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Christmas...Aggie Style
Picture a star filled night. Christmas lights
and 1500 Aggies! Join your family away
from home, for Aggie Christmas Mass,
Wednesday, December 6th, at 7 pm. on the
east lawn of the church. Take the
opportunity to say goodbye to your friends
before you leave for semester break. After
mass join us for refreshments in the
student center.
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FBI director’s wife
quits head position
of anti-drug group
AUSTIN (AP) — Alice Sessions,
wife of FBI Director William Ses
sions, has resigned as head of a
highly touted Texas anti-drug pro
gram in a dispute over its fund-rais
ing and spending practices.
Sessions said her abrupt depar
ture from the “Join the Move” pro
ject a month ago also followed com
plaints that telephone solicitors had
used the FBI chieFs name to court
donations.
“I just couldn’t be associated with
that,” she told the Austin American-
Statesman. “I didn’t get real accoun
tability from them. So I got out.”
Officials of the program, spon
sored by the Austin-based Texas De
partment of Public Safety Officers’
Association (DPSOA), said there was
no wrongdoing.
“She may have some particular
disagreements with some of the
things that the association is doing,
but I think overall our goals are posi
tive,” DPSOA Executive Director
Lane Denton said. “We’re willing to
commit money to a program' that
hopefully can be helpful.”
The DPSOA was targeted four
months ago in a controversy over
phone fund raising by police groups.
State Rep. Keith Oakley, an advocate
of tighter restrictions on phone solic
itors, said Sessions’ complaints will
rekindle the issue.
Oakley, D-Terrell, helped write
legislation to require such fund-rais
ing groups to disclose how much of
the money they raise goes to charity
and how much to cover administra
tive costs. Gov. Bill Clements vetoed
the bill in June, calling it unneces
sary.
“I strongly feel that the resigna
tion of Mrs. Sessions will give an
added measure of interest to resur
rect that legislation and should
arouse public awareness of some se
rious problems,” Oakley said.
Sessions began serving as an un
paid honorary chairman of “Join the
Move” in January, when the pro
gram was launched with endorse
ments from state officials. School
rallies and video and poster contests
followed, stressing the anti-drug
theme in grades 5-7.
As the campaign grew, Sessions
said, educational materials were be
ing sent out late and planning ap
peared disorganized. In response to
her concerns, she said, DPSOA be
gan paying her a $ 1,000-a-month
Fit I
I just couldn’t be
associated with that. I
didn’t get real
accountability from them.
So I got out.”
— Alice Sessions,
program chairman
consulting tee to head the project.
Money quickly became an issue,
she said.
DPSOA has a contract with an
Arizona firm to raise money
through phone solicitations. Boxes
of spices, jellies and sauces are sold
for $27.95 each, and DPSOA gets a
royalty, Denton said.
A portion of the royalties were to
go to “Join the Move,” Denton said,
and solicitors began touting it in
their phone campaign.
Tuesday
HISPANIC BUSINESS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will take pictures for yeai
book at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of Zachry.
TAMU SYSTEM ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT STAFF:w
have a Christmas program and reception at noon in 201 MSC. Ca
Peggy Ritchey at 845-5311 for more information.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will have its final meeting of the semester at 8:30
p.m. in 510 Rudder.
SADDLE & SIRLOIN CLUB: will have a business meeting and Marx Howellwidi
the Texas Department of Public Safety will speak on criminal law enforce
ment and the application of memory training and hypnosis at 7 p.m. in
115 Kleberg.
AGGIE ALLIANCE: will have a Christmas party at 6 p.m. at Mama’s Pizza in
Culpepper Plaza. Free food and drinks.
STUDENT Y: will have a Christmas service with the Singing Cadets ano
speaker Jo Hudson at 7:30 p.m. at the All Faiths Chapel.
PAID: will have a Christmas banquet at 7:30 p.m. at Case Ole in Post Oak Ma
Dress casually. Call Tobin Strickland at 696-6653 for more information
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will take a tour of the MedicalSchoc
at 7 p.m. Meet in 201 Veterinary Medicine Complex. Call Ingrid at 848
8708 for more information.
ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Kyle Field Press Box.Ca
Cindy at 693-1014 for more information.
MEXICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8 p.m. at Wing Joint at Not
gate. Call Gabriela at 693-2501 for more information.
Wednesday
A&M CYCLING TEAM: will sell T-shirts at meeting at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: will meet at 7 p.m in 104
Reed McDonald.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will meet and hold elections at6pm.i
Zachry. Check banner for room number.
MSC SCONA: will have a General Committee Meeting at 6 p.m. in 501 Rudder
SADDLE & SIRLOIN CLUB: will have a Christmas formal at 8 p.m. at the Texas
Hall of Fame. Tickets are $6 per person or $10 per couple.
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Donald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. He
only publish the name and phone number of the contact It you ask us loth
so. What's Up Is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activ
ities. Submissions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There Is no
guarantee an entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom si
845-3315.
Clements supports floor price on oil
HOUSTON (AP) — Gov. Bill Clements told
two Cabinet officials Monday that a new national
energy policy should include a $20-a-barrel floor
price on oil for five years.
In remarks before a U.S. Department of En
ergy hearing, Clements told Energy Secretary
James L. Watkins and Secretary of the Interior
Manuel Lujan that the key to developing an en
ergy resource base is through incentives and im
proved technology.
“World oil prices are set by OPEC (Organiza
tion of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and
other nations which hold most of the world’s oil
reserves,” Clements said. “That’s why it is in our
nation’s best interest to establish a floor price and
I urge that a floor be imposed for five years, at
least five years, at $20 per barrel.
- “To put that figure in perspective, $20 a barrel
in 1989 equates to about $11 a barrel 10 years
ago. That’sjust about where world oil prices were
before prices shot up in 1979, due to the Iran-
Iraq war.”
The $20 floor price would ensure survival of
an already volatile price range for oil, he said.
Oil prices peaked in the early 1980s, but prices
plunged to less than $10 per 42-gallon barrel in
the summer of 1986.
Congressman Joe Barton, R-Ennis, agreed
with Clements’ floor price idea, but suggested the
price be set at $25 per barrel.
Other suggestions included more fundingfcj
research and exploration-oriented tax incentive?
Monday’s hearing at the University of Hoa?
ton was one of six this month throughouuk
country being held in an effort to form a nationt j
energy plan.
Sen. Phil Gramm also u rge.d that oil produce j f 0
be given tax incentives to boost production. f u
In opening remarks, Lujan said theUnittcB
States currently relies on foreign imports faBL
more than 42 percent of domestic oil consumje : ^
tion. He urged domestic producers to explore ij c
for oil and natural gas domestically insteado!
taking their business overseas.
Missing journalist returns to Dallas
after being lost in Central America
Barge explodes;
1 man missing
DALLAS (AP) — Leaders of His
panic groups in Dallas said they were
ecstatic Monday that a missing Dallas
journalist reportedly had been
found.
But a spokesman for an Hispanic
group said journalists still have con
cerns over the safety of reporters in
Central America.
Sal Valdez, 44, a manager and re
porter for Cadena Radio Centro, a
Spanish-language radio network
based in Dallas, had been missing
from San Salvador since Nov. 28.
But network president Barrett Alley
issued a statement Monday saying
Valdez was all right and would ar
rive in Dallas Monday night.
Hispanic groups had planned a
vigil for Valdez when it was assumed
he was dead.
Anna Macias, a vigil organizer
and vice president of the Dallas-Fort
Worth Network of Hispanic Com
municators, said the focus of the
vigil would be changed from a me
morial to a platform to protest con
ditions in Central America.
“As far as we’re concerned, we’re
just going to say that we’re really,
really thankful that our colleague is
all right,” Macias said. “This still
raises the issue of how journalists are
being treated in Central America. I
think it’s ridiculous we can’t go there
and practice our profession.”
She said Valdez is known as a
“street smart” reporter. “A lot of his
“A:
kS far as we’re
concerned, we’re just going
to say that we’re really,
really thankful that our
colleague is all right.”
heard directly from Valdez and is re
lying on a statement issued early
Monday by Alley, which said, “We
are extremely grateful to receive
word that Sal Valdez appears to be
all right and will be returning to Dal
las this evening.”
Macias said, “Due to security rea
sons, we have no more information
at this time. As soon as Sal is de
briefed, we will have a full release
and statement as to his disappear
ance.”
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HOUSTON (AP) — A im B
was missing and another injured cl
Monday afternoon after a fuel
barge exploded in the Houston
Ship Channel, a sheriffs depan
ment spokesman said.
Cpl. Rodney Tooley with the
Harris County Sheriffs Depart
ment said the injured man was
transported to a local hospital
and suffered from burns. These
verity of the burns and name of
the hospital was not immediatelt
known.
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— Anna Macias,
V.P. of D-FW Network of
Hispanic Communicators
Alley was “somewhere in Califor
nia,” network controller Bill Cherry
said. He said he did not know where
Alley was or how to reach him.
Valdez arrived in El Salvador
Nov. 25 to report on the latest out
break in that country’s civil war.
friends were telling us he’s a very,
very savvy reporter and that they
found it so hard to believe some
thing would happen to him.”
Macias said her group has not
Javier Rubio, a CKC reporter, said
Valdez had filed seven to 10 stories
per day during his stay. Nearly all
dealt with current or former mem
bers of the Salvadoran government,
including President Alfredo Cris-
tiani and the country’s minister of
defense.
T he barge was located jusi
north of the Lynchburg Ferry in
east Harris County when it a
ploded about 1 p.m., Tooley said
Houston Fire Departme®
boats and a sheriffs marine diii
sion boat were on the scene pout
ing water on the burning barge,
The initial explosion sent uf
thick black smoke that was visiblf
from downtown Houston, about
20 miles away.
U.S. Coast Guard officialssaii
the crew was cleaning the bargt
that had been carrying a forraoi
natural gas.
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