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Boil well as tlit are arct lances of :ed Fridai! nt are JjI i the MSC | bwer. j irday ouse adopts bill outlaw burning any state’s flag ■AUSTIN (AP) — Texas would be come a safe haven for all U.S state and territory flags, in addition to the U.S. flag, under a hill tentatively adopted by the House on Thursday. ■ Without objection, the House pre liminarily approved a measure that would provide criminal penalties for anyone desecrating the U.S. or Hexas flags. ■ In addition, the bill includes an amendment extending the penalties — a maximum of one year in jail and 1 providec ice! attending •ing lawi insect rt ill beheld d at lOW U.S. Senate begins hearings for roposed amendment/Page 6 j| $2,000 fine — to anyone convicted of damaging any of the U.S. state or tei i itory flags. I Rep. Larry Evans said he would Hever burn a U.S. flag, but is op- Siised to proposals limiting free ipeech. Since lawmakers are intent on banning flag burning, he said he believed the proposal should extend to all flags. upon First Amend ment rights indiscriminately,” ■vans, D-Houston, told reporters in rnum k |explaining his amendment. >day “It’s not right to say, T’m going to come over here and burn an Okla homa flag,’ ” Evans said. The Legislature has been consid ering measures against flag burning since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled desecration of the U.S. flag was pro tected by the First Amendment right of free speech. United Nations should also be added to the bill. The legislation re quires one more vote before being returned to the Senate for consider ation of the amendment. House Speaker Gib Lewis, who has sponsored the flag burning ban, supported Evans’ amendment and said he plans to meet with other state leaders to get reciprocal agreements concerning the Texas flag. “Every state is making a similar ruling, or passing similar legislation right now that each state will recog nize the other state’s flags,” Lewis, D-Fort Worth, said. The Texas flag was also the sub ject of another measure that passed in the House. A resolution by state Rep. Bill Ar nold would urge schools to inform students that the proper way for them to pledge allegiance to the Texas flag is with their right hand over their heart. uban military hero others executed for drug smuggling are now; ix Office etmaster j . in* 1 'I MEXICO CITY (AP) — A war TlCk -i! B ero who fought with Fidel Castro in 0> Baba’s revolution was executed by nsteo JJ 1 ■ring squad at dawn Thursday with I 1-“M' Bree other officers for smuggling ■ins of drugs into the United States, call nf ||ne official Cuban news agency said, at (713) ■ The scandal has stunned ^■nd embarrassed Castro and his communist government, which for years denied U.S. accusations that Cuba was being used to smuggle co caine and marijuana to the United tales. In a brief dispatch monitored in Bfexico City, the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said the sentences [gainst Maj. Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa, ol. Antonio de la Guardia Font, Maj. Amado Padron and Capt. Jorge Martinez had been carried out. 1 Ochoa was a trusted aide to Presi dent Castro, commanding Cuban forces in Ethiopia and Angola and heading a Cuban military mission to Nicaragua. The news agency noted that the four men, along with 10 other offi- lers, were convicted by a summary court-martial and that the deliber- rs! iN!! ations on their appeal were broad cast to the Cuban nation. Castro, who long rejected U.S. drug smuggling accusations as a plot to defame Cuba, said Sunday the scandal had done immense internal damage and eroded Cuba’s interna tional image. He called the sentences a “bitter decision,” but added that he also thought about “others who have died.” “I think of those who fell to build a decent society ... to create a re public where justice ruled, where there was no corruption, dishonesty, fraud or treason,” Castro told the Council of State before it voted to af firm the death sentences. Deputy State Department spokes man Richard Boucher said the ad ministration has had information linking Cuba to narcotics smuggling since 1982 and has expressed its con cerns since then. U.S. officials say privately that it’s hard to believe that large-scale drug smuggling could have been carried out through Cuban air space and territorial waters without Castro’s knowledge. Mm jih Let’s go to the hoop Bill Mills attempts to block the shot of Tom Janecek during a pick-up basketball game Photo by Phelan M.Ebenhack Thursday afternoon outside of the Ocean Dril ling Program building. A&M archer to compete in Olympic test By Fiona Soltes CITY EDITOR A member of the Texas A&M Target Archers is aiming for success at a national competition next week. Eric Brumlow, a senior architec ture major from Denton, has been chosen to compete in archery at the 1989 Olympic Festival in Norman, Okla., July 20-26. The festival, put on by the Olym pic Committee, takes place one year after the Games as a practice meet for Olympic hopefuls, Brumlow said. “I wasn’t really surprised to be in vited,” he said. “I think I’ll be able to shoot as well as or better than any one there.” Brumlow’s confidence comes from a long list of archery awards. He is ranked second in the nation in collegiate archery and is the south ern region indoor champion. Brumlow placed second during the Olympic festival trials in Okla homa in June. During the meet, Brumlow will compete as part of a six-member team from the South against teams from the North, East and West. Brumlow said he became inter ested in archery when he took it for a physical education require ment. “The class is basically a screening program for the team,” he said. “After you’ve taken the beginning and advanced archery classes, you join the club. Then the top four members of the club make up the competing team.” Brumlow has been a member of the team for two years. Brumlow said the A&M archery club sent 14 members to the national competition last year, making A&M one of the largest participating schools. He said upcoming competi tions include College National Championships and the Championship of Americas, a com petition between the United States, Central America and South Ameir- Seven U.S. soldiers injured when bomb explodes outside Honduran discotheque TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A home made bomb exploded outside a discotheque in northern Honduras early Thursday and wounded seven American soldiers, three of them seriously, officials reported. Two other Americans in the group escaped in jury. No one claimed responsibility for the fourth attack on U.S. troops in Honduras since Feb. 1. “Witnesses say the bomb was apparently thrown from a car, but the scenario is still con fused,” said Anne Sigmund of the U.S. Embassy. “They don’t say if the bomb was thrown from a moving car or a parked car. We’re still investigat ing.” The soldiers had gone into La Ceiba, a coastal town 200 miles north of Tegucigalpa, in civilian dress and without proper leave, embassy spokes man Charles V. Barclay said. “They were not authorized to go into town,” he said in a telephone interview. “The group was part of a convoy carrying equipment and machin ery from Puerto Castilla to Enrique Soto Cano air base. I have no further details for the moment.” Officials said the convoy of about 150 Ameri cans was returning Wednesday from a road building exercise with Honduran troops and stopped at La Ceiba for the night. Puerto Castilla is 250 miles north of Tegucigalpa. Barclay said the three soldiers with serious wounds were taken to a hospital at the Soto Cano base 50 miles northeast of Tegucigalpa and would be flown to the United States for treat ment. The other four were being treated at a pri vate hospital in La Ceiba, he said. The names were withheld pending notifica tion of relatives. Col. Eric Sanchez, the Honduran military commander at La Ceiba, said by telephone the explosion occurred at the Lido Discotheque, and four Honduran suspects were being questioned. He would say nothing further about the suspects. A&M education college celebrates 20th anniversary Texas A&M’s College of Edu cation celebrates its 20th anniver sary today and Saturday with an array of receptions, presentations and activities. More than 200 alumni, staff and faculty will participate, in cluding two college presidents and developers of an interna tional student space program. College and departmental events will include an apprecia tion luncheon for Dr. Dean Cor rigan on Saturday, who is step ping down as dean after 10 years to return to full-time teaching. The celebration’s keynote speaker, Dr. Barry Thompson, president of Tarleton State Uni versity, will discuss the changing roles of colleges of education at the College Station Hilton Ball room tonight at 7. Dr. Jack Humphries, president of Sul Ross University, will dis cuss Texas higher education is sues in the Brazos Amphitheater at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Other activities include an awards banquet and dance Friday night and a four- and seven-mile fun run Saturday at 6:30 a.m. Environment, East-West relations bump economy as topic of 7 nation conference PARIS (AP) — The annual economic summit meeting that begins Friday will be dominated by environmental pollution and East-West relations because, this year, there’s little bad economic news for the seven participants to discuss. President Bush and the leaders of the six other large, industrialized western democracies will meet through Sunday. Along the way, they will take time for lavish dinners, fireworks displays and festive parades organized by French Presi dent Francois Mitterrand to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. Almost as gleaming as the French celebrations has been the performance of the world’s econ omy. In contrast to the gloom-and-doom forecasts following the October 1987 stock market crash, growth in 1988 and through the first half of this year has been stellar. Virtually all the summit nations enjoyed an ac celeration of economic activity last year with total growth for the seven nations averaging 4.2 per cent, the best showing in four years. Such a performance clears the way for other topics to take center stage. Bush, attending his first economic summit, hopes to use the meetings to assume the mantle of leader of the Western alliance on economic and environmental issues, much as he did on mil itary matters in May with his troop reduction proposals at the NATO summit in Brussels, Bel gium. Bush has said the environment is coming on like a “freight train” as an international issue and leaders of the other summit nations — Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada — are facing growing political pressure to do something as well. The president arrived in Paris after unveiling relatively modest aid proposals for Hungary and Poland during his history-making trip to the eco nomically troubled nations. He looked to his summit partners for similar commitments to boost economic and democratic reforms in East ern Europe. Activists plan fight after Dallas police snub lesbian DALLAS (AP) — Dallas gay lead ers say they plan to use the case of an Oklahoma woman who says she was denied employment as a Dallas po lice officer because she is a lesbian to open up job opportunities for homo sexuals. Dallas Gay Alliance leader Wil liam Waybourn said Thursday that Dallas residents don’t care about the sexual preferences of those who an swer emergency calls and said they will not rest until what they call a dis criminatory hiring policy has ended. In a surprise and emotion-tinged appearance at Dallas City Hall on We want to shed light on ignorance to create change.” — William Waybourn, Dallas Gay Alliance leader Wednesday, Mica England of Tulsa, Okla., told council members she was a lesbian who had been denied em ployment as a Dallas police officer. The 25-year-old restaurant chef said she decided to fight back after being told Monday by a police re cruiter that she did not qualify to wear Dallas blue “because I was openly and willingly admitting that I was gay ” Waybourn, who accompanied En gland to Dallas City Hall, urged council members to change the de partment hiring policy. “We want to shed light on igno rance to create change,” Waybourn said in an interview Thursday. “It’s a shame to think that there are policies still on the books that encourage and permit this type of discrimination. It’s incredible.” But Police Chief Mack Vines said his department’s policy prohibits the hiring of “anyone who violates state statutes.” A police personnel supervisor said the hiring ban is based on state law prohibiting “deviant sexual inter course with another individual of the same sex.” Paris becomes city of parties for bicentennial PARIS (AP) — France un corked three days of bicentennial hoopla Thursday by inaugurat ing a gleaming, high-tech opera house at the site of the Bastille, the despised prison where its rev olution began. President Francois Mitterrand, President Bush and their wives sat in front-row balcony seats at the Opera Bastille for an opening concert featuring singers Placido Domingo and Barbara Hen dricks. Also present were 32 other presidents and prime ministers who came to Paris for this week end’s celebrations of the revolu tion’s 200th anniversary and for the annual summit of the world’s sever! richest countries. Sharpshooters were posted on rooftops and in windows of build ings surrounding the Place de la Bastille as the leaders arrived. Authorities have clamped tight and highly visible security around the capital this week. Later Thursday, more than 100,000 people jammed into the large circular plaza for the begin ning of the largest of about See France/Page 6