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Madist The Battalion Vol. 90 No. 181 USPS 045360 6 Pages College Station, Texas "Serving Texas A&M since 1893" Tuesday, August 6, 1991 Texas House OKs lottery amendment; public favors idea AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas House endorsed a constitutional amendment to create a state lottery Monday after backers said it was the only money raising idea the public likes. "A lotteiy is the one thing they do favor," said Rep. Ron Wilson, D-Hous- ton. "If you ask them how they feel about a sales tax, we'll get run out of the room. If you ask them how they feel about income-related taxes, they'll hang most of us." The 101-46 vote, which won cheers from spectators crowding the House chamber, was one more vote than the two-thirds majority required for pas sage. Senate approval still is needed, but that chamber has OK'd lottery mea sures in the past. The House had re jected the lottery eight times since 1983. If the Senate agrees, the question would be placed before voters on Nov. 5. Voter approval is necessary to re move the Texas Constitution's ban on a lottery. Since taking office in January, Gov. Ann Richards has pushed for a lottery to help the Legislature balance its bud get while facing a projected $4.8 billion deficit. Moments after the House vote, she entered the chamber to congratu late and thank supporters. "I feel real relief," Richards said. "I feel certain that ... the people of Texas are enthusiastically in favor of an op portunity to have a lottery here." Texas is the largest state without a lottery. According to the comptroller's of fice, a Texas lottery would raise about $450 million for state government next year, and about $1 billion annually af ter that. Opponents decried the gambling games as a tax on the poor and an un dependable source of funds, adding that the state has no business promot ing gambling. "Enticing the public to participate in a sleazy enterprise ... is bad business," said Rep. Glenn Repp, R-Duncanville. "1 don't want to have the state of Texas turned into a huckster and feed on the philosophy that there's a sucker bom every minute," said Rep. A1 Price, D-Beaumont. Price said having the government operate gambling games would tell the public, "We think you're chumps and we're going to take advantage or you." Rep. Billy Clemons, D-Pollok, said a lottery would cost millions to promote and operate. He charged that the real push wasn't from the public but from private companies that nope to win the contract to run a Texas lottery. "Do the taxpayers send those lobby ists up here? No," Clemons said. "It's the lottery companies from out of state." V ided. itted. 1- on. t- ray. $4 in rsity 19 ohol r k at 8 ace, ne stigatio^ 1 j and wM slAU itionof^ 8 g a crea" 1 «|AL® Professors to serve as 'ambassadors' By Tammy Bryson The Battalion Two Texas A&M professors will serve as U.S. "ambassadors" as they travel to Europe this year on Fulbright Scholar Grants to lecture and conduct research abroad. Dr. Maria Garcia, an assistant professor of history, will spend the 1991-92 academic year at Polytechnic of Central London in the United Kingdom. Dr. Stje- pan Mestrovic, an associate pro fessor of sociology, will travel to the University of Zagreb in Croa tia, a republic of Yugoslavia. Garcia will lecture on 20th cen tury U.S. history and Latino studies. She will also serve as a consultant to expand Polytech nic's present curriculum. "I will try to help expand (Polytechnic's) studies to be more representative of the U.S. population — not just white ma les," she said. Garcia will collaborate on films, write reports on curric ulum and help expand Polytech nic's library collection in addi tion to lecturing. Mestrovic will return to his birthplace of Zagreb, Yugosla via, to lecture on American so ciety, emphasizing the demo cratic process. He said his trip was postponed from September to January because of the civil unrest in Croatia. "I get to teach sociology in the town where I was born at a time when the people there are fight ing for democracy," he said. "I will research how r (C tia's) workec what model they are using capitalism and democracy," he said. Mestrovic said he hopes he can bring a new view of Eastern Europe to the United States. "There is a lot of misunder standing about what's going on over there," he said. "I want to bring back to America a clear un derstanding of what is happen ing in Croatia and other coun tries." (Croa- h, ■; ■ / fw- mwm. / i r.% ■ Wm , ; - r y '--Jr' *1P 1 lilt dij§^ Jr 14' j|y i 51 V'. mV s ^4. Jb «• , fm ^ Op ^ * * ^ J|j| t l ftiyr SPStStm JHi ‘Faster, Daddy!’ SCOn D. WEAVER/The Battalion Michael Sweat!, a Texas A&M greenhouse manager, babysits his two children, Shana (7 years old) and Amy (6 ild). He also babysits Ashley Jennings (5 years old). Sweatt pushes the children around on a dolly early IS onday afternoon near the Quadrangle. Baker opens peace talks to Libyans Secretary of State welcomes observer to conference planned by U.S., USSR ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Sec retary of State James A. Baker III, pushing for broad Arab support of a Mideast peace conference, said Monday that Libya would be wel come to send an observer. Baker, at a news confer ence before returning to Washington from his sixth James Baker Mideast peace mission, said he did not think Israel would object to a Libyan observer at the Octo ber talks being planned by the United States and Soviet Union. "That would be something that would be consistent with Is rael's policy" of willingness to talk to Arab neighbors. Baker said. Algeria was Baker's final stop on a Mideast trip focused on ef forts to organize a peace confer ence that would bring Israelis and Arabs face-to-face to resolve their 43-year dispute. Libya, long a militant foe of Is rael's existence, has also long been accused by the United States of fomenting terrorism. Nonetheless, Baker said, "The multilateral negotiations, in our view, should not be closed to any country in the region." U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said Monday that following Baker's mission "prospects for launching a nego tiating process have been signifi cantly enhanced." Baker's weekend stops in Is rael, Jordan, Tunis and Morocco suppc The failed to dislodge the final stick ing point for Arab-Israeli nego tiations: the issue of which Pales tinians would attend. Baker discussed the matter with Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid, who had met Sunday with Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organi zation. Palestinian sources said Bendjedid and Arafat discussed holding a meeting of the Pales tinian parliament-in-exile to de bate the issue of representation at the peace conference. Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi, speaking at a joint news conference with Baker, said the PLO "wants to ort the peace process." e Bush administration has avoided dealing directly with the PLO, but Morocco, Tunisia, Al geria and Jordan all have been in touch with Arafat's organiza tion. Through them, said spokes man Bassam Abu Sharif on Sun day, the PLO has exchanged views with the U.S. govern ment. Baker did not respond directly when asked whether the PLO might attend the conference as well. "It's the position of the United States that there should be a dia logue and negotiations between Israel and Palestinians so that we can have a comprehensive ap proach" to Middle East peace. Baker said. Israel views the PLO as a ter rorist organization and insists on the right to veto any delegates who are members of the group. Croatian president will ask people to fight if necessary ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) —- Croatia's president declared Monday he would ask citizens to fight "with their bare hands" if necessary to defend their repub lic and said he had derailed an effort to oust him. New fighting in the breaka way republic reportedly claimed at least five lives. After the failure Sunday of a European Community peace mission, the 12 EC foreign min isters were to meet today to dis cuss their next moves. Serbia, which objected to EC monitors overseeing a cease-fire in Croa tia, said the EC mission had been biased. The collapse of the EC-spon sored peace talks reduced the chances of avoiding all-out war between rival Serbs and Croats, Yugoslavia's two main ethnic groups. Scores of people have died in clashes between Croatian security forces and Serb militias since Croatia declared indepen dence June 25. The Serbs in Croatia claim dis crimination and many are haunted by the memory of the mass killing of Serbs by Croatia's Nazi puppet regime in World War II. Many ethnic Serbs there want autonomy or to join neigh boring Serbia. Croats accuse Serbia of seek ing to dominate Yugoslavia and keep it socialist. Students from Mexico plan stay at A&M By Melinda Cox The Battalion Students from the Institute for Technical Studies in Monterrey, Mexico, will visit the Texas A&M campus to gain insight into col lege and resident life. Michael Osterbuhr, an A&M Student Affairs area coordinator, said eight resident advisers and four professional staff members will stay at A&M Oct. 22 to 27 to learn about and observe resident life. Interest from Mexico to visit the A&M campus came after res ident advisers, directors and professional members from A&M toured the Mexican cam pus and spent evenings in round table discussions about policies and training, he said. "The students from Mexico will sit in on R.A. classes and stay with the R.A.s to see what day-to-day encounters are like," Osterbuhr said. He said the encounters are similiar to situations at the Mon terrey school, but the institute is not as liberal as A&M. Osterbuhr said the campus is more technical and science- oriented, similar to Massachu setts Institute of Technology (MIT) or CalTech. The institute also is more involved with disci pline, he said. Gloria Flores, coordinator for Student Development and Mul ticultural Programs at A&M, said this discipline comes from a more structured university and a family-oriented society. The family plays a different role with students in Mexico, Flores said. Familial ties are very important in Mexico and these ties allow universities more con trol over the students. She said universities in Mexico respond to people paying the bills. Universities are usually re sponsible to parents and nave more control over students in dormitories. If a hall takes disciplinary ac tion against a student, it is re corded and sent home to the stu dent's parents. Transgressions meriting disci plinary action include visitation policy violations, she said. "There is no vistation allowed between opposite genders," Flores said. "This type of visita tion is only allowed in a court yard located outside the hall area." Flores said this limitation does not bother students because of the different culture in Mexico. The Mexican culture is more open, and personal interactions are not as formal or complicated as interactions are here, she said. Flores said the program is not set up as a retention tool, but as an educational one. See Visit/Page 6
