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Thursday, April 2, 1992
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Bush pledged Wednesday the United
States will help finance a $24 billion inter
national aid fund for the former Soviet
Union.
“This isn't any Johnny-come-lately
thing and this isn't driven by election year
pressures," Bush said at a White House
news conference. “It's what's right for the
United States."
Democrat Bill Clinton accused the
president of moving too slowly on eco
nomic and humanitarian aid to the former
Soviet republics. At a speech in New
York, Clinton called Bush's foreign policy
"reactive, rudderless, and erratic." Earlier
this month, former President Richard
Nixon had said U.S. support for Russia
was "pathetic."
Bush, at the White House, said, "Some
people will attack you for doing too much
and some for not doing enough. I think
this is right."
The $24 billion aid fund would be ex
tended by financial institutions such as
the International Monetary Fund with
principal backing from the Group of Sev
en — Germany, Japan, France, Britain,
Italy, Canada and the United States.
Bush said the United States would pro
vide $600 million in new credit guaran
tees for grain purchases by Russia and a
total of $500 million for Ukraine, Armenia
and other former republics of the now de
funct Soviet Union.
The money would be in addition to the
$3.75 billion in agricultural credits ap
proved by Bush since January 1991.
Boris Yeltsin,
president of the
Commonwealth
of Independent
States, plans to
reduce its armed
forces to 1.2
million troops/
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Student leaders are questioning
the conduct of a member of the
Texas A&M Student Government
and a yell leader the night before
student body elections.
Copies of a letter signed by Ty
Clevenger, a student senator and
also A&M's student body presi
dent /or 1990-91, and Trent Kelley,
a senior yell leader this year, were
distributed to residence halls and
placed on car windshields across
campus Tuesday night.
In the fliers, Clevenger accused
student body president candidate
John Ansbach of attempting to dis
credit fellow student body presi
dent candidate David Brooks' by
filing charges of mail tampering
against Brooks.
Kelley joined Clevenger in at
tacking The Battalion's coverage of
the entire student election, claim
ing the student newspaper partici
pated in character assassination
and manipulated the student
body.
Election Commissioner James
Phipps said the distribution of the
letter did not break any campaign
rules, but it is an embarrassment to
Student Government.
"I think this is a case of Ty
shooting his mouth off/' Phipps
said. "The statements Ty made in
the letter show he is very unin
formed about what is going on.
"Ansbach's removal from the
Student Senate and the charges of
See Student /Page 9
ROBERT J. REED/The Battalion
He’s doing WHAT?
Rehan Walgama, a history major from
Henderson, impersonates a sperm cell at the
MSC fountain Wednesday for A&M’s Funniest
People, sponsored by AggieVision. Participants
received a free AggieVision video yearbook.
Prizes and gifts, donated by local merchants,
also were given away in drawings. The video
yearbooks for 1991-92 can be ordered at the
AggieVision office in the basement of Reed
McDonald.
Sexual assaults
increase, alarm
local officials
By Alysia Woods
The Battalion
An alarming increase in the
number of sexual assaults this
year has troubled local police offi
cials and left volunteers at a rape
crisis center with their hands full.
Lt. Mason Newton with the
College Station Police Department
said a sexual assault that occurred
last Saturday behind Kinko's in
Northgate marks the eighth rape
this year.
Around 6 a.m., a woman was
attacked and driven to an un
known location where she was
sexually assaulted. The woman
was then left in the trunk of her
car and was found on a road off
Hwy. 60 east of College Station
two hours later.
Last year a total of nine sexual
assaults were reported in Bryan-
College Station.
"This is scary," Newton said.
"We don't want to make light of
this whole thing because we are
already up to eight reported as
saults this year."
Newton said of the eight rapes
that have been reported, four have
been acquaintance rapes and four
have been rapes in which the vic
tim did not know the assailant.
The numbers, however, only
reflect the rapes that are actually
reported to police. Most rapes are
not reported, he said.
Only one out of 10 rapes are
ever reported, said Paula McCune,
volunteer coordinator for the Bra
zos County Rape Crisis Center.
"We can see how all this has
alarmed our community, but we
get calls everyday from women
who never report it," she said.
Due to the recent sexual as
saults that have occurred, McCune
See Center/Page 9
TWC gives Atochem 30 days
to finalize clean up strategies
AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas
Water Commission Wednesday
gave Atochem North America Inc.
30 days to resolve negotiations on
cleaning up its Bryan facility be
fore a hearing that could lead to
the state's largest environmental
penalty.
Atochem and the commission
staff are discusing 22 technical rec-
ommendations to clean up the
company's Bryan pesticide manu
facturing plant, where the com
mission says arsenic-contaminated
ground water ran off the property.
The commission staff has sug
gested the board levy a record $10
million penalty for the infractions.
The largest assesment by the
TWC is $1 million against Dal-Tile
Corp. Commission spokesman Bill
Colbert said the $10 million fine
would be the nation's largest ac
cording to his research.
Attorneys representing
Atochem at Wednesday's commis-
See Environmental/Page 9
Representative talks
about homosexuality
Expresses difficulties of hiding feelings
By Robin Roach
The Battalion
A Texas state representative ex
pressed the difficulty he experi
enced as a result of hiding his own
homosexuality
Wednesday
night as part of
Gay and Lesbian
Awareness
Week.
Texas State
Rep. Glen Max-
ey, a former stu
dent of A&M,
discussed poli
tics regarding
the gay and les
bian community
and the emotional and social as
pects of being homosexual in to
days society at the lecture "The
Courage to Make a Difference."
"I feared that if people knew I
was gay, I would not be able to
run for public office," Maxey said.
At almost 40 years of age, Max
ey has been open about his homo
sexuality for six years. He dis-
Glen Maxey
played this by wearing a pink tri
angle on his bolo tie.
The pink triangle is the gay
symbol, historically based on the
symbol worn by gay men in Nazi
concentration camps during
World War II.
One of the first issues Maxey
dealt with as a political lobbyist
was the quarantine proposal for
AIDS sufferes, which he success
fully fought to withdraw.
"Up until 1985, the quarantine
law in this state meant that public
health authorities could pick you
up — and under the law, lock you
away until you were no longer
contagious," he said.
When the position for state rep
resentative became available in
1991, Maxey contemplated run
ning. Maxey said he was discour
aged by Gov. Ann Richards be
cause he would be viewed as a
single-agenda candidate for gays
and lesbians.
Maxey campaigned for candi
dacy regardless of Richards' pre
cautions and succeeded in becom
See Gay /Page 9
IT’S NOT
TOO LATE
TO VOTE
Student body elections
end today. Polling places
will be open from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. at the following
locations:
Blocker Building
Kleberg Center
Sterling C. Evans
Library
MSC foyer (between
the Sweet Shop
and Rudder
Tower).
Runoff elections will be
held Tuesday, April 7 from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. at the same
locations.
Wiley Lecture Series
DARRIN HILUThe Battalion
(From left to right) Dr. Antoni Kaminski, Dr. Vitaly Shlykov, Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., Dr. Jean-Rene
Gehan, Mr. Tamas Katona and Catherine Crier discuss the complexities of a post-Cold War world.
European security remains complex issue
By Sharon Gilmore
The Battalion
Although the Cold War has
ended, a panel of experts from
around the world said security in
Europe and America's presence in
the area remains a complex issue
with unclear answers.
Catherine Crier, anchor of
CNN, acted as moderator for the
discussion sponsored by the MSC
Wiley Lecture Series entitled
"New World. New Europe. New
Defense?"
Before becoming a CNN an
chor, Crier was the youngest dis
trict judge judge in Texas and the
first woman initially elected to a
civil district bench in Dallas Coun
ty-
Security should be defined in
the broadest sense, and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
should play a big role in it, said
Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., former
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
"NATO offers the best
prospects for keeping America
deeply engaged in the region,"
Crowe said. "Together it will offer
the most promise to all the coun
tries in Europe and North Ameri
ca," he said.
In Crowe's 43 year career he
has served as commander of the
United States/Middle East Force
in the Persian Gulf, NATO Com
mander in Southern Europe and
commanded all United States
forces in the Pacific.
Crowe said the most important
steps in developing security in Eu
rope are creating a democracy and
See World /Page 9