Wednesday, January 25,1989
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1 HOUSTON (AP) — Houston po-
|ce say they will seal off an area of
ostly abandoned apartments to
anyone who doesn’t pay rent to live
there in an attempt to curtail wide
spread drug dealing and prostitu-
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1 Residents of the surrounding area
have complained about the crime
that has spread into the southwest
Houston area known as “Death Val-
An elderly woman in the area was
lied last September by a teen-ager
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drug buy, police said.
Police say the crackdown Friday
will focus on about 3,000 apartment
units that were considered fashiona
ble during Houston early boom
years and now are mostly aban
doned and used almost exclusively
by prostitutes and drug dealers.
Rats run freely through the row
after row of buildings. Many win
dows are broken or boarded up.
Guard dogs man the fences of the
few properties whose owners are
committed to keeping the drugs out.
“We have dealers who are squat
ters in vacant apartments, who come
here and sell dope for the day,”
Houston Police Capt. Bill Edison
said. “And we have lots of consumer
trade.
“If you just drive down the street
in the nighttime, people will ap
proach you to try to sell you drugs.
You could run over them,” Edison
said. “You can’t get past them with
out getting stopped at night.”
Civic group members plan to go
into the area Saturday after it is
closed off to clear out trash and dis
pose of the hundreds of syringes
and needles littering the ground.
“The intent of this operation is
not necessarily to make arrests,” Edi
son said. “If there’s crime going on,
we will make arrests. But the idea is
to give this neighborhood a chance
— so we can put it back together.”
Police compare their plans for Fri
day with last year’s effort to discour
age teen-age cruising on popular
lower Westheimer.
Highway sniper remains free
after police search in El Paso
Construction on campus
closes several streets
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■ EL PASO (AP) — Police used a
lelicopter Monday night to search
lor a sniper who shot at several cars
|nan Interstate 10 access road.
No one was hurt in the shootings,
ad police didn’t find the sniper, El
iso police Sgt. Don Georgens said.
Police began the search after two
lotorists said their cars were struck
y bullets Monday evening as they
rove on a westbound access road on
|ie west side of town. Another
iver had reported being shot at
while driving in the same area Sun
day, Georgens said.
Police enlisted the aid of a Border
Patrol helicopter with a spotlight,
and six El Paso police officers and a
canine unit searched a brushy area,
but the two-hour search ended at
8:30 p.m. Monday without anyone
being found.
Georgens said one of the cars
might have been struck by a rock,
but police believe damage to the
other two vehicles was caused by bul
lets.
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Several streets on the Texas A&M
campus are closed or rerouted be
cause of continuing construction on
campus.
The parking garage on the north
side of campus is accessible by Ire
land Street from University Drive.
Ireland Street is one-way south
bound from University to the park
ing garage and one-way northbound
from Ross Street to the garage.
Asbury Street is now one-way
from Ross to University. A traffic
signal is planned for the corner of
Asbury and University by mid-Feb
ruary.
Ireland to Ross remains open.
The eastbound side of Joe Routt
Boulevard is closed for construction
on the power sub-station for the new
south-side residence halls.
Construction on the sub-station,
which is in the Military Sciences
Building’s parking lot, will remain as
is until March.
All parking spaces in the North-
side garage have been sold. Approx
imately 250 students have not picked
up their permits. Those spaces will
be reallotted for sale if their owners
do not contact the parking adminis
tration department.
Those wishing to pick up parking
permits and appeal citations should
go to the garage’s northwest corner
on the first floor. Those sections of
the parking administration have
been moved there.
As of Feb. 1, billing for parking ci
tations will be added to fee
statements.
Students who do not own a park
ing space can park in the garage for
50 cents per hour or four dollars a
day.
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select the highest qualified students
for its co-op program, because only
they can pass the agency’s stringent
security clearance requirements.
“What we look for is the best and
the brightest student we can find,”
she said. “We’re not looking for any
particular (academic) discipline.
We’re looking for bright people who
are of high moral character and who
have an interest in working in for
eign affairs. From that, it then de
pends on what the qualifications of
the individual are.”
Sasso said requirements for the
top-level security clearance are rigid,
but that it’s necessary because of the
agency’s importance to national se
curity.
The agency’s research into a stu
dent’s past is, often, more extensive
than the student might expect.
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through that kind of rigid process of
obtaining a security clearance,” she
said. “We not only want to see your
academic standing, but also your
personal standing, your financial sit
uation, your social behavior, your
sexual behavior, drug usage. We ei
ther go back to age 18 or the last 15
years, depending on what your age
Yates said the agency’s strict re
quirements for a security clearance
are necessary because the CIA
doesn’t want to hire anyone with ske
letons in their closets that could be
used as blackmail if discovered.
Yates said the general feedback he
receives from the students he has
worked with has been positive be
cause of the type of work the CIA as
signs students.
“The feedback of the students
that I have personally talked to has
been excellent,” he said. “They
really like it. The CIA has a big co
op program, and they’re utilizing
the co-op not only for hiring co-ops,
but also to train them and to hire
them. It’s a very intriguing type of
work, very stimulating.”
Yates said students who wish to
apply with the CIA through the co
op program need to do so at least six
months in advance. He also said the
agency prefers students to start co
opping as early as possible, and to
take a variety of courses.
“They want to encourage students
to start co-opping as early as their
sophomore year,” he said. “They en
courage them to take more foreign
languages and courses that have to
do with international studies.”
Yates said the CIA looks at the co
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student who already has been
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