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Holocaust Survivor
Speaker plans to discuss his
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The Battalion
Vol. 91 NO. 131
College Station, Texas
‘Seraing Texas A&M since 1893’
10 Pages
Wednesday, April 15,1992
ussein moves key military men
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Saddam Hussein
has moved several trusted generals into key
positions in a command
Shuffle that reflects his con
stant efforts to forestall a
coup, informed travelers
from Iraq say.
S The sources, who in
dude Baghdad-based west
ern diplomats and knowl
edgeable Iraqis, say there is
no sign that Saddam's
Hgime is in any immediate
danger.
I But the feeling is that
Rhese changes in the hierar
chy, the latest in a long line
! of shuffles over the past 18 months, reflect Sad-
Pdam's insecurity more than a year after his
Hussein
Gulf War defeat.
The sources spoke to The Associated Press
in Nicosia and Amman, Jordan, on condition of
anonymity.
They said the Iraqi leader has ringed Bagh
dad with three of his five elite Republican
Guard divisions to ensure his regime's security
amid the continuing threat of Kurdish and Shi
ite Muslim unrest.
They said Saddam has named Gen. Hussein
Rashid, a former chief of staff and hero of the
1980-88 war against Iran, the commander of
the Republican Guard Corps, a pillar of the
regime.
Rashid, who was chief of staff throughout
the Gulf crisis, commanded the Republican
Guard in 1984-85 and oversaw its expansion
from a brigade-size formation into an ‘
army-within-an-army of seven divisions with
120,000 men.
Saddam's command shuffle is the seventh
major reorganization he has made in his mili
tary and political hierarchy since he invaded
Kuwait in 1990.
Rashid is the Guards' fourth commander in
that period.
Kamel Yassin, a member of the ruling Baath
Party's command, has been appointed to over
see party branches and security in the military,
the sources reported.
The party's security apparatus reaches deep
within the armed forces and has long acted as
an early warning system for Saddam to spot
unrest inside the military.
Yassin is Saddam's brother-in-law and
cousin.
His other brother, Irshid, heads Saddam's
personal security force.
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By Sharon Gilmore
The Battalion
A new electronic deposit sys-
ses tem scheduled to replace Texas
00 A&M's current manual deposit
; r system July 15 has raised concerns
and fears of many faculty.
77ie new system, required by all
state agencies, will deposit pay-
checks into the bank accounts of
University employees. All budget
and payroll employees, except for
students and part-time workers,
ill be affected by the new system.
But during Monday's Faculty
enate meeting, employees ques-
ioned the new system, saying
they believed it would cause too
■If | many errors.
In order to change over to auto-
« matic deposits. University em
ployees are required by state law
:o sign a form stating that they au-
horize the transfer of pay elec-
ronically into their bank accounts.
"I am asked to sign that I autho-
E ize the TAMUS controller to with-
Iraw from the designated account
or deduct from my subsequent
paid salary, if any, all amounts de
posited electronically in error,"
)avid Schick, oceanography pro-
tessor, said. "I find this extremely
pffensive."
Schick said he fears that signing
the consent agreement and agree
ing to the rules of electronic trans
fer would make his account more
J susceptible to error.
I "What in the world are we
I agreeing to?" he said. "We're
I hsked to sign this. I find it outra-
jgeous. The executive committee
ihould do something about this."
According to Fonda Wilson, a
:lerk at the Budget and Payroll Of
fice, automatic transfer from
Austin means paychecks will more
han likely arrive a day earlier
han they do now.
She said exemptions are possi
ble if faculty members do not
agree with the document present
ing the new system. Employees
an simply refuse to sign it and
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Rescue effort
Andrea Waller, a junior biology major, receives Olsen Road and George Bush Drive Tuesday,
medical care from an emergency medical team Waller was taken to Humana hospital where she
after a two-car collision at the intersection of received treatment for minor injuries.
Child abduction attempts
worry local police, parents
By Alysia Woods
The Battalion
Two attempted child abduc
tions in a Bryan residential area
in one weekend have parents
and Bryan police officials wor
ried.
Sgt. Choya Walling of the
Bryan Police Department said a
child was reported walking
down Still Meadow Street in
Bryan Friday at 4:10 p.m. when
a white male pulled up in a car
and asked the child to get in.
The suspect then got out of
the car and the child ran to a
nearby house.
A similar incident occurred
Sunday around 1:53 p.m. on the
corner of Still Meadow Street
and Midwest Street, only this
time, the suspect followed the
child in his car for two blocks
after the child refused to get in
the car.
Both children were nine-
See Kidnapping/Page 4
Libya loses
in attempt
to stop U.S.
World Court refuses to block
sanctions, awaits surrender
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
(AP) — Libya received no help
from the World Court on Tuesday
in its effort to stave off U.S. and
British sanctions for refusing to
turn over two men sought for the
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
The court said the matter had
properly been put before the U.N.
Security Council, which on Tues
day confirmed its decision to im
pose arms sale and air travel em
bargoes unless Libya surrenders
the suspects.
The sanctions were set to go
into effect Wednesday. The coun
cil rejected a last-minute effort by
Libya to turn the suspects over to
Malta.
In Washington, White House
spokesman Marlin Fitzwater
praised the World Court ruling.
'We believe Libya must comply
with our request for the Pan Am
103 perpetrators," he said.
Secretary of State James A. Bak
er III told reporters "some consid
eration" had been given to ex
panding the sanctions to include a
ban on purchases of Libyan oil.
That would cripple Libya, which
relies on oil sales for most of its in
come.
Baker also noted that the Unit
ed States and its allies had gone to
war with Iraq to ensure its compli
ance with U.N. resolutions.
The Security Council has de
manded the surrender of the two
men indicted for the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,
Scotland in 1988 — an attack that
killed 27f) people. It also says
Libya must provide proof it has
renounced terrorism and cooper
ate with France in the investiga
tion of four other Libyans in the
bombing of a French airliner that
killed 171 people in 1989.
Col. Moammar Gadhafi's gov
ernment appealed to the World
Court, the U.N. judicial arm, in an
indirect attack on the U.N. sanc
tions.
The court hears only cases be
tween sovereign states, so Libya
sought orders barring the United
States and Britain from taking any
military or economic action in
tended to force Tripoli to give the
two men up for trial.
Although the court's panel of
international judges refused by an
11-5 vote to block military attacks,
there was no indication either na
tion planned such actions.
"We've been working for a po
litical solution all along and we're
very pleased that there's no inter
ference with that," said Edwin
Williamson, legal adviser to the
U.S. State Department.
It was not clear when the sanc
tions would officially begin.
Diplomats at the United Nations
said they would take effect at
12:01 a.m. EDT Wednesday, or
6:01 a.m. in Libya. But Fitzwater
and other U.S. officials in Wash
ington put the time at about 24
hours later — midnight EDT
Wednesday.
Old Campus Theater to re-open
By Jason Loughman
The Battalion
The old Campus Theater on
Northgate showed what was to
be its last movie over five years
ago, but if Don Ganter, its most
recent owner, has his way, it will
open again soon.
The building, whose cracked
and dusty glass doors have been
closed to the public for as long as
most Texas A&M students have
been here, is tentatively sched
uled to open in late 1992 or early
1993 as a nightclub, Ganter said.
The theater was built in 1939
and was the only one in Brazos
County at that time, Ganter said.
Originally owned by the Boyett
family, it was sold sometime in
the 1960s to Morris Schulman.
The theater was losing busi
ness due to what Ganter called
"uncontrollable crowds" of
A&M students. The theater actu
ally showed X-rated films for a
short time in the 1970s before re
turning to more conventional
fare. Schulman finally closed the
theater and sold it to Ganter in
1987.
Renovations to the "Old Cam
pus Theater and Opry House,"
as Gantner plans to call it, are
about half-finished, but he esti
mates it will cost nearly a quar
ter of a million dollars to com
plete.
Ganter said that he is anxious
to open it for business, but reluc
tant to borrow the necessary
See Owner/Page 4
Yeltsin averts political crisis
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Communist-dominat
ed parliament backed down Tuesday from a week-
long clash with President Boris
Yeltsin and passed a declaration
that will allow him to continue his
free-market reforms.
The declaration preserves
Yeltsin's power to rule by decree
and directs the government to
continue the painful reforms that
the lawmakers oppose.
It apparently averted one of
Russia's most serious political
crises since the collapse of the So
viet Union last December.
On Monday, Yeltsin's Cabinet
threatened to resign, claiming parliament's attempts
to trim the president's powers would cripple re-
Yeltsin
forms, raise inflation and block Russia's entry into
the world marketplace.
After the 530-236 vote by the Congress of People's
Deputies, Yeltsin's ministers happily clapped each
other's shoulders and his parliamentary supporters
burst into applause. Yeltsin was not present for the
vote.
"This eliminates the need for our resignation,"
Yeltsin's right-hand man. State Secretary Gennady
Burbulis, told reporters.
Lawmakers will have a chance to change their
minds and amend the document Wednesday.
Yeltsin had been at an impasse with the Congress
since the legislative body opened April 6 in the
Grand Kremlin Palace.
The declaration was approved without debate at
the climax of a second day of raucous cheering, bitter
name-calling and sudden walkouts in the Kremlin.