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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.
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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
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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
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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