SWC championship ring
OK'd by athletic department
— Page 5
Ag cagers' loss to Mustangs
throws wrench into SWC race
— Page 12
1 tie Battalion
ol. 83 No. 94 GSPS 075360 14 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, Februaiy 10, 1986
aumont
nakes cuts
i personnel
Associated Press
IEAUMONT — Officials in this
itheast Texas city, which lost mil-
I f dollars in a failed securities
an, have made deep person-
ts and some employees faced
yoffs are bitter.
ut 70 workers will pick up
ist paychecks Friday as a result
tenty programs begun about
ar ago.
r the layoffs, 1,188 people
>rk for the city, representing
a 19 percent loss ofjobs in the
ie years.
cials said reduced library
and services and reduced bus
s have been in effect since
M
h Council members, in adopt-
I a budget in September, elimi-
I 116 jobs, some of which had
■vacant since March when the
|li)st $20 million in investments
i£$M Government Securities,
lie city enacted a hiring freeze
Rhe ESM loss and council mem-
jssav they resorted to further per-
i al cuts to give residents a prop-
tax break.
la result of layoffs, fewer city
fcs will be available. Uniformed
Imel will Fill the jobs eliminated
lout 30 dispatchers, jailers and
«r civilians in the police depart-
nt.
Officers have stopped helping
Korists who accidentally lock their
Rn their vehicles, police said.
Rlepartment has also scrapped
■ public relations and juvenile
lice programs.
Rinage crews that have kept city
es clear of debris will be elimi-
Ble city’s brush pick-up program
Kegin operating on a “call-in” ba-
next week.
R urban transportation depart-
■ will lose drainage crews, sign
|and traffic personnel, division
or Tom Horne said.
Photo by BILL HUGHES
Tough Loss
Texas A&M’s Jimmie Gilbert goes up for a shot in the against
Southern Methodist University Saturday Night. A&M lost 58-56
and now stands second in the conference. See story page 12.
reci
udgetcrunch maybe beneficial
Filipino tabulators
claim results falsified
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Thirty
computer operators marched out of
the government’s election commis
sion Sunday, claiming the ballot
counting that showed President Fer
dinand E. Marcos defeating Corazon
Aquino was falsified.
An international observer group,
meanwhile, accused Marcos’ parti
sans on Sunday of vote-buying, in
timidation, snatching ballot boxes
and tampering with election returns
in Friday’s special presidential elec
tion.
The computer operators wept on
each others’ shoulders after parad
ing single file out of the Marcos-ap
pointed commission’s counting cen
ter.
“There was something wrong,” a
woman operator explained. “What’s
posted on the tabulation board does
not tally with the computer board,
and we don’t know who is doing it.
We can’t take it any more.”
The woman, who refused to give
her name, told The Associated Press
that workers spotted the problem
Saturday night, when Aquino was
leading in the commission’s count by
100,000 votes. By midday Sunday,
Marcos had taken over the lead.
By Monday morning, with 28 per
cent of the precincts reporting, the
commission’s unofficial tally gave
Marcos 3,056,236 votes to Aquino’s
2,903,348, a split of 51.28 percent to
48.72 percent.
But an independent count by the
National Movement for Free Elec
tions, a citizens’ ballot-monitoring
group known as Namfrel, had
Aquino in the lead by 5,576,319
votes to 4,806,166 for Marcos, or
53.7 percent to 46.3 percent.
The Namfrel tally represented
49.14 percent of the Philippines’
86,036 precincts. Final election re
sults from this nation of 7,100 is
lands are not expected for days.
After the workers — 27 women
and three men — marched out, tab
ulation was suspended. The total
number of workers tabulating was
not known but there were about 300
computers in the center.
Victorino Savellano, chairman of
the nine-man Commission on Elec
tions which operate the tally center,
denounced the workers’ charges as
“a political attempt to sabotage our
efforts.” He said the commission’s
count is based on authenticated tally
sheets which “are beyond doubt”
and which anyone could see.
Marcos, who initially predicted an
80 percent landslide, was hard-
See Results, page 11
29 people presumed dead
in Canadian train collision
Associated Press
HINTON, Alberta — The first
two bodies were recovered Sunday
from the smoking rubble of a head-
on train wreck in which 29 people
were presumed dead.
Caterpillar tractors, earth-movers,
and railroad cranes pulled apart
mangled locomotives and cars from
a westbound, 114-car Canadian Na
tional freight train and an
eastbound, nine-car Via Rail passen
ger train that collided Saturday
morning.
The freight train was on the
wrong track.
Each train was being pulled by
three engines when they smashed to
gether on a single stretch of track
about 10 miles east of Hinton. In all,
122 people were believed to have
been aboard the two trains.
Deputy chief medical examiner
Dr. Derick Pounder said three peo
ple were hospitalized, and “all the
others who were injured are (now)
well or are walking wounded.”
The accident occurred near Jas
per National Park, on the border be
tween Alberta and British Columbia,
about 175 miles west of Edmonton,
the provincial capital.
The first two bodies, of a Ca
nadian National engineer and a pas
senger, were both from the passen
ger train and were removed in white
body bags. Cranes then hauled away
one locomotive to continue the
search.
Twenty-nine people were missing
and presumed dead, and 93 people
were known to have survived.
Pounder said. The two bodies were
classified as “missing” because their
identities were not confirmed.
Authorities initially feared as
many as 40 people were killed. Of 98
Via Rail passengers, 22 were miss
ing.
Canadian transport Minister Don
Mazankowski said three investiga
tors from Transport Canada, the
government agency that regulates
transportation, and an inspector for
the tranport of dangerous goods
were assigned to investigate. CN of
ficials also were investigating.
Passenger service over the section
of track where the accident occurred
was discontinued in 1981, but was
resumed at Mazankowski’s direction
last June.
Wanted: Work-study students
By CHRIS SIGURDSON
Reporter
The budget crunch at Texas
cM could be a boom for needy stu
nts who want to work, says the ad-
liistiator in charge of student em-
lyment and scholarships.
B-ynn Brown, scholarships admin-
frator, says students who qualify
| financial aid and are looking for
jjrk-study employment are more
tractive to money conscious de-
ents and institutions.
e reason, she says, is they pay
RO percent of a work-study em-
(byefs wages and the federal gov-
Wtient picks up the rest.
The department gets a part-time
employee for a fraction of the ex
pense and the student earns money
for school.
Brown says the only problem an
employer might have with a work-
study employee is the limit the gov
ernment ancl the financial aid office
places on the student’s total wages.
A student’s maximum amount of
earnings from work-study is set for
the year, she says, based on the
amount of financial aid the student
qualifies for. If the student exceeds
that limit he or she must quit.
Brown says such situations do oc
cur and the office tries to avoid them
by assigning students as much work-
study allowance as possible and ad
vising employers to keep up with
work hours.
Jerri Gadberry, a financial aid as
sistant in charge of monitoring the
earnings of the work-study employ
ees, says the Student Financial Aid
Office tries to be realistic in setting
the limits.
“We don’t want to give them an
amount like $2,000 that they
couldn’t possibly earn in a school
year,” Gadberry said, “or $200 that
they use up in a flash.”
Gadberry says she also monitors
students’ paychecks to make sure
they aren’t working more than 20
hours per week.
Since all work-study jobs must be
affiliated with the University and
some departments request work-
study applicants only, Gadberry
says, the office maintains a separate
listing for those positions.
To find out if they qualify for
work-study, students must fill out a
financial aid form and send it to the
College Scholarship Service. The
service will send the results back to
the student and copies to the college.
Financial aid forms are available
from the employment office or the
See Work-study, page 11
Haiti returning to normal
after retaliation to regime
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
After two nights of wild rejoicing
and mob retaliation against the
hated secret police of the ousted
Duvalier regime, life began re
turning to normal Sunday in this
slum-ridden city of 1 million peo
ple.
Trashed, burned-out shells of
businesses that were associated
with the 28 years of Duvalier fam
ily rule bore silent witness to a cel
ebration that turned violent, kill
ing at least 100 people and
causing great material damage.
Jean-Claude Duvalier became
Haiti’s “president-for-life” in
1971 at age 19 on the death of his
father, Francois “Papa Doc” Du
valier. He fled to France on Fri
day on a U.S. Air Force plane
with about 25 family members,
guards and associates after the
United States and Jamaica con
vinced him to step down in the
face of mounting violence.
A military-civilian council as
sumed interim control.
Duvalier’s departure sparked
riots and revenge killing against
the Tonton Macoutes, the Duva
lier dynasty’s dreaded private mi
litia.
Reporters said Macoutes were
See Violence, page 11
Conference to present program on Middle East
By MARY McWHORTER
Staff Writer
Ready 200 guests will be meeting at
Rs A&M Wednesday as the 31st Student
Rerence on National Affairs presents
■year’s program, “The Myriad Chal-
IgesofThe Middle East.”
iThe purpose of SCONA is to bring to
per the future leaders of America and
World,” says Ken Yang, vice chairman
speakers. “SCONA is the place where
idents can sit down and communicate.”
iThis year 41 universities and 25 high
pools will be represented as well as dele-
R from Canada, the Dominican Repub-
Rgvpt, Israel, Mexico, Scotland, Switzer-
N and West Germany.
|Rie program’s focus is the round table
Rissions which involve 170 delegates.
|0e delegates are divided into small groups
ROto 15 members with two co-chairmen
Rd to provide some expertise and
Ranee in the discussions. Interspersed
fOUghout the S'/a-day conference will be
'Rules by experts in Middle Eastern af
fairs. All speeches will be in Rudder The
ater.
The program will begin with an opening
address Wednesday at 2 p.m. by Bill Stew
art, a diplomatic correspondent for Time
magazine.
Dr. Odeh Aburdene will give a speech
Thursday at 9 a.m. on the economics of the
Middle East. Aburdene has worked in
banking with a special emphasis on the
Middle East. He is senior vice president and
manager of the New York branch of the
Arab Bank Limited.
Also on Thursday, a panel discussion en
titled “Modernization and Islamic Revival”
will take place at 1:30 p.m. between Dr.
Elizabeth Fernea, Dr. John Williams and
Dr. Andrew Hess.
Fernea will give a speech on the role of
women and family in the Middle East. Fer
nea has lived in Iraq, Egypt, Morocco and
France.
Williams is a professor of art history at
the University of Texas and is a specialist
on the art and religion of the Middle East.
Williams will lecture on religion in the Mid
dle East.
Hess will lecture on modernization and
industrialization in the Middle East. He is
now working at The Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy. Hess speaks Arabic, Turk
ish, Spanish an French and can read Classi
cal and Modern Arabic, Ottoman Turkish,
Modern Turkish, Persian, Italian, Portu
guese, Spanish and French.
Joseph J. Sisco will give a speech Friday
at 9 a.m. entitled “Security Issues and
World Power Involvement.” Sisco served
for 25 years in the U.S. State Department.
He has served under six secretaries of state
and five presidents. He is now a partner in
Sisco Associates, a national and interna
tional consulting firm, and is also a radio
and television foreign affairs analyst ap
pearing regularly on ABC Good Morning
America and on other national networks,
public television, the British Broadcasting
Corporation and Voice of America. He is
also a regular foreign affairs analyst for Ca
ble News Network.
Also on Friday, a panel discussion enti
tled “The Arab/Israeli Conflict” will begin
at 1:30 p.m. It will feature Dr. Moshe Ma’oz
and Ambassador Clovis Maksoud. Gordon
Brown will moderate. Ma’oz was born in
Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Maksoud is the Permanent Observer of
the League of Arab States at the United Na
tions and chief representative of the
League in the United States. He is also a
journalist and lawyer.
Dr. William Quandt will give the closing
address, “Prospects for Peace,” Saturday at
10 a.m. Quandt is a Senior Fellow at the
Brookings Institute and earned his B.A. at
Stanford and his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
The public is invited to all speeches and
panel discussions, but round table meetings
are limited to the delegates.
SCONA is a unique organization in that
it is totally student run and financed by in
dependent corporations and private dona
tions.
“We don’t get one penny from the Me
morial Student Fund,” says Yang.
The Naval Academy, Air Force Academy
and Harvard University also sponsor simi
lar programs.
A&M’s SCONA program was begun in
1955 by several members of the Corps of
Cadets, says Linda Thomas, chairman of
SCONA. The first program had a budget
of $12,000. This year’s budget was
$100,000.
Yang says the money is used to pay some
of the speakers’ fees, transportation and
hotel bills. Yang added that some speakers
do not charge a fee for their participation
in non-profit conferences such as SCONA.