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Customs agents also seized between $850,000 and $1 million — be lieved to be on its way to Colom bia — at a Houston house on Sat urday. Charges against the woman are expected to be filed Monday, said Patricia McCauley, district di rector of the U.S. Customs Service in Houston. The woman, 29, told investiga tors she is homeless, recently had her children taken away from her and was recruited to bring the heroin to the United States from Eastern Europe. Her passport showed she went from Houston to Bulgaria, then to Austria and the Netherlands, Ms. McCauley said. The woman returned about 10 p.m. to Houston InterContinental Airport aboard Saturday's last flight from Amsterdam, but was straggling behind the other pas sengers, said inspector Leo Elizon do, who became suspicious and asked to search her handbag. Alpha Kappa Psi would like to congratulate its Omicron pledge class for Fall 1991. BRETT ALLEN BRENT DICKEY ROSS PERRY BOBBY BARRETT MARIANNE GERBER ROB REAMS KELLY BEDRICH SANTHOSH JOHN MICHAEL RISINGER KAREN BOWLING MELISSA KILLINGSWORTH KATHERINE SABOM ASHLEY BOWMAN BRYCE LANGEN GLENN SCAMMAN BLAINE BRYANT ROB MARSHALL KAREN SCHOTT DARLA CARSEY debbie Mcelroy BRIAN SCHWERTNER CARROLL CONN PAM PARMA GLEN TILLER Congratulations to these Aggie grads who began their career with Andersen Consulting in 1990-91 Dallas Houston Lauri Albin John Baldwin Jan Guido Leigh Anne Robertson Scott Fossler Daniel Banchik Danisha Hansen David Schorlemer Jennifer Mobley Gwen Brown Sue Hendrickson Kip Zacharias Pat O'Boyle David Cain John Hilton Darrell Petty Shelly Cox Greg Lorenz Other Kathy Reddin Dee Ann Frankum Stephen Manning Phil Thomas To find out more about career opportunities with Andersen Consulting please attend our PRESENTATION & RECEPTION Tuesday, October 1,1991 MSC Room 201 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. casual attire - refreshments provided All seniors and masters candidates in engineering, accounting, finance, computer science and BANA are invited. We will be interviewing through our Job Fair on October 2 in the MSC. Andersen Consulting ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO., S.C. The Battalion Monday, September 23,13i Freshman cadets from outfit D-1 rigidly A&R Photography Sunday evening on pose for their yearbook picture done by the steps of the System Building. Galveston wildlife habitats face destruction Former ranger attempts to save bay HOUSTON (AP) - John Cheesman sees the destruction of Galveston Bay's wildlife habitats as a shameful insult to nature. So in a small way, the former park ranger and teacher is trying to make amends for man's indis cretions. Cheesman is coordinating a volunteer project to create saltwa ter marshes a few miles from the place where the San Jacinto River enters the bay. It's an area where upstream dams, channel-dredging and sub sidence have caused salty bay wa ter to inundate swampy, freshwa ter wetlands since the 1950s. If the idea works, the marsh grass being planted in the area will nourish and shelter young marine creatures, filter pollutants and fight shoreline erosion. It will restore part, although only a tiny part, of the vast habitat areas around the bay system that have fallen victim to human activ ities and natural forces. "We accelerate the damage/so we should accelerate - the recov ery," Cheesman told the Houston Chronicle. But such efforts to reverse Galveston Bay's deterioration are an uphill struggle. The widespread disappearance of marshes and sea grasses — the ba sis of a complex food chain that supports seafood production — is a matter of immense concern to those trying to avert a collapse of the bay's biological system. Bill Stransky, for example, has hunted and fished around the bay since he was a boy. In the last 20 years, he has witnessed severe damage to these habitat areas. Stransky, wetlands conserva tion chairman of the Houston Sier ra Club, recalled a typical example near Kemah, where a truck was abandoned in the 1970s after it got stuck in a marsh some 30 yards from open water. The truck still is mired in the same spot, he said, but now it's about 50 yards from the shoreline, which has steadily retreated in land. Discharges into the bay may be getting cleaner, Stransky said, "but if we don't have marshes for nursery habitat, we won't have anything left." A booming Houston-area economy has hastened the de struction. State officials point to the fill ing and bulkheading of wetlands that accompanied waterfront housing construction on Galve ston Island in the 1960s as a classic case of marsh destruction that would not be allowed under cur rent regulations. The Clear Lake area's rapid development after the Johnst: Space Center was established ak led to significant wet lands loss in the same period, said Elk Roof, a longtime member oftli Galveston Bay Conservation an; Preservation Association. By that time, the first maf disruption of wetlands aroundtl bay was well under way, i Chambers County drainage pit jects converted marshes to fant: land, said Frank Fisher, a Rio University biology professor an; wetlands authority. Human encroachment on we lands has combined with natural; rising sea levels to produce alarr ing habitat losses around the I® said Fisher, chairman of 111 Galveston Bay National Estuar Program's science committee. Perhaps less noticed byth public, but no less worrisome* many scientists, is the almost tot eradication of Galveston Bay submerged seagrasses, whirl formed another important nurser habitat for marine creatures. Shrimpers see the decline; 1 the bay's seagrasses, where grov ing shrimp hide from predators as one reason they are struggln; to catch enough shrimp to surviv; said Lucy Gibbs, executive dire; tor of the Texas Shrimp Associ; t\on. qB&W Photography, Art Reproductions, Contemporary European Images, Gallery Prints^ CD □ CD o CD E < c CD O CD o o cr JC O) o CD c CD > O a. o O) CD CD -C o w UJ O «» o0 POSTERS i Gim;u QkasFft A Monday - Friday September 23-27 First Floor M.S.C. Across from the Post Office 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sponsored by M.S.C. Visual Arts ANSEL ADAMS Michael j o r v a n GT eat rt ! S cle ctl SHOW AND SALE Music, Personalities, Movies, Renoir, Travel Posters, Nature, Sports, Dance, Romantic Images 1 Monday, S« Thi WASHINt world's poorc financial setb. pounded by t from the Pen World Bank sr In its anm nation lending economic gr< World edged 1990, the wc 1982. 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