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College Station, Texas
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asylum after
lumping ship
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A 44-year-old Ro-
Kianian seaman jumped ship and
Kited for political asylum, saying he
Headed to defect to a place “where
l-eedom is respectea,” he said
Wednesday.
I Paul Firica walked off the Roma
nian vessel Zalau Tuesday night
hen the ship was docked in the
lort of Houston and went Wednes-
lay morning to the U.S. Immigra-
Bon and Naturalization Service of-
flu
■ The seaman said in an interview
Jlith the Houston Post that he had
jreamed for years of defecting to
the United States.
I The ship, loaded with cattle hides,
v left the port for Romania Wednes-
[day night.
|k Firica said he had heard during
■is voyage — which included a stop
in Cuba — of Miroslav Medvid, the
2;>-year-old Soviet seaman who tried
to defect in Louisiana last month,
:0r.h to be returned to his ship.
I “He was worried about that,” said
, interpreter Bego Memet of Spring,
himself a Romanian defector. “He
. thought they were going to send him
«ck on the ship. If he would have
ffleeiv caught, tne only alternative
Would have been suicide.”
B Firica said he had waited until his
ijamily was able to live without his
OakwoodApts. {.' Support. “With the help of God,
696-91M it-' they II manage,” he said with teary
Tf,.eyes.
Memet said he was visiting a
friend at the Harris County Jail in
[T^YTrai downtown Houston Tuesday night
fhen he heard someone speaking
R manian. Frica had gone there, not
AlSSi lowing where to apply for asylum
SeniorciUMnsAnyiii»:|ua unable to speak more than a few
nglish words.
Paul O'Neill, INS district director
|i Houston, confirmed that a Roma-
Mon.-Fri. il uin seaman had left his ship and
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“ don’t reveal defector’s names, for
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FUTUte pipr their relatives will face reprisals.
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III "Iwianied and has two daughters, ages
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7:40/9:40 farty.”
“He wants to live in this country
|nd to work and to be free and be an
“mS&t' honest citizen for the rest of his life,’
iMemet said. “He’s one of ds now.”
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Photo by STEVE DAREING
Construction on the Engineering/Physics Building on Spence Street
keeps these workers busy Wednesday as they push for the March
1986 completion date.
Congress approves
bills to avoid default
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House
and Senate went home for the eve
ning Wednesday after working on
separate measures that would tem
porarily avert a government default
and the closing of federal agencies,
and thus put off tough budget deci
sions until after President Reagan
returns from the Geneva summit.
Lawmakers were operating under
a warning from the White House
that the government “would tempo
rarily stop paying its bills” if there is
no action by Friday. The administra
tion also said it would prefer to see
long-term solutions.
On a 300-121 vote, the House
passed and sent to the Senate legis
lation increasing the government’s
$1,824 trillion in borrowing author
ity by $80 billion. This would be
enough to keep the government sol
vent through Dec. 13.
The Senate at first indicated it
would not act until Thursday, but
then on a voice vote Wednesday
night the chamber passed a measure
that would give the government re
newed borrowing authority only un
til Dec. 6. That bounced the issue
back to the House for further action,
which would not come until Thurs
day.
White House Deputy Press Secre
tary Edward Djerejian said President
Reagan wanted Congress to con
tinue working on the government’s
budget problems.
“The president accepts the ob
vious sentiment of both houses of
Congress,” Djerejian said. “But lie
will continue to urge Congress to
deal with our federal deficit once
and for all. ”
Legislation raising the national
debt limit to more than $2 trillion
has been stalled by wrangling over
rival plans passed by the House and
Senate to force a balanced federal
budget by the end of the decade.
Those budget plans have been at
tached as amendments to the debt-
limit legislation.
Congressional bargainers have be
gun a second round of talks aimed at
breaking the impasse, but they have
concluded they would be unable to
complete agreement before a Thurs
day midnight deadline.
Rep. Trent Lott, R-Miss., the as
sistant Republican leader in the
House, saicl “it was not only unlikely
but probably impossible” that the
deadline could be met.
Thus, legislators sought to buy
themselves time by passing the in
terim debt measure.
FS subcommittee submits
final core curriculum report
By MARYBETH ROHSNER
Staff Writer
After nearly two years of re
search, the Faculty Senate’s core cur
riculum subcommittee Monday sub
mitted a final report to the
Academic Affairs Committee for ap
proval and possible placement on
the senate’s December agenda.
The report includes a recommen
dation to broaden the education of
Texas A&M undergraduates
through a 32-credit mandatory core
curriculum in addition to the state-
required core of six hours of Ameri
can history, six hours of political sci
ence and four hours of physical edu
cation.
Senate Speaker Jaan Laane said
that if the proposal passes through
the academic affairs committee, the
senate executive committee may
place the item on the December
agenda. ‘
Curriculum Committee chairman
Samuel Black said that, if the senate
and President Frank E. Vandiver ap
prove the recommendations, stu
dents who enter the University be
fore Fall 1987 would not be affected
by the change.
“The University catalog essen
tially amounts to a legal contract be
tween the student and the Universi
ty,” Black said. “For all degree
programs to adapt to whatever core
may be approved and to have those
degree programs published in a cat
alog would take at least two years.
“We’re looking at Fall 1987 at the
earliest (date for implementation).”
The committee’s report recom
mends that all students be required
to take the following in addition to
the current core of 16 hours:
• Six hours of speech and writing
skills. The report suggests the stu
dent take English 104 and one other
composition, speech communication
or literature course.
• Six hours of math and logical
reasoning. The report recommends
the student take at least three hours
of math selected from Math 166, cal
culus or a more advanced course
plus three hours of logic.
• Eight hours of science. These
courses (including labs) are to be
taken from non-survey courses such
as Biology 113/123.
• Six hours of cultural heritage
courses. These courses, to be se
lected by the student, include fine
arts, humanities, foreign language,
history, literature, philosophy, ar
cheology and theater arts.
• Six hours of social science, also
to be selected by the student, from
anthropology, geography, political
science, psychology, sociology, ethics
and economics.
In addition to those suggestions
See Faculty, page 16
Stress
Study shows strain of working, raising family
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| AUSTIN — The lone star that
IvUs held alof t over the Texas Capitol
since February 1888 is gone. So are
e arms of the statue that held the
star.
The remainder of the weather-
amaged Goddess of Liberty statue
is scheduled to come down Nov. 24.
Capitol Architect Roy Graham
laid Wednesday that both arms and
the star have been removed in pre-
aration for the helicopter lift. Also
removed were laurels from the God
dess’ crown and parts of her tunic.
The architect hopes the Goddess
won’t have to lose her head before
she is removed.
“They’re looking at her piece by
piece,” ne said. “It’s like getting her
prepared for surgery.”
The left arm held the lone star.
The right arm held a sword. Gra
ham said he knew the left arm would
have to be removed. The right arm
was taken off as an “extra precau
tion.”
Graham, announced last month
that the 97-year-old, 16-foot statue
has become a potential hazard be
cause of structural damage that
could cause parts of it to fall from
the 311-foot-tall Capitol dome. The
statue will be used as a model for a
replacement.
After it’s lifted from the dome,
See Renovation, page 16
Associated Press
BOSTON — Nearly half the em
ployees interviewed in a study say
the main reason they get depressed
at work is the strain of holding a job
and raising a family at the same
time.
The Boston University study, re
leased Wednesday and considered
the first of its kind in the country,
also found that one-third of working
parents spend part of the day worry
ing a great deal about their kids.
“The world isn’t set up to have
two parents at work,” said Bradley
Coogins, an assistant professor of
community organization, manage
ment and planning at Boston Uni
versity’s School of Social Work. “It is
a struggle. From our data, it’s some
thing that does impact most fami
lies.”
The researchers also concluded
that individual employees have done
everything they can to improve the
strain of holding a job and raising a
family, and said it was now up to cor
porations to help solve the problem.
Coogins and Dianne Burden, an
assistant professor of social policy
and research, followed the lives of
651 employees at all levels of a large
Boston-based corporation for one
year, interviewing them about work
and family matters.
The researchers would not iden
tify the corporation but said it was
typical of many American firms —
only 20 percent of the workforce
had a traditional family set-up, with
a working husband and unemployed
wife caring for children at home.
Coogins said similar studies have
been conducted with government
employees, but none has lasted as
long as a year and examined private-
sector workers.
The Boston University study
found that working mothers, espe
cially if they are married, bear the
brunt of juggling career and family.
The average female married par
ent at the company, according to
Coogins and Burden, spent 85
hours a week on her job, homemak
ing and child care, compared to the
75 hours spent by a single female
parent, 66 by a married male parent,
65 by a single male parent and 55 by
a non-parent.
“Married mothers are the ones
who have moved into new roles at
home and at work,” Coogins said.
“Culturally, they still hang onto their
roles at home . . . while they love
San Antonio may place restrictions on rock shows
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — After trying
unsuccessfully to tame the lyrics of
heavy metal rock music at concerts,
the City Council here is considering
prohibiting children under 13 from
attending rock shows that depict vio
lence and illicit sex.
Mayor Henry Cisneros says a pro
posed ordinance, the first of its kind
in the nation, reflects “common
sense,” but opponents call it mis
guided and argue that “parents
ought to decide and not the govern
ment.”
At issue are performances at the
Convention Center Arena, owned by
San Antonio, the nation’s 10th larg
est city.
The ordinance, which comes up
for debate Thursday, would bar any
one younger than 13 from concerts
at which sadistic or masochistic sex,
rape, incest, bestiality and exhibi
tionism are depicted on stage.
' Earlier this year, the council con
sidered ways of banning objectional
lyrics at rock concerts. When City
Attorney Lowell Denton determined
any such action would be unconstitu
tional, council members took aim at
concert theatrics.
Parents supporting the restriction
found a surprising ally in Cisneros, a
liberal Democrat.
“I think reasonable people would
agree (those activities) ought not to
be entertainment for children,” Cis
neros said. “We’re following a com
mon sense rule here.”
The council ordered the ordi
nance prepared after a city-hired
child psychiatrist conducted a
$2,000 study on the effects of rock
music on youngsters.
“The glamorization of suicide,
drug abuse, alcohol abuse, incest,
rape, dehumanizing sexuality and
violence as a way of life are poten
tially harmful influences on young
people growing up,” said Dr. Robert
Demski.
“It’s potentially hazardous,” he
told the San Antonio Express-News.
“If a child is already depressed, as
many of them are, this may be the fi
nal push over the edge.”
The Community Families in Ac
tion, formed to deal with drug abuse
among children, also turned its at
tention to concerts.
The group asked the council to
outlaw smoking at the arena, which
it did, establish a noise level and to
“consider an age level at which
young people could not attend
alone,” said Sylvia Branch, a board
member of the group.
Concert promoter Jack Orbin
contends the city would suffer finan
cially if the law passes because major
mainstream rock groups will not
play “in the repressive state of San
Antonio ... It would be sort of like
playing South Africa.”
Orbin said he believes the council
is intent on censorsing lyrics.
“We don’t believe rape and muti
lations occur on the stage, period,”
he said.
Orbin is cooperating with a group
called Parents Against Subliminal
Seduction in setting up interviews
with rock groups and providing pre
views of lyrics to be sung at concerts.
“We’re a middle of the road orga
nization made up of old rock ’n’ rol
lers who enjoy rock music,” said
Lynn Gladhill, a 39-year-old mother
of two who heads the group.