he
int
cess,
m.
Wednesday, November 16,1988
The Battalion
Page 5
World/Nation
million immigrants apply
or amnesty under program
£23
[I
)88.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More
an I million immigrants have ap-
ied for amnesty under a special
rm worker program that federal
fidals say has been troubled by ex-
nsive fraud.
Under the special agricultural
rker (SAW) program that expires
ov. 30, aliens who can document
at they worked in U.S. agriculture
r 90 days between May 1985 and
ay 1986 are eligible for temporary
sidency. After waiting either one
ol two years, they are then eligible
tor permanent residency.
| Duke Austin, a spokesman for the
Immigration and Naturalization
irvice, said the government bears
e burden of disproving an alien’s
aim under SAW, unlike the gen-
al amnesty program that required
[documented aliens to compile ex-
ustive evidence of having lived in
e United States continuously since
Under the general amnesty pro-
am of the 1986 Immigration Re-
rm Act, 1,765,000 aliens applied
for legalization.
The turnout for the SAW pro-
am has been more than double
hat most predicted, officials say,
iththe majority of applicants from
alifornia, Florida and Texas.
“I don’t think anybody in govern-
ient or the service anticipated this
umber,” Austin said.
Austin said the SAW program has
suited in cases of gross fraud,
artly because of its generous provi-
ons, and fraud cartels have sprung
up to provide false affidavits or
other work documentation.
In one of more than 100 cases of
alleged fraud now under prosecu
tion, a New Jersey woman with five
acres attested to employing 1,000
applicants, Austin said.
“There is extensive fraud in the
program,” Austin said. “The prob
lem is identifying the fraud and how
you go about eliminating it. That is a
serious concern of ours.”
But Ron D’Aloisio, executive di
rector of the Farmer Worker Justice
Fund, said the great majority of ap
plicants have valid claims and
warned that if INS overreacts to
questions of fraud that it could “chill
the desires of people who do have
valid applications to step forward
and apply.”
Beginning Dec. 1, farm employers
will face sanctions for hiring undo
cumented workers. They can, how
ever, request a replenishment of
their work force under the replace
ment agricultural worker (RAW)
program beginning Oct. 1, if ranks
of workers are depleted.
Soviet’s success with shuttle
hailed by NASA, Gorbachev
30 ml.
P-
Hood?
ie
itlon
-e.)
SALE
\ w
A >
oM
iOFT £
ft
ES 0
AR }
MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviets broke the U.S. mo
nopoly on reusable spacecraft Tuesday by launching
their own space shuttle on a 3 and one-half -hour, un
manned orbital flight that President Mikhail S. Gorba
chev hailed as a major coup for his country.
“The space plane has ushered in a new era in the his
tory of Soviet space exploration,” state-run Radio Mos
cow declared after the 100-ton Buran made two orbits,
streaked earthward in a fireball and landed at a spe
cially built runaway in Soviet Central Asia on its maiden
mission.
The pilotless flight of the Buran — “snowstorm” in
Russian — was a major success for the Soviet space pro
gram after a series of problems that included the near
loss of cosmonauts on a joint Soviet-Afghan mission in
September and loss of contact with a probe sent to
Mars.
The early morning launch of the Buran fastened to
the back of the 198-foot-tall Energia booster rocket also
ended a seven-year U.S. monopoly on reusable space
craft inaugurated by the launch of the shuttle Columbia
in April 1981.
In Washington, NASA congratulated the Soviets on
the mission.
The Buran, as well as other shuttles still being devel
oped, will have a central role in the Soviet space pro
gram, the state-run media said.
Radio Moscow said the Buran’s railway car-sized
cargo bay can house an entire Salyut spate station.
Tass said the Soviet shuttle was superior to its U.S.
counterpart because of a bigger payload capacity and its
ability to fly automatically.
The official news agency also disclosed the shuttle’s
dimensions: Buran, roughly the same size as a passen
ger airliner, is 119 feet long, ISVa feet in diameter and
has a wingspan of 79 feet.
For years, the Soviets criticized the U.S. shuttle as
wasteful and unreliable. But Western space specialists
say the Soviets began planning their own space plane in
1982 at the latest.
Study shows
angioplasy
often unneeded
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
expensive practice of using bal
loon catheters to force open heart
arteries immediately after heart
attacks, now routinely done at
many large hospitals, is unneces
sary and should be abandoned,
according to a major study re
leased Tuesday.
The study found that if heart
attack victims quickly receive clot
dissolving drugs, they usually
don’t need the extra step of the
common balloon procedure,
known as angioplasty.
Some experts said the results
are good news, because they
mean that most heart attack pa
tients can be treated in commu
nity hospitals, where angioplasty
is not available.
The study also has an impor
tant financial message. Its au
thors estimated that if angioplasty
was widely adopted after heart at
tacks, it could raise the nation’s
annual medical bills by $704 mil
lion.
“This trial has settled one of
the most important questions in
modern-day cardiology,” com
mented Dr. J. Ward Kennedy of
the University of Washington,
Seattle.
The study is phase 2 of the
Thrombolysis in Miocardial In
farction Trial, or TIMI-II, di
rected by Dr. Eugene Braunwald
of Brigham and Women’s Hospi
tal in Boston.
The first phase of the study
showed that giving people a clot
dissolving drug called tissue plas
minogen activator, or TPA, im
mediately after heart attacks dra
matically improved their chances
of survival.
The latest study, presented ati
the annual meeting of the Ameri
can Heart Association, was in
tended to see whether people did
better still if doctors tried to clear
away any remaining blockages af
ter giving TPA.
Balloon angioplasty is also
widely used to treat people with
dogged heart arteries who have
not suffered heart attacks.
Estonia may consider
separation from U.S.S.R
TALLINN, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Esto
nia’s parliament on Wednesday will
consider a “declaration of sover
eignty” that proclaims the Baltic re
public’s independence from the So
viet Union in all areas except
defense and foreign policy.
Its members also will weigh a re
lated amendment to the Estonian
constitution that would bar enforce
ment of any new Soviet law unless it
has been ratified by the Estonian
parliament, Edgar Savisaar said. Sa-
visaar is one of the leaders of the Es
tonian People’s Front, the broad-
based citizens’ group behind the
proposal.
Although the People’s Front
claims the support of the leadership
of the Estonian government and the
Estonian Communist Party, passage
of the proposals is by no means as
sured. They require a two-thirds ma
jority in the 285-member Supreme
Soviet, or parliament; of Estonia.
“I’m not sure they are united,” Sa
visaar said in an interview Tuesday.
Deputies are expected to divide
approximately along ethnic lines, as
many lawmakers who are ethnic
Russians or members of other ethnic
groups do not share the Estonians’
views.
Ethnic Estonians hold 180 seats in
the parliament, but need 189 for a
two-thirds majority, according to the
People’s Front.
Deputies were being intensely lob
bied Tuesday as proponents and op
ponents of the amendments tried to
win their votes, said Tarmu Tam-
merk, a Tallinn journalist working
with the People’s Front.
Savisaar carefully avoided refer
ence to any possibility of resistance
to the move from Moscow, and
claimed support in the national capi
tal. But when asked directly if he was
worried about the possible use of
force to halt the Estonian reforms,
he said, “We are very worried about
our future. At the same time, we are
very hopeful.”
Savisaar said the declaration of
sovereignty is not analogous to the
U.S. Declaration of Independence,
though the law professor responsi
ble for writing the Estonian docu
ment “spent several months in
America and it’s very likely he got
some ideas there.”
Estonia’s declaration deals with
political reality in the country, Savi
saar noted. It essentially reminds the
Soviet Union that it was originally
constituted by Vladimir I. Lenin as a
federation of independent repub
lics, Savisaar said.
The Estonian proposal calls for
certain rights such as defense and
foreign policy to be allocated to “all-
union” or Soviet bodies, and every
thing else to be left to Estonia, Savi
saar said.
Wednesday’s special session of the
Estonian Supreme Soviet was called
to consider unified opposition for a
series of amendments to the Soviet
Constitution that Estonians say shifts
power to Moscow and eliminates the
republics’ right to secede.
There have been objections to the
amendments in the other Baltic re
publics of Latvia and Lithuania.
Brady offered spot
in Bush’s cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent-elect George Bush today asked
Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady
to remain in his current post in the
new administration.
Brady is a former investment
banker who served briefly as an ap
pointed member of the Senate. He is
a longtime friend of the president
elect, and was a key member of a cir
cle of advisers that Bush leaned on
during his successful presidential
campaign.
The appointment marked the sec
ond time that Bush has turned to a
longtime confidante to fill a key post
in his administration. Secretary of
State-designate James A. Baker III
was Bush’s first Cabinet appoint
ment, announced the morning after
his election to the presidency last
week.
Bush made the appointment out
side the official vice president’s resi
dence after meeting privately with
visiting West German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl.
Brady’s appointment came as no
surprise. President Reagan ap
pointed Brady to his Cabinet post
last summer, and it was long ex-
ected that Bush would keep his old
riend in the Cabinet if he won the
presidential election, which then be
came a reality.
Frl
Bush made the appointment in an
uncertain international economic at
mosphere. The value of the dollar
fell sharply last week, dragging
down stock prices as well because of
investor fears over Bush’s economic
policies.
To calm jitters, Bush and Brady
both acted in recent days to reassure
investors that the new administra
tion had no secret plan to drive
down the value of the extremely
high dollar.
Bush said there would be no other
administration appointments today
because is not yet ready to release
that information.
However, speculation around
Washington continues to run ram-
pid as to who Bush will choose for
various other Cabinet positions.
I
J «
SALE
>rs usfi
to see
tube.
TyoiJ.
ease
DON’T MISS THE 1st ANNUAL TEXAS A&M
NEW CAR SHOW
All the latest ’89 models, many valuable prizes, and
FREE popcorn and balloons
WHERE: Behind the Academic Building
WHEN: Friday & Saturday, November 18th & 19th
Listen to KEYS 105 FM
for more details
Hosted by PI SIGMA EPSILON,
THE MARKETING FRATERNITY AT TEXAS A&M
chal-lenge (chaFenj) n. 1. anything
that calls for a special effort.
Pi Kappa Phi
Fraternity
is re-establishing the chapter at
Texas A&M.
If you are ready to take on the
challenge of starting a Fraternity
call our National Representative
Bill May cock
at
822-1301
“It’s a masterpiece!’
Save on
Poster Prints by Kodak!
S'! off $rp
■ 12 "xl8"
J NOW ONLY
12 "xl8" ‘
NOW ONLY
$12.95
off
20"x30"
NOW ONLY
$15.95
Ask about frames (sold separately).
Come in for full details.
Hurry! Offer ends 11-30-88.
CAMnis iticro
MNirr ini.
846-5418 — North gate
by KODAK
IVs never too early to get your foot in the door..
©IPIP0IEWMIITIE1S
lp5r©-iT3©^l3©si3 nsnd Lif© S©3©n©©s Sltyd©nlts:
Representatives from:
MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND, GRAJDtJAm PROGRAMS
Southwestern
U.T. Galveston
U.T. Houston
U.T. San Antonio
U.T. Dallas
U.T. Austin
University of Houston
Arizona
Rice
biochemistry
molecular biology
genetics
microbiology
biophysics
regulatoiybiology
biomedical science
and related fields
Will be at TAMU on THURSDAY
NOVEMBER ITTil, ROOM 212 IN THE MSC
8:00 am-5:00 pm M 'j \ ^
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT
WIELMP ^TCQ IEXD AiraiSIB
Sponsored by the Under
graduate Biochemistry
Society