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TIi xa ^f M 0 Tne tsattalion . 87 No. 163 GSPS 045360 6 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 22, 1988 d three id forced orld leaders lose summit ith relief plan i'ms raised[■ ORONTO (AV) ~ Baders of Hcialssaid H seven r ‘ c ^ est nations concluded ■r annual summit Tuesday with a ■-relief plan for the world’s most mPnifl IS )erate ty P oor countries, pro- C “ miiing optimism about the global villages. «omy but spurning President He spoke SiBg ans pl ea to abolish farm subsi- a don of the . I 68 erevan,an(ltB ea g an acknowledged that there nitoredinli® some differences of opinion on h BroadcastP 1 ll ' tura * subsidies but said, “I am ^^■going to give up on that.” irresponsii SI towing no regrets over the final crone m ti Brnunique, he said, “I’m just sur- , e able"'*<1 we god, done.” i inhabitar l!P' e three-day summit was Rea- tcts of hoc ight Armei ujanis wen tid authoi jslast, and Canadian Prime Min- stet Brian Mulroney thanked the iresident on behalf of the Western eiders. “His leadership has been strong, aore orderi® 10 ' 0111 ?*' 8 * 111161115 substantial and icinsible. Ht gP 1 ^ 6 in !' istor y se ^ ure J u .' We for the altB a miss 11S wa rmth and his wis- gBi,” Mulroney said after reading f§ Bfinal communique. x:curredjus.Ri r(K i a i m i n g their talks a benefit e of AzerbiB the entire world, the summit demand ArBlers agreed to launch a new, • since FebmBen-year cycle of summits in he NagomoWjnce next year, beginning July 14, rhich hasa:B bicentennial of the start of the nenian po| ffech Revolution, and running days. onferring around an octagonal ible in a windowless, basement wcwm of Toronto’s convention cen ter, the leaders met for nearly three hours — an hour longer than sched uled. Hit was a very vigorous exchange iwiews that produced a very sub- Htial document,” said Mulroney, Bhost of the summit conference. Members of their delegations had Bked through the night to finish the final communique, completing work on the 34-paragraph docu ment. It contained no surprises or breakthroughs. The communique said the leaders approved a plan allowing creditor countries to choose from a menu of options in granting debt relief to 20 to 30 nations of sub-Saharan Africa. On the agricultural subsidies is sue, however, they stopped far short of Reagan’s proposal to eliminate subsidies by the year 2000, an idea staunchly opposed by European na tions andJapan. Instead, the leaders said negotia tors must develop “a framework ap proach” to reduce — not eliminate — the subsidies. At a news conference after the close of the summit, Reagan said he thought the U.S. policy of seeking to ease governmental regulation. He said tax burdens for business has sent a message to the rest of the industrialized world and that “today, it defines the consensus of the sum mit nations” on economic strategy. Although that was far short of Reagan’s proposal, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said it was still an improvement from the vaguely worded language of the draft communique. A political statement issued Mon day praised Reagan for his arms ne gotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and urged the super powers to pursue deep cuts in their strategic nuclear arsenals. Offering Gorbachev an incentive to pursue his programs of openness and freedom, the summit leaders held out the prospect of expanded trade with the West and said that So viet reforms would be viewed posi tively. T Photo by Jay Janner Professional skateboarder Tony Magnusson, from San Diego, does a half pipe in College Station 7 uesday. Magnusson, who stopped in the demonstration on local skate enthusiast Jonathan Berry’s five-foot area on his way to a pro contest, is ranked third in the nation. City monitoring behavior knowledge te " of AIDS-carrier resident m fraud probe ngNCAA gives A&M nore time to reply is. nice *ans ; visit t :ollege /aco mstin $82.87 174.02 256.88 >day at: 1 From Staff and Wire Reports Texas A&M has been given more B to respond to NCAA charges of llproper recruiting and procedural tractices in the University’s football Bgram, a spokesman said. pThe original deadline for the Bthwest Conference school to re- Hto the 31 rule violations alleged lyithe National Collegiate Athletic Baciation was Monday, the same lajr A&M spokesman Lane Stephen- ■ announced the school would get inextension. The NCAA allegations include pms of payments to football play- rsand inducements to recruits. The CAA also claims Texas A&M or- hestrated a cover-up and misin- ormed NCAA investigators. Bhe violations were outlined )til 4 in a letter to the University om the NCAA Committee on In- ractions. Stephenson said an internal inves tigation into the allegations will take four to six weeks. The University has hired the Chicago law firm of Cof- field, Ungaretti, Harris and Slavin to conduct the investigation. A&M’s at torneys refused to comment when contacted by The Battalion Tuesday. “We knew the report would not be ready in time so we requested an ex tension some time last week,” Ste phenson said. One of the allegations against Texas A&M cited an unspecified player who was the recipient of a job for which he was paid excessively by an A&M booster and did not work the hours reported. The other viola tions included alleged improper benefits to players and recruits, in cluding offers or receipt of cash, clothes, medical care, loans, jewelry and employment of players’ family members. Coma victim’s father gives accident details By Stephen Masters Staff Writer HDetails of the May 30 accident in Germany that left Laura Bur- neu in a coma were revealed Besday by a friend of the Bur nett family. ■Laura Burnett, 19, is a junior at Texas Tech University and the daughter of Texas A&M market ing professor Dr. John Burnett. BFrank Shannon, assistant di rector of the Development Foun dation and friend of the family, said that Burnett and two others, including an unnamed A&M stu dent, were crossing a 10-lane in tersection in Munich, Germany when she was struck by an auto mobile that ran a red light. As the cat neared, the A&M student jumped out of the way, but Bur nett apparently did not see it in time, Shannon said. He said legal action is being taken against the driver. ■ Dr. Burnett and Laura were touring businesses as part of a Study Abroad program in Eu rope prior to the accident. She has been in a coma since the acci dent but had some response Sat urday, Shannon said. She is still unconscious. The Laura Burnett Fund, es tablished at First RepublicBank A&M June 9, had received over $8,500 through Tuesday. Al though the original goal of $6,540 for a military airlift was reached Friday, donations are still being accepted for other ex penses incurred since the acci dent, he said. Instead of bringing Burnett to College Station, Shannon said she will be flown to Houston and ad mitted into the Medical Center del Oro, which specializes in head and spinal injuries. Shannon said Dr. Burnett re turned to College Station late Monday night. The family is overwhelmed by the speed and amount of contributions re ceived, he said. Donations should be sent to the Laura Burnett Fund in care of First RepublicBank A&M, P.O. Box 2860, College Station, Texas 77841. All donations should be designated to the attention of Lee Cargill. " EL PASO (AP) — A health official said the city is monitoring the sexual behavior of an AIDS carrier who allegedly has unprotected sex with high school students without warning them of his condition. Dr. Laurance Nickey, director of the El Paso City- County Health District, said the department has warned the man to stop having sex without using a con dom or informing his partners of his condition, and if the order is violated, the district will pursue the matter to the legal limit of the law. He declined to explain how the department is mon itoring the man’s activities. Officials have refused to identify the man. If the man violates the June 4 notice, he could be quarantined under a new state law. Only a judge at the state district level or higher can order a quarantine, which is like a house arrest. The man could be held in a health facility or the county jail, Nickey said. Nickey’s actions have drawn several critics, including a county commissioner and the director of an AIDS hospice and counseling center. County Commissioner Orlando Fonseca and Rio Bravo Association Director Jaime Perez said Nickey should pursue the matter in civil court. Both favor quarantining the man. At issue is Nickey’s contention that officials have little power to pursue the matter until one of the man’s part ners files a criminal complaint. A criminal plaintiffs name is a matter of public record. At least two people have filed administrative com plaints with the health district, but Nickey they are not criminal complaints. Officials don’t have to release the names of those making administrative complaints. Perez said that he, Nickey and one of the AIDS car rier’s sex partners met Tuesday morning to discuss the possibility of filing assault or attempted murder charges against the man. The man was not worried about hav ing his identity publicized. “He said he’d be willing to fill out the papers and sign on the dotted line,” Perez said. But when the potential plaintiff was informed he could be prosecuted under the state’s sodomy statute, he decided not to file a criminal complaint against the AIDS carrier, Perez said. Nickey, who did not answer calls Tuesday from the Associated Press, said in Tuesday’s meeting that he was powerless to pursue the matter in civil court until some one complains that he or she had unprotected sex with the man after the AIDS carrier received his June 4 or der to stop such activities, according to Perez. That means the health district cannot pursue the ad ministrative complaints it received before June 4 unless the complainants file criminal charges against the man, and that the health district has to wait until someone else has sex with the man before it can pursue the mat ter in civil court. “I didn’t know whether to get angry or laugh, be cause it’s absolutely ludicrous,” Perez said. Someone filing a civil complaint with the health de partment would not necessarily have to be publicly identified, Perez said. WASHINGTON (AP) — One fig ure implicated through wiretaps in the Pentagon procurement bribery and fraud probe agreed within the past few days to cooperate with the government and another is on the verge of agreeing to tell what he knows, sources familiar with the in vestigation said Tuesday. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci decided to reas sign six Pentagon officials under scrutiny in the investigation. He di rected that anyone whose activities come under examination must be moved to a different job that has nothing to do with procurement. The person who is cooperating with the government is someone whose voice turned up frequently on the court-ordered wiretaps that are a central part of the two-year investi gation, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. Under investigation are allega tions that defense contractors and consultants, many of them former military men, bribed Pentagon offi cials for contracting details that could be vital in winning contracts worth hundreds of millions of dol lars. It could not be determined whether the target who is cooperat ing is a Pentagon employee. A&M reviews recovery system By Catherine Zudak Reporter It’s been smooth sailing for Texas A&M’s re search of a hang-glider-type wing that may be used to return the space shuttle’s booster rockets to the launch area instead of having them splash down in the ocean. A&M’s Space Research Center, in conjunction with United Technologies of Huntsville, Ala bama is testing a booster rocket recovery system for NASA’s space shuttle at the wind tunnel near Easterwood Airport. Solid-fuel booster rockets, used in the past to launch the shuttle into orbit, parachuted into the ocean after separating from the shuttle and were recovered by ships. Salt water corrodes and dam ages the boosters. Project engineer Jeff Fisher said this new re covery system would consist of a hang-glider type wing attached to the booster rockets. After the boosters separate from the shuttle, the wing would deploy and allow the boosters to glide back to the ground virtually undamaged. Oran Nicks, Director of the Space Research Center, said returning the boosters undamaged by salt water would lower the cost of launch. Fisher said booster recovery is just one of many applications for advanced recovery sys tems. “We’ve done some studies on crew escape sys tems for the space station, recovery of engine packages and orbital payloads using advanced re covery systems or precision recovery systems,” he said. “These systems consist of any deployable de vice, even parachutes, that can glide. The differ ence here is that the shuttle boosters will have a deployable wing that will glide the boosters back to a runway. “We’ve been very fortunate. We’ve been get ting a much better performance than NASA thought we would and it’s mostly do to the fact we’re getting a (good) airfoil shape.” The model wing has a 6-foot wing span and is made of a double layer of coated nylon with in ternal ribs that connect the upper and lower sur face. The internal ribs are different lengths so when the wing is filled with air the entire wing has a three-dimensional shape rather than being a single sheet like a hang glider wing. Fisher, a mechanical engineer from the Space Flight Systems Division of United Technologies, said the actual wing will have a 227-foot wing span and will be made of Kevlar fabric which will be coated or laminated to prevent air flow. “What’s really important is that air cannot flow through the fabric of the wing,” he said. “There are inlets on the lower surface that allow the wing to pressurize — air passing over the lower sur face flows inside the wing (inflating it) and that’s why we’re getting such good performance. “The glide ratio has been 8 to 1, for every 8 feet the booster flys forward it drops a foot. The old single surface designs that NASA was looking at got about 4 to 1.” Fisher has been working with A&M faculty and students at the wind tunnel since June 10 gathering data on the wing’s load capabilities, performance, deployment sequence and re sponse to control systems. Saturday the first se ries of tests were completed. Another series of tests is scheduled for July. Fisher said an areodynamicist will analyze the data collected during the wind tunnel tests and apply it to a full-scale booster system to deter mine how well the system will fly. Nicks said the new recovery system probably would be used in the next five to 10 years. “The Space Station is scheduled for 1992- 1995; There will be a lot of launches going up,” he said. “That’s when this new system would be most useful.” Nicks said the recovery system tests in the wind tunnel reflect a new era of space research that will provide greater opportunity for University involvement. He said the center, which supports research efforts of NASA’s major contractors, was created in recognition of this new era.