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Texas A&M iT'tiG Battalion o a ?, but thebi i with the* acker Viviat uesday, October-^25, 1988 College Station, Texas Vol. 88 No. 42 USPS 045360 8 Pages m s serving 1&Mtoalh; point, ABli own with ala return tothtt Cumings ft hyperextenin t long. gg>es put i the serve i an 8-3 lead :1 the score s won thep iutingthelio ng Lanes. .30/game 3ij 1-RecSpof!' ;re will bect: itagewillbes ime and lari tionalSpch! /ember 6. Fi [uirements/ nament fie Looking between the lines Photo by Jay Janner Jay Cruz Dimas of McKowan Bridge Company works on the Rock Prairie project should be completed and open to southbound traffic in two to three Road overpass on Highway 6 south in College Station Monday afternoon. The months. &I student, two A&M athletes volved in public disturbance By Stephen Masters Senior Staff Writer A public disturbance report was filed iklay by the College Station Police in ■ncident involving two Texas A&M Hrtes and a Texas A&I student. nge Allen Sacky. a 28-year-old pas A&I student, told 7'hc Battalion ■Hl^ ■disturbance began Sunday evening MSHHi a student athlete and another indi- Hal accosted his brother's girlfriend Kflcat Dirty Juan's restaurant in Wood- -item Center. tflG lntrai cky sa ' c * * lc as * <et * to leave the Wogian alone prior to the fight breaking i said the fracas moved to the park- ot where the other athlete became in- ed. |acky said “a couple of members of Ifoutball team” threatened him fol- iber29at' |wiug the fight in front of police offi- ]agecategoil| ar LateEulltW e CSPD released one page of a four ' report Monday. The public portion b incident report filed by officer Joe hing lists Sacky as the complainant, ther names are mentioned in the re- d portion of the report. |cnning directed all questions to the tment’s public information officer, ■no one from the PIO was available jlolday night. A spokesperson for the CSPD said there were eight names other than Sacky’s mentioned on the final page of the report, but said the names af the indi viduals were not open to the public. • The spokesman said other names were of “either witnesses or people involved in some way or another in the incident.” The spokesman told The Battalion that no charges had been filed because none can be filed for a public disturbance. She said if assault charges arc to be filed, the complainant will have to do so in person. Sacky, who lives in Corpus Christi, said he told Henning at the scene he wanted to press charges and was told he could do so at a later, datp. He said Monday that if he had to re turn to College Station to press charges, he would do so. Sacky suffered a cut over the eye which required stitches and said his vi sion is still blurry. A related incident report for criminal mischief listed damage to a motor vehi cle in the 'parking lot which the owner blamed on “several fights that erupted in the parking lot earlier.” The damage was estimated at $ l ,650. Sacky said he did not remember how the car became damaged. “All I remember is there were four of us between two cars,” he said. “I’m still kind of fuzzy on the whole thing. “It just seems kind of strange, because just a couple of hours before we were watching them play ball.” !l urrent iraps:' fe by Fridaydl Delays plague flu vaccine supply PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Produc tion of the nation’s supply of flu vac cine has been delayed up to two months, and supplies will be short during the best time to protect pa tients. pharmaceutical firms and pub lic health officials said Monday. The companies blame the problem on late notification from the federal Centers for Disease Control about what type of vaccine would be needed this year. The CDC says the problem stems from the fact that some of the viruses causing this year’s flu take unusually long to culti vate for vaccines. The largest producer of the vac cines, Wyeth Laboratories inc., of St. Davids in suburban Philadelphia, usually hav, shipped the bulk of its 9 million doses by September. Company spokesman Audrey Ashby said that this year, Wyeth will be sending vaccine to physicians through early to mid-November. Then it will take additional time to get people in for their shots. Paul Stehr-Green, an immunolog ist with the Centers for Disease Con trol in Atlanta, said the highest risk group for the flu, and traditionally last on the list of those immunized, are older people living in close quar ters in big-city nursing homes. Soviet reforms call for more choices, limited promises MOSCOW (AP) — The long-awaited Soviet election reform calls for a choice of candidates but sharply limits what they can advocate. “The program of the candidate must not contradict the Constitution or Soviet law,” says the draft election law pub lished in Sunday’s newspapers. It is not clear whether that restricts candidates to mere promises, like more meat in stores or a new movie theater. But since the Constitution defines the Soviet Union as a socialist nation led by the Communist Party, the phrase seems to rule out other political parties, and tie unaffiliated candidates to the communist system. Still, citizens may see something slightly akin to a Western-style election campaign for the first time next spring, as nominees grapple with new concepts like competing candidates, television time and a campaign staff. The draft law says candidates for the 2,250 seats in the new Congress of Peo ple’s Deputies will be given time off from work to campaign, free public Tansportation within their district, and access to the state-run media. They also may ask 10 friends to help them cam paign. The election proposal is part of an overhaul of the government proposed by President Mikhail Gorbachev at the party conference in June. The lengthy draft laws published this weekend are to be debated in the media before the current Supreme Soviet legislature considers them in November. Traditionally, Soviet elections have had only one candidate for each position, so campaigning was limited to a biogra phy and a few nights to meet the candi date. Election officials obtained 99 per cent voter participation by persuading busy citizens to have a relative take their identification to the polls and vote on their behalf. Fledgling opposition groups like the Democratic Union may find it tough to field a candidate in the face of a require ment that candidates for territorial dis tricts be nominated by workers’ groups of at least 500 people. The Democratic Union itself would seem to be specifically barred from par ticipation since it seeks to repeal the sec tion of the Constitution that grants a mo nopoly to the Communist Party. However, the reform law seems to open possibilities for groups with broad backing, such as the nationalistic Peo ple’s Front organizations in the Baltic re publics. These associations in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have won official approval by advocating not just cultural freedom but also economic reforms akin to those of Gorbachev. The People’s Front of Estonia and its counterpart, the Lithuanian Restructur ing Group, have said they plan to put for ward candidates. The draft law also gives candidates complete immunity from arrest and pros ecution without approval of the Central Election Commission, a provision that a legal expert writing in the latest edition of Ogonyok magazine said is necessary to ensure deputies against unjust perse cution. “Imagine an unprotected deputy con trols the prosecutor’s office, exposes il legalities, tries to fight the mafia, and courageously criticizes the police and prosecutors at a session of the council,” A.N. Yakovlev, a professor of law at the Academy of Sciences, said. “This cannot be a reality, because to morrow he will be arrested on trumped- up charges,” he said. Boulter gives facts of race at A&M forum By James D. Ezell Staff Writer U.S. Senate candidate Beau Boulter questioned the ethics of his opponent Lloyd Bentsen for running for both the Senate and the vice presi dency before an audience of approxi mately 50 people at Monday night’s MSC Political Forum. He is the Re publican nominee in the senate race. “I’m not running for both my House seat and the Senate seat be cause I’m not allowed to do that," Boulter said. “I wouldn’t do that even if I was allowed to. “I really want to serve people in the U.S. Senate. I’m the only candidate running for the Senate that really wants to be there. To me it’s not a consolation prize. Bentsen considers the seat to be a consolation prize.” Boulter was referring to Bentsen’s dual candidacy for the Senate as well as the vice presidency under Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. Under Texas law, Bentsen is allowed to seek both offices simultaneously. Boulter discussed his views on how to aid the ailing Texas oil econ omy. He criticized Dukakis for not knowing about the oil industry. “I’ve always favored an oil import fee, but we’re not going to have one so there’s not much point in talking about it.” Boulter said. “There’s just not any support for it. The tax incen tives and tax credits are much more doable. I want to see Texas once again be the engine that drives the train of economic growth.” Boulter stressed he would be best suited to serve Vice President George Bush in the Senate by giving him a Republican controlled Congress. “My vision and my plan for Texas are to continue with the progress that we have been making under President Reagan and George Bush,” Boulter said. “I think that George Bush will be the next president, but he will sure need some help in the U.S. Senate.” '/PM Ali ■k&M institute looks for scholars, experts By Alan Sembera Senior Staff Writer Directors of Texas A&M's newly established A»her Institute for Defense Studies are looking l parts of Texas for interested scholars and jtperts in an attempt to create a major mil.itary ink tank here. . Arthur Blair, deputy director of the Insti- said he thinks Texas is a good place to cre- military think tank because of its large rc- capability. 1 See related story, page 3 |“II you look at all the colleges and universities |i Texas, wc ought to have enough experts to Indie darn near anything." Blair said. Even though the Mosher Institute is a part of ■Texas A&M University System. Blair said. I Wants it to be thought of as a "Texas institute" Biot just as a Texas A&M institute. Bhat's why we're writing all the colleges and 10 TOTAL''j n l crs ' t ' es ' n Texas to get their faculty mem- Bnvolved so that wc can speak for Texas and jotjust for Texas A&M." he said. Blair said the military think tank will give [e»s more influence in defense policy plan ting. 0 YDS B he mam reason why we've even established if Be at all. " he said, "is that there arc a lot of "link tanks on the East Coast, a lot on the West ■R TOTALTl 0 ! 1, b ut t * lc m ‘ ( J ( -lle of the country is almost BW' jBtrcsented with a think tank. 1 'But Texas does an awful lot for defense. '"’el'e put an awful lot of people in important sgions. but we don't have much voice in the 5 YDS red ini lall, Hwy/ Bulation of defense policy." he said. raDhiCSaief" l ,onest ly bcleivc the point of view of the ^ piddle of the country is not quite the same as the *' < ”^Band West coasts." he said. "I don't mean y^tter or worse. it's simply different." The Mosher think tank also will be different from other think tanks. Blair said, because it will look at defense in the context of the military's in teraction with society. He said the institute will consult experts from many fields. Areas studied will include econom ics. history, sociology, psychology, political sci ence. medicine, art. philosophy and ethics. The Institute takes a multidisciplinary ap proach because wars involve societies, he said, so all aspects of society must be integrated into a national defense policy. Although the planners behind the institute have far-reaching goals, the staff currently con sists of only four people. The institute is directed by former A&M Pres ident Dr. Frank E. Vandiver, who resigned as president in September to head the institute. In addition to having served seven years as A&M's president, he is a military historian and has held several national defense-related advisory posi tions. The staff also boasts a former arms negotiator. Dr. Ron Hatchett. Hatchett, who is in charge of military pro grams at the institute, was the Defense Depart ment's chief conventional arms negotiator in Eu rope until August. But the institute is still in its embryonic stage. Blair said it would probably take three or four months to get organized. Even then, he added, the full-time staff at A&M w ill remain relatively small. "Wc don't want to waste money by building a large staff that sits around doing nothing. " Blair said. "Wc want people, in effect, on call, who have volunteered to work in certain areas. "We'll know their areas of expertise and if a proposal comes in. we can go through the propo sal. see what kind of experts w e need, then w rite the people on our roster." Those people w ill be considered to be research associates. Blair said. Interested researchers can apply to become associates of the institute by submitting their resumes. Blair said he has written to every college and university in Texas inviting the faculty members to apply to become research associates. Graduate students also can submit resumes to the institute, he said. When research associates are used on a pro ject. he said, they probably will stay on their own campuses and use their own laboratories. Also, he added, they will not be paid unless they work on a funded project. In addition to conducting defense research, the institute also will organize about two de fense-related conferences every year. Blair said. The Institute's first conference will be in Jan uary. he said. The conference will feature top arms negotiators from the United States, the So viet Union. Sweden. Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom. Germany and other European coun tries. The negotiators will exchange ideas infor mally on what arms control negotiations arc pos sible to establish a more stable balance in Eu rope. Topics of discussion will include the possibil ity of negotiations on chemical and biological weapons, and increasing the openness about what other countries' militaries are doing. The Mosher Institute also is preparing to do research on civil defense planning. This type of research will deal with urban problems resulting from military or paramilitary activity, terrorist attacks, natural disasters and major accidents, Blair said. "It's all in dealing w ith the unexpected." Blair- said. “Suppose some tornado comes in and dumps a freight car into a reservoir and contami nates all the water? What are you going to do ? "People are sick," he said. “Can you truck in enough water? Do you even have a plan to? Where would you get the water? Where would you get the vehicles? "Just asking simple questions like that may not have occurred to people." Blair said. “Dr. Vandiver and 1 know that probably every city in Texas has some sort of disaster plan if we have a great big fire or tornado or hurricane," he said. “But I'm not just exactly as sure as I'd like to be that these plans have been tested and really work very w'ell. "What would you do if a hurricane came through Houston or Galveston ?" he said. “What would you do if a tornado hit Dallas? Suppose we had a major chemical spill here in Bryan- College Station. Is Bryan-College Station pre pared to handle that?" One of the things the Institute aims to ac complish. Blair said, is to offer Texas cities help wflth disaster planning. The Institute is considering setting up a simu lation center to test disaster plans. Blair said. The tests would involve having the officials from a city going through a simulated disaster. The disaster would be controlled by a team of experts, he said. In the simulation exercise, gaps in disaster planning could be uncovered in advance. Blair said the Institute would like to offer the simulation service free to Texas cities. But for that plan to work, he said, the Texas Legislature must approve an extra $70,000 per year in A&M’s special-item budget to pay for the simu lation center. To show the Legislature how the simulation center would work, Blair said, he is considering performing a trial simulation in Bryan-College Station early next year. “What I’d do is have a disaster right on the boundary of Bryan-College Station,” Blair said, “where both of them would have to get involved, and plenty of people from A&M." He said the simulation would test the officials’ knowledge of what local resources are available and who is responsible for different problems created by the disaster. In addition to the $70,000 per year requested for the simulation center, Blair said, the Institute also is requesting an extra $90,000 per year for overhead and publishing. The Institute currently is supported by a $175,000 grant from Edward Mosher, Class of ’28. Mosher will fund the Institute at that level for 10 years. The Institute plans eventually to wean itself from outside support, Blair said, and will at tempt to support itself through grants and con tracts from the government and private industry. “If at the end of 10 years we can’t do it on our own . . . and we haven’t built up a reputation where grants are coming in,’then we’ve flat failed,” he said. "The object is to be self-suffi cient, but it will take a while to build a reputa tion.” “If you look at all the colleges and universities in Texas, we ought to have enough experts to handle darn near anything.” Dr. Arthur Blair, Deputy Director, Mosher Institute