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Wednesday, June 29, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7 aiLL:i-i L.Lj.j i rmrc Around town Poland, church agree to aid United Press International VATICAN CITY — Poland’s Roman Catholic Church and the government have agreed to establish a church-run founda tion that will administer millions of dollars from the West to help revive the nation’s economy, sources said Tuesday. The agreement appeared to be part of a larger deal struck by the church in which informed sources said the Vatican agreed to urge Solidarity founder Lech Walesa to step aside in return for a pledge to lift martial law and enact reforms. The sources said Polish Pri mate Cardinal Jozef Glemp and the government reached the agreement before Pope John Paul IPs trip to his homeland June 16, but that it was discussed during the pontiff s visit. They said the agreement could be a prelude to lifting eco nomic sanctions against Poland. The sources said the founda tion was expected to handle mil lions of dollars in loans or grants from the West and funnel the money into the Polish economy, particularly into agriculture and small business. Plans for the foundation, which was Glemp’s idea, provide for the church to receive the money from the Western sources and administer it together with the government. A diplomatic source said the money would come from some major Western foundations, Polish ethnic communities in the West, Common Market coun tries and wealthy Roman Catho lic dioceses. The sources said the pope, Glemp and Polish leaders Gen. Wojciech Jartzelski and Presi dent Henryk Jablonski discus sed the foundation during the pontiffs visit. Vatican and other church sources, who spoke Monday on the condition they not be identi fied, said several top Vatican officials persuaded the pope to ask Walesa to step out of the public eye — at least temporarily — as part of a broader agree ment with the Polish govern ment. They said the government promised to institute reforms and eventually lift martial law, imposed Dec. 13, 1981 and par tially suspended a year later. Archbishop Achille Silvestri- ni, secretary of the Vatican’s Council for the Public Affairs of the Church, fashioned the agreement during a visit to Po land before the pope began his trip on June 23, the sources said. The sources, all close to the Vatican’s secretary of state, said John Paul II discussed details of the agreement in two meetings during the trip with Poland’s military leader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. They also disclosed the pon tiff approved the firing of the Rev. Virgilio Levi, who wrote ab out the agreement Friday in the Vatican newspaper L’Osserva- tore Romano. He was deputy di rector of the newspaper. Prof receives medal from ASAE Robert E. Stewart, distinguished professor emeritus of the ijricultural engineering department, has received the 1983 Cyrus Hall McCormick Medal from the American Society if Agricultural Engineers. The award was presented to Stewart during the Society’s innual Summer Meeting today at Montana State University ii Bozeman. The Cyrus Hall McCormick Medal has been awarded wnually since 1932 to a member of ASAE for “exceptional ind meritorious engineering achievement in agriculture.” Stewart joined Texas A&M in 1968 as a distinguished professor of agricultural engineering. He was named dis- inguished professor emeritus in 1980. Stewart is a native of brthage, Missouri. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and ktorate in agricultural engineering from the University of feouri, in Columbia. He currently lives in Bryan with his wife, Bonnie. They lave one daughter and two grandsons. Continuing education head named Illegal drinks contained methanol Poisoned liquor kills 17 Mexicans United Press International EL HIGO, Mexico — For the 18,000 residents of El Higo, a town of bars, mosquitos and sugar cane refineries, the deaths of 17 peasants poisoned by “fire water” was only one incident in the widespread trade in illegal alcohol. “We were at a friend’s wake, talking about his adventures and misfortunes, when I drank the aguardiente (sugar cane li quor),” said Bartolo Ordono, 27. Ordono is a peasant who was hospitalized after the June 17 wake where he sampled the li quor, laced with lethal methanol. “I lost my vision and I felt like I could not move,” Ordono said. Ordono was one of the 100 people poisoned in El Higo and surrounding sugar cane cooper- tives where the harshness of dai ly life is often softened by a $1 bottle of homemade sugar cane liquor produced in clandestine distilleries in the state of San Luis Potosi. The colorless liquid, which often has the odor of rubbing alcohol, generally has a proof of more than 100. The death of the youth whose wake Ordono attended was the first of a chain of funerals in which mourners drank the same deadly liquor. It was not until seven people died that authorities realized the alcoholic mixture was mortal and advised residents to stop consuming it. According to the Mexican So cial Security Institute, at the end of the second week of June, a total 16 men and one woman died because of the liquor. Local authorities arrested five “firewater” merchants, and though the maker of the alcohol has never been caught, police chief Matias Isaguirre said “the matter of firewater will end.” But for many of those in El Higo, a town of 18,000 that lies 170 miles northeast of Mexico City, the deaths only signify the latest incident in the under ground activity. “In a short time, all will return to how it was, as though nothing had happened,” said Aurelio Vazquez, a doctor at the local government Social Security-hos pital who treated dozens of the methanol poisoning cases. The owner of one of El Higo’s bars said local police allow the illegal liquor business to flour ish, sometimes for money or sometimes only for family or friendship ties that tightly link everyone in the small town. Of El Higo’s 100 mosquito- infested bars, only 50 are legally registered with authorities. These are only allowed to sell beer, but it is common know ledge that the other 50 operate outside the margin of the law. Dr.LeeJ. Phillips, who currently serves as assistant director orprogram development for the Texas Engineering Exten- ion Service has been named director of continuing educa- ion for Texas A&M University, effective Friday. Phillips, a 1953 electrical engineering graduate of Texas 1S.M, has been affiliated with TEEX, the engineering edu- ationand training arm of the University System, since 1976. As director of continuing education, Phillips will be re- ponsible for leadership and supervision of all continuing ducation activities conducted within the academic depart- aents of the University. Director of Financial Aid named laftE. Benson, currently Student Aids Coordinator at the lilwaukee Area Technical College, has been named dire- tor of Student Financial Aid effective Aug.TO. He replaces Dr. Malon Sutherland, assistant vice- tesident for student services, who has been serving as cling director. Benson is a member of the National Association of Finan- ialAid Administrators and the Mid-Western Association of indent Financial Aid Administrators. University calendar deadline Friday The deadline to submit events for publication in the Fall 983 All University Calendar is Friday. Items must be sub- nitted in writing to the Student Activities office in 208 avillion. For more information call 845-1133. to submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion ffice in 216 Reed McDonald or call 845-2611. Singer dons tux or son’s wedding United Press International NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cus- marily casual Willie Nelson toned a long gray cutaway tux- lo Monday night to be best tout his son’s wedding. Billy H. Nelson, 25, married toet E. Caldwell of Joelton at i'st Baptist Church on Broad- and just about the entire dson clan was in town to cele ste. Billy Nelson is the youngest of the three children born to Willie Nelson and the first of his three wives, Martha Matthews, a Cherokee Indian who now lives in Waco. She and Nelson di vorced in 1963. In the wedding church parlor afterward, the wedding couple cut into a multi-tiered cake that included tiny staircases and a fountain. Singer Johnny Rodri guez was among those congratu lating the couple. Everyday prices atTSO are lower than most advertised discount” prices. Compare price, compare quality — you cannot beat the values on prescription eyewear at TSO. And that’s true for all TSO eyewear, including famous designer frames. Doctor’s Prescription Required Texas State o PTICAE Prices you can afford. Quality you can see. 216 N. Main Bryan 779-2786 Post Oak Mall College Station 764-0010 ONE CALL to set up meetings United Press International DALLAS — Western Union has spent more than a million dollars to set up its new ONE CALL travel planning service, and the corporate brass now is hoping the calls come pouring in. “We know our (potential) market is very large,” said John Richard of Dallas, head of the new Western Union subsidiary. “We know our concept has been enthusiastically received by everyone we’ve talked to. But since it’s a totally new concept, it’s very difficult to know what to expect.” The concept allows a meeting planner to make a single phone call giving specific needs. ONE CALL then will transmit those specifications via computer link up to hotels and motels, to air lines and to car rental agencies. They in turn will respond with bids, giving the prices they would charge to serve the meet ing. After a five-day period to gather bids, ONE CALL will send them to the meeting plan ner in a mailgram message. With the bids and informa tion in hand, the planner can contact the various suppliers to make arrangements for the meeting. “For suppliers, it means a vast information network to reach prospective customers and thus generate additional sales leads,” Richard said. “For meeting planners, ONE CALL saves enormous time and trouble in assembling the necessary infor mation on which to make deci sions regarding arrangements.” Western Union has set up ONE CALL in an office in far north Dallas with 12 full-time employees and a tandem com puter. When it started on June 23, it had more than 40 lodging and car rental companies signed up, Richard said. Offering their facilities to the program are such major lodging chains as Hilton, Sheraton, Ho ward Johnson’s, Dunfey, Radis- son. Southern Host and Amfac. Some Holiday Inns, Westin Hotels and Ramada Inns are also included. Car rental agencies include Budget, American Internation al and Thrifty. Hertz and Avis are considering ONE CALL, Richard said. ONE CALL sales people are now talking to airlines to bring them into the system. Since de regulation, Richard said, air lines can set prices at low levels to compete for group travel. ONE CALL aims at meetings between 50 and 150 travelers. A meeting planner or travel agent using the service pays a one-time fee of $75 and then between $ 10 and $25 for each meeting. Hotels, airlines and car rental companies pay ONE CALL only when they submit a winning bid. Fees range between $25 and $75 per meeting. Richard said the system also could be used by travel clubs and travel agents who conduct tours. “By the end of this year we hope to have 5,000 meeting planners and travel agents signed up,” Richard said. High Court rules on gas sales, may prompt price increases Ken’s Automotive 421 S. Main — Bryan United Press International WASHINGTON — In a rul ing that could prove costly to consumers, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a federal energy agency erred when it ex cluded natural gas pipeline firms from higher “first-sale” pricing. While the court said it was in general agreement with a lower court, the 5-4 decision also set aside a ruling that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had misread a key energy law and told the commission to con sider the issue again. The dispute involves whether transfers of natural gas should be allowed to trigger the higher price ceilings under a 1978 ener gy law. In setting aside the lower court ruling, Justice John Paul Stevens rejected the govern ment’s arguments that using first-sale pricing would allow pipeline companies to reap a $200 million annual windfall, and possibly force higher natu ral gas prices on consumers. Stevens held the energy com mission’s exclusion of pipeline production from the pricing scheme of the Natural Gas Poli cy Act of 1978 frustrated the regulatory policy Congress sought to achieve in passing the legislation. Contesting the commission’s stand were the Mid-Louisiana Gas Co. and four other pipeline firms that produce 5.5 percent of natural gas nationwide annually. “First-sale” pricing, part of the complicated pricing struc ture of the gas policy act, was designed to spur production and ensure sufficient gas sup plies by allowing higher prices at the wellhead to compensate for development costs. Also at issue in the case was whether the commission had the authority to deny first-sale status to gas that pipeline companies effectively sell to themselves. In Tuesday’s ruling, Stevens said the commission has discre tion to decide whether intercor porate or downstream transfers should receive first-sale treat ment. 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