Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 10, 1986
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By Jim Earle
“I’m glad that you finally got registered. Too bad it was such an ordeal
for you . . . you are okay, aren’t you?”
Kidnapping
(continued from page 1)
Dalati, of the abduction, police said.
A school associate said Reed has
lived in Lebanon about eight years
and converted to Islam before his
marriage. The associate, who in
sisted on anonymity, said the couple
have a five-year-old son, Tareq.
In Washington, White House
spokesman Larry Speakes said the
administration was aware of reports
of the kidnapping and of reports
that Islamic Jihad was responsible,
and had no reason to doubt that the
reports were true.
An anonymous caller claiming to
speak for Islamic Jihad charged in a
call to a Western news agency that
Reed was a spy for the CIA and that
“documents convicting him” were
found on him.
The caller said, “We found out
that his educational mission was a
mere disguise for his espionage ef
forts. ”
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of increased earnings by the perma
nent school and university funds,
higher college tuitions and increases
in other minor fund revenues, to
gether with actions by the Legis
lature and the attorney general of
Texas,” Bullock said.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby was asked if
Bullock’s revised estimate means the
state’s financial problem is “less se
vere.”
be settled in this fiscal year,” Hobby
said.
But he said the revised estimate is
an encouraging note.
Bullock said oil prices averaged
$20.63 a barrel in fiscal 1986 but will
average only $15.1 1 this year, drop
ping total oil and gas production
taxes by $472 million.
“No, it simply recognizes the legis
lative actions that have been taken
and the assurance from the attorney
general that the . . . lawsuit wouldn’t
Bullock also predicted that the
state sales tax would inch up by only
$22 million and motor vehicle sales
tax collections would drop by $76
million.
‘Man shortage 1 doesn’t faze Miss America contestants
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) —
Miss America contestants, who fre
quently list a happy marriage and
children among their goals, aren’t
worried about studies that show col
lege-educated women have slim
chances of getting married after age
30.
“I’ve read those polls and I just
go, ‘pooh,’ ” said Miss Kansas Heat
her Lynn Clark, 23, of Benton.
Miss South Carolina, Dawn Eliza
beth Smith, 22, of Columbia, said,
“The person who doesn’t get mar
ried has chosen not to. It’s just put
ting people in a statistic. I’m not wor
ried about it.”
Miss Oklahoma, Mignon Mer
chant of Edmond, said she hopes the
rumored man shortage for mature
women isn’t true.
But, she added, “I hadn’t really
thought: ‘Oh, my gosh. I’m 25. I’d
better start looking.’ ”
Earlier this year, a study by two
Yale University sociologists and a
Harvard University economist
found that white, college-educated
women who reach age 30 without
marrying only have a 20 percent
chance of ever tying the knot, and
the odds get worse as they grow
older.
Black women in the same situa
tion have only an 8 percent chance
of marrying after age 30, according
to the study based on a U.S. Census
Bureau survey of 70,000 house
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