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here Saturday.
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Hall won the title over 106 other
contestants from throughout the
state.
A biomedical sciences major,
Tatum is the daughter of Ruth Dan-
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Bert Lance
used his influence with the White
House last year to aid two frustrated
millionaires who paid an Arab offi
cial a $1.5 million bribe for oil
drilling rights and got little in re
turn, federal investigators have
learned.
Sources said details of Lance s
dealings at the White House,
months after he left office, were dis
closed Monday in a lawsuit to be
filed in Miami against the two busi
nessmen.
The official they allegedly bribed
in a futile attempt to salvage a $17
million investment later became
secretary general of the Organiza
tion of Petroleum Exporting Coun
tries.
The two multimillionaire defen
dants are R. Eugene Holley, 53, a
former Georgia state senator and
one-time political associate of Presi
dent Carter, and Roy J. Carver, 70.
The government suit will seek to
block them from delivering any
more overseas payoffs, sources said.
I Lance’s attempts to help Holley
and Carver eventually backfired
into the year-long probe that carried
Justice Department fraud inves-
i tigator David Addis to the Middle
East for a week.
Sources said there is no evidence
Lance, the president’s former
budget director, benefited from his
I actions, or that he ever knew the
bribe was paid.
i fiance’s main gesture was a tele
phone call to an aide to White
House adviser Hamilton Jordan,
whom he asked to arrange a meeting
between Holley and a State De
partment official, the sources said.
The resulting meeting with a U. S.
diplomat allegedly led to efforts by
Holley and Carver to deliver more
bribe money.
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MANILA, Philippines — Hun
dreds of hooded Filipinos are flog
ging themselves in a rite of peniten
tial torture to mark the observance
of holy week in the Philippines.
Stripped to the waist and
barefoot, the atoning Filipinos can
bejseen in sweltering slum streets
and small barrios in rural Philip
pines with their retinues of tormen-
tois and hecklers.
: holy week in the Phillipines —
the only Roman Catholic nation in
Asia — generally is observed with
out violence. But in the slums and
the tiny wayside villages blood drips
inpe gory re-enactment of Christ’s
calvary.
Self-styled Jesus Christs, in pur
ple robes and crown of thorns, drag
«eav\ wooden crosses while hired
torturers lash them with thonged
whips. Their trails are followed by
•v .. “ e penitentes,” who pummel their
pavidBj? bar, backs with glass-studded clubs.
| ,in a dusty town outside the U. S.
Clark Air Force Base 60 miles north
oflManila, a former hoodlum has
been drawing crowds the past 10
years with his crucifixion on Good
Hfiday.
■uanito Pering, 38, vowed to im
pale himself on the cross every year
as|a form of expiation. Most of the
fcitentes undergo the bloody holy
Jek rituals to atone for real or
gined sins.
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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1979
Page 3
Jones, Brown join consol board;
playground equipment gets OK
By KAREN ROGERS
Battalion Staff
Herman Brown and Ann Jones
were sworn in as A&M Consoli
dated School Board trustees at the
meeting Monday night while the fu
ture superintendent, Dr. Bruce
Anderson, looked on.
Brown is replacing nine-year vet
eran Lambert Wilkes while Jones is
replacing two-year veteran Rodney
Hill.
The board also elected new offi
cers: John Reagor, president; Elliott
Bray, vice president and Jones, sec
retary.
After several rounds of applause
for the departing board members,
the new board got down to business.
Playground equipment for South
Knoll and College Hills Elementary
Schools was a high priority item.
The board approved two playg
round concepts. The first consists of
a jogging track with exercise stations
and the second is a “creative play
area” with climbing apparatus and
tunnels.
Trustee Bruce Robeck warned
the board that the money for the
equipment is not available at the
present and that to supply it the
1979 budget would have to be
amended. The playground commit
tee estimates that the project will
require $30,000.
The board also agreed to a
$78,500 settlement in the Lone Star
Gas suit. Lone Star Gas officials dis
agreed with the methods that the
district used to levy and assess ad
valorem taxes for the 1975-78 taxing
periods, saying that the $82,629 that
the district said it owed was too
high.
In other business, the board ap
proved the “concept” of the high
school curriculum changes that in
clude additional health courses,
English as a second language, pot
tery and basic guitar.
Brown protested the board’s in-
Acting Superintendent Dr. H.R.
Burnett informed the board that the
district would begin accepting bids
for the landscaping project at the
Middle School on April 20. Comple
tion of the project is scheduled for
June 1.
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