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i Friday, August 8, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 Program survives terrorist scare A&M students study abroad By Jean Lennox Reporter lespite the terrorist threat that evastated European tra.vel this ar, over 100 A&M students partic- ated in the Texas A&M Study tbroad Program this summer, jhe Study Abroad Program truggled in May when students ven panicking about terrorism in urope and the Texas economy was Hining. “So many rumors were going iround,” Karen DeMoss, a graduate assistant for the Study Abroad Pro gram, said. “Someone would say that Tex.is Tech cancelled its trips and then SMU, but no one really did; it was all rumors.” Blathy Schutt, secretary of the Study Abroad Office, said that none of the departments cancelled their trips. The marketing department al most called off its trip because of last-minute cancellations, but instead decided to change its trip from Eu rope to the Orient. “Students weren’t cancelling be cause of terrorism.” Schutt said. “Most of the students decided not to go because of the economy in Texas. “A few parents called their chil dren and just told them that they could no longer afford the trip.” Dr. Candida Lutes, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said the terrorism scare was treated comi cally in Europe. Lutes said she went to Italy for one week with the study abroad pro gram and brought back a T-shirt reading “I survived Europe ’86.” Dave Booty, a graduate student who traveled in Europe alone, said no one bothered him. “Of course you’ve got to be care ful, but you have to be careful in any city in the United States,” he said. Annie Appleby, a senior modern languages major, went to Europe with the Study Abroad Program and says she wasn’t scared at all. She says her only concern was that her trip would be cancelled after she’d waited so long. Schutt said that many of the stu dents who passed up the interna tional trips said they now regret not going. The only problems she heard were the typical ones, she said. “You always have the problem of students getting homesick, but when they get home they always say, ‘Wow! I had a great time. I was a little homesick, but I had a great time,’ ’’she said. Lutes said many students have told her they had a wonderful time exas county halting ee care for indigents i ■LIBERTY (AP) — Residents Meeting free health care services no longer can turn to the Liberty Bunty indigent care program ex- — cept in cases of emergency. ■The program, $5,()()() in the red, — air I has been closed temporarily. nttiMOnly residents with life-threaten ing emergencies can receive free t'ZjBiatment at Kersting Memorial Hospital, since the county no longer ■11 pay for doctor visits, prescrip- T H>n medicine or non-emergency !• W-j health needs. lelivtuH'Tf you don’t have any money, . s |hat else are you going to do?” said ■onnie Ward, administrative assis- >igbBnt to the county judge, ewooi i “If somebody has a high fever and ^■miting, we can’t help them,” she ■id. “But if they’ve been in a car :a g aa Wreck or had a serious accident on the job, they can go to the emer gency room for help.” In the past five years, the number of people seeking indigent care in the county has risen 75 percent. Of ficials budgeted $108,000 for indi gent medical care, autopsies and mental health commitments, but that amount dwindled to $200 by June. County auditor Harold Seay pumped an additional $25,000 in revenue sharing funds into the ac count, but expenses mounted faster than he could find money to pay them. Since the county’s indigent care office closed, at least 15 people re questing non-emergency medical aid have been turned away, officials said. lereitiil ill hoM lis own | aiierofjj v, per- nalaise. againsl close to $524 million Halliburton loss largest in 62-year history n largt is other and in- mid w issioa ii tandart endinf. ’t sick. ild Rel ics ha't /e in his n for* it come is to he ; fill® has rui {{. Doni 1 seethf ;rs Crdf DALLAS (AP) — Halliburton Co., - ihe giant oil field services and engi neering company, reported a loss of $524.6 million Thursday, the largest Quarterly loss in the company’s 62-. Hear history. I The company, one of the world’s largest in tne oil field service busi ness, said more than 90 percent of [the loss came from after-tax write downs of $488.7 million on inven tory, property and equipment. I Thomas H. Cruikshank, presi dent and chief executive officer, olamed the downturn in oil prices for the company’s decline in explo ration, which resulted in lower ma rine engineering and construction revenues. Guy Marcus, director of investor relations, did not rule out the sale of more assets in the future as a way to reduce expenses. Marcus said the company has laid off enough employees since the first of the year to account for a person nel savings of $250 million over a 12- month period. He declined to esti mate the total number of layoffs. *2.30 DISCOUNT SPECIALS 1. TUE.-FMLY. NITE ALL SEATS 2. M-W LOCALS STUDENT W/ CURRENT ID 3.1ft SHOW EVERY DAY Coming Soon THE MANHUNTER STAND BY ME FARRAH FAUCETT IN EXTREMETIES SEAN PENN & MADONNA IN SHANGHAI SURPRISE anor East Mall Manor East HI MERYL JACK STREEP NICHOLSON Sex. Love. Marriage. Some people don’t know when to quit Hearthiim Mon.-Sun. 2:40 * PARAMOUNT PICTURE ^ rormcfT e im nr paiamount ncniES & COtPOtXTKm ALL UGITTS ftESUVED Mon.-Sun. 2:30 4:50 7:25 9:45 Iruthless PEOPLE Mon.-Sun. 2:15 4:45 7:15 9:35 cc THE FASTEST, HOTTEST, MOST EXCITING THRILL RIDE EVER!” fUiGriT % D-* LLILPOLBY STEWED I * SELECTED THEATRES ’ and they experienced new things on the trip. She said that one student wrote and said the program had opened new doors for him. Lutes said, “The program also gives students and professors a chance to interact in a way the class room setting doesn’t allow.” Trips were offered to the Orient, Europe, the United Kingdom and Great Britain. The College of Lib eral Arts also sponsors trips to Spain, France and Germany. The Study Abroad Office already has started publicizing next sum mer’s programs. Lutes said the Col lege of Liberal Arts is trying to add a trip to Russia. Schutt said that with the new lan guage prerequiste required by the University, more and more students are going to be taking advantage of the Study Abroad Program. Friday BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will sponsor an international dinner in the BSU. For more information call 846-7722. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: applications for External Com munications and Public Relations will be available through the summer months. Please come by 221 Pavilion from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to pick up applications. For more informa tion call 845-3051. COMMODORE BRAZOS USERS’ GROUP: anyone inter ested in free tutorial on Commodore 64 or 128 systems can call David Gruben at 845-8889. STUDENT SERVICES BOOK EXCHANGE: will be held from August 18-29. Go to the second floor of the Pavilion to sell your used books and save money buying books. For more information call 845-3051. Monday AGGIE SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: will show vi deo highlights of the report of the National Commission on Space at 7 p.m. in 604D Sterling C. Evans. Tuesday TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will have a dive planning meeeting at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center lounge by the pi ano. For more information call Jeff, 696-2163. . Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de sired publication date. Poppt lated FBI probes diplomafs beating HOUSTON (AP) — An FBI investigation continued Thurs day into allegations that two Houston police officers beat and insulted a Bolivian diplomat and two of his relatives. FBI spokesman Ron Kettler said agents were working with the Houston Police Department’s in ternal affairs division to deter- whether Luis Fernando e Valdez’s rights were vio lated when he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of hin dering an arrest. Valdez said he was not claim ing diplomatic immunity on the charge because he was in the United States as a Lion’s Club representative and not as a gov ernment official. But defense attorney Ernest Lucas said he and Assistant Dis trict Attorney Alex Azzo were try ing to determine if Valdez, a member of the Bolivian foreign service and a former mayor of La Paz, has diplomatic immunity. Shortly after midnight July 21, police went to the Gonzales home apparently to issue Roman Gon zales a warning about trespassing at a condominium complex where one of the officers worked off-duty as a security guard. But Gonzales was arrested on charges of allegedly assaulting a police officer and Valdez, 45, and Tony Gonzales, 51, also were ar rested on charges of hindering an arrest, authorities said. Special Budget Session White hopes public will support tax hike AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Mark White, saying he saw no option but a sales tax hike to help balance the state budget, voiced hope Thursday that the public would convince law makers to raise taxes. “I am hopeful that the people of Texas will give guidance to their elected representatives,” he said. T he governor on Wednesday pro posed to solve the budget deficit cri sis with $1.4 billion in spending cuts and a one-year increase in the sales tax from 4.125 percent to 5.25 per cent. White said he and his staff worked right up to his speech to the Legis lature’s special session. He said he repeatedly ordered aides to find enough cuts to save the $2.2 billion he believes will close the budget defi cit. “I think I fired my staff two or three times . . .” he said. “I’d say, ‘Well try this, try this, try this.’ And they’d go back and do it again and do it again.” Finally, Tuesday night. White said he reached what he called an inevi table conclusion. “We could not find any other al ternative . . .” he said. “You can’t make it up with smoke and mirrors. You have to find money.” But White said he won’t open the special session for a tax hike until lawmakers make progess on spend ing cuts. “Let’s see how far they can go,” he said. $33.8 million cut for TDC may violate order AUSTIN (AP) — The House Ap propriations Committee voted Thursday to strip the Texas Depart ment of Corrections of $33.8 million prison officials say is needed to hire additional guards required by a fed- eraljudge. “We’re in trouble,” said Bill Mc Cray, TDC assistant director for budget. The panel is working agency-by agency to find budget cuts that could solve the state’s cash flow problem. TDC has saved $33.8 million since Gov. Mark White asked agencies in February to make spending cuts. Prison officials now want to use that money to make changes required by U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice of Tyler, including hiring 1,955 additional guards. The state has agreed to hire the additional guards, McCray said. But Rep. Bill Ceverha, R-Richard- son, won overwhelming committee support for taking the money away from TDC and applying it to the overall state debt. He said the move would “make no noticeable differ ence” in TDC’s operation. Justice, who is presiding over the implementation of prison reform or ders, held a contempt hearing in June to see whether TDC has com plied with his orders. His ruling is pending. Poll finds Texas Legislature split on tax issue FORT WORTH (AP) — After polling every member of the Texas Legislature, a television station re ported Thursday night that senti ment in the Texas House of Rep resentatives is heavily against either broadening or increasing the state sales tax. Texas senators, on the other hand, are just as strongly in favor of new sales tax revenue, KXAS-TV in Fort Worth reported, noting, how ever, that any new tax legislation must begin in the House. The legislators’ views reflect the same stance as their leaders, the poll shows. House Speaker Gib Lewis op poses new taxes, while Ft. Gov. Bill Hobby has been making appear ances around the state to rally sup port for his proposal of a permanent hike in the sales tax and expansion to include some services not cur rently taxed. KXAS-TV said it gathered the views over a three-week period end ing Thursday. They used mailed polls and followed up with tele phone calls. SOUTHWEST PKWY. PLAZA 3 2002 E 29th Mon.-Sun. 2:50 5:05 7:35 9:50 Anguished by anxiety ? Plagned by paranoia? Confounded by eonfhsion? Ifou need eomie relief fast, fast, fast! SCHULMAN 6 Mon.-Sun. 2:40 5:00 7:20 9:40 They're the last bunch in the world you'd expect to win anything... But with this crowd anything can happen! 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