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he Battalion TATE & LOCAL 3 : riday, October 19,1989 IS Stove- e sup. ■Uni °f you t’t for- oweeii, tcand; ck-or- isic I® •lace it pre- hypt to tilt ecord st hoi- w Kids mo. Be rdoroi oodies, itoo! 'e allot !. End ur fin. t ones, mean heyal- montl comes. Charlie on the be can 'argair, inning tgEX- alistit — red dtht : rh e trees id re ofom come. losart College unions group gathers in MSC today for annual conference By Todd Connelley Of The Battalion Staff The Association of College Unions-International, ACU-I, will hold its annual Fall Confer ence in the MSC this weekend. Student union delegates from schools in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas are expected to attend. The ACU-I holds regional con ferences for students and student activity professors featuring lead ership and staff development workshops, said Jim Damm, stu dent chairman for the confer ence. The ACU-I also sponsors the regional gaming tournaments and the college bowl. The conference kicks off Fri day night with an opening dinner followed by the Judy Tenuta con cert, Damm said. “After the concert we will have an International Dance Mixer,” he said. On Saturday the tone of the conference will turn serious with a full day of educational sessions. “We will have sessions on topics like: college bookstore opera tions, multicultural awareness and student-staff advisor rela tions,” Damm explained. Saturday evening will feature “Night at the MSC,” showcasing the activities of different MSC committees. Sunday more educational ses sions are planned followed by a closing banquet. “Right now we have 50 schools registered,” Damm said. “We’re planning on about 200 people. The cost of $75 per delegate cov ers the concert and the dinners.” Overworked Texas federal courts need 6 more judges, Brooks says WASHINGTON (AP) chairman of the House The Judiciary Committee said Thursday he would back efforts to create six federal judgeships for two Texas judicial districts he said are burdened with “an almost insurmountable prob lem” as the nation’s leaders in new drug cases. Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Beaumont, met with the chief judges of the Southern and Western districts of Texas and said afterward that there is no question the six additional judgeships are needed. The Southern District averages 107 drug cases per judge, which is 420 percent above the national aver age, while the Western District aver ages 89 drug cases per judge, put ting it at 331 percent above the national average. The national aver age of drug cases per judge is 21. The Southern District, which led the country with 1,394 new drug cases in the year that ended June 30, is seeking four additional judgeships while the Western District, which was second place with 622 drug cases, is seeking another two judges. Brooks said Chief U.S. District Court Judges James DeAnda of Houston and Lucius D. Bunton of Odessa “are on the front line of our battle against drugs in the country and handle more cases than any other sitting judges in the country on these very controversial and diffi cult sitations.” “They’re re :questing, and ob viously do need, some assistance,” Brooks said in an interview. “No question that they deserve those (six judgeships). And I hope we can get those six for them. These six cer tainly seem to be fully justified.” The districts split the Texas-Mex- ico border between them, which helps to account for the high num ber of drug cases. In addition, the Southern District includes a stretch of Gulf Coast, where officials say drug smugglers are active. Military task force to fight border’s drugs WASHINGTON (AP) — Southwestern sen- itors are confirming that the Pentagon plans a oint task force, to be based at Fort Bliss in El ’aso, to coordinate the military’s assault on illegal I b ug trafficking along the Southwest border. [The military will say nothing about the Joint Task Force 6. But congressional officials confirm he Fort Bliss outfit — involving personnel from he Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines — would oordinate military drug enforcement activities ilong the Southwest border. The objective of JTF-6 is to monitor the bor- ler through radar, remote sensors and air and and patrols,” Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said Thursday. “It would be a joint military effort, ringing together specialists capable of engaging n special missions and activities.” Gramm said Defense Secretary Dick Cheney must still authorize the task force and its Fort Bliss command center, but Sen. Dennis DeCon- cini, D-Ariz., said the military already has mobi lized anti-drug personnel on the border. DeConcini confirmed that the task force’s command center would be based at Fort Bliss in El Paso. Fort Bliss also is the headquarters of Operation Alliance and home of the El Paso Intelligence Center, a storage point for intelligence informa tion operated by the Drug Enforcement Admin istration. DeConcini said he first learned about the mili tary’s presence in late September when contacted by Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Clarence W. Dup- nik. Dupnik is a member of the board of Operation Alliance, an interagency task force that coordi nates anti-drug efforts by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies along the border. DeConcini said Dupnik was concerned the mil itary was moving onto the border without noti fying Operation Alliance. The Arizona senator then got the Senate to approve an amendment that requires the military to consult with the alli ance on border drug maneuvers. DeConcini also met with Maj. Gen. Arnold Schlossberg Jr., deputy assistant secretary of de fense for drug policy and enforcement. “He came right over and told me how it happened, that they now had it back in gear and are going through procedure, including the border alli- , tion :resi ,'mi •: •1 i xt t i i f JTfr € , - s K,. O , i. ALIL •••<*♦ Hf'' • • A . ‘you svRtz co^i&LLy iv^yiyET) to ‘Wl r ENfESS ‘IME ‘ROyZLL CO'RCXh&TIO'^iof QUEE9{JU‘I>y ‘TE9^U r r^l COM r E, ( DI r E,9&i!E W JUDY TENUTA ** RUDDER AUDITORIUM FRIDAY, OCT. 20,1989 SHOW STARTS AT 8 P.M. TICKETS $5 IN ADVANCE AND $6 AT THE DOOR tickets availoBU at MSC ‘Bo^Office for more information catt 845-1234 Anti-drug legislation approved by the Senate authorizes an additional 20 U.S. district court judges to be placed around the country in dis tricts most heavily impacted by drug- related criminal felony filings. Bunton and DeAnda said Con gress, acting on the recommenda tions of the Judicial Conference, would decide where to place the new judges if the bill becomes law. Brooks said thf*ir request would be »P .... tude” when the drug bill is consid ered by his committee. “These judges are both chief judges, with tremendous responsibi lity and dedication or they wouldn’t be up here trying to present a case that only enables them to better cope with a very difficult, almost insur mountable problem with which they are faced,” Brooks said. ISA holds Olympics for 33 organizations to improve relations By Andrea Warrenburg Of The Battalion Staff Thirty-three Texas A&M interna tional student organizations will par ticipate in a mini-olympics this week end and next weekend in an effort to improve ties between interna tional students. “The main purpose of the mini- olympics is to have a major activity involving as many associations at a time (as possible) to socialize and compete,” said Costos Kotzabassis, a graduate student in agricultural en gineering from Greece and chair man of the mini-olympics commit tee. The 1989 mini-olympics is spon sored by the Texas A&M Interna tional Students Association. With 115 countries represented on the A&M campus, the ISA is an um brella organization encompassing 46 clubs organized by country. Suzanne Drolesky, assistant inter national student advisor, said Amer ican students share an interest in sports with international students. “Students from other countries are just as sports conscious as we are, and this gives them an opportunity to compete — by country,” Drolesky said. The 13 events scheduled are soc cer, badmitton, volleyball, basket ball, raquetball, table tennis, tennis, bowling, swimming, chess, a mar athon, a bike marathon and an obstacle course. The winners of this weekend’s events will go on to compete Oct. 27- 29. The prize for first place in each event will be awarded at the closing ceremonies Oct. 29 at 3 p.m. in De- Ware Field House. 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