Thursday, April 9, 1992
The Battalion
Page 5
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Libyan leader Moammar Gad-
hafi made a bedside visit with
Arafat on Wednesday night at a
hospital in Misratah, 120 miles
east of Tripoli.
Libyan television showed
Arafat, lying with a bandaged
right eye, smiling and chatting
with Gadhafi, who embraced him.
"We have treated him fully and
comprehensively," doctor Muftah
al-Shwayhidi said. "His health is
excellent."
Bassam Abu Sharif, a close ad
viser, said he should be healthy
enough Thursday to preside over
a session of the PLO's 80-member,
policy-making Central Council.
In a televised interview with a
Libyan reporter, Arafat thanked
Gadhafi for having "mobilized the
whole state" to find him.
He said the two pilots and an
engineer were killed and five oth
ers badly hurt.
Others on the plane suffered
minor injuries or escaped unhurt,
he said.
Palestinians around the Arab
world celebrated joyously after
hearing the news that Arafat was
found at dawn, bruised but alive
after missing for 15 hours.
Arafat has been the Palestine
Liberation Organization's undis
puted leader for 23 years.
Had he been lost, it would have
been a grievous blow to the orga
nization and could have seriously
undermined U.S.-sponsored Mid
dle East peace talks.
"God has saved the Palestini
ans from a political disaster. . . .
Arafat is irreplaceable," said Zeid
Wahbeh, Arafat's representative
in southern Lebanon.
Arafat's two most important
aides have been assassinated over
the past four years and no one
else has the stature to step in as
successor of the divided PLO.
Arafat was flying from Sudan
to Tunis, where he was scheduled
to preside at a meeting of the Cen
tral Council on Thursday.
PLO officials said he was on his
way to Tripoli, Libya's capital,
Wednesday night and would go
to Tunis for Thursday's meeting.
Free trade talks with Mexico arouse anxiety
Lawmakers, agriculturalists urge Bush administration to guard American jobs
■ WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers and
■■■iHwagricultural producers alike weighed in
Wednesday with their concerns over a pro-
i 1 lA 1 It P osec * free trade agreement with Mexico,
HI 111' telling the Bush administration it must fight
> for provisions to protect American jobs and
ffioods.
, .■ "While 1 am enthusiastic about the possibili-
v 0 c .les in these negotiations, I have not and will
, 'j not blindly endorse any agreement struck by
' 1 U V,". the negotiators," said Rep. Kika de la Garza,
ssom€ "“ [chairman of the House Agriculture Commit-
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i i ia \ e Tyoved by the Congress is if we ensure that
IS . ; public and industry concerns are not ignored
jnowneisM* ^ ne g 0 tj a t O rs and not ignored by their
elected officials," the Mission Democrat said.
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The free trade talks, which began last June,
are envisioned to create a North American
market of 360 million consumers with an an
nual output of $6 trillion.
Representatives of several agricultural
groups testified during Wednesday's Agricul
ture Committee hearing that they have serious
reservations about the talks with Mexico and
Canada.
Without adequate protections, a free trade
agreement could "be a giant foreign aid pro
gram for Mexico," said Jeffrey D. Garguilo of
the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association.
"If we had to make a decision now, we
would work to defeat the (North American
Free Trade Agreement) because there are too
many unknowns," he said. "However, the ne
gotiations do not seem to be far enough along
for us to make a meaningful decision."
Garguilo and others said it is imperative
that the United States push for a phaseout of
tariffs over up to 20 years for sensitive crops,
as well as safeguard mechanisms to prevent
dumping of cheap goods, and laws to prevent
other countries from using Mexico as a gate-
wav into North America.
"Unless it's from a cow milked in one of the
three countries, it shouldn't move back and
forth," de la Garza said, citing a concern that
heavily subsidized European Community
dairy products could be dumped in U.S. mar
kets.
American producers also want the creation
of panels to settle disputes between the three
countries, assistance for displaced American
farm workers and the elimination of Mexican
and Canadian protections for industries such
as dairy, poultry and corn.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Government reports
on the super collider have been kept from support
ers of the controversial $8.25 billion project, three
Texas congressmen charged Wednesday.
Rep. Howard Wolpe, who chairs a House over
sight subcommittee with jurisdiction over the gi
ant atom smasher, has withheld documents com
piled by General Accounting Office investigators,
the Texans said.
But a spokesman for the GAO, the investigative
arm of Congress, said to his knowledge the agency
has not issued any documents to Wolpe relating to
the Texas project.
"We have had no correspondence or memos or
anything else with Wolpe on our jobs that I can
discover," said GAO spokesman Cleve Corlett in
Washington.
"When we have reports, interim or otherwise,
they are sent to the requester. They are made pub
lic 30 days later," Corlett said. "But there are no in
terim reports or anything else (on the super collid
er) that I am aware of."
The Texas congressmen contended Wednesday
that Wolpe was using GAO documents to prepare
his case against the super collider. The super col
lider faces a difficult funding battle in Congress
this year.
Wolpe's subcommittee was to hold a hearing on
the super collider's status Thursday.
"This is a parting shot by a member who is
leaving the Congress," said Rep. Martin Frost, D-
Dallas.
His district next year will include part of the su
per collider.
Wolpe, one of the leading congressional oppo
nents of the super collider, has announced he will
not seek re-election to his Michigan seat.
Texas Supreme Court to make ruling
on constitutionality of sodomy laws
AUSTIN (AP) - The legal bat
tle over the state's 113-year-old
odomy law will move to the
Texas Supreme Court after a low
er appeals court Wednesday re-
ected the state's bid for a rehear
ing of the case.
The state will appeal to Texas'
highest civil court, said Ron
usek, a spokesman for Attorney
ieneral Dan Morales.
Last month, the Austin-based
3rd Court of Appeals upheld a
state district judge's ruling that
declared the sodomy law uncon
stitutional.
Without comment, the appeals
court denied the state a chance for
a rehearing.
Dusek said an appeal to the
Texas Supreme Court will settle
the issue once and for all.
"If we don't use this opportuni
ty to take it to the Supreme Court,
then somewhere along the line it
will be challenged. So why not
just do it now and get it over
with?" Dusek said.
The law makes sodomy a Class
C misdemeanor, punishable by a
$200 fine.
State officials say the law has
never been enforced, but gays and
lesbians contend that having it on
the books encourages discrimina
tion and hate crimes.
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Police charge man with murders
Suspect's wife, children found buried under bathroom floor
WESLACO (AP) — A Progreso
man was formally charged
Wednesday with the murders of a
woman and two children found
buried under the floor of his bath
room.
Roberto Ramos, 38, was or
dered held on a $1 million bond
or each count by Peace Justice Je
ms Morales of Weslaco.
Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday
bund the bodies buried under the
bathroom of Ramos' home in Pro
greso.
Ramos already was being held
in the Hidalgo County jail on un
related charges at the time.
Ramos was arrested last week
on an outstanding traffic ticket
and a misdemeanor theft charge.
Authorities also questioned him
about his wife and children, who
were reported missing last month.
The three were identified as
Leticia Ramos, 42, Abigail Ramos,
8, and Johnathan Ramos, 4.
Neighbors said the family was
reclusive and seldom interacted in
the community. But several did
describe Ramos as a quick-tem
pered and jealous husband.
"He wasn't friendly," said
neighbor Israel Terrazas.
"He had a strange attitude,"
added Bertha Morales. "He got
mad at very tiny things that
weren't even important."
Still, they said they were
scarcely aware the woman and
her children were missing until
her sister began asking questions
about them.
The family apparently disap
peared in mid-February, accord
ing to sheriff's officials.
"We never suspected anything
because he was still living in the
house," said Melcio Lopez, who
lived across the street from the
Ramos home.
Ramos told his wife's sister,
and later authorities, conflicting
stories about his wife's where
abouts.
Byington
Continued from Page 3
make sure nothing was left to
chance.
In the first game of Sunday's
doubleheader, the Aggies scored
seven runs in the first inning. But
Texas scored two runs in the third
and jumped on top of erratic Ag
gie pitching in the fourth for eight
more runs.
Tine Longhorns continued their
onslaught with a run in the fifth
and two in the sixth to take a 13-7
lead.
The Aggies answered with two
in the sixth behind a Terry Taylor
home run, but Texas scored one
more run in the eighth to extend
the lead to 14-9.
The Aggies scored five runs in
the ninth to tie the score when
Texas coach Cliff Gustafson
brought Dressendorfer off the
bench with no warmup.
The first batter Dressendorfer
faced was Byington — it also
would be the last batter he faced.
"Big John," who hit 15 home-
runs in 1989 and was the leading
hitter (an amazing .442) among
the first-team Sporting News All-
Americans, took Dressendorfer's
first pitch, an inside fastball, over
the left field fence that shook
Olsen Field. The series finale
would be no less riveting.
The Aggies took a 4-2 lead into
the ninth before Bryant hit a
three-run homer off Scott Centala
to give Texas a 5-4 lead going into
the bottom of the ninth.
After Jim Neumann and Terry
Taylor walked, Byington stepped
up to the plate with no outs. Fie
took Chris GaskiH's first pitch
over the left field wall for the win
and brought the Olsen Field faith
ful to their knees.
After the game, Byington said
he knew what pitches were com
ing.
"It was a curveball," Byington
said of Gaskill's pitch in game
two. "I was looking for it all the
way. I'd touched them a couple
of times on the fastball, so I was
looking for the breaking pitch."
But Byington was not the only
hero that day.
"I think what is just as impor
tant is the hits that got us to that
situation," Johnson said. "There
were some key hits when we
made those ninth inning come
backs."
In 1989, there were plenty of
heroics at Olsen Field as the Ag
gies went 58-7, making them the
winningest team in A&M history.
Byington's legendary perfor
mance may have been the greatest
of them all.
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