Wednesday, November 4,1987/The Battalion/Page 7
The following were reported
to the University Police Depart
ment from Oct. 26 through Sun
day:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Six bicycles were reported
stolen.
• A telephone was reported
stolen from the MSC.
FELONY THEFT
(Supplemental Information):
• College Station Police recov
ered a motorcycle that had been
stolen Oct. 25 from outside Aston
Hall. The motorcycle was found
in front of a College Station con
venience store.
ATTEMPTED FELONY
THEFT:
• A student told police he saw
a man tampering with his motor
cycle while it was parked in front
of Mclnnis Hall. The student said
he asked the man what he was
doing and the man said he was
just looking at the motorcycle.
The student also said the ignition
switch had been removed from
the motorcycle.
THEFT OF SERVICE:
• Someone passed 55 coun
terfeit dollar bills through a coin
exchange machine on campus.
DRIVING WHILE INTOXI
CATED:
• An officer saw a car being
driven without its headlights on
after dark. After stopping the
car, the officer determined the
student who was driving was in
toxicated.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• The driver’s door of a Chev
rolet Blazer was kicked in while it
was parked in Parking Area 24.
BURGLARY OF A HABITA
TION:
• A student reported that 110
compact audio discs were stolen
from his dorm room.
FELONY THEFT:
• A 1987 Kawasaki Ninja mo
torcycle was reported stolen from
Parking Area 6. Officers located
the motorcycle and found that it
had been severely damaged in an
accident.
A&M conference
to promote insight
into U.S., Mexico
Church replaces minister
suspected in wife’s choking
DALLAS (AP) — The United
Methodist Church on Tuesday
named an Atlanta minister to fill the
First United Methodist Church post
left vacant when the Rev. Walker
Railey was placed on leave of ab
sence shordy after a near-fatal chok
ing attack on his wife.
Bishop John Russell, head of the
Dallas-Fort Worth area of the
United Methodist Church, selected
Hal N. Brady III to be senior min
ister of First United.
After being placed on leave
shortly after the April 22 attack on
Margaret “Peggy” Railey, Railey
later resigned his credentials as a
Methodist minister and spent time in
a private psychiatric hospital follow
ing a attempted suicide.
He has denied any knowledge of
the attack and refused to cooperate
with investigators. Railey was sub
poenaed by a grand jury investigat
ing the attack in July, but refused to
answer questions.
Police have filed no charges in
connection with the assault, which
took place at the Raileys’ home.
Mrs. Railey remains in a coma in a
Tyler nursing home.
By Mary-Lynne Rice
Staff Writer
Students and speakers from Mex
ico and the United States will visit
Texas A&M Thursday for “Mexico-
USA: Past, Present and Future,” a
three-day conference aimed at pro
moting mutual understanding and
respect between the two countries.
The conference is sponsored by
the Mexican Student Association
and the Office of International
Coordination.
“In a relationship between two
countries, in order to respect the
other, you have to understand their
values,” Gabriel Carranza, a confer
ence organizer, said. “We must un
derstand the reason why Mexico is
the way it is and why America is the
way it is. We’re trying to find a better
life and a new future.”
Scheduled speakers are:
• A&M President Frank Van
diver, who will deliver the welcome
and introductory speech at 7 p.m.
Thursday.
• Haskell Monroe, chancellor of
the University of Missouri, who will
discuss the United States’ past and its
relationship with Mexico at 7:15
p.m. Thursday.
• Luis Berruecos, an anthropolo
gist for the Mexican Ministry of Ed
ucation, who will speak about Mexi
co’s past at 8:20 p.m. Thursday.
• Neville Clark, Texas Agricultu
ral Experiment Station director, who
will talk about the development of
the United States in the 20th century
at 8:55 a.m. Friday.
SMU economist predicts depression
if U.S. fails to implement ‘wealth tax’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
shattering economic depression,
the likes of which the United States
has never seen, waits at the turn of
the decade unless a sweeping
“wealth tax” is imposed, a South
ern Methodist University econo
mist said Tuesday.
Dr. Ravi Batra, whose best-sell
ing book “The Great Depression of
1990” forecasted a stock market
crash, offered his economic solu
tions to the Senate Republican
Conference Task Force on Eco
nomic Growth and Opportunity.
The root of the country’s eco
nomic dilemma is a concentration
of wealth among 1 percent of the
population, Batra said.
He suggested imposition of a
wealth tax of 50 percent on all in
vestment income for anyone with a
net worth of $2 million or more
would solve the problem.
“If the government collects half
of this through a wealth tax, the
tax revenue will rise by as much as
$250 billion, enough to wipe out
the annual budget deficit and
partly retire the federal debt,” the
44-year-old Indian-born econo
mist said.
He also suggested greater regu
lation of banks and brokerages to
cool the speculative fire in the
stock market and favored an in
crease in the down payment re-
? [uirements on commodities and
utures markets from 5 percent to
50 percent.
Four traditional supply-side
economists were on hand for the
meeting, which was attended by
only one senator, Robert W. Kas-
ten, Jr., R-Wis. Each was critical of
Batra’s proposals, but particularly
Richard Rann, vice president and
chief economist for the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce.
“There is no empirical evidence
to showman increasing concentra
tion ofwealth,” Rahn said. “There
is no way you can generate the
kind of money he is talking about.
“(The wealthy) could clearly
move elsewhere. Several European
countries have tried a wealth tax.
And it has been a disaster.”
William B. Johnston, senior re
search fellow at The Hudson Insti
tute, also dismissed the wealth tax
as unworkable, but agreed the
country has experienced a bubble
of speculation that should be ad
dressed by greater regulation.
Glaring at the panel of free mar
ket economists, Batra declared
dramatic action is needed now if
the U.S. is to avoid an economic ca
tastrophe equivalent to conventio
nal world war.
“Some historians including my
self have noted striking similarities
between the 1920s and the 1980s,”
Batra said.
“However, global economic and
social problems today are far worse
than those that occurred six de
cades ago, when the American
budget and trade were consistantly
in surplus, and the U.S. was
emerging as the lender to the rest
of the world.”
Harassment
(Continued from page 1)
he said. “We were making everybody
leave once the pole started to go up.”
But Tim Dorney, Aggieland
E hoto editor, said photographers
ave been left alone in previous
years, including last year when he
was a yearbook photographer.
“I took some shots from a dis
tance, but we moved in and out of
the perimeter at will,” Dorney said.
“John Makely (another photogra
pher) was within a few feet of the
people positioning the center pole.”
Dorney said a general statement
was made at the shoot cautioning
photographers to be aware of the
guy ropes while taking photographs.
But that was the only safety precau
tion mentioned besides wearing
hard hats, he said.
McLeod said she was standing
ter,’ ” she said.“They were just to
tally crude.”
Friend said the photographers
“I was squatting taking pictures of the pole as it was
going up with a wide angle lens so I could get it all in. I
could hear them back there chuckling and I kept feel
ing dirt being thrown all over my back. ”
— Marie McLeod,
Aggieland photographer
near the pole after it was up and as it
was being coated with oil.
“I hear this comment while I’m in
the perimeter taking pictures —
‘We’ll f— her brains out if she
doesn’t get her a— out of the perime-
were warned by Dorney that they
might hear obscene language while
covering the event.
“We were prepared to hear
obscene things,” she said. “That
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• Jesus Silva-Herzog, a former fi
nance minister of Mexico, who will
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day.
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• Alejandro Sobarzo, a Mexican
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• Jorge Castaneda, professor of
political science at the National Uni
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consolidating speech about the fu
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• Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace
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doesn’t really bother me unless they
were aimed at me.”
As McLeod photographed the
center pole raising, she said some
one threw dirt at her from behind.
“I was squatting taking pictures of
the pole as it was going up with a
wide angle lens so I could get it all
in,” she said. “I could hear them
back there chuckling and I kept feel
ing dirt being thrown all over my
back.”
Friend said she also was harrassed
later while sitting on the ground out
side the perimeter watching the pho
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She said about 20 people starting
running around her with a bucket of
oil and they were acting like they
were going to throw it at each other
and then at her, she said.
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