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Foreign
(continued from page 1)
■ Some governments make the stu
dents pay for their time at the ELI
themselves, since it is not a part of
the regular University system. This
often puts financial pressure on the
international student, Lane says, es-
Ipecially in countries with a limit on
the amount of money leaving the
country or being transferred into
U.S. dollars.
I Culture shock rates third to lan
guage difficulties and financial woes
, i(i Lane’s eyes.
■ “Some students come here in the
l&mmertime and see girls running
‘around in shorts and couples hold-
.SW Bell Co.
to cut off 81
pay phones
ing hands,” he says. Such behavior
may offend the strict codes of public
conduct in some countries.
In all, Texas A&M students rep
resent 106 countries making it diffi
cult for the international student ad
visers to deal with all the cultural
problems foreign students face, al
though they try.
“We’re kind of like the parents the
students don’t have here,” Lane says.
His office helps foreign students
adjust to the University environ
ment, helping them find a room
mate, for instance, but does not han
dle scholastic advising.
Although the office doesn’t re
cruit foreign students, departments
can recruit on an individual basis.
“They probably recruit like they
do Merit Scholars,” Lane says. “But
it’s not like football recruiting or
anything.”
Lane says he thinks most foreign
publicity for Texas A&M is done by
word of mouth.
“We’re starting to get second and
third generation international stu
dents here, so we must be doing
something right,” he says with a
smile.
(Tomorrow: Three foreign grad
uate teaching assistants talk about
their problems as students and in
structors at Texas A&M.)
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Science students must take exam
Any junior or senior in the College of Science who has not pre
viously taken the English Proficiency Examination should plan to
take the test August 9 unless they have completed English 301 with a
minimum grade of C. Students in the College of Science are required
to pass either English or the test in order to qualify as a degree candi
date.
The English Proficiency Exan will be administered by the En-
ical Sciences Building before August 8.
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Helicopter getaway still puzzles FBI
United Press International
locNe.
AUSTIN
Southwestern Bell
M’elephone Co., acting without the
llPublic Utility Commission’s appro-
IT
al, has decided to cut off in-coming
alls to 81 pay telephones in the Cap
ital City.
Jim Goodwin, Bell’s public rela
tions manager in Austin, said in
coming calls to those phones were
being intercepted because the pay
.phones had been misused or were a
! 'potential nuisance.
\ B However, the action came as a
surprise to the PUC and the Office
d Public Counse, which represents
consumers in rate cases.
Kg “1 think it’s a reduction of service
I ^hat historically has been provided to
onsumers in Texas,” said Jose Va-
ela, assistant public counsel. “If
ey are, in fact, going to do this on a
idespread basis we would be op-
osed to it.”
Varela noted that many poor peo-
^ pie rely on pay telephones for in-
coming calls.
United Press International
PUEBLO, Colo. — The helicopter
getaway of five bank robbers wanted
m Texas and Louisiana was so well
f danned the men were met at an iso-
ated location near Canadian, Texas,
by someone with fuel, a Colorado in
vestigator said Monday.
The owners of a stolen Bell Lon-
gRanger, found abandoned one
mile from a Colorado City airstrip
Saturday, on Monday drained it of a
low-grade fuel that the robbers may
have known would get them to Colo
rado but would not have looked like
thepurchase of jet fuel.
The suspects even went so far as
to tie down the helicopter after they
abandoned it, said Pueblo County
sheriffs Sgt. Rick Wallingford.
“I don’t think they were coming
back to use it. It was not hidden that
well. The perpetrators seemed very
well organized,” he said.
The FBI continued to coordinate
a threerstate search for five white
males believed to have robbed an
undisclosed amount of money from
a Valley View bank last week and
$163,000 from a Leesville, La., bank
on Feb. 15.
A different helicopter was used in
each heist. The craft used in the
Leesville robbery was found last
week. The Bell LongRanger discov
ered in Colorado was stolen from
Scholes Field in Galveston.
Wallingford said the Colorado
end of the investigation had turned
up no solid leads.
“We don’t have any leads at all.
We’re in the process of interviewing
residents who may have seen the he
licopter as it landed. We’re trying to
pinpoint what day it landed,” he
said.
FBI agent Johnie Joyce of Hous
ton, where the agency’s search was
being directed, said investigators did
find partial fingerprints on the heli
copter after it was found aban
doned.
“It was processed by the FBI. As
far as I can tell, they probably lifted
some partial prints from it,” he said.
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Soviets: U.S. ‘sabotaging’ space talks
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union,
ignoring a new U.S. message to the
Kremlin, said Monday that Wash
ington had made it impossible to
hold the proposed Vienna confer
ence on space weapons.
“Washington persists in altering
the subject of negotiations proposed
by the USSR and placing a purpose
fully insurmountaole obstacle on the
road to their beginning,” official Ra
dio Moscow said.
The charges that the U.S. admin
istration was sabotaging the talks
came only 48 hours after Washing
ton sent another communique to the
Kremlin on the American position.
U.S. embassy officials confirmed
the message had been delivered on
Saturday but would disclose only
that it dealt with the Vienna talks
proposed for September.
However, U.S. Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger reiterated Sun
day his insistence on using the meet
ing to discuss both space weapons
and the stalled Geneva negotiations
on limiting intercontinental and me
dium-range nuclear missiles.
Radio Moscow, pointing to Wein
berger’s statement, said, “He reaf
firmed the American stance which
actually makes such talks impossi
ble.”
Moscow walked out of the Geneva
talks last fall to protest the deploy
ment of the new generation Ameri
can Pershing II and cruise missiles
that NATO installed in Western Eu
rope to match existing Soviet SS-20
missiles.
The Soviet Union insists on dis
cussing only space weapons in
Vienna, refusing to return to the Ge
neva talks until the new missiles are
withdrawn.
“The U.S. administration is delib
erately blocking the talks suggested
by the Soviet Union on preventing
outer space from being militarized,
the radio charged.
Police Beat
The following incidents were re
ported to the University Police De-
jpartment through Monday.:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A black Raleigh ten-speed bicy-
§| de was stolen from Parking Annex
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• A blue Schwinn ten-speed bicy
cle was stolen from the Dunn Hall
bike rack.
• A student’s wallet was stolen
| from his unattended backpack in the
DeWare Field House. The wallet
contained his driver’s license, stu-
| dent I.D. and $ 15 in cash.
BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VE
HICLE:
• A cassette player was stolen
from a 1976 Oldsmobile in Parking
Annex 24.
BURGLARY OF A BUILDING:
• An AM/FM radio was stolen
from 120 Soil and Crop Sciences.
FELONY THEFT:
• Two Exacta cameras and three
camera lenses were stolen from 221
Chemistry.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone used a glass cutter to
cut the glass logo on a coke machine
on the third floor of the Zachry En
gineering Building.
HARASSMENT:
• A student in the Ball Street
Apartments reported receiving an
anonymous phone call from some
one who threatened to kill him.
Weinberger backs Reaganomics
‘Defense dollars make jobs’
United Press International
CLEVELAND — Defense Secre
tary Caspar Weinberger, defending
the Reagan administration’s eco
nomic policies, told the National Ur
ban League’s annual conference
Monday that defense dollars create
jobs and business opportunities.
“To hear some of our critics talk,
you would think that the Defense
Department is a giant vacuum
cleaner, sucking resources out of
American communities and dis
charging them into the air,” Wein
berger said in prepared remarks.
“The American taxpayer’s de
fense dollars are spent in our free
economy, where they create jobs and
business opportunities,” he said.
Weinberger was the sole adminis
tration official to address the group’s
national conference. President Rea-
§ an and Vice President George Bush
eclined to attend the conference.
Weinberger said the president’s de
cision not to attend was made be
cause of scheduling problems.
In Sunday’s keynote address, Ur
ban League president John Jacob at
tacked administration military
spending practices and priorities,
saying “While poor kids are kicked
off school lunches, the Air Force
buys $7 hammers for $400 and 12-
cent Allen wrenches for $9,600. And
this shameful violation of human
needs takes place in the midst of
what we are told is an economic
boom.”
Weinberger said economic pros
perity and increased defense spend
ing can occur together.
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