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Vol. 88 No. 172 USPS 045360 8 Pages
College Station, Texas
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AUSTIN (AP) — A bill that would
make it a crime to desecrate the
United States or Texas flags passed
the Senate in a breeze Monday.
■ A House amendment, which
■dded the Texas flag to the bill, was
Hccepted on a 27-0 vote, sending the
■teasure to the governor to be
, signed into law.
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Hieanor, punishable by up to a year
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loice vote and sent to the governor a
bill to curb abuses in the sale of
Hledicare supplement insurance, or
Ho-called Medigap policies, to the el-
Herly.
I The measure was sought by
Hhairman Paul Wrotenbery of the
Btate Board of Insurance and was
Hndorsed by John Hildreth, director
Hf the southwest regional office of
Consumers Union.
One provision would give people
Ivho applied for Medigap insurance
|() days, rather than 10, to return a
ilicy and receive a premium re-
und.
Senators, in a brief but busy ses
sion, also completed legislative ac
tion on hills to:
• Make sure that a new “hate
crimes” law would apply only to the
destruction or damage of property,
addressing concerns expressed by
anti-abortion activists.
The law, enacted during the regu
lar session that ended May 29, would
make it a felony to damage or de
stroy a place of worship or a commu
nity center that offers medical, social
or education programs.
Anti-abortion groups said they
were concerned the bill would apply
to people who stand outside certain
clinics to discourage abortions.
• Change the terms of office for
the nine-member finance commis
sion, which was reconstructed dur
ing the regular legislative session to
make it more responsive to the pub
lic’s needs. The changes would allow
new members to start work sooner.
In other action, the Senate
adopted a conference committee re
port on a bill that would give physi
cians dear authority to prescribe
narcotics to relieve patients’ intracta
ble pain.
Supporters of the bill claim that
current law is ambiguous on pre
scribing narcotics to terminally ill pa
tients who use large quantities of
drugs.
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peddlingai' diplomatic pilgrimage across Eu
rope, declared Monday that Western
Iresolve and the dramatic changes in
the Soviet bloc have made possible “a
i new world” free of discord between
I East and West.
The Soviets are “moving in our di
rection, coming our way,” declared
Bush in a speech delivered in this
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red withthe 1 he seven richest nations of the West,
rest ofthef The president was homeward hound
would bet Tuesday after his 10-day, four-na-
ed with t^ion trek across Europe,
row cells.
He said his journey through Po
land and Hungary demonstrated
anew that “even in the Europe be
hind the Wall, the dream of freedom
for all Europe has never died.”
Bush said the surprise letter that
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
sent the summit nations seeking to
link his faltering economy with the
West was “only the latest example of
the Soviets moving in our direction,
coming our way.”
The Soviet Union has “nothing to
fear from the reforms that are now
unfolding” in Eastern Europe, Bush
said.
“I want to see the Soviet Union
chart a course that brings itself into
the community of nations,” said
Bush.
Photo by Fredrick D. Joe
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Six-year-old Kevin Livesay (left) and 11-year-old Jared Thread- College Station. This underwater view was taken through a
gill soak up the sunny weather Monday at Thomas Park pool in lighting portal beneath the pool’s diving board.
Stealth bomber completes maiden flight;
officials hope trial run saves B-2 project
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
The $500 million stealth bomber
flew for the first time today,soaring
above tjie Southern California de
sert on a two-hour flight aimed at
keeping Congress from scrapping
history’S*most expensive warplane.
Richard Couch, Texas A&M Class
of’68 at the controls.
The B-2, designed to evade
enemy radar, was arrayed with re-
Congressional funding of B-2
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long with a 172-foot wingspan,
quickly rolled to a stop without a
wobble or waver, idled for several
minutes and then taxied into a han
gar. The B-2 will remain at Edwards
for further tests.
The plane’s landing gear re
mained down during the flight, as is
standard practice on test flights in
case of malfunctions.
B-2 test pilot Bruce Hinds later
called the bomber “a very nimble air
craft” and said it made a “rock sta
ble” landing. Hinds said the plane
handled much the same way it had
on a flight simulator and called it an
enjoyable plane to fly.
The stealth bomber’s only pre
vious flights have been on a com
puter flight simulation; Air Force
and Northrop officials say no other
aircraft has been tested more thor
oughly without having been flown.
The flight was seen as vitaffor the
future of the bomber, which is 18
months behind schedule. At a bud
geted price of $500 million each —
the Air E'orce wants 132 of the
planes — it is the most expensive
warplane in history.
A congressional committee voted,
to withhold further funding untilj
the plane proves itself in the air.
Vatican, Poland renew diplomatic ties
flective material to allow' test person
nel to keep track of the plane and its
two pilots.
The sinister-looking, black jet
raced down an 11,000-foot runway
at the secretive Air Force Plant 42 at
Palmdale and lifted off at 6:37 a.m.,
with two F-16 fighter jets giving
chase through the still and cloudless
desert pky.
It landed here at 8:30 a.m. after
performing test maneuvers over the
Mojave Desert. The plane landed
perfectly on the runway’s center line
at Edwards, where the space shuttles
land after returning from orbit.
The 1 bat-winged bomber, 69 feet
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican and Poland
restored full diplomatic ties on Monday, the first such
relations between the Holy See and one of the Warsaw
Pact countries that tried to muzzle organized religion
after World War II.
The move comes two months after Poland’s Parlia
ment granted legal recognition to the Roman Catholic
Church, following 15 years of permanent working con
tacts between the Holy See and the communist govern
ment.
The communists broke diplomatic relations when
they came to power in 1945. Monday’s announcement,
made by the Vatican and Poland’s state-run news
agency, set ties at the ambassadorial level.
Polish-born Pope John Paul II indicated the restora
tion of relations was near when he disclosed a week ago
that he planned to send an envoy to Poland soon.
In overwhelmingly Catholic Poland, the news was
hailed by both church and government.
Stefan Staniszew'ski, spokesman for the Foreign Min
istry, said it “is a very important fact that crowns a long
process of normalization of relations between the state
and the church.”
The Polish government sought diplomatic ties with
Rome to improve its standing at fyome and abroad. For
a while some Polish bishops reportedly had opposed the
idea, fearing the government would go directly to the
Vatican to deal with church-state issues.
But on Monday, the bishops expressed “the deep
conviction that a proper development of relations will
influence the realization of citizens’ rights in Poland
and open a new field of church activities with benefits
for the whole society.”
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Corrigan prepares for challeges ahead
Education dean’s retirement signals new horizons as professor
By Melissa Naumann
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
In his 10 years of being dean of the Texas A&M Col
lege of Education, Dean C. Corrigan has never stopped
teaching. More importantly, however, he has never
stopped learning.
With a faculty of 170 people, Corrigan said he feels
like the head of a very large family where each member
has something to contribute to other members.
“People always ask me if I really like myjob,” he said.
Profile:
Dean C. Corrigan
“They’have this image that I’m in here covered with pa
per but I’m in here writing articles and talking to crea
tive pedple. Every 30 minutes, I talk to someone who
knows more about something than I do, so I listen and
learn.”
When Corrigan steps down from being dean at the
end of the summer, he will teach two graduate educa
tion courses. He has always taught one course called
“Policy Issues in Higher Education” and will teach a
new one called “The Politics of Education.” Each of
these courses allows Corrigan to draw on what he has
learned in his administrative experiences.
His teaching experiences have always turned into
learning experiences as well. While completing an in
ternship at Columbia University, he taught in the
morning at a New T York City high school in Spanish
Harlem where, out of his 52 students, 28 could not
speak English. In the afternoon, he taught at a private
school called the New' Uincoln School of Experimenta
tion.
“It was quite a contrast,” he said. “We were advertis
ing in the morning schools for winter clothes because
the children didn’t have any. Then I’d go to this private
school in the afternoon and the kids would be wearing
cashmere jackets.”
After working at experimental high schools in Cali
fornia and New Jersey, Corrigan eventually served as
dean of the College of Education and Social Services at
the University of Vermont and the dean of education at
the University of Maryland.
One morning, a classified ad from the Chronicle of
Higher Education appeared on his desk, with the words
“evidence of innovativeness” marked off in red.
“I had never seen an advertisement before for a job
where they said they wanted someone innovative,” he
said. “Have you ever seen anything like that?”
Later that same day, Corrigan received a call from
Haskell Monroe, who was then the associate provost
and on the search committee.
“I said, ‘Did your committee really talk about the in
novativeness?”’ he said. “He gave me a terrific answer.
He said, ‘Why don’t you come down here and ask the
committee?’ And so I did.
“When I tell this story to people, I say it was destiny
that brought me to Texas A&M.”
Early on, Corrigan let the faculty know his philoso
phy and goals for the college.
“There are 1340 institutions in the United States that
prepare educators,” he said. “But w'e shouldn’t com
pare ourselves to that 1340. We should be trying to
achieve greatness among the top 25.”
Many institutions believe homogeneity is the key to
See Corrigan/Page 4
Education
college marks
20th anniversary
By Melissa Naumann
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The Texas A&M College of
Education celebrated its 20th an
niversary this weekend, focusing
on the college’s progress and fu
ture.
Dr. Dean C. Corrigan, dean of
the College of Education, said
that while enrollment in teacher
education in the 63 other Texas
institutions that have such pro
grams has declined by about 50
percent in the last ten years, en
rollment in A&M teacher educa
tion programs has almost tripled.
Corrigan said the progress of
the college has been based on mu
tuality and generativky two
concepts he stressed when he be
came dean in 1980.
'‘Mutuality is beyond collabora
See Lunch/Page 4