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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. â–¡ 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-
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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
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