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/ol 82 No. 159 GSPS 045360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Thursday, June 11, 1987
Iran warns U.S.
not to interfere
in Persian Gulf
hese Little Pigs Went To Market
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
These four residents of the Texas A&M swine farm seem to have little
concern over the heavy rains that have recently deluged the Bryan-
College Station area. Researchers at the center say the pigs might even
enjoy the rain because they do not possess sweat glands. The rain acts
to cool a pig’s body temperature as it evaporates on its skin. In the ab
sence of rain, however, pigs usually lie in mud holes to keep cool.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iran
intensified its verbal attacks against
the United States Wednesday by
threatening to turn the Persian Gulf
into a “graveyard” if America inter
venes in the region.
“In the event of an aggressive in
tervention in the Persian Gulf by
American forces, the region will be
turned into a graveyard for aggres
sors and their allies,” the state-run
Tehran radio, monitored in Nicosia,
said.
On Tuesday, the radio issued a
thinly veiled threat to attack U.S. nu
clear reactors if American forces
were to strike Iranian missile batte
ries in the Persian Gulf.
Defense Secretary Caspar Wein
berger told Congress Wednesday
that the Navy didn’t expect Iran to
attack American ships in the gulf.
“In the past, Iran has assiduously
avoided even the mere hint of a
threat toward U.S. ships, either com
batant or commercial,” he told the
House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“We do not expect that situation
to change, Iran’s violent rhetoric
notwithstanding,” he said. “We be
lieve they will not launch any attacks
on American ships.”
In Tuesday’s broadcast, Tehran
radio said the United States’ warning
that it might attack Chinese-made
HY2 Silkworm anti-ship missiles de
ployed on the strategic Strait of Hor
muz was premature.
Washington considers Iran’s de
ployment of the missiles a serious
threat to freedom of navigation in
the strategic waterway.
“Contrary to what they claim,
(they) are unable to accept the risk of
attacking Iranian missile bases in the
Persian Gulf or other forms of con
frontation,” the radio said.“U.S. cen
ters and nuclear reactors can be
more vulnerable than the missile
bases of the Islamic Republic of
Iran.”
The radio apparently was refer
ring to nuclear reactors in the
United States, most of which are
used to generate electricity, al
though a few facilities also provide
fuel for nuclear bombs.Outside the
United States, American-owned re
actors are found only on board nu
clear-powered submarines and sur
face warships of the U.S. Navy.
The Iranians have made several
threats in recent weeks to show their
willingness to fight the Americans if
they attacked Iranian forces.
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ENICE, Italy (AP) — Allied
leaders ended their business-as-
usual summit Wednesday by urging
^fcect for human rights in combat
ing AIDS, “one of the biggest poten
tial health problems in the world,”
and prescribing a series of cures for
the world’s economic ills.
Hn a joint communique issued at
the summit’s conclusion, the leaders
ol the United States, Britain, France,
West Germany, Italy, Ganada and
Japan called the AIDS epidemic
“one of the biggest potential health
problems in the world.”
P'hey called for a coordinated in
ternational effort to check the
spread of the fatal, incurable disease
and said this campaign “will have to
ensure that the measures are taken
in accordance with the principles of
hitman rights.”
■The AIDS statement appeared to
/eject the kind of mandatory testing
for certain people that Reagan has
Boca ted.
Reagan and Vice President
Task force to study homosexual bisexual men
to find ways to encourage safe sex practices
DALLAS (AP) — An AIDS prevention task
force of the Dallas County Health Department
will begin recruiting homosexual and bisexual
men beginning next week for a long-term study
to determine the best way to encourage safer sex
practices.
Dallas is one of six cities nationally where the
study will be undertaken as part of a federal pre
vention project, AIDS counselor Marc Lerro
said.
All homosexual or bisexual men who inquire
about being tested for antibodies to the AIDS vi
rus will be asked to participate in the study, Lerro
said.
The project hopes to recruit 1,000 men over
the next few years, he said.
“We’re actively going to advertise in news pub
lications we feel gay people read,” Lerro said.
“Right now, one of the startling things we have
found in Dallas is that about one of three men in
the gay community appears to be infected with
the virus,” Lerro said.
To homosexual men, Lerro said, that means
“Every time you go into a bar, one out of every
three men might as well glow in the dark.”
Nationwide, some homosexual organizations
have discouraged healthy members from being
tested for AIDS antibodies, AIDS counselor
Barry Skiba said. However, when one of three
homosexual men might be infected, “the whole
term healthy gay male sort of becomes shaky,” he
said.
Men who agree to participate in the new study
will be tested every six months for antibodies to
the AIDS virus and asked to complete a 25-page
questionnaire about their sexual practices and at
titudes, Lerro said.
The usual $ 10 testing fee will be waived and all
study participants will be assigned codes to en
sure anonymity, Lerro added.
George Bush were jeered in Wash
ington recently when they told re
searchers at an international AIDS
conference that they favored wider
testing for the disease.
The summit leaders said that “in
the absence of a vaccine or cure,” the
best hope for combating the disease
is a strategy of public education in
how the AIDS virus is transmitted
and “the practical steps each person
can take to avoid acquiring it or
spreading it.”
Acquired immune deficiency syn
drome is a viral disease that attacks
the body’s immune system. The
World Health Organization esti
mates that 100,000 people have con
tracted AIDS and that as many as 10
million are infected with the virus.
AIDS already has killed 20,798
people in the United States alone.
The three days of summit talks
ended with a formal reading of the
communique by Italian Prime Min
ister Amintore Fanfani at a news
conference attended by all the lead
ers except British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, who had de
parted Tuesday to resume her re-
election campaign in national elec
tions to be held Thursday.
That done, the summiteers parted
after a formal luncheon in the
Doges’ Palace near St. Mark’s
Square.
Their final statement expressed
largely symbolic support for Rea
gan’s Persian Gulf policies by en
dorsing the right of free navigation,
and then turned to economic and
other issues.
The leaders endorsed a declara
tion by their finance ministers that
any further, substantial shifts in cur
rency exchange rates “could prove
counterproductive.” This was
viewed as reaffirmation of
agreements made in Paris in Feb
ruary and in Washington in April
that the U.S. dollar had fallen
enough.
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engineering major M.L. Morrow
gjaduated in December 1986. He,
like many college graduates, had a
tciiigh time getting a job.
■ “When I graduated in Decem-
bei, I was also getting married,”
Mm row says. “My wife was working
fqr NASA. So, that limited my
choices to the (dear Lake area. I in
terviewed through the Placement
Service two or three times. I actively
pursued a job, but there just
weren’t that many that came
through.
■ “There’s just not that many out
tljere. From what I hear, I can go
oni of state and get a job pretty
easy. I would if we were more mobi
le ”
■ Most people attend college to im
prove their chances for employ
ment, according to Jim Lovan, em
ployment supervisor of the Texas
Employment Commission in Bryan.
But a college degree can narrow
their choices.
“If a young man or woman wants
to be a plumber, he goes to a com
pany and serves an apprenticeship,
takes a test and becomes a plum
ber,” Lovan says. “But he’s not a
bricklayer. He’s not an automobile
mechanic. He’s a plumber.
“When you go to college, you’re
doing the same thing. But a lot of
people don’t know that. You’re not
going just to get a degree unless
you’re wealthy or just have this
thirst for knowledge. You’re going
to use that degree in this field, in
this discipline.”
Lovan says students need to ask
themselves some hard and fast
questions about their futures.
“Why would anyone take a de
gree in English, for example?” he
says. “Why would anyone take a de
gree in psychology? What are you
going to do with a degree in psy
chology unless you get at least a
master’s but preferably a doctorate
and become a psychologist?
“We have one out here who has a
degree in psychology. He’s working
for the state. You can’t do anything
in your field with a bachelor’s in
psychology. Maybe you can go to
work with food stamps out here,
but so can anyone else.”
Many college graduates are un
able to use their degrees because
they cannot find a job in their field,
Lovan says.
“My son-in-law has a degree in
engineering technology,” he says.
“After he graduated he moved to
Houston. He went to work for
Campbell’s Soup as a salesman be
cause he could not find a job in his
field. Nobody told him when he
took engineering technology that
the job opportunities were very low
in that field.”
Lovan says the blame for a stu
dent’s poor career choice doesn’t al
ways lie with the student.
“What I have found out, espe
cially since I’ve been working here,
is that a great deal of fault lies with
some universities,” he says. “Kids
that go in as freshmen and sopho
mores are never told (about their
employment chances). A lot of
times I think that they’re not told
because the professors themselves
don’t know.”
Employment chances can be
greatly improved by simply going
where the jobs are, Lovan says.
That may mean leaving Texas,
where the unemployment rate is
high.
The state is in a depression be
cause of the problems the oil busi
ness is having, he says.
“I have a very positive outlook,”
he says. “But I don’t think we’re
going to see anything happen for
about a year because we have to
catch up. What’s going to have to
happen is we have to expand
enough, get enough work and start
spending enough to catch up.”
Lovan says many people don’t
know that there are a lot of areas in
the country that are booming now
like Texas was a few years ago. For
example, he says, the upper East
Coast is doing well right now.
“A private employment agency
out of Virginia came down and
used our Houston regional office
two months ago and advertised to
interview people,” he says. “They
had about 350 openings. There are
other areas of the country that are
doing well, like California and Vir
ginia.”
If students decide to stay in
Texas, they will find that some cit
ies offer better opportunities than
others depending on their major,
Lovan says.
“San Antonio is probably one of
the least-hurt cities in Texas,” he
says. “But there is a very substantial
reason for that. San Antonio is ba
sically a military city. It’s not a fac
tory city or an industrial city. Don’t
go there looking for work unless
you’re going to work in the civil
service sector.”
Dallas is more of a white collar
area, he says. It’s beginning to hire
a little bit and it’s not hurting like
other cities. Dallas has a whole dif
ferent type of business.
“My son, for example, went to
Dallas in early 1984 and found a job
within three days,” he says. “He
worked in that job for almost three
years and then quit to take a better
job. Within six months he was laid
off and stayed in Dallas five months
looking for a job.”
The worst thing students can do
is to stay in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area after graduation, he says.
“I can’t think of a single disci
pline out of college that a person
can do in Bryan-College Station ex
cept maybe teach,” Lovan says. “We
have a lot of people who are what
we call ‘under-employed.’ They are
working, but not in their field.”
INS agents start work
of giving Texas aliens
legal citizenship in U.S.
TYLER (AP) — Not too long
ago, when Immigration and
Naturalization Service agents
came around, illegal aliens fled
the area in fear of deportation.
But this week, after years of
avoiding government agents,
Mexican-born East Texans met
willingly with INS agents in a
small community hall.
They walked away with pre
liminary legalization documents
that could eventually lead to full
U.S. citizenship.
Under the new U.S. immigra
tion reform law, illegal aliens
who have lived continuously in
the United States since before
January 1982 are eligible for
amnesty.
Aliens who complete their
amnesty applications are issued
temporary work permits.
Since the yearlong amnesty
application period began May 5,
Texas has had nine legalization
centers operating in major cities.
To help meet the needs of
aliens in outlying towns, the INS
put a roving amnesty office on
the road this week for the first
time in Texas.
The office is staffed by Okla
homa City-based agents who
were relatively free of applica
tion-processing chores at home.
The crew began operating last
week in Tulsa, Okla., and will be
in Amarillo next week.
The roving amnesty crew ar
rived in Tyler on Tuesday and,
by the end of the office’s first
day of operations, had granted
temporary legal residence to
more than 70 illegal immigrants^
including many farm workers
who took the day off to apply,
said Jim Ward, a supervisor on
the amnesty assistance team
from Oklahoma City.
“We had a good day in Tyler,”
Ward said. “Everyone who ap
plied today walked out with their
temporary card (work permit).”
The INS workers planned to
stay in Tyler two days to process
the paperwork of an estimated
300 illegal immigrants.
Ralph Carrasco, director of a
church-sponsored assistance
center where the INS set up
shop, said the visit helped send a
message to illegal aliens in East
Texas who remain wary of the
agency they have eluded for so
long.
Carrasco said many Hispanics
first feared that the vans’ two-
day visit to the area signaled that
a roundup was under way.
Daniel Arroyo and his wife,
Asbedama, were the first to be
processed in Tyler.
Arroyo, 26, a warehouse
worker who slipped into the
United States in 1971 by swim
ming across the Rio Grande, said
he is proud he no longer will
carry the stain of his illicit entry.
“I always felt I had done
something wrong,” he said.
“Now, I am free.”