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Army admits mistaken identity
in case of buried Vietnam vet
Earthquakes
in Costa Rica
cause panic
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) —
Two strong earthquakes rocked
Costa Rica Sunday, damaging
buildings, causing landslides and
sending panic-stricken people
into the streets. No injuries were
reported.
The ouakes, measuring 5.5 and
6.9 on tne Richter scale, struck at
7:16 a.m. and 7:23 a.m. (CST),
according to Waverly Person, an
official at the U.S. Geological Sur
vey in Golden, Golo. The epi
center of the quakes was located
in the Pacific Ocean, 80 miles
southwest of San Jose, he said.
Federico Guendel of the Vul-
canological and Seismological
Observatory in San Jose said 60
aftershocks struck in the hour af
ter the second quake.
People in San Jose and other
cities rushed out of homes and
buildings as the structures rocked
violently.
Many terrified people huddled
in the capital’s streets and parks,
waiting for the earth to stop trem
bling.
Plaster, cornices and other
adornments on older buildings
crashed into the streets of San
Jose. Many windowpanes and
shop windows also shattered.
A water boiler exploded at the
Hotel Balmoral during the earth
quakes and several of the build
ing’s walls cracked.
Walls also cracked at the La
Merced Roman Catholic Church,
one of the capital’s oldest build
ings.
In Alajuela, a city 12 miles
north of San Jose, the cupola of
the local cathedral cracked in half
during the second quake, and
long fissures appeared in the
sides of many buildings.
The main highway linking San
Jose with the Atlantic Coast was
blocked by several landslides and
police ordered traffic halted until
further notice.
A Red Gross news release re-
orted “considerable” damage to
uildings in the Pacific Coast port
of Puntarenas.
Heavy structural damage also
was reported in the nearby village
of Gobano. No details were im
mediately available.
A spokesman for the Red
Cross, Carlos Gutierrez, said a na
tionwide check by his organiza
tion, police and ihe fire depart
ment turned up no casualties.
The Richter scal^nTa gauge of
the energy released by an earth
quake, as measured by the
ground motion recorded on a
seismograph.
A quake of magnitude 5 can
cause considerable damage, while
one measuring 6 can cause severe
damage.
Every increase 6f one number
of the Richter scale means that
the ground motion is 10 times
greater.
CLEBURNE (AP) — For 17 years
the body of another soldier lay in the
grave of Army Sgt. Frank C. Parrish,
killed in a Vietnam ambush.
Last December, the Arrrty ad
mitted to the Parrish family that it
had buried the wrong man on May
8, 1973, five years after Parrish was
killed.
Then, what were described as the
correct remains of Parrish were
flown into the Dallas-Fort Worth In
ternational Airport.
Parrish had joined the Army at 16
and stayed 21 years, winning the
Bronze Star and a slew of other
medals in Korea and Vietnam,
“This is extremely rare — that
something of this nature occurred,”
Maj. Lois Faires, an Army spokeswo
man in Alexandria, Va., said of the
mistaken identification of a Viet-
nam-era Army fatality.
Faires said the error had hap
pened only once before, but didn't
identify the other mixup.
Ted Sampley, chairman of the
Homecoming II Project, a group
that probes cases of servicemen miss
ing in action, disputed Faires’ com
ments, saying he knew of at least 10
body mixups, discovered through
independent forensic reports. Faires
suggested he was thinking of mixups
in other U.S. military branches.
Meanwhile, the mis-identified re
mains were exhumed and sent to the
Army’s forensic laboratory in Hono
lulu, Hawaii, but they sti(l have not
been identified, Faires told the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
On Jan. 3, Parrish’s remains —
I his is extremely rare
— that something of this
nature occurred.”
—Maj. Lois Faires,
Army spokeswoman
positively identified through dental
records and confirmed by a panel of
independent forensic anthropolo
gists — were buried without cere
mony at the family’s request, Faires
said.
“The family did not want publicity
at the time and are not pleased to
have any now,” she said. “They felt
he had been honored in 1973.”
Parrish’s widow, now remarried,
declined to comment through the
Army’s liason.
Parrish’s brother, Johnnie Par
rish, a mayoral candidate in Joshua,
said he learned of the snafu in late
December when he was called to the
funeral home to meet with a three-
man Army delegation.
He said a civilian official told him,
“We hate to admit it, but we’re just
like everybody else. The Army made
a mistake.”
Faires said the mixup was discov
ered last October, six months after
the Vietnamese government handed
over the remains of 21 soldiers.
Johnnie Parrish said he was upset
with the Army for exhuming the
grave without notifying the family.
The Army apparently failed to tell
anyone else, either.
Johnson County Clerk Robby
Goodnight and John Murphy, dep
uty state registrar in Austin, said
.permits to disinter a body and trans
port it out of the county were never
issued for the remains in Frank Par
rish’s grave.
Failure to take out a permits is a
misdemeanor punishable by a $200
fine.
Lawmakers gear up for Round 2
in fight over finance reform bill
AUSTIN (AP) — The school finance reform fight is
still in its first round in the Legislature, but lawmakers
already are gearing up for Round 2 after all but declar
ing the issue down for the count in this special session.
Rep. Eddie Cavazos, chairman of the House Mexican
American Legislative Caucus, described the House’s re
jection of a school finance reform bill last week as “the
first round of a championship fight.”
The defeat of the bill, which would have put $511
million more into public schools in 1990-91, makes it al
most impossible to pass a school finance measure before
the current special session expires at midnight Wednes
day, Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth, said.
Cavazos, D-Corpus Christi, was among Hispanic law
makers who vdted against the bill by Rep. Ernestine
Glossbrenner, D-Alice, because they want more educa
tion money next school year.
“That figure ... was the first offer,” Cavazos said.
“Three weeks down the line and five offers later, it
might look pretty good. I just couldn’t accept the first
offer down the pike.”
Other lawmakers, including most Republicans and a
number of conservative Democrats, also oppqsecj the
bill. Some wanted a lower price tag, and others were
concerned that provisions designed to make schools
more accountable would impose an undue burden on
school districts.
“I think one more special and we can get it done —
not this time,” Rep. Kent Crusendorf, R-Arlington,
said.
The Senate earlier approved a $1.2 billion measure.
The House Public Education Committee, headed by
Glossbrenner, was to start over on education legislation
Monday.
Lewis said he wanted the committee to work out a bill
that could be taken up by the House early in a second
special session. He and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said they
recommended an April 2 start date for that session.
Gov. Bill Clements hadn’t made a decision about the
date, his press secretary, Rossanna Salazar, said. But
she added that he called the current special session in
time to allow two 30-day special sessions before a May 1
deadline imposed by the Texas Supreme Court for
school finance reform.
The court declared the finance system unconstitu
tional after finding glaring disparities between prop
erty-rich and property-poor school districts. The $13.5
billion-a-year system relies on a combination of local
property taxes, state aid and some federal funds.
Clements has promised he won’t allow new state
taxes to fund school finance reform. He estimated a
“ D
r ersonally, I could come off the no-
new-tax program, and I could support a
tax bill if I felt like we had done something
to really improve public education in the
state of Texas.”
— Kent Grusendorf,
state representative
$200 million to $300 million infusion could be managed
without the taxes.
But Grusendorf said, “Personally, I could come off
the no-new-tax program, and I could support a tax bill
if I felt like we had done something to really improve
public education in the state of Texas.
“I think that’s a reasonable position,” he said. “I think
many Republicans would take that position. I think the
governor could be talked into taking that position.”
Space center pushes back opening date
Hands-on visitors’ attraction rescheduled for fall 1991 debut
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HOUSTON (AP) — Creators of the planned
hands-on visitors’ attraction at the Johnson Space
Center admit their original launch window was
just too narrow.
Once projected to open by the spring of 1991,
Space Center Houston is now looking at a fall
1991 opening schedule and a groundbreaking
this spring — provided financing for the $70 mil
lion project comes through.
The Disney-designed center is projected to at
tract 2.3 million tourists to Clear Lake during its
first year. And, with numbers like that, general
manager Vance Ablott said he isn’t concerned
about the delay.
“We’ll open in the slow season, pick up a peak
season at Christmas and then be ready for the
summer peak season,” Ablott said. “It’s the best
of all worlds.”
Ablott said the main reason for the delay was
an increase in the projected cost of the project
from $64 million to $70 million after the design
was completed.
The final design increased the size of the cen
ter from 120,000 square feet to 180,000 square
feet and boosted the technological expenses.
“When we started designing we realized what
it took to communicate some of these stories,”
Ablott said. “There were more shows, more sto
ries to be told.”
The higher costs led Citicorp Bank, which
originally signed a letter of credit backing up $64
million in taxable revenue bonds for the project,
to take a closer look. Ablott said he is confident
the deal will go through, however.
Space Center Houston will offer tourists
hands-on experiences, such as computer displays
simulating shuttle flights, simulations of weight
lessness and opportunities to touch a moon rock
or put on a space glove for a feel of objects in the
vacuum of space. Several theaters will offer ex
hibits and films, such as how astronauts train for
space. And visitors will be able to tour a space
shuttle mockup.
The private, non-profit foundation is heading
up the project without government funds.
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MSC OPAS IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
FROM ALL INTERESTED STUDENTS
applications may be picked up in the students programs office on the second
FLOOR OF THE MSC.
APPLICATIONS MAY BE PICKED UP BEGINNING MARCH 19 AND ARE DUE BY 5:00 P.M.
MARCH 30 IN THE OPAS CUBE IN THE STUDENT PROGRAMS OFFICE
IF YOU HAVE ANY
QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL:
DEREK MOORE 845-1515
OR
ANNE BLACK 845-1661
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Pick up your application now on the 9th floor of’Rudder
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SIGMA CHI PRESENTS:
A NIGHT WITH THE COMICS
FEATURING SHOWTIME PERFORMER
MIKE VANCE
OPENING WITH TEXAS A&M'S VERY OWN
JASON PORTER
SNEAKERS
WED. MARCH 28
8:00 PM
$3 admission
BENEFITTING:
STERLING C. EVANS LIBRARY
BRAZOS VALLEY SPECIAL OLYMPICS
CLEO WALLACE CENTER FOR CHILDREN
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MSC
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GAIN SOME INSIGHT
Fomm j 0 j n us f or our weekly roundtable discussions
MONDAYS at 1 PM
MSC Cafeteria Cashiers Room
MARCH
26 "Vietnam War and the American Dream"
Dr. Kenneth Mladenka
APRIL
2 "Race Relations in Contemporary Japanese
Society, a Response to Japan That Can Sav No"
Dr. Hiroshi Fukurai
9 "Religion and the Republican Party"
Dr. Richard Stadelmann
16 "Women at Work"
Dr. Elizabeth Maret
23 "Land Filling is it a Thing of the Past?"
Mr. Gaiy Norton County Comissioner
INSIGHT is a nonpartisan forum that is open to the public and admission is free!
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY A
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR SERIES
Wednesday, February 206 -12:30 to 2:00 pm
“The Study Experience”
A Panel Discussion Featji^^^^dy Abroad Participants
Thursday, March 8 - Evam^bra^204C -12:30 to 2:00 pm
“Eastern Europe’s Transiti^^^FCase of Czechoslovakia
Presentations by:
Dr. Betty Unterberger, QjJresl^^Department of History
Dr. Dinu Giurescu, Visiting Professor, Department of History
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Tuesday, March 27 - Rudder Tower 601 -12:00 to 1:30 pm
“Internationalizing Higher Education”
A Presentation By:
Dr. William H. Mobley, President
Texas A&M University
Wednesday, April 4 - Rudder 404 -12:30 to 2:00 pm
“A Jordan Fellowship - The Experience of a Lifetime”
A Panel Discussion Featuring Former Jordan Fellowship Re
cipients
Tuesday, April 24 - Rudder 504 -12:30 to 2:00 pm
“The Senior Fulbright Award - A Door To The World”
A Panel Discussion Featuring Former Senior Fulbright Awar
dees
Sponsored By:
THE FACULTY SENATE INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS SUBCOMMITTEE
THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION
PHI BETA DELTA INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY