THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1979
Page 9
Clements, Portillo discuss
order problems, energy
United Press International
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Bill
lements, back from his two-day
ip to Mexico City to confer with
esident Jose Lopez Portillo, says
he and the Mexican chief executive
had productive discussions on
aliens, drug trafficking, border af-
irs and energy.
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^ elco jet: four issues.”
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~. orce(ins their energy reserves whereby the
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so oneci; Carter can work out details of such
(transactions during his visit to
[ over ni^ Mexico next month,
nearby HThe governor said he and Lopez
but m agreed to work on reviving the
d snd * “Lacero” program, which allows
r P°rt, haliens temporary U.S. work per
mits. Clements said he will contact
■—^governors of New Mexico, Arizona
and California and the Mexican bor
der states to discuss the program
and other issues.
■“Our starting point will he similar
tothebracero program, and that’s a
good starting point,” he said. “Pres-
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llUJjwith this.”
■ Clements called his energy dis-
red anothfcussions with Lopez Portillo and
pparentlv Jorge Diaz Serrano, director general
r perhaps of the Mexican national petroleum
ler — cnHmpany, very productive. At the
> line whiBjquest of the city of San Antonio,
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e was cc for-gas swap to Portillo,
rease theW“I can say that President Lopez
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tail,” Clements said. “He felt this
was exactly the kind of mutual
interest project that Mexico would
like to work out, not only with
neighboring states but other coun
tries.”
Clements said documented Mexi
can aliens working in the United
States under any type of bracero
program should be paid a fair wage,
but declined to speculate what that
wage should be. He said that was
not discussed in his meetings with
the Mexican president.
“The president of Mexico was
much surprised when I told him
that in our judgment we have ap
proximately 3 million of these
people (illegal aliens) in Texas at the
present time,” Clements said. “He
had no idea of the magnitude.”
Sickness dangerous
as bullets in Rhodesia
United Press International
SALISBURY, Rhodesia — The collapse of security combined with
the assassination of doctors and veterinarians has created mounting
fears that disease could become as lethal as bullets in this nation’s
war-torn countryside.
Measles, once kept at bay by innoculations, has started to claim a
rising number of children’s lives in the tribal trust land. Rabies and
malaria cases also are on the increase, as well as the number of deaths
from ailments and injuries that would not have been fatal with
prompt medical treatment.
Even harder hit has been the tribesmen’s economically and socially
important cattle herds. Within the past year alone more than 350,(XX)
cattle have died from tick-borne fevers formerly controlled by dip
ping. Others have been infected with the dread sleeping sickness by
tse-tse flies that have crossed the border in the absence of spraying.
Agriculture and medical officials blame the crisis on a deliberate
guerrilla policy to erase white presence in the trust lands by killing
missionaries, doctors and veterinarians.
"This is another way of disrupting the government by promoting
the social and economic disintegration of the country,” said Dr. Andy
Norval, the nation’s top tick expert. “It is pure biological war and far
more effective than if Moscow had actually provided the terrorists
with laboratory-bred bugs to throw around. ”
He described the destruction of the tick eradication dipping tanks
as one of the most damaging aspects of the war. This is particularly
true of the subsistence black herdsmen, many of whom have seen
disease reduce their small, life-sustaining herds by half since the vets
deserted the trust lands.
As a result of guerrilla attacks on private hospitals, the number of
doctors in the countryside has slumped from 70 to 17, leaving 104
empty mission stations that used to provide medical care.
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DETROIT — Sgt. Russ’
Barber Shop is a place you go to
get your hair cut — not styled —
and the shop’s paraphernalia and
decor don’t disguise the fact.
The doormat urges all those
who enter to “Get Wildroot
Cream Oil.” Inside, a 1913
calendar bannered with a pinup
of “Sweet Sue” is perched
alongside an aging photograph of
the late heavyweight boxing
champion Rocky Marciano.
The walls are covered with
memorabilia: Army medals and
commendations, pictures of
fishermen with prize-winning
catches, a campaign poster from
an old local Teamsters election.
The house specialties are $3
crewcuts — 50 cents cheaper for
retirees — and $2 shaves from an
old-fashioned brush cup. There
are no hair dryers or curling
irons on the premises.
The owner, Russell M. Van-
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“Russ gets the kind of people
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station.
Among Vanderport’s steady
customers are a former Detroit
Tigers’ batboy and a retired CIA
colonel.
“You look 20 years younger,”
Vanderport tells customers as
they leave barber chairs. The
chairs came with the store when
it first opened 59 years-ago.
“It doesn’t make sense for me
to get into styling,” Vanderport
said. “That’s not what my clien
tele is looking for.
“A lot of these places are
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take your money, and there’s no
conversation or anything.
“We talk to the customers, we
know their names, we ask about
their relatives. It’s like one big,
happy family,” he said.
“The ones that have moved
out always come back to the old
neighborhood. And they bring
their grandchildren,” he said.
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