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Thursday, January 19,1989
Dillard’s is pleased to announce
the formation of the Spring ’89
College Advisory Board
The Dillard's College Advisory Board is being formed with
the intention of developing a direct communication link
with the Texas A&M University student body. Our goal is
to use this feedback in a constructive manner to better serve
the student customer.
Application are available for college men and women at
Customer Service and are due Feb. 1.
Contact Pam Johnsen at 764-0014
Dillard's
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Or come by and enjoy our entertainment
Town Hall comedian
OPAS Pianist
Womens’ Chorus Octet
Aggie Wranglers
Visual Art painting
Plus many giveaways such as Putt Putt passes, tickets for
two to Opas production "My One and Only", tickets to V
Variety Show, and gift certificate to Ferguson and Co.
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Saturday - January 21, 1989
4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Memorial Student Center
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World/Nation
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Botha stable, coherent
after having mild strokegf
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP)
— President P.W. Botha suffered a
stroke at home Wednesday, but was
“clear-minded” and might appoint a
Cabinet member as acting president,
his office said.
Botha, who turned 73 on Jan. 12,
was in stable condition at No. 2 Mili
tary Hospital in the Cape Town sub
urb of Wynberg after suffering a
mild stroke, his office said. No fur
ther details were released.
Botha’s health generally has been
excellent since he took charge of
South Africa’s white-run govern
ment as prime minister in 1978. Un
der a new constitution, he became
president in 1984.
Elize Botha, the president’s wife
of 46 years, and some of their five
children came to the hospital to be
with him, state radio said.
Botha was hospitalized shortly af
ter 8 a.m., according to the South
African Broadcasting Corp.
Botha’s office said he was “quite
clear-minded” and was likely to ap
point one of his Cabinet ministers as
acting president on Thursday.
According to South Africa’s Con
stitution, the president can appoint a
Cabinet minister to fill in for him
temporarily. If the president is inca
pacitated, the Cabinet can elect one
of its rhembers as acting president.
Botha has refused to comment on
his possible retirement. There has
been intense speculation, but no
consensus, about which Cabinet
member might be selected by the
National Party as Botha’s successor.
Among those mentioned as presi
dential contenders are Foreign Min
ister Pik Botha, who is not related to
him; National Education Minister
F.W. de Klerk; Constitutional Devel
opment Minister Chris Heunis; Fi
nance Minister Barend du Plessis;
and Defense, Minister Magnus
Malan.
None of these men is considered
likely to make fundamental changes
in current National Party policy, al
though Pik Botha is viewed as
slightly more liberal than the others.
The stroke occurred a few days
after Botha returned to Cape Town
from a month-long holiday at his
coastal vacation home. On Friday, he
was to meet members of Namibia’s
territorial Cabinet to discuss the
planned transition to independence
by year’s end.
Pik Botha said he would chair the
meeting with the Namibian officials.
Parliament is due to open Feb. 3,
and there has been widespieadsi
ulation that President Bothaw
announce a general election to
place in late April. National Pjj
leaders have suggested the ej
election because they believe
opponents on both the leftandri;
are in disarray.
Din ing his years in power, &
has maintained the National Pai
political dominance despitecriti
both from the anti-apart! §i es are
movement and from extretne-t,Mipp or l 1
whites. ■entone
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during the National Party’s#))
rule, such as legalization of inter
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laws that restricted blatl
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with the African National Congr
guert ilia movement or to reieasei
ANC’s jailed leacier, Nelson M;
dela. Botha 1 las said he would]
even discuss the possibility of a oi
person, one-vote system in South;
rica, where the 5 million whitest!
trol the government and econoi
while the 26 million blacks have
vote in national aff airs.
Newly opened prison
doesn’t disrupt quiet
of upstate New York
CAPE VINCENT, N Y. (AP) —
Thieves, drug-pushers and other
hoodlums from New York City ar
rive in this scenic vacation land
aboard chartered jets. They stay in
brand-new accommodations, savor
ing the peaceful charm of the shore
of the St. Lawrence River, more than
300 miles from the Big Apple.
They come to go to jail.
They are men like 37-year-old
Alan Foster, who says he has been in
and out of New York City’s Riker’s
Island jail so many times he has lost
count.
“I’m not pleased about being so
far away from home, but compared
to Riker’s Island, this place is all
right,” says Foster, who was sen
tenced this time to one year in jail
for illegal possession of stolen credit
cards.
in this community of 1,800, says the
jail is providing jobs and should lead
to more development, maybe even a
drug store or another gas station.
Critics of the jail, which is located
on a main road near a high school
and a state park, included Radley’s
brother, Jerry, who runs a trailer
park. He and others were afraid it
would hurt business.
“I wasn’t too happy with the idea
when it started,” says Elmer Gleason,
manager of Cedar Point State Park
and six other state parks along the
river. “But now I just hope, once
they put some trees in and do some
landscaping, that it will just be a for-
n thiiiK.”
gotten thing.
Cape Vincent in upstate New
York is now the home of Riverview
Correctional Facility, a 700-bed jail
built in less than a year to house
criminals from this country’s largest
city.
An identical jail also was built by
New York City in Ogdensburg,
about 40 miles to the north. Both
opened in August and were filled in
a month.
“I don’t know what we would have
done without the upstate jails,” says
Tom Antenan, a spokesman for the
New York City Department of Cor
rection. “They opened up just in
time.”
New York City’s jail population
has surged to more than 17,000 in
mates, largely because of beefed-up
drug enforcement, Antenan says.
He says the city is building more
jails in lower Manhattan, on Staten
Island and is considering buying
more barges to board prisoners and
adding more cells at Riker’s Island.
The city spent $110 million to
build the jails and will pay $40 mil
lion a year to operate them under a
10-year contract with the state De
partment of Correctional Services.
H. Otis Radley, a town supervisor
He says that judging from reac
tions during the construction of the
prison this summer, the fears that a
prison would drive away tourists
probably were unfounded.
“People see it as an attraction, just
another thing to come and look at
when they’re tired of sitting by the
river,” Gleason says.
Some worry that the prison will
change the homev atmosphere of
the community, where car keys are
left in ignitions, bicycles are not
locked in garages and people are
friendly.
Inside the fences, guards proudly
show off the new washing machines,
the gleaming wood floor in the gym
nasium and the walk-in freezers in
the cafeteria.
Inmates talk about how good the
food is, how professional the guards
are and how the toughest adjust
ment may be getting accustomed to
only being able to watch three chan
nels on television.
Inmate Foster says that when he
stepped off the plane and looked
around he forgot about the whispers
onboard of the trip being a bluff, es
pecially when he saw the shotgun
armed guards greeting him as he
stepped through the doorway.
“I didn’t know where 1 was, but I
knew wherever it was, we weren’t
welcome,” he said.
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U.S. trade deficit ballooned
$12.5 billion
biggest imbalance in live month
the government said Wednesdaj
Many private economists ani
even the Reagan administrate
viewed the report as a disappoint'
ing indic ation of how deep tht
country's trade problems are.
Flie Commerce Departmti
said the trade gap was 22 peraot
larger than October’s $10.3 bil
lion deficit, reflecting a surge it
imports, particularly for busines
capital goods, and a slight dropii
exports.
“We have a serious compel
itiveness problem in this com
try,” Lawrence Chimeriiie, heat
of the WEE A Group, an ece
nomic consulting firm in Bal
Cynwyd, Pa., said. “There’s ;|
limit to how much you can
prove by cutting costs and drivintl
the dollar lower.
At the White House, spoke
man Marlin Fitzwater said tht
November performance was oil
concern hut “we trust this is a
aberration and does not thangt
the overall trend.”
Even with the November dele
rioration, the trade deficit fortln]
first 11 months of 1988 was run-
ning at an annual rate of $137.!
billion, almost 20 percent beta
the all-time imbalance of $170!
billion set in 1987.
Departing Commerce Secre
tary C. William Verity, a top ad
ministration trade expert, said
the November report was disap
pointing evidence that the coif
try’s trade problems are far from
being solved. He said the rapid
pace of improvement in thefirt
part of 198/ had leveled off in re
cent months.
“All of this means that we have
a long way to go,” Verity saidina
statement. “We must continue to
improve our efficiency and qua!
ity at home and pursue our e(
forts to reduce trade barriers
abroad.”
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