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"This president knows that to create jobs you must lower taxes and empower our people rather than empowering the govern ment." Quayle credited Bush's strong agenda and criticized the Democ ratic presidential nominee Gov. Bill Clinton's record of raising tax es in Arkansas. According to staff reports from Quayle's campaign workers, Clin ton is reported to have raised tax es in his home state more than 100 times. "I don't care whether it's 128 times ... it may come out to be 121 times," Quayle said. "We know this- Bill Clinton has al ready promised the American public that the first thing he's go ing to do as president is raise your taxes." Quayle expressed Bush's inten tions of putting education first by investing in people and an educa tion system based on competition. "A good education — a quality education, leads to good jobs," Quayle said. A cornerstone of See Quayle/Page 4 RICHARD S. JAMLS/The Battalion Vice President Dan Quayle watches as balloons fall from the ceiling of G. Rollie White coliseum after his campaign speech sponsored by the A&M College Republicans. Delegates vote to ban Yugoslavia from U.N. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — Delegates voted over whelmingly Tuesday to expel Yugoslavia from the General Assembly in a new attempt to pressure the Belgrade government to make peace with its neigh bors in the shattered Balkan federation. The assembly voted 127-6 to ban Yugoslavia, now consisting only of Serbia and Montenegro, from vot ing and speaking in the General Assembly and its committees. The action was unprecedented in its severity, going be yond the revocation of South Africa's voting rights in the General Assembly in 1974. The no votes were Tanzania, Yu goslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swazi- land, Kenya. There were 26 abstentions. The 20 other members did not vote. The 15-nation Security Council already has passed tough economic sanctions against Yugoslavia after determining the Serbs were mostly to blame for the bloody, 15-month-old conflict in Croatia and Bosnia, which has left more than 20,000 dead. The assembly rejected a last-minute appeal from Premier Milan Panic, a Serbian-born U.S. citizen. Panic pleaded for his government to be permitted to remain in the family of nations, to strengthen his hand against his hard-line Serb nationalist oppo nents. European diplomats did permit him to address the 179-nation General Assembly before the vote. "We have cooperated with the United Nations in every way we could," said Panic. "We will continue to do so regardless of the action you take here to day." Panic formally requested U.N. membership on be half of the new Yugoslavia. Any readmission would have to be approved by the Security Council, and members such as the United States and Britain will in sist that Belgrade has complied with peace accords before offer ing their support. The draft resolu tion says Yugoslavia "cannot continue au- tomatically the mem bership of the for mer" Yugoslav state "and that it shall not participate in the work of the General Assembly." It requires Yugoslavia to apply for U.N. member ship as a new nation and resolves to reconsider the issue by year's end. In introducing the resolution, Britain's ambas sador, Sir David Hannay, said it was not "a punitive measure nor one designed to undermine the peace process." It was designed, he said, to deny Yu goslavia's right to inherit the seat the federation held before its breakup. "We have cooperated with the United Nations in every way we could. We will continue to do so regardless of the action you take here today." -Premier Milan Panic Crime awareness to increase University officials to post information, statistics in residence halls By TODD STONE Reporter of THE BATTALION To ensure Texas A&M students are aware of campus crime, infor mation on safety programs, crime statistics and criminal composite sketches will be posted in desig nated areas of residence halls next month. "Our philosophy is to be very open, and we have a good rela tionship with University Police," said Tom Murray, associate direc tor of residence life, "When they have a program to push, we try to help them." Questions on how well crime information was distributed arose in June when composite sketches of an alleged rapist were removed from residence halls. Controversy heightened when an A&M official initially said the sketches were re moved to avoid bad publicity. Ron Sasse, director of student affairs, said the sketches were re moved accidentally as a part of "spring cleaning." The sketches were returned 12 days later following the victim's request. University officials said they were waiting for copies of the composite from College Sta tion and University Police depart ments — both departments said they received no such request. "From the beginning, there was never an effort to cover-up any thing," Sasse said. "It was more of a communica tion difficulty," Sasse said. I think we'll be more aware. I'm glad we had those questions raised. It has made us more tuned in. We want to be responsive, and we want students to be in formed." Murray is responsible for coor dinating the placement of criminal information in all residence halls. He said any information the po lice considers important will be posted. "Basically, we'll post whatever they want us to," Murray said. "Those things (crime information) come from police so we should do a good job at putting them up." Murray said he is examining each hall to decide where crime information should be posted. "We would like to find a bul letin board in every hall," Murray said. "So right now we're trying to assess how many are being used and would we need a whole board." Residence hall directors will check the bulletin boards to make sure important information re mains posted, but Murray said protecting the information is diffi cult. "Our boards can take a beating as far as people ripping things down," he said. "If there is criti cal information missing, they (res idence hall directors) need to let us know." Sasse said students often fol low their own agenda and tear down information they don't agree with. "The battle is convincing everyone this is important," he said. Ags must fire up Texans, commissioner says By GARY P. CARROLL City Editor of THE BATTALION . Texas Agriculture Commis sioner, Rick Perry, Class of '72, said Quayle's trip to A&M's tradi tionally conservative campus yes terday could be considered "preaching to the choir," but the purpose was to rally the Texas Re- publican troops. "He (Quayle) is sending these young men and women on a mis sion for the next 45 days," Perry said. According to Perry, that mis sion is to go do the work for Bush and get the things done that need to be done. He said Republicans need to go out and fire up voters, because people across the state. and across the nation, are fed up with politicians. Perry said incidences, such as Lena Guerrero lying about her academic record and the ongoing squabble between Republicans and Democrats over draft-dodg ing accusations, have led voters "Aggies understand what it's like to be down and Aggies understand how to win." -Rick Perry, Texas agriculture commissioner into a state of apathy regarding politics. "My memory fails me some times, but I didn't forget I haven't graduated." Perry, a former Yell Leader, ex perienced a little confusion when he announced the Head Yell Leader as Adin Pfeuffer, instead of Tim Isgitt. "They didn't let me be Head Yell Leader either," Perry said to Isgitt. Perry said the students at A&M understand spirit and de termination, and that Quayle's main focus was to send the stu dents out with a spirit of exuber- ance and en thusiasm. "You know, we've been behind in all of our football games and we've come on in the end of those games and we turned it around, and outscored 'em and won the game," he said. "Aggies understand what it's like to be down and Aggies un derstand how to win. "We're gonna go out there and make a real impact on this elec tion." Volunteers stifled free speech, protesters say RICHARD S. JAMES/Thc Battnlivn Protesters hold a sign outside G. Rollie White Coliseum after they were removed from the building during Vice President Dan Quayle’s speech Tuesday afternoon. Bush/Quayle supporters tried to block the sign by standing in front of it. The sign read “The only thing worse than an ignorant Republican is Dan Quayie.” By MACK HARRISON Reporter of THE BATTALION a lthough officials said the crowd attend ing Vice President Dan Quayle’s cam paign appearance Tuesday at G. Rollie White Coliseum was well-behaved, some Texas A&M students feel their First Amendment rights were violated by some rally volunteers. Mike Castillo, vice president of Aggie Democ rats, said the intimidating atmosphere stifled free speech. Castillo said Republican volunteers con fiscated and destroyed any signs not approved by the A&M College Republicans to prevent any dis sension. "They have their signs, why can't we have ours?" he said. "I was afraid to stand up and say what I wanted without having them escort me out." University Police Director Bob Wiatt said the signs were confiscated by volunteer workers, not security forces. He said the Secret Service does not try to prohibit signs with a different point of view, but is instead concerned with materials used to make signs. Signs held by a wooden stick are forbidden be cause they pose a security threat. "It's a public rally," Wiatt said. "The ground rules were made by the College Republicans." Wiatt said there were only minor disturbances and security personnel made no arrests before or during the rally. He said the vice president's staff complimented him on the crowd's behavior. "It was a well-behaved crowd," Wiatt said. "Everyone was extremely laudatory toward the A&M student body." Aggie Democrats President Pat Gendron said he was disappointed in the event because Quayle did not address any campaign issues, turning the whole thing into a "pep rally." He said Bush- Quay le supporters stifled any dissent. "That's our vice president, too," Gendron said. "We have a right to express ourselves to him." During the middle of Quavle's speech, people with air horns drowned out a* small group of pro testers in the back row that was chanting and holding a 20-foot long banner. Republican volunteers tried to take the sign away, but the group refused to give up the banner and instead left the coliseum. The group held up their sign, which read, "The only thing worse than an ignorant Republican is Dan Quayle," across the street from the coliseum after the rally. One of the protesters holding the banner, Sala Senkayi, said volunteer workers in the coliseum immediately attempted to confiscate the sign. "Instead of asking us for it, they just started grabbing," Senkayi said. After the rally, Clinton and Bush supporters faced off on either side of the street in front of G. Rollie as each side traded chants such as "Four more years" and "The time for change is now." The confrontation turned physical as Bush sup porters walked across the street and snatched Clin- ton/Gore signs from Democratic advocates and See Protest/Page 4 Senate OKs regulation of cable TV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The Senate voted 74-25 on Tuesday to regu late cable television, sending a bill to the White House that responds to consumer complaints about rapid price increases by cable op erators. President Bush says he'll veto it because it puts "burdensome" regulations on the industry that would hurt consumers. The measure requires the Fed eral Communications Commis sion to determine reasonable rates for minimal cable service and re strict costs on the equipment con sumers need to operate cable tele vision, like remote control de vices. It also contains provisions de signed to enhance competition in local communities between exist ing cable companies and others that could provide a similar kind of expanded television program ming. Tne strength of the vote shows the Senate can do its part to make the bill law despite the president. Voting for the legislation were 50 Democrats and 24 Republicans. Seven Democrats and 18 Republi cans voted against it. Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., one of the bill's sponsors, said he hoped Bush would not veto the bill. "There are a number of Repub lican senators who would like to support the president, but have a record supporting this. It's very hard to ask them to go back and change positions," Danforth said. He said some change in circum stances would be necessary to jus tify sustaining a veto. The House approved the bill 280-128 last Thursday and sup porters there were confident they also could muster the necessary votes to override a veto. A two-thirds majority of those voting is needed in each chamber to enact a law against a presi dent's wishes. That's 289 votes in the House if all 433 representa tives vote and 67 in the 100-mem ber Senate.