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Monday, February 11, 1991
The Battalion
njoying the sun
Kim Dillon, a sophomore education major, takes advantage of the
sunny weather on Sunday afternoon to play Frisbee at the Texas
KARL STOLLEIS/The Battalion
A&M Research Park, with a little help from a new canine ac
quaintance. Tuesday is expected to be partly cloudy.
Rig survival training
expands to include
Houston, Gulf Coast
HOUSTON (AP) — A Louisiana
woman who pioneered survival
training for offshore oil rig workers
has expanded her service area to in
clude Houston and other Gulf Coast
cities.
Margaret McMillan offers the
training in alliance with the Univer
sity of Southwestern Louisiana and
scores of petroleum companies
eager to train their employees.
“Margaret really started water
survival training in the United
States,” said Gerald L. Lund, direc
tor of USL’s Marine Survival Train
ing Center in Lafayette, La. “She got
the industry to thinking about it.”
When the university established
its survival training operation last
year, “it was always intended that she
would be part of the center. She’s at
the point now where she’s ready to
retire, but she didn’t want to leave
the business completely,” he said.
The USL operation recently
merged with McMillan Offshore
Survival Technology in Lafayette,
which has provided survival training
to workers in the petroleum and
maritime industries since 1973.
“We can now take the training to
the industry — everything but the
survival craft,” Lund said.
The center in Lafayette is the first
public facility in the country to train
offshore workers in the actual
launch of escape craft from plat
forms and rigs. It was established as
a joint project between the university
and about 64 companies that spent
four years raising more than $1.6
million in funds and finding more
than $500,000 in equipment for the
program.
“The industry decided that those
old methods were just not applica
ble,” Lund said of traditional safety
measures. “It decided to set up our
center. Nobody has ever offered
anything like this in the country.”
Since beginning its full range of
courses in January 1990, the center
has trained 2,300 workers from 50
companies throughout the Gull
Coast area in water survival and the
use of survival craft.
But now the training can be done
outside the school’s 60-acre lake site
in Lafayette. In Houston, the center
began training workers at a YWCA
near downtown last month.
“The whole idea was to control
the training atmosphere at the cen
ter and keep it as safe as possible,”
Lund said. “We did all of the train
ing in Lafayette and McMillan han
dled all of the training outside of La
fayette for about a year.
“But in the last six months, we’ve
been talking about bringing it all to
gether.”
Minorities seek greater clout
HOUSTON (AP) — Hispanic and
Asian leaders in Houston hope to
capitalize on significant population
gams over the last decade by forging
a coalition to gain greater political
representation during the next five
years.
Officials from the t\vo minority
communities have beeH meeting pri
vately during the past few weeks to
explore ways Hispanics and Asians
can help each other, The Houston
Post reported Sunday.
“These are quiet people, working
behind the scenes, low-profile types,
low-key individuals who are working
to bring the two groups together for
the long run,” said Glenda Joe,
founder of the Council of Asian
American Organizations.
The 1990 census figures released
last week showed dramatic increases
for the city’s Hispanic and Asian
populations since 1980. The number
of Hispanics rose 60 percent to more
than 450,000 — just 10,000 fewer
than the number of African-Ameri
cans, the city’s largest minority
group, which grew only 4 percent
for the decade to 460,000. And the
Asian population jumped 104 per
cent to just over 67,000.
The Anglo population, mean
while, decreased 12 percent to about
650,000 residents.
Overall, the Anglo population
represents 40 percent of the city’s
1.6 million residents. African-Amer
icans and Hispanics each comprise
28 percent, while Asians account for
4 percent of the population.
On Friday, Mayor Kathy Whit
mire asked the City Council to study
the possibility of changing the gov
erning body’s ethnic and racial
makeup to be more reflective of the
city’s new demographics.
Currently there are nine whites,
five African-Americans and one His
panic on the 15-member board.
Whitmire asked the council’s Hu
man Relations Committee to submit
recommendations by April 17 for re
structuring the body.
Similarly, Hispanics like City
Councilman Ben Reyes are fighting
for a Hispanic seat during congres
sional redistricting this year. But
Hispanics and Asians say neither
group can succeed without regis
tered voters and an education pub
lic.
“Redistricting is not going to do
anything for us in Harris County if
Hispanics are not registered to
vote,” said Henry de la Garza, a
Houston-based media consultant
and a member of the Greater Hous
ton Partnership board.
“The consensus seems to be that
redistricting is not the immediate so
lution (for underrepresentation).
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Hispanics, ‘crossover’ candidates
people can put their trust in, that’s
going to give us immediate results.”
“Our thinking is that if we’re
going to run someone in the next
five years for City Council, it’s going
to have to be someone who’s Ameri
can-born with good English skills
and a lot of savvy dealing with the
political structure here,” Joe said.
“Right now, American-born Asians
are a minority. Fully 85 percent of
the 200,000 Asians who nave come
here since 1985 are lacking fluency
in English and the ability to stand
toe-to-toe with the political entities
(in place).”
Houston’s African-American po
litical community has built a strong
organization with 13 elected officials
in city, county and area offices. Be
sides the five council seats — three
of which are elected city wide — Afri
can-Americans also hold one seat on
the Harris County Commissioner
Court, one state senatorship, five
state representative slots and one
congressional seat.
Mother challenges military,
changes ‘friendly fire’ ruling
HOUSTON (AP) — The families of so-called “friendly fire” victims
may have little comfort in knowing their loved ones were killed by Allied
gunfire in the Persian Gulf War.
But living with lies is much worse, according to 73-year-old Peg Mullen
of Brownsville who fought the military 20 years ago after she was misled
about her son’s death in the Vietnam War.
Mullen’s investigation into the matter of friendly fire, following the
death of her son, Michael, has dramatically changed the way the military
looks at such deaths.
Because Michael was killed in his sleep by “friendly fire,” he was not
classified as dying in combat.
“It was just like Michael never was, like he was never in the Army,”
Mrs. Mullen told the Houston Chronicle for its Sunday editions.
Mrs. Mullen moved to Brownsville from La Port City, Iowa, in 1976 be
cause of her husband’s failing health. He later died, but she carries on the
fight for peace.
When notified of Michael’s death, Mrs. Mullen was first told he was
killed by the allied Vietnamese. Only after pushing the government for
more information was she told that Michael was killed by U.S. Army gun
fire and therefore his death was not considered a war casualty.
Ironically, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of troops in the
Persian Gulf War, was her son’s battalion commander in Vietnam.
During this war, however, family members are being told immediately
if their relatives were killed by their by allied gunfire. And the deaths are
considered war casualties.
That still offers little comfort to Mrs. Mullen, a peace activist, who con
siders such deaths senseless.
“It just makes me want to vomit,” Mrs. Mullen said. “It’s really not nec
essary.”
In 1976, Mrs. Mullen’s quest became the subject of a book and later a
television niovie starring Carol Burnett.
Mrs. Mullen has continued to march and speak out against war for two
decades. Most recently, she attended a protest march in Washington, lead
ing 35 neighbors on the long bus ride to the nation’s Capitol.
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gives me a tremendous "high” to visit the campus and see the fantastic group of young men and
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figures after we play at G. Rollie of 1900, 2100, 2200, etc. There were 8500 students when I attended
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