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Sign a 1-year lease and choose to redecorate. Redstone 1301 Bartholow • 696-1848 THE DRIVING FORCE, of BRYAN-COLLEGSLSTATION union OeVwetV 1 - ? special^ uni on 9 B"°" c "' 9 dsyi Ik . This Friday and Saturday Only! No Reasonable Offer Will Be Refused H p ii': ''4 ; I I L , .. I ' 626 4-Door Deluxe $10,508 FREDBR6W 3100 Briarcrest Drive at the East Bypass 776-7600 *To be a member o? the Texas Agpie Credit Union you must he a student at Texas A AM former student faculty, staff or family member of the above Prices exclude dealer preparatio fTifltS fl nd TTAL Prices not valid with previous advertised specials Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, November 24, 1986 Delays hinder investigations of police abuse HOUSTON (AP) — Long delays hinder investigations of Houston po lice officers accused of abusing citi zens and keep suspected officers on duty for months even in some cases with substantial evidence of wrong doing, the Houston Post reported Sunday. The police Internal Affairs Divi sion is hampered by record-keeping problems, a backlog of cases, a short age of workers and biased policies in checking out complaints against offi cers, the Post reported in a copyright story. In more than 200 cases, the spe cial unit took so long to investigate that state law prohibited Police Chief Lee Brown from suspending officers longer than 15 days without pay, the newspaper reported. In a letter, Brown responded to the investigation by promising that records of misconduct by Houston police officers will be computerized in order to correct some problems. The internal unit has sought a computer to help speed complaints through the system and to prevent theft or loss of records such as those missing on 1,043 officers, the Post reported. Brown said his department had some failures in monitoring employ ees but defended his force. “To my knowledge, no other ma jor police department has an inter nal affairs and review process as ex tensive and as objective as the Houston Police Department,” he said. “We strive to make this depart ment the best in the country and we will not tolerate any conduct which falls below our standards.” Police have gone to great lengths to nab officers where evidence clearly indicated wrongdoing, some times conducting aerial searches and using out-of-town detectives to snare officers suspected of narcotics activ ity, accepting bribes and theft, the newspaper reported. Although most officers never draw a single complaint, some have been under investigation virtually their entire careers, the Post re ported. One officer, who chalked up 25 complaints in seven years, was fired in 1984, but the city’s Civil Service Commission reinstated him after 37 days without pay, the Post reported. Some 117 officers each drew more than 10 complaints between July 1977 through December 1984. Of those, 91 remain on duty today. The number of complaints jumped from 583 in 1977 to 1,539 in 1985, according to the newspaper. The Post said it reviewed 6,771 complaints of alleged misconduct by at least 3,268 officers from July 1 through Dec. 31, 1984 and also ob tained information from court re cords and the Houston Civil Service Commission. What’s up will meet at 7 p.m. Monday CLASS OF ’87: Elephant Walk will start at noon at the Lav | ^ rente Sullivan Ross Statue. TAMU CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: 404 Rudder. AGGIE ALLIANCE: all those interested in going to the pherd convention will meet at 7 p.m. in 167 Read. AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will meet and give squared? lessons at 7 p.m. in 226 MSC. f Tuesday CLEAR LAKE AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: will haveai bonfire party at 4:30 p.m. at No. 704 Lreehouse ApanML ments. ''‘•alH n l STUDENT ACTIVITIES SPEAKERS SEMINAR: appln a!, lions for the 1987 Speakers Seiinnai a i e a\ailalilc thnni. i“ri today in the Student Activities Office, 208 Pavilion. FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL: entries for the Class of W T-shirt design contest may be submitted to 216 MSC unifllf,' 11 Dec. 1. I 11 FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL: ap plic at ions for committalt t l chairmen are available through 1 >e< 1 m 2 16 .MSC. , t(l | A&M LITERARY ARTS CLUB: is now accepting subiii|oi, !ol P: applications for Fish Camp '87 co-chairmen?:® 11 in 213 Pavilion. sions for Litmus. FISH CAMP available DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS: students mtere$te:| in taking actuarial examinations in February should tact Dr. 11. E. Lacey, head of the Department of Mathenr®' ics, in 102 Milner Hall. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalioi 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working dm prior to desired publication date. Hightower: Farmers in Texas may benefit from Israeli expertise AVDAT, Israel (AP)— Texas Ag ricultural Commissioner Jim High tower recently led a group of farm ers, educators and businessmen on a two-week tour through Israel to learn agricultural innovations. T he delegation was assembled In the Texas-Israel Exchange, an orga nization which aims to bring Israeli farming techniques to Texas farms. “There’s a lot of interest in this in Texas,” Hightower said. “What we’ve been doing isn’t working, and Israel seems to have some of the an swers.” The delegation saw demonstra tions of dry-land farming techniques in the Negev Desert, where a guide explained how farmers could grow crops and fruit trees with less than four inches of rain a year. Walk Horne, a Houston botanist and lawyer, said the demonstrations would be helpful to Texas farmers. “This concept is much more ad vanced than what we have in Texas,” he said. “I’ve spent a lot of time in Presidio and Marfa, and a loti is directly applicable.” When he visited Israel in Hightower said he became vimed that Israeli expertise in gation, fa rrne i Texas. After a visit to Texas from Is Agriculture Minister! top diversification oo|relatives could Deputy ha m K a t / - ()/ . i he cm:.. ^. ( L ha agreement was signed in 1985. “I'm not sure Washington! )n , the idea of us running aroundn ing directly with nations, tower told the Dallas Morning “But it’s the fact of the federal tern that you can.” I he organization is funded slate grant of less than SlO.OOfl contributions from Jewish said its director, Sara Ehrman. 1 he group's first project will l()()-acre farm at Laredo Junior! lege, where Israeli experts will ommend crops and techniques! c ould be viable in the region. vhi Teacher expects textbook! to include Christianity soot isyst SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jesus Christ will begin appearing in text books because of a rising wave of censorship charges in American public schools, said the leader of the anti-censorship committee of a na tional teachers’ group. “I believe within the next go- around of textbook adoptions, we will see a lot more attention given to Christianity,” John M. Kean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said during an interview Saturday with the San Antonio Express-News. Kean is among 4,500 educators at tending the National Council of Teachers of English convention through Wednesday in San Antonio. He is chairman of the group’s Com mittee Against Censorship and will be leading a Tuesday workshop to help teachers combat censorship and develop policies. Officials will start including Chris tianity’s role model in textbooks to avoid growing criticism of discussing other religions in texts, Kean pre dicted. Today’s public school textbooks, particularly history, do not discuss Christianity at all, although English textbooks previously have carried stories about Far Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Kean said. Kean said publishers and teachers must discuss Christianity. mendation to enter a legal tel recent Tennessee case. Somelf tian parents, represented btj cerned Women for Ameria| the right to exclude theirdi from literature they objected^ YV7 minis “There is no way we can deal with our cultural heritage, our language heritage and our literature without a lot of attention being given to Judeo- Christian values,” he said. In his position as chairman of the anti-censorship committee, Kean said he receives calls from teachers whose materials are being chal lenged. He said there has been a large increase in the number of censorship attempts since 1980. “We believe this will hart c hilling effect," Kean said. , viously the parent's right tod®, e what a child will be exposedio® 1 ' 1 and e personally think it’s verydaii|?®P' ni l or us as a democracy that formed leaders to have a „ e ' *M Ser of our population not infc about issues. “We’re not talking aboutte® 1 sex or dirty films into thedass®^ ‘ but we’re talking about ci versity,” he said. adder ing a: Unite “The American Library Associa tion and the People for the Ameri can Way counted a 35 percent in crease in the past year,” he said. The national council will decide during its convention about a recom- Kean said he did not knot were any 1 school bee them. rce As black poets whenk Amin ecause teachers f|ti ons , -i- , Mkpai I wo years ago, a study that one-third ol the mostce f | t p |s | ( books deal with minorities,he^H RELOCATION SERVICE Moving Yourself? 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