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Tht,. gest that sly and r tide what k| il showed 1777 knot om page' kian crack ell-plannee gered by if is just cor ’acek saic local con; ly define baches haj Soviet leao d by hare thing tk Irom eommunn; scale dvi ening," hf mpagei — ■Texas^/n J3 _ J. * • The Free throw woes Texas A&M men’s basketball team falls to hot-shooting Horns See Page 7 Vol. 90 Mo. 86 (JSPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Monday, February 4, 1991 with iht an on pro lling bad mtrolled ntakes fo: vhich pro for Saud ■d, as wei t scenan lain at set pill can H- t pagel ituation f some- ,ays. “If in the ssociate nstitute ess has ns with :an Re- yle that concer- eryorre tion in ■e have ?nts as ves.” rte De- alert, ips. e Uni- :o see .s,” Ai- in :h 56 i U.S. DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Iraq fired two more missiles at Israel and Saudi Arabia on Sunday, but U.S. war planes struck back in just minutes, possi bly destroying one mobile missile launcher, U.S. officials said. A B-52 returning from a bombing mission in Iraq crashed in the Indian Ocean and five crew members were missing, the Pentagon said Sunday. Three crew members were rescued after the crash late Saturday and the search for the others is continuing, Marine Lt. Col. Stu Wagner said. Wagner said there was no evidence the plane went down because of hostile fire. In a separate report, Iraqi radio said Syria had turned over to U.S. officials in Damascus seven American pilots who parachuted onto Syrian territory after warplanes counterattack B-52 crashes in Indian Ocean; two missing their planes were shot down by Iraq in the Gulf War. Syria and the United States said the Iraqi report was false. The allies kept up their air attacks on Iraq on Sunday. On Saturday, they blew up Iraqi airfields and tanks and “scat tered” a unit of the elite Republican Guards, military officials said. Ramsey Clark, a peace activist and former U.S. attorney general, arrived in Baghdad Sunday and met with Foreign Ministry officials, AP correspondent Sa- lah Nasrawi reported. Clark also was expected to meet with President Saddam Hussein during a visit of several days that Clark described as a “peaceful mission.” He declined to give more details. On Saturday, Iraqi anti-aircraft gun ners shot down two U.S. warplanes —the first lost in as many days. The U.S. Air Force searched behind enemy lines for the downed airmen. One Marine was killed and two were wounded, reportedly when their convoy was struck in Saudi Arabia by cluster bombs dropped by American warplanes. There was little ground activity on Saturday, and the U.S. Army inspected hundreds of Bradley Fighting Vehicles, its top armored infantry transport, for a transmission defect that could limit its speed to 12 mph. The vehicle is designed to travel at speeds up to 38 mph, but 511 Bradleys, about one-fourth of all those in Saudi Arabia, may have the problem, accord ing to an Army memo obtained by The Associated Press. On Sunday, a senior Army official said investigators are inspecting the transports but have found only two such defects so far. “They were corrected im mediately, on the spot,” Lt. Gen. John J. Yeosock of the U.S. Central Command told CBS-TV. Early Sunday morning, Iraq fired a Scud missiles at Israel and one at the Saudi capital, Riyadh. Another Scud missile was fired hours earlier at Israel. Iraqi radio said the missile attacks, the first since Thursday, were in retaliation for continued allied air raids. The Riyadh Scud was hit by a U.S. Pa triot missile, but fragments landed on a residential neighborhood, damaging apartment buildings, police said. The of ficial Saudi Press Agency reported that 29 people were injured. No damage was reported from the two missiles that hit Israel. U.S. officials outside of Israel said the first Scud landed in the predominantly Arab West Bank. The U.S. military command in Riyadh said that minutes after the Scud attacks, U.S. bombers struck two of the launch sites. “Pilots reported secondary explosions at one of the sites,” the command said in a brief communique. Secondary blasts usually indicate that the attackers hit a munitions vehicle or storage area, offi cers say. Post office sees decrease in packages By Twila Waddy Of The Battalion Staff Local post offices have noticed a decrease in packages headed for U.S. troops since the military re quested people only send letters and cassette tapes. “We have noticed a little bit of a cutback other than the letters them selves,” says Bryan Postmaster John Marks. “A lot more letters are going, though.”. Marks says packages, not first class mail, are causing problems. Packages take longer to process and that hinders military post offices, he says. “The postal service is not doing this,” Marks says. “It is being re quested by the military because the troops are moving around, and it is harder for them to catch up with the packages.” College Station Postmaster Charles Ray says about 100 packages a day were mailed to the Persian Gulf during the holidays, but now it is down to about 20 a day. Packages still can be mailed, but they will take four to six weeks to get to their destinations, he says. “We are asking for them to volun tarily restrict it,” Ray says. Maj. Will Lachapelle of the Mili tary Postal Service Agency says the request for no packages came di rectly from Commander of Opera- See Mail /Page 5 Yell raisin’ KARL STOLLEIS/The Battalion Yell leaders (left to right) Kerry Cox, Craig Weynand, Brant Ince, Kevin Fitzgerald and Drew Davis show their support at the A&M- UT basketball game Sunday afternoon in G. Rollie White Col iseum. □ See page 7 for game story. ‘Su votaessu voz’ CAMAC defines Hispanics’ future Hispanics’ failure blamed on education By Bridget Harrow Of The Battalion Staff Q uality education is crucial to Hispanics’ success in the 1990s, said former U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro Cava zos Saturday at Texas A&M. Dr. Cavazos, who resigned as Sec retary of Education in December, stressed the importance of education in the closing speech of a two-day lecture series sponsored by the MSC Committee for the Awareness of Mexican American Culture (CAMAC). Cavazos said the United States has three major deficits: its budget, for eign trade and a lack of quality edu cation. U.S. educators also are failing to teach ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics, Cavazos said. “What will the United States be like when whites are no longer the majority?” Cavazos asked. Cavazos said minority students constituted 30 percent of public school enrollment last year, and more than 70 percent in the 10 larg est school districts. Hispanics, however, continue to fail in education, he said. Some areas Cavazos highlighted included: • Thirty to 40 percent of Hispan ics drop out before completion of high school nationwide. The drop out rate for Hispanics in Texas is 45 percent. • Forty percent of young Hispan- Jt£ >: _ ^ §m | WSim9 # m R ■ IJP15f > * lllSt 1 lilllll * s - Sill KARL STOLLEIS/The Battalion Lauro Cavazos, a former Secretary of Education in the Bush ad ministration, addressed CAMAC as the keynote speaker for the ‘Hispanic...Success in the ’90s’ conference Saturday. ics adults cannot read or understand material students commonly master in high school. • Completion rate of Hispanics at the college level is 11 percent, and less than 2 percent of Hispanics complete professional or graduate school. Cavazos said U.S. students con tinue to score at the bottom in sci ence and math when compared to other industrialized nations. He said it is a cost America cannot bear and does not understand yet. The educational system also should be restructured, he said. “We have been doing it (educa tion) the same way since well before World War I,” he said. “We continue to fail.” Cavazos referred to national edu cational goals to be reached by the year 2000. The goals were estab lished at a governor’s summit last year which President Bush orga nized to discuss education. The goals include increasing the high school graduation rate of 71 See Cavazos/Page 5 Leader: key to politics lies in ballot box By Katherine Coffey Of The Battalion Staff £ ✓ u vota es su voz” — your • ^ vote is your voice — is the key to political power for Hispanics in the 1990s, a Republican party leader said during a confer ence this weekend at Texas A&M. Alvaro Pereira, executive director of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Washington, D.C., em phasized the need for Hispanics in politics during “Hispanics...Success in the ’90s.” “The influence of Hispanic Amer icans in political campaigns and the overall Hispanic vote was much more visible in the last November elections,” Pereira said. The conference, sponsored by the MSC Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture (CAMAC), focused on Hispanics' changing roles in the future. Pereira, Class of ’86, said the His panic population in the United States is about 22 million and has in creased by 34 percent, while the rest of the population is growing only by 5 percent. “Hispanic population growth in dicates we need to look ahead and have a vision to help our commu nities become more prepared,” he said. » “We need people representing our community who are aggressive and full of skills, who will preach See Poiitics/Page 5 Handbook helps seniors with traditions By Julie Hedderman Of The Battalion Staff A four- or five-year stay at Texas A&M doesn’t guarantee you’ll remember all the Aggie tra ditions. That’s why the Class of '91 Council decided to make Zip Tips, the Senior Handbook, says Eleanor Manson, president of’91 Council. The 31-page handbook in cludes information on Senior Weekend, Association of Former Students, 12th Man Foundation, Annual Fund and Century Club, as well as a calendar, bits of trivia and a telephone list of important numbers. Gena Nivens, a senior psychol ogy major from Midland, has seen the handbook and says it is informative. “It tells things you need to know, but won’t find elsewhere,” she says. “Everything is in there, all in one place.” Manson says she thought of making a senior handbook last fall after talking to a friend who asked about senior traditions. Manson and Patrick Foster, Class of ’91 Council vice presi dent, developed the outline and wrote everything except the in formation provided by the Asso ciation of Former Students, which printed and produced 5,000 copies of the handbook at no cost to the senior class. Zip Tips was developed during 'he fall semester, but seniors now can pick up copies at the Student Programs Office on the second floor of the Pavilion, the Depart ment of Multicultural Services' and at all senior class functions, See Zip/Page 5 Deans say 1 percent budget cuts acceptable By Julie Myers Of The Battalion Staff It’s not often a budget cut is viewed with relief, but the Legis lature’s 1 percent across-the-board cut could have been worse for Texas A&M. The Legis lature could have ordered a wage and hiring freeze for the remain der of 1991. The fiscal year ends in August. “This is less of a problem than a hiring freeze — that would have been devastating,” said Dr. Richard A. DeVaul, dean of the College of Medicine. Presently, A&M needs to fill about 200 positions. A major budget reform bill passed by the Legislature Thursday will trim about $140 million from pre sent spending. Dr. Herbert Richardson, dean of the College of Engineering, said any decrease in the present budget will trigger a significant negative effect. A 1 percent spending cut this late in the fiscal year seems more damag ing than if it had been made before the year started, Richardson said. Summer sessions in the engi neering college are vulnerable when a cut is needed, Richardson added. “We can live with this until we can look forward to some relief in future budgets,” Richardson said. “This is the least of the evils that could have befallen us.” Dr. Daniel Fallon, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said it was too early to tell how the cut would af fect liberal arts programs. “There are so many ways to See Budget/Page 5 Fallon m BBppPP~ 7/Y///M V,/ //.'/V/ //'"A/, mm mg TOE Rain WED Partly Cloudy THOR Rain BATTIPS Anyone with story suggestions can call BATTIPS, The Battal ion’s phone line designed to im prove communication between the newspaper and its readers. 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