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MERRITT JENNINGS WITH TONIGHT'S LEAD STORY Minority (Continued from page 1) ofessor of education, lamented relack of minority teachers, saying at the absence of these role models detrimental to the future success minority students. “The impact of the disappearance minorities . . . will mean little ins in academic achievement for tinority students, and will cause the abtle assumption for minority and on-minority students that a career education for minorities is neither feasible nor worth it,” Larke said. Minority teachers now comprise 11.3 percent of teachers, and by the at 2000 this percentage will de crease to 10 percent, she said. But regional demographics indicate that minorities represent between 30 percent and 40 percent of the stu dent population. Kevin Carreathers, director of the Multicultural Services Center at A&M, said the role models are one key to keeping minority students en rolled at the University. “I’m not going to debate back and forth whether that person should be a minority or someone from the ma jority culture, but a strong support person has to be in place,” Carreath ers said. “There has to be someone they can feel comfortable with, who they can go to with their concerns when they need the words to en courage them to continue on through the struggle.” The center helps minority stu dents with academic problems, en courages them to become involved in organizations that are not mi nority-oriented and helps them ad just to college life, he said. Carreathers outlined another problem the Multicultural Services Center helps minority students cope with — racism. “People think that racisim is over, that it doesn’t exist any more,” he said. “But those of us who are in the system realize that it is still there, whether it be overt or hidden or in stitutionalized .” uture (Continued from page 1) he first real positive evidence Gor- 1‘here Bathev is really indeed playing . . . ne game by new rules that are more [o our liking and to our benefit.” The Associated Press reported at Gorbachev said Monday the Kremlin will begin withdrawing oops from Afghanistan May 15 if he United Nations reaches a set- lement about the Afghan civil war. he Soviets will complete the with- Irawal of troops within 10 months, ie said. Gorbachev said the Soviet Union II not attempt to control the Afg- lan government by other means, md that the country’s future “is one of our business,” the Asso rted Press reported. Talbott said Soviet troops have oc- (upied Afghanistan since 1979, and 115,000 soldiers are stationed in the jountry. Withdrawing the troops fould be a major change from pre- ious Soviet policy, he said. “In the past it has been taken al- nostas a given that the quagmire of rar was stuck there and wasn’t com ing out,” Talbott said. But even if Gorbachev’s intentions ass the Afghanistan test, the United tales must be careful to guard its age in case his reforms fail, he aid. “If it turns out that he does rep- lesent not just something new but jotriething better, let’s be there to lieet him halfway,” he said. “If he and ap 1 ial serntf gold-mi' L, a Kft® 1 consof^ elated 0-°- t >1 s stock,*1 t does not represent a salutary mea sure then let’s make sure that he is seen as the one who failed, and not we ourselves.” Arms control is one area in which the United States must meet the So viets halfway, and Caspar Weinberg er’s resignation as Secretary of De fense may make compromise more feasible, Talbott said. “The United States and the Soviet Union are now within hailing dis tance of what is sometimes called the ‘grand compromise,’ ” he said, “which would be eliminating some offensive weapons on the Soviet side, particularly those that are most threatening to the United States, in exchange for restrictions on the star wars program.” President Reagan’s most influen tial advisers — Secretary of State George Schultz, White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker and the First Lady — have been urging the presi dent toward a final arms control deal that would end his presidency on a high note and assure his place in his tory, Talbott said. “But until recently there was a very powerful countervailing influ ence in the person of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who was a little bit like Jiminy Cricket in the old Pinnochio story,” he said. “Caspar Weinberger was sitting up on the president’s shoulder chirping in his ear, ‘no, no, no,’ whenever Gorbachev came to the president with a concession or whenever Mr. Schultz or Mr. Baker pressured the president to accept.” Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, who replaced Weinberger after his resignation, will be more receptive to Soviet concessions, he said. “Carlucci has a view and an incli nation much closer to those of Mr. Baker, Mr. Schultz and Mr. Reagan — all who are interested in finding a way to use the leverage of SDI (strat egic defense initiative) and Soviet concern about the program to achieve progress in arms control,” he said. If the Soviet Union does not im prove its relations with other coun tries, Gorbachev’s plan for domestic reform cannot succeed, Talbott said. “Gorbachev says he needs a less ening of international tensions to avoid war in an era when war means nuclear war, which would mean no winner,” he said. “But he also says that he needs a lessening of interna tional tensions ... in order to con centrate on his daunting domestic agenda in reforming the Soviet Union itself. “The Soviet Union is now a mus cle-bound giant with a pea brain,” he said. “If it weren't for the 25,000 bombs and the tanks, the Soviet Union would be a huge Third World country. He wants it to be a First World country. He wants to compete with the United States, Western Eu rope and Japan in a natural and peaceful way, principally economi cally.” lobile home industry faces depression WACO (AP) — Row after row of possessed mobile homes along a farmer’s field provided a clear indi lation of how the state’s manufac- Bired housing business has weath ered Texas’ soured economy, r dustry officials said. “We are in the midst of a devastat- “Iig depression,” said Will Ehrle, president of the Texas Manufac- iured Housing Association. “The I Permian Basin was the first to start |down. Itjust collapsed in ’86. I “Then the Houston area started down and the Rio Grande Valley was next because of all the economic problems that it had with the deval uation of the peso and agriculture. Then it just spread everywhere.” The industry that once supplied about 35 percent of all homes sold in Texas has changed drastically since a peak year in 1984, officials said Sat urday. Since then, figures show, annual production of mobile homes has de clined to a projected 10,500 this year from 42,300 units. Sales of new units has also dropped to a projected 9,000 this year from 42,290 in 1984. The number of manufacturers is down shnrplv to fewer than 500 from about 1,200. One official’s “extremely conser vative” estimate for the number of repossessed units during the past four years is 30,000. John Ledger, vice president for repossessions and foreclosures for First Financial Corp. of Waco, a leading provider of dealer financ ing, says the lenders, dealers and manufacturers have all taken their lumps. Repossessed units account for 75 to 80 percent of manufactured hous ing sales in Texas today. The total was 15 percent in 1984. TSIGN UP! 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A virtuoso in both the classical and the Spanish styles of guitar, Parkening dazzles audiences and critics alike. This encore performance is selling fast but there are still a few good seats left. Don't miss this opportunity to hear America's greatest guitarist. MSC Box Office • 845-1234 • Dillards Ticketron VISA and MasterCard accepted. MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society sHs Memorial Student Center » Texas Aftr'l Universit) • Box J l • College Station TX 77844-9081