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The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For information, call 845-0569 Crooked C^atb c /fle CHouse c^-inc ^\fcs and 1 Jagcrs c NprtFi£jatc Politics Tuesday • October29J Dole gains energy industry suppor Election’9 (i mm 20 % OFF Bicycle Labor Expires 10-31-96 817 Texas Ave. College Station, Tx. JjstiiHtimai Ifctgoodw/ayotiH:cfe:crdianrt. SAVE ON U-LOCKS * HELMETS* MORE 696-6551 OPEN 9:30 AM -6:30 PM M-SAT. 12-5 SUN. We accept competitors coupons I2IZ! HOUSTON (AP) — Bob Dole holds a 4-1 margin over President Bill Clinton in contri butions from the energy industry, a newspa per reported Monday. Both candidates are receiving substantial contributions from the oil and natural gas in dustry — more than $686,000 between them so far. However, most is earmarked for Dole. Some believe that is because Dole chal lenges the Clinton record. They contend the administration has not done enough to lift regulatory burdens, cut taxes and open feder al lands to drilling. “They are anti-growth, they are anti-energy and they think fossil fuel is a dirty word,” said William Scherman, a Washington lawyer and sometime adviser to Dole. The Houston Chronicle found that Dole re ceived $75,545 from political action commit tees and $480,545 for the election cycle through Sept. 5. Clinton collected $130,010 from oil and gas industry executives during the same period, based on an analysis of Federal Election Com mission reports by the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington watchdog group. Houston-based Enron Corp. is the top giv er to both campaigns. Dole’s top five donations came in the follow ing amounts and order: Enron, $75,250; Koch Industries, Wichita, Kan., $39,700; Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, $20,250; Houston-based Coastal Corp., $15,750; and Panhandle Eastern Corp. (now known as PanEnergy), $12,750. Clinton’s top five donations were: Enron, $11,100; Occidential Petroleum, Los Angeles, $8,000; Coastal Corp., $7,000; Coulson Oil Co., Little Rock, Ark., $6,000; and Global Petrole um, New Bedford, Mass., $6,000. Industry experts and campaign officials give several reasons for the wide gap in contributions. “The Clinton administration is extremely biased toward the environmental movement and that is very hard for people in the energy business to accept,” said George Alcorn, pres ident of Alcorn Exploration in Houston. Also, the administration has spurned in dustry demands to explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska despite a showing that oil production there would have minimal interference. And, memories still linger about the ill-fated Clinton plan to tax fuel based on heat content. Proposed in February' 1993, just after Clin ton took office, the tax would have covered oil, natural gas and coal with proceeds to reduce the federal budget deficit.Oj going to be taxed more because deemed a greater environmental hazard. The proposal was nixed in Congress. 1 replaced with a 4.3-cent-a-galiong; that Dole tried to have repealed this when he was Senate majority leader. Clinton does have some support in|j and gas industry. "This administration and President have done some very positive tilings, for us in California,” said Mac McFarland, dependent producer in Santa Fe Springs, and president of the California troleum Association. McFarland cited the sale of the Elk field, which holds the promise of operating more efficiently in private hands and has a lighter crude that can be mixed with California’s heavier crudes. And he mentioned lifting of the export ban on Alaskan crude, which helped to raise oil prices on the West Coast. But McFarland acknowledges hiseitas ment of Clinton “was controversial withs organization. Most of our membersareca vative, and many of them are generally am I.” Rock'ft saloon Tonight October 29th Steve Green Police from Pete's Piano Bar on 6th Street in Austin $ 1 00 Bar Drinks, $ 1 00 Long Necks $ 1.00 Draft Beer 8- 10 p.m. No cover over 21, 8-10 p.m. Register to Win!! Each Tuesday’s give away at J.D. Wells (EglA Tag Heuer Watch [Egl Courtesy of John D. Huntley 313B South College Ave. • 846-8916 (located next to Hurricane Harry’s) Sign up at entry, Tuesday night, must be present to win. Continued from Page 1 “The COPS program is help ing neighborhoods take back their streets and take back their lives,” Attorney General Janet Reno said last fall. "It’s replacing fear with hope.” The tough talk about cleaning up mean streets is at odds, how ever, with how much of the money is being allocated. Just under half of Texas’ $126 million share went to communities reporting 1994 crime rates below the national average of 7.14 violent crimes per 1,000 people. That, some say, suggests re sources are not being targeted to the most needy areas. In Texas, a quarter of the money went to communities of 10,000 or less — most reporting violent crime rates below the national average. Pick wp your copy today. 1996-97 Texas A&M Campus Directory NOW AVAILABLE S TUDENTS: If you ordered a 1996-97 Campus Directory, stop by the Eng lish Annex (between Heaton Hall and the blue water tower) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday to pick up your copy. (Please bring Student ID.) If you did not order a Campus Directory as a fee option when you registered for Fall '96 classes, you may purchase a copy for $3 plus tax at the English Annex (by check) or in room 015 Reed McDonald Building (by cash or credit card). D EPARTMENTS: If you ordered Campus Directories and requested delivery, deliveries will be made within the next two weeks. If you did not order Campus Directories, you may charge and pick them up at the English Annex. Cost is $3 per copy. (Please bring a work request with your part number, FAMIS account number, account name, billing address, contact person and phone number where the directories should be billed.) The Campus Directory includes listings of departments, administrators, faculty, staff, students, other information about A&M, plus yellow pages. But violent crime constitutes only one facet of law enforce ment, the director of the Com munity Oriented Policing Ser vices program stresses. “Policing deals with issues that go well beyond criminal be havior alone,” Joe Brann said. Others share his view. “There’s a lot of other things that happen that officers need to be out there for, not necessarily just crime,” said Dora Ballard of the Comanche County Sheriff’s Department in Central Texas. The department, which re ported only five violent crimes in 1994, received $51,572 to add one officer to its five-deputy squad. The deputies patrol, serve war rants and respond to domestic calls and accidents, among other duties, Ballard says. Houston, where community policing is enthusiastically touted by Mayor Bob Lanier and Police Chief Sam Nuchia, is the biggest Texas recipient of the funding. The $27 million “has allowed the Houston Police Department to put more officers in the ■ “Policing deals with | issues that go well I beyond criminal 1 behavior alone.” ntinued fror We accomp Joe Brann Director of COPS neighborhoods, on the streets where they are the most visible and the greatest deterrent to crime, and also to work with the people in the community,” said Lt. 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