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I n't get le, but n't re- ist re- i to be ie and good cassott s of'94 £/ 1893 The Bate align % 1993 Vol. 93 No. 14 (14 pages) The Battalion / 1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993 Thursday, September 16,1993 George Bush Jr. aims at gubernatorial bid Former president's son files papers to establish campaign committee The Associated Press AUSTIN - George W. Bush, eldest son of the former president and general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, Wednes day moved closer to launching a 1994 gubernatorial bid. While stopping short of a for mal declaration. Bush filed pa pers with the Texas Ethics Com mission establishing a campaign committee that can raise money for tae Republican primary in March. "I will run because of my com mitment to Texas and my concern for its future/' Bush said in a state ment. “Texans want an expanding economy that creates jobs and op portunity, less government, safer communities and better schools for their children. I am committed to reaching those goals." Bush, 46, is expected to make a final announcement after baseball season. Should Bush be the GOP nomi nee to challenge Democratic Gov. Ann Richards, it would set up a battle both Republicans and De mocrats say they'll savor. Richards, a political star since her 1988 Democratic National Convention keynote address lam basting the elder Bush, is prepar ing to seek a second term. George W. Bush, who served as adviser and confidante in his father's campaigns, has stumped for state and local Republican candidates for years. He's built a vast reservoir of good will among the GOP rank and file, party leaders say. “He's a real, live Texan. He's very forthright, he's very honest, he's very blunt. He's also very, very well-liked/' said Texas GOP Chairman Fred Meyer. Texas Agriculture Commis sioner Rick Perry, a longtime friend, looks forward to being on the 1994 GOP ticket with Bush. “The kind of person he is, and the kind of candidate he'll make, are basically the same. People re ally enjoy being around him," Perry said. “He's got a great sense of humor, and he's not hung up on who he is, who his father is, what he's' done." Democrats say Bush is a politi cal novice, who's only solo politi cal experience was an unsuccess ful 1978 bid for Congress. “The fact is, no amount of money from his daddy's rich friends can make young Bush qualified to be governor of Texas. He simply doesn't have the qualifications," said Ed Mar tin, Democratic Party executive director. Karl Rove, an Austin political consultant working for Bush, dis putes such criticism. See Bush/Page 11 Alpha Phi Alpha anniversary Vamell Hopkins UI/The Battalion Carl E. Carey jr., class of '92 and an admissions counselor at ternity brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha and other attendees at the A&M, speaks about social and historical issues to his fellow fra- fraternity's eighth charter anniversary Wednesday night. Hi j ackers commandeer Russian jet Three Iranians force plane down in Norway, request political asylum The Associated Press ULLENSAKER, Norway — Three hijackers brandishing grenades and explosives forced a Russian jetliner with 52 people aboard to land in Norway on Wednesday. Police said the air pirates asked for political asylum. Regional Police Chief Knut Austad said all 10 women and seven chil dren aboard were let off the Aeroflot aircraft two hours later. A Justice Ministry spokeswoman said they were allowed off the plane to rest and eat, and it was not clear whether the hijackers had demanded their return. The jet sat in the dark, surrounded by ambulances, fire engines, and armored vehicles. About 300 heavily armed military and police troops were deployed at the airport. Police spokesman Per Jarle Hellevik said the hijackers “came with one demand. They wanted to make sure they were really in Oslo. Ne gotiations are going on in English and Russian." The Tupolev-134 jet was en route from Azerbaijan when it was seized over southern Russia. It was forced to land near Kiev to take on fuel and an English-speaking Ukrainian navigator, before flying to Norway. The pilot, Capt. Mikhail Osavin, said the hijackers threatened the crew with hand grenades and explosives, said a Russian security spokesman, Alexei Zakharov. After the plane landed at the sealed-off and darkened Gardermoen charter airport, one man left the jet, and was driven to the control tower in a Civil Aviation Board car, the national news agency, NTB reported. He was driven back in five minutes and reboarded. “They are talking and it is in English," said Bjarne Myrstad, a spe cial government spokesman. No demands preceded the asylum request, he said. Another spokesman, Dag Amundsen, said there were at least three, possibly four hijackers. Ukrainian and Azerbaijani officials said the hijackers were Iranians, linked to the radical Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militia of Lebanon, but no government spokesmen could confirm that. Norway was the site of the breakthrough peace talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Radical Islamic groups in the Middle East have denounced the agreement and have vowed to disrupt any peace efforts. About 100 heavily armed members of Norway's special Delta Troop force, wearing bulletproof vests, arrived at the airport with armored jeeps and black, box-like trailers. The NTB news agency said it “had reason to believe the trailers contained weapons." Three military helicopters flew over the airport. According to NTB, one landed at the airport with lights off. A policeman at the airport near Kiev said the hijackers had offered to release the female passengers, but the women refused to leave the plane. The jet flew across the Baltic Sea and Sweden before landing in drizzly weather about 31/2 hours later at Gardermoen, 25 miles north of Oslo. The jet had been en route from the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to Perm in the Ural Mountains when the hijackers diverted it to Ukraine, authorities in Russia said. LSU provost appointed as A&M dean of engineering By Cheryl Heller The Battalion The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents is ex pected to confirm at its Friday meeting a Louisiana State Uni versity official to head several Texas A&M engineering pro grams, A&M officials said. Dr. C. Roland Haden, cur rent vice chancellor for academ ic affairs and provost at LSU, will assume the positions of vice chancellor for the Texas A&M Lmiversity System (TAMUS), dean of the College of Engineering for Texas A&M University and director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station on Oct. 15, subject to the regents' confirmation. System Chancellor William H. Mobley and Texas A&M University Interim President Dr. E. Dean Gage made the an nouncement of Haden's selec tion last Friday. "We are delighted that a per son with Dr. Haden's leader ship and academic credentials will be joining us and leading our engineering programs to the next level of excellence," Mobley and Gage said in a joint statement. Haden received a bachelor of science degree from the Univer sity of Texas at Arlington in 1961, a master of science degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and earned his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin in 1965. He is a former Texas A&M faculty member and was named director of the Institute of Solid State Electronics in 1969. State executions increasing across the nation Death penalty upheld for man who raped A&M student The Associated Press AUSTIN — The death sentence of a man who has confessed to six crimes in which females rang ing from ages 13 to 72 were killed or brutalized was upheld Wednesday by the Court of Criminal Appeals. Serial killer Daniel Lee Corwin was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to die in the 1987 deaths of Debra Ewing, 26, in July in Montgomery County; Alice Martin, 72, in February in Robertson County, and Mary Risinger, 36, on Halloween in Walker County. In each case, Corwin was found to have kid napped, raped, and stabbed his victims, according to court records. Two of them also were strangled. Corwin was also found guilty of two attempted murders before and after the three offenses in 1987. In 1975, he abducted a high school classmate, raped her, slashed her throat, stabbed her in the heart and left her for dead, according to court records. The woman lived, and Corwin was later assessed a 40-year sentence for the offense. He was paroled after serving nine years. In October 1988, Corwin abducted a Texas A&M student in her own vehicle, raped her, tied her arms around a tree and slashed and stabbed her throat, according to court records. She also survived. The Associated Press WASHINGTON - States al ready have executed 32 prisoners this year, 14 in Texas alone, and more than in any year since 1962. The pace likely will quicken be cause federal courts are “more and more willing to let states pull the switch," one death penalty foe said Wednesday. When 31-year-old murderer Joe Louis Wise went to Virginia's electric chair late Tuesday, he be came the 220th person executed in America since 1977, when Gary Gilmore's death before a Utah fir ing squad ended a 10-year hiatus for capital punishment. Last year there were 31 execu tions. “The death penalty is the vio lent response of a violent society to the violence it both fears and is fascinated by," said Herman Schwartz, an American University law professor. “Violence in movies and television is perva sive., so it must be a popular com modity. The death penalty repre sents revenge against vicious peo ple whose exploits are portrayed in movies and on television." Schwartz called death penalty opponents “a feeble minority." Leigh Dingerson of the Na tional Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty called the rising numbers of executions “discour aging but not wholly unexpect ed." “The number of men and women on death rows is ap proaching 3,000. It's inevitable more of them will be exhausting their appeals," she said. Dingerson said the nation's courts have grown impatient with capital punishment disputes. “We're seeing more and more cas es tossed out of the courts, espe cially federal courts, that would have been heard five years ago," she said. “The courts are more and more willing to let states pull the switch." Student Government to implement MAPS Multicultural Awareness Program to inform youths about race diversity By Kim McGuire The Battalion A new Student Government program at tempting to promote multicultural awareness among Bryan and College Station area stu dents is in the planning stages and will begin next spring semester. MAPS (Multiculturalism Awareness Pro grams) is an attempt to inform local youths about different cultures and ideas in a fun and educational environment, said Ric Gonzalez, director of A&M's multicultural services and development. Gonzalez said the program is in its initial planning stages, and a lot of work is left to be done. "We have the logistics to work out still but the program is built on a good idea," Gonzalez said. "Everything is falling into place, so when the spring comes around, it will all be finished." MAPS will be similar to the U-ACT pro gram, which sponsors a retreat for student or ganizations and stresses multicultural aware ness, Gonzalez said. "We're considering sponsoring a retreat for junior and high school students and possibly going to the elementaries," he said. "We'd like to bring them into a college setting because they'll be more apt to learn something in a dif ferent environment." Gonzales said MAPS will target area youth to "create multicultural minds." "We want to try teaching them about multi culturalism while they're still young and im pressionable,", he said. "Hopefully, it will make an impact on them, and theyTl care about their future and want to do something in return." Gonzalez said MAPS has received favorable support from student services advisers and Stu dent Body President Brian Walker who intro duced MAPS during his campaign last year. Walker said he hopes MAPS will have a positive impact on area youths and increase their multicultural awareness. "With MAE’S, we're addressing an important issue and not waiting for a problem to arise," Walker said. "We don't want to have an effect, we want to try to solve the problem." Inside . ■ T Aggielife •Texas' musicians; House of Usher, Doug Supernaw Page 3 Sports ► Rush: NCAA ruling gave Aggies raw deal Page 7 Opinion •Editorial: Bullet train right track for Texas Pagel3 Weather •Thursday: sunny , warm highs near 90 •Forecast for Friday: dear, highs near 90 Texas Lotto • Wednesday's winning Texas Lotto numbers: 2, 14, 21, 30, 37, 45