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Dis an indie st hi harbored li e wasaf by Gabriel Elliott Battalion Reporter Texas A&M’s Transportation De partment is offering a shuttle bus ser vice this summer, but the bus opera tions manager says the contributions from apartment complex owners and students are not covering the costs of the service. “It is very frustrating,” manager John Lake said. “We haven’t had the participation expected to override the cost.” Lake said about 35 apartment com plex owners are contributing to this summer’s shuttle service. During a regular semester, over 90 apartment complexes participate in the shuttle service. Twenty full-time drivers are em ployed during a summer session, Lake said, but during a regular semester 35 to 40 student helpers are hired in addition to the 20 full-time drivers. Of the 35 buses purchased 13 months ago by Texas A&M for the shuttle service, Lake said, only 10 cur rently are being used. “We plan to run a bus service next summer,” he said, “but changes have to be made. We have to fund it diffe rently.” Apartment complexes are not sub sidizing enough money to run the shuttle service. Lake said. A minimum of $100,000 in addi tion to drivers’ salaries and benefits is necessary to run a summer shuttle service, he said. Although 1,600 bus passes at $20 have been sold for both summer sessions the profits fall short of the expenditures. Lake said many apartment com plexes offer summer shuttle bus ser vice as an added attraction to its occu pants, but some complexes that don’t contribute still benefit from the ser vices. Complexes with 100 units contri bute $500; 100 to 200 units — $1,000; 200 or more units — $1,500. Students have three days during summer registration to purchase pas ses, Lake said, and one week to apply for a full refund. About 2 percent of the students who purchase passes seek refunds for sometimes inadequate reasons, he said. Passes may be purchased in 103 Rudder Tower after registration is completed. If the pass is purchased after registration, the price will be pro-rated to the amount of time re maining in the summer session. Beginning today. Lake said, stu dents must show passes to ride the shuttle buses. er temples i untries. blems I rests i charges. >y authorii '00,000b were police; cache of& tmmuniiK nse,” ice. ies xercisedli state el« Stretch that Hamstring staff photo by Brenda Davidson Texas A&M ecting can* J ohna J° Maurer, rod the pS journalism graduate from Cleveland, Ohio, in-Amen&f reaches for her toes Tuesday while doing warm-up exercises in East Kyle. Maurer enjoys aerobic dancing as a hobby and works out every day to keep in shape. Galveston A&M hosts academic youth camp by Karen Schrimsher Battalion Staff More than 100 gifted children are spending two weeks of their summer vacation at an academic camp at Texas A&M University at Galveston. The “Galveston Island Adven ture,” which began Sunday, has been sponsored by the Texas A&M Gifted and Talented Institute for four years. The 135 participants, ages 11-16, will spend two weeks studying architecture, marine biology, ocean geology, space science and veterinary medicine and working with micro computers. In a news release issued this week, Dr. William Nash, director of the in stitute, said the camp places an emph asis on intellectually stimulating acti vities. “We try to give them a broad look at the field of study and provide them with some training in the basic tech nology of that field,” he said. “We try to encourage each student to become involved in a project and produce some tangible product. It might be architectural drawings or a custom designed model aircraft.” He said the camp also encourages recreational activities. “These kids have a great deal of academic pressure on them during the year and we have tried to avoid that,” he said. Nash said many of the children never have been challenged intellec tually. “A lot of bright kids in some school settings aren’t really challenged and breeze through making the highest grades with little effort,” he said. “Then they receive scholarships to outstanding universities and are forced to compete. Some of them don’t handle it very well and even flunk out.” The camp directors have planned special activities for the campers. This year the students will take trips to the Johnson Space Center, the Lunary Planetary Institute and will visit oil companies. They will tour Galveston and Houston and will cruise on the research vessel Roamin’ Empire. They also will meet with astronaut Dick Scobee. Mercy trial continues > active ini , serving | the Dec*' Hommittfl essional 1979. IAN itr R««v« 3ANCE I s [ Fwim* 1:457:459$ UNDER’' «ATtf HJLTTlCIf W EACH] AME§ 7:159:35, IT ZONE Iby) 7:409:45 'BEARD f:25 9:^J I PLACES j hileans, police clash Bled United Press International ANTI AGO, Chile — Soldiers pat- the streets of Santiago today urs after thousands of Chileans shed with riot police and banged ts and pans in protests against ilitary rule that killed one youth and iously wounded another. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II callled for a dialogue between the military government and the opposi tion and implored “that the road to violence not be taken, not even with the intention of reaching legitimate aspirations.” Protesters demanding restoration of civilian rule defied a four-hour curfew Tuesday night, burning tires and hurling stones at riot police from behind street barricades. Army patrols in trucks mounted with machine guns rumbled through Santiago neighborhoods as riot police used tear gas to disperse angry crowds in several neighborhoods of the Chilean capital. United Press International HOUSTON — The older brother of a man on trial for the mercy killing of their bedridden father said he was unable to abide by his father’s wishes to be shot. Bob Clore testified Tuesday in the trial of his brother, Billy Ray Clore, who has admitted firing one shot from a .45 caliber handgun into his comatose father’s head. Robert Clore died two weeks after the shooting. Bob Clore, 31, said his father had told him he wanted to be shot if his condition deteriorated beyond any hope of recovery. “He had a great fear of being bed ridden. He said for me to get a gun and kill him,” Clore said. Bob Clore said he could not shoot his father. His younger brother, however, followed the man’s wishes on March 21 — four months after Robert Clore slipped into a coma — and is charged with murder for the shooting at a Humble, Texas nursing home. Bob Clore said he believed his father realistically died the night he suffered a second heart seizure in November. “I saw a man totally incapacitated with no possible chance. The man’s brain was gone,” he said. But earlier Tuesday, Harris Coun ty Medical Examiner Dr. Joseph Jachimczyk testified Robert Clore’s brain was functioning at the time of the shooting, “although at a di minished capacity.” Robert Clore suffered total kidney failure and then a heart attack in November. His condition improved, but two weeks later he suffered another cardiac seizure, which left him comatose. He was able to breathe on his own, but he could not speak, move or feed himself. He was put in a nursing home in January. ouse chairman, White House in conflict over files United Press International WASHINGTON — The White Quse seemed headed for a confron- Ition Tuesday with a House subcom- fttee chairman over direct access to Dnald Reagan’s campaign files that ay contain materials taken from the Carter White House. Deputy White House press secret ary Larry Speakes said Rep. Donald Albosta, D-Mich. — who said he will seek today to subpoena the docu ments if access to them is refused — should take advantage of President Reagan’s order to the Justice Depart ment to cooperate with Albosta over access to relevant papers. In the meantime, Reagan told Re publican congressional leaders he wants to get to the bottom of the mat ter quickly, Senate GOP leader Ho ward Baker of Tennessee said. Baker, after a regular leadership meeting with Reagan, also defended the apparent decision to turn down Albosta’s request that trustees of the papers kept at the Hoover Institution in California give his subcommittee access to the documents. Baker said it should not become a “fishing expedition” and only re levant material should be looked at. “He has instructed full and com plete and total cooperation with the Department of Justice and all of his staff to get to the bottom of the ‘brief ing-gate’ investigation,” Baker said. “There ought to be a specific in quiry into the briefing book episode,” Baker added, referring to a copy of a document drafted to help Carter in the Reagan-Carter debate in 1980. Attorney claims sex party videotapes stolen by media United Press International LOS ANGELES — An attorney, under court order to produce deotapes allegedly showing federal "firials at sex parties, says someone om the media stole the tapes but so gave varying accounts of their isappearance. Robert K. Steinberg was sub- taenaed Tuesday and ordered to reduce the alleged tapes in court ly 25 — the same day Marvin Pan- ast, 33, the confessed killer of Vicki j Morgan, 30, is to be arraigned on ^■Wder charges. i'i&Olil Steinberg, who briefly represented RIVER ancoast > to ld investigators the three ipes — which the attorney said show eo ^ e ‘ nv °l ve d * n “sado-masochistic sx acts — were kept in a gym bag in e library of his law office. "Someone from the press corps i'ent into my library this morning and ole the tapes,” a highly agitated teinberg told reporters as he left his everly Hills office Tuesday after- oon. But police said Steinberg made no mention of his suspicions during a lengthy talk with investigators. It was one of several contradictions that surfaced Tuesday, a day after Steinberg, 46, first claimed the tapes existed. He said the tapes, received from a woman claiming to be Pancoast’s friend, show sex acts involving the late Alfred Bloomingdale, a close friend of President Reagan; Morgan, Bloomingdale’s mistress; an un named congressman; and four top Reagan administration appointees. In a telephone conversation, White House counsel Fred Fielding told Steinberg the tapes — if found — should not be destroyed so it can be determined if any criminal conduct was involved. When pressed for details of the alleged theft, the attorney refused further comment, referring matters to the police and the district attorney’s office. Chief Deputy District Attorney Jim Bascue said Steinberg informed his office Tuesday morning of the alleged theft after prosecutors re quested he turn over the tapes. “Questions have been raised about the involvement of federal appoin tees and federal officials in this thing and we were asked for reaction to it,” Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters at the White House. “And the reaction is we don’t want, any of it destroyed.” Steinberg said he quit the case in a dispute over use of the tapes. Pancoast’s attorney, Arthur Barens, said he will eventually enter a plea of innocent by reason of insanity on behalf of Pancoast, who remained jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail. Miss Morgan, a former model, filed unsuccessfully for $11 million in palimony against Bloomingdale last year. Bloomingdale, heir to a depart ment store fortune, founder of the Diners Club and a member of Presi dent Reagan’s “kitchen cabinet,” died of cancer last August at age 66. Claims against his estate based on alleged written contracts to Morgan are still pending in court. Progress in AIDS research reported United Press International WASHINGTON — Federal scien tists see a virus-fighting substance produced by white blood cells as poss ibly holding an answer to the deadly and mysterious Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that recent studies found the subst ance raises the infection-fighting acti vities of lymphocytes cells of AIDS victims “at least in the test tube.” “Whether it will help AIDS pa tients is not yet known,” tne HHS said in a statement. “Nevertheless, the re search may provide a hint about the nature of the disease and how it might be treated.” Dr. Edward Brandt, HHS assistant secretary for health, cautioned against premature expectations of a “quick cure,” but said the studies may help draw a batde plan. “HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler has said AIDS is the No. 1 health priority of this department,” he said. “And we are acting accordingly.” AIDS attacks the white blood cells, the body’s defense against disease. The syndrome severely reduces the body’s ability to fight off viruses and other illnesses and has been related to a high incidence of rare cancers. There have been 1,700 reported cases of the illness since it was first identified by the Center for Disease Control in June 1981. More than 600 of the victims have died. Most of the victims are homosex uals who have had multiple sex part ners. The latest research was conducted by the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, both of which are under the jurisdic tion of the FDA. At the same time. Dr. Alain Rook of the FDA announced at a Michigan State University symposium that ini tial tests on the blood-cell product, known as Interleukin-2, snow the agent is useful in restoring some of the infected cells damaged by AIDS. In the tests, he explained, Inter leukin-2, which is naturally produced by the white blood cells of healthy people, were introduced into test tubes containing deficient white blood cells taken from six AIDS suf ferers. No-record drops end today, degree deadline Friday The deadline for dropping courses with no record is today. Drops are being held in the New Animal Pavilion. The last day to Q- drop courses with no penalty is July 20. Friday is the deadline for gra duating seniors to apply for de grees. inside Classified ® Local ^ Opinions 2 Sports 1 \ State ^ National 7 forecast Mostly cloudy today with a 40 per cent chance of showers or thunder showers and a high of 89. A 30 percent chance of showers tonight with a low near 73. Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers Thursday and a high of 88.