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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan
vowed Wednesday that a nuclear arms treaty
with the Soviet Union will not undercut the U.S.
commitment to the security of Europe, saying the
stationing of 300,000 American troops abroad
and “our steadfast nuclear guarantee underscore
this pledge.”
Reagan also said it was “totally unacceptable”
for the Soviet Union to try to link reductions in
globe-girdling strategic nuclear weapons to re
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speech a month before Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev arrives in Washington for a super
power summit. The two leaders are expected to
sign a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear
forces (INF) in Europe and to discuss other arms
differences.
Last Friday, Reagan said Gorbachev was not
making SDI concessions a condition for cutbacks
in strategic arms. However, in his speech
Wednesday, Reagan complained about “the So
viet tactic of holding these offensive reductions
hostage to measures that would cripple” SDI.
Reagan’s remarks were broadcast to Europe
on Wednesday by satellite channels of the United
States Information Agency’s “Worldnet” and the
Voice of America.
In part, the speech attempted to calm fears
that the removal of U.S. medium- and shorter-
range missiles in Europe would weaken the West
ern alliance and leave Europe vulnerable to the
Warsaw Pact’s conventional forces, which greatly
outnumber those in the West.
The address also challenged the authenticity
of Gorbachev’s campaign of openness, or “glas-
nost,” and underscored to the Soviet Communist
Party general secretary that Reagan is adamant
about moving ahead with his Star Wars program.
Saying the West is watching for action, not
words, Reagan called on the Soviets to make
more progress in human rights and to loosen
“the Soviet hold over Eastern Europe.”
The INF treaty will require the United States
and Soviet Union to eliminate medium- and
shorter-range nuclear missiles in Europe. Rea
gan noted the Soviet Union will have to remove
four times as many nuclear warheads as the
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Women are gaining influence
in political issues, speakers say
By Cindy Milton
Staff Writer
Fifty-three percent of the votes in
national elections come from
women, and speakers at an MSC Po
litical Forum Wednesday night
agreed the potential for greater fe
male political influence is increasing.
Advising office
for liberal arts
to close 2 days
The Office of Undergradute Ad
vising in the College of Liberal Arts
will close Friday and Monday as it
moves to a new office in 112 Har
rington Tower.
Office phone lines will be in serv
ice Friday for emergencies but will
be disconnected Monday morning.
“We have alerted the departments
that we will be there for them if
there’s something we have to deal
with,” senior secretary Lisa Brister
said.
The move is necessary because the
advising office is growing, she said.
“There are new positions and not
room for them,” Brister said.
The office will reopen Tuesday.
Among those moving to the new
office are Assistant to the Dean Mary
L. Broussard and Undergraduate
Counselors Keith Capps, Anna
Crockett and Linda Greenwood.
“Women in Politics: The Evolu
tion of Their Clout,” moderated by
Dr. Harriette Andreadis, assistant
professor of English at Texas A&M
and a member of the National Wom
en’s Studies association, featured
four speakers who discussed ques
tions of women in politics and their
influence in the political arena.
Andreadis said although women
are not equivalent to their male
counterparts in salary and job ten
ure, they have come a long way in
advancing their careers. She said
women hold 15 percent of state leg
islative positions, and she questioned
whether women will use state legis
lative positions as springboard for
higher governmental positions.
Andrew Mollison, chief political
correspondent in the Washington
Bureau of Cox newspapers and
president of the National Press Club,
said the number of women voters
and the issues they are interested in
have enormous impact on the opera
tions of the national government.
Mollison discussed a recent survey
which revealed women are more
concerned than men with human is
sues — including education, employ
ment and social security.
“When you’re talking about 53
percent of voters, most candidates
find all issues women’s issues,” he
said.
“It matters who has the levels of
concern in politics,” he said. “What
women have been doing in the past
25 years is gone from spectators to
participators.” He said if it weren’t
for the involvement of women vot
ing in the last nine Senate races, Re
publicans would still have Senate
control.
He said a survey on basic political
values, conducted by the Times-Mir-
ror Corp., showed women have a
tendency toward Democratic candi
dates. He said “the peace candidate”
attracts female supporters, and their
votes make a big difference in gov
ernment.
Kandy Rose, president of the Bra
zos County League of Women Vot
ers, commented on the rise of
women in politics since 1921, the
year the 19th Amendment went into
effect. She differentiated the atti
tudes of women and men, and said
she doesn’t expect change in the way
women vote.
Ann Lewis, former political direc
tor of the Democratic National Com
mittee, who has appeared on CNN,
The Today Show, and the CBS
Morning News as a political com
mentator, said recent governmental
changes are revolutionary for
women.
She said the increase of women in
lower governmental positions is put
ting women in a political “pipeline.”
She said women are using more so
phisticated methods of fundraising,
making them more competitive for
governmental positions.
“The potential of women active in
politics is building from the confi
dence and the surge of activity made
by Geraldine Ferraro,” Lewis said.
“It was a symbol of failure to men;
but to women, it was a statement of
pride.”
She said men are beginning to
take women more seriously — espe
cially since they make up of 53 per
cent of voters.
She said the most recent influence
by women in politics was the defeat
of Judge Robert Bork to the Su
preme Court.
“Leaders of opposition were
women, and that was a significant
factor,” she said.
Lewis said she expects substancial
changes in the future concerning
women — things like pay equity,
pension equality and child care —
and governmental procedures. She
said current government is a “peren
nial locker room,” and she predicts
change in the language used in gov
ernmental positions.
“Metaphors from the football
field to the battlefield are used all
the time,” she said.
She said there are enough women
to make a “critical mass,” and with
more women in Congress in the fu
ture, there will be more human con
cern and more concern with day-to-
day needs.
“It’s obvious that decisions are
reached in different ways when
women are involved,” she said. More
female influence in government will
affect issues on the agenda, she said.
“Women will affect the balance of
the issues,” she said, “but they will
not shut out the other side.”
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Clinical, ethical aspects of AIDS virus
topic of discussion at Rudder Forum
Dr. Thomas Cates lectures at Rudder Forum
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
By Jenny Hynes
Reporter
“If you have sex for the first
time with someone, what makes
you think it’s the first time for
them?” Dr. James R. Wild of
Texas A&M said.
Wild, professor of biochemis
try, biophysics and genetics,
made this remark while speaking
to a crowd of more than 175
Wednesday night in Rudder Au
ditorium to warn of the danger of
contracting AIDS.
This message was reinforced
by three other doctors as part of a
program on Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS),
sponsored by the A&M Under
graduate Biochemistry Society.
The program, titled “A Sym
posium on AIDS,” focused on the
clinical and ethical aspects of the
disease.
Dr. Thomas Cate, chief of the
Medical Infectious Disease sec
tion of Ben Taub Hospital at Bay
lor College of Medicine, began
the program with a discussion of
current medical knowledge of
AIDS and its treatment.
First recognized just six years
ago, Human Immunodeficiency
Virus (HIV), the virus that causes
AIDS, can now be isolated and
identified in an infected person.
Cate said although there is a
test for the disease, signs often do
not appear for several years.
“The majority of the people
that have the HIV infection are in
the asymptomatic period,” he
said, referring to people with the
virus who do not show signs of
the disease. “As a consequence,
it’s really sort of an iceberg ef
fect.”
Dr. John Quarles, associate
professor in the Medical Micro
biology and Immunology depart
ment at A&M, took a more opti
mistic view of the disease.
“More has been learned about
the AIDS virus in a very short
time than any other infectious
agent in history,” he said. “In
some manner, somewhere along
the line there will be truly signifi
cant advances in treatment.”
However, Quarles took a
harder look at the immediate ef
fects of the disease, emphasizing
the susceptibility of college stu
dents to AIDS.
“AIDS is on campus,” he said.
“There are students with AIDS
on this campus.
“It’s a global problem. It’s a na
tional problem. It’s also your
problem.”
Dr. John McDermott, distin
guished professor of philosophy
and medical ethics at A&M, spoke
on the social and ethical aspects
of AIDS.
“Getting an AIDS diagnosis is
like being sentenced to death
row,” he said. “There is some
thing about this that we regard as
quite obscene.”
McDermott compared society’s
reactions to AIDS to its hysteria
over cancer, leprosy and the
plague.
Following the speakers’ dis
cussion, the audience had an op
portunity to submit written ques
tions. About 60 were offered,
dealing with aspects of the disease
ranging from prevention to test
ing and possible cures.
Thursday, November 5, 1987
Photo by Shelly Schluter
Charmed, I’m sure
Belly-dancing duo Temina and her snake Ayce display their talents at
Nothgate Tuesday night. Temina, who goes by a stage name, is a ju
nior animal science major who earns extra money by performing in
local clubs with her boa.
Local restaurant
may close doors;
fate still uncertain
By Lee Schexnaider
Reporter
Two days after Fajita Rita’s
agreed to give up its liquor license in
a plea bargain arrangement with the
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commi-
sion, a Fajita Rita’s manager would
not tell The Battalion whether the
College Station restaurant would re
main open.
The day manager of Fajita Rita’s,
who gave his name only as “Doug,”
refused to comment on whether the
restaurant will close or when that in
formation will be available.
When asked on Wednesday
whether the restaurant would close,
Doug said, “Well, I’m talking to you
now.”
Joe Darnall, general counsel for
the TABC, said the lawyers reached
an agreement without a hearing. He
said the agreement cites three viola
tions of state regulations that con
cern people or corporations holding
liquor licenses.
Darnall said the first two counts
concern Tommy Dallis, who is listed
on the liquor permit as the sole
owner of Fajita Rita’s Inc. Dallis is
serving a 20-year sentence after be
ing convicted of ordering the fire
bombing of Graham Central Station,
a Bryan nightclub, three years ago.
Darnall said the first count alleges
Dallis wasn’t the real owner of the
restaurant.
Randy Yarbrough, assistant ad
ministrator for the TABC, said Dal
lis didn’t have a majority interest in
the corporation.
“It was a subterfuge ownership,”
Yarbrough said. “He had no major
ity interest in the corporation and he
was taking out the permit for some
one else.
“If you take out the permit, all the
profits and losses of the business
must accrue to you.”
But Darnall said someone other
than the corporation actually owned
and operated Fajita Rita’s.
Darnall said the second count al
leges the corporation failed to report
one or more of the changes of con
trol of the premises.
He said the TABC requires that
such management changes be re
ported promptly.
Darnall said no one other than
Dallis was named in the indictment.
But he said earlier testimony had
mentioned three other persons:
John C. Culpepper, a developer and
chairman of the board of Home
stead Savings Association; Ben Tom
Mahoney, an investor; and Gerald
Buck, vice president and chief finan
cial officer of Culpepper Properties.
Culpepper, Mahoney and Buck
couldn’t be reached for comment
Wednesday. Spokesmen for each of
them said they were out of town.
Darnall said the third count in the
order stems from a liquor permit
provision stating that insolvency is
grounds for revoking a liquor li
cense. Fajita Rita’s Inc. has filed for
Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a Houston
federal court.
Fajita Rita’s has a mixed-drink, or
“liquor by the drink,” liquor license,
Darnall said.
The next question, he said, is
whether anyone else will file for a li
quor permit for the restaraunt.
He said the counts stem from a
statewide investigation by the
TABC.
The primary focus of the investi
gation is the connection between al
cohol-licensed premises and orga
nized crime in Texas.
Darnall also said the TABC also is
looking into the connection between
organized crime in Texas and the
East Coast, which could involve
money laundering, prostitution and
possibly narcotics.
County jail releases woman
from Bryan on $25,000 bond
after murder of husband
A Bryan woman arrested Tuesday
for the murder of her husband was
released from Brazos County Jail
Wednesday after posting a $25,000
bail bond, a Bryan police officer said
Wednesday.
McMillian, 41, was arrested for
the murder of her husband, Iralle
McMillian, 44, after Bryan police re
ceived a report of a gunshot at Mr.
McMillian’s auto repair shop at 3
p.m. Tuesday, Sgt. Choya Walling
said.
A Bryan ambulance driver found
Mr. McMillian in his shop at 1203
San Jacinto Ave. and took him to St.
Joseph Hospital in Bryan, where he
was pronounced dead at 3:50 p.m,
Walling said.
Shortly after police received the
report of the gunshot, Mrs. McMil
lian walked into the police station
carrying a .38-caliber revolver. She
gave a statement about the shooting
to officers and was arrested, Walling
said.