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Sprim. Break ’98
Guidelines for protecting
yourself and your property
during the upcoming
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loss;
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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