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    Partly
cloudy with
a 20 percent
chance of
rain. High in
the low 90s.
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"Its ridiculous that the University has
been keeping the settlement with 19
female professors under wraps, and
female professors contacted about the
story felt pressured not to talk."
- Holly Becka on salary
discrimination.
The Battalion
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Tulsa Preview:
Freshman
Wilbert Biggens
holds a bright
future at A&M.
Vol. 91 No. 13 (ISPS 045360
College Station, Texas
"Serving Texas A&M since 1893"
8 Pages
Wednesday, September 18, 1991
piscovery makes nighttime landing in California
I EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.
(IP) — Discovery was diverted from
Florida because of bad weather and glid-
■1 instead to a night landing in the Cali-
llrnia desert today, capping a mission to
put an ozone-studying satellite in space.
I "We're glad you're back. Discovery.
Your mission will pave the way for a bet
ter understanding of our planet Earth,"
■ission Control said as the shuttle and its
fl/e-man crew landed at Edwards Air
Fprce Base at 2:38 a.m. CDT.
I Six giant searchlights illuminated the
concrete runway as Discovery glided to
the ground, the fifth time a shuttle landed
in darkness in the Mojave Desert. Discov
ery traveled 2.2 million miles in orbiting
Earth 81 times.
The shuttle was to have made the first
nighttime landing at Kennedy Space Cen
ter at Cape Canaveral, Fla., but cloudy
skies prompted NASA to wave off Dis
covery for an extra orbit around the Earth,
then detour it to California. •
"We weren't expecting it, but we're
happy to be able to react so fast," Don Ha
ley, a NASA spokesman at Edwards.
NASA feared Discovery might run
into rain if it landed in Florida. Rain
smacking into the shuttle at high speed
can damage the thermal tiles that keep the
spacecraft from burning up when it re-en
ters the Earth's atmosphere.
The five-day flight began with a
launch from Florida last Thursday night
and was highlighted by Saturday's launch
of the $740 million Upper Atmosphere
Satellite. The satellite will study how pol
lutants damage Earth's ozone layer,
which blocks ultraviolet light that can
cause skin cancer and kill crops.
The satellite ushered in NASA's Mis
sion to Planet Earth program, in which
several dozen environmental spacecraft
will study the planet during the decade.
During Discovery's descent, it flew
over the Pacific, crossed the U.S. coast
near Newport, Ore., and zoomed down
the middle of California.
Its characteristic twin sonic booms
heralded the return of the shuttle with
commander John Creighton, pilot Ken
neth Reightler Jr., and astronauts James F.
Buchli, Mark Brown and Charles "Sam"
Gemar.
"Our 911 lines just lit up," Sacramento
police dispatcher Dafna Vann said. "Peo
ple heard their windows rattling and
thought their homes were being broken
into."
The landing was televised using an in
frared camera on NASA's closed-circuit
network. The camera detects heat, so the
bottom of the shuttle glowed brightly
from the heat of re-entry. Puffs of hot ex
haust were visible near the tail.
Edwards was virtually deserted.
Design of
iare center
Important
By Mark Evans
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I A study conducted by a Texas
AiVM faculty member suggests ar-
■itectural design plays an impor-
Bnt role in increasing the effec-
titeness of health care centers
wl ile cutting their costs.
■ The project by Dr. Shirley
■me, an assistant professor of re
gional and urban planning, exam-
ISes the effects of facility design on
■tients undergoing kidney dialy-
B and the staff tending to them.
I These patients often spend 12
■ 20 hours a week hooked up to a
hemodialysis machine receiving
treatment, she said.
I "A lot of concern of the federal
government has to do with the
cost of medical care," Bame said,
"jply concern is to help understand
■ays to contain costs without
compromising quality. If we can
reduce the cost by changing the fa-
Bity design which could be inex
pensive to do, if that would im
prove the efficiency of the staff
and the effectiveness of care, then
we've made a major dent in the
problem without having to sacri-
ibe any of the quality."
I Kidney dialysis patients must
follow a strict regimen to stay
Hell. This requires them to control
their diet and fluid intake, under-
|o regular dialysis treatment, and
■ke as many as 15 medications a
By.
I "With kidney disease the pa
tients have very definite things
they have to do, otherwise they ei
ther get very sick, and end up in
the hospital, or they die," Bame
said.
I In a pilot study, Bame found
pat during a six month period 94
percent of the dialysis patients did
not keep up with their treatment
program. As a result, they re
quired more health care than
would have normally been need-
p, the study found.
I She believes a facility's design
can motivate patients to comply
See Study/Page 2
RICHARD S. JAMES/The Battalion
Down under
Bobby Grona with the Texas State Department of Wellborn Road Tuesday afternoon. Grona and the other
Highways and Public Transportation works on a derrick that workers are taking soil samples to determine permeability
retrieves soil samples in the gravel parking lot along and bearing capacity of the soil for the LoTrakproject.O
Baker gives
support to
home loans
Bush administration will
back Israeli housing plan
agree to," said the official.
After his meeting with Shamir.
Baker flew to Egypt to confer with
President Hosni Mubarak. Before
he returns to Washington, Baker
also plans to visit Syria and Jor
dan.
The furor over the loan guar
antees has reverberated both do
mestically and internationally and
has prompted unusually harsh ex
changes between the president
and U.S. supporters of Israel as
well as between Bush and Israeli
government officials.
At a news conference last
week. Bush called his request for a
120-day delay a "pause for peace"
in the Middle East and threatened
to veto legislation that would ap
prove the guarantees immediately.
Asked if he were willing to
commit himself to supporting the
loan guarantees in January, the
president replied: "Absolutely
not."
En route to Cairo from Israel,
Baker outlined the main points in
the U.S. offer.
"We would agree that we
would not ask for further delay
beyond January," he said. The U.S.
proposal also includes a promise
to work with supporters of the
loan guarantees to find "a suitable
legislative vehicle" for obtaining
swift congressional approval.
The administration would re
state its commitment to the princi
ple of providing Israel aid for set
tling Soviet immigrants and
would work to minimize the im
pact of the guarantees on the U.S.
budget.
CAIRO (AP) — Secretary of
State James A. Baker III told Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
Tuesday the
Bush adminis
tration will
support the
housing-loan
guarantees Is
rael is vigor
ously seeking
— if Israel ac
cepts a four-
month delay
and limits on
where the
money can be
spent.
Baker's proposal was part of
an effort to end an acrimonious
squabble that has upset U.S.-Is
raeli relations and threatened ef
forts to convene a Middle East
peace conference next month.
Shamir said after the talks,
"We have achieved a certain
progress," but he added that the
question of the $10 billion in loan
guarantees was "not yet re
solved."
Baker, rejecting a main Shamir
demand, said the United States
would insist on a condition that
none of the money be used for set
tlements in the disputed territories
of the West Bank and Gaza.
A senior administration official
traveling on Baker's plane said the
secretary of state believes that if
that condition is dropped Arab
countries "won't come to the
table" for the talks Baker has been
struggling to arrange. "That just is
something we are not going to
James Baker
Prof promotes international business
By Aiysia Woods
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Dr. S. Kerry Cooper is good at what he
| does - helping students who want to pursue a
career in international business.
And in recognition of his accomplish
ments, Cooper has been named recipient of
the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Chair
in Business Administration.
But Cooper cannot stress enough the im-
jportance of developing relationships with in
ternational students at A&M.
"The first thing I ask a student who comes
to me and wants to study abroad is, 'Have
I you met any international students here on
|campus?'" Cooper says. "That's the most
convenient way to learn about other coun-
I tries."
Cooper heads one of the most successful
international business studies centers in the
nation and helps students with a variety of in
ternational interests every day. The Center
for International Business Services (CIBS) at
A&M presently directs about 700 A&M stu
dents who want to enter the international
business field.
Because the CIBS has grown during the
past three years, it was selected in 1990 as a
Center for International Business Education
and Research (CIBER) by the U.S. Depart
ment of Education.
Only sixteen universities in the nation
□ Hugh Roy CullenChair Recipient/ Page 3
were chosen to share the annual Congression
al appropriation, which amounts to $250,000
a year per school.
As a result of the funding, the center has
been able to expand its services and offer
more programs to students and faculty. The
center also receives funds through private
sector donations.
One of the most beneficial programs for
the students is the new courses in internation
al business that are being offered this year.
They include courses in international fi
nance, international marketing, multinational
marketing management, and business cours
es relating to the current state of the Soviet
Union. These courses will be taught by a vis
iting professor from the Soviet Union, he
says.
"The classes are very popular - they fill
up almost instantly," Cooper says.
A course on current Middle Eastern busi
ness relations will be offered in the spring. It
will be taught by Ronald Hatchett, associate
director for programs at A&M's Mosher In
stitute for Defense Studies, and by Weldon
Krueger, former president of the large corpo
ration called Esso-Middle East.
Other activities the CIBS coordinates are
study abroad programs for both students and
faculty, a consortium to create an internation
al center in Germany for the purpose of train
ing faculty, and faculty workshops.
The CIBS is currently working on a study
abroad program in Castiglion Florentine,
Italy. The program will be used to teach busi
ness and liberal arts courses in Japanese and
European culture and commerce.
See Cooper/Page 2
Crash of Williams-owned
plane blamed on pilot error
PUTNAM (AP) - A report by
the National Transportation Safety
Board says the February 1990
crash of an airplane owned by
Midland businessman Clayton
Williams, which killed five men,
was due to "improper planning by
the pilot."
The two-page report, released
from NTSB headquarters in Wash
ington, D.C, says the pilot did not
have much experience in the Mit
subishi MU-2 turboprop and
failed to get a comprehensive fore
cast of weather conditions before
takeoff and during the flight.
"Excessive accumulation of
structural icing on the aircraft's
wings, stabilizers, fuselage and en
gine inlets" caused the pilot to
lose control of the aircraft, the re
port said.
According to the report, the
MU-2 turboprop descended from
more than 14,000 feet to 9,700 feet
during a 24-second period before
crashing nose first in a fiery explo
sion in a field roughly 35 miles
east of Abilene.
The men took off from Mid
land shortly after 7 a.m. on Feb.
14, 1990, en route to Love Field in
Dallas.
The pilot attempted to get a
forecast from the Automated
Flight Service Station in San Ange
lo, but computers there were
down, and the pilot failed to con
tact any other local weather ser
vices for information, the report
said.
Freezing temperatures were
occurring that day at 10,000 to
12,000 feet, and the aircraft was
cruising at an altitude of 15,000
feet, the report said.
The crash claimed the lives of
Williams Aviation Co. pilot Ken
Mardis, 52, and four business as
sociates of Williams.