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Battalion Classified 845-2611 White population in U.$. may drop below 50% WASHINGTON (AP) — II changes in U.S. immigration laws fail to stem the current flow of aliens, Hispanics, Asians and blacks could account for more than half of all Americans a century from now, a population group said Wednesday. “If illegal immigration remains high and annual immigration aver ages 1 million, the non-Hispanic white population would drop to just under 50 percent in 2080,” said the new study by the private, non-profit Population Reference Bureau. The report, “Immigration to the U.S.: The Unfinished Story,” was written by Leon F. Bouvier, a pop ulation researcher who is a former vice president of the bureau, and Robert W. Gardner, a research asso ciate at the East-West Population In stitute in Honolulu. “The nation must once again re define itself,” Bouvier and Gardner said. The 1980 Census counted 226.5 million Americans, of which 79.9 percent were whites other than His panics. The Census said 11.7 percent of Americans were black, 6.4 percent were Hispanic and 2.0 percent were Asians and others. make up 23.4 percent of thenaii having surpassed blacks as thesc| ond largest group in 2010. B would be 14.7 percent of the pop tion and Asians and others, 12.1pd cent. At the same time that bothkj and illegal immigration continut high levels, the nation’s birthrait low lot Wore «aiH British leave much-noted class behind Social barriers still fascinate England LONDON (AP) — An interviewer for the British Broadcasting Corp. asked novelist Barbara Gartland a few years ago if Britain’s class bar riers were coming down. “Of course they have,” retorted the high-society author of hundreds of best-selling romantic tales, “or I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to someone like you.” The barriers may be coming down, but they are still a source of endless fascination, as a glance at this week's newspapers and TV list ings quickly proves. The Daily Telegraph just ran a two-part survey on what it calls “The Great British Obsession,” and the Times had a column asking whether class-mindedness equals elitism. Over on the Independent Tele vision network, viewers are into the ninth part of “Paradise Postponed,” John Mortimer’s panoramic drama about the changes Britain has un dergone as its class system has crum bled. Once reviled as the bane of British society, class consciousness was sup posed to have suf fered a savage blow on the battlefields of World War I and the coup de grace in World War II. But the remnants continue to pro vide rich pickings, as shown by the Telegraph series, which included ev erything from interviews with lords, ladies and hotel doormen to a quiz for readers to test their class aware ness. Reporter Martyn Harris wrote, “It is all very puzzling to Americans. To most foreigners, we are still what George Orwell called ‘the most class- ridden nation under the sun.’ ” However, interesting twists to the story emerge. In the interviews, it was the aristocrats who were most eager to distance themselves from the class system. Blue-collar intervie wees sounded quite comfortable with it. The quiz asked readers to asso ciate shops, garments, celebrities and professions with a particular class. But the main goal was to get as many answers wrong as possible, to prove oneself qualified for the egali tarian world. This eagerness to appear “clas sless” falls in with a general aware ness today that the true upheaval in Britain’s class system is being gener ated not by working-class revolution aries, but from the very force once thought to be the bastion of class- consciousness — the Conservative Party. For those who still judge a per son’s character by whether he wears four buttons or two on his jacket cuff, the problem is that today’s To ries are led not by a country squire but by Margaret Thatcher, a self- made grocer’s daughter professing nothing but contempt for inherited privilege. This is the essence of the storyline of “Paradise Postponed” and the ba sis of Harris’ main conclusion: “An obsession with the class system is a sign of how uncertain people are be coming of their place within it.” ..o'? ® CORN 1621 Texas Avenue South College Station, Texas 77840 Culpepper Plaza (Sear Hastings and Uehind Holiday Inn), 10-8 M-F to-4 sat POPCORN Available in Bags or Personalized Cans In Many Delicious Flavors At current high immigration rates, totaling 1 million annually, counting both legal and illegal aliens, the non-Hispanic whites could shrink to 49.8 percent of the population by the year 2080 — be coming “the largest minority in a na tion without any ethnic majority population.” At that time Hispanics would Since 1982 the fertility rate American women has been bel the 2.1 children per woman need: to keep the population constantoi: the long term. I f immigration were to stop,at is current fertility rate the populati of the nation would begin to die die. But the effect of the newinn gration law remains to be seen. World Briefs Official: Army’s inaction doomed cast WASHINGTON (AP) — Inac tion by the U.S. Army doomed a case against a reservist accused of possessing 9 1 /2-tons of exotic mili tary hardware seized just before the 1984 Republican National Convention, a Dallas police offi cial testified Wednesday. The army failed to help despite repeated requests by police inves tigators to trace serial numbers on the equipment arid provide a listing of ordnance that legally cannot be possessed outside tht military, Deputy Chief G.F. Ho day told a congressional panel His testimony before a Semttl Armed Services task force on i itary inventory was part ofal continuing investigation by tlitj panel, headed by Sen. Pete Wil [ son, R-Caiif. The panel hasspo; lighted problems associated wiii.1 military management of a hugt stockpile of munitions and othe l equipment. Study: Disabled finally finding jobs NEWTON, Mass. (AP) —More than 87,000 of America’s most se verely disabled adults were placed in jobs in 1984 and 1985, earning about $400 million and saving taxpayers that amount in aid, according to a national study released Wednesday. The study, based on a survey of agencies nationwide that try to find jobs for the disabled, said about 25,000 mentally and physi cally handicapped adults gained their first jobs in 1984 and that number jumped to 62,409 in 1985. “I truly feel attitudes are chat ging,” said Jean K. Elder, actin; assistant secretary of theOfficeof Human Development Servicesof the U.S. Department of Healii and Human Services. “We look ait people now atclj see abilities rather than disablf ties." The study was conducted wild a $40,000 grant from HHS. 1 was done to evaluate Presider Reagan’s 1983 Employment In tialive, which was designed tc- promote the disabled to thewori force. Disney loses suit over sex in cartoon LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two children who watched explicit sex scenes added to a rented video tape of a Walt Disney cartoon, “Silly Symphonies,” will receive $9,500 in an out-of-court set tlement, a lawyer said. The settlement was approved last week by San Fernando Supe rior Court judge Fred Rimerrnan after lawyer Jerry L. Webb threatened to sue Wherehouse Records, which rented the video, and Walt Disney Productions! which made it. Webb, who represents the chi-1 dren’s mother, Susan H. Sanders,| said that Wherehouse and Disneii agreed to share the cost of theses I dement. Robert Block, a lawyer foii Wherehouse Records, speculated! that someone who previously had! rented the video might have re [I corded the scenes on the video-FI tape alter the Disney movie’s end. jj Swiss admit toxic spill alert was delayed ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — Switzerland conceded Wednes day to top officials from countries along the Rhine that a misunder standing delayed an international alert for 24 hours after a disas trous toxic spill from a chemical plant fire. Swiss President Alphons Egli told the meeting that Switzerland was ready to discuss damage claims by countries affected and that he hoped they could besei tied without legal action, a West German delegation spokesman! said. The spokesman spoke on con i dition of anonymity. About 30 European environ 1 mental ministers also issued i| statement pledging to cooperatfl in cleaning up one of Europe| worst environmental disasters in | recent years. No figure for thees-1 timated cost was given. Record-breaking cold front heads south (AP) — Freeze warnings were posted in the heart of Dixie on Wednesday as record-breaking cold air raced to the South and East, chasing homeless people into packed shelters and snarling traf fic with icy roads. At least 18 deaths had been blamed on the weather since the season’s first big snowstorm hit the northern Plains last week, and crews in North Dakota searched amid 6-foot snowdrifts for a miss ing 13-year-old. Wyoming reopened long sec tions of major highways that were closed overnight by blowing, drifting snow, but roads else where turned slippery as the leading edge of the cold airtrif- gered snow flurries across tk Plains and the Midwest. Low temperatures combined with wind as high as 20 to40mpM to send the wind-chill factor to $ j to 50 degrees below zero across? Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas; and northern Nebraska into Iowa and Minnesota, the National Weather Service said. “This is very unusual for No-: vember,” said Jim Richardson of; the weather service office in Min ? neapolis. “It’s more typical of to | December or January. ’ Lewistown, Mont., was theoffi l cial coldest spot in the 48 states a?, 24 below zero Wednesday. J' S TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATlO MBA INFORMATION SESSION Regular, Seasoned & Sugared LOCATION: ROOM 1 14, BLOCKER BLDG. DATE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, TIME: 6:00 PM