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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1991)
COLD FRONT High in the low 70s with a 40 percent chance of rain. Pag* 11 "The real kicker is that you will no longer be required to buy your goods and services on campus ... It's now legal to shop at Wal-Mart, Kroger's, the post Oak Mall, or wherever your little heart desires". —Tim Truesdale's platform for his student regent campaign. Pag* 7 Football - Thomas runs out of Hill's shadow/ 7 Volleyball - Lady Ags roll over Stephen F. Austin/ 7 Outdoors - Critics wrong about sport of hunting/ 9 The Battalion Vol. 91 No. 14 CISPS 045360 f Collec[e i Station i Texas "Serving Texas A&M since 1893 11 J^JPage^^^^^hursda^SejgitemberJB^^Ol^ urvey shows local child care satisfies A&M employees By Melinda Cox The Battalion I Texas A&M does not provide any day care facilities on campus, but A&M em ployees do not find the lack of service troubling, a local survey reports. | Diana Welch, extension family life teecialist with the Texas Agricultural Ex tension Service, said a survey by the A&M University System User's/ Bryan- College Station Child Care Council also found that people involved with day care in Bryan-College Station are satisfied with He service. The study reported University staff were not concerned about the lack of day care on campus because of the availability of adequate child care facilities in the community. Welch said the survey determined that it was not feasible to set up a day care facility on campus because of cost and in sufficient space. The lack of space also creates a problem when deciding whose children would be served, she said. Another reason for A&M's lack of a day care facility stems from the economic relationship between the University and Bryan-College Station. "This community is more unique than other university communities because of the close economic ties between the cam pus and the community," Welch said. This business relationship makes it important for friendly ties to be main tained between the two, she said. So in stead of creating a day care, A&M sup ports the day care centers in the commu nity, she said. This fact was considered when rec ommendations for the survey were deter mined, Welch said. 'The system was set up to encourage communication between providers and users, to establish a dialogue," Welch said. "Other recommendations were to enhance the quality of child care through utilizing resources of the University and determine how the University could ana lyze the need for child care support." Jackie Caruso, senior wage and salary analyst for the A&M University Human Resource Department, said the council conducting the survey is composed of users and providers of day care. Caruso said the council holds sympo siums to encourage communication be tween members of the council and the community. The council also assists par ents in their search for child care through the use of a list, he said. "The Human Resource Department on campus maintains a listing of information of regulated family homes and child care facilities in Bryan-College Station," Caru so said. People interested in child care facili ties available in the area can access the list to determine their options. The list, however, is not accessible to the general public because people are not aware of the option, said Vicki Gibson, di rector of Education Station. 'The list would be more effective if it was divided into locations or had a rating system so people would know what was available at a particular child care facili ty," Gibson said. Gibson said the funds are not avail able to market the list, so it is difficult to inform people not directly involved with the University. Welch said goals have been estab lished to automate the list to make it more accessible to the public. Taking it easy Wesley Jackson, drinking, talks with his landscape maintenance co-workers McDaniel. The workers said they were anxiously awaiting the cool front that during lunch on Wednesday. Seated are James Woodham, left, and Henry entered the Bryan-College Station area last night. Hostage release draws near Fourth Westerner soon to obtain freedom from Beirut BEIRUT* Lebanon (AP) — The official Iranian news agency on Wednesday predicted the immi nent release of a Western hostage and named 77- year-old Briton Jack Mann as most likely to be freed. The report by the Islamic Re public News Agency height ened speculation that Mann, who Perez de Cuellar was kidnapped May 12, 1989, would become the fourth Western captive to be set free in six weeks. Several hours af ter IRNA issued its report, there was no word of any release. U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has been working to arrange a deal that would free Western hostages in Lebanon and about 300 Lebanese prisoners held by Israel. The Jewish state seeks an accounting of Israeli soldiers miss ing in Lebanon. After Israel freed 51 Arab pris oners last week, the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organiza tion issued a statement saying Mann was alive and well. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah is believed to be the umbrella group for factions holding most of the missing Westerners. Iran, which has facilitated previous hostage releases, recently has reit erated the importance of learning the fate of four Iranians who dis appeared in Lebanon in 1982. In Tehran, Lebanese Foreign Minister Fares Bweiz said he would urge Lebanese officials to press the search for the four Irani ans. The Iranians were kidnapped by Christian militiamen, and re portedly were killed. The Iranian news agency, in a report datelined Beirut and filed early Wednesday afternoon, said: "Another Western hostage in Beirut will be released in the next few hours, informed sources said here early Wednesday afternoon. \ pj- . .. Hussein hinders search for hidden Iraqi weapons 3ush sends warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters GRAND CANYON VIL LAGE, Ariz. (AP) -— President Bush declared Wednesday he will send warplanes to escort U.N. he licopters searchine for hidden Iraqi weapons if Saddam Hussein continues to impede the inspec tors. Bush and other top adminis tration officials sought to cut short any speculation that new ffighting was in store. "This is not Desert Storm II," one senior aide said. The president said of Saddam, "There's just determination ... that he will comply" with the United Nations mandate for in spection and destruction of Iraq's nuclear and other major weapons facilities. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft said the war planes would provide air cover for the helicopters should Sad dam continue placing restrictions on inspections, but "if he will comply with the U.N. resolutions there won't need to be an execute order." He said that Saudi Arabia had requested and would receive Pa triot missiles for defensive pur poses. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said later, "We believe Iraq still possesses several hundred Scud missiles of the type used against Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War." Bush, asked about the possi bility of renewed military conflict, said, "I don't think Saddam wants that. Tm confident he doesn't." Bush added, "I'm plenty fed up. I think the man will see we are very serious about this.” Saudi Arabia requests, receives Patriot missiles FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) — Word that a supply of Patriot missiles would be sent to Saudi Arabia along with U.S. warplanes sent jitters Wednesday through this Army post that has yet to see all its troops return from Operation Desert Storm. "I just hope my husband doesn't have to go back over there," said Kathy Freeman, wife of Staff Sgt. Howard Freeman, a member of the 11th Air Defense Artillery. Her hus band returned from the Middle East in March. "I don't think I can take it this time," she said. President Bush said Wednesday he will send warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if Saddam Hussein continues to impede the inspectors. Bush said he was "plenty fed up" with Sad dam but not looking for a hew war. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has re quested and will receive a supply of Patriot missiles for defensive purposes. "It's a safeguard," Bush said of the mis siles. Fort Bliss officials said no Fort Bliss units had been mobilized by Wednesday afternoon. The post would not comment on whether the Patriots will come from Fort Bliss, which is headquarters for the weapon system, or whether Fort Bliss troops would operate them. "We are not the only repository of Patriot missiles," said Tony Cuciniello, a Fort Bliss spokesman. The Patriot was used during Operation Desert Storm to shoot down Iraqi Scud mis siles. Cuciniello said the post had not height ened its alert status. There was no extra activity or increased security alert at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, said spokeswoman Cynthia Bauer. "Absolutely business as usual," Bauer said. "We haven't gotten anything (orders) down from higher headquarters." Bauer said there was no increased securi ty alert. "There's no kind of increased precaution," she said. Senators praise Gates at hearings WASHINGTON (AP) — Bar ring some explosive new disclo sure, Robert Gates appears headed for confirmation as President Bush's new CIA director, despite new evidence he knew more about the Iran-Contra affair than he has acknowledged. Four years ago. Gates was forced to withdraw as President Reagan's nominee to head the spy agency because of uncertainties about his role in the arms-for- hostages scandal. Since then, investigators have found new documents and heard testimony that the 47-year-old an alyst, now Bush's deputy national security adviser, was aware of the arms sales to Iran, the secret aid for Nicaraguan rebels and the pos sibility of a money link between the two. Former CIA colleagues will be closely questioned on Thursday, when the hearings resume, about their discussions with Gates on those subjects. During two days of confirma tion hearings this week before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Gates has responded to questions about his role in one of two ways: either he regrets not doing more to et to the bottom of the affair, or e doesn't remember. That seems not to matter much to most of the 15 committee mem bers. Only two — Sens. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, and Bill Bradley, D-N.J., have challenged Gates in their questions. "Overall, Mr. Gates has made a very positive impression on the committee," said Chairman David Boren, D-Okla. "What has happened has hap- B ened," Sen. Dennis DeConcini, >-Ariz., told Gates. "You admit ted you made mistakes, and I ad mire that." Later, he added: "Tm impressed with your candor." And Sen. John Chafee, R-R.L, commented, "Tm confident you'll be confirmed." Metzenbaum charged angrily on Tuesday that the process had turned totally political. "None of the Republicans seem to be inter ested in hearing the questions or the answers," he lamented. Sitting behind Gates during the first two days of hearings has been a phalanx of White House and CIA officials, together with Tom Korologos, a lobbyist hired to help steer the nomination through the Senate.