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Glass of *86 Picnic
Buns Bonanza
Sun. Oct. 28 1-4 p.m.
Bee Creek Park $3.50
Tickets on sale now in
Room 216 MSC
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KOJRSEIlF
A m ^ The atmosphere is different —
perfect for your favorite cocktail.
And what food! The menu is pure
temptation with a variety of
selections • Popular prices,
too. Discover Julie’s
Place soon!
607 Texas Avenue
(across tram Texas A&M)
696-1427
HALLOWEEN
FUN!
HALLOWEEN CHILDREN’S PARTY
OCTOBER 30, 1984
7:00 - 8:30 pm
201 MSC
For
Faculty’s,
Staff’s, and
Student’s
Children
Ages 3-12
4r MSC Hospitality
Regrade and resubmit
An overzealous sidewalk artist neglected to check his facts
when he made this correction on the pavement at the inter
section of Jones and Houston Streets. According to Webster’s
Dictionary, the word “buses” may be spelled “buses” ot
“busses.” So add the five points back, and send theartistbad
to English 103.
Norway denies part in oil crisis
United Press International
HOUSTON — A Norwegian en
ergy official denied Thursday that
his country precipitated an oil crisis
by cutting its North Sea oil prices
and reiterated Norway does not plan
to go along with the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries in
curtailing production.
“There actually is no surprise at
all in the Norwegian policy,” said
Arild Roedland, State Secretary of
the Norwegian Ministry of Petro
leum and Energy.
“Norway sells at the prevailing
price on the market and it is a mis
conception that Norway has lowered
its price,” Roedland told UPI after
Crown Prince Harald addressed 400
oil industry representatives attend
ing a “Norway Petroleum 1984"
symposium.
Crown Prince Harald called for
closer ties between the United States
and his country, culturally as well as
economically. But the prince made
no reference to the current world oil
price situation and steered clear of
.reporters wanting to question him
about it.
Roedland said he was aware that
Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik
Ahmed Zaki Yamani planned to be
in Norway Thursday trying to per
suade Norway and other OPEC and
non-OPEC countries to work to
gether to prevent any price-cutting
war. Yamani also visited Nigeria
seeking to have Gen. Muhammed
Buhari to rescind an oil price cut
that followed Norway’s.
The Norwegian official said his
country has not departed from past
the “past OPEC procedure” of pub
lishing its plans tor production and
development, despite reports that its
independent-minded state oil com
pany precipitated a possible price
war by slashing prices oy up to SI .50
a barrel last week.
“Norway is the producer of only 1
percent approximately (worldwide).
Norway is not in a price leadership
position; it is really subjected to the
price of the market.”
In his luncheon address, (Town
Prince Harald noted that Phillips Pe
troleum Co. was the first to discover
oil in the Norwegian sector of the
North Sea in 1969 and that 20
American oil companies im
unlay in Norway.
"We ... hope that AmeriaS
panics will continue to pimi
substantially in the expbran]
development of the NonrH
tinental shelf to our mutualt*
he said.
Prince Harald also saida|
creased trade with the UnMI
has Isenefitted his country.
“Thus far this yearthevobl
merchandise exports is Mm
alsove the level of last year,1
terms of value more than Mpi
higher. Deliveries to theLij
thus made a very sizeable(oa
lion to the jxisitive trend fa!
way's export industries,"htsai
Sweden ensures parents child care
United Press International
NEW YORK — American work
ing mothers who feel there’s no solu
tion to the conflict between jobs and
children might consider the Swedish
system.
Helen Ginsberg, professor of eco
nomics at Brooklyn College, said she
was struck by the efforts Sweden
makes to ensure that parents can
work and still be available to their
children.
Ginsberg is the author of “Full
Employment and Public Policy: The
United States and Sweden,” recently
published by Lexington Books.
Mothers and fathers are eligible
for up to a year of paid leave when
the child arrives, 60 days sick leave
per child per year to tend ailing off
spring, and state-funded day care,
Ginsberg said.
“The aim is to have parental in
volvement, quality in the home as
well as in the workplace,” she said.
The system does not work per
fectly, Ginsberg said. In theory, the
government is committed to provid
ing child care for every working par
ent, “but in practice a lot depends on
where you live. In some areas they
have waiting lists. That’s a big issue.
The women are up in arms about it.”
The fees at the centers are based
on the parents’ salaries, but admis
sion is not restricted to those with
lower incomes. “It’s considered a
right for people of all incomes,” she
said.
Ginsberg found the day care cen
ters she visited “excellent.” While
child care is also available from
women licensed to keep children in
their homes, she said, most parents
prefer the public facilities.
When a baby is born, both parents
qualify for a year of paid leave, Gins
berg said. “For nine months they get
about 90 i>ercent of their wages, and
they get three additional months at a
flat rate that’s the same for every
one.”
The parents can use the leave any
time until their child is eight, Gins
berg said. “The aim was to nave both
parents equally involved in bringing
up the children. But the fact of the
matter is, the proportion of fathers
using their leave is considerably
lower than the proportion of moth
ers.”
Men with professional jobs are
much more likely to take the paren
tal leave than blue-collar workers,
Ginsberg said. Government posters
urging fathers to use their leaves al
ways feature “a big huskyibI
said.
Parents whose child is skill
pet ted to stay home Marti®
or her, Ginsberg said. “Tlwl
days leave a year foreaditil
used to he ten days.anditwj
not bv the leftists but duntt®
called bourgeoisegovemme I
When she asked an aqsi
whether sixty days wasn'tafal
"ix*! g said, she got looksofslmj
“The theory is there art4
children who are going to bt®
that period of time. Butifil
sick that long, it is probalily'i
and possibly terminal. Titij
parent should beabletobt*®
child.” More fathers usfBJ
leave provision than takeifal
of paternity leave, shesaid I
Teacher testing
to cost millions,
state official says
United Press International
AUSTIN — Education Com
missioner Raymon Bynum said
Thursday the Legislature’s fail
ure to fund one of the most con
troversial parts of the recent edu
cation reform bill — teacher
competency tests — could cost the
state an extra $13 million.
Bynum said the cost of testing
more than 200,000 public school
teachers — many of them taking
tests in several subjects — will not
be determined until the new State
Board of Education decides
whether an existing test can be
used.
Bynum said he knew the ques
tion of funding was still “up in the
air” when the Legislature passed
the reform bill last summer.
“The only question then, and
it’s still a viable question, is: Are
there available tests now without
having to develop one? If that
a uestion is resolved unfavorably,
ten there will be some costs.”
He said the lack of funding
and the time necessary to develop
and administer the tests could
make it difficult to meet another
legislative mandate that requires
all teachers in Texas to pass a
competency test by June 30,
1986.
“That’s a very tight deadline,”
Bynum said.
He said developing, adminis
tering, monitoring and scoring
the tests could cost as much as
$13 million and could force the
Texas Education Agency to ask
the Legislature for an emergency
appropriation.
The state board has directed
the TEA to find the necessary
funds within the agency’s budget.
“There would just have to be
an agreement to develop it over a
number of years and squeeze it
(money to pay for the test) out of
the agency budget,” Bynum said.
Sen. H. Tati Santiesteban, a
member of the House-Senate
committee that worked out com
promises in the education bill
adopted in June, said he believed
an oversight led to the failure to
fund the testing.
But Sen. Carl Parker, chair
man of the Senate Education
Committee and an opponent of
teacher competency tests, said he
believed the lack of funds was no
oversight.
“An oversight is something you
forget about,” he said.
Court refuses to ord
U.S. to inform aliens
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A federal ap
peals court has refused to order the
government to inform all aliens in
deportation proceedings of their
right to petition for asylum, court re
cords showed Thursday.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals also ruled that the Immigra
tion and Naturalization Service does
not have to inform aliens that seek
ing asylum automatically delays de
portation.
“Viewed alone, the giving of blan
ket notice may seem to be a small
matter, little to ask,” the court said.
“But one quickly sees that it is actu
ally only a tile of a mosaic with a
complexity of balance which coun
sels against tinkering.”
The appeal was filed by El Salva
dor natives Jose Irene Ramirez-Oso-
rio and Jose Ismael Rubio, who en
tered the United States through
Texas in 1982.
They were ordered to appear be
fore immigration judges at the Los
Fresnos Service Processing Center to
explain why they should not be de
ported.
Both said they wished to be de
ported to El Salvador and were not
afraid of persecution, but they later
retained a lawyer who took their case
to the Board of Immigration Ap
peals.
The board claimed they should
have been informed of their right to
apply for asylum and were inade
quately informed of their right to
counsel.
The 5th Circuit upheld-'®”
2-1 with Judge Reynaldof’Bj
dissenting. He said the® P
nored two injunctions
the INS to notify aliens
vador and Guatemala of
to apply for politicalasyli® L,
Garza also said the IN' ®
have been aware of the
that aliens from El Sal'*fH
sen ted a special problem'E
who keeps up with the nf'’®
blind to the fact thatthefi'^T
El Salvador continueswilfqlf
both sides.”
The majority said it re* 1 ®
many aliens may be una^H
right to petition for asylu^E
due process does not re#®
notice. The court also said*®
ad m i n istrative burdens j|'
“Although blanket#'®
he calculated to avoid Mr®
him rights, we have no t$®
counting the INS judg®'®,
would generate such laf ®
of f rivolous claims as to'
purpose.”
The 5th Circuit also !l »
aliens are told of theif nt' 1 if
sel.
“If it appears that an
persecuted on return o'j
presses fear or ifheistdH
to a country other thanH
designates, INS tells hi®q
petition for asylum.”