Bryan-College Station Eagle from Bryan, Texas • 1

The Associated Press 'Please see Audit 6A i 1B 4 SUNDAYS March 311991 i One dollar Weather Index Inside By Jade Boyd Eagle staff writer vise a reiorm plan rue Legisla ture is not due back in session until Tuesday The court directed that state spending on public education stop Monday if lawmakers miss the deadline for coming up with a plan to give rich and poor school districts access to about the same funding A House Senate conference committee worked out a bill that was approved by senators last week but rejected by the House So Lt Gov Bob Bullock and Senate Education Committee Chairman Carl Parker Port Arthur have said senators may on Tuesday consider an earlier school finance bill passed by the House If the Senate approves that bill It would go directly to the gov ernor The House passed the bill In ebruary after being told It would cost about 812 billion over the next two years But Senate analysts now esti mate the House cost to the state at $22 billion They attri bute the difference to a drafting error In an amendment The conference committee bill has a 12 billion price tag Like the conference committee bill the House measure would shift local property tax revenue from wealthier to poorer school districts within new taxing re gions drawn largely along county lines AUSTIN It would be a day late and cost $22 billion but Senate leaders have a plan that could send Gov Ann Richards a school finance reform bill as ordered by the Texas Supreme Court Lawmakers adjourned for the Easter weekend without passing a bill despite the Supreme not sanctioned by national accrediting organizations its graduates be eli gible to practice in the United States not much point in staying open if not said Dr John Shadduck dean of the veterinary school Dean Richard DeVaul of College of Medicine said is not cutting fat or saying got to wait to grow this is Just a shot in the head" When asked if the medical school could stay open in the face of such cuts DeVaul tee on Wednesday approved House Bill 10 which would cut $26 million from annual budget In the office of Provost Dean Gage workers get riday off They were scrambling to complete re ports on the effects of the proposed 14 percent cut in state funding "These devastating reductions trans late into the funding requirements for 193 faculty positions 92 graduate teach ing assistants 532 staff positions 1 158 class sections per year and the teaching Good riday bore ill tidings at Texas University Last week the Legislature gave the university the afternoon off On the other hand the House Appropriations Commit Audit results reveal: of 4542 students which is equivalent to 75 percent of the projected new freshman class of 6100 for the fall semester of according to a memo produced riday by staff At Sterling Evans Library there would be a 23 percent reduction in oper ating hours and 2100 Journal subscrip tions would be canceled The College of Veterinary Medicine has until 1993 to increase its operating budget and build new facilities or it faces the loss of accreditation If the college is said know My guess is that have difficulty without finding some source to replace these dollars at the point now where we have to spend some dollars Just to continue what The medical school will have an accre ditation exam next week Gage noted that the accre dltatlon will be reviewed in 1992 administrators are still wrestling Please see Budget 6A HAPPY TO MOTIVATE 'C Shelby Metcalf his job in the relations of ficeh SPORTS 1B ditlonal Communist supporters blame on the government i 4 The Communists say Albania must move to a free market economy but slowly The Democrats want sweeping and immediate privatization and land re 'form government forces Please see Iraq 6A A look at the shooting of Rea gan 10 years later Page 11 A Yeltsin bashed but still in con trol Page 12A 4 Junction lve lve helps disabled find jobs Page 1 Texas spends more on bureaucracy than mental health care House finance plan may get 2nd look from Senate The Associated Press KXXV puts kink in Ch cable plans is the most viewed channel in Rrvnn option is provided to KXXV by rules set and College Station as well as the only CBS af iiuate on me caoie Rogers said makes It very important that we have the best possible picture on Because TCA is keeping KXXV a channel will not be available to air Country Music Tele vision 24 hours Country Music Television will continue to share Channel 23 with the inan cial News Network and air country music videos from 8 pm to 5 am daily The Nash ville Network already shows country music videos from 8 11 am and from 4 7 pm daily Home Sports Entertainment on Channel 25 will expand to 24 hours on Monday The new community bulletin board will appear on the newly opened Channel 37 Please see Cable 6A DALLAS The state's mental retardation care system has spent up to three times as much to hire administrative staff than to hire clinical personnel at four of its in stitutions a new audit shows The audit filed riday in US District Court in Dallas shows that from 1987 to 1990 the num ber of administrative technicians increased 179 percent at state schools in San Antonio Austin Denton and ort Worth Meanwhile the number of therapists and assistants at the same four institutions rose 58 'The' ahdit submltted as'part of Monday deadline for Ihem to de V1QA rATArm TtlfhM TKa adnla 1 year old class action suit against the care of the re tarded was conducted by Linda of Tallahassee la a court appointed expert consul tant O'Neall's audit revealed that the number of clinical staff in some instances dropped in 1989 and 1990 The lawsuit known as Lelsz vs Kavanaugh was filed by patients at the four state schools in 1974 as an attempt to Improve care at all 13 state schools About 1600 clients are plain tiffs in the suit But their attor ney David erleger of Philadel phia plans to qsk the court to expand the lawsuit to include all 13 schools with a total client po pulatlon of 7100 That would prevent the state from spending all additional funds on the four schools instead of improving the system Itself erleger said Although a settlement was reached in 1983 between the state and the plaintiffs the case was reopened when US District Judge Barefoot Sanders of Dallas found the state in contempt of the agreement The two parties made another agreement in 1987 and was appointed to monitor the progress Under the terms of the 1987 agreement services must Im NEW PLOT IN SELLING Cemetery owners get oh line to drum up business BUSINESS 1C The Associated Press KRUJE Communist leaders freed more 'than 250 political prisoners Saturday on the eve of the first multiparty election sifter 46 years of Stalinist rule The 258 detainees released Join 123 political prisoners freed two weeks ago said Arben Puto a human rights activist He said 27 political prisoners still remain Jailed Premier atos Nano had pledged to free all political prisoners before the Darliamentarv elections which culminate Albania's transition from decades of Isola Allonlsm and hard line rule Both the Communists and newly formed oppo sltlon groups expressed confidence in the final days of the campaign in this mountainous country of 32 million people In Kruje like in many other northern cities and towns support is strong for the Democratic Party the Communists strongest challenger Backers including some soldiers wearing the The Democrats also have been helped by re star on their caps on Saturday deepening economic crisis which many even tra ui vwiury signs me Democrats rallying symbol Communist President Ramiz Alia also has predic ted victory His Party of Labor still has widespread support in rural areas where about two thirds of nation 19 million voters live Ann Landers Business Classified Ads Crossword I Datebook Infollpe Lifestyle Movies Obituaries Opinions Sports Communists free 250 political prisoners oil eve of multiparty election I 4 nr The elections today will seat a new 250 member Assembly or parliament Albania Is the last of the Eastern EurojSean nations to hold multiparty elections since the collapse of Communist rule in The Communists are contesting 243 seats while the Democratics are campaigning for all J25O The Republican Party seen as a compromise be tween the Communists and Democrats is contest Ing 165 seats The Agrarian and Ecological parties are fielding only a handful of candidates The parliament will name the president adopt a new constitution and tackle the economic problems mat nave tea to protests ana a wave ot feiugeesjiee ing the Balkan nation i Opposition parties were legalized in December fol lowing four days of student unrest The Democratic Party has 'won support through its semi weekly newspaper limited appearances on state TV and campaign rallies around the moun tainous country Rebel leader says Iraqi forces massing in north The Associated Press loting in the northern oil center 7 of Kirkuk which the government DOHUK' Iraq 7 Iraqi troops says it recaptured Thursday moving to crush a kurdish rebel Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani lion shelled the outskirts of this who arrived in Dohuk after a tour northern provincial capital Sat of the mountainous Kurdish re urday as tens of thousands of glon urged a crowd of several frightened civilians fled hundred Kurds to stay and fight One Kurdish rebel leader said any government attack government forces were concen But people were streaming out tratlng Just north of Mosul the of the (City 30 miles south of the lurKisn border some on foot and others in cars crammed with be longings President Saddam forces last week launched a major offensive against the Kurdish rebels? who had captured nearly Cloudy early then some sun High of 66 low of 49 See 10A Weather tine: 776 5463 SKIE faces $26 million cut in budget uevaui uncertain ir meuicai school could stay open largest city in northern Iraq and jthat there were preliminary re imports Saturday morning of fight ing in tnat area Prime Minister Saadoun Ham madl meanwhile saidthe government was succeeding in putting down rebellions in the all their historic homeland in north and south He promised a northeastern Iraq following the al return to in Iraq a lied rout of Saddam's army in The official Iraqi News Agency! Kuwait last month v' also reported that the ruling RevO The Kurds are allied with Shiite lutionary Command Council de Muslim rebels in southem lraq dared an amnesty for soldiers' whose owh uprising appears to who return to their posts in the haye been largely quelled by norm Iraqi government newspapers accused the rebels of murder and A A 3A 9811D 98 3A By Teri Walley KTRK Channd 13 in Rogers said Eaol buBiMM editor forthbytheederalCommunlcationsCom CC rules arc putting a crimp into some of mission and we must TCA plans Rogers said Bryan College Station lies KXXV the ABC affiliate based in Waco that within the advertising area of Waco Temple plays on Channel 5 was scheduled to be tak and Killeen and that KXXV has a contract with en off the air Monday and replaced with KBTX ABC giving it the right to be sole provider of which is now airing on Channel 3 the network Rogers said that exclusivity is al However KXXV officials told TCA general lowable under CC rules manager Randy Rogers that the channel has We had no idea something like this Could the rlits to the Bryan viewing area and possibly Rogers said bedropped The changes go into effect at 6 am Monday announcing our decision to diaerm The new lineup will be set as follows: tlnue carrying KXXV we were notified by the BKBTX will swap places with KXXV so station (officials) that if they were not carried KBTX will air on Channel 5 and KXXV will air on the Bryan College Station cable system on Channel 3 Rogers said he believes the they would require us to black out any distant move will resolve reception problems for ABC programming including that of KBTX 2D 1C 3E 68 Sp' Tara Il 4 7PKTAN UULLEUE STATJON: MstersSiendor the Lamb" Central Baptist Easter pageant icon 2 pm and 5 pml performances Videotapes df the show are avalla tinues with two performances today Tickets are still available forthe ble for $20 or more Informatlon call 779 1 591 i tt Weather Index ass iSPiJk mb SSsftrspiendor the Lamb" Central Baptist Easter pageant icon 2 pm and 5 pml performances Videotapes of the show are avalla tinues with two performances today Tickets are still available forthe ble for $20 or more Informatlon call 779 1591: i tt.