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Because he met the NCAA’s (and A&M’s) strict academic standards few the SAT and If his score miraculously jumps to 700 on his second attempt - he’s enrolled in an SAT preparation course — Lewis successfully will have met the eligibility requirements for the NCAA and the admis sion requirements for A&M and will qualify for a scholarship to play football. Lewis is one of the nation’s top high school football prospects — he’s extremely tempting for a scnool so thirsty for a numoer one football team. Just now big a temptation Lewis is for the Aggies will be discovered next fall. If, however, Lewis can’t make the grade, he still can study at A&M his freshman year,* but he won’t be eligible to play football until his sophomore year. In the world of higher education, no lack of academic prowess can keep an outstanding athlete on the sidelines for long. ONE DAY AT THE TEXAS COUCT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS f BUT, YOUR. HONOR.! THE CROSS MUN3EK.CA9E IS CWER 20 YEARS OLDf Pmo rr uastmcd comk-tly 70 7H£ KUl£5 OF rrs D*Y! ' / V THE *\AN»S Guu.r ISNT even Be IN Cl QUK TlOM£Df l\l ftEXOSjDS NU. DC5WCD, EVICCHGE IS UmVCSBCS MW/E 0*0 — MOW AXE WE I YOUR TO «W 1ML5 CAS*T \ the terms’ nvwues ^ V*u-U*/E TO SUFFER 'MtoOSM AwKMCR TBAL, AMO tTftf EVEW SEE THE MILLER GO FREE! /**>\ Remember, folks- THESE. TURKEYS YD RUN FOR re*election f c V KAA.- College-educated people for athletes during his high school years, Lewis can retake f i — I - _ - /i | _ . ^ If K i .d p™.w y hr. often dotl / KHOW the facts Paula Vogiln Trust the government? Richard Cohen On April 14, U.S. warplanes bombed Libya, killing 37 persons, among them a 15- month-old girl named Hana, re portedly Moam- m a r Gadhafi’t adopted daughter The attack was in reprisal for the bombing days ear lier of a West German discotheque fre quented by U.S. servicemen. Oise serv iceman was killed Following the disco bombing. Bob Woodward of the Washington Post re ported what the president had alluded to: The United States had intercepted messages from the Libyan Embassy in East Germany telling Libyan authorities that they “will ,be very happy when you see the headlines tommorrow " Case closed. But is R? At the time. President Rea gan seemed to personify the American rage at Gadhafi. The Libyan leader had exulted in the deaths of infiocents in massacres at the Rome and Vienna air ports and had reportedly financed seve ral terrorist operations. The administra tion’s cast seemed convincing, and its reprisal, really an Sct of wsnv seemed above moral when the mad dog of not believe our own govecunaeus. I^ie list of lies — and they art that — is get ting longer and longer, and foremost among mem was the repeated declara tion that the United States would never psy ransom for hostages We did just that — and did it repeatedly. Another lie was that If the United States possessed hard information that other countries were engaged in terror ism, they would get a dose of what Libya got. “We have made h plain that if we have the same kind of irrefutable evi dence with regard to other countries, they'll be subject to the same treatment.” the president said on May 7. The infor mation Unking Iran to the kidnappers of American hostages was so irrefutable that we traded arms for their release. When it comes to information — irre futable or otherwise — I have none to contradict what the president said fol lowing the bombing of Libya. But as one who approved of that raid, 1 have the sinking feeling that I was in some sense taken — that the administration arbi trarily substituted Libya for Iran when, fallowing the hijacking of a TWA flight to Beirut, k realised that Tehran and not Tripoli was the real paymaster of Middle East terrorists. Maybe we bombed Libya because k. almost alone among Ujprorist nations, was not hold- Gad rkl reproach Fen quibbled jog American hostages Or maybe Prrsadent calk*! Gadhafi the hafi lost avfaughter because we were at om rhe Middle East ry*< tefspdng to send a message not to him — Imt to the AyatoBajk: In violation of our laws, we might try to assissinatr a taWrMer- 7 Since the «jpru>g. thpugh. mufhJms changed. Libya, no matter what its nns, seems almost inconsequential compared to the real thugs of the Middle Earn. In two separate trials — one in London, the ocher in West Berlin a- Syria was im plicated in two teronsts incidents The first was the attempt to place a bomb on an El A1