vided entertainment and increased
people’s awareness, Zent said.
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