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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted
hursday to spend $225 million to begin con-
truction of the super collider, with Sen. Phil
Iramm calling the particle accelerator “a daring
jroject of almost unimaginable scope.”
Texas Gov. Bill Clements predicted construc-
ion of the collider could begin as early as No-
einber at a site south of Dallas in Ellis County.
Clements met with Energy Secretary James A.
atkins for nearly an hour Thursday and said
hey discussed “getting construction under way.
e’re going to do it.
“Time is running out on us in this regard,”
dements said. “We need to get some tangible ef-
brt out there on the site.”
State of Texas lobbyist Henry Gandy said
dements is concerned there be substantial evi-
ence progress on the project is “well under way
y next fiscal year,” when debate begins on fiscal
1991 funding for the high-energy physics pro
ject.
Funds for the collider were included in an
|>18.4 billion energy and water appropriations
package that passed the Senate by voice vote.
The Senate’s decision to spend $225 million on
the collider in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 is
|25 million more than what the House set aside,
but is $25 million less than what President Bush
had requested.
Differences in the House and Senate bills will
be worked out in a conference committee, which
could meet as early as next week.
“This was a major investment in America’s fu
ture, that creates immediate jobs for hard
pressed Texans and the research that comes
from it will create jobs for America’s future, in
crease our productivity, and help restore our
technological leadership. And I’m exuberant,”
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said after the vote.
In a statement, Clements said the Senate’s de
cision “moves us one step closer to ensuring our
country remains on the cutting edge of high-en
ergy physics.”
Under the Senate version of the bill, foreign
participation in construction of the $4.4 billion
project at a site south of Dallas would have to be
reviewed by the administration.
The Appropriations Committee imposed the
restrictions after some senators questioned
whether participation by foreign countries might
jeopardize the contributions of U.S. industry.
“What we are doing today is taking the next
logical step toward building a machine that will
be a quantum jump in terms of our capacity to
understand the nature of matter,” Gramm, R-
Texas, told the Senate.
“The implications for this investment in terms
of transportation and medicine and science and
productivity, in thousands of new products and
millions of new jobs, cannot be measured today,”
Gramm said.
Gramm called the super collider a “great, new,
magnificent machine” and said it will give the
country the ability to test new ideas and use them
in research that can* be “industrialized and made
commercial not by government, but by the pri
vate sector economy.”
Gramm said the collider, over the next several
decades, would make the country more compet
itive and would raise the standard of living. He
said the project would lead to advances in medi
cine, transportation and science.
“Investments in basic research pay rich divi
dends and the Senate today made a big invest
ment in the future of America,” Bentsen said.
“It’s a good feeling to be over that last big hurdle,
to be assured that construction will start on the
SSC sometime this fall.”
The Senate conferees will have to convince
their House counterparts to raise funding for the
SSC by $25 million.
Local children participate
in sports, education program
By Mia B. Moody
STAFF WRITER
The Sport and Education pro
gram, sponsored by the Texas
A&M physical education depart
ment, gives children from sur
rounding areas an opportunity to
participate in a program that
works on improving their minds
as well as their bodies.
Dr. Frank Ashley, project ad
ministrator and assistant profes
sor in the physical education de
partment, said the sport program
gives children the opportunity to
play basketball, baseball and run
relays while the enrichment pro
gram offers career orientation,
classes on personal hygiene and
sex and drug education.
The program, which ends to
day, is funded by a grant from
the federal government. Ashley
said the National Collegiate Ath
letic Association has the authority
to designate five colleges as loca
tions for the program.
“This is A&rM’s first year to
participate in the five-week pro
gram,” Ashley said. “The NCAA
was so impressed by our program
that they want to use it as a model
program for other colleges and
universities next year.”
Ashley said the program was
conducted successfully with help
from faculty and students from
the A&M physical education de
partment and faculty members of
the Bryan-College Station school
districts.
About 320 students are partici
pating in the program, which is
offered at no cost to students.
“The program lasts for four
and a half hours a day,” Ashley
said. “The participants recieve a
free meal and a snack daily at the
Sbisa Cafeteria, they are bused in
free of charge and are given a
free examination at the begin
ning of the program by the Texas
A&M Medical School.”
Ashley said the equipment
which is used for sport activities is
provided by sports companies
and by donations from local
agencies and individuals.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Envi
ronmentalists Thursday called on
Gulf Coast lawmakers to condemn
violence by shrimpers, on the eve of
a court hearing to decide whether
shrimpers must equip their nets with
devices to protect endangered sea
turtles.
“If a ruling comes down in our fa
vor, we think it’s wise to act pro-acti
vely,” Tom Miller, a spokesman for
the Center for Marine Conservation,
said.
Miller said his organization sees a
need to “lower the rhetoric, lower
the threshold of violence, and for
cooler heads to prevail” pending Fri
day’s scheduled hearing in federal
court. The National Wildlife Feder
ation is seeking a temporary re
straining order that would require
shrimpers to resume using the con
troversial turtle excluder devices.
On Monday, Commerce Secretary
Robert Mosbacher suspended en
forcement of those regulations for
45 days, after a weekend protest by
shrimpers who blockaded ship chan
nels along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Mosbacher said he will not decide
whether to require shrimpers to use
Teacher subject
to charges of
fondling child
HOUSTON (AP) — A special
education teacher accused of
fondling an 11-year-old boy who
was one of his students here also
faces similar charges in Florida,
officials said.
Michael David Stein, 31, was
ordered held without bail on six
counts of indecency with a child
after his arrest at his home
Wednesday. He has been a tea
cher with the Houston Indepen
dent School District since October
1988.
Stein, who taught at F.M. Black
Middle School, is accused of
fondling a sixth-grader’s genitals
at the school on six occasions be
tween April 10 and June 8, court
documents said.
The alleged abuse surfaced
when the student’s mother found
a letter Stein allegedly wrote to
the boy, Houston Police Depart
ment spokesman Dan Turner
said.
“She thought the letter was in
appropriate for a teacher-student
relationship and confronted
school officials,” Turner said.
“There was nothing vulgar (in the
letter). She just thought it was in
appropriate.”
the devices until after the National
Academy of Sciences completes a
study on the status and conservation
of sea turtles in U.S. waters.
After the 45-day period ends and
before the study in completed,
shrimpers would be required to pull
their nets every 90 minutes, the
length of time a turtle can remain al
ive while submerged.
On Tuesday, the National Wild
life Federation filed suit in federal
court in the District of Columbia,
charging that Mosbacher’s decision
violates environmental protection
laws.
“The fact that some shrimpers are
protesting doesn’t change the law
and the secretary knows it,” Steven
N. Moyer, the federation’s legislative
representative, said. “The law re
quires protection for the sea turtles
and we expect them to get that pro
tection.”
It was only last week that Mos
bacher had ordered enforcement of
the regulations be resumed, spark
ing the weekend protests and threats
of violence by shrimpers if the law
was not shelved or modified.
The shrimpers contend the de
vices reduce their catch by 17 per
cent to 35 percent or more, while the
Wildlife Federation says extensive
tests by the Commerce Department
have found that use of the devices
reduces catches by only minor
amounts.
The National Marine Fisheries
Service has estimated that American
shrimpers drown 11,000 sea turtles
every year, including many Kemp’s
Ridley turtles, the most endangered.
Biologists estimate fewer than 600
nesting females remain worldwide,
the federation said.
Michael Weber, vice president of
the Center for Marine Conservation,
said Gulf Coast lawmakers who
sought to overturn-the regulations
have a responsibility for maintaining
public peace. He also called on Tee
John Mailjevich, president of the
Concerned Shrimpers of America,
to publicly condemn the use of vio
lence.
“It is his voice, and those of Gulf
Coast elected officials, that will
dampen this volatile situation,”
Weber said.
Group loses EPA grants
after chemical company
caused toxic pollution
DALLAS (AP) — A booster group
controlled by a chemical company
that caused toxic pollution in Jack
sonville, Ark., has lost $150,000 in
grants after the Environmental Pro
tection Agency canceled the funds.
The money had been intended to
help victims, rather than the produc
ers, of a hazardous waste. The Dallas
EPA office announced withdrawal
of the grants on Wednesday.
“We want to make sure this won’t
happen again,” Lew Crampton, spe
cial assistant to the EPA director in
Washington, said. The grant process
has been changed “to include new
grant criteria about the representa
tion of community people,” he said.
The EPA suspended the grants
June 13 pending an investigation.
A six-week probe by the federal
agency revealed that a business
group known as the Jacksonville
People With Pride Clean Up Coali
tion was effectively a front for the
polluter, Hercules Inc.
Local business leaders founded
the organization in 1986 to counter
negative publicity about dioxin con
tamination, which the group has
maintained poses no health risks.
Hercules funds and reviews pamph
lets that support that belief.
The EPA grants were to be used
by people living near three toxic
waste sites to hire experts to monitor
cleanup activities.
Companies responsible for toxic
waste are not eligible for the techni
cal assistance grants awarded under
the “Superfund” program.
In the case of the Jacksonville
People With Pride, the polluter “was
being effectively represented in the
organization,” Crampton said. “That
kind of influence is definitely not
what we intended, nor was it what
Congress intended.”
Mike Wilson, president of Jack
sonville People With Pride, did not
return phone calls to the Associated
Press Thursday.
Environmentalists have described
Jacksonville, a community of 29,000
northeast of Little Rock, as the most
dangerous site of dioxin contami
nation ever discovered in this nation.
Dioxin generally is considered one
of the world’s most toxic substances.
The East Coast-based Hercules,
which once owned a plant in Jack
sonville, admitted partial responsibi
lity for producing the dioxin, a by
product of Agent Orange.
MSC Visual Arts
presents
Teny Holliday
An Experience in Watercolor
Lecture: 7 p.m. Rm. 201 MSC Tues. f August 1st
Reception to follow in the MSC Gallery
Regents announce Anisman
will be new president of SHSU
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Texas State University Sys
tem regents Thursday named a Springfield College of
ficial as president of Sam Houston State University be
ginning Sept. 1.
Dr. Martin J. Anisman, vice president for academic
affairs and dean of the faculty at the Massachusetts col
lege, will replace Dr. Elliott T. Bowers, who is retiring
in August after 21 years as president.
Bowers, who has spent 52 years at Sam Houston as a
student, faculty member and administrator, will turn 70
in August.
Anisman was one of four finalists brought to the
campus for interviews with the regents Thursday and
was chosen in a subsequent vote by the board which also
oversees Angelo State University, Sul Ross University
and Southwest Texas State University.
“We are convinced that Dr. Anisman has the vision,
experience and leadership qualities to help Sam Hous
ton achieve its potential as a great, comprehensive uni
versity,” regents Chailrman Norman D. Elder said
Thursday.
Elder also noted Anisman’s involvement in profes
sional and civic activities, including service on library
and bank boards in his community.
Before joining the faculty at Springfield College in
1986, Anisman was at Southern Connecticut State Col
lege where he taught English and was chairman of the
Department of English. He also served as acting dean
of the School of Business Economics and was dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences for eight years.
Anisman, 48, received his bachelor’s degree at Syra
cuse University in 1963, his master’s at New York Uni
versity in 1964 and his doctorate at New York Univer
sity in 1970.
Other finalists for the Sam Houston presidency in
cluded Dr. Otto F. Bauer, vice chancellor for academic
affairs at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; Dr.
Samuel Curl, dean of the college of agricultural sci
ences at Texas Tech University; and Dr. Kala M.
Stroup, president of Murray State University in Mur
ray, Ky.
Tree activists attempt to neutralize
poison in Treaty Oak with saltwater
AUSTIN (AP) — Rescue efforts
on the historic Treaty Oak have cen
tered on trying to neutralize the poi
son with a saltwater solution, but a
tree activist from Pennsylvania said
Thursday the centuries-old tree is
dead.
Stephen Redding, 42, of Green
Lane, Pa. traveled to Austin and
stayed near the live oak tree contin
uously for six days.
He said city parks and recreation
crews were not treating the tree
properly. “I felt the spirit of the tree
leave,” he said.
But city officials deny Redding’s
claim, saying the tree is clinging to
life and that experts have devised
their rescue attempts.
The tree was poisoned at least
four months ago with a deadly her
bicide in an attack that has received
international attention.
Police have arrested and charged
a 45-year-old man with felony crimi
nal mischief for the poisoning. Au
thorities say the man was carrying
out a ritual when he poisoned the
tree. The case was scheduled to be
heard by a grand jury later Thurs
day.
John Giedraitis, city forester, and
several experts ordered the injection
of a saltwater solution into Treaty
Oak in more than 100 places earlier
this week in an effort to offset the
herbicide, Velpar.
“The tree has huge amounts of
poison in it,” Giedraitis said.
It was decided to use the saltwater
solution after tests showed twigs on
the tree had no carbohydrates, or
energy reserves, he said.
But Giedraitis said a test of the
roots showed there was an ample
supply of carbohydrates. “The roots
will give up their energy to the
leaves,” Giedraitis said. “We expect
this to happen in the fall. This tree is
not dead.”
He said the injection process is
standard technology.
But Redding, who owns a tree
maintenance business and calls him
self an “arborist,” said the treatment
“was the final nail in the coffin.”
DALLAS (AP) — A Catholic
priest says he will continue on a hun
ger strike until the bishop agrees to
his terms for a meeting about allega
tions of sexual misconduct and em
bezzlement, a newspaper said
Thursday.
Although Bishop Thomas Ts-
choepe agreed Wednesday to gen
eral terms demanded by the Rev.
Justin Lucio, the priest later added
another requirement, the Dallas
Morning News reported.
The bishop has not said whether
he would accept the added condi
tion.
Lucio began fasting last Friday to
end what he called the “impasse” be
tween himself and the bishop over
Lucio’s 16-week leave of absence,
which the priest says was forced.
“In my opinion that oak expired
at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday,” when the
crews started injecting the solution,
he said.
He also complained that the city
applied sewer sludge around the
roots of the tree. But Giedraitis said
the sludge is a mild organic fertilizer
that to trees is like “chicken broth.”
Geidraitis said Redding is a tree
lover, but said, “He doesn’t under
stand what is exactly going on in the
tree.
Lucio has maintained that after he
stepped down as priest of St. James
Catholic Church in Oak Cliff last
April, Tschoepe denied him a new
assignment because of allegations he
is a homosexual, had raped a woman
and embezzled money from the
church.
The bishop on Wednesday denied
Lucio was forced into a leave of ab
sence.
He said the priest left voluntarily
at his suggestion and that of Monsi
gnor Robert Rehkemper, because
Lucio suffers from diabetes and an
ulcer.
Tschoepe announced Wednesday
that he would meet with Lucio on
terms the priest set two weeks ago.
Priest says he will fast
until meeting with bishop
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