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Tuesday, January 28, 1986 at 7:00 pm
College Station Community Center
All Interested Collegiate Women Welcome
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The Texas A&M
EMERGENCY CARE
Come
Monday, Jan.
meeting.
7:00 p.m
A.P. Beutel Health Center Cafeteria (in Basement)
Or call 845-4321 for information
We’re Open 24 Hours.
So Open Wide.
The Whataburger restaurants
in Bryan and College Station are
now open 24 hours a day. That
means anytime, day or night, you
can enjoy a delicious Whataburger,
Whatachick’n, Whatacatch-or
whatever you like. Or, enjoy a tasty
Taquito during breakfast hours,
from 11:00 p.m. til 10:30 a.m.
To help us celebrate, bring in
this coupon anytime between
10:00p.m. and 6:00a.m., and with
any entree, we’ll give you fries
and a soft drink - absolutely free!
Free Fries and
Soft Drink
with any Entree
after 10:00 pm.
This coupon good for free small
order of fries and 16 oz. soft
drink with purchase of any entree
after 10:00 p.m. Coupon expires
February 15, 1986. Not good with
any other offer. Limit one per
customer. Coupon good only at
Bryan/College Station locations.
The Great Big Tastelbu’re Hungry For
WHATABURGER
1101 Texas Avenue, in Bryan
105 Dominik (Next to Culpepper Plaza), in College Station
World and Nation
Civil rights
Urban League blasts Reagan's policies
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The National
Urban League on Thursday called
the Reagan administration “a
Rambo-like destroyer of civil rights
gains” and said its economic policies
have left black Americans struggling
to survive.
The chasm between blacks and
whites widened even more in 1985,
as most whites enjoyed economic re
covery while blacks “slipped further
and further to the rear of the pa
rade,” league president John E. Ja
cob said in issuing the organization’s
11th annual assessment of black
America.
“The signs of a nation moving to
ward a state of being permanently
divided between the naves and the
have-nots were plain to see over the
past months,” he said.
Jacob noted that unemployment
among whites was 5.9 percent at the
end of last year, while 14.9 percent
of the nation’s 27.9 million blacks
were out of a job.
Jacob was particularly harsh on
the Justice Department’s efforts to
“Black people today have
jobs and opportunities
they would not have had
without (President Lyn
don Johnson’s) executive
order. ”
— John E. Jacobs, Na
tional Urban League pres
ident.
revise a presidential executive order
signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965,
which authorized the government to
set numerical hiring goals and
timetables for firms holding govern
ment contracts.
“Black people today have jobs and
opportunities they would not have
had without the executive order,”
Jacob said.
“If there is any single message we
want to send the president today it is
this: ‘Hands off affirmative ac
tion,’ ” he said. “If the administra
tion wants to be a Rambo-like de
stroyer of civil rights gains, it should
not pretend that its efforts are good
for black citizens. . . .”
The report said median family in
come for blacks in 1984, the most re
cent figure available, was $15,432.
In constant dollars, that was $540
less than in 1980 and almost $1,500
less than in 1970, according to an
economic summary by David Swin-
ton, director of public policy studies
at Clark College.
He said that in 1984 the median
black family had about 56 cents to
spend for every $ 1 available to white
families.
Jacob said budget cuts during the
Reagan years have seriously hurt
federal programs for children,
young adults and the unemployed.
He said “the most tragic aspect of
all” is the staggering number of
black children living in poverty —
51.1 percent in 1985.
The disintegration of the black
family can only be addressed by
dealing directly with black male un
employment, he said.
Mexico may need U.S. aid
due to plunging oil prices
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Mexico could
be forced to halt interest payments
on its $96.4-billion foreign debt or
seek emergency aid from the United
States and international bankers if
oil prices tumble to $20 a barrel and
stay there, some private analysts say.
The fall in oil prices in recent days
has raised new concerns about the
ability of Mexico, the second largest
debtor in the developing world after
Brazil, to maintain payments on its
debts and shore up its sagging econ
omy.
Robert Pastor, Fulbright profes
sor at the Colegio de Mexico in Mex
ico City, said, “The further decline
of oil prices could really set back ev
erything the country has been trying
to do for the last couple of years.
Javier Murcio, economist at the
private forecasting firm of Data Re
sources Inc. in Lexington, Mass, said
“It puts Mexico back in its financial
position, the recovery of the econ
omy and its standing with creditors.”
Mexico depends heavily on oil
sales to bring in revenues to make in
terest and principal payments on the
debt and to buy imports of raw
materials, spare parts and other
needed goods.
The drop in oil prices affects the
Latin American debtor nations dif
ferently. Like Mexico, oil-producers
Venezuela and Ecuador will see the
expected earnings needed to help
ay their debts shrink. Their debts,
owever, are considerably smaller at
$35 billion and $7 billion respec
tively.
Such oil importers as Brazil,
which has a $ 100-billion debt, will
benefit from the decline.
A one-dohar drop in oil prices
translates into a loss to Mexico of
$1.5 million daily, or about $550 mil
lion a year. Mexico is scheduled to
pay $2.6 billion to creditors this I
quarter, according to local press re- I
ports.
In recent days prices in the world I
petroleum market have slipped, in [
some cases below $20 a barrel for the (
first time since 1979.
Mexico is the world’s fourth larg
est producer of crude and the single
biggest supplier to the United States.
It is not a member of the oil cartel,
the Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries.
The government oil monopoly,
Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex,
does not sell on the spot market,
supplying its crude only under con
tract.
American among 38 killed by fire
Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — Fire raged
through a luxury hotel before dawn
Thursday, killing at least 38 people,
Indian officials said. One American
was among the dead, and 38 people
were hospitalized.
Some victims were found in their
beds, and others escaped by break
ing windows, tying bedsheets to
gether and lowering themselves to
the ground. Several leaped to their
death from the 10-story Siddharth
Continental Hotel, which is near the
airport in the upper-class Vasant Vi-
har suburb, fire officials said.
Police and fire officials said it was
the worst hotel fire in the Indian
capital since independence from
Britain in 1947.
About half the victims were for
eigners but names were not released
pending notification of relatives, po-.
lice said. The victims included a
West German diplomat and his wife,
an Argentine diplomat, three Bri
tons, two Japanese, two Australians,
an Iraqi, a Soviet citizen and the
American.
“It was only by the grace of God
we got out alive,” said Jane Rosser,
an official for the U.S. relief agency
CARE, who is based in Bangkok,
Thailand. “If I had awakened min
utes later in that hotel without lights,
I wouldn’t be here.”
She said she herded a half-dozen
people into a room, smashecj open a
window and got them to tie
bedsheets together. They lowered
themselves about 30 feet and
dropped onto a balcony, then
groped their way to a fire escape.
“I knew that when I opened the
door and gulped the smoke I would
be dead if I didn’t act,” Rosser, a na
tive of Newton, Mass., said. “I must
have done what I had seen in the
movies.”
She told the Associated Press she
heard no fire alarm, the hotel lights
were out, and there were no auxil
iary lights marking emergency exits
on the fifth floor where she stayed
She also said there was no working
sprinkler system, the windows
wouldn’t open, and she saw no one
organizing rescue operations.
A spokesman in New York for
CARE said Christopher Roesel, 37,
of Alexandria, Va., a technical ad
viser stationed in Bangkok, was hos
pitalized in serious condition front
smoke inhalation.
An American identified by a hos
pital sourqe as Richard Arnell was
seriously injured. No further infor
mation was immediately available.
May Grads & Summer Engineers
M.E., Chem. E.,
and M.B.A.’s with technical undergraduate degrees:
What does an engineer
do in
MANUFACTURING
MANAGEMENT?
FIND OUT!
PROCTER & GAMBLE
will be hosting an open house
Tuesday, Jan. 28,7:00 p.m.
MSC, Room 212
Sign up for interviews Jan 27-Feb 5