SCUBA BELIZE
Ambergris Caye - Depart March 10 / Return March 14 $688.00
Includes: Roundtrip air from Houston to Belize City
Roundtrip air from Belize City to San Pedro (Ambergris Caye)
4 Nights hotel accommodations
3 Days of Diving - 2 tanks per day
Note: Hotel tax and service charges not included.
Docs not include departure tax, airport tax, or security taxes.
Call for our Spring Break Prices for 7 Day Cruises!
All Rates are Subject to Availability and Change.
ADVENTURE TRAVEL
260-1311
/<*** .
hS »
v'
Page 4
The Battalion
Friday February 8,
House honors Spade Phillips, P.l.
Marine killed
in gulf war
by Matt Kowalsl
X Dow 'r bwbw if
T CAN THK it MocH
longer H£kf in
SflODi AKflBlU wrm
ftLL THIS RELtGoo'
TOTWL ITAPiAWISK.
^ A 0
%
/ b / .
PROFESSIONAL TESTING CENTERS
o° N
GMAT
review
The Difference Between Admission To
The MBA Program of Your Choice...
And Not Being Admitted At All!
□ Enclosed is $45. Enroll me at the TAMU student early en
rollment discount tuition of $295 (Reg. tuition is $495)
□ I would like more information about your course.
Name:
Address:
City/St./Zip l.
Phone:
plan to take the GMAT Exam on.
-19_
1-800-274-3926 Mail to:
A subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. bar/bri GMAT Review
Also offing Conviser-Duffy-Miller CPA 1415 Fannin, Suite 250
Review, LSAT MCAT & SAT Houston, TX 77002
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas
House unanimously approved a res
olution honoring Lance Cpl. Arthur
Garza, a Kingsville native who was
the first Marine from the state to die
in the Persian Gulf war, and stood to
applaud his family.
Garza, who died in an accident
last month, enlisted in the Marine
Corps at age 17, after he graduated
from high school.
He “has returned home to Kings
ville, Texas, a hero at the age of 20,”
said the resolution by Rep. Irma
Rangel, D-Kingsville, approved
Thursday by the House. The Senate
approved a similar resolution
Wednesday.
Garza’s family was introduced to
the House, including his wife, Jen
nifer Garza; parents, Mary Helen
Garza and Oscar Garza; sister, Mari-
cella Garza; and brother, Jose Domi
ngo Garza.
The House resolution also ex
tended sympathy to Garza’s grand
mother, Lilia Luna, and his baby
daughter, Sasha Nicole.
U.S. Customs Service
probes into Iraqi contract
WESKWDSPEC/MS/
Safe ends Saturday, Feb. 9
Seagram’s 7
Crown
$6"
.750 ml 80 proof
Skol Vodka
$7"
1.75 It.
80 proof
mr
LIGHT
BEER
Suitcases
$7
99
GOOD 2402 Texas Ave>
TIMESS^'H Kroger Shopping Center)
* i/*m iCollege Station
UUyUK 693-5428 __
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston
businessman had a 1981 contract to
provide Iraq with engineering de
sign and other services for military
sites that now are targeted by U.S.
forces, according to a Customs Serv
ice probe.
The U.S. Customs Service in
Houston paid for information, in
cluding the contract, that may have
contributed to allied forces’ ability to
locate Iraqi military sites, the Hous
ton Chronicle and KPRC-TV re
ported.
In a copyright story Thursday,
the Chronicle said the contract,
worth $552 million, allegedly was
taken from the London offices of
the late Ihsan Barbouti, an Iraqi ex
patriate whose family has business
ties to Houston.
The 1981 contract called for a
Barbouti company to provide Iraq
with engineering design, material
supply and other services for the
construction of hardened aircraft
shelters, fuel storage, airfield light
ing, ammunition storage and other
military systems.
A Houston attorney, speaking on
behalf of Barbouti interests in the
United States, denied that Barbouti,
who died last July at 63, was involved
in Iraq’s military buildup.
“The allegations concerning the
Iraqi installations are absolutely, un
equivocally — and I say this without
equivocation — are false,” said Bill
Rosch.
The contract and other informa
tion were turned over to a U.S. Cus
toms special agent at a London hotel
on Sept. 1, a month after Iraq in
vaded Kuwait, according to a Cus
toms Service document obtained by
the Chronicle and an attorney who
was present.
The contract lists 16 locations in
Iraq where construction supposedly
would take place. »
The informant was paid $2,700,
the Customs document shows, as
part of an ongoing investigation of
Barbouti activities in the United
States.
0. K. curs, TH£nckd /j aslccp. Lets go fop. m
right inn Eft nostril and the left barcankl
Civil rights groups seek adjustment of census
AUSTIN (AP) — Hispanic and civil rights
groups filed lawsuits Thursday seeking to ban
use of 1990 census figures that aren’t adjusted
for minority undercounts, a move that could de
lay legislative redistricting.
The two lawsuits are aimed at forcing the U.S.
Commerce Department and the state to add hun
dreds of thousands of people believed over
looked by the census to the data the state uses to
redraw legislative boundaries.
“We feel that this time around, we have the
population in this state to ensure that Hispanics
and Blacks get more representation,” Rep. Ro
man Martinez, D-Houston, a member of the
House Redistricting Committee, said.
“Not only for Hispanics and Blacks and the
homeless but also for rural Texans and all Tex
ans alike, there needs to be an adjustment; and it
needs to be done now,” Martinez said.
The Texas Civil Rights Project and Mexican-
American Legal Defense and Education Fund
filed the lawsuits, seeking an injunction against
the release or use of unadjusted census informa
tion.
Preliminary census figures have been released,
but U.S. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher
will not decide whether to adjust the officialdacl
untiljuly 15.
Thursday’s lawsuits were filed in state distrv !
court in Hidalgo County and federal distnij
court in Brownsville. The class actions also*
as plaintiffs several Hispanic citizens and tail
paying residents who were not counted duriti
the census.
O
The suit contends the counties most affectc
by the short count are Cameron, Hidalgo, V;j
Verde, Maverick, El Paso, Harris, Bexar and Di
las.
DALLAS (AP) — A gay activist
group has criticized proposed legis
lation that would allow emergency
workers who suspect they’ve been
bitten by someone carrying the
AIDS virus to demand the person be
tested for the deadly infection.
“There has been no case of any
body ever getting AIDS through a
bite,” said Bruce Monroe, president
of the Dallas Gay Alliance.
“This is a way for them to intim
idate gay people and dehumanize
Workers demand new AIDS-testing bill
WA<
Bush a
live pi;
the nat
partly 1
them when they deal with them in
any arrest situation.”
virus, said John Young, Ovard’slf
islative aide.
The bill is scheduled for a hearing
Monday before the House Commit
tee on Public Health. Rep. A.R.
Ovard, R-Dallas, introduced the leg
islation at the request of the Dallas
County Sheriffs Department.
The bill would cover tests for sev
eral infections but is mainly aimed at
finding human immuno-deficiency
Under the bill’s
guidelines, any police officer, fr|
fighter, emergency medical sem
employee or correctional offc
could ask his agency to order a pf
son to undergo HIV testing if it
person has bitten them, and if IM
have reason to believe the pent
could be infected with HIV, the«l
rus that causes acquired immunedt
ficiency syndrome.
\AGCIEVli S /^tlNEMA/ \aGGII NEMa/
PRESUMED INNOCENT
Fri./Sat., Feb. 8/9
7:30/9:45PM
Rudder Theatre
$2.00
LETHAL WEAPON
mv*
Fri./Sat v Feb. 8/9
Midnight
Rudder Theatre
$2.00
Tickets are now available at the MSC Box
Office. Aggie Cinema Information Hotline
^847-8478®
The next Aggie Cinema General Meeting will be held in
Rudder 225 on 2/11 at 7:00PM.
Magistrate frees
two reporters
pending appeal
vironmi
HOUSTON (AP) — A fedefl
magistrate Thursday freed withr
bail two newspaper reporters citt
for contempt of court after they it
fused to help a defense lawyer idei
tify murder witnesses.
U.S. Magistrate Nancy PechtK
cy 1
leased James T. Campbell of
Houston Chronicle and Felix Sat
chez of the Houston Post on the
own recognizance at least until
hearing scheduled next Monday e
their appeal.
Earlier Thursday, State Distn
Judge William Harmon had set
tenced the reporters each to 30 da 1
in jail and fined them $500 afie
they refused for a third time to cot
ply with his order.
The reporters had faced up tot
months in jail for refusing Harmot
order to help defense attorney k
vin Oncken identify the witnesses
Pecht also delayed a hearing
the reporters’ appeal of the fit
tempt citation to give lawyers for tt !
Harris County Sheriffs Depa r
ment, which issued the subpoet
time to prepare their case. Thehea
ing was postponed until Month
morning.
ex
1
t
hea
t
$5.9'
®si
Peng