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Tuesday, March 4, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11 By Jim Earle d esman Lt n who tel Embassy i i few ho« -d respoiis Red Am linistn at n formed i ief govett tlhelm Os lonnhad: nt by % were willii 'stigation “Weren't you chewing tobacco when we startedjogging?’ arch 4. d’s Kin? charter to ea of land ylvania. ituttort off into effect ; igress met: r, the late, p for iht nfederaoj Bars flat; Militants protest Anglo-Irish accord in Northern Ireland the Roose- aught wilt ’rve in the ry Frances! Id Reagan t > Davis in hi me Min- dean tnar-; in Nortl; Columbia. Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Protestant militants hurled gasoline bombs and stones in a rampage Monday through central Belfast, land violent protests hit London derry and other towns during a gen eral strike to demonstrate opposition ; to an Anglo-Irish accord. At least 10 people were injured, eight vehicles were set on fire, and a clothing factory went up in flames in the most violent and widespread protest against the Nov. 15 accord that gives the Catholic Irish Republic a role in running the province. The Protestants, who outnumber Catholics 3-2 in Northern Ireland, cut electric power to hundreds of homes and virtually paralyzed the province during the 24-hour strike. The Royal Ulster Constabulary said 34 people were arrested. Among the injured were four po licemen and two women who were stoned during an evacuation of the Saracen clothing factory in Lurgan, f 15 miles southwest of Belfast. The factory was seriously damaged by a I fire that broke out after the 200 workers left under police escort to protect them from a mob of about 500 Protestant pickets. Protestant leaders had called for a peaceful 24-hour strike in this Brit ish province to protest the Anglo-Ir ish agreement, but violence broke out shortly after the strike began at midnight Sunday. Peter Robinson, deputy leader of the hard-line Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the strike a success, saying it had widespread support. “I hope that by midnight tonight (Monday) the world will have got the message that Prime Minister Marga ret Thatcher is strangling democ racy in Northern Ireland and that the agreement must go,” Robinson said. Protestants accuse Thatcher of ig noring their special election vote on Jan. .23 in favor of scrapping the accord, which gives the Catholic Re public of Ireland a consultative role in the province. Thatcher has remained adamant that Britain will not cancel the agreement. Commission recommends drug testing at work sites Associated Press WASHINGTON — Drug traf ficking is organized crime’s most lu crative enterprise and constitutes a national emergency that should be met with workplace drug testing and aggressive intervention by the U.S. military, a presidential panel con cluded Monday. In a report to President Reagan, the Commission on Organized Crime said law enforcement agen cies can do little more than hold the line against illicit narcotics traffic, which generates an estimated $110 billion a year. The solution is to bolster police in terception of narcotics with anti drug programs aimed at reducing the demand for illicit substances, the report said. It added that the U.S. drug prob lem has become a threat to national security and justifies drastic mea sures such as drug testing in the workplace. “No attempt to eliminate orga nized crime from this country can possibly be complete without a con certed nationwide campaign to re duce the demand for narcotics in the United States,” the commission’s chairman, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Irving R. Kaufman, saio in a statement as the report was submitted to the president. Calling drug trafficking and abuse “the most serious organized crime problems in America today,” the report says the president should direct all federal agencies to formu late “immediately clear policy statements, with implementing guidelines, including suitable drug testing programs.” The study says government con tracts should not be awarded to com panies that fail to implement drug testing programs. There are some 2.7 million civilian federal employ ees and 1.7 million in the military. In addition, the federal govern ment does business with some 15,000 companies employing 23 mil lion workers. At a news briefing, the commis sion’s deputy director, Rodney B. Smith, stopped short of saying that all working Americans should un dergo drug testing, but added, “We are saying to every employer in the nation that ‘you should consider the suitability of drug testing.’ “We’re saying that being drug- free ought to be one of the require ments in all types of government employment and in most types of private employment.” The study says the public and pri vate sectors must recognize that “we are in a national emergency.” Recluse’s will changes life in Illinois town cuiity. Associated Press ARGENTA, Ill. — In her last years, Grace Winings rarely had visi tors or left her home in this quiet prairie town, but she left a legacy that has changed her neighbors’ lives. Income from her $2 million estate has paid for computers for the school, lights at the youth league baseball diamond, repaving of church parking lots and more. Since 1980, a year after she died at age 90, $622,495 has been used to benefit residents of the area Winings lived in all her life. The principal from her estate of farmland and investments remains untouched and the town’s annual waS i windfalls will continue indefinitely 13 J as stipulated in her will. a(aC kvsi* was a vei 7 sav i n g person, but I don’t know whether she realized she would have been giving more than $600,000 in six years. It sur prised me,” said Edwin Wallace, who helps distribute the money every August as president of the Gerber « ■ —State Bank in this central Illinois I 1 town of 1,000 people. ■ ■ I bank ’ s trust committee re- ^ | views applications from eligible ite film “G$ nner?” ^ emy Courage^ i” in 1938’ as masted to Trac ! ntor and 1 !* a second “(The Winings) were mil lionaires, but you couldn’t pick them out of a crowd. ” — Edwin Wallace, presi dent, Gerber State Bank. groups — local charitable organiza tions and government agencies in Whitmore and Friends Creek town ships, which include the towns of Ar- genta and Oreana — and chooses projects for funding. “There are always more than enough requests, so you just try to reach as many of the people in the two townships as you can,” Wallace said. “A lot of these projects just wouldn’t have been done without Mrs. Winings.” One of the major beneficiaries has been Argenta’s library, which re ceived all of Winings’ books plus $85,594 — a substantial boon con sidering its annual income from taxes is $25,000. Librarian Velda Dierker said, “We have computers, a meeting room, a place for the kids to hang out, a re- SPRING BREAK ONLY 11 days away. Start your TAIM-U tan TODAY. TANU 104 Old College Main at Northgate Walk-ins are welcome. Call 846-9779 for an appointment. ‘Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” A Theatrical Production Featuring the Charles Gilpen Players of Prairie View A&M University Tuesday, March 4, 1986 8 p.m. Rudder Theatre 00/non-student and $3.00/student tickets on sale at MSC Box Office Black Awareness College Nights Tuesday & Wednesday March 4 & 5 Noon to 9 p.m. Precision Haircut & Style - Only $10 Terrific campus cuts at super savings with student I.D. Free gifts & refreshments. RGGIS HAIRSTYLISTS Post Oak Mall 764-0660 modeled building — it’s made us a front-runner among small libraries in the state.” Wallace said of Winings and her husband, “They were just good, honest people — not prominent. They were millionaires, but you couldn’t pick them out of a crowd.” Born in Macon County and raised near Argenta, Winings settled with her husband, farmer Billy Winings, in a modest rural home without an indoor bathroom, furnace or water heater. After his death, she returned to her parents’ white, two-story house in Argenta. Those who knew her in those last years remember Winings as a ailing, quiet woman who seldom went out or had visitors. Nearly deaf, she did not have a hearing aid. She also had no television and did not drive. Shortly after her death, Winings’ attorney, Gus Greanias, described her as a “very thrifty person” who wanted to make sure she did not out live her fortune as she had outlived her family and friends. With your diploma comes a new Buick, Pontiac or GMC and... no payments for 90 days Quality Pontiac-Buick-GMC Trucks is offering guaranteed financing for graduating Texas A&M seniors and graduate students. 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