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Friday, July 13, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 City Council gives approval construction of 6 frat houses '6 By ROBERT MCCLOHON Staf T Writer ■ The College Station City Council gave the go-ahead Thursday for the Honsiruclion of six new fraternity houses, and it turned down a request f by Texas A&M University for an in ternship slot in the city’s finance de partment. ■ The request for permission to build the fraternity houses came Hrom David B. Lewis, the owner of ^B.56 acres of land west of Cornell Drive in southeast College Station, ^■.ewis told the council he would like : to extend Cornell Drive with a cul- IHle-sac and build as many as six fra- ijRernitv houses on 1-acre lots around ■tat extension. To do so requires the land be rezoned from R-4 (low den sity apartments) to R-5 (medium density apartments). The six fraternity houses would contain approximately 20 living units each, Lewis said. Low density appartment zoning allows a maxi mum of 104 units. The city staff told the council the rezoning request was consistent with the city’s planning and development policies and compatible with adja cent land uses. Lewis said he already had been contacted by three existing fraterni ties in College Station about the con struction of new houses. The council approved the request unanimously. The request for an internship slot ih the city’s finance department came from Charles W. Wiggins, coordinator of Texas A&M's Mas ters of Public Administration Pro gram. In a letter to the council, Wig gins noted that interns had been hired by the city from time to time in the past and that an internship is re quired by the University’s MPA de gree program. Wiggens said the internship would encompass the coming fall and spring semesters at a cost of about $9,000. The council failed to approve the request with 3-3 vote. In favor of the motion were Mayor Cary Halter and councilmembers Robert Runnels and Patricia Bo ugh ton. Vicky Re- inke, Cary Anderson and Lynn Mc- Ilhaney opposed the measure. Mcllhaney expressed concern about the funding of the internship program. The city’s general contin gency fund, now at about $200,000, should be reserved for more impor tant projects, Mcllhaney said. ”1 don’t know if this is really a priority item,” she said. Reinke opposed the request be cause of its “unfortunate” liming. The request should have been pre- sentetl to the council in lime to be in cluded in the city’s yearly budget, she said. Court sentences Vatican Bank official m fochuresJ iicy medn ongressni ■st EMSsJ United Press International h MILAN, Italy — A senior Vatican Bank official and 21 other people were sentenced to a total of 122 Jyears in prison by an Italian court Thursday on fraud and other con victions linked to the 1974 collapse of an Italian bank. ■ The Milan court sentenced Luigi Mennini, the managing director of (lie Institute for Religious Works, or Vatican Bank, to seven years in jail on a charge of “aggravated fraudu lent bankruptcy" of the Banca Pri- vaia Italiana. B There was no immediate com ment from the Vatican. Newspaper- reports have said Mennini was living in Vatican City — a sovereign state — to avoid authorities. The Banca Privata owned by Sici lian financier Michele Sindona went bankrupt in 1974, leaving debts of some $250 million. Sidona, 63, a former financial ad viser to the Vatican Bank, is cur rently serving a 25-year term in a New York state prison for fraud in connection with the collapse of his Franklin National Bank in 1974. He is expected to be extradited to Italy within a few months to stand trial for the collapse of the Banca Privata. him kiwf IS. Find«| ty, how it! on can * FERRARO don’t, well ■I. [ (continued from page 1) re way. \j| ■Ips. If yif dale’s press secretary Maxine Isaacs wagoncotf said the former vice president iinbulantfl | oa sled Ferraro, saying “We made ■ good pel- ,listor y today. We are the future.” ■ Back home in Queens, a proud icatton mother, Antoinette Ferraro, said of | her daughter: “Words can’t express need enwfqiie way I feel. I never thought I’d e your lilifc.see the day. I’m so happy for her , e d one n 1 an d I know that she can make it. ie thougHj a * ter Mondale and Gerry will be i ^president and vice president in No- t made i»Hjf . „ ^ I veinber. e eyes a« Top Mondale aides said the cam- Ppaign had been in touch with nearly al mistakffil.OOO parly officials and convention If we cart delegates Thursday and that the re sponse to the Ferraro selection was treated enthusiastically. I “I think this will bring out more H voters,” said campaign manager or r Robert Beckel. But conservative critics said Mon dale could alienate as many voters as I |he attracts with Ferraro and abor- |< , \T Rion emerged early as a volatile issue Efacing the new Mondale-Ferraro ticket. I Anti-abortion leader Phyllis Schlafiy said at a San Francisco news conference Ferraro’s rocket-pro pelled career in national politics will make it clear that “women’s rights means the right to kill unborn chil dren.” | The No. 2 slot — like the presi- i.dency — has been a white male pre serve since the nation was founded. Mondale was under tremendous pressure to make history and pick a sion was bound to draw criticism that it was politically motivated. Ferraro, 48, a three-term member of Congress from blue-collar Queens, is a tough political infighter who balances the ticket not only by being a woman, but as an Italian Catholic from a big Eastern state — three more key elements of the Democrats historically winning coali tion. Not only did Mondale make his tory by choosing a woman, he broke tradition by announcing his decision before the convention — a move seen as being aimed at bringing the party together for a harmonious meeting. Rarely do running mates come from the House, although Sen. Barry Goldwater picked Rep. Wil liam Miller of New York in 1964 and Franklin Roosevelt picked House Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas in 1932. After Mondale’s announcement, the pair went to a private luncheon with their families. On Friday they planned to go to Mondale’s boyhood home of Elmore, Minn., for a home coming before going on to Lake Ta hoe, California where Mondale will spend the weekend before arriving at the Democratic convention in San Francisco next Monday. In Washington, Reagan said, “I’m looking forward to running against and campaigning against the Demo cratic ticket.” Asked if he thought the announcement was historic, he said, “Yeah, like appointing Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court.” Judicial authorities last September decided to try Sindona separately from the 26 defendants in the case, most of whom were former asso ciates of the financier. State prosecutor Guido Viola told the court in his summation that at the time of the bank’s collapse, the Vatican Bank was used to illegally export the Banca Privata’s capital abroad. Mennini, a member of Banca Pri- vata’s board of directors, was ap pointed managing director of the Vatican Bank by Pope Paul VI in 1963. Most polls in recent weeks have shown Mondale trailing badly, but a Washington Post-ABC poll Wednes day showed the gap had narrowed to 7 percent. The poll also showed 37 percent said they favored a woman on the Democratic ticket and 18 per cent were opposed. In San Francisco where he was preparing for the start of the con vention, Democratic chairman Charles Manatl hailed the selection of Ferraro as “a bold stroke” that could win the 1984 presidential elec tion for the Democrats. Rep. Ferraro had been the strong favorite of women’s groups and had also won early backing from House Speaker Thomas O’Neill and Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York. In his selection process in which he interviewed candidates at his North Oaks, Minn., home. Mondale talked with only one white male — Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. The rest of the field included women and minorities — Hispanic Mayor Henry Cisneros of San Antonio, black May ors Tom Bradley of Los Angeles and Wilson Goode of Philadelphia, Mayor Dianne Feinstein of, San Francisco, and Gov. Martha Layne Collins of Kentucky. Mondale aides said his two main rivals for the nomination — Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson — were never in serious consideration for the vice presidency. The two men who could do the most to divide the party at the convention were high in their praise of the Ferraro selection. “Geraldine Ferraro would make In 1981, the Vatican said it hoped Mennini, 73, would be able to give “adequate and justifying clarifica tion” for the fraud charges against him. When Sindona returns, he will also stand trial on a related charge of ordering the 1979 murder of Gior gio Ambrosoli, a lawyer who pre sided over the liquidation of the Ital ian bank. Prosecutors say Sindona ordered William Arico, an American accused of Mafia activities, to shoot and kill Ambrosoli in Milan. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro an excellent vice presidential nomi nee, and her selection is a significant advance for women in American politics,” Hart said in a statement. “It’s a step in the right direction and as far as I’m concerned a real victory for the rainbow coalition,” Jackson said on ABC, calling Mon dale’s decision “courageous.” In making the announcement, both Mondale and Rep. Ferraro sounded a theme that was likely to be a rallying cry for Democrats in the fall election: that the Democrats are the party of all the people • “History speaks to us today,” Mondale said. “Our founders said in the Constitution: ‘We the people.’ Not just the rich, the men, the white, but all of us. Photo hy PETER ROCHA Td Rather Be Sailing The sailing club recruits new members by the Rudder Foun tain under sunny skies Thursday. Members give lessons, have use of boats, and go on weekend outings. TEXANS (continued from page 1) “Other nations have shown that strength, suggesting that Mondale might be writing off southern voters. “I’m relieved it’s not a Texan — relieved it’s not Bentsen or Henry Cisneros,” George Strake said. “I think it’s an attempt to play to his strengths in the Midwest and indus trial states. I congratulate him on a bold move.” But Robeck says Ferraro will prove to be an asset to the Demo cratic ticket. “Ferraro’s presence will add some excitement to the Mondale ticket that was sadly lacking,” Robeck said. “I think she will lose some votes and gain some votes because she is a woman, but it will be a net advan tage. In Texas, I think you will be su rprised.” State Rep. Neeley Lewis, D-Bryan, said Ferraro appeared to be qual ified and applauded Mondale’s deci sion to choose a woman as his run ning mate. “Unquestionably the day was com ing when that artificial barrier would be broken — it’s just as vyell that bar rier is behind us,” Lewis said. While Ferraro may have broken through a barrier. Rep. Phil Gramm, the Republican candidate for the Senate, said ability would be a more persuasive factor than sex in the election. “Having come to Congress with Geraldine Ferraro and having served with her on the budget com mittee, I congratulate her on the high honor of being selected,” Gramm said. “I do not believe that voters will be swayed one way or another by the fact that Geraldine Ferraro is a wo man,” he said. “I think they’ will judge her candidacy on the basis of qualification and experience. “I do believe that George Bush brings more to the Reagan ticket be cause of his long and varied experi ence and his proven effectiveness.” Other Republicans agreed with the comparison between Ferraro and Bush. “When the dust settles, I think the issues will be experience and re cords,” Strake said. “Bush is a Texan with vast experience in foreign af fairs.” “I don’t think Ms. Ferraro is as qualified as George Bush,” Wilkins said. “Bush has four years experi ence as vice president.” But Everett said Ferraro’s qualifi cations are sound. “She’s going to be sort of a good ol’ boy or Tip O’Neill wouldn’t have endorsed her,” she said. “She was a prosecuting attorney and under stands law and order issues. 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