The Battalion
Vol. 91 No. 181 (6 pages)
“Serving Texas ASM Since 1893’
Thursday, July 23, 1992
Inside
Sports Car Club gives
students chance to rev
engines ... Page 3
U.N. forces
pull out of
Iraqi watch
ISecurity council weapons experts
retreat from position fearing for safety
Flying
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Future looks
promising
for collider
Senate earmarks funds for project
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[prospects for a limited allied air
strike in the latest impasse over
U.N. monitoring of Iraq since the
(Gulf War.
President Bush's spokesman,
[Marlin Fitzwater, accused Iraq of
not abiding by U.N. resolutions
(ending the war.
It is stonewalling U.N. inspec
tors who are trying to identify and
destroy Iraq's weapons of mass
[destruction,” Fitzwater said.
"We are not ruling out any op
tion, including the use of military
(force/' he said.
President Saddam Hussein's
(government has denied military
documents are inside the ministry.
It says that the building is a civil
ian agency not covered by the
U.N. resolutions and that the at
tempt to search it was an insult to
Iraq's sovereignty.
Rolf Ekeus, head of the U.N. in
spection program, said the U.N.
experts believe the building con
tains documents and possibly
equipment related to prohibited
ballistic, chemical, biological and
(nuclear weapons programs.
At a news conference in New
(York, Ekeus said the team ended
(its round-the-clock vigil outside
the alleged Ministry of Agricul-
|ture" because of "the threat of vi
olence and totally inadequate Iraqi
government security.”
Ekeus said an Iraqi tried to kill
a U.N. inspector with a skewer
outside the ministry about 5:30
a.m. Wednesday.
He said Iraqi police allowed the
man to approach the inspector's
vehicle and did nothing while the
attack occurred.
Police intervened only after the
inspector defended himself suc
cessfully and Iraqi officers then let
the attacker "walk freely away,"
he said.
Chanting Iraqis had pelted the
inspectors' cars with eggs and
vegetables and slashed their tires
in escalating demonstrations since
July 5, when the Iraqis refused to
allow U.N. access to the ministry.
More demonstrations took
place in Baghdad and other cities
Wednesday, the Iraqi News
Agency said. Protesters shouted
slogans describing the inspectors
as "stray dogs and scoundrels,” it
said.
Some diplomats deemed the
situation far more serious than the
standoff last September when
U.N. inspectors were surrounded
in a Baghdad parking lot for four
days before being allowed to take
away documents on Iraq's attempt
to produce nuclear warheads.
The diplomats said they were
alarmed by recent attacks on U.N.
guards in northern Iraq, Iraq's re
fusal to accept a U.N. plan for sell
ing its oil to obtain food and medi
cine, and Baghdad's rejection of a
U.N. commission's demarcation of
the Iraq-Kuwait border.
Western and Arab diplomats
speculated that Saddam might be
willing to risk limited attacks be
cause Iraq has made no progress
in ending a trade embargo im
posed after the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait.
The official Iraqi News Agency
said Wednesday that the stale
mate over searching the Agricul
ture Ministry was engineered by
the United States and other mem
bers of the Security Council as a
pretext to "intervene illegally and
achieve their aggressive political
objectives.”
The United States has about
200 warplanes in the Persian Gulf
region, some at Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia, and others aboard the air
craft carrier Independence in the
gulf.
Bentsen
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
Ten-year-oid Lauren Ricca, who attends Crockett Elementary in
Bryan, swings in the playground at Hensel Park on Wednesday.
Ricca was there with her fellow summer camp classmates.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
month ago, supporters of the su
perconducting super collider were
reeling from
the House's
stunning deci
sion to halt
federal spend
ing on the gi
ant atom
smasher. This
week, they
have a few rea
sons to smile.
A Senate
appropriations
subcommittee Tuesday resuscitat
ed the project, earmarking $550
million of its $22 billion allocation
for the super collider, which is be
ing built south of Dallas.
And Wednesday, Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen revealed he has been able
to convince Sen. Robert Byrd, the
powerful chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, to
support the $8.25 billion super
collider.
"He's had some concerns about
the super collider and the other
night I got him to agree that he
would not oppose it — and would
vote for it," said Bentsen, D-Texas.
Earlier this year, the West Vir
ginia senator had termed the su
per collider and the planned space
station "exotic luxuries." He ques
tioned whether the big-ticket sci
ence projects were affordable at a
time when federal spending needs
to be reined in.
Opposition by Byrd to the su
per collider "would really give us
extremely serious problems," said
Bentsen, who as chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee wields
considerable power of his own.
Asked what could have
prompted Byrd's support, Bentsen
replied: "I would hope a long
friendship helped along the way."
Byrd's is not the only vote
Bentsen has lined up in weeks of
buttonholing fellow senators and
urging support for the collider.
Instead of using the traditional
arguments — that the super col
lider is the world's most impor
tant research project and failure to
build it would set the United
States back scientifically —
Bentsen took a different tack with
retiring California Sen. Alan
Cranston.
"I told Cranston: T want a go-
ing-away present from you,'"
Bentsen said Wednesday.
"'You voted against the super
collider. I want you to vote for it
this time.'"
Bentsen said Cranston "seemed
a bit surprised at the request."
Professor becomes convention delegate
Julie Chelkowski
The Battalion
Texas A&M professor Richard Stadelmann
has been chosen as a delegate to the 1992 Re
publican National Convention in August and
will be the only representative from Brazos
and Washington counties and the University.
Stadelmann, an associate professor of phi
losophy and humanities and adviser to A&M's
College Republicans, was nominated at the
State Republican Convention in Dallas last
June after a lengthy caucus session that lasted
four hours.
One of Stadelmann's strategies to gaih votes
(or, at least, to add variety to the refreshments
served) at the convention was a hospitality
center where he greeted people with Blue Bell
Ice Cream from the creamery in his hometown
of Brenham.
The ice cream social served to alter the im
age of convention delegates as heavy drinkers,
he said.
"It was a vigorous campaign," he said.
Stadelmann, along with two other delegates
and three representatives, will represent the
newly redistricted Congressional District
Eight. The eighth district includes Washington
County and sections of Austin, Brazos, Harris,
Montgomery and Waller counties.
Keith Kouba, campaign manager for Stadel
mann and state chairman for College Republi
cans of Texas, said Stadelmann was more than
qualified for his position as a delegate.
"He's a life-long Republican," Kouba said.
"He has always been involved at the state lev
el. He branched out to different sectors of the
party — making a special effort to reach out to
minorities and young people."
Stadelmann, who served as an alternate to
the 1988 national convention, was not elected
on material reasons or from offering false
promises, but "he did it on merit," Kouba said.
His election was made easier with the help
of Kouba, who offered a different perspective
in his campaigning, Stadelmann said.
One time, Stadelmann said, after a long day
of campaigning at the convention, he arrived
at the hospitality center to greet people, but
Kouba advised him that it would be in his best
interest to change into new clothes and "fresh
en up."
"This is something Perot could learn — that
you need someone who is going to be objec
tive," Stadelmann said.
Stadelmann's selection as a delegate and
demonstrations by students at past conven
tions will provide a link between Aggie Re
publicans and the state, Kouba said.
"His selection shows that A&M is a viable
political force," Kouba said. "He is A&M's
link to the state party."
UPD director ends rumors
about incident in Blocker
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Juli Phillips
The Battalion
Confusion among Texas A&M officials
and students persists about an incident in the
Blocker Building in May where a graduate
student severely cut his hand, leaving blood
in numerous parts of Blocker.
Students and faculty members said ru
mors followed that a female A&M student
had been murdered in Blocker — the killer
then dragged her body through the building,
put her into the trunk of a car, and later aban
doned the body and car outside of Houston
after setting the car on fire. Rumors also sur
faced that the police were involved in a cov
er-up.
Bob Wiatt, director of the University Po
lice Department, said Tuesday he thought the
rumors had been put to rest a long time ago.
"We can't hide a dead body," Wiatt said.
"A murder is not something anyone could
; hide, and we wouldn't want to anyway."
p Drew Wagner, an A&M graduate student,
Was intoxicated May 2 and went to his Block-
|er office between 2 and 3 a.m. Sunday. He
Wanted some grapefruit juice and knew he
had a grapefruit and a juicer in his office.
While operating the juicer, he cut his hand.
He could not stop the bleeding so he went
home to attend to it.
Wagner did not wake up until Sunday
/light and by Monday, when he returned to
his office, the blood had been cleaned up.
"I didn't realize that it was any big deal,"
'Wagner said. "I came back in on Monday,
it was all cleaned up ... I guess I didn't
File Photo
Bob Wiatt
realize how much I had bled."
The University Police Department
wrapped up the investigation within two
days after Wagner's accident.
"We had to rattle the sabers to get any in
formation on this thing," Wiatt said.
The department's search led to a trash can
and a bloody grapefruit.
To further complicate matters, some grad
uate students, who wish to remain anony
mous, said they received messages from the
police threatening them to stay quiet or face
undisclosed consequences.
"I talked to some of the department heads
and administrators and said, 'Calm down the
damn rumors — you have a panic situation
going on down there,"' Wiatt said.
Dr. Harvey Tucker, the interim director of
graduate studies, said he could understand
how that could turn into something that
sounded like a threat through the grapevine,
but he encouraged graduates to speak up If
they ever felt they were being threatened,
^Students cannot be dropped for exercis
ing their First Amendment rights/' Tucker
said. "Deans . . . administrators . . . every
body' takes due process seriously and that is
the only way students are ever removed from
A&M."
One graduate student, who also requested
anonymity, said an administrator knew he
had seen the blood at the time of the incident
but never told him to stay quiet.
The police released the final report to Dr.
Dan Robertson, associate dean of the College
of Business Administration, and told him to
"spread the word."
"I called Dan's personal secretary weeks
after the incident was wrapped up, and she
didn't know anything about the incident,"
Wiatt said. "I guess if she didn't know, it
shouldn't come as any surprise that others
wouldn't know (either)."
Many other students and professors had
missed the outcome of the police investiga
tion and still remained shaken because of the
incident-
Dr. Ramona Paetzold, an associate profes
sor who had seen the blood that Sunday,
said, "This is bizarre. I can't believe this is
what we had been worried about.
"I just wish they would have done a better
job getting the information passed down to
us," she said.
Community Unity Day
Group sponsors workshops, seminars on
drug prevention in Bryan-College Station
By Robin Roach
The Battalion
The Brazos County Communi
ty Prevention Coalition (BCCPC)
is bringing the war on drugs to
the front doors of Bryan-College
Station.
The BCCPC will sponsor Com
munity Unity Day on Saturday,
August 1, in an effort to upgrade
the level of drug awareness in the
Bryan-College Station community.
Several workshops and semi
nars will be open to the public,
free of charge. Adult workshops,
"Community Unity Day is a
united effort to fight drugs
and increase awareness of
drugs."
- Nikki Phillips, student assistant
a children's
program and
a panel dis
cussion will
focus on top
ics that are
unique to the
community.
"It's a real community-focused
project," Mary Cunningham, coor
dinator for Community Unity Day
with BCCPC, said. "We're look
ing for anybody and everybody to
give their input on drugs in our
community."
Several departments from
A&M will be working with the
BCCPC including Aggie Athletes
Involved (AAI), which encourages
high school students and athletes
to stay drug-free.
"Community Unity Day is a
united effort to fight drugs and in
crease awareness of drugs," Nikki
Phillips, student assistant in the
student affairs department, said.
The week before Community
Unity Day, July 26-31, has been
approved by the Bryan-College
Station city councils to be recog
nized as Community Drug Pre
vention Awareness Week.
Cunningham encourages A&M
students to attend the workshops
on Community Unity Day and be
come involved in the coalition to
serve as role models for younger
children faced with the pressures
of drugs.
BCCPC is a conglomeration of
individuals, agencies, government
entities, businesses and organiza
tions in Brazos County who have
unified to ad
dress the drug
problem in
our communi
ty-
"There are
80 recognized
members, but
one membership could consist of
100 people," Cunningham said.
In addition to workshops, a
light breakfast, complimentary
luncheon and refreshments will be
served. Coach R.C. Slocum will
be the keynote speaker at the
event. Free transportation and
child care will also be available.
Community Unity Day will be
held at the Brazos Center. Regis
tration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and
the event will close at 5 p.m. Pre
registration is not required. How
ever, those interested in attending
or who need more information
should call the BCCPC at 776-
8274.