Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-19-1986 The BG News September 19, 1986 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News September 19, 1986" (1986). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4553. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4553 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Falcons prepare for Central Michigan, story pg. 8 THE BG NEWS Vol. 69 Issue 15 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, September 19,1986 Frenchman UNDERGRADUATE SERB rejects killed in STUDENT GOVERNMENT union petition Lebanon petition will not be a problem. Kelley was unavailable for BEIRUT (AP) - A lone assas- by Melissa McGUUvray staff reporter comment. sin using a silencer-equipped "I really don't think there's a pistol killed the French military A petition for an election that crisis," she said. "I really can't attache outside the French Em- would give classified staff mem- see why the date is that impor- bassy yesterday. It was the lat- bers the opportunity to unionize tant." est of a series of terrorist has been denied because the No blank is provided on the attacks on French targets in election intent cards were in- card for the date, she said, and Beirut and in Paris. complete, a spokesman from the she was not tola by the CWA State Employee Relations representatives that signers Anonymous telephone callers Board said. should include the date on their in Lebanon and France claimed Don Leonard, a SERB spokes- cards. responsibility for the assassina- man, said the board rejected the She added the fact that new tion in the name of two obscure petition from the Communica- cards may have to be distrib- groups and threatened further TO-DAY uted and re-signed does not con- tion Workers of America be- blows. One demanded release of cause the cards did not include cern her. an alleged terrorist jailed in the date they were signed. The "With all the interest we have France. on this campus, cards will not be f.riiH i petition, submitted in June and Police said Col. Christian □ denied Sept. 4, involved Univer- hard to get, she said. Lawrence Goutierre. 60, had parked his MAP sity custodial, food services and estimated they received enough car near the French Embassy in telecommunications employees. cards to represent about 50 per- Christian east Beirut at 8:30 The intent cards are an appli- cent of the staff. a.m. and was about to get out cation for membership into However, another fact does when the gunman approached CWA. disturb her, she said. him. "It was not dismissed because Custodial supervisors re- they didn't have enough cards," ceived a letter yesterday from They said the attacker shot Leonard said. "The problem Roland Engler, Director of Goutierre three times in the was with a technicality - the Plant Operations and Mainte- bead with a silencer-equip cards were signed but not dated. nance, which told of the petition pistol and escaped in a war That was the only thing miss- dismissal. green BMW. Police describe ing." Lawrence said the letter was the gunman as a tall, dark-com- Leonard added that he does evasive, and stated only that plexioned man wearing a white not know if enough cards were "CWA tailed to make a proper shirt and beige trousers and submitted, because the petition showing of interest and so their believed to be in bis late 20s. may have been dismissed before petition has been dismissed." the cards were counted. The letter did not mention that GOUTIERRE HAD parked SERB requires representa- the petition was dismissed was bis car outside the embassy's tion from 30 percent of the staff because dates were not included security zone, which extends 100 before a petition is granted. on the cards, she said. yards around the four-story "My guess is that they proba- Attached to the letter was a building and is patrolled fcy em- bly had enough cards," he said. SERB document stating, "The bassy guards and Lebanese po- The SERB board dismissed the showing of interest cards were lice. There was no immediate petition without prejudice, signed but not dated by the sig- explanation why he did not park which means it can be refiled natories." in the security zone. rather than appealed. Lawrence said she is con- If there were not enough cerned that the supervisors will France, like most Western cards, the board would probably read only the letter and not the countries, moved its embassy to not have dismissed the case SERB document, which ex- Christian east Beirut from the without prejudice, he said. plains why the petition was den- Moslem western sector two BG News/Heidi Slemers Bonnie Lawrence, a custodian ied. years ago because of frequent and a member of the CWA com- The administration would not kidnappings and bombings. Lonely guy mittee to bring the union to comment on the petition's dis- Four French UNIFTL soldiers (JSG Senator Chris Helnlck, junior political science major, handles the polls yesterday for district campus, said she was told by missal. However, according to have been killed and 28 wounded representatives' elections. Results of the low voter turnout will be announced next week. Phillip Kelley, Ohio director of an administrative policy on col- in attacks in south Lebanon in CWA, that the dismissal of the lective bargaining, the Univer- the past five weeks. D See Union, page 4. Institute director Guards fired for prank at nuke plant LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - Two guards at provide security for the lab. his gun. Richard Wright dies a nuclear research center have been fired One of the fired guards was wounded in after a prank in which they fired blanks the leg, she said. Sandia spokesman Barry Schrader said Colleagues remember historian's from high-tech laser-equipped weapons at a the company will have no comment until the fellow guard, who answered with real bul- The disciplinary actions were taken be- outcome of an investigation by the Depart- knowledge, good sense of humor lets, officials said. cause of "gross errors in judgment" exhib- ment of Energy. ited by the five men, Mulhall said. Richard J. Wright Sr., di- chival Collections from 1972 Two other guards at the Sandia National Sandia, a subsidiary of AT&T Technolo- to 1975 and from 1981 to 1982. Laboratory were placed on unpaid leave Guard Tim Brandt was asleep in his gies Inc., is operated and funded by the rector of the University's In- following the incident, and the guard who vehicle atop a hill overlooking the lab when department. stitute for Great Lakes He was president of Toledo fired the real bullets is undergoing counsel- the other guards, dressed in black lump- Research, died Wednesday in Lodge No. 9 of the Interna- ing and will return to work on probationary suits, fired blank rounds from their laser- the Medical College of Ohio tional Ship Masters' Associa- Sandia performs secret research on non- tion In 1964 and 1985. status, Marilyn Mulhall, vice president of equipped weapons, according to an Ala- nuclear components of nuclear weapons for Hospital in Toledo. He was 51. Advance Security Inc. of Atlanta, said meda County Sheriff's Department report. the department and works closely with the HE SERVED the North Wednesday. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Wright first began at the Brandt, apparently believing he was un- one of two nuclear weapons design laborato- University as an as istant American Society for Oceanic der attack, squeezed off several shots from ries in the United States. professor of history and di- Research as chairman of the The company has a $6.8 million contract to rector of the Center for Ar- Nominations Committee chival Collections in 1968. He from 1981 to 1983 and as mem- was named director of the ber of the Executive Council Institute when it was created. from 1983 to 1985. COCO sees improvements, new director Dennis Cisco, an rchival He received the "Great assistant, said Wright was a Lakes Historian of the Year" nator, said the copying knowl-| award from the Marine His- by Debbie Rogers "We're doing things for all off-campus machine makes copies at five edgeable, torical Society of Detroit in reporter students." cents each, the same as the caring 1978. others on campus, "but this one man. Changes taking place in the -Gail LaRouche, COCO President is more convenient for off-cam- 'Even Wright was also a member Commuter Off Campus Or pus students." though he of the American Historical ganlzation this semester include LaRouche said more changes was ill, he Association, the Great Lakes a new director and im- with 3,000 students a day." said semester, was not met. She said are planned in the center over kept his Historical Society. Ohio Aca- provements inside and outside Jason Gray, vice president of that was due to the other con- the next two years. These sense of I demy of History, Ohio Histor- the Moseley Hall center. COCO. "It will be a new experi- struction work being done on changes include new curtains, humor," ical Society, the North carpeting and air conditioning. American Society for Oceanic Sue Witchie, from North ence for Sue. At North Texas campus at the same time.