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Monday, September 19, 1988rrhe Battalion/Page 13 Square dancers “‘"can go to school resio learn dance ■eAUMONT, (AP) — Absent » Ron this square dance are the petti- ^l 1 )-coats that swish and turn on the alle- ■2201 mande-lefts and the do-si-dos. ^8-yeJ 7-shirts and shorts take the place ^meTtffihe western-cut vests, bright ban- ligurf>8alas and bolo ties of normal nd ( sqiltre-dance fashion. 'iiata:- O ccasionally the dancers will “hran pause when the caller does to mop that swetit from their faces and necks I wen with handkerchiefs already wet from saidl pegspiration. prisost^B he dancers ,na y be tired and hot, but they dare not sit out from a by K dance. Instead, they clap their hands sofj and tap their feet to the beat, ternr whether they feel like it or not. idcted'faf hese people are working — and learning. aimed|^Rs students of the only formal were * square-dance calling school in Texas, ;d ce; thes and their partners arrive at CJ’s Squire Dance Boutique off Inter- fig uri stat<; 10 East each Sunday afternoon tester p|v prepared fora four-hour work- liertl oul And they get it. Wayne Morvant, a federal game warden by day and a square-dance caller by night and weekend, makes sure his 10 students get their mon ey’s worth during the 20-week course, because his reputation as a caller,rests on it. The students must know the steps to call them. And that’s why they go through the same movements week after week, though the summer heat sweltering inside the rear of the building, which has yet to get air conditioning, sends them running to the water cooler more than once each Sunday afternoon. “Bend the line, up through the middle and turn the girl,” Wayne half-sings, half-says, stopping the re cord to say, “OK, now what’s wrong here? Are they really out of se quence? No, I’ve got the right men over here. They just don’t have their partners with them.” BlOWilV in Photobyjayjanner Dale Cuthbertson enters Burger Boy in Bryan Friday. The windows decided to take precautions against the storm, as did several other lo- were boarded up in anticipation of Hurricane Gilbert. The owners cal businesses. -Man flees ipowr n oftbH. leavilitMjAREINGEN (AP) — Elias Vega ttlpec did not want to fight for the Sandi- nist t government in Nicaragua, so o a i he tied the country with his wife and hea two daughters when it looked like he volut was about to be drafted. 'stcasuj^Rfter a difficult journey through Guatemala and Mexico, the family >ts Pas ened up in South Texas, a popular ighdi. transit point for Central Americans luma looking for a new life in the United ■ fi States. ^Rince mid-May, the Immigration sold and Naturalization Service has seen killed ja hl-fold increase in Central Ameri- i.buil cans who walk into the agency’s Har- dRe< jlingen District office to apply for po- evolu' litfcal asylum, according to INS mart’ records. iholkbjBTi Sept, (i, a Tuesday, the INS Minf lsav more than 400 asylum applica Nicaraguan hostility; applies for asylum in U.S. tions submitted by Central Ameri cans in its Harlingen office, said INS spokesman Virginia Kice. “Prior to mid-May, it was unusual for us to have more than 100 in a single ueek,” Kice said. Vega, like many others, said he cannot return home, and has ap plied tor asylum. “There are strong repressions against those who left Nicaragua,” he said in Spanish, while at the Cath olic Church-operated Casa Oscar Romero shelter for Central Ameri cans on the outskirts of Brownsville. “They would throw me in jail.” Obdulio, a farmer from Progreso, Honduras, said he also cannot re turn. The 22-year-old man, who asked that his last name not be used, said he found himself in trouble with the Honduran government for be ing part of an agricultural cooper ative some farmers formed on aban doned land. “They (soldiers) went to my house once to look for me,” Obdulio said. “It was obvious they came to capture me.” Obdulio, who was at Proyecto Lib- ertad, a legal office in Harlingen that offers help for Central Ameri can refugees, said he thinks he would have been killed in Honduras, qnd has applied for asylum in the United States. The week ending Sept. 9, the INS Harlingen District took in 931 asy lum applications from Central Americans, and received 999 appli cations the week before. Since mid- May, the INS has seen more than 10,000 Central Americans’ asylum applications in the office covering the southern tip of Texas. “This does not include any of the people who are apprehended,” Kice said. “These are people who have crossed (the border) undetected and have made it to our office.” Fifty-seven percent of those asy lum applicants were from Nicara gua, with El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala accounting for the rest, according to the INS. The U.S. Border patrol also re ports an increase in the number of Central Americans apprehended in South Texas — 755 in August of this year compared to 516 in August 1987. Harlingen is about 10 miles from the Mexican border. Many Central Americans pass through the Lower Rio Grande Valley en route to other parts of the United States because the southern part of Texas provides the shortest land trip, said George Somerville, deputy director of the INS’ Harlingen District. Thelma Garcia, a Harlingen- based immigration attorney, said the high percentage of Nicaraguans seeking asylum is due to the U.S. government’s tendency to consider people from the Marxist-ruled na tion to be subject to political persecu tion. “Nicaraguans usually get prefer ential treatment in asylum cases,” she said. Garcia, however, said she has heard of more cases of political vio lence in other Central American na tions. “One of the stronger points is that the death squads are on the rise in El Salvador,” Garcia said. Somerville said he thinks most Central Americans are here to better themselves economically. “That’s what they’re telling us . . . that things are tough down there and it’s hard to make it,” Somerville said. “Certainly if somebody is from Central America where strife is going on, if they can show they would be persecuted for their politi cal beliefs, or have been persecuted, they will have a good case.” Most of the Central Americans are headed for areas more prosper ous that the Lower Rio Grande Val ley, government officials and refu gee advocates said. oats SECOND GENERAL MEETING RUDDER ROOM 701 TUESDAY 8:30 COMING UP hr ee m ■ ;ed b' the l>C t irmg ; e whefc it km F/S// WEEK ACTIVITIES MIDNIGHT BOWLING FISH NIGHT AT tHE CHICKEN for mor* Info call 84S —0688 ; life oft -50 ? t, tb^ 1 noin> |lii ; that" f i waiits \f- taifl el . avyf- e T) 51 Ff° ckf ' [gyto t ln 5 "' ; lug 3r 1 Vl 7 > l.U MSC Visual Arts Presents Dan Younger “Objects in My Father’s Basement” a collection of original photographs Monday, September 19, 1988 Lecture 7pm, MSC 206 Reception 8pm, MSC Gallery Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Advertisement Some women think they need to take an occasional rest from the Pill. 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