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' e of ab 8 a spe, le gislat, use vote ability ■ 1 1 ll P e a; changi )e V. \y * a “wot er y toui painful -jostd, fmingit; Texas MM V • e Battalion WEATHER m ? TOMORROW’S FORECAST: Sunshine ffW HIGH: 70 LOW: 52 ol. 89 No.33 USPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 17,1989 Friday o is “ro: , a veto undint V& M leads area n ‘89 fundraising or United Way yMia Moody [ The Battalion Staff The collection of $27,600 last eek put Texas A&M in the lead of Iryan-College Station organizations r the Brazos County United Way 89 fundraising campaign. The University has reached one- fth of its total campus goal of 150,000, Reba Ragsdale, chair of ie Brazos County United Way ampaign, said. ^ftnB T exas A&M has raised more l^j^ioney this year than in the past be- iise students are playing an active lole. In the past, faculty members lade most of the donations, Jen- Mifer Duffy, the Student Govern- v* jlnent executive for United Way, laid. Duffy, a senior psychology major from Narragansett, R.I., said Greek Week, an event in which fraternities and sororities raise money through T-shirt sales, is the biggest money maker for the United Way at A&M. In addition to faculty donations and Greek Week, groups such as Student Government, the Corps of Cadets, Residence Hall Association and MSC committees play an active role in collecting pledges through programs and personal donations, Duffy said. Ragsdale said A&M students can benefit from many of the 25 agen cies in the Brazos County, including the Red Cross, the Rape Crisis Cen ter and the married students with children program. People who want to make pledges can pick up pledge cards at their de partments on campus or can call the United Way office at 268-8929. i kayal its. kayal urricane Jerry exits exas leaving 3 dead, illions in damage Where socks go to die Erik Griswold, a freshman agricultural engineering major and Crocker Hall resident, removes his laundry from a drier in the Old Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack Hospital Building. He managed to wash his clothes between classes Monday afternoon. GALVESTON (AP) —The rem- lants of small but deadly Hurricane *ry slipped out of Texas and into uisiana on Monday, leaving at ast three people dead and as much $8.5 million in damages. The body of a man was found at ibout 3 p.m. Monday on the island’s last end near the seawall, Paula 'ancy of the city’s emergency opera- ion center said, j relail Authorities believed the man was ith another man and his daughter, hose bodies washed ashore Sunday ight, she said. All three apparently ere riding in a truck that was swept iver the seawall during the hurri- :ane. The other victims were a man and is 2-year-old daughter, whose bod- :s were found about 11 p.m. Sun- Iday on the rock jetties of Galveston’s protective seawall. Dan W. Lindley, of Portland, and his daughter, Salina, were in the pickup truck that apparently got clown off the seawall by high winds, $371 Detective Sgt. Leo Singleton said Monday. Lindley was a Coast Guardsman stationed at Galveston. The vehicle was retrieved earlier in the day. “We’re not lucky,” City Manager Doug Matthews said after the man and his child were found. The small storm carried a big punch, growing unexpectedly from a tropical storm to a hurricane early Sunday. It roared ashore with winds gust- ing to 100 mph, toppled trees and power lines, tore roofs and shattered windows in cars and residences. Cleanup crews in Galveston, where such storms are taken in stride, began collecting downed tree limbs and debris, but the city of some 62,000 quickly was returning to normal. All but one of the city’s schools were open Monday. That school was closed because of a power failure. “We’re very sorry we had any loss of lives from the storm,” Mayor Jan Coggeshall said. “We feel the storm battered and probably bruised us.” Finding solutions Teleconference debates world hunger, environment By Cindy McMillian Of The Battalion Staff Ending hunger around the world and at home requires changing world theories of development to include environmental concerns and making some sacrifices, said panelists and speakers at the 1989 World Food Day Teleconference Monday. Sen. Albert Gore Jr., U.S. Senator from Ten nessee and a participant in the World Food Day panel discussion televised live from Washington, said that world agriculture is nearing a crisis be cause of forest depletion and topsoil erosion. The crisis can only be averted through shared technology, transferred world debts and moral leaders who accept responsibility for such envi ronmental problems as global warming and acid rain. Gore said. But panelist Stephen Lewis, special advisor for Africa to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Perez de Cuellar, said the W’est has no such moral leadership now. Environmen tal problems are not yet gripping to politicians because of their self-centered drives, he said. Lewis said’the W^st Tiifs’Vi'bi niatle any actuatl changes for environmental considerations, but must collaborate with developing countries by transferring resources, technology and research. “This planet may not be rescued unless we turn things around by the end of this decade.” Panelist Dr. Verghese Kurien, director of an Indian dairy cooperative and winner of the 1989 World Food Prize, offered a developing coun try’s perspective to the panel. “The 800 million people of India have a right to development and a better standard of living,” he said. “The rest of the world has plundered the earth’s resources, and now conservation is unfair to India. “We are now obliged in the interest of our peo ple to exploit nature to meet the basic needs of the people.” India doesn’t want charity, Kurien said, but fair treatment in trade *and international rela tions. India has had to “pay through the nose” for modern agricultural technology and equip ment because of tensions created by the compet ing world powers, he said. “The West is selfish,” he said. “They acquired land surface and resources, often by force of arms, and now deny developing countries their share.” Dr. Roberta Balstad Miller, the director of the Division of Social Economic Science of the Na tional Science Foundation, stressed cooperative research as a solution. Human interaction and response to change must be taken into account over a long period in many countries, she said. The United States must be willing to take a large part of the responsibility, she said. The United States is responsible for a quarter of the world’s carbon emission, she said, and California alone is responsible for 3 percent. “We must all recognize our common problems and make some sacrifices,” she said. Gore said the West is denying the environmen See Food /Page 6 Nervous Wall Street breathes sigh of relief aufis io4 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street I averted another Black Monday and had a Blue Chip day instead, as some of the heaviest trading in history produced a rally in big-name stocks and losses in many smaller issues. The Dow Jones average, which j represents stock prices of Ameri can’s 30 biggest industrial compa nies, rose 88.12 points to 2,657.38, I erasing nearly half the losses suf fered in last week’s Friday the 13th plunge. In spite of the gains in the Dow Jones average, stocks whose prices dedined outnumbered those that in creased by a 5 to 4 margin in the New York Stock Exchange as a whole. Volume totaled 416.29 mil lion shares, the fourth largest in his tory. On Friday, the Dow Jones average suffered its second-biggest point drop ever, falling 190 points and raising fears of a repeat of Oct. 19, 1987, when a Friday decline turned into a Monday rout that knocked a record 508 points off the average. Indeed, it started to shape up as a repeat of Black Monday, with sharp declines in foreign stock markets and the Dow Jones average falling about 63 points in the first half-hour on Monday. But after gyrating wildly, the mar ket settled down in the afternoon. Even the losses in the broader mar ket were modest. Monday’s 88.12 point gain was the fourth largest one-day point rise. The huge trading volume for the day was exceeded only by the 600 million-share sessions of Oct. 19 and 20, 1987, and the 450 million shares traded Oct. 21,1987. In lower Manhattan, tourists lined up early outside the New York Stock Exchange, hoping to get an eyewit ness view of the trading spasms. “I feel like I’m watching a car acci dent,” said John Egan, 24, a New Yorker waiting to get into the visi tor’s gallery. But in a sign of the market’s un derlying strength, stocks held up in spite of a steep decline in the U.S. bond market and the weakness in foreign stock markets. Stock indexes fell 1.8 percent in Tokyo, 3.2 percent in London and a steep 12.8 percent in Frankfurt, West Germany, where one trader described trading as a “blood bath.” The dollar fell against most major currencies. Traders said the stock market benefited from the experience gained in the 1987 crash. FDI Sf# Drive [ tOi' Ipftj Forum opens Alcohol Awareness Week By Selina Gonzalez Of The Battalion Staff Alcohol Awareness Week kicked-off with a fo rum on alcohol use, misuse and abuse Monday at Rudder Theatre. The forum focused on alcohol and drugs in the workplace. Guest speakers included Dr. Gary Newsome and Gloria Noah, from Greenleaf Hos pital and Tom Gray of the Mental Health, Men tal Retardation Authority of Brazos Valley. The program, moderated by Alice Brown of Channel 3, KBTX, was sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, Greenleaf Hospital, Student Counseling Service and Channel 3, KBTX. “Some people still don’t think of alcoholism as a disease," Newsome said. “There is better medi cal evidence indicating that alcoholism is a dis ease than evidence on hypertension or diabetes.” Newsome said the research conducted in the past 15 years indicate there is a biological predis position for alcoholism. Biological data has been conducted using identical twdns and adopted members of alcoholic families, where at least one parent is an alcoholic. Studies done on identical twdns indicated alco holism developed in concordance 70 to 80 per cent of the time, Newsome said. Studies done on adopted members of alcoholic families indicate that the disease is not solely environmental. Peo ple, who grew up in stable non-alcoholic families, are not necessarily immune from alcoholism, he said. An alcoholic could be defined as someone who, knowing it isn’t in his best interest, still uses mood altering chemicals such as alcohol or drugs, he said. Newsome said a good basis for identifing an al coholic is to look at the social, financial, occupa tional, legal and educational aspects of their lives. If a negative change is noted then there could be a problem, he said. If a someone complains about their spouse’s drinking or drug usage, the spouse is an alcoholic or drug addict because most families try to denv a problem exists, Newsome said. If you have to try to abstain from drinking al cohol, you may have a problem, Newsome said. An alcoholic must think about monitoring their alcohol usage while a normal-social user doesn’t think of abstaining because they don’t have a problem. Noah said ten percent of the people in United States are chemical dependent. For every chemi cal dependent person, four other Americans are affected by the abuse, she said. Therefore, 50 percent of the population is affected by chemical dependency. “It’s a family disease.” Noah said. “If you are a child or grandchild of an alcoholic, you are four times more likely to develop alcoholism." Because of all the people affected by alcohol ism, an understanding of the alcoholic and his family interaction is important, Noah said. Noah said denial is common in an alcoholic family because not talking about the problem is a way of pretending that there isn’t a problem. Family members of alcoholics often feel isolated, hurt, confused and fearful, Noah said. Often family members have difficulty identifing and expressing their feelings. “You are only as sick as your secrets,” Noah said is often told to recovering alcoholics. Hon esty is the basis of a healthv familv, Noah said. Gray, a recovering alcoholic, used personal ex periences to say that there are some people who can’t biologically drink responsibily. If you make excuses for a friend who can’t make it to work be cause he is hung-over, you enable them to drink. Launch plans continue amid protests at NASA CAPE CA NAVERAL, Fla. (AP) —The space shuttle Atlantis, freed from technical and legal bar riers, was de dared ready for a Tuesday launch with its nuclear-powered cargo. NASA said it expected nei ther weather nor demonstrators to interfere. “The vehicle is in good shape, the crew is ready to go fly, and the weather looks like we’ll have a good chance to get airborne,” NASA administrator Richard H. Truly said Monday. “It’s been a long haul for this mission.” The launch from the seaside pad at the Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 12:57 p.m. EDT. Environmental activists, con cerned that an accident could spread nuclear poison into the at mosphere. demonstrated at a gate leading to the Kennedy Space Center headquarters, and eight were arrested. “This is just only the beginning of the government’s plan to use nuclear power and weapons in space, including the Star Wars program,” Jane Brown of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice said. The coalition is one of three groups that lost a suit to stop the launch in U.S. District Court last week. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Wash ington upheld thejudge Monday, saying the ruling was not appeala ble. The protesters vowed to infil trate a 30-by-10 mile security zone and stop the launch. NASA had 200 armed security guards in the area and there w'ere sea and airborne patrols. A space probe named Galileo, weighing 6,700 pounds, will be released from Atlantis’s cargo bay six-and-one-half hours after the ship is in orbit. It will start on a six-year, 2.4 billion-mile journey to Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Electricity to run the space probe will come from two nuclear power packs, each loaded with 24.7 pounds of plutonium-238. NASA has used such radioactive fuel on 22 previous flights. Three have been involved in accidents, but no plutonium was released. The space agency said in court last week that detailed studies show the chances of release of ra dioactive material are statistically low’ and that the environmental ists’ fears are unwarranted. The mission was originally planned to begin in 1982, but was delayed, first by money troubles and then by the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. The cost of the project to date is $1.5 billion, NASA said. “Galileo’s been a long time in coming and it’s delightful to sit here and be ready to fly,” said Leonard Fisk, NASA’s chief sci entist. “These are very exciting times for space science in general. Magellan is on its w'ay to Venus, Voyager is on its way to interstel lar space having gone by Nep tune, Galileo is sitting on the pad and there is even more to come.”