Applications now availabie
for 1986 Miss TAMU pageant
— Page 4
Ag spikers earn some respect,
look for more against SHSU
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Vol. 81 No. 211 GSPS 045360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, September 24, 1985
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short of goal
Associated Press
■CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — At $9 mil-
[lion so far, proceeds from the all-star
ifuniAid benefit concert appeared
to lie running short of the goal Mom
dav but organizers said they would
be happy if the event triggered new
ilterest in farmers’ problems.
■ By the time the H-hour concert
elded and 50 stars of country, rock
and blues had left the stage early
■onday, FarmAid had raised more
fthan $9 million. That was way below
s|iger Willie Nelson’s prediction of
raising $50 million.
■ Nelson, who organized Sunday’s
liiiou, said FarmAid received about
■ million from corporate donations
■d ticket sales, and roughly $5 mil-
|lion in pledges from television view
ers and radio listeners.
I But tabulation of the pledges was
■complete.
■ “We don’t know yet how much we
■ised,” said spokeswoman Linda
■ounsberry for the Howard Bloom
, Igency of New York, which handled
i promotion and publicity for the
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■ The FarmAid money will be used
Air cash grants to needy farmers, le-
Igiil aid, counseling and job training,
a nationwide information hotline
See FarmAid, page 10
Green Acres In Aggieland
Photo by DERRICK GRUBBS
Veteran actor Eddie Albert, right, shares a laugh
with Dr. Ed Lusas, head of Texas A&M’s Food
Protein Research and Development Center, dur
ing the filming of a documentary at the center. In
addition to hosting the documentary, Albert is an
investor in a firm which is sponsoring research
into the processing of corn into ethanol. Albert,
77, is best known lor his roles in the television se
ries Green Acres and Switch, as well as the motion
pictures “Oklahoma” and “The Longest Day.”
Reagan offers
refurbished
trade policy
urvivors found in quake debris
Trained dogs aid rescue workers
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, trying to stave off legis
lation to protect battered American
industries from cheap imports, out
lined a refurbished trade policy
Monday that is designed to combat
unfair trade practices abroad and
open foreign markets to U.S. goods.
“I will not stand by and watch
American businesses fail because of
unfair trading practices abroad,”
Reagan pledged in a speech to law
makers and business leaders invited
to the White House to hear his an
nouncement. “I will not stand by and
watch American workers lose their
jobs because other nations do not
play by the rules.”
But Reagan, who has said quotas
or tariffs to protect more expensive
domestic products from foreign
competition would lead to economic
disaster, promised to veto measures
“that I believe will harm economic
growth, cause loss of jobs and dimin
ish international trade.”
The president said he would ask
Congress to establish a $300 million
war chest to provide grants and
loans to “counter our loss of business
to trading partners who use what, in
effect, are subsidies to deprive U.S.
companies of fair access to world
markets.”
A senior administration official,
briefing reporters on condition he
not be identified, said the money
would be used to compete with na
tions that not only provide low-cost
loans to help foreign buyers acquire
selected goods but sometimes even
pay foreign buyers directly for
choosing certain products.
Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., an
author of major trade legislation
pending in Congress, hailed Rea
gan’s speech as “exactly what is
needed ... a terrific speech” but use
ful only if the administration carries
out the new program.
Reaction from congressional
Democrats, who have been critical of
the administration’s response to
trade deficits inching toward $150
billion, was less favorable.
“The Reagan administration still
has one eye closed as it faces a
mounting crisis in foreign trade,”
said Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill.,
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee. “They’re still way
behind a Congress bent on toughen
ing our response to unfair trade.”
“W’e do not want a trade war with
other nations,” Reagan told his East
Room audience. But he also warned,
“Let no one mistake our resolve to
oppose any and all unfair trading
practices.”
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I MEXICO CITY — Rescue work-
Irs said Monday they tunneled into
■he ruins of a government technical
ichool and found 26 survivors of
Itexico’s two killer earthquakes.
■ hey said more people might be al
ive under the debris.
a collapsed apartment build-
German shepherd rescue dog
1 Bobby sniffed and pawed at
spot in the ruins. An hour’s dic
ing freed 20-month-old Patricia
guirres, dehydrated but otherwise
inhurt despite being entombed
since the quakes Thursday and F ri
day.
Police and the attorney general’s
ioffice said the death toll in Mexico
City stood at 2,822 on Monday and
the president’s office said about 100
people were killed elsewhere in
Mexico. Police said 4,180 people
were missing.
The State Department said in
Washington that 3,461 were known
dead throughout the area struck by
the quakes, including five Ameri
cans. The State Department said it
based its figure on information from
Mexican authorities.
Mexico’s federal health depart
ment said at least 11,000 people
were injured by the quakes, which
smashed the heart of this city of 18
million people. The number of peo
ple left homeless was estimated at
300,000.
President Reagan’s wife, Nancy,
came on a brief mission of inspection
and sympathy, bringing a U.S. gov
ernment check for $1 million to help
in relief efforts.
She toured the city for 3Vs hours,
visiting survivors at refugee centers
there were hopes of finding more
survivors.
“ We think there are more people
trapped alive inside,” he said. “A
dog was brought in and detected
something. We are going to dig an
other tunnel. We heard some noises,
but we could not determine the loca
tion.”
“ We think there are more people trapped alive inside
(the debris) .... We heard some noises, but we could
not determine the location. ”
— Dr. German Gonzalez, coordinator of the rescue ef
fort at the Conalep technical school.
and a Red Cross hospital in the com
pany of Paloma Cordero de la Ma
drid, wife of President Miguel de la
Madrid.
Pope John Paul II said a special
Mass for the quake victims at his
summer palace at Castel Gandolfo,
in the Alban hills south of Rome.
Dozens of flights arrived from
abroad with with rescue squads, de
molition experts, medicine, tempo
rary shelters, food and clothing.
Dr. German Oropewz Gonzalez,
coordinator of the rescue effort at
the Conalep technical school, said
More than 50 specially trained
dogs were sent from France, Italy,
Switzrland, West Germany, and the
United States.
At the ruins of the Juarez hospi
tal, where at least 900 doctors, other
medical personnel and patients were
believed trapped, an intern crawled
through a tunnel to safety at 5:30
a.m. Monday.
Other rescuers found 18-month-
old Jessica Alonso on Sunday. She
had been buried for 80 hours next to
the body of her mother, and started
crying when one of her saviors
picked her up.
Residents of the capital began re
turning to work Monday. Banks
were open, but officials said schools
would remain closed until at least
Wednesday.
The government solicited private
and corporate donations to a na
tional rebuilding fund. The quakes
are estimated to have caused billions
of dollars in damage to Mexico,
whose economy is in recession and
laboring under a $96 billion foreign
debt.
A principal concern is the possible
outbreak disease because of the de
caying bodies and severe shortage of
potable water.
City officials said hundreds of
bodies still unclaimed in temporary
morgues would be buried or cre
mated to reduce the risk of disease.
At the old Seguro Social baseball
park, bodies were stacked in white
plastic bags awaiting identification.
Ice was brought in to delay decom
position.
Individual burials occurred in
quick succession at the San Lorenzo
cemetery on the city’s outskirts. Five
huge common graves were prepared
for 2,500 unidentified bodies.
Presidential spokesman Ricardo
Ampudia, said Sunday that 5 per
cent of the city remained without
electricity and 20 percent did not
have drinkable water.
Aggies from Mexico
await news of families
By JUNE PANG
Staff Writer
Since last Thursday, when an
earthquake struck Mexico City,
Mexican students at Texas A&M
have been waiting for news from
home.
While most students have re
ceived word from their families, oth
ers still don’t know.
Angel Gonzalez-Mendez, presi
dent of A&M’s Mexican Students’
Association, in a report Wednesday
to the MSC Council, said about 250
Mexican students attending school
here have families in the area where
the earthquake hit.
Oscar Pier, the secretary of The
Mexican Students’ Association, said
he has spoken with about 30 Mexi
can students.
“I haven’t heard of any family of a
student being hurt,” he said. “But
many of them still don’t know how
their families are.”
Another Mexican student, Jose
Ramon Torre, a doctoral student in
bioengineering, Friday began work
ing with the MSC Amateur Radio
Committee to help Mexican students
find out the situation of their fami
lies.
“We’ve been giving priority to
people whose families live in the
most affected areas,” Torre said.
“We’re also driving down to Hous
ton, giving lists of people to passen
gers who are flying to Mexico. We
ask them to make phone calls to find
out the situations for the people on
the list. Then we ask the pilots to
bring the message back.”
Torre said as of Monday morning
there were about 230 people on
their list waiting to find out the well
being of their families. They have
gotten 120 responses from Mexico,
he said.
“Up to now, all the people we
have heard about are OK,” Torre
said. “But we’re worried about the
most serious area. That’s where the
phones can’t work.”
Torre said they had some luck af
ter the first earthquake on Thursday
because telephones inside Mexico
City still worked. But after the sec
ond quake Saturday, it has been
much harder to get a reponse.
See Mexico, page 10
NBC reports U.
for for release
Associated Press
Vernon Walters, the United
States ambassador to the United
Nations, made a secret visit to
Syria to gain the release of the
Rev. Benjamin Weir, an Ameri
can held captive in Lebanon for
16 months, NBC News reported
Monday.
Walters met with Syria’s Presi
dent Hafez Assad for four hours,
NBC said. It did not state when
Walters met with Assad.
Irene Payne, a press spokeswo
man at the U.S. Mission to the
United Nations, said Walters
would go no further than he had
at his news conference Thursday,
when he explained why he was
not at the Sept. 17 opening of the
U.N. General Assembly.
Walters’ reason for missing the
opening was that he was on a mis
sion for his government, but he
refused to elaborate.
Weir was freed on Sept. 14 by
S. negotiated
of hostage
his Lebanese kidnappers.
The United States has consis
tently ruled out negotiations with
terrorists, but last week, State De
partment spokesman Bernard
Kalb said, “We are willing to dis
cuss the safety of the American
hostages.”
At the time, the spokesman,
had refused to elaborate or to say
whether U.S. diplomats had such
discussions before Weir’s release.
Six other Americans remain
captive in Lebanon. They are
Terry Anderson, chief Middle
East correspondent for The Asso
ciated Press; William Buckley,
U.S. Embassy political officer;
Peter Kilburn, a librarian at the
American University of Beirut;
the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, a Ro
man Catholic priest; David Jacob
sen, director of the American
University hospital; and Thomas
Sutherland, dean of agriculture
at the university.
Chancellor search to begin in ’86
By MARYBETH ROHSNER
Staff Writer
The Board of Regents will not be
gin its search for a new Texas A&M
University System chancellor until
the beginning of 1986, said board
Chairman David Eller after the re
gents’ meeting Monday.
Dr. Arthur Hansen, who an
nounced his plans for retirement
Sunday, stated that he wanted to be
gin his own consulting business.
JHansen, 60, said he would help the
board make a smooth transition.
fe
Eller said the System has im-
roved since Hansen came to Col-
ege Station in 1982. He added that
Hansen “took a big business ap
proach” to administration and was
instrumental in developing Texas
A&M’s image as a major research
university.
Hansen’s previous announcement
did not slow the board’s usual busi-.
ness.
The board approved the appro
priation of $22 million for a bioche
mistry and biophysics building to be
located on the west campus. The
new building will house the rapidly-
growing biochemistry and biophy
sics departments, which now teach
classes in several different buildings
on campus.
The board also approved an ap
propriation of $5 million for im
provements of Duncan Dining Hall.
The planning and building commit
tee said renovation will allow the en
tire Corps of Cadets to be served in
10 minutes by eliminating the cur
rent family-style method of serving
cadets and adding fast-food lines
like those in the Sbisa and Commons
Dining Halls.
In response to a statewide higher
education desegregation plan, the
board approved plans for minority
recruitment. The board allotted
$984,000 for minority undergrad
uate student scholarships and
$355,500 for graduate student
fellowships.
The board also approved emeri
tus titles and granted tenure to seve
ral A&M faculty.
Photo by JAIME LOPEZ
Henry Cisneros attends the Board of Regents meeting Monday.