Opinion
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1994 U.S. Open
Els breaks tie to win in sudden-death playoff
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Weather
Tuesday and Wednesday, partly
cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the 90s, lows
near 70.
— National Weather Service
TUESDAY
June 21, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 160 (6 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
Briefs A&M cancels power plant project
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New president for
Prairie View sought
Four names have been submitted
to Chancellor William Mobley for the
position of president of Prairie View
A&M University.
The finalists are Dr. Harold
Bonner, vice president for finance and
administration at Prairie View A&M;
Dr. Ashland Brown, dean of the
School of Engineering at the
University of the Pacific in Stockton,
California; Dr. William Lester, provost
ofTuskegee University in Alabama;
and Dr. Maxine Moore, vice president
for academic affairs at Johnson C.
Smith University in Charlotte, North
Carolina.
The four finalists were
recommended to Mobley by a 10-
member search committee chaired by
Dr. David Sanchez, A&M System vice
chancellor for academic affairs.
A&M professor wins
award for article
Dr. Leonard Berry, director of the
Center for Retailing Studies at Texas
A&M University, was named a
recipient of the Jagdish N. Sheth Best
Article Award by the Academy of
Marketing Science.
Berry, a marketing professor in the
College of Business Administration
and Graduate School of Business,
won the award for an article he co
authored with Valarie Zeithaml and A.
Parasuraman, both former A&M
faculty members.
Berry and his co-authors recieved
a plaque and a cash award.
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O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent
Monday to stabbing to death his ex-
wife and her friend, as a prosecutor
declared him the "sole murderer" and
said he had planned the slayings.
Wearing a dark suit coat, white
shirt buttoned to the neck and no tie,
the retired football star stood somberly
with his head cocked, sometimes
shutting his eyes. He has been under
a suicide watch in his jail cell.
"Not guilty,” he told Municipal
Judge Patti Jo McKay after charges
were read accusing him of murdering
Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her
friend, Ron Goldman, 25. Simpson
winced slightly when the charge was
read involving his ex-wife.
Twice he answered "yes”: when
the judge asked if he had been
correctly identified and — with his
lawyer whispering over his shoulder —
whether he understood the charges.
The 46-year-old football Hall of
Famer sighed heavily as the court
then turned to procedural matters.
Defense attorney Robert Shapiro
demanded a preliminary hearing as
soon as possible, and the judge
scheduled it for June 30. Preliminary
hearings force prosecutors to present
their evidence to determine if a case
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LONDON (AP) — Listen, do you
want to know a secret? The Beatles
have returned to the recording studio.
News reports said Monday that
Paul McCartney, George Harrison
and Ringo Starr recorded new
material together in London three
weeks ago — the first time they've
laid down tracks together in nearly a
quarter-century.
The songs were recorded as
instrumentals. At least one song is
expected to use the voice of the late
John Lennon, who sang it on a
demonstration tape. There also is
speculation that Lennon’s son, Julian,
will join the group.
McCartney had confirmed in
January that the trio would be
recording together. The new music is
to be part of a television documentary
on the band to be aired next year.
Apple, the Beatles’ production
company, has been collecting
archival material for the project.
"They announced some time ago
they intended to get together. I gather
they have now done so,” said Apple’s
Chips Chipperfield.
The Beatles broke up in 1970.
Lennon was shot to death in New
York City in 1980.
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Construction on hot, chilled water facility to continue as planned
By James Bernsen
The Battalion
The Texas A&M University System
canceled on Friday the construction of a
$120 million cogeneration power plant
that was scheduled to be built on the A&M
campus.
Tenneco Power Generation Co. was to
build the plant, which would have been
the largest capital construction project
ever built by the A&M System, in two
stages.
The cancellation will only affect Phase
II of the project, which is the building of a
power plant on campus.
Phase I, the installation of a facility to
provide hot and chilled water to west
campus is already under construction and
will continue.
Richard Lindsay, System vice chancel
lor for finance and operations, said in a
See related editorial. Page 5
press release that the project was stopped
because of the failure of A&M to come to
an agreement with Tenneco and System
concerns of whether the plant is necessary.
“We are discontinuing further negotia
tions because the University was not able
to secure an agreement for the purchase
of back-up power or the sale of excess
power for the proposed project,” he said.
Terri Parker, System director of com
munication, said the agreement was re
quired to be reached by March 31, 1994.
“Despite the University’s best efforts,
no agreement was reached,” she said.
Tenneco also failed to find a bond is
suer for the project. A bond issuer is a
company, like an industrial development
corporation, that can issue tax-exempt
bonds to fund the program.
A study by Ernst & Young, begun early
in March, also swayed the decision.
“They found significant problems in
the proposed project,” Parker said.
“We’re going to re-evaluate A&M’s energy
requirem ents. ”
The study reviewed the economic and
financial aspects in determining need of
the power plant, the evaluation procfess
used to select a developer and the related
risks involved.
According to the study, the original
evaluation of the program did not consid
er substantial risk to the University that
would be provided by the plant.
The evaluation also did not take into
Please see Plant, Page 6
Stew Milne/The Battalion
Stroke! Stroke!
Diego Perdomo, a member of the A&M swim team, day morning at 6:30. Perdomo received an All-American
works on his upper-body strength during practice Mon- Honorable Mention last year in the 100 meter butterfly.
Aggie mom keeps
eye on University
Former Mothers' Clubs president
intends to keep up
By Christine Johnson
The Battalion
The former president of the
Aggie Mothers’ Clubs said she
will continue to monitor the
University’s actions and make
sure they meet the needs of
students.
Margaret Freeman said the
role of an Aggie mother is to
support students and to make
'y ; - - w< m i think it is
up to us to let the policy-mak
ers know what the mothers ex
pect,” she said.
She believes this role in
cludes raising money for schol
arships for students who want
to attend A&M.
“But, I think we should not
abandon them once they get to
A&M,” she said. “We should
contact, support
always be concerned for their
welfare.”
Since leaving office, she has
been assigned to a special com
mittee to monitor events at
Texas A&M.
Lylabeth King, a fellow com
mittee member, said the com
mittee was formed because
many members wanted Free
man to continue the efforts she
had made during her presiden
cy.
“The main focuses of the
committee will be Food Ser
vices and the A&M Bookstore
because these are things we
feel directly affect the stu
dents,” King said.
Freeman said the privatiza
tion of Food Services was not
in the best interest of the stu
dents.
“Not all privatization is bad,
but for Texas A&M it is,” she
said. “We thought it could lead
to the privatization of room
and board at A&M, but the
motive was purely profit.”
Freeman said her interest
in Food Services started with
Please see Freeman, Page 6
tensions
N. Korea may halt nuclear program;
Washington waiting to reopen talks
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton cited “hopeful signs” Mon
day that the North Korea crisis
may be easing, and the adminis
tration awaited confirmation from
the Koreans that they are willing
to freeze their nuclear program.
The State Department said it
was using unspecified “diplomatic
channels” to confirm with the North
Koreans the offer former President
Carter said they made during his
meetings last week in Pyongyang
with President Kim II Sung.
Mike McCurry, the State De
partment spokesman, declined to
say whether the diplomatic con
tacts would include a visit by U.S.
officials to North Korea. Beyond
saying the contacts would take
place this week, McCurry and oth
er administration officials refused
to discuss the exact timing and na
ture of the effort.
If the North Koreans are ready to
halt operations of their nuclear fuel
reprocessing plant, scrap plans to
load fresh fuel in their 5-megawatt
nuclear reactor and permit normal
international inspections to verify
this, then Washington would be
willing to hold a new round of high-
level talks, McCurry said.
Those high-level talks are con
sidered crucial because they would
cover a broad range of issues that
North Korea has insisted must be
resolved before it can accommodate
Western demands on its nuclear
activities. North Korea wants, for
example, to receive full diplomatic
recognition from the United States,
an end to U.S. trade limitations
and a peace treaty ending the
1950-63 Korean War.
Carter, who briefed Clinton and
senior administration officials
Sunday on his talks in Pyongyang,
has said he believes Kim, the 82-
year-old dictator who had ruled
North Korea for nearly half a cen
tury, sincerely wants to end the
nuclear dispute.
Clinton, in an interview Mon
day on NBC’s “To
day” show, sounded
hopeful, but also
skeptical, that
Kim’s offer to
Carter represented
a change in circum
stances.
“We have surely
something to gain
by talking with the
Please see Korea,
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The U.S.-North Korean
Dispute and How it Grew
•J 1985: North Korea signs the nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty. In the
jiw«iLni»«»|jw process, it agrees to list all
itMm its nuclear facilities and to
allow Inspectors from the
International Atomic Energy Agency to visit
its reactor and radioactive waste sites to
verify the Information.
V 1992: Almost seven years after North
Korea joined the treaty, the Vienna-based
IAEA finally conducts a preliminary
inspection visit, and finds a major
discrepancy: Although North
Korea claimed
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that it had acquired
a small amount of
plutonium from a
single reprocessing
of spent fuel rods
from its reactor,
an analysis shows
that it actually
reprocessed used
fuel rods several
times, suggesting
that it had been conducting a much larger
operation than it was admitting—-possibly
with plans to manufacture nuclear weapons
North Koreans repeatedly batk at further
inspections.
V 1994: The Clinton Administration, alarmed
by the prospect that the North Koreans might
be building a nuclear arsenal, demands
additional IAEA
inspections—ultimately In vain. North
Korea surprises the West by
announcing in late April that it is
shutting down its reactor at Yongbyon
immediately and removing the spent
fuel rods, jeopardizing the IAEA's
ability to tell whether additional
plutonium has been diverted.
MAY, 1994: The IAEA tries to extract
samples from the spent fuel rods, but
is blocked by North Korea from taking
the measurements that it wants. The
United States, South Korea and
Japan begin pressing for imposition
of U N. sanctions as punishment.
Greg Hester/ Los Angeles Times vie AP
Bomb kills
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A
bomb blew up in. a crowded mau
soleum in Iran’s holy city of
Mashhad on Monday, killing 25
people and wounding 70 gath
ered for prayer, Iran’s official
news agency said.
Police arrested a number of
people in connection with the
blast, the official Islamic Repub
lic News Agency said in reports
monitored in Nicosia. It gave no
further details.
The government blamed the
opposition Mujahedeen Khalq for
the bombing, and Iran’s spiritual
25, wounds
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
urged authorities to bring the
“blood-sucking bats” to justice.
But the dissident group de
nied involvement in the attack
Mashhad, a city 450 miles east
of Tehran.
IRNA initially reported 70
dead and 114 wounded, which
would have made it the worst
terrorist attacks reported in Iran
in 13 years. But IRNA said later
that those figures were based on
accounts from witnesses and
that an unidentified Interior
Ministry official had announced
70 worshipers in Iran mausoleum
the lower toll.
The bomb reportedly exploded
in the prayer hall of the mau
soleum of Imam Reza, a saint in
the Shiite branch of Islam. Wor
shipers were observing the
mourning day of Ashura, an
niversary of the 7th century
martyrdom of Shiites’ most
revered saint, Hussein, grandson
of the Prophet Mohammed, Is
lam’s founder.
State-run television said the
blast was caused by an 11-pound
bomb at the foot of a column in
the mausoleum. It broadcast
scenes of fallen masonry, shat
tered glass and pools of blood on
the marble floors. Religious no
tices and inscriptions from the
Koran were scorched.
It was not known how many
people were in the prayer hall
when the bomb went off. The
news agency said most had come
from other parts of Iran.
Iranian security sources were
quoted by the agency as saying
evidence at the scene pointed to
the involvement of the Muja
hedeen Khalq, the largest Iran
ian dissident group.
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