Wednesday, January 6, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
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[Wilson says fund-cutting efforts
not result of personal incident
I HOUSTON (AP) — A congress-
tlian said his efforts to cut funding
for some planes at U.S. embassies
weren't prompted by the Pentagon’s
refusal to fly his friend aboard a mil
itary jet in Pakistan.
I U.S. Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Luf-
Rin, a member of the U.S. House
Appropriations Committee and In
telligence Committee, acknowledged
he was behind efforts to cut funding
for two of the 22 planes that are
used at U.S. embassies located
■round the world.
In February 1986, during a trip to
Pakistan, the Pentagon refused to al
low a female acquaintance of Wilson
to ride with him on one of the De
fense Intelligence Agency’s planes,
even though Wilson offered re
imbursement for the travel costs of
his friend.
Wilson told reporters Monday he
did not recommend the budget cuts
because of the 1986--episode, but ac
knowledged it made him evaluate
his thinking about funding the
planes.
Wilson said he was puzzled by the
controversy over his action, since
more significant cuts have been
made in other areas of the Pentagon
budget.
The congressman said he believed
there have been abuses of the air
planes but declined to be more spe
cific because the funding for the air
planes is part of a budget that is
classified.
At the Department of Defense, a
spokesman declined extensive com
ment about the matter.
“We consider the case closed,”
Cmdr. Bob Prucha said. “It’s a dead
issue until the next budget.”
Clayton takes charge
of alumni association
By Daniel A. La Bry
Managing Editor
Former four-time Texas
House Speaker Bill Clayton of
Austin stepped in as the 1988 As
sociation of Former Students
president on Jan. I with a bright
outlook for the upcoming year.
“We moved into the new build
ing debt-free and plan to raise an
endowment fund to take care of
the maintenance,” the new presi
dent said during a telephone in
terview from his Austin office.
“With the new building behind
us, we can concentrate more on
University-oriented projects.”
The $7 million Clayton W. Wil
liams Jr. Alumni Center opened
in early September. Planning for
the long-awaited center began in
1979.
Now that the center is com
pleted, Clayton said, the associa
tion can now focus its attention
on items such as faculty awards,
academic grants and membership
recruitment.
Clayton, Class of ’50, was the
only Texas House Speaker
elected to four terms and has
been a leading political figure in
the state since the early 1960s. He
is now president of a political and
business consulting firm in Aus
tin.
He was named a distinguished
alumnus by the University in
1979 and has served three years
as vice president for community
affairs on the board of the former
students’ association before be
coming president-elect last year.
He replaced W. Mike Baggett of
Dallas as the association’s presi
dent.
Richard A. Williford of Tulsa
will serve as the 1988 president
elect. Williford, Class of ’55, was
previously the national vice presi
dent.
Austin man, 2 children
die in mobile home fire
AUSTIN (AP) — A father and
two of his children died Tuesday in a
mobile home fire that might have
been caused by smoking in bed, an
Austin Fire Department captain
said.
The man’s wife suffered cuts on
her arms when she apparently tried
to get into the burning home to res
cue the occupants, according to
Capt. Mike Vanblaricom.
What’s up
Thursday
LADY AGGIES BASKETBALL TEAM: Texas A&M faculty
and staff members who bring an I.D. card will be admitted
free to die Lady Aggies’ game against North Texas State
University at 7:30 p.m. in G. Rome White Coliseum. Fac
ulty and staff members also are invited to a post-game re
ception in the Lettermen’s Lounge with me team and
Coach Lynn Hickey.
Sunday
BRAZOS VALLEY ALZHEIMER’S FAMILY SUPPORT
GROUP: will meet at 3 p.m. in 160 Medical Sciences. Dr.
Judy Warren, gerontology specialist with the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service, will discuss working with the
patients when they are disoriented.
Items for What’s Up shoutd he submitted to The Battalion,
2J6 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be
fore desired publication date.
In the recently passed spending
bill, Wilson wrote a provision that
transferred two of the planes in the
U.S. embassy fleet to the Army Na
tional Guard and Air Force National
Guard.
“Naturally, I examined the thing
closely,” he said. “I determined the
planes could be put to better use by
the National Guard.”
Wilson commented that the provi
sion did not specify which of the
U.S. embassies would be the ones to
lose their planes.
Famed surgeon
working despite
bankruptcy claim
HOUSTON (AP) — Pioneering
heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley
went to work as usual Tuesday, a day
after filing for federal bankruptcy
protection.
“Dr. Cooley is in the operating
room,” said Cooley’s secretary, Joan
Miller, who declined further com
ment.
On Monday, Cooley filed for per
sonal bankruptcy protection under
Chapter 1 1 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code, claiming debts of about $100
million.
Cooley was identified as doing
business as Cardiovascular Asso
ciates, Southwest Apartment
Homes, Point of the Southwest,
Southwestern Plaza, Texas Ameri
can Bank Building and Cool Acres
Ranch.
His attorney, Leonard Simon, said
the filing did not involve Cooley’s
medical practice or the Texas Heart
Institute,: which Cooley founded 25
years ago.
Cooley, 67, listed among his assets
real property valued at $44 million
including several undeveloped
tracts, at least one apartment com
plex, a six-story office building, two
beach houses and oil and gas roy
alties.
Other assets include six vehicles,
including two Rolls-Royces.
Among his debts were 11 unse
cured debts of $26.5 million.
Amounts of the debts ranged from
$19.9 million owed to First City Na
tional Bank of Houston, which is it
self in the process of being reorga
nized with the help of a Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. contribu
tion, to $523 owed a local sandwich
shop.
But Jim Day, First City spokes
man, on Tuesday disputed the unse
cured amount in the petition, saying
the bank loaned Cooley $26 million
and it is all secured.
Cooley’s filing said he has $2.7
million in tax liabilities, but he indi
cated that at least a portion of that is
under contest.
The native Houston doctor,
founder and head of the Texas
Heart Institute at the Texas Medical
Center in Houston, performed his
first heart transplant in 1968, almost
a year after Dr. Christiaan Barnard
first removed the diseased heart of a
South African man and sewed in a
new one.
Cooley did 21 other transplants
within the span of a year, but he
abandoned the program after most
of his patients died when their bod
ies rejected the donor organ.
He resumed transplants in July
1982 after the drug cyclosporine was
proved to combat rejection.
The victims were identified as Jo
seph Ramon Sr., 26; his son Joseph
Jr., 3, and his daughter Delphina, 2.
Another child in the family, 2-
month-old Joey Ramon, escaped un
harmed, according to Vanblaricom.
He said the infant apparently was
rescued from the burning mobile
home by a visiting couple who also
were in the house when the fire be
gan.
Panhandle residents ready
for predicted cold weather
LUBBOCK (AP) —Patches of
freezing precipitation glazed the
Panhandle Tuesday as residents
readied for a predicted siege of bit
ter cold weather.
Forecasters said as much as four
inches of snow could fall in the Pan
handle by Wednesday morning, ac
companied by temperatures in the
mid-teens.
Throughout the Panhandle and
South Plains, freezing drizzle Tues
day caused icy roads, slowing travel
to a crawl on highways and farm-to-
market roads.
“Have you ever poured water .
over oil and had to run through it?”
said Department of Public Safety
trooper Jerry Burgtorf, describing
road conditions around Amarillo.
“It’s super slick. We’re basically hav
ing an ice storm.”
Some minor weather-related traf
fic accidents had been reported
around Amarillo, Burgtorf said, but
all roads remained open. Travel on
Interstate 27, which links Amarillo
and Lubbock, was slowed to 40-45
mph, hut speeds were much slower
on city streets, he noted.
The freezing conditions caused 70
traffic accidents here from midnight
Monday to noon Tuesday, including
50 between 6 a.m. and 1 1 a.m., said
Lubbock Police Department spokes
man Amy Jones.
Conditions in the Panhandle were
foggy and misty, which further ham
pered traffic and cut visibility to less
than a mile in some areas, National
Weather Service officials said.
Temperatures were in the 20s
Tuesday afternoon over the Pan
handle and South Plains, weather
service officials said. More snow
could fall Wednesday in the Panhan
dle, while cloud cover should boost
temperatures somew'hat in the Per
mian Basin area.
Correction
In the Dec. 8 issue of The Bat
talion, it was incorrectly reported
that an interdisciplinary class
dealing with world hunger and
malnutrition would begin next
fall. The class — Special Topics in
World Agriculture and Nutrition
— actually begins this semester.
It is listed in the schedule of
classes as Nutrition 689 and will
be taught by a team of faculty
members on Monday, Wednes
day and Friday at 10 a.m.
UFA
University Pediatric Association
1328 Memorial Dr. • Bryan
Full Range of Medical Service
for College Students
including
Gynecological Services
(Dr Kathleen Rollins)
Call for appointment 776-4440 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
extended hours for illnesses only
William S. Conkling, M.D..F.A.A.P.
Kenneth E. Matthews, M.D.,F.A.A.P
Jesse W. Parr, M.D.,F.A.A.P.
Kathleen H. Rollins, M.D.,F.A.A.P.
Robert H. Moore, M.D.,F.A.A.P.
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