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Thursday, October 15, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 7 ■ in 145 '•m. Call it 6 p.m. : 50 p.m. lying for i. in 110 tve a fall speak at II meet at meet at 6 5 p.m. in 5 p.m. in lures for Rudder, lean Kun- meet at 1 I Rudder, four Peer rps Quad- Battalion, ig days be- In Advcmne ■ I ■ MVI Vvll IW Students Against Apartheid will march Texas A&M Students Against Apartheid will sponsor a march for University divestment in South Africa Friday at 5 p.m. from the College Station City Hall to Rudder Tower. A rally will follow the march in front of Rudder Tower, which will include speeches from several apartheid divestment activists. The A&M club’s president, Waylon Collins, said he hopes about 200 people will participate in the event. A&M has about $5.5 million in securities in South Africa, Collins said. Scheduled speakers at the rally are: • Collins. • Jon Jackson, chairman of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Texas at Austin. • Charles Mongomery, chair man of the Steve Biko Committee at UT. • Imam Omar Sharif, rep resentative of the Council of Imam of the southwest region of the Muslim community. Congress OKs bill to aid immigrants in Texas schools irsy iply because iuth Africa, br. irterlv and it tmmca cacr we’re unable t )f Houston," it | Eleanor Titisc i it would V publications I their source mt the WallSutt Encyclopedia Bi> lid. Death row inmate accuses jailer of stealing memoirs HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Death- row inmate Henry Lee Lucas is up set that a former county jailer is try ing to peddle a handwritten Lucas autobiography that the alleged serial killer contends was stolen from his county jail cell. Joe Don Weaver of Nocona was a jailer in Montague County in 1983 when he says Lucas gave him the 21-page book. Weaver now is in bankruptcy court and his creditors are hoping to cash in on the Lucas book. “When I saw in the paper he had it, I blew my stack,” Lucas said Wednesday in an interview outside death row. “I can’t help he’s bank rupt. That’s not my problem. He stole it out of my cell.” Weaver said last week he had con tacted the National Enquirer some time ago to see whether he could sell the papers. Weaver’s wife, Kathy, said some publications had ex pressed interest, but her husband feared legal reprisals for not turning over the Lucas notes to authorities and has not pursued the publishing offers. Lucas said Wednesday he would sue the former deputy or any one who bought the story from the deputy. “He doesn’t have the right to sell my stuff,” said Lucas, who in 1983 confessed to some 600 murders but later recanted all but one of the con fessions. “I liked him,” he said of Weaver. “He always snuck me cigarettes and coffee in my cell. I never thought much of it at the time. After it came up missing, he came up missing. “I didn’t know if he quit or what happened but I never saw him after that. I don’t know what the deal is. It’s sure not right.” WASHINGTON (AP) — A rider tagged to a major appropriations bill that passed Wednesday provides $1.3 million for the education of im migrant children in 29 Texas school districts left out of a funding request approved earlier this year. The newly approved funds will go to building new classrooms, buying equipment and providing instruc tion for an estimated 18,599 chil dren who were not provided for in earlier Emergency Immigrant Edu cation program funding. In introducing the measure, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, called the oversight a tragic event and attrib uted it to “a series of administrative mistakes and miscommunications.” Terri Moore, spokesman for the Texas Education Agency, blamed the Education Department, which she said gave the state only three weeks to come up with data on the number of immigrant students en rolled in Texas schools. “To find out the number of chil dren qualifying for this program is a difficult task,” Moore said. “We have to find out whether they have been in the U.S. three years or less and many other details.” State officials had data on only half of the 58 school districts by the May 22 deadline, information that was sent to Washington with the pre sumption the Education Depart ment would allow the remaining data to be added later, which it did not, she said. Anna Maria Farias, deputy direc tor of the Office of Bilingual Educa tion at the Education Department, blamed the problem on inattentive ness by the Texas Education Agen cy’s new director. “Texas had a personnel change and that’s why this fell through the cracks,” Farias said. Notification of the approaching deadline was published in the Fed eral Register April 16 and an Educa tion Department official contacted the Texas Education Agency in March to clue them in, she said, add ing that all other states were able to get their information in on time. The $30 million program was funded by the department in early June, leaving Texas $1.3 million short of its $3.3 million request to cover an estimated 47,425 immi grant students. The Bentsen amendment, at tached to the Labor, Health and Hu man Services appropriations bill which passed 94-2, shifts $1.3 mil lion from the Education Depart ment’s bilingual education program to the Texas districts. On the Senate floor, Bentsen said, “We are not talk ing about a situation where we are taking money out of one program to fund another. We’re talking about a reappropriation of previously unused bilingual education funds.” Police charge 3 men with transporting aliens CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Three Mexican nationals were charged with transporting 16 un documented Salvadorans in the bed of a pickup truck, police said. “They were all just laying there, side by side, like cords of wood in there,” Edna Police Chief iNorman Glaze said. Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Eduardo de Ases or dered Miguel Martinez-Garcia, 23, a resident ilien living in Brownsville, and Adrian Prado- lodriguez, 20, and Javier Aguilar-Lozano, 25, oth of Matamoros, Mexico, to be held without (bond pending a hearing Friday. According to the criminal complaint filed against them, Prado and Aguilar smuggled the Salvadorans across the border and Garcia began driving them north. Several of the aliens made statements indicat ing they crossed the U.S. border near Brownsville and were enroute to Houston before being apprehended Friday on U.S. Highway 59 in Edna, about 100 miles south of Houston. An officer stopped the truck after noticing de fective equipment and found the Salvadorans, covered by blankets, in the open bed of the truck, Glaze said. Immigration and Naturalization Service inves tigator Carl Fisher said only Martinez initially was a suspect. He said further investigation indi cated that Prado and Aguilar, who were passen gers in the truck, also were involved in the smug gling operation. Tne INS took 11 men, four women and a 6- year-old child into custody. Fisher would not say how much the aliens re ported paying the smugglers for their passage to Houston. Authorities said the aliens were in good physi cal condition. Is your future in these cards? Perhaps. If you want to pursue a career that goes beyond paperwork, then Arthur Young wants you! 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