970 Autos
Import
NrSSANlo®'
j-iops, alarm, ,
$7650 or k
Tile Battalion
3°°ZX'84,Cfe
Leather, dijiii
Ma ny new »■
excel a
693-2502 lean-
p UT A Delorea r -
lure . $15,OOO.Cai
-owmileannlur
subaSoIci
!2,000 mi,
:ond, $675ri t
roYOTAcII®;
; Pd, A/C, AUi :
; 1 200.693-flnm
<OLVOl64Tl?JB •a •a
e ^£#oviets against
^3? smuggling spy
W RABBrrr
v\\\ 1 I///S
WEATHER
TOMORROW’S FORECAST:
Sunny and warm with a slight
chance of showers in the af-
/y/AWW
ternoon.
HIGH: 90s LOW: 70s
fol. 88 No. 176 USPS 045360 6 Pages
College Station^ Texas
Tuesday, July 25,1989
.S. warned
°nd, low iri
68-2730 alters
-E ^lM e
■ WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Ut ited States cautioned the Soviet
Union against trying to smuggle Fe-
K S. Bloch out of the country weeks
blfore reports surfaced that the vet-
pan American diplomat was sus-
cted of being a spy, it was learned
jonday.
[President Bush described reports
Beatk of spying by Bloch as “very serious”
PrlcgIt[|fr ut c *' ( l not offer an assessment of
j poiential damage.
■ Two U.S. officials said Bloch had
pen videotaped handing a briefcase
I a Soviet agent in Paris earlier this
year. Government sources also dis-
■ised an unusual level of Soviet in-
pei est in Bloch’s case.
■ Bloch, stripped of his official pass
port and State Department creden-
■tls, spent the day with one of his
two daughters in a New York City
suburb. State Department officials
|aid he remains on the payroll,
[though on leave.
B Bloch is refusing through his at
torney to be questioned by the FBI,
and only submitted to a short inter-
iDgation early in the investigation by
y Hate Department security officers,
l ■k or d' n g Uj a government source
> H m jjj ar t h e case .
Study says schools
abuse GSL program
to increase profits
College Station Patrol Sgt. Robert Cahill
marks the spot of a two-car accident on Texas
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Avenue Sunday night. A high-speed car
chase with police led to the collision.
Bryan police continue to investigate
vehicle chase that ended in collision
ver 20
1 & *89
mosto
lioose
from
m
By Kelly S. Brown
*23,61
*3,041
*2p0<
♦T.U
Register fw
FREE
indquariei
Beef!
WlHi Test Orl«
Purchssell!ces»l
■ The Soviets were informed
Birough diplomatic channels, in a
Message described as “discreet,” that
U.S. relations with Moscow would be
Hamaged if they tried to make off
with the 54-year-old diplomat, a U.S.
Official disclosed.
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.