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B “So far, they have observed the admonition,” said the official, who ppoke on condition of anonymity. | He said the Soviets were cau tioned even as U.S. investigators Here compiling evidence against jpoch but before they had all the aterial eventually amassed. FBI agents tailing Bloch on Satur- lay as he drove to his daughter’s Borne outside New York City were followed in turn by Soviet Embassy Tersonnel, according to this source. SENIOR STAFF WRITER An investigation continues after two Bryan teen-ag ers led three police cars down Texas Avenue late Sun day on a high-speed chase that came to a crashing halt as the youths rear-ended a vehicle and sent its occu pants to the hospital. Lili Alim, a 22-year-old junior business administra tion major who was a passenger in the car that was hit, was treated and released from Humana Hopital. The driver of that car, Taswin Winarno, 26, of Bryan, broke his leg in the collision and remains in stable condition at Humana. Phillip Franks, 17, the driver of the car being pur sued, is being held at the Brazos County Jail on charges of DWI, attempting to elude a police officer and felony failure to stop and render aid. Franks’ passenger, a 15- year-old Bryan resident, remains in the Brazos County Juvenile Detention Center for attempted aggravated as sault on a police officer. Sgt. Choya Walling of the Bryan Police Department said the incident began when an officer noticed that a 1989 Ford Escort (the car Franks was driving) matched the description of a vehicle that had been involved in several thefts during the past couple of weeks. When the officer turned his lights on to pull the Ford over, Franks accelerated, beginning the chase that drew in another Bryan police officer and an officer from the sheriffs department, Walling said. The Ford ran a traffic light and continued at a high speed before it rear-ended a white Honda Civic (con taining Winarno and Alim) that was in the center lane, attempting to turn left onto Lincoln Drive, near the east entrance to A&M, he said. When the Ford came to a stop, the driver fled on foot but was apprehended when he fell into a ditch on the A&M golf course, Walling said. Meanwhile, as officers approached the passenger in the Ford, the 15-year-old discharged a single shot from a .22 caliber semi-auto matic pistol, he said. The bullet went through the floor board on the passenger side of the vehicle. “Our belief is that the youth intended to shoot an of ficer,” Walling said. “He was preparing the gun to con front the officers as they approached the car, but it dis charged in the process.” AUSTIN (AP) — A number of unscrupulous private, for-profit trade schools are abusing the guar anteed student loan program to make money by taking advantage of needy students, a new study says. “These schools offer a questiona ble quality of training which leads the unsuspecting students into large student loan debts . . . and not to the high-paying jobs the schools adver tise,” says the report authored by Joe L. McCormick, executive director of the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. The report — entitled “School or Scandal?” — says that while many for-profit schools offer valuable services to their students, the bad ones must be exposed and expelled from the loan program. “Despite our efforts, we are dis couraged by opportunistic schools that promise much and deliver little, ravaging the very people they are supposed to help,” the report said. The report recommended a num ber of state and federal actions to correct the problems. “Additional steps, in the form of more thorough oversight, tightened regulatory guidelines, reduction of existing program loopholes, must be taken now by the state of Texas,” the report said. Among problems, the report cited: — A school in Houston sent buses and recruiters to homeless shelters in Dallas, San Antonio and New Or leans, where they provided the resi dents with loan and enrollment ap plications. New students returned to the school on the buses, assured they would receive free housing and an adequate monthly living allowance. Upon enrollment, the students dis covered that classrooms lacked equipment and instructors lacked training. “Within a few weeks, the living al lowance money has run out. State of ficials discover the problem when a local food bank calls to complain about the influx of students from the school coming for the daily noon meal.” — Some for-profit schools expand the number of course hours re quired for a certain subject in order to qualify for government loans. The Houston Community College offers a two-week course to qualify for a private investigator’s license, meeting the state requirement of 40 hours of instruction. But a for-profit school offered the same course with 300 hours of in struction, the minimum needed to qualify for a loan. — The private schools charge “significantly higher tuition and fees than two-year public colleges offer ing similar courses.” — Training programs at many private trade and technical schools often are less than six months long. Loan periods are shorter, forcing students to begin repaying the same year they receive the loans, increas ing the default rates. The report notes that the task of regulating the schools is spread among several state agencies in Texas: the Texas Education Agency, Texas Cosmetology Commission, Texas Board of Barber Examiners, Texas Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies, De partment of Public Safety, Funeral Services Commission and the Texas Department of Health. “These agencies appear to have little interaction, but instead focus on a small segment of schools that fall under their auspices,” the report said. Many of the schools are owned by individuals outside Texas, and state laws government the opening of branch campuses in Texas “provide little, if any, oversight,” the report added. Mosbacher delights shrimpers suspending turtle-safety rules GALVESTON (AP) — Hundreds of shrimpers who ad staged a passionate blockade of ship channels along he Texas coast erupted in cheers Monday after Com- Birce Secretary Robert Mosbacher suspended rules re- iuiring they use turtle safety devices on their nets. I Mosbacher’s action, after a meeting with gulf-states Songressional leaders Monday, averted the threat of an other blockade that shrimpers promised would begin /I Tuesday if their concerns about the turtle devices were iotaddressed. “I’ve been on a trip to happiness, ” said Tee John dialjevich, a Gretna, La. shrimper who is president of Concerned Shrimpers of America. “I'm swollen up with motion. This is not exactly what we want, but we can live with it. For 45 days, there’s no TEDs. We can ueak by.” Mialjevich and Gray Castle, a Commerce Depart- ent deputy undersecretary, climbed a motorized cart nd announced Mosbacher’s decision to hundreds of hrimpers gathered outside a gate at the Galveston ^oast Guard station. “Let’s stay together. This isn’t a cop-out,” Mialjevich died to the throng, many of whom were involved in a lockade of the nearby Houston Ship Channel Satur- Jay. Similar blockades were staged in Gulf of Mexico orts along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Shrimpers lisbanded their makeshift armadas Sunday morning vhen federal officials promised their complaints about he excluder devices would be heard. Castle said the threat of another blockade concerned Vlosbacher, but added that officials also were worried ibout the effect of the rule on shrimpers’ pocketbooks. “It’s true that anytime you get 250 shrimp boats blockading a harbor, you’ve potential for problem,” Castle said. “But you’re talking about people’s liveli hoods ... I think if any of us was in the same position, we’d react in the same way. And if the Secretary of Commerce isn’t going to be concerned, then who the hell is?” Mosbacher said Monday that enforcement of the tur tle excluder regulations would be suspended for 45 days. Shrimpers then would be required to perform 90- minute tows, a method that would allow them to free any endangered turtles trapped in their nets before they are killed. “Thank God, we’re going fishing and making a liv ing,” Mialjevich said. Mialjevich and Castle met for more than three hours while the crowd grew outside the gate. Shrimpers, some accompanied by their families, waited for news from the meetings under thundering skies and intermittent rain. One child carried a sign say ing, “Save my Daddy’s boat.” “This is a lot more than we thought we would get,” said Richard Santini of Galveston, who estimated he lost $6,000 to $7,000 during the blockade. “We can make a living now.” “This is a step in the right direction,” Stanley LePire, a shrimper from Bonsecouer, Ala., said. About 200 shrimp boats on Saturday crowded the deep-water Houston ship channel and about 300 shrimpers jammed Port Aransas, gateway to the Port of Corpus Christi. During the blockades, gunfire was reported in Texas and Louisiana, and four shrimpers were arrested in Texas. There were no injuries, officials said. Ship traffic was reported normal Monday, Coast Guard officials said. TA 7m 3111 Two workers injured in fall from scaffold Two construction workers were treated and released from the hospital Monday afternoon after falling six feet from a scaf fold on the southside Utility Plant behind the Military Sciences Building. Associate director of the Uni versity Police Department Elmer Schneider said Jimmy Kerney, a 31-year-old Bryan resident, and Brad Baily, a 19-year-old College Station resident, were moving boards and placing them on the back edge of the scaffold when the weight shifted, tipping the scaffold. A spokesman at the construc tion site said this was the first acci dent of the summer. Japanese prime minister announces resignation TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Sousuke Uno said Monday he will resign because of his party’s week end election disaster, and once again the Liberal Democrats seek a leader to rescue them from scandal and un popular policies. In Sunday’s election for half the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the governing party lost its majority for the first time since its formation in 1955. Opposition leaders demanded the Liberal Democrat Party relinquish power and that elections for the more powerful lower house be held early. The Liberal Democrats would be forced out if they lost those elec tions. Uno announced Monday he would resign after only two months in office to take responsibility for Sunday’s balloting results, in which voters chastised the party for money and sex scandals, a new sales tax that outraged consumers and more lib eral food import policies that an gered farmers. In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the United States “has long and strong relationships with Japan. We cer tainly would expect those to con tinue under any successor govern ment.” Socialist candidates were the main beneficiaries of voter discontent with the party that has spent 34 years in power. Socialist Party secretary Tsu- ruo Yamaguchi said Monday: “To avoid inviting further confusion, the LDP must hand over the govern ment to the opposition parties.” Photos by Frederick D. Joe Great Balls o ’ Fire Mary Hooper, above left, and Karla Horelica, right, learn how to make Raku, a Japanese form of pottery that dates back to the sev enth century, in a pottery class of fered by University Plus. Mon day, during a step in the process shown above in which the red-hot pottery is covered with wood chips, the chips ignited, leaving Horelica’s hair singed after it briefly caught on fire. Though some degree of flare-up is ex pected during the process, this one, which occurred at the Raku kiln in the Langford Architecture Building, was more intense than usual. The Raku kiln was made especially for this type of pottery. Horelica, an art teacher at Col lege Hills Elementary School, dis plays the finished Raku piece at right. She sold the pottery for $80. The University Plus pottery course is taught by Joan Moore, who also teaches in the College of Architecture. Students learn techniques and several methods for making pottery in the course that goes from June 12 through Aug. 4.