Page 6AThe Battalion/Tuesday, March 24, 1987
Constitution & Foreign Policy:
A Question of Control
Moderator Howard K. Smith
Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
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Dean Rusk
Former Secretary of State under
Kennedy and Johnson
Senator Edmund S. Muskie
Member of the Tower Commission,
Former Secretary of State
Wednesday, April 1, 1987
Rudder Auditorium 8:00 pm
Texas A&M University
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Lecture Series
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the United States
Constitution
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Major crimes
in Texas rose
15% in / 86
AUSTIN (AP) — Major crimes re
ported in Texas increased nearly 15
percent last year, and law enforce
ment officials Monday said one rea
son for the jump is that criminals
don’t expect to wind up in prison.
“It appears that there are an in
creasing number of offenders who
have no fear of the consequences of
committing criminal acts,” said Col.
Jim Adams, director of the Depart
ment of Public Safety. “They don’t
expect incarceration commensurate
with the crime committee.”
The DPS on Monday released its
statistical summary of major crime
for 1986, showing a 14.9 percent in
crease over crimes reported in 1985.
In Advance
Student Senate to conclude session
The 1986-87 Student Senate,
in its last meeting this semester,
will take final action on three bills
Wednesday at 7 p.m. in 204 Har
rington.
A bill calling the snack bar fa
cility in the College of Veterinary
Medicine inadequate for students
and faculty using it, requests the
college be provided with a larger
lounge and dining room.
According to the bill, the pre
sent snack bar does not contain
cooking facilities and only seats
about 50 people, leading to long
waits for a seat in the room, and
forcing those using the room to
bring their own lunches.
A food-service lounge would
allow those who cannot leave the
area to buy their meals at thei;
erinary school.
Another bill to be debated^ AUS'I
on the A&M faculty to obse: the AID
the traditions of Silver Taps
Muster by refraining from
uling exams on those nights
Since both Silver Taps
Muster usually are scheduledp ,
week nights, and because studtjlinore the
participation maintains the tr*: much of
tions, the bill asks that facultyt||rapid sp
schedule exams or other nunc, mittee t
lory assignments those nights, spread i
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in the Traditions Council, stanS “I dot
The crime increase far out
stripped the 1986 state population
growth, which was 1.9 percent.
Last year, 1,235,834 serious
crimes were reported to the 798 law
enforcement agencies in the state.
That was up from the 1,075,656
crimes reported in 1985, the DPS
said.
The largest increase among the
major crimes was in robberies, up by
26.3 percent. Reports of aggravated
assaults increased 23.3 percent.
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Burglary increased 17.9 percent,
theft was up 11.6 percent, and mo
tor vehicle theft increased 19.6 per
cent, the DPS reported. Adams said
increased drug trafficking also was
reflected in the statistics, with arrests
for the sale or manufacturing of
drugs up 6.7 percent.
HOUSTON (AP) — Rice Univer
sity researchers are using half-scale
models to ‘re-create’ the devastating
1985 Mexico City earthquake in
hopes of learning how to repair invi
sible damage to structures involved
in the quake.
Ahmad Jan Durrani, an assistant
professor of civil engineering, and a
group of graduate students nave as
sembled models of columns, beams
and slabs that collapsed in Mexico
City in September 1985, killing some
10,000 people.
monitored by sensors embtdet:
the concrete.
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that much of the damage infe
City was caused by slack codn:
less construction and eaitks
tremors which happened tobcj
at intervals that left high-nsra;
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“It is quite true that the raid
workmanship and perhaps sodi
sign (flaws) contributed toibl
Murder and rape showed the
smallest increase of the major
crimes, up 6.2 percent and 2.9 per-
elv.
cent, respectively.
Hydraulic cylinders slowly bend
the models back and forth until they
crack and break. The operation is
recorded on a video camera and
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Investors differ on Pennzoil-Texaco case
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HOUSTON (AP) — Three major
investment banking firms are pre
dicting an eventual settlement of the
multibillion-dollar judgment
awarded Pennzoil Co. in its legal bat
tle with oil industry rival Texaco
Inc., but disagree on which company
is the best investment.
Kidder, Peabody & Co. is siding
with Texaco, the Houston Chronicle
reported Monday.
State District Judge SoIohm
seb Jr. upheld the damagts
added another $600 millionm:
Two reports, from Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., and
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., recom
mend investments in Pennzoil.
A Houston jury in November
1985 found Texaco wrongfully in
terfered in a planned Getty Oil Co.-
Pennzoil merger in 1984 and or
dered Texaco to pay $10.53 billion
in damages to Pennzoil.
Thejudgment remains the largest
in U.S. history.
est, and said interest would cod
to accrue at a rate of 10 ptrd
year.
A state appeals court uptm::
verdict on Feb. 12, hut reauccs
nifive damages to Si b/ihonh:
original $3 billion. The totaliz
ages, however, now stand ats!
$10.3 billion.
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