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College Station, Texas
Tuesday July 23, 1985
Guerillas say
South Africa
posing control
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— Plack guerrillas said Monday that
a state of emergency under which
the white-minority government has
rounded up hundreds of people is
“an open admission . . . that it is los-
ingtontrol.”
he African National Congress,
which carries on its guerrilla cam
paign from exile, said the govern
ment’s “desperate actions signify the
beginning of the end of the apart-
heifl system.”
^ffiolice reported continued scat
tered rioting, and said a patrol shot
and killed two young blacks and
wounded five others when a mob of
about 4,000 people attacked a po-
Mrnan’s home in the township of
Tsakane, east of Johannesburg. An
other black was killed earlier in a
separate clash in nearby Thokoza,
thdspokesman said.
A spokesman for the Detainees
Parents’ Support Committee said as
many as 200 people were arrested
late Sunday and early Monday —100
eacli in the Johannesburg area and
the eastern Cape Province. The
Eastern Province Herald said it
knew of 80 to 90 detentions in the
eastern Cape alone.
police announced 113 other ar
rests Sunday under South Africa’s
first emergency decree since the
spread of violence that followed the
1960 Sharpeville riots. Sixty-nine
people were killed in those riots.
: Police said they would have no
further reports until Tuesday on de
tentions under the emergency,
which was declared Saturday and
applies in 36 cities and towns.
Nearly 500 blacks have been killed
infll months of violence aimed at
white-minority rule, according to
private monitoring groups. Police
said one man was shot to death Mon
day east of Johannesburg when offi
cers fired into a crowd attacking
them.
Cen. Johan Coetzee, the police
commissioner, backed off a plan to
censor articles about riot areas but
appealed to newspapers to “scale
down information connected to the
unrest.” He said news reports had
fed racial strife.
Police are empowered to arrest
people without warrants, detain and
interrogate suspects for 14 days, seal
off areas, seize property, impose
curfews and control press reporting.
The detainees committee issued a
statement saying people in the black
townships would see the emergency
as “a declaration of war.”
A spokesman, who asked not to be
identified, said the group had identi
fied about 90 of those detained over
the two days, adding that police had
raided offices of civic associations,
student groups and other organiza
tions. He said that among those
known held were 53 community
leaders, six clergymen, 12 students,
eight trade union leaders and two
well-known Asian leaders from Jo
hannesburg, a lawyer and a doctor.
Prices on the Johannesburg stock
exchange fell sharply as foreign in
vestors sold off shares in response to
the emergency, dealers said. The
key gold index fell from 967.3 to
914.1, a particularly steep drop.
The African National Congress,
the main guerrilla group fighting
white rule, said President P.W. Bot
ha’s emergency proclamation would
spur South Africa’s blacks in the
fight against white rule.
“Botha’s desperate actions signify
the beginning of the end of the
apartheid system,” ANC Secretary-
General Alfred Nzo said in Lusaka,
Zambia. Botha refused an opposi
tion request to reconvene Parlia
ment to discuss the emergency. The
president said action, not talk, was
necessary to end the unrest.
Over, easy?
Instructors held a mock tank truck rollover dem
onstration last Friday at Texas A&M’s Brayton
Fireman’s Training Fiefd. The event emphasized
Anthony S. Casper
the extreme danger encountered in such situta-
tions. High pressure air hags and a winch mounted
on a rescue vehicle were used to upright the truck.
Reagan to
meet with
Chinese
president
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, in his first meeting with a
foreign leader since undergoing
cancer surgery, hosts Chinese Presi
dent Li Xtannian today for abbre
viated talks and ceremonies that
could provide the setting for the for
mal approval of a landmark nuclear
cooperation pact.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said Reagan, who is recov
ering from the major abdominal sur
gery 10 days ago, planned to greet
the 76-year-old Chinese leader in a
South Lawn ceremony as well as host
a shortened, formal state banquet
Tuesday night.
“The president looks forward to
his meeting with President Li and to
the further expansion of the high-
level dialogue on major substantive
issues which he began . . . during his
visit to China last year,” Speakes
said.
See China, page 4
Computer program blamed
Fall semester fees fouled up
By TRENT LEOPOLD
Senior Staff Writer
Thanks to a computer program
ming error, some students were in
correctly billed for their parking
stickers and dormitory space when
the fiscal office mailed fee slips last
week.
But, Bob Piwonka, manager of
the student financial fiscal depart
ment, said Monday supplemental
bills are now being sent to those stu
dents who received incorrect billing
so adjustments can be made.
“We have received a lot of phone
calls from students who are con
cerned about their fee slips,” he said.
“And we are mailing the supplemen
tal bills today.”
The fiscal office is using a new
computer system to aid in distribut
ing fee slips and although it is work
ing well, there have been some prob
lems, Piwonka said.
“We had two (computer) files for
on-campus housing,” Piwonka said.
“One was for practice (with the new
computer) and somehow it was the
program that was run.”
Piwonka said some students re
ceived incorrect parking sticker fees
when data from the old system were
converted to the new computer
software.
“Some of the (parking sticker)
forms were keyed into the new com
puter by hand and they were keyed
in correctly,” Piwonka said. “But not
all of the forms were hand-keyed
and some people did receive incor
rect billing.”
To remedy the parking sticker
problem Piwonka asked that stu
dents simply make a change on their
statement when paying their fees.
Dormitory parking stickers are $63
while stickers for ofTcampus stu
dents parking on campus are $45.
“It would be easier for students to
note the change on their statement
rather than spend the money on a
long-distance phone call,” he said.
Piwonka said the new computer
system — which was delivered in
June — had to be tested in about a
week.
“It normally would take about a
month to test the computer,” he
said. “But the quick testing may or
may not have nad anything to do
with the (fee slip and parking
sticker) problems.”
Piwonka said there have been no
problems with class schedules being
incorrect.
Overall, the new system is looking
good and working well, he said.
Agricultural extension service must reduce staff
By JERRY OSLIN
Sta ff Writer
Kfiecause of a shortfall in state ap
propriations, the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service will be forced to
cut some professional staff positions
over the next 18 months, the serv
ice’s director said Friday.*
In a speech to about 1,000 TAEX
employees, Dr. Zerle Carpenter said
the service will try to reduce posi
tions without terminating employ
ment.
■t’When we decide what positions
will be affected, we will keep those
loyal and dedicated employees in
mipd so we won’t have to terminate
people in the process,” he said.
■1‘Other state agencies faced with a
budget shortfall and who have ter
minated substantial numbers of per
sonnel really don’t have the people-
oriented service that we have at the
Texas Agricultural Extension Servi
cer
Carpenter told the TAEX em
ployees that they will have to assume
more responsibility and work harder
to make up for the reductions. He
also said the extension service will
concentrate its resources on its more
important programs.
“We will also redirect our re
sources to our high-priority activ
ities, those which are most critical to
our clientele and those which we are
best at,” he said. “We need to keep
our eyes clearly focused on the qual
ity of our program and on retaining
high quality people in our organiza
tion.”
Carpenter said TAEX will receive
about $ 1.6 million less from the state
for each of the next two fiscal years.
“Add to that some additional costs
to the retirement system and some
salary increases, the Texas Agricul
tural Extension Service is about $2
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Director Dr.
Zerle Carpenter told the TAEX employees that they
tissitirie- md. work
■■h&d&t. to make up for the reductiom.
million short for the next year,” he
said.
Carpenter also commended the
TAEX employees for cooperating
with cost-effective programs which
saved the extension service about
$900,000 the past year.
The extension service receives its
money from several different
sources. Carpenter said, but the state
provides about 70 percent of the
money. County and federal appro-
priations along with grants and en
dowments make up the remaining
30 percent, he said. The extension
service’s budget for the current year
is $60 million.
Carpenter also said the state
didn’t provide enough money for
salary merit increases.
“The state legislature provided
funds for salary increases of up to 3
percent of the state-appropriated
dollars,” he said. “We were also able
to say we needed that amount at
least on our federal dollars. So the
state took back about three quarters
of 1 percent and said ‘take that out
of your hide.’ ”
But because of Texas A&M Uni
versity System budget guidelines al
lowing merit increases, about one in
five TAEX faculty and staff will re
ceive an increase in salary, Car
penter said.
“The salaries paid to extension
positions are in the top five in the
country but we need to keep them
high to retain quality personnel,” he
said.
The extension service faired well
in its dealings with the Legislature
during its recent session but that
TAEX needed to communicate
more with legislators from urban
areas, Carpenter said.
“We probably could have not
done much better than we did dur
ing the legislative session,” he said.
“But I wish we had had more close
association with those urban legis
lators involved so they could have
seen some of our programs in action
— so they would not have had to
question what the extension service
does.”
Carpenter also said the extension
service was hurt because some of its
employees complained to legislators
about problems in TAEX.
“One of our biggest mistakes dur
ing the past legislative session was we
had some of our own professionals
who had some complaints about the
organization and they took that to
the clientele who took it to their leg
islators or who made some off-hand
remarks to the legislators themsel
ves,” he said.
“I doubt that would be serious in a
time of expanding state budgets, but
right now it is critical that we stick to
gether and that if we have problems,
we resolve them through normal
channels. It’s important that we
don’t shoot ourselves in the foot.”
Springsteen fans jam
phones to get tickets
Bilingual teachers scarce commodify
Associated Press
I WASHINGTON — Rock star
Bruce Springsteen’s fans, seeking
pickets to his first stadium concert in
his country when they went on sale
here Monday, flooded the telephone
system in such huge numbers that
nany calls to federal offices, includ-
ng some to the White House,
couldn’t get through.
“The whole city is locked up,” said
supervisor for the Chesapeake 8c
Potomac Telephone Co.’s Special
Services Center who identified her-
elf only as Mrs. Champion.
“There’s nothing we can do about it.
“One guy over at the telephone
company just told us the switching
center is tied up about the way it was
when (John F.) Kennedy was assassi
nated (in 1963),” said Charles B.
Overly, Jr., director of the Penta
gon’s Telecommunications Center.
The tickets for more than 40,000
seats in Robert F. Kennedy Memo
rial Stadium Aug. 5 were sold out in
about 90 minutes.
During the crush of telephone
calls, many Springsteen fans
couldn’t contact the ticket offices.
Associated Press
DALLAS — Bilingual teachers
are are so few in number that dis
tricts across the nation are in a bid
ding war for their services.
About 4.5 million children nation
wide speak so little English that they
need bilingual education, but there
are only about 158,000 bilingual in
structors in the country.
“We are all competing for the
same scare resource,” said Ross Tay
lor, head of the multilingual educa
tion department for Chicago public
schools.
National bilingual education ex
perts say the number of bilingual
teachers would almost have to dou
ble to reach the ideal ratio of one
teacher for every 15 students.
As a result, school districts are of
fering bonuses of up to $6,000 a
year and other perquisites to biling
ual teachers, the Dallas Times
Herald reported Monday.
Taylor said that the bonuses of
fered by some schools in Texas,
which is second only to California in
the number of pupils who speak
little English, “are going to wipe us
off the map.”
The vast majority of students
needing bilingual education are His
panic, according to the U.S. Depart
ment of Education.
Texas education officials estimate
the state has 285,000 children who
qualify for bilingual education, but
only 7,500 teachers — 1 for every 38
pupils.
Bonuses aren’t the only lures.
Some school districts offer free col
lege tuition to high school students
who pursue a degree in bilingual ed
ucation,
According to Sarah Melendez of
the National Association of Bilingual
Education in Washington, the situa
tion isn’t getting any better because
the number of students who need
bilingual teaching is growing at such
a rapid clip.
“And there is a very small number
of bilingual teachers being pro
duced,” she said. “The number is
under 2,000 a year.”
When Marella Ramirez, 22, of Ed-
inberg, graduates from Pan Ameri
can University in December, she will
rare educational
worried about
be one of these
commodities.
She said she isn’t
finding ajob.
“I’ve gotten so many offers. I’ve
lost count,” she said. “They offer
good money. They say their biling
ual programs are good. They say
their campuses are nice.
“But I haven’t really looked into
any of them. I want to stay in the
(Rio Grande) Valley.”
The competition for bilingual tea
chers in Texas has become even
fiercer since the passage of a new
state law requiring districts to offer
free bilingual classes to preschoolers.