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A basketful of cash is better than a garage full of 'stuff' Have a garage or yard sale this week - Call 845-2611 Page 6 The Battalion Warped Tuesday, April 4,1989 by Scott Waldo by Kevin Thomas WALDO'S NEXT ADVENTURE BEGINS INNOCENTLY WHILE working on the: ACADEMIC VAX COMPUTER... ALL A + M STUDENTS PAY A COMPUTER ACCESS FEE WHICH ENTITLES THEM TO AN ACCOUNT FOR THEIR OWN USE T AP/ ^APr WHAT DO STUDENTS REALLY GET IN RETURN FOR PAVING THIS FEE..? © Proboscis YOU HAVE ftoWSCY ALREAVY GEAUZEO TH4T 'THE FCC AJASAL *-IUnoK. AKE. IMUVEKA&LE- unu A &irr such as rVME-.So I (JILL UOL) ^ fcEApA LIST OF FVtFY Hose by_Paul GFonlY KklODkl ToriAN AA/C> THEN (JE CAM ffeXfET? ljiTH auAcnY cupkaciee DEvfcccffrejr / COULD [ F/MP THAT LIST Chinese learn Western law from American BEIJING (AP) — When James Murray talks about free speech and the right to remain silent, Chinese police pay attention. The 60-year-old former police chief from Milpitas, Calif., is the First foreigner ever to be hired as a pro fessor at the People’s Public Security University, an elite training ground for Chinese police officers. Murray, who arrived at the four- year academy last fall, teaches a broad survey of American police sci ence. He lectures to about 80 uni formed students on Western law en forcement history, the makeup and management of American police agencies, search and patrol prac tices, technology, race relations and police ethics. “I have a free hand to teach what I want and answer any questions,” he said. Murray said he even showed the movie “Dirty Harry” to point out methods of interrogation that would be unacceptable in a real-life case. He said his students are “in trigued” when he tells them that U.S. citizens have the right not to in criminate themselves, and that Americans have constitutional rights to free speech, assembly and posses sion of firearms. “I tell them that the press doesn’t have to be your enemy” and that U.S. journalists have wide access to police records. “They have a little difficulty with that sort of thing.” That’s only natural in a nation where the huge, highly visible and secretive police force is still very much law unto itself. Despite progress in the past de cade in defining and guaranteeing legal rights, police still detain sus pects for weeks, and sometimes months, without filing charges, and confessions gained through torture, although banned, are an acknowl edged problem. In 1988, there were 4,700 cases of police found guilty of extortion, fra- meups, accepting bribes and tortur ing suspects. In 227 cases, prisoners were disabled or killed. The general populace regards po lice — from traffic cops to the par amilitary People’s Armed Police — with fear and suspicion. Public Security Minister Wang Fang, speaking at Murray’s univer sity last year, said 40 percent of Chinese police have only junior high educations or less, and cited low ed ucation levels as one factor behind improper behavior. Education must also be promoted, Wang said, because crime in China is increasing and changing as eco nomic reforms make people richer and less subject to state controls. According to ministry figures, there were 827,000 crime cases last year, up 45 percent from 1987. Se rious crimes rose 66 percent to 230,000, and crimes such as prosti tution and drug trafficking, are flou rishing. National Briefs 5= Exxon apologizes for destructive oil spill VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) — Ex xon apologized Monday for caus ing the nation’s biggest oil spill and promised to clean up every fouled beach in Prince William Sound, but workers on those greasy-smelling beaches said their efforts are futile. Police continued searching for the captain of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which crashed into Bligh Reef on March 24, spilling 10.1 million gallons of North Slope crude. The oil slick has now grown larger than Rhode Island. Scien tists reported more wildlife deaths and said a vital herring Fishery was threatened. The Prince William Sound Fishery is worth more than $150 million an nually. “I want to tell you how sorry I am that this accident took place,” Exxon Chairman L.G. Rawl sai- din full-page advertisements placed in newspapers Monday. “We cannot, of course, undo what has been done. But 1 can as sure you that since March 24, the accident has been receiving our full attention and will continue to do so.” More than 1,000 seabirds and at least 20 sea otters caught in the oil have died, some found cov ered with asphalt-hard oil. Offi cials said the death toll is probably much higher, but they have had time to survey only a slice of the Sound’s 2,500 miles of coastline. Department of Fish and Game spokesman Jon Lyman said Mon day a deer found dead on Naked Island about 25 miles southwest of the tanker had apparently eaten contaminated food, an indi cation of how rapidly the spill was spreading. New measures increase aviation security WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced new measures to combat sky terrorism Monday as relatives of passengers killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing mounted a campaign to complain about aviation security and the government’s “lack of compassion” following the disas ter. Transportation Secretary Sam uel Skinner, who along with Pres ident Bush met with several rela tives of those killed in the explosion over Scotland, said at a news conference that airlines will be required to install devices to detect plastic explosives in major U.S. and foreign airports. Relatives of victims in the Dec. 21 explosion, which has been blamed on a plastic device hidden in a radio-cassette player, praised Bush for concern shown in the meeting and said Skinner’s an nouncement was a good first step But spokesman Bert Ammei- man of Demarest, N.J., told a rally across the street from the White House that measures an nounced by Skinner were not enough.” Ammerman, whose brother Tom was one of 270 victims o the crash, asked for a unified con gressional investigation of the di saster, hand-searching of all lug gage put aboard airliners, and an end to a system that allows noti i- cation only of airline, airport an government security personne when there’s a terrorist threat. Skinner said he would not a vor a coordinated congressiona inquiry, although Bush told relatives he would consi e pressing for such a probe as op posed to several separate con gressional investigations. Bush begins week of talks on Middle Ea: WASHINGTON (AP) _ Presi- dent Bush, opening a week of in tensive talks on the Middle East, met with Egyptian President Hosm Mubarak on Monday and said a new atmosphere” must be created between Israel and Arab nations. After more than an hour of discussion, Bush urged an end to Israels occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza, endorsed the . achievement of Palestinian polit ical rights and said a “properly S[ U |? U [ ed peace conference could play a useful role. The tone of Bush’s .cuiarxs suggested the United States may attempt to exert pressure for compromise on Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who ar- nves m the United States on ednesday and confers with Bush on Thursday. Shamir’s government has op posed any settlement ’ trading land for peace been deeply skeptical abo international conference. Mubarak, standing alo Bush at a ceremony in tm Garden, said, “We fount selves in agreement on rr sues at stake.” Bush did not specify w his administration was de ing total Israeli withdrawn the West Bank and the seized in the 1967 Middl war. “properly Nor did he define v meant by a “properly strt remarks international conferen though a senior U.S. ofh Bush emphasized “the ke of direct negotiations peace process.” U.S. policy on the occu] ritories has been to urge trade land for peace while open the possibility °f L taining some of the land t rity reasons. based on and has