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Poland, church agree to aid
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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
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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.
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Singer dons tux
or son’s wedding
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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.
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ONE CALL to set up meetings
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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
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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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