Angel (1984) Cliff Gorman
The Battalion
Vol. 87 No. 49 CISPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Friday, November 6, 1987
New nominee
says he used
drugs in past
Reagan reaffirms support
for embattled Ginsburg
■ WASHINGTON (AP) — Su
preme Court nominee Douglas H.
Binsburg admitted Thursday that
Be used marijuana once in the 1960s
Bnd on a few occasions in the 1970s
and said, “It was a mistake and I re-
Bret it.”
f President Reagan and Attorney
fceneral Edwin Meese III immedi-
Btely pledged their continued sup
port for Ginsburg, but Senate Re
publican Leader Bob Dole issued a
Statement that neither supported
feior opposed his appointment.
I Ginsburg issued his statement af-
Rer National Public Radio asked for
Bomment on its interviews indicating
he had used marijuana while teach
ing at Harvard Law School and had,
bn at least one occasion, brought the
substance to a gathering. NPR later
paid a source close to Ginsburg called
lo deny that he had brought the sub-
jptance to a party.
I “Earlier today, I was asked
whether I had ever used drugs,”
Ginsburg said. “To the best of my
recollection, once as a college stu
dent in the ’60s, and then on a few
occasions in the ’70s, I used it.
“That was the only drug I ever
used. I have not used it since. It was
a mistake, dnd I regret it.”
While many Republicans re
sponded cautiously, Sen. Charles
Grassley, R-Iowa, a member of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, said,
“You like to think people who are
appointed to the Supreme Court re
spect the law.”
The development plunged the 41-
year-old Ginsburg into fresh contro
versy that had the potential to derail
or at least complicate his confirma
tion to the Supreme Court. Reagan’s
previous attempt to fill the seat of re
tired Justice Lewis Powell Jr. ended
in defeat when Ginsburg’s appeals
court colleague Robert H. Bork was
rejected, 58-42.
Ginsburg’s statement came in re
sponse to a reporter’s queries on the
subject and was issued moments be
fore an account of his illegal drug
See Ginsburg, page 7
■ ■ Photo by Sam B. Myers III
In review
Members of the Corps of Cadets wait to be awarded the Wofford E. Thursday. The award is given to three seniors and three juniors of
Cain Award at Fall Review at the Gen. Ormand R. Simpson Drill Field each ROTC branch for outstanding leadership and military aptitude.
Legal betting wins big in final tally
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Carlucci to replace
retiring Weinberger
: WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan on Thursday hailed re-
tiring Defense Secretary Caspar W.
| Weinberger, the driving force be
hind a big military buildup, as a
friend who “never let me down” and
named national security adviser
(Frank Carlucci to succeed him.
Completing a major turnover in
the national security leadership,
Reagan also promoted Army Lt.
I Gen. Colin Powell, the No. 2 man on
I the National Security Council staff,
to succeed Carlucci. Powell had been
handpicked by Carlucci as his sec
ond in command last January to
help rebuild the NSC after its repu-
jtation was tarnished by the Iran-
Contra affair.
Powell is -the highest-ranking
black person on the White House
staff.
After keeping Weinberger’s
planned resignation secret for seve-
| ral weeks, the president announced
the changes at a Rose Garden cere
mony attended by Pentagon offi
cials, members of the NSC staff, the
Cabinet and Congress. News of the
turnover leaked out Monday night
but had not been officially con
firmed.
“We are here today to wish
Godspeed to an old friend, the finest
secretary of defense in the history of
our nation,” Reagan said.
A seven-year veteran of Reagan’s
Cabinet and a friend of two decades,
the 70-year-old Weinberger re
signed because of concern for the
health of his wife, Jane. He said
there is no sign of recurrence of the
cancer she suffered but that she was
ailing from two or three broken ver
tebrae in her back.
“She has, for a long time, had this
great discomfort, and I think that it’s
time that I do a bit more to fulfill
those obligations,” the secretary told
a Pentagon news conference.
Weinberger will stay on the job
until Carlucci is confirmed by the
Senate. No major opposition is ex
pected, and Sen. John Warner, R-
Va., ranking Republican on the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee, said
he thought “the Senate will confirm
Mr. Carlucci very shortly.”
DALLAS (AP) — Fifty of 56 coun
ties voted to allow pari-mutuel bet
ting locally, and three of those “yes”
counties also included greyhound
racing on the ticket, state officials
said Thursday.
Final results from Tuesday’s elec
tion as compiled by the Secretary of
State’s office show the strongest sup
port for the measure came from ur
ban counties.
Both local and statewide approval
was needed before the legalized
gambling at the race track was to be
allowed in any county. The statewide
referendum passed with a 57 per
cent to 43 percent margin.
Only six rural counties voted
down the proposal for local track
betting — Grayson, Lipscomb, Na
cogdoches, Shelby, Swisher and Van
Zandt.
“We’re largely an older county,”
said Swisher County Clerk Pat Wes
ley, explaining the 935-639 failure
of the option in the Panhandle
county. “The only reason the com
missioners put it on the ballot, I
think, was so everyone could decide
the whole gambling issue at once.”
Because pari-mutuel passed at the
state level and local voters approved
the option, large race tracks may be
established near Houston, San Anto
nio, and Dallas-Fort Worth, where
the measure won overwhelming ap
proval.
Clements: Betting is no economic cure-all
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clem
ents, who voted for pari-mutuel
gambling, said Thursday that Tex
ans should not bet on horse and dog
racing as a cure-all for the state’s
economic woes.
The governor, in his first public
comments since the Tuesday elec
tion that legalized pari-mutuel gam
bling, also said he would appoint
Texas Racing Commission members
“in due course.”
Selection of the commission is the
next step toward the first races.
“I think it will mean jobs and it
will mean capital investment for the
state of Texas, and certainly our
economy needs that kind of help
right now,” Clements said.
“It probably will not do all the
wonderful things some of the people
think it will do,” he said. “I don’t
think it’s going to be any answer in
itself, but it will certainly help.
“I also know there were a lot of
eople who voted against it. They’ll
e disappointed. But I think we in
Texas have to keep moving forward
and making the decisions that we
have to do on a time and circum
stance basis.”
Clements said he was pleased and
surprised that almost 30 percent of
registered voters cast ballots Tues
day on the 25 proposed constitu
tional amendments, the pari-mutuel
issue and a question concerning how
the State Board of Education is se
lected.
“Not only are they interested and
will they turn out, but they are dis
criminating,” he said. “They ob
viously knew what they wanted to
vote for and they knew what the
wanted to vote against.”
Clements was among state leaders
who campaigned in favor of a suc
cessful proposal to issue state bonds
to help the state lure the supercon
ducting super collider, a federal re
search project that 24 states are seek
ing.
“I think that we’re well on our way
to going right down to the wire with
that situation and I’d say that right
now we probably have a 50-50
chance,” the governor said.
Smaller race tracks in counties
which approved the local option also
may have pari-mutuel betting, but
will likely have shorter racing sea
sons.
With 100 percent of the vote
counted, Bexar County, which in
cludes San Antonio, and Travis
County, where Austin is located,
supported horse racing by more
than a 2-to-l margin.
The local option proposition car
ried by 1,188 votes in Parker
County, west of Fort Worth, but an
erroneous report by county officials
made it appear it was headed for de
feat.
Parker County officials were an
nouncing both to the media and the
Secretary of State’s office the votes
on a jail bond election as the votes
for local option. They didn’t dis
cover their mistake until Wednes
day. Many counties, including Par
ker, that decided the local-option
question already had horse tracks
without legalized gambling.
Cameron County gave the nod to
both greyhound and horse betting.
Greyhound betting also was ap
proved by voters in two other coastal
counties, Galveston and Nueces.
Border is where nations overlap,
not touch, educator tells crowd
By Cindy Milton
Staff Writer
The boundary between the
United States and Mexico is noth
ing but a line on the map that sep
arates the “Nortens from the
Southerners,” the chancellor of
the University of Missouri told an
audience at Texas A&M Thurs
day night.
“The border is not where the
two nations touch,” Dr. Haskell
Monroe said. “It is where they
overlap. The influences extend
into both the United States and
Mexico.”
Monroe, a former A&M pro
fessor, said there are more simila
rities between the two countries
than most Americans and Mexi
cans will admit to.
He said his tenure as president
of the University of Texas at El
Paso, where his office was closer
to the Mexican border than “we
are now to Highway 6,” showed
him how closely Americans and
Mexicans relate.
The countries share mutual in
terests in agricultural and min
eral discoveries and technology,
Monroe said. He said the Mexi
can economy received a big boost
after the free-trade zone modern
ized in 1933, allowing more trade
access to Mexico, and when “ma
quiladoras” — the twin plants that
put large numbers of people to
work in manufacturing jobs —be
gan in 1965.
He said an intricate set of eco
nomic factors led to a growth of
maquiladoras, which increased
the Mexican employment rate
about 30 percent within 20 years.
But the greatest hope for Mex
ico and the United States, he said
later, is oil: “Every day (that)
there is a problem in the Persian
Gulf, the more important Mexi
can oil is to the United States.”
He said tourism between the
countries is also an important fac
tor in both economies, especially
because it allows better interac
tion and understanding. He said
an understanding between the
countries will build the possibili
ties of mutual benefits.
But Dr. Luis Alfonso Berrue-
cos, an anthropologist with the
Mexican Ministry of Education,
said he is amazed at the lack of
knowledge between the cultures,
especially considering they share
the same continent. He spoke for
more than an hour and a half
about Mexico’s history and the in
fluences of other races on both
Mexicans and Americans.
He said education is important,
and there is a merging of cultures
going on, especially in states such
as Texas, New Mexico, California
and Arizona.
That merging, Berruecos said,
means that “many people in the
United States will have to learn to
speak Spanish or they will be
come foreigners in their own
country.”
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Daniel Fallon, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, speaks at the
Mexico-U.S. conference Thursday night.
Dr. Daniel Fallon, dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and ad
viser for the Mexican Students’
Association, told the crowd of
nearly 200 that when he agreed
to be an adviser for an association
project last year, he was some
what worried about the “inspira
tional adventure” the organiza
tion had planned.
The project Fallon was talking
about was the association’s ambi
tion to gather prominent Mexi
can and American intellectuals at
Texas A&M to discuss the na
tions’ past and current relations.
Thursday evening’s presenta
tion, “Mexico-USA: Past, Present
and Future,” was part of a three-
day conference of Mexican and
American students and speakers
that reaches the association’s goal.
Fallon spoke in place of A&M
President Frank E. Vandiver,
who was unable to attend because
of a schedule conflict.
A&M enrollment
posts largest gain
of U.S. universities
From Staff and Wire Reports
Texas A&M led the nation’s larg
est colleges in enrollment gains this
fall, according to a survey released
Thursday by the Associated Press.
Texas A&M’s gain of 2,531 stu
dents for a record enrollment of
39,079 was the largest increase
among the institutions that tradi
tionally lead the nation in student
body size, a telephone survey con
ducted by Texas A&M’s Office of
Public Information says.
The poll showed Texas A&M ad
vanced from 10th last year to eighth
among the nation’s largest single
campus universities.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, associate pro
vost for academic affairs, said ad
ministrators had predicted the large
increase but had no idea it would be
the largest in the country.
“We knew we were going to have a
large increase — we had predicted
2,500,” he said. “We had no way of
knowing how we compared with
other schools because we have no
idea what they are doing.”
The large projected increase
prompted A&M to develop mea
sures to control enrollment, he said.
“From the expected 2,500 enroll
ment increase, we became con
cerned about managing future en
rollment increases,” Gaston said.
“We took steps to control our
growth.”
The A&M Board of Regents
voted Sept. 21 to cap freshman en
rollment at 6,600 for the Fall 1988
semester.
The University of Texas at Austin
compiled the nation’s second-largest
increase, gaining 1,603 students for
a total of 47,743 — ranking its total
second nationally, up one place.
Texas is the only state with two
universities in the top 10, the survey
showed.
Of the eight other institutions that
are among the 10 largest in the na
tion, five reported lower enroll
ments this year, including Ohio State
University, which has the largest stu
dent body. Ohio State reported a
1987 fall enrollment of 53,115,
down 765 from last year.
Other universities among the 10
largest are Rutgers, which slipped to
third with a drop of 820 students to
47,719; University of Minnesota-
Twin Cities, 44,293, down 713; and
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
43,368, down 1,216.
Also, Arizona State, 42,953, up
1,405; Michigan State, 42,096, up
199; University of Maryland-College
Park, 38,058, down 581; and Penn
State, 36,175, up 1,010.
Prairie View A&M, a Texas A&M
University System institution with an
enrollment of predominantly black
students, registered a student gain
of 17.8 percent this fall for a total
enrollment of 5,301.
That was the largest percentage
increase in Texas.