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\ Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, June 28,1983 $8.75 billion election in August Dallas plans mass transit system 1 United Press International On Aug. 13, the more than 1 million people who live in Dallas and 20 surrounding communi ties will vote on a 27-year transit program designed to solve an already bad situation before it gets irretrievably worse. The Dallas Area Rapid Tran sit Board’s proposal would cost $8.75 billion. It says the prog ram would pay for itself with a 1-cent sales tax and operating revenues that should total at least $8.92 billion during those 27 years. The only federal money would be $476 million for re placement buses and new buses, funding the government would give the city — any city — re gardless of its other transit plans. The DART proposal in cludes an immediate plan to ex pand the city’s bus system with 556 new vehicles and a 35 per cent increase in area service. The “Horizon Plan” — through the year 2010 — calls for 160 miles of surface trains, primarily along existing but un used railroads, and a downtown subway, as well as 23 miles of elevated highway lanes that would carry only high occupan cy vehicles — car pools, vans and buses. DART faces some real and psychological obstacles, howev er. Not the least of them is the June 11 defeat of a $2.35 billion referendum in Houston that would have funded a heavy rail line downtown and expanded the bus system citywide. Adlene Harrison, chair woman of the DART board, be lieves Dallas is different from Houston because Dallas did sev eral things right. Hoston’s residents voted in 1978 to establish the Metropoli tan Transit Authority, which had no concrete plan, because they were already “hanging by their fingernails” she said. South Dallas who feel the plan is too heavily weighted toward richer, white North Dallas resi dents; and a group led by for- “Where Houston will be five years later we should achieve in the first year,” said the former city councilwoman and former regional administrator of the Enviromental Protection Agency. isting neighborhoods. Harrison said she was espe cially distressed by the charges, primarily from J.B. Jackson Jr., mer Republican congressman Jim Collins, who feels private enterprise could do the job bet ter and that the city govern ments should not levy new taxes. the one DART board member who voted against the plan, that it is racist because it emphasizes Dallas’ northern neighborhoods and suburbs. “(Dallas’) citizens had input,” she said. “We can point to a plan, parts of which the citizens actually formulated” in a series of public meetings on the prop osals. As it stands now, she said, North Dallas has the greater traffic problem and thus will get 40 percent for the first 69 miles of rail, scheduled to be built by 1995 “The people who stand to be nefit the most are many people in minority areas that don’t have cars,” Harrison said. “(DART) will give them a far better quality of life. Most of the criticism of DART has come from three sources: re sidents of older neighborhoods in East Dallas, where the rail lines run, who fear they face the greatest disruption; blacks in “The people will cut off their nose to spite their face if they reject a plan today because they can’t get 200 percent of what they want,” she said, adding that one of the board’s prime criteria was to plan construction with as little disruption as possible to ex- “We have not counted one federal dollar in our rail plans,” Harrison said. “If private enter prise thought they could take on all that on their own, they would’ve been in business and we would have welcomed them.” Five indicted in drug smuggling United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Five men have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of im porting 350 kilograms of cocaine as part of a smuggling cartel that the FBI said operated in four states and several foreign countries. Edmund Pistey, FBI agent in charge, said the five men are among 30 people who were in dicted in March on related charges of trafficking large quantities of cocaine and mari juana. Indicted Friday on charges of importing 100 kilograms of cocaine were Fernando Lopez, 41, Kenner, La.; James Edward Eakes, no age, Houston; Billy Joe Nichols, no age, Richardson; and Bobby Lee Ross, no age, Harlingen. The four and Byron Abshire, 32, of Abbeville, La., also were indicted on charges of importing 250 kilograms of cocaine. charges, Pistey said, Lopez could receive a 115-year sentence; Abshire could receive 95 years; Nichols, 75 years; and Eakes and Ross, 45 years each. He said the Florida and several foreign countries, since January 1982, Pistey said. He said other federal agencies have sincejoined in the investigation. Pistey said Eakes and Nichols were in federal custody, Abshire was free on bond for the March charges and Ross and Lopez were federal fugitives. If convicted on the trafficking new indictments would increase those maximum terms. The FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration have been inves tigating cartel activity in Louisiana, Texas, California, An FBI spokesman said the March indictments, two related indictments earlier this month and Friday’s indictments all re sulted from the investigation. Ruling OKs drug-sniffing dog use on cars and lockers, not students United Press International WASHINGTON — The Sup reme Court Monday let stand a ruling that using trained dogs to sniff out drugs on students is un constitutional, but allowing them to sniff lockers and cars is permissible. The Justices refused to hear arguments by a Baytown school system from a ruling that drag net sniff-searches of students violates the Constituion’s guarantee against unreasonable searches. In 1978, Goose Creek Inde pendent School District in Baytown launched an effort to combat drugs in the 15,400 stu dent system by hiring a Houston security firm to supply trained dogs to sniff students and their lockers and cars to detect drugs. The dogs were brought to the schools unannounced and, led by a trainer, sniffed lockers and automobiles. The dogs also were taken into classrooms while clas ses were in session and allowed to roam the aisles, sniffing the desks and smelling and touching the bodies of individual stu dents. When the dog smelled drugs, he alerted the handler. A sus pected student was told to re port to the principal’s office where his pockets and clothing were searched. At the end of the 1979-80 school year, the dogs had made 296 visits to the district’s 19 schools. Two students were cited as having been singled out by the ! dogs. After searches, no drugs were found on either, although a vial of perfume was found in the female’s purse. Both students were given apologies, but the American Civil Liberties Union, acting for the students, challenged the searches. A federal district court found the sniffing was a reason able search. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part, saying sniffing lockers and automobiles involved a smaller intrusion on privacy, so they were not illegal searches, but sniffing the stu dents was an invasion of the stu dents’ privacy. A dog’s sniffing technique -— “sniffing around each child, putting his nose on the child and scratching and manifesting other signs of excitement in the case of an alert — is intrusive,” the court ruled. Goose Creek appealed the ruling, arguing the degree of in trusion was minimal because the odor of drugs escapes into the air. The school district also said a requirement of individual suspi cion would not work since school officials were untrained in drug enforcement tactics. The ACLU opposed high court review, arguing, “It is the indiscriminate and personal na ture of the sniffing here which gives the use of dogs by Goose Creek the nature of being a search.” Provisional Students Dallas automatic tellers robbed over weekend All Provisional Students report to room 100, First Floor, Flarrington Bldg, June 27 thru July 1, to pick up registration instruction for the second summer term. United Press International DALLAS — The latest in a rash of automated teller robber ies touched off an alarm at 4:48 a.m. Sunday, at an MPACT machine at Plaza National Bank in north Dallas, causing an esti mated $30,000 damage, police reported. The amount stolen in the other robberies has not been re leased, but the machines are said to have a capacity of up to $20,000. WE SPECIALIZE IN STUDENT TYPING WHEN SPEED, FORMAT, AND ACCURACY ARE VITAL... 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James Bridges, 28, who was visiting friends at a nearby ser vice station, said he heard the bomb go off with a sound like “someone had hit the side of the building with a vehicle.” He said he saw two men in black jumpsuits and baseball hats, pointing military-style rifles. “I realized what was happen ing, and I ducked behind a building so I wouldn’t get shot. It looked like if you had gotten in their way, there was no get ting out alive,” he said. Bridges said the bandits moved in unison, as if well- drilled. Investigators said the men apparently were spooked by wit nesses during the second raid, and fled without taking any money. Last Thursday, a similar raid netted about $2,000 and wreck ed an MPACT machine at Gate way National Bank in north Dallas. Dallas Police Sgt. Ron McCracken said investigators were treating the three robber ies as related. ■mf I X L □ CD MM M a ur i me Around town Finance students sweep contest Four Texas A&M finance students swept all the awards in the undergraduate category of a recent competition spon sored by the Houston Society of Financial Analysts. Business students from Rice University, the University of Texas and Texas Tech University also participated in the event and were required to analyze a Houston firm’s finan cial statements. Kimberly Ann Davis of Midland, who graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in finance, took the top prize and a $1,000 scholarship for a financial analysis of Oshman’s Sporting Goods, Inc.; Roger Gremillion of Houston, a senior finance major, won second place and $500 for a report on Tenneco, Inc. Mark D. Taylor of Dallas and Jack L. Battle Jr. of Hous ton won the two honorable mentions and $250 each for papers on Texas Commerce Bancshares Inc. and Sysco Corp., respectively. Both graduated in December with de grees in finance and are presently working on master’s de grees in finance at Texas A&M. United Pk washing Court peals from s of the air ion for revi convictions act. The justii let star control je union ( las-Fort I were pr making it Idafede overthn iial form o After the 1 i rejected a ih the go\ n’sair trail istrike Aug ipay offer Photo exhibit to feature Galveston A photo exhibit featuring more than 50 pictures of historic Galveston will be on display at Manor East Mall in Bryan through July 15. The exhibit, entitled “Galveston: An Island in History,” was produced by the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio and includes pictures from the Rosenberg Library in Galveston. Grad student to go to Washington Jeanine Nass Smith, native of Livingston, who earned a master’s degree in public administration this spring from Texas A&M, is one of 11 graduate students from Texas universities accepted into the 1983 Presidential Manage ment Intern Program. Smith leaves for Washington, D.C., in July to begin a two-year stint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Marshals Service Department. The program is intended to be the starting point for individuals pursuing careers in public program analysis or management. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University in 1980 and has workedasa personnel consultant at Continental Personnel in Huntsville. Much of the work she will do in Washington will involve labor relations matters for the U.S. Marshals office. Smith’s graduate studies emphasized personnel/labor relations. )U[ or United Pr IASH1N( use Monc rtprogran cotton, id in Tt dArizona, have tht lion over The mea: House oi ts to the St Total U.S ton, used home sh )ff ieh United P DAWSON teis in th< noses — a because rkers I timka sail To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald or call 845-2611. Police beat The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department between June 17 and June 24. THEFTS •On two separate occasions a key was used to gain entry to the Fireman’s Training School and approximately 20 gallons of gasoline was taken from the pumps. •A brown attache case from a fourth floor study carrel in the Sterling C. Evans Library. •A textbook from outside of the Commons Dining Area. •A wallet and its contents were taken in April. Since then the owner’s Texaco card was used to purchase gas on four separate occasions. Police are still investigating. •Two terrarium desk plan ters from the Soil and Crop Sci- ences-Entomology Center. Bicycles: •A maroon Trac 10-speed from the Dorm 9 bike rack. •A green Schwinn 10-speed from the Memorial Student Center bike rack. Student - f •A green 10-speed from be' tween the MSC and Rudd« Tower. •A green 10-speed from Academic Building. •An orange Volkscyde speed from the Aston Hallbiki rack. •An orange Crescent speed from Married Studi Housing. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF •A battery cable was cut on) boat at Married Housing. •A glass door at the north em of Lounge E and a window 417 Dorm 11 were broken app; rently by a pellet gun. •A blunt instrument wasui to damage a light pole, an machine, a soft drink machii and a plexiglass bulletin boardit the recreation area adjacent Olsen field. •The right side-view mil was broken off a 1981 Pondai Parking Lot 24. BURGLARY •A battery from a 1977 Che'’' rolet pick-up in Parking Lot" ID *>g WITH THIS COUPON. 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