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The Battalion
Vol. 81 Mo. 6 GSRS 045360 14 pages,
College Station, Texas
Monday, September 9,1985
otha rejects meeting with SA guerrillas
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
-President P.W. Botiia said Sunday
it would be disloyal for a group of
this country’s leading business exec
utives to meet with the African Na
tional Congress, and flatly rejected
talks with the outlawed black guerril
las.
In recent violence, police re
ported that they killed two blacks
overnight during fierce anti-apart
heid rioting near Cape Town.
Ipolice said earlier they killed one
black as youths rampaged through
Parolees to
get job aid
from state
Associated Press
i AUSTIN — The Texas Employ-
tnent Commission is adding eight
galfers to its offices in Dallas and
Houston for a pilot program aimed
at finding jobs for paroled convicts,
f A recent study by the Board of
Pardons and Paroles found that five
times as many ex-offenders who are
unemployed, compared with those
rfkh steady jobs, wind up back in
prison within a year of their release
from the Texas Department of Cor
rections.
■“It’s just common sense,” said
John Byrd, executive director of the
Ibard of Pardons and Paroles. “Em
ployment is a critical element in re
cidivism.”
Hershel Meriwether, Gov. Mark
White's corrections expert, said the
study caught White’s attention,
j “He felt it made sense that if you
were going to try to reduce crime
and reduce the likelihood of individ
uals ending up back in TDC, we
needed to target efforts to get these
guys employed satisfactorily,” Mer
iwether said.
| The parole board study found a
direct tie between employment and
recidivism. A year after being re
leased from Texas prisons, (> pci com
of those ex-inmates with steady em-
iloyment were back in prison,
j Another 13 percent with sporadic
employment and 29 percent with no
jobs had returned to prison, accord
ing to the study.
According to Byrd, the project
enable the parole and employ
ment panels to work jointly on the
problem of finding jobs for newly
released inmates. Currently, the
assistance for inmates in find-
ingjobs comes from parole officers
Or outside organizations.
“We want to ensure to the greatest
extent possible that a person will
Nome out to a job direct from con
finement in TDC,” Byrd said. “We
know the first three to six months is
the most critical time for a person to
get his feet on the ground.”
TEC staffer Paul Russell said the
|new program will provide intensive
job services for parolees, such as
helping them fill out applications
and finding employers willing to
hire ex-offenders.
“Sometimes their confidence has
been shattered,” Russell said. “So-
tetimes they are embarrassed by a
background of being in the penal
system. They need help and encour-
I agement to face the job market.”
Cape Town’s Guguletu black town
ship following a funeral Saturday
for 11 riot victims. Later, they said
police shot a second black man to
death.
That brought to at least 31 the toll
of people killed around Cape Town
since the government banned an
Aug. 28 march demanding the re
lease of Nelson Mandela, former
ANC president imprisoned 21 years
ago for plotting sabotage.
Two police officers were injured
in the Guguletu violence that killed
the two blacks, aged 19 and 28, po
lice said.
The townships were reported
quiet Sunday, a police spokesman
said.
Rapport, an Afrikaans Sunday
newspaper which supports the
white-minority government, re
ported that top South African busi
ness people will go to Lusaka, Zam
bia, for talks with ANC leaders.
It said President Kenneth Kaunda
of Zambia helped organize the talks,
and that Gavin Relly will lead the ex
ecutives.
Kelly is head of Anglo American,
South Africa’s largest mining cor
poration.
English-language newspapers
have carried similar reports.
Kelly’s office has refused com
ment.
Reports have also said the exec
utives will go to Lusaka with Botha’s
blessing.
Botha acknowledged in a
statement issued in the capital, Pre
toria, that a “leading South African”
suggested the plan to him a few
weeks ago. He did not identify the
person.
“I strongly advised against it,” said
Botha. “As long as the ANC is under
communist leadership and supports
violence in South Africa, there can
be no question of me approving dis
cussions with them.
“I regard such attempts as unwise
and even disloyal to the young men
who are sacrificing their lives in de
fending South Airica’s safety.”
Mandela’s successor as ANC
leader, Oliver Tambo, was quoted as
saying in an interview with the Sun
day 1 imes of London that violence
will be carried into white areas “to
make apartheid unworkable every
where.”
Botha has been under increasing
pressure to act upon an Aug. 15 of
fer to talk to unspecified black lead
ers about what he termed “co-re
sponsibility.”
Since then, the death toll in riot
ing has soared and the economy has
come under severe pressure as for
eign bankers refused to renew short
term loans.
Schultz: Reagan
may declare bans
upon South Africa
Agony of defeat
Freshmen from Company D-2 fall after being de
feated by Company K-l in a hard-fought competi
tion of tug-of-war. This event is part of an intra
mural competition held all day Sunday in which all
Photo by JAIME LOPEZ
competitors are freshmen in the Corps. Other
events held Sunday were volleyball and flag foot
ball. Some of the football games were postponed
because of hot and humid weather.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, faced with overwhelming
pressure from Congress, intends to
announce limited economic sanc
tions against South Africa today, in
cluding a desire to ban the sale of
gold Krugerrands, congressional
sources said Sunday.
These sources also said Reagan
would announce a ban on most new
bank loans to South Africa, order a
halt to the,shipment of nuclear tech
nology and stop large-scale sales of
computer equipment used to en
force South Af rica’s racially discrim
inatory apartheid laws.
Speaking on condition they not be
identified, the sources also said Rea
gan would announce requirements
for most American firms in South
Africa to follow fair employment
practices and would make available
expanded U.S. aid for South African
black students.
The expected announcement
would mark a shift in Reagan’s long-
held policy of “constructive en
gagement,” a low-key effort of nego
tiations that the president said on
Friday of fered the best hope of ac
complishing political reform in
South Africa.
Secretary of State George Shultz
informed senior Republican con
gressional leaders on Saturday of
Reagan’s intentions.
In response, Senate GOP leaders
have decided to seek a delay in the
expected passage of sanctions legis
lation.
Senate Republican leaders pre
dicted last week that a vote to cut off
afilibuster on the House-passed
sanctions bill would have been suc
cessful today, followed by the mea
sure’s final passage later this week.
Members of botfi parties in both
houses of Congress said a threat
ened presidential veto would almost
certainly be overriddcen.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Dole said Sunday he would seek
postponement of a vote on the sanc
tions bill until next spring if Reagan
moved to implement some of the
bill’s provisions on his own.
“What I would hope we could do .
. . would be to maybe postpone the
vote on the conference report . . .
postpone it say to next March or
April 1,” Dole said on the CBS show
“Face the Nation.”
“Then if the administration
doesn’t follow through on what they
suggest, then we’d vote on the con
ference report and . . . the sanctions
would still take effect in January of
1987,” Dole said.
Without discussing specifics, Dole
indicated that published reports of
Reagan’s decision were accurate.
Reagan’s reported decision is de
signed to sidestep one conflict with
Congress at the beginning of a fall
session that is likely to turn on other
controversial issues, including the
president’s tax reform proposal,
trade legislation and other battles
over spending.
International students hit hard by tuition hike
By JUNE PANG
Starf Writer
It’s a problem for international
students at Texas A&M. Most are
coping with it, some are struggling
hard, others are leaving — either
going home or to other universities.
The problem is the tuition in
crease passed by the Texas Legis
lature.
Starting this academic year, tu
ition for non-resident students at
tending state-supported colleges and
universities went from $40 per se
mester hour to $ 120 per hour.
Among non-resident students, in
ternational students may be taking
the hardest blow since immigration
regulations prohibit them from
working off campus. The maximum
number of hours they can work on
campus is restricted to 20 hours per
week.
The problem is made more se
rious by the cancellation of some
conditions under which non-resi
dent students were allowed to pay
the resident tuition rate.
Before the passage of the tuition-
increase bill, non-resident students
who worked 20 hours per week on
any academic-related work at a state-
funded college or university were al
lowed to pay resident tuition.
Currently, non-resident students
who have teaching assistantships, re
search assistantships or competitive,
academic schloarships qualify to pay
the lower tuition rate.
About 1,600 international stu
dents attended A&M last year. This
year’s statistics will not be released
until the 12th day of the semester.
Luis Rodriguez, president of the
International Students’ Association,
says that about half of the 1,600 in
ternational students are graduate
students. Among the graduate stu
dents, Rodriguez says, about half of
them have either assistantships or
scholarships. Most of the under
graduates don’t have scholarships,
he says.
Rodriguez, a senior mechanical
engineering major from Venezuela,
is considering going home as an al
ternative to paying the higher tu
ition rate.
“I have to see the money situa
tion,” he says. “If I can get extra
money from my home or my gov
ernment. I might stay. But I am al
most sure I will go back.”
Rodriguez, who also is the presi
dent of the Venezuelan Students’
Association, says he came to the
United States in June 1980 to attend
the University of California, and
transfered to A&M in fall 1983.
“It (tuition) used to be about
$1,800 for the whole year, including
summer,” he says. “Now, it’s about
$6,000 per year.”
Rodriguez says he had planned to
seek a degree in mechanical engi
neering and a degree in industrial
engineering and finish both degrees
in May 1986. But, he says, the tuition
See International, page 4
December graduates
Seniors and graduate students
jiavemni!5p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13.
■toappiv for December graduation.
Undergraduate students should
!apply at Heaton Hall. Students who
have not paid the $15 processing fee
should pay at the fiscal office in the
Coke Building, then bring their rec
eipts to Heaton Hall, Associate Reg
istrar Don Carter says.
, Graduate students should apply
dor graduation at the Office of the
Dean oi the Graduate College in the
l eague Kesemdr Ceutet. Graduate
students also must pay the $!5 fee
and bring their receipts to the Grad-
, uate College, Carte r said.
Even though students may com
plete their academic requirements,
they cannot graduate at the end of
the fall semester if they fail to apply
for graduation by Sept. 13, Carter
said. He added that one or two stu
dents per semester miss the dead-
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Texas A&M archaeologists aid Swiss
Researchers find bronze artifacts
By ANN ALSMEYER
Reporter
An archaelogical gamble paid off for the Swiss
government this summer when Texas A&M re
searchers discovered a 3,000-year-old cache of
Bronze Age jewelry near the French border.
The site, in Lake Neuchatel in western Swit
zerland, holds what are thought to be the cre
mated remains of a high-ranking woman dubbed
“The Princess” by researchers. The artifacts are
now in the hands of the Swiss government.
Bronze necklaces, 250 bronze rings, tools and
blue-and-white glass Phoenician beads were
found at the site, says Dr. Ervan Garrison, an ar
chaeologist in Texas A&M’s Department of Civil
Engineering.
“Artifacts were so concentrated at this site that
once my assistant pulled up one handful of dirt
that contained more than 40 rings,” Garrison
says. “When all the artifacts were laid out in the
sun, they practically glowed, they were so beauti
ful. One axe had the original wooden handle,
and it looked as if it had been made yesterday.”
Bronze does not tarnish easily, and since the
objects had been submerged in mud for centu
ries, oxygen could not destroy them.
The burial site, discovered in the researchers’
final week there, is the richest find so far.
Researchers from A&M and the University of
Southern California spent six weeks this summer
excavating parts of the five-acre lake in an effort
to discover and preserve its archaeological his
tory before highway construction begins this Feb-
“The lake looks like a black-and-white layerca-
ke,” Garrison says. “Throughout history, in cen
turies when lake water levels were down, people
would live there.”
In the 1920s the Swiss completed a project that
maintains a constant water level on Lake Neucha
tel and Lakes Biel and Morat nearby, thus expos
ing land that had once been inhabited.