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ninistratoi e ges in the nd Lewis is P er compa. k, Barone men's bas- be playim erenee bas- Otherwise, rin g break i,s never a asketball, ry eas • Etc. it i r nty- 168-0101 Partly cloudy, with highs in the 60s and lows ‘Many people would rather be caught dead than read something other than the comics or sports section’ -Lori Saddler Page 9 Sprim. Break ’98 Guidelines for protecting yourself and your property during the upcoming vacation Page 4 Aggies redeem loss; down Lamar Page 7 The Battalion Vol. 91 No. 112 College Station, Texas “Serving Texcis A&M since 1893” 10 Pages Wednesday, March 11,1992 N. Korean cargo ship eludes U.S. warships to arrive in Iran WASHINGTON (AP) - A North Ko rean cargo ship suspected of carrying Scud-C missiles for Syria or Iran eluded U.S. warships in the region and slipped into the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, the Pentagon acknowledged on Tuesday. "We did not encounter the ship," De fense Department spokesman Pete Williams told reporters. He said U.S. naval vessels, had they come upon the ship, would have at least challenged its movements and queried its contents. "I can't say precisely why we didn't see it all the time." Williams argued that the search for the cargo vessel Dae Hung Ho was not the "highest priority" for Navy vessels in the region, which are focused on barring shipments to and from Iraq, not Iran. The spokesman said a second freighter, the Iranian-flagged Iran Salaam, was hailed by the USS Ingersoll early Tuesday in the northern Arabian Sea. He said it too has been monitored by the U.S. fleet because of its suspicious contents. The ship declared its cargo to be steel and drilling materials, and that it also was headed for Bandar Abbas, Williams said. If either ship had sailed toward Iraq, he said, the U.S. Navy would have "taken other action," Williams said. The Korean ship took a circuitous route or hugged the coastline off the strategic Strait of Hormuz to reach the southern Iranian port, Williams said. It ar rived Monday. There is no "embargo on ships to Iran. ... The maritime intercept operation is fo cused on Iraq," he said. "We were aware of the ship, curious about where it was going, but there was a limit to what we could have done," Williams said. That stands in contrast to statements by Defense Department officials over the weekend who insisted they were pre pared to intercept the vessel should Presi dent Bush give the order to do so. Williams contended that reports quot ing unidentified sources had falsely por trayed the administration's concern about the matter. "My concern is, all these anonymous sources had cranked this up to a higher priority" than it actually was for the ad ministration, he said. Williams said U.S. officials "don't know for certain" what cargo the Korean ship is carrying, nor would he say whether it had begun to unload any car go- Other officials have said they believe the ship is carrying the medium-range missiles, which would fuel even further the arms race in the region. Iran is expected to transfer the Scud missiles to Syria, in return for permission to transfer weapons and other supplies to Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas in the Syrian-controlled area of Lebanon, Western diplomats said. Syria has been trying to curtail some of Hezbollah's activities in the Bekaa Val ley of eastern Lebanon. The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the North Korean shipments are also believed to include raw materials for construction of a facility to produce Scud missiles. Student files suit against dormitory The Forum confronts charges of negligence By Gina Howard The Battalion A Texas A&M student has filed a suit against the property owners and an employee of a private dor mitory for invasion of privacy and negligence. Trayce Kendall, a freshman general studies major, was living in The Forum in Bryan when she discovered a peephole behind a mirror in the wall separating her room and a storage corridor. Kendall said she heard and saw an employee of The Forum in the corridor looking through a hole from behind a mirror early on the morning of Feb. 23. She filed complaints with the Bryan police department and with the dormito- ry- Robert Ybarra, 31, was arrested and charged with a Class C misde meanor for disorderly conduct. Lt. Pete Willis of the Bryan Po lice Department said Kendall was the only resident with the legal right to file a complaint. "If you don't actually see someone do it, then it is really hard to prove," Willis said. At this time, there is no legal action pending against Ybarra in the Bryan Municipal Court. Kendall's lawyers, Michael M. Essmyer and Associates, on March 3 concurrently filed on a petition for a temporary restraining order and a lawsuit against the defen dants, but later retracted the re straining order. Jeff Fanaff, a law clerk working on the case with Essmyer, said the petition for a restraining order was dropped due to an agreement be- See Management/Page 6 Randall Nichols/ The Battalion See anything interesting? William Talbert (left) and a friend look at A&M University Priting Center on Tuesday. The papers they received while visiting the Texas students are from Allen Academy. A ''Suitable' Spring Break William H. Mobley, president of Texas A&M Mobley spends vacation of '60 selling suits By Bridget Harrow The Battalion Spring break of 1960 was a 'fitting' vacation for Dr. William H. Mobley, president of Texas A&M. Instead of heading for the beach or slopes, Mobley, who was a freshman at Denison Universi ty in Granville, Ohio, spent his spring break as a salesman in a department store — fitting men for suits. "It was before Easter, and the store was very busy," Mobley says. "I had about five minutes of training, and I didn't knowwhat to do." The department store in Mobley's hometown of Barberton, Ohio, hired a lot of college students to pick up the slack. Mobley's job as a salesman in cluded helping fit men for their coats or hemming their pants. "I have then and I have now, no expertise to fit someone else for suits," Mobley says laughing at the experience. "So I suspect that there were a lot of people walking around Ohio for five or 10 years Spring Break Memories □ Dr. John Koldus, V.P. for student services - Monday □ Tony Barone, basketball coach - Tuesday ■ Dr. William Mobley, A&M president - Wednesday with very ill-fitting suits." Mobley did better than he remembers because the store later hired him during Christmas breaks also. Other than his senior year when he visited po tential employers and graduate schools, Mobley says spring break was a time for him to visit with friends who went to other universities or worked in his hometown. Spring break has not really changed since his time, Mobley says. When he was in college stu- See Mobley/Page 6 Clinton, Bush win in Texas Poll leaders prevail on Super Tuesday; Tsongas, Buchanan fall behind in race AUSTIN (AP) - Texans hand ed President Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton victories in the biggest Super Tuesday primaries. Bush, who calls Houston home and had the support of the state's GOP establishment, easily defeat ed the upstart conservative chal lenge of TV commentator Pat Buchanan. With 4 percent of Republican precincts reporting. Bush had 62,363 votes, 71 percent, to Buchanan's 19,807, 23 percent. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was a very distant third at 2,083 votes, just 2 percent. Clinton, who campaigned the earliest and most vigorously in Texas, outdistanced former Mas sachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, a latecomer who didn't name a state campaign chairman until the day before early voting began Feb. 19. With 4 percent of votes tallied, Clinton had 83,784, or 62 percent, to 28,093, or 18 percent, for Tsongas. The third still-active can didate, former California Gov. Jer ry Brown, was well back at 8,072 votes, 6 percent. Republicans were choosing 121 delegates to the GOP National Convention, while Democrats were picking 196 of theirs — 127 from the balloting and 96 from a three-tiered caucus process that began in precincts Tuesday night. State Republican Chairman Fred Meyer predicted that Bush would win all 121. The Democratic field shrank in See Texas/Page 6 Brazos County Election Returns The final results of selected races from Tuesday's primary voting for Brazos County are as follows: Number of votes Percentage Dem. presidential nomination Paul Tsongas 1,724 29.55% Jerry Brown 576 9.87 Bill Clinton 3,294 56.45 FtePr presidentolnornindtion David Duke 163 2.26 Patrick J. Buchanan 1,560 21.65 George Bush 5,223 72.48 Dem. U.S. Representative Dish 8 Donald Guillory 1,194 41.16 Chas. Robinson 1,707 58.84 Rep. U.S. Representative Dist. 5 Richard Stokley 189 73.54 Farrell Ray 68 26.46 Rep. Braze?. CpMnty Sheriff Howard Hill 2,971 42.09 Ron Miller 4,087 57.91 Changed polling sites irritate B-CS residents By Jayme Blaschke The Battalion Newly drawn precinct lines wreaked havoc on Super Tuesday voting as many Bryan-College Sta tion residents discovered they could not vote at their old polling places. Gerald "Buddy" Winn, Brazos County tax collector, said his office received calls all day long from confused and irate voters unable to find their polling place. "We've been busy with people calling in mad that their old polling place is not being used and they have to go to a different place that's too far away," Winn said. "We've got to explain to everyone that the changes are not ours - that this happens every ten years be cause of redistricting." Matt Wood, polling sites direc tor for the Republican Party of Brazos County, said they had ex perienced many of the same diffi culties as the tax office, and some that the tax office had not. "We've had problems every where all day long because of the precinct changes," Wood said. "The biggest problem we have showing up is that a lot of people are registered to vote in the wrong precinct. "The voter is registered to vote in one precinct, but because of the changes, he now is a resident of a different one," he said. "We're asking those people to go to their proper polling site and swear an affidavit that they are supposed to vote there. If they can't do that, we'll let them vote where they're registered." Each of the Republican polling See Polling/Page 6