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902 Jersey, College Station 696-0774
The Rev. J. Mark Wilbur - Chaplain
Wednesday Evening Eucharist with supper following
6:00 p.m.
Evening Prayer - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Sc Friday
5:00 p.m.
Student Center Chapel, St. Jude’s, open 24 hours
Study space Sc T.V. room open until 10:00 p.m.
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ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH
217 W. 26th Street, Bryan 822-5176
The Rev. Romilly Timmins - Rector
Sunday
7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9:00 a.m. Sunday School - all ages
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
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Meeting at the Oakwood Middle School
106 Holik, College Station 696-1491
The Rev. Jeff Schiffmayer - Vicar
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
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Sunday
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Mexicans perplexed
Number of American tourists down from lost yezar
Associated Press
MONTERREY, Mexico — North
ern Mexicans — battered by a tourist
scare that is keeping many Ameri
cans out of their country — would
like to knowjust one thing: Why?
In a region where the words “mi
casa es su casa,” or “my house is your
house,” are offered from the heart,
people don’t understand what they
call “exaggerated” reports of vio
lence against travelers in Mexico.
What Americans don’t know, they
say, is hurting Mexico.
Mexico’s problems started in Oc
tober when American diplomatic
sources said the U.S. Embassy was
considering calling for an advisory
warning tourists of possible dangers
in Mexico.
Although the embassy shelved the
plan after Mexican officials prom
ised more police security in troubled
areas, the damage to Mexico’s image
already had been done.
The American Automobile Asso
ciation began warning members to
use caution when driving in Mexico
after four travelers died during Sep
tember.
Meanwhile, the cases of six miss-
Totitl income from tourism has risen, but northern
Mexicans aren't encouraged. Tourist guides and shop
owners in Monterrey say the number of Americans they
serve is off by as much as 70 percent.
ing Americans in Guadalajara and
the kidnap-slaying of American
drug agent Enrique Camarena Sala
zar have fueled the hot controversy.
Tourism Secretary Antonio Enri-
guez Savignac reported recently that
the number of visitors arriving by
road to Mexico fell off by 17 percent
in the first three months of this year,
although travel by air remained
steady.
tourism has decreased consider
ably,” said Porfirio Sosa, owner of a
Mexican popular art shop in Mon
terrey s tourist zone.
“Fortunately this store doesn’t
function by tourism alone or I would
have closed down,” Sosa said.
income ge
through tourism — $2 billion in
1984 — was up 1 1 percent so far this
year.
Those promising figures, how
ever, aren’t encouraging northern
ers. Tourist guides and shop owners
in Monterrey say the number of
Americans they serve is off by as
much as 70 percent.
“In the last three to four months
Based on stories Americans have
read or heard in the United States,
Sosa said, “I don’t blame the tourists
for not coming, but I do believe
they’ve been misinformed."
Higinio Cuesta, vice president of
the Cnihuahua Hotel-Motel Associa
tion, said his group met recently
with hotel operators from El Paso,
“to exchange opinions and erase the
campaign of discredit against Mex-
The Tijuana. Chamber of Com
merce reported that tourism in that
northwestern border city is down
about 20 percent compared tobjf
year.
Oscar Salinas, executive dirett
of the Monterrey-based IntenJ
tional Good Neighbor Council,al
the organization is inviting I'll
members to visit Mexico whiletB
Mexican Hotel-Motel Associatiti
and its Texas counterpart btil
formed a committee “to discsl
problems of both regions conctn*
ing tourism.”
"We’re doing everythingwecait
solve this problem because it'sl
ing Mexico a lot,” Salinas said.
Those interviewed said Atner
lack of understanding about Mei
is the main factor keeping trave
from venturing south of thebordttj
They say many Americans picte
Mexico as a dirty, backwardcountnI
In a June 2 article, The New rail
Times’ London bureau chief lh|
Apple Jr., wrote of his first visit 1
Mexico, “We were unprepared
for the cleanliness of the place.
“And we personally neitherstil
nor heard anything of the sortofug
cident that gave rise to reportseiij
lier this year that the State Depai:
rnent might warn Americans toss
away f rom Mexico.”
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Counselor arrested
for kidnapping son
Associated Press
AUSTIN — A woman who had
worked for nearly two years as a
counselor for battered women will
not fight extradition to California
where she faces felony charges of
child stealing and false imprison-
Sharon Murphy, 35, had been liv
ing with her 9-year-old son under an
assumed name to avoid arrest, au
thorities said. Officials caught up
with her last week and returned her
son, Colin Johnson, to his grand
mother, author Maya Angelou.
Angelou took him to California
and Colin’s father, Guy Johnson,
was given legal custody in 1980, offi
cials said. The boy became the object
of a nationwide search after he was
snatched from his father’s home in
Santa Rosa, Calif., in 1981.
“I think I might not see my son
again for a very long time,” Murphy
told the Austin American-States-
man. “I had no choice but to give
him back; they had me.”
Murphy, known as Sharon Mur
phy Johnson when she fled Califor
nia, described herself as “an in-the-
street social worker” doing every
thing she could to resolve marital
problems, including custody fights,
for her clients.
“She’s one of the best counselors
we’ve ever had,” said Judy Reaves,
her supervisor at the center. “Every
body here loves her.
“So many battered women who
come to the center from out of state
have assumed names,” she said. “I
guess it was assumed she had cus
tody of her son.”
What’s up
Wednesday
MSC AMATEUR RADIO COMMITTEE: will meet at 7:30
p.m. in 352 MSC to discuss Field Dav-
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: is having an organi
zational meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. Everyone is
welcome to attend and find out how to help fight apart
heid.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT STUDENT RELATIONS: ap
plications for this new committee are available in 221 Pavil
ion. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday. For more infor
mation call 845*3051.
TEXAS A&M MOO DUK KWAN TAE KWON DO CLUB:
is holding a membership drive from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
today through Friday in 266 G. Rollie White coliseum. For
more information contact Scott at 846*9448.
Hems for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion.
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de
sired publication date.
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Associated Press
HOUSTON — They look like
creatures in a science fiction movie,
but the workers, clad in goggles and
plastic suits and dubbed “The A-
Team,” have the delicate task of re
moving asbestos from 30 Houston
schools.
The crews should finish the $7
million project before school opens
Sept. 3, officials of the Houston In
dependent School District say.
The project includes work at 19
elementary schools, six middle
schools and five high schools.
Asbestos was used widely between
the 1950s and 1970s for ceilings and
insulation in public buildings. Medi
cal researchers believe the material,
when inhaled or swallowed, can
cause lung cancer and other dis
eases.
Workers on Monday began the
complicated task of preparing the
classrooms and removal should be
gin by the end of the week, district
spokeswoman Geri Konigsberg says.
face respirators, and they musipii
through two decontamination chatf
bers before leaving the work areas
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The substance, applied mostly by
spraying, releases fibers into the air
when it crumbles.
Crew members are not allowed to
work on the cleanup project without
first undergoing pulmonary tests
and X-rays.
Harry Owens, 21, one of l
workers, says, “I know there isad
ger, but I feel I am trained
tely enough that I am not worns|
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Associated Press
HEWITT — Cattle rustling was
big in the years when cattle drives
pushed north on the Chisholm Trail
to stockyards in Kansas. But cattle
rustling is even bigger today, says
Eddie Foreman, field inspector for
the Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association.
Foreman is one of 32 TSCRA
cattle inspectors in Texas and Okla
homa who looks for stolen farm
equipment and animals. Based in
Hewitt, a couple of miles south of
Waco city limits, Foreman covers
McLennan, Bosque, Coryell, Falls,
Bell, Lampasas and Hamilton coun
ties.
Foreman does not like the term
“cattle rustling’,” saying it conjures
up romantic television images. To
him, the crime is cattle theft.
“What they’re doing is stealing
people’s livelihood,” Foreman says.
“I don’t dress up a thief any more
than what they are.”
Cattle thieves steal today for the
same reason they stole in the past —
money, Foreman says.
Cattle in a trailer are not as easy to
track as 40 head tromping across the
range. And selling a cow at current
prices of more than $300 is greater
temptation than the 1880s’ price of
$12 to $15 a head.
“Cattle thieving — it’s a multimil-
lion-dollar business,” Foreman says.
Even during the past 20 years, the
big central stockyards have given
way to more and smaller local Inf
stock sales that are easier forthiot;
to reach and harder for law enfortf;
ment officials to monitor.
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