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By SCOTT PENDLETON
Battalion Staff
Members of the Brazos County
Mexican-American Democrats or
ganization adopted a plan Thursday
to educate the group on county af
fairs and prepare them for county
leadership positions.
“Knowledge is power. And that’s
the one thing we don’t have, MAD
Chairman Daniel Hernandez told
the members.
Hernandez presented the “Lead
ership Brazos County” plan at the
regular MAD meeting Thursday
night.
Under the plan, county and city
officials and Texas A & VI University
professors would meet with MAD
members to teach them about utility
rates, taxes and other public affairs.
Some professors and officials have
already agreed to help, Hernandez
said.
Upon completion of the plan,
Hernandez said, MAD members
woidd be able to talk with anyone
about county affairs.
“We’re trying to create leaders,”
Hernandez said. "But the majority
of us don’t have the knowledge to
change things in this state.”
Participation in the plan should
be li mited to MAD members, Her
nandez said. The plan, he said,
would be a benefit of MAD mem
bership. Membership fees are de
signated to pay for any of the plants
expenses.
The education program will begin
in January, and will probably consist
of weekend meetings.
Hernandez said the idea for the
plan came from a similar program
operated by a Dallas political group.
MAD members also voted to in
vite all the local Democratic candi
dates in the November election to
speak at their next regular meeting
on Oct. 26.
7 just cannot take another test’
Charlie Webber, a general studies major, doesn’t seem to
notice the hardness of his bed as he takes a quick nap bet
ween classes. With most professors giving tests this week,
many students are taking every possible opportunity to catch
up on their lost sleep.
Battalion photo by Katherine Rathburn
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■ SOUTHAMPTON, England —
Four months ago Greenpeace
lunched its oneship combat fleet
and, although the battles have been
feu, at least the enemy knows there
a war on.
The “Rainbow Warrior,” which
itrols European waters for the
wldw’ide environmental organiza-
m Greenpeace Foundation,
amed into this harbor with ban-
rs flying and all 15 hands on deck
the end of a summer that took
em from Iceland to Spain, chasing
bale hunters and radioactive waste
imping ships.
In May, the white dove of peace
the green hull flying off into the
rizon and rainbow stripes gleam-
ig, the boat set sail for Iceland to
Keon the four-ship Icelandic whal-
g industry'.
We’d been out looking for the
lalers for a couple of weeks before
got into a confrontation situa-
Itt,” said Alan Thornton, 28,
anadian-born director of the
reenpeace London branch. “We
lally caught up with Catcher No.
which hunts fin whales, the
igst after the VAwe.
We wtmt out in our rubber din-
hiesand there we Were between a
fbale and the whaler. This guy
*ame running down the plank to the
arpoon, slipped off the catch and
>i 20 minutes just waited. But in
ie end he didn’t shoot it. At that
mge he’d have killed someone if he
ad,” he said.
ilgore no longer a jailbird
The “Rainbow Warrior” stayed
with the whaler for 10 hours, saving
at least two whales, said Thornton,
since one had been captured already
and there is an international whaling
agreement limiting the time a
whaler can stay out once a catch has
been made.
But the major achievement of the
campaign was that whaling became
a national issue in Iceland, forcing
debate and possibly eventual action,
said Briton Peter Wilkinson, 31,
another member of the London of
fice.
In Britain they made headlines
when in June the “Warrior” crew
placed themselves under the chute
of the United Kingdom Atomic
Energy Authority vessel "The
Gem, which was dumping radioac
tive waste into the ocean 600 miles
southwest off the British coast. One
of the radioactive containers fell on a
dinghy, damaging it but luckily not
injuring any of the crew.
There is considerable competition
to become a crew member, carefully
selected by a committee for specific
skills necessary on board.
TVn Spain we had three women
and 12 irien,” said Joanie McVilly,
22, a former biology and ecology
student at Canberra University in
Australia. “Everyone is a volunteer,
including the five-man crew who are
all professional sailors. The degree
of commitment varies, because
some people have to go back to jobs
after a trip, but everyone is here be
cause they want to do something
concrete to help.”
Such help does not always offer
the high drama of confrontation with
whalers on the high seas. Daily
routine includes cooking, swabbing
down the decks, and doing repairs
to the rubber dinghies that carry
crew members from the "Rainbow
Warrior” to the whalers they chal
lenge.
The crew played host at a wine
and cheese party to which friends
and supporters were invited at the
start of a week of open house in the
harbor. It was useful publicity, but
at the price of privacy. For the
“Rainbow Warrior” is more than an
instrument of a campaign.
“After all, this is our home, too,
said Me Vi 11 v.
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BAR HARBOR, Maine — Egore
ie raven used to be a wild bird, but
judge says he’s just one of the fam-
v now.
Gloria Davis took Egore under
evwing 15 months ago when one of
er children found the injured baby
iird.
Last month game wardens
larned of the family’s ew pet and
narged the woman with possessing
wild bird out of season.
They said others might be en-
ouraged to keep wild animals if she
I'as allowed to keep the bird.
, But Bar Harbor District Court
J^ 1 ge Jack Q. Smith found Davis
innocent and said Egore can live
’'In the Davises.
Before his decision, Smith heard
nstimony from several witnesses
Wreceived petitions signed by 577
people supporting the Davises.
He stays on the front porch most of
_ e time, but every day I take him
fut to fly around a few hours. Then
n gets in the car and we go home.
|He loves to ride.”
■ f^her Davis was charged Aug. 6,
I fUjmls took the bird away from her.
I* she said she visited him every
lli l. i tW ° weeks ’ then took him
P a ck home without asking permis-
D'oti; pj e Wasn ’ t eating and he
'dn t look good,” she said.
He’s even learned to get along
well with her three cats — “as long
as I don’t pet them. That makes him
mad. ”
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