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t PRE-LAW SOCIETY Field Trip to Baylor Law School Leaving March 30 at 7:45 PRE-LAW SOCIETY For info: David 847-4904 Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, March28,i Mattox: Richards avoiding debate Candidate accuses rival of ducking drug use issue £? Tyrr • Try The Daily Lunch Special at the “original" Chapultapec Restaurant OR Tampico Restaurant & Bar 3 enchiladas, rice, beans, chips & hot sauce, iced tea-$2.99 + tax We also have to go orders AUSTIN (AP) — Democratic gu bernatorial candidate Jim Mattox on Tuesday accused rival Ann Richards of using illegal drugs when she was “a 46-year-old elected official” and said that’s one reason she is ducking debates before their April 10 runoff election. “There is sufficient information to cause me to believe that she needs to come forward and discuss these is sues in a public forum,” Mattox told a news conference. “She doesn’t want to answer sim ple ‘yes or no’ questions about co caine, marijuana and hallucinogens. She must answer what she used, how much, for how long, and who sup plied them,” Mattox said, although he refused to provide any evidence of drug use. Richards, 56, served as a Travis County commissioner before run ning for state treasurer in 1982. She had little to say about Mattox’s alle gation during a campaign appear ance in McAllen. Asked by the Associated Press if she wanted to respond to Mattox, she replied, “No.” In debates and elsewhere, Rich ards has repeatedly refused to give a yes-or-no answer when asked if she ever used illegal drugs. A recovering alcoholic, Richards has said she hasn’t used a “mood-altering chemi cal” in 10 years and that she never knowingly committed a felonv. “This campaign has taken on the predictable form that Jim Mattox campaigns always take,” Richards said Tuesday. “Whatever trash he can throw to try to detract from his poor performance he will do that, and I expect it to continue until elec tion day.” Mattox, the state attorney general, said Richards is refusing to debate him because she doesn’t want to face questions about the drug issue and Her personal finances. He said she has refused to partici pate in two televised debates pro posed for Dallas and Houston. He challenged her to participate in those and in two more “no-holds- barred” debates before the state Ca pitol press corps in Austin. ”1 will appear anytime,| where,” Mattox said. “Ann Rid] is on the run. She's hiding, what’s happening right now. trying to stay out of y’all’s mj my way.” In McAllen, Richards said ski willing to debate and blamed! failure to schedule one so farml campaign staff. “If we can work that (debates)] the schedule, that’s great with I Frankly, 1 don’t know what'soni schedule. But there are somesti tiled (campaign) events whereJ pie have bought tickets" and! must appear, she said. THE IlN T Icor- The “original” Chapultapec 1315 S. College 823-6996 Weekdays: 11 a.in.-2 p.m. 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Weekends: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Closed Tuesdays OR Tampico Restaurant & Bar 705 Commerce 822-6178 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Tn.-Sun. Mf-’ I Officials: low census figures need adjustment from courts Survival (Continued from page 1) s 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 HOUSTON (AP) — Houston, New York and Chi cago officials may go back to court to force the Census Bureau to adjust this year’s figures upward to make up for people census-takers might miss. Under a court-ordered settlement last summer, the U.S. Commerce Department agreed to draw up guidelines that would be used to decide whether the fi nal figures from the 1990 count should be adjusted. The Census Bureau is part of the Commerce Depart ment. people in the 1980 Census, costing the state $50 million a year in federal aid and an additional seat in Congress, Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire said. it I’m going to try to use the fact that I do know Bob Mosbacher, and he has been very helpful to us in the past. This really predates him at the Commerce Department.” — Kathy Whitmire, Houston mayor r Girls Just Wanna Have FunU HOW: Modeling the latest trends in fashion and hairstyles WHEN: Thursday, March 29, 1990 at 10:00 P.M. WHERE: The Mercury Bar WHY: For the FUN of it!! SPONSORED BY: The Other Eclips The Mercury Bar MSC Hospitality Houston City Planner Peg Purser expects the 1990 Census to miss 6 percent of Houston’s population, up from the nearly 5 percent missed in 1980. That 6 percent undercount would cost more than $42 million a year in direct federal aid over the next de cade, Purser said. Texas was undercounted by at least half a million Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, who include minority groups and several states, said they are prepared to go back to court because the guidelines issued by the Commerce Department this year do not really change anything, and there is a danger that the figures will not be ad justed. “We feel that the guidelines do not respond to the court stipulation from last summer,” Whitmire said Monday. Along with pressing forward on the lawsuit, Whit mire is trying to meet with Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher to urge him to intervene in the case on be half of his hometown. “I’m going to try to use the fact that I do know Bob Mosbacher, and he has been very helpful to us in the past,” Whitmire said. “This really predates him at the Commerce Department.” Under the original settlement, the Census Bureau agreed to conduct a post-census survey aimed at mea suring the expected undercount. Survey results would be reviewed by a panel of statisticians that would recom mend to Mosbacher whether an adjustment is needed. But the guidelines released this month are so restric tive that an adjustment would be all but impossible, said special counsel Peter L. Zimroth. Robert Ellert, chief counsel for the Commerce De partment, Monday declined comment until the lawsuit is reopened. B-CS reports 4.2 percent Unemployment rates spring upward quickly become much more inn t tonal in its economic and edit nal outlook, he said. According to figures Mobley sented, A&M has an active inif tional population of morel 2,000 international students resenting 1 1 7 countries. “These students and faculty a lot to offer us as far as knowld goes if we a 11ow tht to educate us,” Mobley said, may be a leading export state we’re not acting like global dtitt or equipping citizens to thinl global citizens. In someareasofa: pus, there is a lack of internatt: tolerance.” Mobley said people of the I’m States, especially university studet need to ready themselves not only work internationally but to uni stand what goes on international Tolerance is the big hurdle peoj halve to get over, he said. The United States, emerging! world leader for more than hall century, is now confronted withto nomic competition from all parts the world, including third-world* veloping nations. “We are now facing the fact our lucrative market is the targetfs much of the world,” Mobley said. With prices and labor costs ret lively high and a preoccupationw short-term gains, the United States not ready to meet this challengei global competition, he said. “When we are suddenly fate with competing in a global mark Lc fe; cu F( $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 NEW COLD STUDY $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 Individuals who frequently develop or have recently developed a cold to participate in a short research study with a currently avail able prescription medication. $40 incentive for those chosen to participate. $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 AUSTIN (AP) — The state’s ur ban unemployment rate shot up from 5.8 percent to 7 percent be tween January and February, but Texas Employment Commission member Mary Scott Nabers said Tuesday the increase was expected. “Much of it represents a normal seasonal increase for this time of year,” said Commissioner Nabers. “We were at 7.4 percent this time one year ago. It’s good that we are somewhat lower today, but it is still not a comfortable position.” Approximately 7.78 million Tex ans were reported working, she said, representing 100,000 fewer than the previous month. Only two major industry catego ries posted significant gains over the month: Government rose by more than 18,000 in February, and service employment increased by about 12,000. Declines were recorded in trans portation, public utilities and retail trade. The highest rate was recorded in the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area, at 23.7 percent. The lowest was in Bryan-College Station, at 4.2 per cent. Rates of unemployment in the ur ban areas of Texas as announced Tuesday by the Texas Employment Commission for February, com pared with revised January figures (in parentheses) included: Abilene 6.5 (5.4) Amarillo 6.1 (4.6) Austin 5.0 (4.2) Beaumont-Port Arthur 8.6 (7.0) Brazoria 6.6 (5.7) Brownsville-Harlingen 12.6 (10.6) Bryan-College Station 4.2 (3.4) Corpus Christi 7.7 (6.4) Dallas 5.5 (4.5) El Paso 12.2(9.7) Fort Worth-Arlington 6.2 (4.7) Galveston-Texas City 8.0 (6.3) Houston 5.7 (4.7) Temple-Killeen 7.8 (6.3) Laredo 12.0(11.7) Longview-Marshall 7.7 (6.6) Lubbock 5.0 (4.3) McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 23.7 (20.3) Midland 6.6 (5.4) Odessa 7.6 (6.3) San Angelo 6.1 (5.3) San Antonio 7.5 (6.0) Sherman-Denison 6.2 (4.9) Texarkana (not available) Tyler 6.8 (5.4) Victoria 6.1 (5.6) Waco 6.0 (5.1) $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 ADULT SORE THROAT STUDY Individuals 18 years & older with severe sore throat pain to $100 participate in a investigational research drug study. $100 $100 incentive for those chosen to participate. $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 Rescue workers sue Coca-Cola for injuries after bus accident $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME STUDY Symptomatic patients with recent physician diagnosed, ir ritable bowel syndrome to participate in a short research study. $100 incentive for those chosen to participate. $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 5300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY Individuals with high blood pressure, either on or oft blood pres sure medication daily to participate in a high blood pressure study. $300 incentive for those chosen to participate. $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 S100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 PAINFUL MUSCULAR INJURIES Individual with recent lower back or neck pain, sprain, strains, muscle spasms, or painful muscular sport injury to participate in a one week research study. $100 incentive for those chosen to participate. $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 EDINBURG (AP) — Eight rescue workers called to the scene of the state’s worst school bus accident are su ing for physical and mental injuries the police and fire officials say they suffered because of the Sept. 21 wreck. The rescue workers have joined with scores of other plaintiffs suing Valley Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Inc. of McAllen. Valley Coca-Cola owns the truck involved in the accident that killed 21 students in the South Texas city of Alton. Rodolfo Reyes, who at the time was acting police chief of Alton, is among the rescuers suing, along with assistant Alton fire chief Raul Garcia Jr. and six volun teer fire fighters from the city. They all spent time in a water-filled caliche pit trying to rescue the junior and senior high students trapped inside the submerged bus, according to the pleadings filed in the state’s 275th District Court in Edinburg. Sixty students escaped from the bus that was knocked into the pit after the Coca-Cola-owned truck failed to stop at a stop sign. Many of the students sur vived with the help of rescue personnel. The rescuers suffered “serious personal injuries re sulting in physical pain, mental anguish, loss of physical capacity, loss of earning capacity, and medical expenses both in the past and in the future,” they allege in court documents. No specific amount of money is demanded in the pleadings that seek actual and exemplary damages. They accuse Valley Coca-Cola of “reckless and heed less disregard for the rights, safety and welfare” of the eight police and fire officials. Valley Coca-Cola truck driver Ruben Perez faces trial on 21 counts of involuntary manslaughter. A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board found that the truck’s brakes needed ad justment, but that there was enough braking power to stop the 44,000-pound vehicle. Guy Allison, a Corpus Christi attorney representing the rescue workers, said Tuesday there is “ample prece dent in the state of Texas” in which such officials have sought damages. place, we find that our future at ployees do not have the skills tki are required to conduct business the global village which wehaveer countered.” He said too many people, espt cially students, find out too late lb they cannot effectively communion with or understand the culturetl many of the markets business trans actions force them to compete in, In order to survive and prosper the United States must producecit zens who are capable of accepting in ternational roles and those citizen are the educated people, he said. “We must have a new interns- tional attitude and commitment It education, which will take us into lb international century.” In 1989, the Coalition for the Ad vancement of Foreign Language and International Studies (CAFLiS created a plan entitled International Competence: A Key to America! Future, which proposed that highei education institutions must lead tht way to understanding today’s world Mobley and his advisory commit tee are doing their part to put A&M in a leadership position as far as in ternationalization is concerned. Thii month they will present to the Texas state legislature a comprehensive re port developed over two years, which outlines several recommenda tions for state advancement in the global village. Included in this proposal are ret ommendations for the state to create a financial aid program for stud' abroad and tuition and fee waivers for international exchange pro grams. Recommendations to Texas insti tutions of higher learning included in the proposal are the establishment of language requirements for en trance or exit from undergraduate programs and the further devel opment of international options in study abroad and international in ternships. 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