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Thursday, January 23, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 il|p ro-choice groups mark s for idy, v Associated Press ■ AUSTIN — Pro-choice advo cates said Wednesday the emo- ^ a ™Mnal rhetoric of their opponents ^ eiu has helped spark the violence that plagued abortion clinics. |The Texas Abortion Rights the Asl , are iblishe:! B:tion League and other pro- 1 ,t: ' ^choice groups held a Capitol news conference to mark the anniver- f renii- .aid. :s, the prv of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abor tion. healt:«p arri Fri^rich, TARAL’s exec- 11 ou utive director said the continuing ftblic debate about abortion has ■ten on ominous overtones as vi- S 11 olcnce escalates. She blamed it on : or ?*Bti-abortion activists who are Hesperate and frustrated.” n 8 a ' ( J“We challenge the so-called re,wr pro-life groups to help put an Qlatt^d to the violence in their vement," Fridrich said. “We allenge them to take responsi- ity for the inflammatory and otional rhetoric and propa- ■nda they employ, which appar- Btly incites some of the sympa- ■zers to domestic terrorism,” ■A leader of the Texas pro-life B Bovement said Wednesday he is B)tally opposed to any use of vio- ■rce to further this cause.” foreii™Bill Price, president of the greater Dallas Right-to-Life up, also said, “Those people o engage in violence are rely stooping to the same low el of activity as the other side t uses violence to kill unborn ildren.” r to pi trough shape for her iGara LaMarche, director of the Rxas Civil Liberties Union, said ik Supreme Court decision “has feen consistently under siege.” l“Leaders of the right-to-life tovement bear a heavy responsi bility for what is done in their tome,” he said. “They create a cli- pate in which zealots and violent ople among their movement it is justified to kill and maim ople.” Search for new provost begins; goals defined By MONA L. PALMER Staff Writer The search for a new provost and vice president of academic affairs began Friday when the search com mittee, chaired by Associate Provost Dr. Clinton A. Phillips, met for the first time. Dr. Murray Milford, agronomy professor and committee member, said the members used the first meeting to get acquainted with each other, define what a provost does and discuss qualifications they wanted in the new provost. Phillips said the committee also wrote an advertisement for the posi tion consisting of a description of Texas A&M and a list of responsibi lities and qualifications. The committee says it wants a strong record of academic accom plishment, a commitment to higher education and excellent interperso nal, speaking and writing skills. The committee is advertising in educational newspapers and asking university presidents and chan cellors to submit nominations for the position, Phillips said. The last provost search commit tee, also chaired by Phillips, received more than 75 nominations and ap plications. “Some were absolute turkeys,” Phillips said. “Some peoplejust write in without any credentials — hope springs eternal I guess.” Milford said the qualified, experi enced candidates are usually nomi nated by an administrator and do not apply themselves. Phillips expects the nominations and applications to be in by March and plans a second committee meet ing after March 1. During the sec ond meeting the members will dis cuss candidates and their qualifications. Before the March 1 meeting, com mittee members review the nomi nees and their credentials then the “bird-dogging” begins, Phillips said. “Bird-dogging” means calling f ieople who know the nominees and inding inside information on the in dividual. Information found through personal contacts isn’t found on resumes or in letters of recommendation, Phillips said. Phillips said the letters of recom mendation and personal visits are sometimes useless because it’s hard to see the true personality of the can didate. The committee is working as fast as it can and hopes to have a new provdst as soon as possible, he said. Dr. Gordon Eaton, the current provost, leaves for Iowa State Uni versity in late June. Eaton said he was depressed about leaving A&M but is ready for the challenges facing him as presi dent of Iowa State. Eaton said a president’s job and a provost’s job are very different be cause the president deals with alumni, the athletic program and other university publics. The provost, however, deals with the inside workings of a university such as tenure, promotions and cur riculum, he said. Eaton said he wasn’t sure he wanted to move to Iowa and take over the presidency of a university, but the governor of Iowa persuaded him to take the job. The govenor’s comment, “What we can offer you is an opportunity to help and we need your help,” touched Eaton. “I found that a very persuasive ar gument, and I caved in within a mat ter of hours,” he said. •ight. Sit | n of cats he baseiiR ■ of bloc exican goverment to start ssuing daily air quality report Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The govern- ination/Bu, pricked by reports that ther- inversions here were raising air ution to unbearable levels, says jy air quality reports will be issued the first time to sooth residents’ :t Attoi out as everal o of blood at least Mexico City, the world’s largest >lood. Sropolitan area with 18 million jmGuareople, is generally considered also the kl■world’s most polluted city, n heniWut Undersecretary for Ecology Kia Barcena Ibarra, speaking to loners on a four-hour tour of air gg Riitoring stations Tuesday, said |te was little possibility of a ther- inversion causing fatal pollution Is here. here is no reason for alarm. It tremely difficult for an episode “It is extremely difficult for an episode like that to occur in the capital of the country. ” — Alicia Barcena Ibarra, Undersecretary for Ecol ogy. like that to occur in the capital of the country,” she said. “We do not want to minimize the problems, but there is no reason for alarm,” Ibarra said, adding that the tropical sun over Mexico makes situ ations like those that occurred in London previously impossible here. Ecological activists have com plained that the government is not doing enough to alert residents of the dangers related to thermal inver sions. A computer center collects infor mation from air monitoring stations throughout the city. They have not been made public on a regular basis previously, but the ecology official said the reports would start being made public im mediately. Barcena Ibarra said large quanti ties of pollutants are found in the air here but remain at tolerable levels. Her department is in the Cabinet- level Department of Urban Devel opment and Ecology. Thermal inversions since Decem ber trap pollution under layers of cold air. larch for peace reaches City Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The interna- lal March for Peace in Central lerica arrived in Mexico City esday, the final stop on a troubled I weekjourney. he group of about 200 march es, which has traveled by foot, bus plane from Panama, was eted on the outskirts of the city local supporters. t arrived from Puebla, a city 81 es southeast of Mexico City, and iceeded up the major Paseo de la :orma to the Monument to the ild Heroes at the entrance to cen- Chapultepec Park. A news conference was scheduled Thursday morning. The march, organized by a group based in Oslo, Norway, was sched uled to pass through all Central American countries except Belize. But the governments of Hondu ras and El Salvador denied entry, ex pressing concern about possible vio lence, and the march left Costa Rica earlier than planned after an attack by a bottle-tossing mob. The Guatemalan government also first announced it would not allow the march to enter but then reversed the order. . The group was warmly welcomed in Nicaragua by the leftist Sandinista government and met with Nicara guan President Daniel Ortega. The marchers entered Mexico from Guatemala last Friday and were received by local support groups in Tuxtla Gutierrez, San Cristobal de las Casas and Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Puebla has a reputation as one of the country’s most conservative cit ies, and some business leaders ex pressed concern that peace would be disturbed. 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