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% 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."
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