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with a roadside sign. The state has cut down happy hour two- ments from having drink specials at all.
'hite visits Texas troops at ‘Alamo’
gainst a backdrop of real-life politi-
turbulence, Gov. Mark White vis-
led Texas National Guard troops
Tuesday at the site of a make-believe
war three miles from the Nicagua-
rtian border.
■ The governor’s four-hour visit to
the guard base camp, T he Alamo,
Began with a briefing on Big Pine 111
war games and ended with the 420
guardsmen digging into barbecue
at White brought f rom home.
Instead of watching maneuvers,
White toured two nearby villages
| where the guard has been spreading
|ood will.
■ At the tiny rural cooperative of
SgueVa Concepcion, where 30 fami
lies eke out a living on the dusty
iilain, U.S. military engineers had
drilled one of nine wells for water
ilsed in the Big Pine 111 exercises.
■ The Texans had chipped in to
buy a hand pump for families in the
cooperative. A small ceremony was
held at the well in honor of the gov
ernor’s visit.
I White presented a brass paper-
The Texans had chipped in to buy a hand pump for
families in the cooperative. .4 small ceremony was held
at the well in honor of the governor’s visit.
weight in the shape of T exas to a
barefoot village woman with a baby
in her arms and another small child
clinging to her skirt.
“I know they’ll remember us for
years to come for their well,” White
said.
Earlier, in El Carmen, villagers
lined up in the hot sun waiting for
attention from a guard medical unit,
which set up a clinic for the day.
Dr. Howard Axemrod, a
guardsman from Mineral Wells, said
he expected to see at least 300 villag
ers on Tuesday.
Axemrod said there was time to
do little more than listen to the vil
lagers’ complaints and give them
cursory treatment, largely for para
sites and skin problems.
The Hondurans watched the gov
ernor curiously. One of them, Jose
Ramiro Elores, 13, said, “We want
the soldiers to stay so they can give
. us medicine, so they can take care of
us.”
Throughout White’s visit, praise
was lavished on the guard by the
governor and the military brass.
Col. Roy Kimerling, commander
of Joint Task Force XI, which is con
ducting the war games, said he was
impressed by the morale of the
guardsmen.
The Texas troops — including
guardsmen from McAllen, Edin
burg and Edna — were second
choice for the exercises. The army
initially invited California guard
troops, but Gov. George Deukme-
jian refused to give them permission
to go to Honduras because of con
cerns about their safety.
Texas Adjudant General James
Dennis told the troops that the
“whole nation is watching you.”
people
motives for being down here,” Den
nis said. “If we’re going to take our
place in the defense of (our) nation,
we must train in this fashion, be
cause the way we train is the way we
fight.”
About 3,200 Honduran troops
are taking part in the armored exer
cise scheduled to begin Wednesday
mornning, according to Col. Rafael
Castro, commander of the Hondu
ran 101st Brigade.
U.S. military officials say the ob
ject of the exercise is to train the
Hondurans in repelling an armored
assault from Nicaragua through the
Choluteca Gap.
White has said repeatedly that the
object of his visit is to demonstrate
support to the Texas troops, to as
sure himself of their safety and to
take them a barbecue meal.
His decision to allow the partici
pation of the Texas guard has been
controversial because of their prox
imity to Nicaragua and the current
political crisis in Honduras, a power
struggle between the Honduran
president and the congress.
By ANN CERVENKA
Staff Writer
A Texas A&M student was elected
president of the Texas State Student
Association, an organization that
serves as an information network for
colleges and universities in Texas.
John Hatch, director of the Legis
lative Study Group at Texas A&M,
was elected 1985-86 president on
March 30 at the TSSA spring con
vention.
The organization has existed un
der various names since 1949.
“Their role in the past has been to
lobby state officials on behalf of
Texas students,” Hatch said.
Because members include junior
colleges, two- and four-year colleges
and universities, problems arose be
cause the organization was expected
to represent different sized schools
that had different needs.
Although all the schools usually
agreed on issues like preventing a
tuition increase, views on issues like
dividing the Permanent University
Fund varied, Hatch said. The Texas
A&M and the University of Texas
systems opposed the division of PUF
because they would 'lose money.
Other Texas schools favored the di-
“We, Texas A&M and UT, were
out-voted every time,” Hatch said.
Therefore, the two schools tempo
rarily pulled out of the organization.
However, with the change of
name to TSSA last fall, the scope of
the program changed as well. Texas
A&M and UT are again members.
“The association is designed to be
an information network for schools
of higher education in Texas,” he
said.
The association has five officers,
none of whom can be from the same
school. TSSA also has a board of
John Hatch
four directors with a separate mem
ber to represent each type of school
in the association.
As president, Hatch said his main
job is recruitment. Of about 100
schools in Texas that are eligible to
be members of TSSA because they
have a student government, only
about 20 are members, he said.
Hatch said Texas A&M has been
very involved in the organization in
the past.
“Being a big University, we have
answered problems that some
poeple are just getting involved
with,” he said.
For example, several schools are
having problems preventing rape on
campus. Several years ago, A&M
created additional escort services, in
stalled locks on dormitories and built
additional lights on campus. Now
Texas A&M is helping other schools
solve this problem.
Hatch said service projects, rather
than legislative issues, will be the
main emphasis this year unless a spe
cial session is called.
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