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ing the$5.|1 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A United Nations
icatjet fighttloffficial arrived in southern Lebanon on Wednes-
ish has slaie^^y to investigate the killing of Lt. Col. William
he helicopitlg Higgins, who was on U.N. duty when he was
Bducted, and to try to find his body,
approved, vgaThe Vatican said Pope John Paul II, at Presi-
igtheadmr. dent Bush’s request, would assist in efforts to
udent orplBave the U.S. Marine’s body returned to the
of an oper United States.
I Pro-Iranian kidnappers said they hanged the
■olonel Monday in retaliation for Israel’s abduc-
■on Friday of a Lebanese Shiite Moslem cleric.
Higgins was seized Feb. 17, 1988, near Tyre in
T Vvl South Lebanon.
I A videotape the kidnappers provided shows a
i 11311 ’ apparently Higgins, hanging from a gal-
T\ Hows. No body has been found and there is no
AXIA/ M^y 0 f knowing when the tape was made. Some
eports have said Higgins was killed months ago.
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ship of the U.S. 6th Fleet, and the fleet com
mander canceled a visit to Sevastopol in the So
viet Union in case Bush needs them, but added
that a military strike was unlikely. The aircraft
carrier USS America cut short a visit to Singa
pore, they said.
Shiite Moslem sources said they expected kid
nappers threatening the life of American hostage
Joseph Cicippio to spare him at Iran’s behest to
avert a confrontation with the United States.
Marrack Goulding, U.N. undersecretary-gen
eral for peacekeeping operations, flew to U.N.
headquarters in the Lebanese border town of Na-
qoura by helicopter from Israel.
He met with Maj. Gen. Lars-Eric Wahlgren,
Swedish commander of the U.N. Interim Force
in Lebanon, and batallion commanders of the
nine-nation force known as UNIFIL.
Timor Goksel, spokesman for UNIFIL, said
Goulding delayed a planned trip to Beirut be
cause of fighting in the city, where Christian
forces and a Syrian-led Moslem alliance have
fought an artillery war for five months.
“The liaison people in Beirut canceled the
flight for safety reasons because there was shoot
ing in the vicinity of where his helicopter was
supposed to land,” Goksel said.
He said Goulding would try to make the trip
Thursday. The undersecretary-general is sched
uled to meet with Lebanese leaders in the Leb
anese capital, but Goksel would not identify
them.
“There are no negotiations involved, although
he has a secondary mission of trying to find out
about other hostages in Lebanon,” the spokes
man said.
ains chastises Mattox for writing study
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I Gov. Bill Clements has promised
Hie governor’s race will be “very
Jpirited,” in spite of the decision by
Beorge W. Bush, the president’s el-
vest son, not to run.
Iltlll That spirit was evident Wednes-
Hay, when GOP gubernatorial con-
j Bender Jack Rains, Class of ’60,
TlQTteflasted Attorney General Jim Mat-
f or a s t u dy he said was critical of
Houston law enforcement officials.
I Mattox, a likely Democratic candi
date for governor, submitted the
Study in a jail overcrowding lawsuit,
ains said.
“Your decision to use public dol
lars to attack some of our state’s fin-
Bst law enforcement and criminal
Justice organizations is nothing less
leling busiitB 13 ” a gross abuse of taxpayer
- °old Bunds.” Rains, a Houston lawyer,
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Rains demanded that Mattox
apologize to Houston law enforce
ment officials and juries. He said the
attorney general “blames strict law
enforcement for the state prison
overcrowding crisis he helped cre
ate.”
But Mattox said Rains was making
“a desperate attempt to win support
for his gubernatorial campaign.”
Court documents show that Har
ris County has 16 percent of the
Texas population, but takes up 25
percent of the prison beds, accord
ing to a statement from Mattox’s of
fice.
Officials in a number of Texas
counties have complained that their
jails are crowded with inmates sen
tenced to state prison.
The Texas Department of Cor
rections delays taking many of those
prisoners because it is under a fed
eral court order to prevent over
crowding.
“I like the fact that Harris County
wants to get tough on crime, but
they cannot expect other counties in
Texas to pay for Harris County to
send so many non-violent offenders
to jail,” Mattox said.
Mattox has indicated that he plans
to run for governor against State
Treasurer Ann Richards in the
Democratic primary.
On the Republican side, Midland
businessman Clayton Williams, Class
of’54, is running against Rains.
Other Republicans considering
the race include Railroad Commis
sion Chairman Kent Hance and cor
porate raider T. Boone Pickens, who
recently moved part of his business
from Amarillo to Dallas.
Clements said Bush’s decision
against running for governor in
• 1990 won’t dampen interest in the
Republican primary.
“I don’t think that it will impact
our turnout at all,” Clements said. “I
think we’ll probably have a historic
high, so far as participation is con
cerned.”
The governor, a Republican, pre
dicted more than 1 million Texans
will vote in the GOP primary next
March.
There were 545,745 voters in the
1986 Republican primary for gover
nor, according to state party head
quarters.
In the presidential primary last
year, more than 1 million Republi
cans voted.
Off-campus students
barred from reserved
garage spaces in fall
By Cindy McMillian
STAFF WRITER
Reserved spaces in the North-
side Parking Garage will no
longer be offered to off-campus
students after Sept. 1, and dorm
students receiving spaces after
this date will forfeit them when
they move off campus.
Tom Williams, director of
Texas A&M’s Parking, Traffic
and Transit Department, said the
policy is part of the University’s
original plan for the garage,
which was intended primarily for
dorm students.
“Our policy is to provide dorm
students with the same privelege
as off-campus students — to park
next to where they live,” Williams
said.
Off-campus students on the
waiting list will be offered spaces
as they are made available until
Sept. 1, when off-campus stu
dents will be dropped from the
list.
One off-campus student, on
the waiting list since April 5, said
he was informed that spaces
probably will be offered only to
people on the list before early
March, so he will probably be
among those dropped.
He said that Williams’ depart
ment has made no effort to in
form students on the waiting list
of the change in policy, which he
found out from a friend who al
ready has a space in the garage.
“Everyone on the list doesn’t
know what’s going on,” he said. “I
wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t
been here this summer.”
The policy change was printed
on the back of a new parking map
given to his friend, the student
said, but the new maps are only
being distributed to garage pa
trons. Older versions without the
policy change are stacked on the
desk for others to pick up, he
said.
He also said the 1989 fall class
schedule does not indicate the
change. Page 26 of the schedule
says the garage has spaces “availa
ble to students on a first come,
first served basis.”
The student said he has noth
ing against the rights of dorm stu
dents, but he thinks students who
have been waiting on the list still
should be offered spaces.
Williams said he has received
two complaints about the policy.
Reserved, numbered spaces
originally were made available to
all students last November on a
first come, first served basis. The
garage opened in January for the
spring semester, and after spaces
filled, students wanting spaces
put their names on a waiting list.
July 31 was the deadline for all
garage patrons to renew their
spaces for 1988-89. The depart
ment began Aug. 1 offering
spaces to students on the waiting
list.
All students receiving spaces
before Sept. 1 may renew them
next year even if they move off
campus, but off-campus students
failing to renew their spaces may
not reapply in the future. Dorm
students who receive garage
spaces after Sept. 1 may not re
new them if they move off cam
pus.
Williams said the new South-
side Parking Garage, scheduled
for completion in Sept. 1990, will
be made available to dorm stu
dents only.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An emotionally divided
jHouse on Wednesday rejected an effort to tighten
abortion restrictions in the District of Columbia, the
first congressional test on the subject since a Supreme
Court ruling last month permitting states to impose
new limits.
On a surprising 219-206 vote that evoked hugs and
hoots of cheer on the House floor by supporters of the
right to abortion, the lawmakers rejected a proposal
that would have banned all government spending on
abortions in the capital.
The vote was a reversal of House sentiment last year,
when the legislators voted 222-186 to ban public spend
ing on the procedures. Abortion activists said it was the
first time since 1980 the House had refused to restrict
government spending for abortion.
The defeated provision, an amendment to a spend
ing bill for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 that forms
Washington’s municipal budget, was proposed by Rep.
Robert Dornan, R-Calif. The prohibition would have
included cases in which the mother’s life is in danger or
pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
The House recessed for the day and left the vote on
final passage of the overall bill for Thursday. That left
anti-abortion lawmakers one more chance to find votes
and try to salvage their proposal, perhaps by defeating
the entire spending measure.
Defeat of the amendment left intact abortion provi
sions in the bill which are more liberal than current law.
The bill would allow the district to spend its own funds
for abortions and to use federal funds if the pregnancy
was the result of rape or incest or if the mother’s life
was in danger. Current law, which expires Sept. 30,
contains a ban on spending either federal or district
funds unless the mother’s life is threatened.
Quoting the hospitalized Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill.,
one of the House’s foremost abortion opponents, Dor-
nan said, “This is not government intervention. The
government’s first duty is to protect the weak from the
strong.”
Senate passes defense bill leaving
SDI, stealth bomber funding intact
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate on Wednesday approved a
i ,$295 billion defense bill that leaves
sed theHpPresident Bush’s strategic programs
daho-OrtlB suc h as Star Wars and the B-2
bomber relatively intact, but backs
an aircraft Bush sought to kill.
“The basic goals of the president
were met,” said Sen. John Warner of
Virginia, ranking Republican on the
Senate Armed Services Committee,
prior to final passage of the legis
lation.
By a vote of 95-4, the Senate ap
proved its version of the defense au
thorization bill for the fiscal year be
ginning Oct. 1 — a blueprint that
bears no resemblance to House legis-
jk lation that gutted or severely cut the
I president’s big-ticket weapons sys-
' terns.
The Senate bill endorses the pres
ident’s two mobile-missile plan, in
cluding the request of $1.1 billion
for the MX rail-garrison and $100
million for the Midgetman.
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est cut of $400 million in the $4.9 bil-
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$300 million from the $4.7 billion
proposal for the B-2 stealth bomber.
The Senate backed the costly
bomber, priced at $530 million a
copy, if it meets flight test and radar-
evasion standards, and accepted
Bush’s decision to cancel the F-14D
Tomcat jet fighter.
But the chamber diverged from
the president on the Marine Corps’
V-22 Osprey, the tilt-rotor assault
transport that takes off like a heli
copter but can fly like a plane. The
Senate approved $255 million in re
search and development for the
Bell-Boeing aircraft.
The House and Senate meet in
conference in early September to
complete a final version of the two
defense blueprints the chambers
have crafted. The final product will
include $295 billion for the Defense
Department, plus $10 billion for the
Department of Energy.
“We have more profound differ
ences this year than we’ve had in a
long, long time,” Sen. Sam Nunn, D-
Ga., chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, said. “We face a
difficult conference with the House
on this bill.”
The money still has to be dis
persed through appropriations bills.
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Tony Shaar, 16, of College Sta
tion, was misidentifted as Tony
Sharp in a story in Wednesday’s
Battalion. Shaar was one of two
survivors in a rafting accident
that claimed the life of two A&M
Consolidated High School stu
dents. The Battalion regrets the
error.
Traffic patterns on the Texas
A&M University campus will change
somewhat beginning Monday, when
Ireland Street will become one-way
from University Drive to Ross Street.
Ireland Street has been one-way
from University to New Street and
two-way from New Street to Ross
Street since the opening of the
Northside Parking Garage in Jan
uary, in order to accommodate
continuing construction on Ross.
That construction has been com
pleted, allowing Ireland to revert to
one-way onto campus as originally
planned, said Tom Williams, direc
tor of Parking, Traffic and Transit
Services.
Angle parking spaces on the east
ern side of Ireland will be repainted
and appropriate signs installed to in
dicate traffic flow and parking re
strictions before next week, Williams
said.
Asbury Street will continue to be
one-way off campus, establishing a
smooth traffic pattern and easing
congestion on the streets around the
garage, he said. The off-campus
shuttle bus stop on Bizzell Street in
front of the Wisenbaker Engi
neering Center will be relocated to
Ireland between Ross and New
Streets.
Photo by Phelan M. Ebcnhack
Chip off the old block
Eleven-year-old Waylon Grubbs of Lewisville green Wednesday afternoon between rain
practices his chip shot at an A&M putting showers as his father, Raymond, watches.