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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 .”
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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
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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.
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