Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1989)
Problem Pregnancy' ‘•W’e listen. We core. We fteCp •Free Pregnancy Tests S; i •Coneemed Counselors ,Cv7 ^ Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy' Service We’re Local! 3620 E. 29th Street (next to Medley’s Gi/ts) 24 Fir. FiotCine 823-C/VRE A&M STEAK HOUSE Delivers 846-5273 The Battalion ■cut nerei Defensive Driving Course June 20, 21 & June 26, 27 College Station Hilton For more information or to pre-register phone 693-8178 24 hours a day. UULHHUUUHM cut here Sarah Watts JL Pianist-Teacher Degree, piano, and two years' Piano Faculty, Baylor University Serious Students of all Agt\s” 822-6856 TM CABANA BUCKS $1 OFF ANY DINNER PLATE At regular price 701 Texas Ave. South (at University Dr.) 693-1904 Limit 1 Per Customer • Expires 6-30-89 ■§• AM/PM Clinics CLINICS Our New College Station location offers Birth Control Counseling Women’s Services Female doctors on duty Student 10% discount with ID 693-0202 Buy that special Guitar at the... Carlos Acoustic Sc 4 FREE Lessons Reg. $225°° NOW $ 150 00 and enjoy playing all summer. 109 Walton 693-8698 PARTY SPECIAL 10 LARGE PIZZAS 1 topping (each) $79.99 $1.99 Pitchers The b«t plcu In town. Skagg’s Shopping Center Expires 4/3/89 YESTERDAYS Daily Drink & Lunch Specials Billiards • Darts • Shuffleboard Near Luby's / House dress code 846-2625 m&m SCUBA & Snow Ski Summer School Specials 15% Gurkee’s Rope Sandals Vuarnet Sunglasses & T-shirts Ray Ban Sunglasses Sarengetti Sunglasses Swimsuits-Too Hot Brazil, Choice OFF Expires 6-20-89. In stock items only. August Dive Trips-Belize, Grand Cayman Scuba lessons through the shop • TAMU PE • Blinn PE 693-0104 817 S. Texas Ave. College Station WORLD & NATION 6 Friday, June 16,1989 Study: Bush’s wage veto greatly affects minorities Impact sharp on earnings of Hispanics, blacks WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Bush’s veto of legislation rais ing the minimum wage will have an especially sharp impact on black and Hispanic workers, who have seen their earnings erode over the de cade, according to a study released Thursday. According to the study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priori ties, Hispanics and blacks are 40 per cent more likely to be paid at the minimum wage than white workers. Yet a full-time, year-round worker earning the minimum wage and supporting a family of three falls $2,900 below the poverty line, the study said. In 1979, the mini mum wage put a family of three at 104 percent of the poverty level. Today, one in every four black and Hispanic workers paid by the hour now receives a wage too low to lift a family of three out of poverty, even if the worker is employed full time, the study said. The minimum wage has been set at $3.35 an hour since 1981. “The dramatic drop in the value of the minimum wage has com pounded the earnings problems of poor and minority workers and in creased their poverty rates,” study author Isaac Shapiro said. “To these workers, the president’s veto of leg islation boosting the minimum wage is ominous news.” Last year, 21 percent of Hispanic workers and 21 percent of black workers made less than $4.50 an hour, compared with 15 percent of all white workers, Shapiro said. Rep. Albert Bustamante, a San Antonio Democrat and former mi grant worker, said the minimum wage keeps workers “enslaved at a U.S. Ag secretary: Drought relief bills will spark public ire level that they really don’t survive, they just exist. They barely get by.” “It has an impact on all working Americans, and in many of the pock ets of Hispanic America, it has a tre mendous impact,” Bustamante said. In those “pockets of Hispanic America” are many young people in menial, service jobs that pay the min imum wage, “young kids that sup port their families,” Bustamante said. “And most of the people are on food stamps, housing vouchers, on everything they really don’t want to be on; the wages just keep them there.” “And unless you’ve been there, people really don’t know what it is to live under those conditions,” Busta mante said. Earlier this week, Bush vetoed legislation that would raise the mini mum wage to $4.55 an hour by 1992, insisting that the new mini mum wage not exceed $4.25 an hour. The House on Wednesday was not able to muster the votes required to override the veto. “Instead of lending a helping hand to America’s low-wage and mi nority workers, the president has turned his back on those who work but remain poor,” Robert Greens- tein, director of the center, said. Copter crashes in Panama; kills 3 U.S. soldiers PANAMA CITY (AP) - A U.S. military helicopter crashed Thursday near the Panama Ca nal, killing three U.S. soldiers,! U.S. Embassy spokesman said, U.S. Embassy spokesman Ter rence Kneebone said “we dom know why or how” the acciden. occurred, adding that it "appar ently was an accident" and did not involve any hostile fire. The OH-58 helicopter wem down about 1 p.m. EDT, Knee Ixme said. The helicopter ate those aboard belonged tothe7tr Light Infantry Division from For : Ord, Calif. The names of the victims wen withheld pending notificationo! their families, Kneebone said. The division was among abon 1,900 troops sent to Panama fol lowing the government’s null cation of the May 7 electionsatd post-election violence in whicr some opposition candidates werr beaten. When the helicopter crashed,? was serving as an escort forami tary convoy transporting troop: between Fort Clayton, on the Pi cific side of the Canal, to Ford Sherman, on the Atlantic, Knee Ixme said. He said the accident causedifc: temporary suspension of trai linking Panama City with tit; nearby city of Colon. Vol.8 WASHINGTON (AP) — New drought legislation in the House in cludes provisions that Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter says could raise taxpayer complaints. “In my judgment, some of the present drought proposals are, at best, on the margin of acceptability to the American public,” Yeutter said Wednesday. The Senate Agriculture Commit tee, meanwhile, unanimously ap proved a rural development pro gram and agreed to take up drought relief on July 19. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas had argued before the committee on Tuesday that quick action on drought relief for winter wheat farmers should come before rural development legislation. Large areas of the Great Plains and western Corn Belt have still not recovered from the devastating 1988 drought. The winter wheat crop in Kansas, for example, is down by more than a third from last year. Yeutter, in an interview with re porters, said that “we have not offi cially embraced any drought legis lation” and will “give an official response when the time comes.” Yeutter said he preferred Dole’s drought-relief bill over a broader version in the House, which he de scribed as “too open-ended, with far too much taxpayer exposure and vulnerability.” Further, he said, the House bill is “far too subject to attack by the gen eral public” because of its costs and other features. Yeutter said the Dole bill “is far more acceptable in that re gard.” Dole’s drought bill would extend terms of last year’s drought relief to crops planted in 1988 for harvest in 1989, mostly winter wheat, which is normally Kansas’ biggest crop. The House bill, which was ap proved by the agriculture committee on May 25, is basically an extension of the $3.9 billion 1988 drought re lief law. Under it, if farmers qual ified, they could get federal aid for any affected crop or livestock opera tion. Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, chairman of the House committee, said the bill “provides the thinnest of safety nets for farmers around the country who have suffered signifi cant financial losses because of the continuing drought and other types of weather damage.” De la Garza said the committee “acted in a compassionate and bud- getarily sound manner” to deal with the tragedy of these farmers. Study suggests senators abuse free mail privilege But Yeutter said there are limits on measures the federal government can or should take to remove risk from the nation’s agriculture. “We are already covering price risk in agriculture in a very signifi cant way through a variety of pro grams,” he said. “ We are already covering income risks to agriculture in a very significant way through a variety of programs, including defi ciency payments (subsidies).” Yeutter added: “If we’re now also to cover weather risks in a very sig nificant way, one must wonder just what additional role government should take up on behalf of Ameri can agriculture — and at what cost.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lloyd Bentsen spent $2.8 million updating Texans on the latest devel opments in Washington in the two years before his re-election, while Sen. Phil Gramm’s franked mass mailings cost taxpayers $1.6 million, according to a study Thursday by Common Cause. Although the two Texans were among 15 senators who spent more than $ 1 million each for franked, or free, mass mailings in 1987 and 1988, the per-household cost amounted to less than the price of two stamps for either Gramm or Bentsen. Common Cause, a public interest lobbying group, said Bentsen’s gov ernment-paid mass mailings cost 46 cents per Texas household, while Gramm’s per-household total was 27 cents. mailings in 1987-88 and critic® Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., had the highest cost per household — $1.27 — but his total cost was $315,943, while Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., had the greatest total cost — $3.87 million, but a cost per household of 37 cents. In total costs, Bentsen, a Demo crat re-elected to a fourth term in November, was ranked fourth among all senators, while Gramm ranked eighth. Common Cause said senators spent $53 million for franked mass the practice. “Franked mass mailings are for campaign purposes by memte of Congress and provide incumbei with an unfair and discriminaii advantage over their challenger Common Cause President Ffi Wertheimer said. “The use of frank for mass mailings should eliminated or sharply curtailed In February, the Senate chaff its policy and expanded fromffl to six the number of franked iq mailings senators can make toe« address in their state. Spokesmen for Gramm and Be; sen said the Texans use mass mailings to reach constitute who have written them about cific issues. Gramm spokesman Larry said the Republican has never d* a statewide mailing addressed si®: to “postal patron.”, Gramm in targets his mailings to spedfic ences — such as Texans who Iff written him about the need fora anced budget amendment - = each letter is addressed tothereo| ent by name. Gramm’s mass-mailings are sent pre-sorted by carrier route, go third class, the cheapest va" mail, Neal said. “They’re the last thing on truck . . . and it’s the last thing^ delivered,” Neal said. Colleg Groce mativc gard.” can agriculture — and at what cost.” spent $53 million for franked mass delivered,” Neal said. Hungary honors martyr of 1956 uprisi BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — were an “absolute, total victory” and veiled Thursday at the Budapest Nagy and four of his asso Imre Nagy, martyr of the 1956 “the bastions of the old regime . . . prison where Nagy and the others an empty one symbolizir WASH Contra p the judge to prison president shows no as “above proach.” In a m North’s urged U. A. Gese “breach o public pc of his crii tioning o jury and ] A pris counterai North ha cuit — a argued o remorse.’ Indepe Walsh ch BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Imre Nagy, martyr of the 1956 uprising, will be reburied Friday as an “outstanding statesmen” by the communist regime that executed him for treason 31 years ago. Only a year ago, before Hungary’s more liberal leadership changed the official view of history, police used clubs to break up a memorial dem onstration. Kiosks did a brisk business Thurs day in Nagy buttons and in black- rimmed armbands bearing his pic ture or “56” on the national colors of red, white and green. The city government said all pub lic buildings would display black flags Friday. . Nagy was premier in 1956, when a popular uprising began Oct. 23 and was crushed by Soviet tanks on Nov. 4. He and his close associates fled to the Yugoslav Embassy, but later were seized by the Soviets while trav eling outside the embassy with diplo matic escorts. They were tried and executed in Budapest on June 16, 1958. Nagy’s rehabilitation began in February of this year, when the Communist Party leadership decided the anti- Soviet revolt began with a popular uprising and was not a counterrevo lution after all. Exiled survivors of the military crackdown and reprisals returned to Budapest for Friday’s funeral, many for the first time. Bela Kiraly, who commanded the paramilitary national guard under Nagy and now lives in New Jersey, said it was hard to believe he was in Budapest “with my past” for the first time in 33 years. He declared to journalists Nagy’s leadership was “absolutely” right, that the liberal changes made then were an “absolute, total victory” and “the bastions of the old regime . were wiped out.” Asked whether he thought the leaders of 1956 were ahead of their time in trying to meet the people’s demands for more democracy, Ki raly replied: “We were behind the times because changes were due in 1945,” before the Communist Party had consolidated power. Kiraly said the revolt was an “ex pression of popular will” and would have continued if the Soviets had not intervened. A commemorative plaque was un veiled Thursday at the Budapest prison where Nagy and the others were held. Most newspapers and periodicals carried articles, documents and pho tographs about the uprising. Nagy’s picture was on the cover of several magazines. Women’s Journal, the most popu lar weekly, put a painting by Cara vaggio called “Burial” on its cover. It portrays a Christ-like figure being borne by mourners. At Heroes Square, a platform was built on the steps of the art museum for coffins bearing the remains of Nagy and four of his associates^ p e n^ ! ■ an empty one symbolizing all' nations 1 '* P erished - sion of d At a news conference with f asn?"^ 1 ernment leaders Wednesday, ^ crar K ai | ' 1 bers of the independent yf “Fo ° V group known by its initials FI$V ernrn°' T asked about last year’s events if strain^ light of the changed official vie" c j eac j headqua: Foreign Minister Gyula Horf sponded that “no one in the Get Committee could have known year ago what would happen the conclusions that would leadi ( Settler patrols battle Arabs on West Bank to the we Cr ackdov" “Some abused u said. “Ca tolerant? HEBRON, Occupied West Bank (AP) — As soon as a his stone landed near his car, patrol leader Meishe Mish- kan hit the brakes, popped a 25-round clip into his Uzi submachine gun and led other Jewish settlers on a chase of a dozen Arab teen-agers. Moments later, a short, chubby settler with a white, knitted skullcap was stoned from a rooftop. “I’m under attack,” he yelled, crouching low, pivoting on one foot and raking a nearby rooftop with bullets. No one was hurt in Wednesday’s clash. But the con troversial settler patrols of the occupied lands have spurred accusations the settlers are taking too much of the law into their own hands. The organizer of the Wednesday patrol, Bella Go- nen, said the settlers began the patrols in April after los ing faith in the Israeli army’s ability to end the 18- month Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule. “The army is becoming more like a group of United Nations observers,” said Gonen of Kiryat Arba, a set tlement of 4,700 Jews that overlooks Hebron, a city with 50,000 Arabs. “They don’t protect the Jews, all they do is separate the two sides,” she said. Army officials have ordered the settlers to end their patrols in Palestinian areas. “It’s illegal and each time the army comes across such a patrol it’s dispersed im mediately,” a spokesman said. isiaeii civilians, most oiien settlers, were involve^ 19 shooting deaths since the uprising began. Gonen said Kiryat Arba settlers began car patrols 1 week, which they officially refer to as “arenaeolof 1 expeditions” to circumvent official objections. Wednesday’s patrol slowly cruised through the ing streets of Hebron for about a half-hour until stone landed near Mishkan’s car outside the N University campus. During the clash, Yaakov Ben-David, a tall, thin 11 in his 20s who is a Moslem convert to Judiasm, carfG took aim before letting loose with a burst of ti rounds. “They’re rounding the stone wall,” he si# as he charged up a hill. Since t ln g to cn_ tnore ths Attested Se ntence« , Westei ! Chinese People w Foi B V Kell^ SENIOR Other settlers stood behind him, firing their Usl the Palestinians who were running up the hill, behif wall. Sharp pops could be heard as the bullets 4 cheted off the stones. The encounter lasted about three minutes, a 1 '! which the settlers withdrew to their cars and theAl teens stood on a stone wall beyond gunfire range, ting Palestinian slogans and flashing “V” for vic> 1 signs. “The problem here is the media,” said settler M Cohen as he climbed into his mud-spattered blue and rolled up the reinforced glass windows.