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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.
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I The company, one of the world’s
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olamed the downturn in oil prices
for the company’s decline in explo
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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.
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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.
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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.
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