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Ian ^S. ■ TexasA&M^fc J-JL l* lie Battalion oi. 90 No. 38 USPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Global Village Computer mail system opens world to A&M See Page 3 Wednesday, October 24,1990 ews attacked by Palestinians ‘Killer’ bees r eacting to Jerusalem killings First swarm arrives in Texas; lower counties quarantined <>hehsv! TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A West Bank Pales- knifed two unarmed women soldiers and nother Arab bludgeoned two Israelis with a Jammer Tuesday in part of a wave of attacks on lews in Israel, police said. The knife-wielding Arab was chased and cap- Jured by soldiers and civilians, police said. There lere reports he was beaten, and hospital officials laid he was in critical condition with head inju- Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said the attacks i Israelis, which began Sunday with three stab ling deaths in Jerusalem, resulted from “unusual lysterical incitement” of Arabs under Israeli me. 8? ■Me. nrollme» l liversiw ; this fal' Education reporte 1 ! for itK j that tti! . all in!®' duration a 3 p«' ar. ic junio! liversiwj ;rease ® he board ntinucs! ■th, CO®' dotation' s, enroll ions h® ) ,000*®' udents 1 * he etitir* ;in," Asl 1 ' univorsj' -j enrol!' 37, ivhilr diosso; at the up ’- 861 live yea 1 K Calve!' perce®' Thel'® Anton 18 crease in 3,453' at 38 lege o® Tension has risen since Oct. 8, when police fired on stone-throwing Palestinians at Jerusa lem’s hallowed Temple Mount, killing at least 19 Arabs. Clandestine leaflets have urged Arabs to step up attacks on Jews, and the violence since Sun day’s killings raised fears that the 34-month Pal estinian uprising may be entering a more dan gerous phase. A leaflet distributed Tuesday by Hamas, a Moslem fundamentalist group, praised as a “hero” the Palestinian laborer who killed an un armed woman soldier, a gardener and an off- duty policeman Sunday in Jerusalem. It said the laborer had killed “three enemy sol diers” and added: “This is only the beginning.” The daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported a rush by Israelis on gun shops, and reporters pressed Shamir to say what his government was doing to protect the public. Shamir said security was being increased “in all parts of the country,” but he insisted the violence would die down in a matter of days. The trouble began Tuesday morning when an Arab shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) stabbed two women soldiers hitchhiking near Ki- ryat Tivon in northern Israel. Radio reports said several citizens helped cap ture the assailant. By BILL HETHCOCK Of The Battalion Staff At your fingertips • \ K N The arrival of the first swarm of “killer” bees has triggered the Texas Africanized honey bee plan in which the lower eight counties in Texas have been quar antined. Frank Eischen, assistant re search scientist with Texas A&M’s research station in Weslaco, says bees can be brought into the quar antined area but not taken out. This step has been taken to slow the spread of Africanized bees. Traps monitoring “killer” bees’ migration have been set up along the northern boundary of the quarantined area. This line of traps will move north as the bees move, and in creasingly larger areas of the state will be marked off, Eischen says. The trap line stretches from Laredo to the coast. CORRECTION Graphic by Jayme Blaschke “The traps are a monitoring tool used to tell when Africanized bees reach a certain area,” Eis chen says. “Decisions on how ex tensive the monitoring is will be made along each step of the way.” The first swarm to enter Texas was discovered Oct. 16 in a trap a mile north of the Rio Grande. The bees then were sent to a U.S. Department of Agriculture lab in Maryland for analysis. Confirmation the insects were See Bees/Page 5 A story in Tuesday’s issue of The Battalion incorrectly quoted Cartrell Cross, a junior mentor in Freshmen Adjusting to College Experiences (FACES). Cross said mentors in the pro gram do not have to be minorities, but the freshmen do. The Battalion regrets the error. Poll shows Williams favored by students Photo by Phelan M. Ebenback Brian Land, a senior, jumps to block a penalty kick during a scrimmage in his intermediate soccer class at Kyle Field Tuesday. ampaign aid: Women support Williams By JULIE MYERS Of The Battalion Staff Carole Rylander The state co-chair of the Clayton Williams for Governor campaign told the College Republicans Tues day night to take nothing for granted in the days remaining be fore Nov. 6. Women and men alike should support Williams because he has a great track record with women, Ry lander said. “It’s his sensitivity that has been on a curve,” she said. In Williams’ private sector compa nies, 41 percent of his employees are women, 32 percent are in manage ment positions, 29 percent are in se nior management and the chief fi nancial officer of all Williams’ companies is a woman, Kim Jones. The fire in Williams’ belly and commtttmem to winning the “war on drugs” she said, comes from seeing his son through drug addiction. Rylander repeated Williams’ plan to give first time non-violent drug offenders aged 18-24 the option of the penitentiary or military-style boot camps, drug rehabilitation and education followed by six months of community work projects. Those completing the program could have the offenses wiped from their records. Rylander compared Williams and his wife, Modesta, to Stephen F. Austin, Davy Crockett and Susanna Dickinson. Dickinson was one of the few survivors of The Alamo He symbolizes the revitalized spirit of individuality, indepen dence, determination and all things that made Texas great, she said. Williams also has called for the death penalty for drug pushers con victed of selling fatal doses and con victed child killers. Rylander said Democrat Ann Richards does not exhibit strong leadership because she did not im mediately support the death penalty in similar cases. In an Oct. 8 article in The Battal ion, Richards’ campaign spokesman Monte Williams, said Richards would not immediately comment on the issue because she wanted to know if convicted child murderers could face the death penalty for kill ing 15- or 17-year-olds. Williams supports tort reform, Rylander said, and further workers’ compensation reform along with de regulating the trucking industry. By SUZANNE CALDERON Of The Battalion Staff If the majority of Texas A&M stu dents has its way, Republican guber natorial candidate Clayton Williams will be the next governor of Texas, according to a poll conducted by The Battalion. Asked who they would vote for if the election for governor was to day, 54 percent of students re sponding chose Williams while 26 percent named Democratic can didate Ann Rich ards. Nineteen percent had no opinion. Rodger Lewis, Brazos County Republican Party chairman, said the results are typical of what is expected from A&M given its large number of conservative stu dents. He said this is because “Wil liams is clearly conservative and Ann is clearly lib eral.” Stephen Medvic, Aggie Demo crats president, said he thought Wil liams’ lead on campus would be greater. “I think 54 percent for Clayton is really low for being his home cam pus — I would think it would be lar ger,” Medvic said. Williams 54 No opinion 19 Richards 26 If the election were held today, who would you vote for in the gubernatorial race? No 12 Clayton Williams No opinion 7 Yes 81 Do you favor a debate between the candidates? Medvic said he thinks Richards’ margin might be higher than the poll reflects because many at A&M may not be willing to say they are Democrats because of the Universi ty’s strong conservative base. “Being Republican at A&M is kind of the chic thing to do,” he said. The latest statewide poll results show the two candidates much closer, with Richards at 40 percent and Williams at 45 percent. The second Batt Poll question asked if students thought the candi dates should debate each other on television. Eighty-one percent said See Poll/Page 5 Publisher promotes positive image of Blacks By KEVIN M. HAMM Of The Battalion Staff Major media sources reinforce negative stereotypes by present ing biased coverage of minorities, said the publisher of the Houston Defender, one of the city’s oldest rican-American newspapers. “Most of you probably get your impression of black people from watching the six and 10 o’clock news,” Sonceria Messiah said Tuesday to a Texas A&M journa lism class. “If you look at the six and 10 news, most of the time you see Blacks and Hispanics projected as drug addicts, murderers, welfare mothers, undereducated — a whole list of negatives. Very rar ely do you see positive images of black people.” Messiah has worked for more than 17 years with various Hous ton media, including the Houston Chronicle and CBS affiliate KHOU-TV. She said unfair treat ment of minorities is one reason she bought the Defender in 1981. “The only real source of infor mation for minorities, as far as their existence in the community, is the minority newspapers,” she said. The media mold images of people, Messiah said, and deter mine how people relate to each other. “Media is powerful,” she said. “And if you allow it, media will manipulate you right into a cor ner of an unreal world. “Because in a real world, as far as media’s concerned, black peo- See Defender/Page 5 Taiwanese adviser explains ‘economic miracle’ By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff A practical and gradual economic program combined with strong hu man resources can bring any devel oping country into the industrialized world, the Republic of China’s lead ing economist said Tuesday. Dr. K.T. Li, senior adviser to the president of the Republic of China, spoke to about 200 people Tuesday in Blocker about the economic trans formation of his country, commonly called Taiwan. The speech was sponsored by the Center for International Business Studies. Li, a physicist turned economist, has served as Taiwan’s minister of economic affairs, minister of finance and minister of state, and is consid ered the “father of the Taiwanese economic miracle.” Li said post-World War II Taiwan was a low-income, developing nation with little capital or goods, balloon ing inflation and almost no foreign trade. But 40 years later, Taiwan is a vastly different country. “Along with South Korea, Singa pore and Hong Kong, the Republic of China has emerged as a newly in dustrialized country, while other de veloping countries are still strug gling to achieve economic takeoff,” Li said. As proof Taiwan has performed an “economic miracle,” Li cited the tremendous growth of the tiny is land nation: • Gross national product per ca pita has grown from $100 in 1952 to $7,500 in 1989 to become the 18th largest in the world. • Economic growth averaged 8.9 percent from 1953 to 1989, which far exceeds growth experienced by the United States — 3.5 percent. West Germany — 4.4 percent and Japan — 6.5 percent. • The income distribution ratio between the richest and poorest peo- See Economy/Page 6 Photo by Phelan M. Ebenback Dr. K.T. Li