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Page 12/The Battalion/Wednesday, April 11, 1984 American youths will teach, play basketball in Uganda United Press International DALLAS — A Baptist min ister, whose name was on Uganda dictator Idi Amin’s hit list, announced Wednesday a project to take 100 American high school boys to Uganda to teach basketball this summer. The Rev. Webster Carroll said under the project, spon sored by the lay ministry group Global Outreach Association, the American boys will spend six weeks teaching basketball in Uganda and arranging tourna ments. “When Amin came to power. A Cut Above... 846-1599 Perm Special Children's Haircuts $275° (12 & under) includes haircut $"700 & style ■ (inside the Ramada Inn) 410 S. Texas, C.S. basketball was the fastest grow ing sports in the high schools,” Carroll said in a news confer ence at the First Baptist Church in Dallas. “For 10 years, our people haven’t even smiled much less played organized sports.” Under the project the 100 boys will be divided into 10 teams and sent to 10 schools where they will spend the morning in class with the other students and teach basketball in the afternoon. “They will be sharing their Christian insight in the classes at the schools in the morning,” Carroll said. “In the afternoon they will work with the boys who go out for basketball. “At some schools, we expect up to 500 boys and we’ll let all of them be on the squad.” I TAMU Floriculture- Ornamental Horticulture Club PLANT SALE! Saturday April 14 10am-2 pm BEPPISJ6> PLANTS FOLI/A^e PLAkNJTS much more! O €> -+ re~A*ut*. across ■fro**- X LCK If i rvuidb ‘CLV&- Applications for meeting rooms in the University Center Complex for Rec ognized Student Organizations, Clubs, and Governing Bodies will be accepted for the 1984 Fall Semester (August 16-December 14, 1984) in the scheduling office, 2 nd Floor Rud der Tower beginning at 8:00 a.m. Monday, April 16, 1984. Application forms may be obtained in the sched uling office, 2 nd Floor, Rudder Center. He said after two weeks the boys will organize a tournament and then move to another school. Amin took over the govern ment by force in January 1971 and his eight-year reign of ter ror intensified when he re turned from a one-week state visit to Libya convinced that he was the Moslem savior of Af rica. “He came back anti-Ameri can and anti-Chistian,” Carroll said. “I do not know of an African family in Uganda which did not lose a father, brother or uncle. I’m convinced it was the hand of God that permitted us to stay all these years.” He credited Providence for the fact that he and his wife were in near-by Kenya visiting their daughter at boarding school when he learned that he was on Amin’s hit list shortly be fore the dictatorship fell. Doug Adkins, counsel for the Dallas Mavericks, presented the team’s first autographed play off ball to Carroll for delivery to- Uganda President Apollo Obote. Adkins said that if Car- roll happened to see a high school player who “has to duck coming through doors” to let the Mavericks know about him. Carroll said Adkins’ request was one of many. When Carroll told him he was not sure the players were ready for college academics. Jester said “you send us young _ men who have never been to high school and we’ll send them to high school.” Unite* ARUT Tuesday en suici ay be p t0 nation licides i ot Plano \ The b indents tiristopl ithd M< y west e two led in a t I Autops |(ilined 01 Unite* Wheels of Fortune ALEX/ fcderal [1,000 liut Moi lument I.S. do id : Soviet Ifonnati Decorating the parking lot of Post Oak Mall are the bikes and bikers re ady for the Women’s Open-Aggieland Ivodozei Stage Race held Saturday.I Suit filed in newborn abduction United Press International GALVESTON — The par ents of a 4-day-old baby kidnap ped from John Sealy Hospital almost two years ago have filed suit against the hospital for $250,000 in damages, officials said Tuesday. Christina Lewis was kidnap ped by Bonita Renee “Jackie” Johnson, 24, who posed as a new hospital nursery employee, took the child from her moth er’s arms and walked out of the hospital with the infant. The baby was returned to her parents by a relative of John son’s several days later. The lawsuit, charging neg ligence by the hospital, was filed by the child’s parents Carolyn and Tommy Lewis of Beau mont. Johnson was arrested in Oc tober in Rome, Ga., and charged with kidnapping. She later entered a guilty plea and was sentenced in January to serve a four-year term. * * « • 0 0 * * # 0 0*0* 400 # 9 & * 0 0 * 0 0 m 0 ■» » 0 • ® ## 0 * 0 » 0 0 * 0 0 9 00**0 09 * 9 * # • * Spring Sale $"| O 00 Glove Leather Handbags Assorted - B -^' Spring Colors Reg $ 20 34 90 Reg. $ 46 to $ 50 Two popular styles by 9 west. Above: colors of White, Black, Red, Below: colors of Fox, Grey, Mint, and Black Post Oak Mall drug Police chief says programs need funds United Press International WASHINGTON — If the government can spend billions on defense and space, it should also spend enough to stop the drug abuse and control prob lems eroding society from within, a South Texas police chief said Tuesday. “I propose to you that the so cial and physical well-being of the citizens of the United States is just as important, if not more so, than any space program,” said Brownsville Chief Andres Vega Jr. “Law enforcement is ready and willing to meet the problem head-otr but we must have the necessary resources,” he told the House Select Committee on Narcotics. “We need to do something now.” Vega said he found it ironic that the nation spends billions on improving defense and continuing the space program, yet the appropriations for the drug abuse and control prob lems are minimal. He told the committee that federal funding cuts sometimes have forced border patrol agents to stop daily patrols be cause they cannot buy gas. He said an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms official begged the use of a battery so his official car could stay on the road and drug enforcement officers were rid ing double because they could not afford fuel for separate cars. K-d Crai^ lie, Wa: Inmierii lespite p le might lirinatioi I Assista Iph Aroi I result < layal, Xents ha Atonic; United Kleberg County Alcoli Office head David Pollanl Kingsville, Rep. SolomonO D-Texas, and Vega updated! panel on the status ol d problems and programs Texas since the committee I hearings last year in Coij Christi and Brownsville. Alii pealed their call formorefej mg and resources. Ortiz and Pollard ur j) e( fl \y,A!S j j panel to investigate thesenl . , ( abuse of inhalants amongMl-j ‘ , can-American youths in Texas. He said current estimatet dicale more than 700,0001( ans need drug abuse treati with as many as 14/ ’ aged 12-17 ' nual, y- lector, ch nsfer o Inc., ; ig the pi ant to b being adddedi';/;^ State ‘mobility crisis’ viewed United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas De partment of Highways and Pub lic Transportation was criticized Tuesday for failing to assume a leadership role in helping solve the growing “mobility crisis” in Texas cities. A House subcommittee studying mass transit in Texas also was told the Legislature should provide more consistent funding matches for federal grants to finance bus and rail systems. Tom Niskala, general man ager of the Gorpus Ghristi mass transit system, said Texas is ex periencing a “mobility crisis” because it is becoming more ur banized. He said -the state highway agency should follow the lead of other states in helping Texas cities solve their public trans portation needs. He suggested slate-financed demonstration projects for ru ral and urban areas, the estab lishment of equipment procure ment specifications, ridership surveys and technical assistance. Phil Wilson, a planning engi neer for the highway depart ment, said funding problems could be eased with an in creased allocation from the Legislature and a change in the 60-40 split between large and small cities. He recommended an 80-20 formula. Wilson said in the current two-year budgeting period, the Legislature appropriated $17.6 million for cities over 200,000 population and $11.7 million for other Texas cities. The problem, he said, is the larger cities have exhausted nd duel fetromet ercent o n the b iroadcast Kluge I ol of the their money, but the smalleti ies’ fund “is sitting virtuallfi le.” State law does not a ll°"b5 y e;iI s ^ large cities to apply for lefn L ‘ V() money in the small city ft oc ), "g u until only six months are lei )rme( j ^ the fiscal period, said Wilson fhich III. ■ : Bo< Another problem cally, he said, is the Legislati “on-again, off-again for mass transit. Wilson gested lawmakers establisf base of between $15 million $20 million and “build be)! a that on what the transit indn! MV ' says it needs.” The subcommittee chairffl United Rep. Glint Hackney D-Hj Ransa ton, also said the Legislalf larR ^ should consider creatingastj la( |j 11 . rate public transportai agency to facilitate slate f '* ing of transit systems. MSC Cafeteria Now Better Than Ever. 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