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WEDNESDAY
November 23, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 63 (6 pages)
“Serving Texas AdrM since 1893 ”
> t news Serbs set villages ablaze day after NATO raid
incess Anne visits
luth Africa, Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
') — Princess Anne was greeted
singing schoolchildren Tuesday
ing the first official visit to South
ca by a British royal in 47 years.
The princess later met with
isident Nelson Mandela at his
dence. Describing her as a person
d was "doing a remarkable job
lughout the world," Mandela said
y discussed the plight of South
can children.
“We have the problem of the se
ed street children, abused children
I disabled children and the lack of
lilies for them,” Mandela said.
Princess Anne, only daughter of
een Elizabeth II and Prince Philip,
lier went to the black township of
xandra where she was welcomed
■ children singing "Mokoti ke di
Iko,” a traditional wedding song
feed to welcome visitors and
Ivlyweds.
elms making ene-
ies on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) — In 22
nbatively conservative years in the
nate, Jesse Helms has perfected
art of making political foes
xmfortable.
Now, just as he’s about to assume
! chairmanship of a major
ranittee, he’s got fellow Republican
lators squirming over a comment
it President Clinton is so unpopular
military bases that “he’d better
ve a bodyguard” if he travels to
rth Carolina.
Helms made the remark Monday
fean interview with the Raleigh News
Id Observer. By mid-day Tuesday,
I had issued a statement declaring
Etwith his words, he had “made a
nfetete... which I shall not repeat.”
gl Clinton called Helms’ remarks
w and inappropriate.”
slice use thumb print
)find murder suspect
[key WEST, Fla. (AP) — The
mb of Manuel Alvarez Solano
inted police to suspects in his
ying, 18 years after his body was
covered.
The sheriff’s office Monday said
(people have been arrested and a
d person is being sought in the
itgun slaying of the Cuban-born
g dealer.
Initially, police had been unable
identify the body and held onto
> thumb in hopes it would
initially yield clues. A state crime
injected some chemicals to raise
ridges on the thumb, and Solano
s identified when his prints were
nd on file at the Immigration and
turalization Service.
“Back in ’76, they didn’t have a lot
technology we have now,” sheriffs
tective Jay Glover said.
Solano had been part of a gang
it imported marijuana into Florida
d had quarreled with some of his
sociates, Glover said.
fendy’s worried hot
ocoa may be too hot
IDUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Wendy’s
ernational is halting hot chocolate
les at its restaurants because it
ay be too hot for children.
The fast-food chain said today
at it has started notifying its 4,000
S. restaurants to temporarily stop
'les. Wendy’s has about 4,300
staurants worldwide.
Benny Lynch, a spokesman for the
pin based in suburban Columbus,
'id the company hopes to resume
fes in 30 days or so, after it finds a
ay to brew and serve the drink at a
Ner temperature.
Wendy’s serves hot chocolate at
I0 degrees.
“We don’t know that it’s too hot,”
'nch said. “But at 180 degrees
swing temperature, it would be too
'tifit was spilled.”
The decision follows a ruling in a
aw Mexico lawsuit that accused a
^Donald’s restaurant of serving its
'(fee too hot. A woman who was
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Blockade of United Nations convoys causes over
1 80,000 civilians to depend on humanitarian aid
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze-
govina (AP) — Serb fighters set
villages ablaze and sent civilians
fleeing for their lives Tuesday in
northwest Bosnia, their response
to a retaliatory airstrike by
NATO warplanes.
Surface-to-air missiles were
fired at two NATO jets flying
over Serb-held Banja Luka. The
British jets were not hit.
Senior officials of Croatia, site
of Monday’s NATO attack on a
Serb-run airport used to stage
bombing runs on a U.N. safe
haven in Bosnia’s Bihac area,
said the alliance had asked for
and received permission to fly
again into Croatian airspace.
NATO had no comment on the
request, which could signal an
other bombing raid on the Serb-
held Krajina region of Croatia.
About 50 allied warplanes and
supporting aircraft bombed the
Udbina airstrip in Croatia, just
across the border with Bosnia, in
NATO’s biggest attack ever. The
airfield had been used three times
the past two weeks by planes at
tacking the Bihac area, where
there are a cluster of government-
held towns.
The message of allied force
appeared lost on besiegers of the
Bihac pocket about 90 miles
northwest of Sarajevo.
A U.N. spokesman, Lt. Col.
Jan-Dirk von Merveldt, spoke
Tuesday afternoon of a “large in
crease” in artillery, machine-gun
and small arms fire in areas
around Bihac still held by Bosn
ian government forces.
The town of Bhiac itself was
cut off on all sides except to the
north, said U.N. officials.
Serb fighters rolled over sev
eral villages in the western part
of the Bihac enclave, near the
Croatian border, leaving them
ablaze and their residents flee
ing toward the town Tuesday.
Alarmed aid officials warned
of an impending humanitarian
crisis. Peter Kessler, a
spokesman for the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees, said
about 8,000 civilians had fled
villages under attack the past
few days.
He said the area was running
out of food, and in some places,
potable water.
Kessler blamed Serbs in Croa
tia for obstructing UNHCR aid
convoys: Only 12 convoys have
reached the Bihac pocket since
May, the last on Oct. 1.
“The situation is critical,”
Kessler said. About 180,000 peo
ple in the region depend on hu
manitarian aid.
Both Radovan Karadzic, the
leader of Bosnian Serbs, and
their army commander, Gen.
Ratko Mladic, said the United
Nations could expect severe re
taliation for the airstrike, the
first by NATO outside Bosnian
territory but the seventh against
Serb military targets this year.
The self-styled Bosnian Serb
assembly was scheduled to meet
in the Serb headquarters of Pale,
just outside Sarajevo, on Wednes
day to discuss the latest develop
ments and surge in fighting.
Bosnian government officials
blasted the United Nations and
NATO for allowing artillery and
soldiers in Serb-held Croatia to
join in the fight.
Bosnia’s Prime Minister
Haris Silajdzic questioned the
value of bombing the airfield at
Udbina, but leaving intact ar
tillery batteries that have caused
the most death and destruction
in Bihac area.
He also said it was “absurd”
that forces inside one of Croatia’s
four U.N. protected areas should
be allowed to attack Bihac, one of
Bosnia’s six U.N. safe havens.
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Letting off a little hot air
Chuck Hochhalter, the keeper of the blimp in G. kept the helium filled zeppelin grounded during last
Rollje White Coliseum, tries to repair a leak that night’s Lady Aggies basketball game.
Miami PD releases file
confirming Kennedy’s
assassination plot
(AP) The Secret Service was told of a possible plot to
shoot President Kennedy from an office building with a ri
fle at least a week before his assassination, files released
by the Miami Police Department confirm.
The right-wing organizer who revealed the alleged plot
also told a police informant the day after the Nov. 22,
1963, assassination that Lee Harvey Oswald would never
talk about it.
The day after that interview, Nov. 24, Oswald was shot
and killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas po
lice department.
The Miami police files confirm and add to an account by
a retired police intelligence officer, Lt. Everett Kay, who
said three years ago that he learned of an assassination
plot from informant William Somersett. The FBI and Se
cret Service would not comment at the time.
A newly released Nov. 15, 1963, memo from Miami de
tective S.J. Hebert shows the Secret Service was aware of
the alleged plot before the assassination.
“Agent Jamison of the Secret Service called to state that
he had been requested to contact a William Somersett
with reference to information given to the FBI by Somer
sett, and relayed to the Secret Service,” the memo says.
Three days later, Kennedy visited Miami — where his
motorcade was canceled — before flying on to Texas. He
was shot in Dallas 31 years ago today, and authorities ac
cused Oswald of firing a high-powered rifle from the Texas
Book Depository.
Secret Service spokesman Jaime Cagigas in Washing
ton said Monday that he would check on the Miami report,
but was not familiar with the case.
“But if we hear that someone is going to go up on a
building and take a shot at the president, I guarantee we
would check it out,” he said.
Somersett, who reported on the activities of white su
premacy groups, secretly taped a conversation with Joseph
See JFK/Page 6
Ticket scalpers at A&M can face criminal trespassing charges
UPD warns people
about breaking the law
while reselling tickets
By Stephanie Dube
The Battalion
Potential ticket scalpers should be
aware that regulations for ticket reselling
vary in different cities, and penalties can
be stiff, A&M officials said.
Sgt. Betty LeMay, crime prevention
specialist for the University Police Depart
ment (UPD), said that although a specific
rule against scalping does not exist at
A&M, a person can be arrested for crimi
nal trespassing.
“There is a rule that people cannot sell
tickets within so many feet of G. Rollie
White,” LeMay said. “We can tell them to
go across the street and sell the tickets. If
they come back, we can arrest them for
criminal trespassing.”
Criminal trespassing is a Class B mis
demeanor, she said.
Bob Wiatt, director of UPD, said that if
officials detect someone scalping tickets
near the coliseum, they can ask the
scalpers to move across the street.
“If they refuse to move, we can also
charge them with criminal trespassing,”
Wiatt said. “This can result in up to six
months in jail and a $2000 fine.”
LeMay said that the exact punishment
for criminal trespassing depends on the in
dividual situation.
“Here they would probably get a fine,
but it could also depend on their criminal
history,” she said.
Since UPD began enforcing the crimi
nal trespassing law, officials have only ar
rested two people, Wiatt said.
“About three years ago, the same two
people kept coming back game after game,
so we arrested them,” he said.
LeMay said enforcing the rules can be
frustrating because officials cannot take
stricter action.
Wiatt said several cities in Texas have
city ordinances which differ from the rules
at A&M.
A recent letter from David Rochelle,
Class of ’57j said that he and several other
alumni were punished for selling tickets in
front of the Alamodome in San Antonio
without a peddler’s permit.
Officer Jannine Smith, public informa
tion officer for the San Antonio Police De
partment, said San Antonio has a city or
dinance covering peddler’s permits.
“People must have a peddler’s license to
sell tickets at the Alamodome,” Smith said.
Different cities may have different city
ordinances, making the rules for reselling
tickets different in separate locations,
LeMay said.
However, a city ordinance for Bryan or
College Station would not apply to A&M
because the University is a state institu
tion, Wiatt said.
Any scalping law which could apply to
A&M would have to be a state law, Wiatt
said. Anti-scalping laws have been intro
duced into the Texas legislature in the
past, but have never been passed, he said.
“People are selling tickets above the
ticket price, but it is their right if they
have a buyer who wants to buy the ticket,”
Wiatt said. “That is the legislature’s prob
lem: if a person wants to buy the ticket, it
is his right.”
Jim Kotch, athletic ticket manager,
said a person cannot resell tickets on the
grounds adjoining the stadium.
“Security will move them across the
street because they are usually reselling the
tickets I have sold and taking away my
business,” Kotch said. “They do the best
they can, but it is difficult with the crowd.”
Scalpers often lie to potential customers
in order to get more business, Kotch said.
“They may say we do not have anymore
tickets when we still do,” Kotch said.
“They may also sell a student* ticket to
someone who does not have a student ID.”
When a person buys a student ticket
and does not have an ID, the ticket is use
less, he said.
“When^you buy a ticket from a scalper,
you run the risk of getting conned by lo
cation, price, or how to use the ticket,”
Kotch said.
Congress urged to release information on radiation
By Katherine Arnold
The Battalion
The nature of human radia
tion experiments conducted
from 1945 to 1975 should be re
leased to the public, a former
president of the Health Physics
Society said.
Dr. Kenneth Mossman recom
mended in testimony to the En
ergy and Power Subcommittee of
the U.S. House of Representa
tives that the benefits and radio
logical risks of such experiments
be disclosed.
“Full disclosure is necessary in
order for the public to begin to un
derstand why these experiments
were conducted, what the objec
tives were, what health risks
were involved and the benefits de
rived,” Mossman testified.
Human radiation experiments
performed from 1945 to 1975
have been a topic for debate in
Congressional subcommittee.
During those years, more than
600 funded human radiation ex
periments were conducted. The
information regarding the out
come of the experiments has not
been released to the public.
In a speech to the Texas
A&M chapter of the Health
Physics Society, Mossman said
that the experiments taught
the medical profession a great
deal about human reaction to
radiation treatments.
“We learned that human radi
ation experiments can be con
ducted with minimal radiological
risk, and communication of radi
ation risks must be put in lan
guage the public can under
stand,” Mossman said.
During the 1940s, the United
States was developing nuclear
weapons. Participants in the
Manhattan Project were ex
posed to radiation, and the ef
fects were unknown.
To find out what the effects
of radiation would be, 18 pa
tients with life expectancies of
less than 10 years were injected
with a small amount of plutoni
um. The data gathered from
the study is invaluable, Moss
man said.
“Thousands of workers were
exposed to radiation, and animal
studies were not sufficient,”
experiments
Mossman said. “No one knew
how (radiation) would behave in
humans. We needed to under
stand that.”
The ethical aspects of past ra
diation experiments has been de
bated, but the main argument is
that radiation experts can learn
from the studies and learn how
to protect current radiation
workers, Mossman said.
Dr. Wesley Bolch, associate
professor of nuclear engineering
and adviser for the Health
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