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24,1! k S luran!. idles i5 insfoi s pai;... d to \ r ende; COUIl[i anddj pectioj latatTi' s declai were' so mad, i was lictme:; with n odap , said St it,: •aid- ould r.; ject." ;iti M alt dbo fore n »f* ied.c ed,fe laid a cote jickl' Tuesday, October 24,1989 The Battalion Page 5 Pro-life leader charges Clements with sidestepping abortion issue AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clements has aban doned the anti-abortion cause, a pro-life leader charged Monday after the governor said he wouldn’t reconsider his decision to keep abortion off the legislative agenda until 1991. “We feel that he has given the National Orga nization for Women and the Texas Abortion Rights Action League — folks who didn’t vote for him — exactly what they wanted, and that he gave us, people who worked hard in his cam paign and supported him, gave us the shaft,” said Bill Price, president of the Dallas-based Texans United for Life. Clements said he would not debate his decision with anti-abortion activists. “I have no intention of talking to him (Price) about the issue at all,” he said. “I’ve made up my mind about it. There’s nothing to discuss.” Abortion is too difficult an issue for a 30-day special session, Clements said. He said he never promised to allow lawmakers to address abortion before the next regular session convenes in Jan uary 1991, when he leaves office. “I said I would consider it. And I have made my decision that it’s not an appropriate subject to get into the special session because you can’t limit the subject to what the issues would then be,” said Clements, a Republican who isn’t seeking re-elec tion. ■ rankly, we’re left bewildered at why a pro-life governor would refuse to allow pro-life legislation to be acted on — Bill Price, President of pro-life group The governor, who calls and sets the agenda for special sessions, has called a session for Nov. 14 on workers’ compensation reform, the second workers’ comp session this year. Another special session will be held in the spring to address court- ordered school finance reform, he said. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this sum mer that states could impose some restrictions on abortion, Clements said he was considering Officials say chemical dumping will be major problem in future 311 oa lud® uafl EL PASO (AP) — A local health official predicts dis coveries of illegally transported and dumped hazardous chemicals — such as 175 barrels of PCBs found last week — will be common someday. About 55 of the barrels, some of them leaking, were found last week in two trucks parked in a residential area near downtown. Another 120 barrels were discov ered Thursday in two truck trailers in an east El Paso yard. Samples taken from some of the drums were found to be pure polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, which are a banned transformer lubricant. “We think it’s quite a story, but I’m afraid this is just the beginning, and that we’ve just unearthed the tip of the pyramid,” Dr. Laurance Nickey, El Paso City- County health director, said. “With the increasing industrialization of this (Rio Grande) valley, there are many hazardous materials and toxic compounds that are going to be moving back and forth across our borders. We’ll be seeing more of this,” Nickey said. The federal government removed PCBs from the chemical market after deciding they were highly poi sonous and possible cancer-causing agents. Officials say the barrels may have come from Colo rado and were on their way to an illegal dump in Mex ico. The FBI, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the El Paso fire marshall’s office and the health district are investigating. “They actually hired three people to roll leaking bar rels up a ramp, who ended up covered with the stuff. We have no idea who those people were,” Nickey said. One man said he was offered $20 to help load the barrels onto the trucks earlier this month, and that some people who accepted the work, were covered with the deadly chemical. Hector Villa, local district manager for the West Texas Water Commission, said the Chihuahua man who owned the trucks fled to Mexico. Sleepwalking (Continued from page 1) times they’re apt to hit or slap you. ” Violent behavior is uncommon in sleepwalkers, Dupree said, but it does happen. The only treatment known is hyp nosis and medication, such as tran quilizers and anti-depressants. “But most sleepwalkers aren’t really concerned with their behav ior,” he said. “And for those who are, they take precautions like un loading their guns, hiding their keys Student (Continued from page 1) these trees, which for cultured civili zation means money, but for us they mean life.” Cansari also spoke of the tribal doctors and some of the medicinal benefits provided by the jungle. “Our doctors have discovered things that could be brought into Western civilization that would help a lot,” he said. As an example, he said the doc tors have discovered a plant that acts as a contraceptive. The plant is pre pared in a drink, which prevents the woman from becoming pregnant in definitely, until she takes an anti dote. He also said that showering with a particular plant permanently re moves hair, and showed his arm as evidence. Cansari, attending Texas A&M through a Central American peace scholarship program, said his goal is to get his degree in anthropology so he can better understand his own identity and his people. Violeta Cook, coordinator of aca demic programs for the Interna tional Agriculture Program, said the scholarship program was created out of the Kissinger Commission Report and is intended to strengthen ties to Central America. The program is targeted toward the leaders of tomorrow coming from the more disadvantaged groups in Central America, she said. and locking their doors.” Dupree told of a sleepwalker who went outside and uprooted his neighbors potted plants, and didn’t know about it until the next morning when he heard her complaining, he glanced at his hands and saw the dirt. The same man held a loaded gun to a guest in his house, thinking it was an intruder. ’ The most common sleepwalking incident Dupree said students expe rience is where they get dressed and gather their books for school. “Students have a tendency to do school related things,” he said. “So metimes they’re found by their roommates sitting up, trying to stu dy.” Dupree said anyone can be a sleepwalker — there is no clinical picture describing the individual, be cause there’s such varied differences and symptoms. Although Dupree’s studies drew more female than male volunteers, Dupree said it doesn’t necessarily mean more women sleepwalk. “That will be decided in more studies in the future,” he said. Dupree’s research was funded in part by a grant from the Texas A&M Association of Former Students. car rke m Wed., Oct. 25 to? ■. i> I Battalion Classifieds 1 Call 845-0569 764-8575 Fish Camp Co- available Sovembci* 6- November 216 Pavilion Briefcase bearing bomb bums school FORT WORTH (AP) — A bomb in a briefcase exploded at a Fort Worth high school Monday but there were no reports of inju ries, fire officials said. “The damage was very mini mal,” Dawn Smith, dispatcher at the suburban Benbrook Police Department said. Fort Worth fire department spokesman Butch Hall said a stu dent found the brieEcase some where on the property of West ern Hills High School and then gave it to administrators. The school is located in Ben brook, a suburb south of Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Fire Depart ment provides fire service to the area. The fire department’s bomb squad was called shortly before noon, but the device exploded in the office of Principal Bill Roper before it could be disarmed, offi cials said. “What we know right now, (is) there was some homemade bomb that exploded,” said Dr. Morris Holmes, associate superintendent in the Fort Worth Independent School District. “It created a lot of smoke and smoke damage in the principal’s office,” he said. Holmes said he didn’t think there had been any structural damage to the building and that most of the fire damage was con fined to the area around the prin cipal’s office. Mike Santimauro, FBI assistant agent-in-charge of the Dallas of fice, said a federal investigator was sent to the school “to see if there’s any area that would in volve FBI jurisdiction.” He said the FBI would become involved if there were signs of “terrorist type activities, or activ ities in retribution or extortions.” The school’s 1,800 students were evacuated before the explo sion and were later sent home. $250. MANOR EAST III MANOR EAST MALL >2a-M00 | fcAWRENGS OF ARABIA* d AN INNOCENT MAN • R 7:10 OdS d WtgNHARRYMETay # | m § whether to call a special session on the issue. He added, “I would bet on it.” “We took him at his word — that when he said, ‘You can bet on it,’ he was making a sincere com mitment to do it,” Price said. He said the com plexity of the abortion issue is the reason it should be the object of a one-issue special session. “Frankly, we’re left bewildered at why a pro life governor would refuse to allow pro-life legis lation to be acted on during the remainder of his term of office, and would refuse to even discuss it,” Price said. Clements refused to discuss his position on abortion Monday. Rossanna Salazar, his press secretary, has said the governor opposes abor tions except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother’s life. Price said he was encouraging abortion oppo nents to call Clements, but he said, “I don’t think he’s going to change his mind.” “I just think that Governor Clements is some body who has never been strongly convicted on this issue in the first place, and that it didn’t take a great deal of pressure to convince him not to get in the middle of it,” Price said. 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