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; WASHINGTON — Texas
Gov. William Clements said Texas-
Mexican border problems and agri-
leRanee H ure fig urfe d prominently in his 20-
lioiiofih'Pf ut e meeting with President
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HeaHlinp 9 Following I uesday s meeting,
( | i iu which fell less than a month before
1 tided toi(R ers P ass j u dg men t on Clements’
. In jT^Kleetion bid, the governor told re-
^ ' ' porters he discussed the forthcoming
|! e '. U i s 'between Reagan and Mexican
y, Miguel de la Madrid,
' Hi discussed ways to stabilize the
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for Americans to
saidhet un( ' erst;an d that it is not just a Mex-
t forttpIB 1 problem,” he said. “It is an Amer-
lid he ' cai1 problom- Our border is in a chao-
i^lj^Mlemems also said he received
Agriculture Secretary John
Block “a strong indication they will be
working with the Farmers Home
n’t likej«® n Administration to get some re-
lein said. IlH' for Texas farmers “on a case-by-
nply. Cara c 35 ' f* 35 * 8 -”
i unhajpM Ho P eful| y there wil1 be an
necessan', ft
announcement within 10 days,” he
said, adding that he had received a
“positive” reaction from Block.
Clements said Reagan will be
accompanied to the meeting with de
la Madrid in San Diego and Tijuana
by Treasury Department officials,
who expect to “discuss all aspects of
this particular (monetary) problem.”
Clements indicated a national
clearing house is one device being
considered.
“There should be a decision on this
shortly, in the next 5 or 6 weeks,” he
said.
The Texas governor also hinted
the administration plans to move in
the direction of a multi-year grain
sales agreement with the Soviet
Union.
“I think you can well anticipate
there will be a Firming up of this posi
tion. It will no longer be ambiguous,”
he said.
Clements predicted he will defeat
Democratic challenger Mark White
Nov. 2 because “the polls tell me so.”
Battalion
Serving the University community
College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 6, 1982
The lawn in front of the Academic Building wasn’t
littered Tuesday — it played host to an unusual work of
art. Paper plates of various colors were arranged in a
grid and entitled “Great Musical Hit Series #1.” A
placard in the background explains the work, which was
meant to represent the relative scale of C minor.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A massive fed-
II investigation into possibly illegal
ementw hjj t j n g 0 f natural gas supplies
Bong pipelines will force four major
tais producers to pay customers $58.5
million in penalties.
ft In its largest enforcement action
;\ter, the Federal Energy Regulatory
pmmission announced Tuesday
At settlements with the four com
panies will pass on $58.5 million in
reduced rates to interstate customers
of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a
natural gas transmission Firm.
“The money will be flowed
through to interstate consumers and
relief may be realized this winter,” the
commission said.
Settlements with three of the firms
— Tenneco Inc., of Houston; Sun Ex
ploration and Production Co., of Phi
ladelphia, and Atlantic Richfield Co.,
of Los Angeles — were disclosed
Tuesday.
The fourth company, New York-
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staff photo by John Ryan
Name that tune
Master of ceremonies Jeff Vice, left, a civil engineering
major from Port Arthur, listens as Elizabeth Pickvance, a
biology major from England, tries her luck in naming a
musical selection. Her luck wasn’t good enough; she lost
the MSC OPAS contest. Vice and Pickvance are juniors.
penalized $58.5 million
based Mobil Oil Corp., ended its in
volvement in the dispute with in a
1980 settlement. That agreement,
however, was held up by a Tenneco
appeal.
Under the agreements, none of the
firms admits any wrongdoing.
The settlements follow a three-year
investigation into the alleged diver
sion of more than 450 billion cubic
feet of natural gas from interstate
markets to intrastate markets by Sun,
Atlantic Richfield, two pipeline com
panies and several other natural gas
producers, the commission noted.
The agency charged Tenneco
violated federal law by making an un
authorized transfer of more than 160
billion cubic feet of natural gas to
Channel Industries Gas Co., an in
trastate pipeline affiliate of Tenneco.
The diversion of gas from inter
state to intrastate markets supposedly
allowed the companies to realize
higher prices and profits. All of the
transactions occurred by 1965 and
1975.
“I think it’s about time,” a leading
consumer-energy group official said
of the development.
Ed Rothschild of the Citizen-Labor
Energy Coalition, said the commis
sion “has been dragging and drag
ging on this for years. The govern
ment could have gotten more if it
really wanted to press this.”
The individual settlements
announced by the commission in
clude:
•Tenneco will reduce by $23 mil
lion the cost of natural gas sold to
Tennessee’s interstate customers over
the next five years.
•Tenneco also will dismiss an ear
lier appeal, clearing the way for an
$18.5 million payment by Mobil to
Tennessee under a 1980 agreement.
•Sun will pay $10.5 million to Ten
nessee’s interstate customers, along
with $250,000 in civil penalties.
Latinos spend $60 billion a year
Business taps Hispanic market
United Press International
The consumer potential of 20 mil
lion Latinos in the United States is
large — conservatively estimated as a
$60 billion-a-year market.
Rapidly growing is a major busi
ness community both generated by
the fastest growing minority in the
U.S. and principally serving the His
panic consumer.
Although their awareness of it is
relatively recent, both the media and
Madison Avenue today are pitching
hard for that market.
About 250,000 businesses in the
United States are Hispanic-owned
and grossing an estimated $ 16 billion
annually, according to the Kansas
City-based United States Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce. That figure
compares with census bureau esti
mates of 219,000 Latino-owned
businesses in 1977 which represented
a 53 percent increase over 1972.
Competition for the advertising
action is just beginning.
Antonio Guernica and Irene Kas-
peruk, in their new McGraw-Hill
book “Reaching the Hispanic Market
Effectively,” estimate it at $70 billion
annually, and say it is largely untap
ped. They conclude that Hispanics
are alike in lifestyle, regardless of na
tional origin; and they urge advertis
ers to keep in mind three facets of the
community: the Spanish language,
strong family ties and Roman Catho
licism, the religion professed by 85
percent of U. S. Latinos.
A study by Strategy Research of
New York has found that 2.3 million
Spanish-speaking persons are
reached by New York City television
signals. Another study, by Yankelo-
vich, Skelly and White, found that
seven of 10 U.S. Hispanics sample
some form of Spanish language
media every week, with radio pre
dominant.
The Washington-based National
Association of Spanish Broadcasters
counts 107 radio stations which trans
mit exclusively in Spanish (and the
association laments that only 28 of
them are owned by Latinos) and 90
others which broadcast in Spanish at
least 10 hours a day. The stations are
located where the Latinos are: New
York; Miami and environs; Washing
ton D. C.; Chicago; and across the
Southwest.
The association lists 13 U. S. televi
sion stations which transmit exclu
sively in Spanish — but Spanish lan
guage penetration of television is
much greater. SIN, the national
Spanish television network, had at last
count 170 U. S. outlets, including
part-time programming, cable sys
tems and low-power stations.
Daily Spanish-language newspap
ers are published in Los Angeles;
New York; Miami (two); Chicago;
Brownsville, Laredo and El Paso in
Texas; Tampa, Fla.; and Oakland,
Calif.
South Africa downs Soviet-built MiG
United Press International
PRETORIA, South Africa — South
African jets have shot down a Soviet-
built MiG fighter Tuesday over
southern Angola, South African De
fense Force Chief Gen. Constand Vil-
joen said.
Two South African reconnaisance
planes and two escort aircraft were
“reconnoitering” a build-up of missile
installations, concentrations of South
West Africa Peoples Organization
guerrillas and logistics bases when
$100,000
four MiGs attacked them, Viljoen
said.
It was not immediately known
what nationality the MiG pilot was.
An estimated 20,000 Cuban military
personnel are stationed in Angola.
“In the ensuing dogfight, one MiG
was shot down,” Viljoen said, “and the
other three turned tail and fled the
area.”
He said all the South African
planes returned safely to their baSe.
There was no immediate comment
from Angola on the dogfight.
All the MiGs supplied to the Ango
lan air force are piloted by either
Cuban or Soviet airmen, South Afri
can military sources said.
The South African reconnaissance
mission was the result of “large scale
rearming and reequiping of SWAPO
by Russia and its surrogates,” Viljoen
said.
“It is known that 600 tons of
weaponry was supplied to SWAPO
through the (Angolan port of)
Mocamedes 10 days ago.
“In addition to this, it is also known
that missile installations have been
erected in southern Angola while
SWAPO, with its latest resupply, and
its logistics build-up, intends to re
sume its terrorist actions internally af
ter losing prestige in its latest efforts.”
The dogfight was the second in the
past 18 months in which South Afri
can planes downed a MiG over Ango
la, SWAPO’S base for its 16-year-old
guerrilla war with South Africa over
South West Africa, which geog
raphically separates the two nations.
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High in the mid- to upper-80s, low
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in scholarships
awaiting student pick-up
More than 400 scholarships awarded to students for
the fall semester — totaling more than $100,000 — have
not been picked up, says the student financial aid admi
nistrator for scholarships.
The Financial Aid Office faces the same situation
every year, Lynn Brown said.
“1 don’t like to see it happen,” she said. “I know many
times the students are not aw r are when the checks get
there (the Fiscal Office), and they get tired qf checking
and eventually forget about them. Some students get so
many scholarships that they simply forget which ones
they’ve picked up and which ones they haven’t.”
The scholarships range in value from $50 to $1,000,
Brown said.
Although $100,000 is a large amount, it is a small part
of the $3 million to $4 million awarded annually, she said.
In the past, nothing was done to remind students of
scholarships that had not been picked up, Brown said.
But this year the Financial Aid Office is notifying scholar
ship recipients by mail that they have until Oct. 29 to pick
up their scholarships from Fiscal Office cashiers. If the
scholarships aren’t picked up by then, they will be cancel
led and redeposited for use at a later date.
“I feel that if a student is not going to use his scholar
ship money, he should let the donor know so the money
can be used for someone who really does need it,’ Brown
said.