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Vol.89 No.96 USPS 045360 8 Pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 16,1990
Bush signs agreements
for anti-drug endeavors
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — Presi
dent Bush signed a series of drug-fighting
agreements with the leaders of Colombia,
Peru and Bolivia today at a security-
shielded summit aimed at escalating the
war against cocaine.
Bush and Colombian President Virgilio
Barco agreed in a joint statement that the
summit was “a significant step toward im
proved anti-drug coordination.”
Bush promised to seek expanded U.S.
markets for Colombian products, part of an
effort to coax Andean producers out of the
coca business and into growing other crops.
Bush and Barco conferred separately
during the four-nation meeting.
Colombia has complained that U.S. trade
policy is hurting its major legal exports, in
cluding coffee, cut flowers and sugar.
Among other steps taken at the summit
meeting, held at a tightly guarded naval
base off this Caribbean resort city:
• An agreement with Bolivia to help
stem the movement of U.S. firearms into
South American nations. The U.S. govern
ment will be more restrictive in issuing ex
port licenses for firearms in the future and
will work “domestically to suppress the flow
of smuggled arms,” the agreement stated.
• An agreement with Peru to enhance
“effective law enforcement cooperation”
that places a high priority on extradition of
fugitives to stand trial in the country where
they are accused.
• Tax agreements with Bolivia and Peru
that would perroit exchange of tax records,
bank statements and other informatioon
“to uncover illicit drug profits, trace drug
money-laundering and generally to further
civil and criminal tax investigations.”
• Agreements with Bolivia and Peru to
establish a computerized network with a
data base on anti-drug activities.
“It’s significant to note that this is the
first time that the major producing and
consuming nations have joined together in
a coordinated strategy,” Secretary of State
James A. Baker III told reporters.
He called the agreements with Peru and
Bolivia their first concrete steps.
Smith: A&M needs new center
to meet growing campus needs
By JULIETTE RIZZO
Of The Battalion Staff
In tune with spring, the season of growth
and new beginnings, the Texas A&M cam
pus is growing and expanding at a steady
pace.
A&M President William Mobley, at the
first Board of Regents meeting for the
spring semester, suggested that University
representatives present, at the next meet
ing, a plan to construct a special events cen
ter.
Plans for the center have been under
consideration by the University since 1984.
Such plans were previously presented
briefly at a Board of Regents planning re
treat last summer.
Robert Smith, vice president for finance
and administration, said a combination of
things are responsible for originating the
idea for the center.
There is a need to find a replacement
basketball facility for G. Rollie White Col
iseum, he said, as well as a facility large
enough to hold all those who attend aca
demic and entertainment functions, such as
graduation and music concerts.
“If you went to the George Strait concert,
you’ll see my point,” he said. “Everyone
who has ever endured a graduation cere
mony also is aware of G. Rollie’s limited
seating capacity. A new facility is long over
due.
“The project is one whose time has
come.”
Smith, who will coordinate the project,
said a feasibility-marketing study taken in
1984 revealed the University’s need for the
center; however, because of other institu-
See Center/Page 6
Embracing runaways
Big Hug reaches out to help
By JULIETTE RIZZO
Of The Battalion Staff
Hug and mug on Kyle Field.
Lots of Aggies will score this weekend at
the Big Hug, a Student Y sponsored event
to be held Friday at midnight to raise
money for Brazos County’s Stepping Stone.
Stepping Stone is a private, non-profit
United Way organization dedicated to as
sisting troubled juveniles.
Stepping Stone has been the recipient of
the event’s proceeds since February 1988,
when the first Big Hug took place.
In its third year, the event promises to
raise money as well as awareness about the
runaway situation in the Brazos Valley,
Richard Sellers, Stepping Stone chairman
of the board said.
Sellers said some of the money will go to
ward the anticipated building of a tempo
rary emergency shelter for runaways be
tween the ages of 10 and 17.
Sellers addressed the need for such a
building during a lecture Thursday.
According to a study by Shirley Bame,
A&M assistant professor in urban and re
gional planning, there are between 800 and
1,200 runaway and homeless youths in the
community each year. Last year in June
alone, he said Covenant House, a shelter in
Houston, received 800 calls from the (409)
area code.
The community has been unable to pro
vide sufficient services to a large number of
these youth. This is due to reduction of
funds and services associated with Brazos
County Juvenile Services and proposed de
creases in state funding for juvenile serv
ices.
Sellers said that left with nowhere to go,
runaways turn to the community for help,
but the local community does not have
much to offer in the way of shelter. State
funds only provide one bed in the local area
for runaways, and there is a dwindling sup
ply of money for the daily $40-$80 cost of
supporting a runaway.
Some of the money raised from The Big
Hug will be set aside to furnish the pro
posed shelter with enough beds to hold 12
to 16 runaways, he said.
“Raising money for such a cause is not a
glamorous job,” Sellers said. “People don’t
want to think about it, because it means
someone was a bad parent. That’s not al
ways true.”
He said his organization is not in the
business of recruiting runaways into the
shelter permanently. We just want the
money and facilities to care for them until
we can get them back into their homes, he
said.
Those who come out to Kyle Field on Fri
day will embrace the cause and each other
during the event. Activities include a yell
practice led by the yell leaders who will be
in the stands, a series of hugs and the grand
finale, a big hug that includes all the partici
pants.
Student Y is selling “Hug and Mug” T-
shirts in the MSC until 4 p.m. today to raise
money. The $8 cost includes a $5 admission
to the event.
The Big Hug will be at the north end of
Kyle Field and will last less than an hour.
Gates to Kyle will open at 11 p.m.
For more information call the Student Y
Office at 845-0690, or Lisa Ann Robertson,
director of the event, at 764-7278.
DPS arrest two suspects
in record-breaking bust
Colombians found with cocaine worth $59,200
By KEVIN M. HAMM
Of The Battalion Staff
Two Colombian nationals were ar
rested and charged Thursday with first-
degree felonies for having cocaine worth
$59,200 in their car, resulting in the
largest cocaine bust in Brazos County.
Lt. Rick Stewart, of the Department of
Public Safety, said that at 3:04 p.m., DPS
officers pulled Robinson Zamora
Moreno, 32, and Milton Lerma Moreno,
26, over for not wearing seat belts.
Officers arrested the men after find
ing 592 grams of cocaine in the car, he
said. They are charged with aggravated
posession of cocaine.
The men are currently in the Brazos
County Jail. Each is being held on a-half-
a-million dollar bond.
The two men were traveling north on
Highway 6 when officers stopped their
car past Highway 21, Stewart said. DPS
officers had the car under surveillance
since it left Houston, he said.
The arrest comes as part of an 18-
month investigation the DPS is conduct
ing with the U.S. attorney’s office in
Waco, Stewart said.
He said the group under investigation
brings the cocaine into Houston from
Colombia, then transports it to Waco for
distribution.
He estimated there have been be
tween eight and 10 arrests resulting
from the investigation.
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
(Top)DPS police officers arrest
Robinson Zamora Moreno and
Milton Lerma Moreno from
Houston on North Hwy. 6 past
Hwy. 21. A DPS officer uncovers
a bag of cocaine hidden in a pa
per sack under the hood of the
suspects’ car.
House directors double as
stand-in-mothers for sorority members
By SELINA GONZALEZ
Of The Battalion Staff
The sorority house directors at Texas
A&M don’t view themselves as managers of
a large bed and breakfast. Instead, they act
as mothers to sorority members who want a
mom away from home.
After Gwen Rainwater’s husband passed
away, she found herself staring at the walls
when she returned from her job as a book
keeper.
By working as a house director in Arkan
sas and Louisana, Rainwater surrounded
herself with laughter, youth and responsibi
lity. Two years ago she came to A&M to
open the Alpha Chi Omega house.
Rainwater, the mother to 43 in-house
members and 51 out-of-house members,
loves her job because people are always
around.
“You get tickled by some of the girls and
their boyfriend problems,” she said. “It
keeps you young.”
Rainwater also wants sorority members
to come to her when they have other prob
lems.
“One time I had a girl who was upset be
cause she couldn’t deal with her father’s al
coholism, and I had had some experience
because my husband was an alcoholic,” she
said. “I got her hooked up with a counsel
ling group on campus.
“A housemother can really help if the
girls open up to you, but sometimes they
won’t.”
Rainwater said house directors try to
watch for cases of bulimia and anorexia
nervosa, which are eating disorders.
Rainwater said her official responsibili
ties as house director are to:
• host all social functions.
• plan the meals and order the gro
ceries.
• oversee the house staff, which consists
of one cook and one maid.
The sorority standards committee is in
charge of disciplinary action.
Rainwater said she doesn’t see any disad
vantages of working as a house director.
“This is my home, and I have my privacy
so I can do as I please,” she said.
Except for on special occassions, men are
not allowed on the second floor where all
the bedrooms are located, she said. After
some of the home football games, fathers,
brothers and boyfriends can go upstairs.
The sorority members have to be ex
cused by the house director if late to din
ner.
“One of my girls at another university
was late to dinner because she had to take
her boyfriend’s pet lizard to the vet,” Rain
water said. “It had to have two shots be
cause it had a cold.”
Rainwater tries to maintain a good
relationship with all the girls including
those who don’t live in the house.
“You get really close to the members, and
you miss them when they graduate,” she
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