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Union Texas’ success has led to worldwide operations with offices in Indonesia, England, Pakistan, Singapore and Spain. Our long and distinguished track record makes for an intelligent career choice. Accountants Union Texas Petroleum will be on campus Monday, March 6, to interview graduating accountants for career opportunities in our corporate headquarters located in Houston, Texas. A career with Union Texas will provide you with diverse opportunities such as: • OH and Gas Revenue • Partnership Accounting • Fixed Assets • Financial Reporting • Auditing • Capital Expenditures Control • Tax • International Ventures If you have a distinguished academic track record and plan to make an intelligent career choice, schedule an interview at your placement office. We offer a challenging and diverse career path, highly competitive compensation program and excellent benefits including an in-house fitness center. For additional information on our company see your placement coordinator or write to: Mr. Carl Nielson, College Recruiting Coordinator, Union Texas Petroleum, P.O. Box 2120, Houston, Texas 77252-2120. An Equal Opportunity Employer Page 6 The Battalion Monday, February 20,1989 INS will reveal plan to control immigration Bill proposes to establish new work-study program BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A com prehensive plan for handling this year’s expected influx of more than 100,000 Central Americans in southern Texas will be revealed here Monday by Commissioner Alan Nelson of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an offi cial said. The Brownsville Herald quoted unidentified government sources Sunday, who said the plan calls for on-the-spot adjudication of asylum claims, beginning Tuesday, and the immediate jailing of denied appli cants in existing detention facilities. The sources told the newspaper the plan supersedes a proposed tent city to house the asylum-seek ers. INS officials, however, declined to reveal what the Justice Depart ment has in the works. INS officials on Sunday provided U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela of Brownsville with a briefing on the plan, said agency spokesman Vir ginia Kice. “We’re not going to disclose any details of the plan until we’ve had an opportunity to brief the judge,” Kice said Sunday. “The judge is be ing briefed this afternoon, and to morrow morning, (INS) Commis sioner Alan Nelson will talk about the plan at a news conference in Brownsville.” The area near the border city of Brownsville, Texas’ southernmost city, is where more than 2,000 Cen tral Americans weekly have been crossing the Rio Grande illegally before applying for political asy lum. Judge Vela on Friday ruled that the INS at midnight Monday could return to a policy of restricting asy lum seekers to southern Texas while their claims for refugee status are under review. A temporary re straining order prompted by a law suit filed against the INS has since Jan. 9 required the agency to allow asylum-seekers to travel on to their intended U.S. destinations to pur sue their cases. The agency on Tuesday regains the authority to restrict travel. By Alan Sembera SENIOR STAFF WRITER Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis filed legislation earlier this month to establish a college work-study pro gram and a grant program geared toward helping minority students with financial need. The first part of House Bill 3 would establish the Texas College Work-Study Program, which would encourage employers to hire stu dents with financial need to fill posi tions related to the student’s aca demic field. The state would pay 50 percent to 70 percent of the student’s wages under the proposal. “The idea is to get businesses in volved in providing employment skills to students while they are in college,” Tim Conger, a spokesman for Lewis, said. “The program also would allow students a chance to work their way through college.” The program would require par ticipating students to be Texas resi dents enrolled in at least six hours during the fall or spring semester in a qualified college. The students also would have to show financial need. Students receiving an athletic scholarship and students enrolled in a seminary or similar program would not be eligible under the pro posal. The program would pay 70 per cent of the wages of students work ing for non-profit organizations, and 50 percent of the wages of stu dents working for businesses. Students working for political or religious employers would not be eli gible under the program. The proposal also stipulates that employers should not be able to use students in the work-study program to fill positions normally filled by full-time employees. Texas A&M students receive $600,000 each year under the fed eral college work-study program. In the federal program, which pays 80 percent of students’ wages, partici pants must work on campus. The second part of House Bill 3 proposes to set up a grant program aimed at helping minorities and other students with the most finan cial need. The amount of the grant would not be more than half the student’s unmet financial need after other aid programs are considered. The Texas Higher Education Coordinat ing Board would set a maximum grant limit and be responsible for administering other parts of these programs. If the bill passes, Conger said, the House Speaker Gib Lewis programs should have a bi $15 million to $20 million dutinjil first two years. Conger said he is confident! the bill will pass because it has backing of the house speaker'll earliest the bill could pass isSeptn ber, he said, but the details of programs still would have to ht nalized. Compensation hearing to begin in FBI racial discrimination suit EL PASO (AP) — A federal judge is scheduled to hear testimony this week on how the FBI should change itself and compensate Hispanic agents who successfully sued the bu reau in a racial discrimination law- The U.S. government provides asylum to those who can show they are fleeing any of various forms of persecution in their countries. INS officials maintain that most of the Central Americans are here for economic reasons, and therefore do not qualify for political asylum. During a four-day period ending Saturday evening, INS records show a total of 2,705 people had ap plied for asylum at the agency’s Port Isabel Service Processing Cen ter, a rural detention center where processing was moved Wednesday. The damages portion of the trial is scheduled to last four or five days, starting Tuesday in Midland before U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton. In the first half of a two-part trial, Bunton ruled last September that the FBI discriminated against His- panics in job assignments, promo tions and working conditions. The suit was filed by Bernardo “Mat” Perez, the agency’s No. 2 man in El Paso, and 310 of the bureau’s ap proximately 400 Hispanic agents eventually joined the class-action lawsuit. After Bunion’s ruling, the FBI promised to provide more education for equal employment opportunity specialists — FBI employees who try to solve discrimination complaints internally. Bunton ruled the FBI discrimi nated against Hispanic agents by as signing them too often to monitor Spanish-language wiretaps that could be monitored just as easily by Spanish-speaking Anglo agents or by non-agent language specialists. In response, the FBI proposed hiring at least 30 Spanish-speaking linguists to monitor wiretaps. It proposed bo nuses for agents who improve their foreign-language ability. None of these measures is enough, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said late last month before Bunton im posed a gag order. Plaintiffs’ attor ney Hugo Rodriguez labeled the FBI’s proposals “cosmetic and pro phylactic” measures to satisfy Bun ton. “We believe the FBI should have certain goals for promotion of His- panics,” he said. At a forum Saturday before the FI Paso Association of Hispanic Jour nalists, Perez said the plaintiffs are “asking for objectivity” in hiring and promotions. Hiring and promotion decisi are made hy panels comprist mostly Anglo men, Perez said, A better method, he said, won be for promotions to be deal solely by objective criteria sudi tests. The plaintiffs want theFBltoj agents bonuses for using their; eign-language abilities instead paying incentives for learning, not necessarily using, foreign guages. Under the FBI’s foreign-langti; proposal, an agent entering the reau at the highest level of ~ — a 5 on a grade of 0 to 5 — wj not be eligible for any bonuse; cause he would not be able lode oust rale improvement. Perez charged that the bures subjective, oral Spanish tests flawed because Hispanicagentstti to score higher than non-Hispat agents of comparable ability scores tend to result in less-desiii wiretap assignments, he said, Low cholesterol eggs entice health conscious consumers By Sherri Roberts STAFF WRITER Low cholesterol eggs are the latest product enticing health conscious consumers. However, these eggs are not all they’re cracked up to be, said- David Mellor, a poultry marketing specialist with the Texas Agricultu ral Extension Service. Before eggs can be sold under the label “low cholesterol,” they must meet the Food and Drug Adminis tration’s standards of the term. In addition, a label listing the number of calories, grams of fat and other nutrient content levels of the eggs must be printed on the package in which they are sold, Mellor said. Eggs marketed as “low cholester ol” do not meet these requirements, he said. Mellor said analyses of large eggs indicate they have lower cholesterol levels than they did about 10 years ago. A sampling taken in Fall 1988 showed eggs had 210 milligrams of cholesterol, compared to 2/4 milli grams of cholesterol in 1976. The reason for the decreased cho lesterol levels has not been pin pointed, he said. However, changes in chicken breeds, feed, and meth ods of analysis could be factors ac counting for the decrease, he said. The FDA probably will release its cholesterol labeling standards next year, he said, and define “low choles terol” as about 20 milligrams per serving and “reduced cholesterol” as 125 to 135 milligrams a serving. The National Institute of Health recommends that individuals con sume no more than 300 milligrams of cholesterol a day. Pam Hargis, assistant professor of poultry science, said most people are not in danger if they exceed these cholesterol guidelines. “A lot of individuals have no trou ble regulating their blood-choles terol level,” she said. Experiments in which individuals ate more than three eggs a day indi cated that most faced no threatening increases in their blood-cholesterol level, she said. A certain amount of cholesterol is needed, she said, because it is syn thesized to produce hormones, bile acids and membranes. Fat, rather than cholesterol, is probably the biggest dietary culprit for those who have high blood-cho lesterol levels, Hargis said. Joanne Lupton, assistant profes sor of animal science, said individu als suffering from high blood-cho lesterol should reduce their intake of saturated fats — animal fats which raise the serum cholesterol levels. Unsaturated fats, which are derived from vegetables, are less harmful, she said. In addition, people with high blood-cholesterol levels should add a source of soluble fiber, such as oat bran or beans to their diet, Lupton said. By Mia B.Moody REPORTER The restaurants listed below were inspected by the Brazos Cdunty Health Depariment ei ther Jan. 30 or Feb. 2. Informa tion is taken from a food service establishment inspection report. SCORED BETWEEN 95 AND 100: Subway Sandwiches and Sal ads at 1500 Harvey Rd. was in spected by David Plett. Score— 98. T wo points were subtracted because a can opener was un clean. Partners at 119 Walton Dr. was inspected by David Plett. Score— 97. Two points were deducted be cause the vent over the grill needed cleaning. One point was deducted because trays and cups were on the floor. The Kettle at 1403 Universiiv Dr. was inspected by David ens. Score— 95. Two two-poinl violations were cited because food was on a storage room Hoot and an ice machine had fungus grow ing in it. A one-point violation was cited because an ice scoop handle was sticking out of the ict bin. SCORED BETWEEN 90 and 95 Mama’s Pizza at 1037 Texas Ave. was inspected by David Plett Score—93. I wo points were de ducted because soap and paper towels were missing from a hand sink. Five one-point violations were cited because the storage bin for silverware needed cleaning, ice-scoop handles were in an ice bin, floors and walls needed re pairing and the backyard needed cleaning. Da mo Offici DALLAS( says more we cause student legal drugs. Eldridge I Independent no problem I from pawn si “We’d like to have dru drugs go tog< From Sepi cated at least students, the had been 74 riod a year ea Dallas scht school board posal that v beeper-like d With such Dal for ities sa} a majc center, tional t to peop When the transplant eff in a few major cities such as ton, and Dali exclusive club Across the than 12,000 ] plant operati hearts, livers, gans, accordi: Herald. “Dallas is g coming natioi Sutton, presi based Amerie plantation. “1 and has a goi no doubt abc expertise thei kinds of in< transplantatic going to have David Jefferson, a registered sanitarian at the department, sm restaurants with scores of 95 or above genet ally have excellent oper ations and facilities. He says restaurants with scores in the 70s orioii 80s usually have serious violations in the health report. Scores can be misleading, Jefferson says, because restaurants an get the same score by having several minor violations or a few major violations. He says the minor violations can be corrected during the inspection. Point deductions or violations in the report range from one point (minor violations) to five points (major violations). Jefferson says the department might close a restaurant if: the score is below 60, the personnel have infectious diseases, the restau rant lacks adequate refrigeration, there is a sewage backup in the building or the restaurant has a complete lack of sanitization forthe food equipment. Call Now For an Appointment! $29°o ROUTINE CLEANING, X-RAYS and EXAM CarePlusv>f»i Dental Centers (Rog. $54 I#m $25 ca*h discount) Bryan College Station Jim Arents, DDS Dan Lawson, DDS Karen Arents, DDS Cassie Overley, DDS 1103 E. Villa Maria 1712 S.W. Parttway 268-1407 696-9578 PICKUPS PLUS Complete service and repair on all pickups, vans and 4WD's. Free Estimates ® 512 W. 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