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Illegal alien bill sparks controversy See page 3 Doggett unofficial winner in recount See page 4 Entertainment reviews 'Ghostbusters/ 'Gremlins' See page 10 f comm Vol. 79 No. 159 USPS 045360 14 Pages Battalion Serving the University community College Station, Texas Thursday, June 14, 1984 ■ s . but li| 'Ome bai, s neak on 3 the bill becausi • the mat. her tm ation. 'tinicatinj l >m a fo feally sai luring thi 5SS (0 th( o candidacy for Sen. Bentsen bases, aai 1 Daman ‘irley ua plate urt. a strikt rcia lind • Shirleyi than any southpi the bal 'Uldn't se /c McCot before fromtht ad an af. talk with at pute Uest ova Baylori ’t >nal United Press International WASHINGTON — Sen. Lloyd entsen, D-Texas, often mentioned s a possible Democratic vice presi- ential candidate, said Wednesday ie believes Walter Mondale will pick lomebody like Gary Hart” instead If him. | “I don’t expect to be asked and jm not seeking the job,” Bentsen laid Texas reporters. “I’m happy Tith what I’m doing. “My guess is he’ll ask somebody ke Gary Hart and my wife will be ne-endia er ^ muc ^ relieved,” he said. “I ° ^ bink that would be a very strong Icket.” Hart has said it would be “prema- ure” to discuss the vice presidential pot as he still expects to head the iemocratic presidential ticket. Bentsen, who heads the Senate Iemocratic Senatorial Campaign iommittee, said Wednesday he be eves Mondale will be the nominee. He said the two have spoken re- ently but not discussed the vice residential spot despite speculation be former vice president may turn ) Bentsen to balance the ticket and bn Texas and the Southwest. Bent- en termed “very slim” the chance hat he might be asked. “I have carefully avoided talking bout it and I assume he has too,’ aid Bentsen. “I think the nominee first has a ery strong obligation to get some- me who is qualified to be president maa f something should happen to the hVv resident and second, to look at the lolitical considerations,” he said. The vice presidential question has ieen a popular one at Bentsen’s aonthly news briefings and sur faced again Wednesday amid re ports Mondale may reveal his run ning mate preference during a tribute dinner to Bentsen in Hous ton Thursday night. When asked if he had completely ruled out consideration of the vice presidential spot, Bentsen em phasized he would not be interested “without understanding more what the role would be and the responsi bilities.” “I’m certainly not interested un less the responsibilities and the role are such where they would have some impact,” he said. “I don’t want to leave my job here where I have se niority and where I have been put on the most important committees in the Senate if there will be no impact. I’m not interested in that.” On other matters, Bentsen said: • He believes Texas Sen. Lloyd Doggett of Austin will run a “a good race” for the Senate seat being va cated by the retiring John Tower, faces a tough campaign against Rep. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, but “I think the demographics favor Lloyd Dog gett and I think he'll win.” • The Reagan administration’s failure to push disarmament talks with the Russians will be an impor tant campaign issue in Texas and the nation. • The administration’s “inef fective and expensive” farm pro gram also will hurt Reagan’s re-elec tion effort. • He does not believe Reagan would be “so transparent” to veto any immigration reform bill passed by Congress and lie believes most Mexican-Americans favor employer sanctions against hiring illegal aliens. Photo by Doan Saito Microwave test facilities Dr. Randall Jean (seated), assistant professor of electrical en gineering and Dr. Richard Newton, associate professor, check a breadboard used in microwave testing facilities. Aggie projects to go in By MICHAEL CANNATA Reporter Electrical engineering students at Texas A&M will begin work this fall on an experiment to be used on a 1985 space shuttle. The experiment will test the effects of space on mi crowave circuitry being used in new space communications systems. The testing project was begun by the 1983-84 class to provide students with a real-world design problem, says Dr. Randall Jean, assistant pro fessor of electrical engineering. The experiment will be conducted through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s “Geta way specials” program for private in dustry. It works like this: Private firms, or in this case the University, lease a canister to house whaatever they want to send into space. The canister is bolted to the wall of the shuttle’s cargo bay and NASA has nothing further to do with it. All monitoring is done by the client who leased the canister. The cost of the canister —about $10,000 — will be financed mostly by private donations to the Univer sity. “The project was developed to give the classes an opportunity to at tack a realistic design problem,” he said. “The idea behind this project was, for one thing, to get the stu dents involved in doing something that’s related to the space program, but we wanted it to be a real project too, something that we could interest other people in.” The project is part of NASA’s program to interest private industry in the space program. NASA hopes shuttle to make space more accessible, said Dr.Richard Newton, another assis tant professor who is also working on the experiment. He said that many companies are beginning to take advantage of the new program, despite its cost. The students in the 1983-84 classes designed a reusable testing device for microwave circuitry and proved it will work. Students in 1984-85 classes will build the experi ment that will go up in the shuttle. Each year, seniors in electrical en gineering must take a two-semester design course. Newton and Jean de cided to let the classes work together in order to tackle a larger prob lem.This type of project would be very costly for a private firm Jean said. Newton says the experiment will measure the effects of radiation on very high fequency intergrated cir cuits in a space environment. This type of technology is on the leading edge of space commerciali zation, Jean said, and Texas A&M is moving in the right direction to make progress in the field. The 38 students were left to solve the problem by themselves, Jean said. “We (Newton and Jean) acted like the company managers,” he said. The project so far has been suc cessful and running close to schedu- lejean said. If all the experimental parts can be acquired by this fall and the project remains on schedule, the electrical engineering classes of83- ‘84 and 1984-85 will see their dream launched into space. )resee hn >re Lheiii' Friday, m's serie laid Moil' ce he ha! her dub s with tht I are th< id. nired ini eirlast l! j staff, er >r mostol es the op with th< ate a ions,” ht ^ou kno» it accom n possibk attached dd-seasof Local doctors offer skin cancer-prevention tips By KARI FLUEGEL Staff Writer Summer often brings visions of tanned bodies and sunburned noses. Summer also often brings the grim reality of skin cancer. Figures for 1983 complied by the U.S. Department of Health and Hu man Services show that between 400,000 and 500,000 Americans de- elop skin cancer every year. Bryan dermatologist Clyde M. Ca- perton says more cases are being documented and credits the increase to a larger population, especially in the south. Skin cancer is caused by the ultra violet rays of the sun. The closer people are to the equator, the easier it is to get skin cancer, Caperton said. “Down here we have more clear sunny days,” he said. Skin cancer is also being diag nosed better, Dr. Terry Jones, also of Bryan, said. “We’re trying to make the public more aware,” Jones said. Because skin cancer starts as small, painless bumps many people may neglect the cancer until it starts bleeding, he said. Jones once treated a cancer that was 10 to 15-years-old, he said. As time goes by, the cancer grows big ger and deeper and reoccurence is greater. “The longer they stay, the worse they get,” Jones said. Dr. William Dobes of the Emory University School of Medicine said sunburns and suntans people get during recreational activity are only 20 percent of the problem. The other 80 percent is the major probe- lem — the time spent in the sun in day-to-day activities. The number of skin cancer cases continues to rise, but many people ignore doctors’ warnings and pre cautions. Part of the problem lies with advertising practices promoting tans, Caperton said. “I don’t think doctors have the im pact Madison Avenue does,” he said. Common sense precautions can reduce the risk substantially and early detection usually always results in successful treatment. Skin cancer is cumulative and ir reversible. Youth is not a protection. Jones said he treated four Texas A&M students for skin cancer last year. Certain steps can be taken to pre vent skin cancer and premature ag ing of the skin: avoid sunburn and prolonged exposure to the sun be tween 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. when the ray are the strongest, have periodic check-ups, avoid sunlamps, and use a sunscreen regularly. Some of the most effective sunscreens contain para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), ti tanium dioxide or benzophenone. A sun screen with a sunprotection factor of 10 or more is recom mended by both Jones and Caperton for fair-skinned people. People with fair skin should use a sunblocks whenever out in the sun. Darker skinned people need less protection. Among whites, 332 new cases of skin cancer per 100,000 people oc cur each year. For blacks, it is only 3.4 cases. “The fairer the skin, the greater the damage,” Caperton said. Syptoms of skin cancer are patches of skin becoming reddened, itchy, scaly, bigger, or raised, bleed ing or simply feeling or looking dif ferent in some way for a period of two or three months. The least serious type of skin can cer is basal cell carcinoma. Other types of skin cancer are squamous carcinoma and malignant mel anoma. Basal cell carcimona is not as deep as the other types of skin cancer. It can be recognized as small pearly bumps that don’t go away. It rarely spreads to other organs. The cancer can usually be removed with a 99 percent cure rate, Caperton said. Squamous carcinoma tends to be deeper than basal cell and more ag gressive. It can spread but still has about a 90 percent cure rate, he said. The most serious type of skin can cer is malignant melanoma because it is life threatening and may spread quickly throughout the body. Maliganate melanoma is common in middle-age or elderly people who have light skin and have spent much of their lives in the sun. In these cases, most melanomas develop from childhood moles that begin to change size shape or color. If old moles change or new ones appear, it is wise to see a physician. p its go 01 * dngf° ri willing lue." t A&M prof runs torch University News Service Texas A&M Professor Will Wor ley will take his turn Thursday carry ing the Olympic Torch in an across- the-country relay ending with the start of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Worley, 62, was selected in Feb ruary by the Bryan-College Station Athletic Federation to represent the local community in the honorary torch-carrying activity. The honor of carrying the torch one kilometer — slightly more than half a mile — re quires a $3,000 donation, which is being raised locally throqgh contri butions by numerous individuals, or ganizations and businesses. The Texas A&M electrical engi neering professor will go to Dallas Wednesday to participate in Olym pic ceremonies than night at City Hall Plaza after the torch arrives from a route that includes Okla homa City. Former Olympican Rafer Johnson will carry the torch into the plaza, and Mike Reagan, President Reagan’s eldest son, will carry it on the first leg to Fort Worth. Worley, who participates in va rious swimming and running events Manges ordered to pay $500,000 as well as triathlons, will be among the participants in the Dallas-Fort Worth segment on the relay Thurs day. Ramiro A. Galindo, president of the Bryan-College Station Athletic Federation, called Worley “an ins- priation to amateur athletes of all ages” in announcing his selection to represnt the local area in the Olym pic Torch relay. United Press International AUSTIN — The state Supreme Court Wednesday ordered South Texas oil man Clinton Manges to pay additional damages of $500,000 in a suit involving mineral rights owned by his partners in a disputed 15-year-old land deal. The high court’s ruling, a revision of a June 1983 opinion, also af firmed a lower court ruling that voided a lease that Manges made to himself. Manges was sued in 1974 by J.C. Guerra and members of the Guerra family because of his failure to prop erly lease and develop the Guerras’ mineral properties. In its previous order, the tribunal had held that Manges did not have to pay $500,000 in exemplary dam ages and upheld the lease. But in its revised order, the court said the Guerras waived their right to rescind Manges’ “executive rights” to the Guerras’ mineral own ership in order to collect damages awarded in the lower courts. For that reason, Chief Justice Jack Pope wrote, the Guerras “will not be permitted to urge that the executive right should be cancelled.” That will mean Manges will be able to execute a new lease on the 70,000 acres of property in Jim Hogg and Starr counties. The suit orginated in Jim Hogg County in a dispute over the mineral rights of the land that is co-owned by Manges and the Guerras. The Guerras had sold surface rights on the land to Manges in 1969 while retaining a half ownership in all mineral rights. In 1974, Guerra sued Manges, claiming that Manges had not lived up to his duty to seek leases and de velopment of the Guerras’ mineral properties. Guerra also said Manges had leased a portion of the jointly owned land back to himself at a favorable price and excluded Guerra from the potential profits. But Manges argued it was nec essary to lease back to himself be cause legal problems prevented him from dealing with other drilling companies. In Today’s Battalion State • Several days of closed-door negotiations among House leaders produced a compromise education reform bill. See story page 4. National • Congressional conferees on the budget met for the first time Wednesday but reached a stalemate over the is sue of how to reduce the federal deficit. See story page 5. World • An Israeli defendant accused of being a member of an anti-Arab vigilante underground admitted the existence of a Jewish terrorist organization. See story page 7.