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Friday, April 20, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Around town Comoros to monitor U.S-Moxioon bordor Photo by PHI! >on arriving ii hursday moi tude ative eruf Republics Quartet places fourth in nationals The Close Shave, a barber shop quartet of Texas A&M [students, placed fourth in the National Finals of the Ameri- |can Collegiate Talent Showcase April 14 in Las Cruces, |NM. The group also placed first in the Region 4 competion I which includes all colleges in Texas and Oklahoma. Quartet members include Wally Harwood, baritone; Steve Ard, bass; Rick Huff, lead; and Rick Thurman, tenor. Chairmen applications available Class of ’85 chairman applications are available in 216 | MSC. Class officers will be interviewing those interested for the Ring Dance, class gift, senior banquet, sales, executive [ aids and public relations committees chairmen. For more information, contact Anne-Marie Dixon, 260-0710. Museum to host baby animal day The Brazos Valley Museum will host a Baby Animal Day Petting Zoo Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission is $3 per family for non-members. Chemical executive to visit class Allen Bennett, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Helena Chemicals will speak to the Manage ment 481 class Friday at 10 a.m. in 165 Blocker. Helena Chemicals is a subsidiary of the Bayer Corporation, market fertilizers, insecticides and other chemical products. Ben nett will discuss the development of the Helena corpora tion. The public is invited. Casino Night pictures available Photos taken during Casino Night can be ordered until April 25 at the Residence Hall Association office in 215 Pa- villion. Cost for a 4 by 6 inch picture is $1.75. United Press International EL PASO — Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol — monitor ing 11 television cameras aimed at Mexico — will begin a drive next week to catch professional alien smugglers, officials said Thursday. Larry Richardson, chief Bor der Patrol agent for the El Paso sector, said the cameras are in place on high poles along a nine-mile stretch of the border between El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. The cameras will help the border patrol catch the real smugglers, Richardson said, referring to the professionals who charge exorbitant fees to transport Mexican and Central American aliens into the inte rior of the United States. The smugglers are referred to on both sides of the border as “coy otes.” Richardson said his men waste a lot of time running around the border because they can not see who is trying to cross. The television system, built at a cost of $500,000 is viewed as a saving of time and money. The cameras will be monitored in an office at one of the international bridges, he said. “We’ve been wasting a lot of time and resources in a Keystone Cops chase situation and only getting maids and kids and glue sniffers,” Richardson said. “We can’t see who is really crossing into the United States.” The cameras will begin send ing pictures back to the mon itoring room where an agent will try to determine where the large-scale smugglers and aliens are trying to cross into the United States, he said. El Paso will be the first Bor der Patrol sector to be testing low light level television, Rich ardson said. “Our primary interest is ap prehending those aliens whose destination is the interior of the United States and the people who are paid good old U.S. dol lars to take them there — the smugglers,” he said. By this type of monitoring, Border Patrol officials can send its agents to the areas used by smugglers and those aliens bound for the interior of the United States, Richardson said. “This is not a ‘1984, Big Brother is watching’ situation. There will be no invasion of pri vacy because of the installation of the monitors,” Richardson said. “It will be the same as if we put an officer in the same posi tion.” Personnel will be tested on the equipment next week, Rich ardson said. RCA is the contrac tor for the placing of the 11 cameras. “We don’t know how much money will be saved by the in stallation of the monitoring sys tem,” Richardson said. “But if it works, it will be well worth the half million dollars.” >rty-eight perl vould vote for nber. Somethin! was that of tta vho said they* crat in Novell ■m said they nidale." ken down by sod 4 percent of mt >i ps of Cadets ■cent of sorority! members andl| ;r students wertl Twenty-one rps, none of tW :l 17 percent oft were Democntj us comprised Hj Corps, 15perci ■s, and 38 indents, cuts are con; lealogy as wells al parties, I. Forty-eight|* lon - rolled considers onservative aid Candidate debate turns into Parmer ress conference By MELINDA HANSEN Reporter What should have been a de late between 6th Congressional istrict candidates Dan Kubiak nd Hugh Parmer turned out jo be a small press conference for Parmer Thursday. Kubiak refused the invita- m. The idea was for both candi- lates to have five questions to onsidered "tit lsk the other about various is ‘ „ en( ues during their campaigns. Mien Kubiak did not arrive for ties. Only re liberals hrupsaid that I* ,thing wrong ative atmosph* ink there's a' )0 conservative he “high noon” showdown at he Brazos County Courthouse, ’armer used the time to present he questions he had prepared. Parmer’s main point in his -up said thisp 0 the organ® 101 j jointly. questioning concerned the rea sons Kubiak was against certain issues, and then did not show up to cast his vote on the re quired date. “Kubiak is reluctant to go be fore the public to debate the is sues,” Parmer said. A spokesman for Kubiak said the candidate spends most of his time out meeting the people face to face, rather than partici pating in last-minute debates. A representative for candi date Joe Barton said that Bar ton would attend the debate if Kubiak did not want to accept the invitation. 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