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national Battalion/Page 8 March 29, 1982 Storm kills; many homeless warped By Scott McCullar I United Press International • MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Nelson left at least 18 >eople dead, about 70.000 homeless and caused heavy damage to crops and property in its destructive two-day rampage across the central Philippines, It's Coming... ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK! Thursday, April 1 MUi reports said Sunday. The government-run Philip pine News Agency reported eight drownings in scattered areas and Bishop Vicente Ata- viado, who flew to Manila to appeal f or relief aid, told repor ters 10 people died in hard-hit Leyte province. The 18 dead raised the over all toll in back-to-back storms in the Phillipines in the past week to 72. Tropical storm Mamie kil led 54 earlier in the week. Reports from the Red Cross and the military office of civil defense said 68,108 people made homeless by the floods were being cared for in town halls and schools. Nelson smacked into the Phi lippine midsection Friday with powerful peak winds of up to 115 mph. It swirled through a string of islands about 375 to 500 miles south of Manila before blowing out late Saturday into the South China Sea. Hotel (continued from page 1) Other hotel operators did consent to publication of their remarks. Mike Pharr, Texas district manager of Rossco Inns of Los I I I I I I I I I ! I Something Else Hair Salon March 24-April 10 Student Special Men’s & Women’s Haircuts $8 reg. $10 Easter Special Perm reg. s 40-*45 now *35 Long Hair $5 extra Men’s Perms reg. $35 now $30 M-f 8-/ with coupon Sat. 8-12:00 No appointment necessary 693-9877 404 E. University CELEBRATION OF COLOR iamond Room 3731 E. 2*th M6-4706— Bryan 707 Shopping Village 693-7444 Cel lag# Station PEACE CORPS HELPS THE THIRD WORLD MANAGE ITS RESOURCES, NATURALLY. Farms, forests, sea coasts, inland waters—all are precious resources to developing nations. If you have skills or training in resource management, forestry, fisheries, or agriculture, you can help others make the most of these resources as a Peace Corps volunteer. Manage to make a difference. REP ON CAMPUS TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY SENIORS/CRADS: Sign up now for an interview RUDDER TOWER - 10TH FLOOR Information Booth - Memorial Student Center Angeles, said, “We could defi nitely use another hotel here now.” Rossco owns the Aggie- land Inn. He added: “I don’t know for sure what the market will he like in a year; 1 do know a lot of people are interested in this market. There is no doubt that this area is expanding and is going to continue expanding.” Earline Ashby, manager of the College Station Holiday Inn, agreed. “A new hotel is what’s best for this community and for the Uni versity,” Ashby said. “We don’t have much trouble filling our rooms now.” And the additional hotel space could benefit existing hotels. Ursula Mossakowski, mana ger of the Bryan Holiday Inn, said: “We don’t have the facili ties right now to attract a large, national convention. We have to he prepared to offer a conven tion of that size 400, 500 or 1,000 rooms, and I think if you looked around, you wouldn't he able to find that much space.” If the area did have the rooms, Mossakowski said, large conventions could be brought in Local hotel operators contacted believe the area could support at least one more hotel. Many also feel the addi tion could help their own hotels in the long run. and the conventions could take up any slack in occupancy that a new hotel might cause. Pharr said: “A national con vention here would benefit all of us, no question about it. The market is already making de mands we can’t fill; if we could match the market, the business would he there.” But Ashby warned: “Any be nefit from conventions would depend on how many national conventions we get. If it’s just one a year, that won’t helj) us much; but if we had several a year, it could make a differ ence.” In any case, the hotel would make an immediate difference in the work force, Hilton said,as it would employ about 150 people. Ashby said: “That kind ol ex pansion of the work force would probably put a strain on us in some areas.” But the need for another hotel does not necessarily mean that the hotel should he built on campus. If the regents turn down the request for Universnv land, no Hilton will be built anv- where else in the area, Milton said. Tomorrow’: Should (he howl ho built on rumpus? \Vh:u would its legal status he? L'nivtrsiit officials and the public react. States try to stop Medicaid fraud rise CAMPUS 846-6512 “DE NIRO AND DUVALL- ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT BROTHER ACTS IN SCREEN HISTORY" MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 There's a lot being said about MAKING LOVE: 'The first controversial movie of 1982...A completely successful telling of a very tricky suhted...A fascinating and wHI-actcd story." LOVE JJSL 'ACADEMY AWARD MOMIMATIOMS United Press International WASHINGTON — Efforts by many states to stop Medicaid fraud have been a disaster with few offenders being convicted, the chairman of the House Select. Aging Committee said Saturday. Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., in releasing a staff report on state enforcement efforts, said the “non-performance” by the states in the area of Medicaid “raises serious questions about the ability of the states to police other block-grant type prog rams.” Under President Reagan's New Federalism proposal, states would get responsibility for managing several major prog rams now run by the federal government. Pepper noted. The Medicaid report was based on questionnaires the Select Committee on Aging sent to all the states and on reports by the General Accounting Office. “Our report shows that in 1975, 20 states did not convict a single Medicaid provider,” Pep per said. “In 1980, 18 states did not have a single conviction; 7 additional states and the District of Columbia had only one con viction. The national average (1974-1980) is 1.5 convictions per state per year. “Given the magnitude of the fraud in this S25 billion prog ram. this poor performance on the part of the states (who have the primary responsibility lor policing Medicaid f raud) is total ly unacceptable.” Fite committee report com mended of ficials in New York, Massachusetts and Georgia, the three states judged best in polic ing Medicaid fraud. Pepper particular!) praised New York Gov. Hugh Carev. New York City Mayor Fd Koch, and former Deputy Atlornev General Charles Hvnes. The report noted the 30slates spent a combined total ol Sdll million in the detection ol Medi caid fraud in 1980 and obtained 228 convictions. BEST PICTURE •eST DIRECTOR HUGH MUOSOn BEST SU^TOWTIMG ACTOR lAT" HOLM BEST ORKHMAL SCORE YAMOTTiS BEST ORKWML SCREEMFIAV COUTI WEI LAND BEAT FILM EDITI^O TERRY RAWUMQS BEST COSTUME MtllMA CAfKXlEIIO OF EIRE I Yll DOLBY STEREO" Vtxi vr norr been scared 19 you ve been scared in 3 ,D rmciAssK 3 0 nonnon mxfir or au rim. po ■2» Get it all at PORKY'S (R) You // be glad you came 1 AUx Kjrtai $u>a* fijrk 7:45-9:55 TrnTstTaeniNjhj^jN CINEMA IAH 346-6714 Open 7:00 Corner Univ A College Sell Simon's / Ought to Be in Pictures Quinlans to mark Karen’s birthday United Press International MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. — Karen Ann Quinlan, whose lapse into a coma seven years ago sparked an international moral and legal debate on the “right to die,” is living on her own on her 28th birthday. Six years ago doctors, acting under a court ruling, removed her from a respirator they be lieved was keeping her alive. She now lives in a “persistent vegeta tive state.” Her mind is destroyed, her body shrunken and twisted in a M S C. - AGGIE CINEMA - z_ P ft E ~5~e "N T l E N E R A MEETING TONIGHT 7:45 p.m. 7A Southside Apts. (behind campus police station) Following the meeting there will be an OSCAR watching Party! SCHULMAN 6 THEATRES 775-2463 2002 E. 29th 775-2468 Tonight It KTAM Family Night Adults *2.50 Persons under 15 Free nUmber one picture OF THE YEAR Mon.-Frl. 7:251:33 RICHARD PRYOR IJjglSf Mon.-fn.7 359.55 LIVl ON THE «- SUNSET STRIP*. Mon -Fri. 7:25 9:35 Uk/AIT Mon.-Frl. 7:26 *:40 ^rthuA n A 1.1 LS1 o n EL V PRODUCTIONS R9B1N PC, DUDLEY MOORE LIZA MfNELLI HOOD MonTri. 7:30135 Mon-Frl 7:20 9:45 GREAT WHITE James Franciscus _ Raiders of The Lost Ark < [COMING SOOWTa L .ittle Sex,Silent Rage rigid fetal position. Her parents, joe and Julia Quinlan, will mark Karen s birthday today with a niass in her room at the Morris View Nursing Home. Both parents accept she will never recover from a coma l>e- lieved triggered by tranquilizers and alcohol she took Itefore col lapsing April 15, 1975, shorih alter attending a party in a louil The Quinlans' quiet, middle class existence was irrevocahlv changed by their decision intake to court the battle for dieir adopted daughter’s right to die with grace and dignity. “1 know in my heart as hei mother that is not the way Karen would have wanted to live, Mrs. Quinlan said. She said Karen had told friends she would die young and go down in history. Today, Karen is fed a high calorie liquid and antibiotics through tidies. She is turned ev ery two hours to prevent lied- sores. But no heroic measures will be taken to prevent her death. PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT