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Survey shows drop
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rise in crack addicts
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duce demand have cut sharply the
number of casual users, but cocaine
and crack addiction is growing.
The 1988 National House Survey
on Drug Abuse found a 37 percent
drop from a 1985 survey in the
number of people who said they had
used marijuana, cocaine or other il
licit drugs in the previous month.
The survey also showed the num
ber of people who said they had
used an illegal drug during the pre
vious year fell by 25 percent over the
three years.
“We are making some real pro
gress in this war,” William Bennett,
director of federal drug control pol
icy, said. “People who have been say
ing all is lost, we can’t win, let’s legal
ize (drugs) have never been more
wrong.
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lions of Americans who once used
them regularly appear now to have
given them up altogether,” he said.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — One
person died and two more were
injured when an army corporal
opened fire on a group of peas
ant activists in a bus caravan.
Reports and a Defense Depart
ment news release said the inci
dent occurred Sunday at a toll
stop 100 miles north of the capi
tal, on the Mexico-Queretaro fed
eral highway, when a caravan of
some 40 buses carrying scores of
members of the Cardenista Peas
ants’ Central attempted to ram
through the toll booths. When
that attempt failed, a group of ac
tivists armed with sticks attacked
a squad of soldiers guarding the
tolls booths, and one of the sol
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Queretaro hospital, the govern
ment said. The other two — Felix
Perez, 25, and Patricio Esquivel
Hernandez, 20 — were reported
in satisfactory condition.
However, the survey also found
that the number of heavy cocaine us
ers, including those using the highly
addictive form of the drug known as
crack, rose sharply between 1985
and 1988 — by 33 percent for those
using it once a week or more and by
19 percent for daily and almost-daily
users.
Though casual cocaine use
dropped sharply overall — by 50
percent for previous-month use —
the survey found that among blacks
and Hispanics the numbers did not
change significantly.
According to the survey, 72 mil
lion Americans — 37 percent of the
population — had tried at least one
illicit drug in their lifetimes.
“Illicit drug use by Americans re
mains much too high,” Louis Sulli
van, secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services, said.
But, he added, “attitudes are chang
ing.”
Casual users are “the ones who
serve as a base for cocaine and crack
addicts,” he said. “So if we can re
duce the number of casual users, in
time we will also influence the num
ber of addicts.”
Sullivan and Bennett both said
more resources will be needed to
continue current drug awareness ef
forts as well as bolster drug treat
ment programs, though they de
clined to say how much money
should be directed to these areas.
The survey covers the population
age 12 and older living in house
holds in the 48 contiguous states.
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swered by 8,814 people.
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cent of the nation’s thrifts already
meet the tougher new capital stan
dards proposed in a multibillion-dol-
lar bailout bill, indicating the indus
try is in better shape than its image,
according to a study released Mon
day.
The study by Alex Sheshunoff &
Co., a consulting firm based in Aus
tin, said the findings show “clearly,
this requirement isn’t an unbearable
burden for the healthy segment of
the savings and loan industry.”
Congress is scheduled this week to
consider a $157 billion bailout bill
for the industry, which is losing an
estimated $20 million a day. Among
other things, the bill tightens regula
tions on the industry, requiring
thrifts to have a 3 percent capital-to-
assets ratio.
The bill at first allows half of the
capital to be in so-called goodwill, or
intangible, assets. By Jan. 1, 1995,
the entire 3 percent must be in tan
gible assets.
The bill has been approved by a
House-Senate conference commit
tee, but Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas,
threatens to block passage in a dis
pute over financing.
Sheshunoff said his review of the
financial status of the nation’s 2,946
thrifts found 73 percent, or 2,163,
already meet the 3 percent core capi
tal requirement contained in the
Bush administration’s bailout bill.
In addition, Sheshunoff said
1,984, or 67 percent, of the thrifts
can meet the 1995 requirement with
tangible assets only.
While 25 of the nation’s 40 largest
thrifts — including 12 of the top 13
— already meet the 1995 standard,
the number drops to 12 — and eight
of the top 13 — if only tangible as
sets are counted.
“We estimate that for those 1,984
well-capitalized S&Ls, the average
tangible capital-to-assets ratio is 6
percent . . . and it puts them in a
strong position to acquire undercapi
talized thrifts,” said Sheshunoff,
who praised the tougher standards.
“No longer will a handful of S&Ls
be able to simply bet taxpayer-in
sured dollars in hopes of a profit,”
he said.
“This is a stiff dose of preventive
medicine,” he said. “It should go a
long way toward preventing another
thrift crisis.”
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tinue to climb.
“The opportunities are before
us,” Mobley said. “(But) we can’t ex
ploit those opportunities without
supplementing state funding.”
Mobley’s familiarity with those is
sues may have helped. When Mobley
was chosen from 59 presidential can
didates and nominees, he was no
stranger to the University or to the
System.
He has been at A&M since 1980,
when he was hired as head of the
management department. Mobley
became dean of the College of Busi
ness Administration in 1983 and the
A&M System’s deputy chancellor for
academic and resource development
in 1985. In 1987, he became exec
utive deputy chancellor of the Sys
tem.
A&M System Chancellor Perry
Adkisson said Mobley has a great
deal of understanding of the Sys
tem’s goals and objectives and where
the System is trying to go.
Mobley also has family ties at
A&M. His oldest daughter, a law stu
dent, is an A&M graduate and his
other daughter is ajunior at the Uni
versity.
As he looks to the 1990s, Mobley
said enrollment will continue to be a
concern, but not in the same way it
has been for other A&M presidents.
Mobley meets with student lead
ers for lunch about every six weeks.
Jay Hays, the 1988-89 president of
A&M’s Student Government Asso
ciation, said that during Mobley’s
first year in office the school made
vast progress.
“As the year progressed, it was
clear he did a lot to revitalize Stu
dent Government on campus,” Hays
said. “With his initiatives and his co
operation we were able to get some
new programs started and put some
lingering issues behind us.”
“The issue is one of managing the
rate of growth , rather than having
to chase growth,” Mobley said. “Our
target is to stay a little below 40,000
and we’re doing that.
“We’re not busting out at the
seams, but the cumulative effect of
the rate of growth, particularly over
the last decade, has resulted in pres
sure on facilities, staffing and class
sizes. Our resources lag that
growth.”
Mobley also intends to continue to
expand A&M’s role in international
education, he said. In addition to es
tablishing programs such as one with
the Japanese city of Koriyama, Fu-
kushima, which enables A&M in
structors to teach English to Japa
nese students, he advocates study-
abroad programs.
“A&M is a good university, but
we’re still not that well known out
side the region,” Mobley said. “(Oth
ers) know of Texas A&M but they
don’t know who and what we are.”
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