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I he Colleges of Engineering and N atural Science m ay have suffered the most, but C u nn in gh a m said all o f the colleges w ill h a \e a percent­ "W e'll age cut from th e ir budget say how m any cuts are needed tor the colleges and the deans and de­ partm ent heads w ill make the deci­ sio n s," he said. ( unningham added that " it is im- Cuts Continued from page 1 "v e ry short n o tice " w hen the Iexas Senate passed the appro priatio ns b ill last m onth. The lik e ly result, Klein said, w ill be to lay o ff nine staff employees and five graduate students " It's b affling to me w h y the center lost its fu n d in g because it had a great trai k re c o rd /' Klein said, "The* graduate stu de nts do fantastic w o rk, the staff is excellent, but we have no choice but to lay them off. "W e w ill not be able to put in a request for more state funds u n til the next legislative session, so in the m eantim e we hope the center can fu n d s ," Klein survive on p rivate a d d e d . The School o f N u rsin g 's C o n tin u ­ ing Education Program , budgeted at portan f to understand that the U n i­ versity rem ains seriously u n d e r­ the proposed that funded and budget leaves some critical needs u n m e t." I he budget w ill be reviewed by I 1 System officials and w ill go be­ fore the* Board o f Regents in O cto­ ber, according to I letcher. " It's real­ ly not official u n til th a t," he said "T h e regents may find som ething they d o n 't like about the b u d g e t." S pending increases were aimed at fu n d in g co m puter equipm ent, fac­ u lty salary increases associated w ith p rom otions and a d d itio n a l student scholarships. " It's been a long legislative ses­ s io n ," Fletcher said. " I'm just glad w e now have a budget to w o rk w ith . 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'Lhis study req u ires five clinic visits o v e r a tw elve week |x-iiocl at no c 1 large to the jyarti? ipant. For more information, please call: 4 7 8 - 4 0 0 4 H P II A It M A c o M e d 6th arid Brazos Research & Burnet Bee Caves @ Walsh Tarfton k i n k o ' s computer services WORLD & NATION # T h e I ) \ ii \ 11 x \ n Tuesday. September 1 7 19 9 1 Pup*' 5 MONDAY S DOW JONES 3,015 21 UP 29 52 VOLUME 1 71,960,000 Navy chopper crashes; 6 die Accident in gulf placed among worst since war Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain - Six sailors died w h e n their MU-53 Sea Dragon helicopter p lu ng e d into the Persian Gulf, th e U.S. Navy said M onday. It was o n e of the w orst U.S. military accidents in the region since th e gulf war. Lt. C m dr, Tim O'Leary, a spo k e s­ man for the U.S. Naval C o m m a n d , said the aircraft crashed at 9:05 p.m. Saturday, m in utes after taking off from the am p h ib io u s assault sh’ip USS Peleliu 40 miles north of Bahrain. The bodies w ere not recov­ ered until M onday, he said. O 'L eary said the cause of the crash had not been d ete rm in ed . He said the d e a d m e n were m e m ­ bers of Squ ad ro n HM-15, w hich is based at A lam eda Naval Air Station near San Francisco. Officials at A lam eda identified the victims recovered M on day as: ■ Lt. T ho m as Stewart Larson, Jam estow n, N.Y. Ann Arbor, Mich. ■ Lt. j.g. Craig Eugene Valentine, ■ Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Richard Butch, A urora, Colo. ■ Petty Officer 3rd Class George Scott Finneral, Lowell, Mass. ■ Petty Officer 3rd Class William Aaron Holt, Sand Springs, Okla. * Airman Jorge Luis G uerro, C hi­ cago. T he accident raised the n u m b e r of American non-com bat deaths in the region since th e end of the w ar to 71, m ost of w h o m died in traffic ac­ cidents in Saudi Arabia, U.S. offi­ cials said. Six soldiers died in mid-March w hen a U.S. Arm y UH-60V helicop­ ter crashed in an area of so uthern Iraq th a t w as occupied at the time by allied troops. An a m m un itio n d u m p in Kuwait KOwArf > , v v A ' G u lf * Persian SAUDI ARABIA O Riyadh 100 miles 100 xm. 1¡t fjt » ^ BAHRAIN : r. Manama - s1 f \ n \ ' i s- N V QATAR _ * Í U.A.E. Associated Press blew u p in July, w o u n d in g 53 American and six British soldiers. Three A m ericans were killed by ex­ plosions du rin g the cleanu p of the d u m p in the following days Eight U.S. w orships, including the aircraft carrier USS A braham Lincoln, took part in the 40-hour search for the bodies of the six sail­ ors recovered M onday, officials said. H elicopters, rem ote-controlled sonar scans a n d divers had to deal with stro ng c u rre nts in 100-foot- deep waters “ a n d a lot of d e b ris,” O 'Leary said. The bodies w-ere taken to the mili­ tary hospital in D hahran, Saudi Arabia, and will be flown back to the U nited States later, he said The MH-53E, which norm ally has a crew of four, is the largest helicop­ ter u sed by th e Navy. It is mainly used for tow ing m ine-sw eeping d e ­ tectors, but it is also e m p lo y ed as a transport. A Filipino demonstrator took a swing at a portrait of Uncle Sam during an anti-American rally outside the American Embassy in Manila Monday. Aquino vows to retain U.S. base Associated Press MANILA, Philippines — Presi­ d e n t C orazo n A quino vow ed M o n ­ d a y to call a public referendu m a n d use " p e o p le p o w e r" to o v e rtu rn a Senate vote against re n e w in g the lease for a big U.S. N avy base. Her action could delay a U.S. w ithd raw al from the Subic Bav N a­ val Base for m o n th s or even years. The base is a major su p p ly a n d re­ pair station for U.S. 7th Fleet ships in the w estern Pacific a n d the Indi­ an Ocean. I he c urrent lease on the base ex­ pired M onday. quickly if the Senate rejected the treaty to extend the lease tor 10 years. But U.S. officials said M on ­ day the d e p a tu r e w o uld be delayed to await the referendum . democratic institutions she created after replacing the o u ste d Ferdi­ nand Marcos in 1986 But Aquino would not back d o w n on her plan to let the voters decide the issue. The W hite I louse praised Aqui no. "W e d o appreciate her efforts. She's trying to e n g e n d e r public s u p ­ treaty," sp ok esm an p o r t Marlin F it/w a te r said. the t o r in the - A q uino 's former allies that put “ people po w er revolution' her in office pleaded with her to ac­ cept the Sen ate's 12-11 vote to d o s e the base and e n d the U S. militare presence in the Philippines after S3 years. "T h e great majority of the Filipino people still want the Am ericans to continue to stav o n ,” she said. Most I llipinos are believed to su p p o rt keeping Subic Bay o pe n , al­ tho u g h surveys also say about 25 percent of the 61 million Filipinos are unaw are of the U.S. presence. O p p o n e n ts said the U nited States, they w ere not against but viewed U.S. military bases as an in­ fringem ent on the Philippines' sov­ ereignty. They also com plained the treaty provided no firm aid g u a r a n ­ tees, and said the p ro p o se d rent of $203 million a year w a s not en o u g h . S upporters said it w as a mistake to sn ub the U nited States d u rin g the economic cri sis b r o u g h t on by the )une eru p tio n s of the M ou nt Pinatu- bo volcano. four small bases, U.S. officials agreed earlier to close three of w hich were h a n d e d over M onday. ! he Americans also decided to give up Clark Air Base, 50 miles n o rth of Manila, because of d a m a g e caused by M ount Pinatubo. The U.S. bases lost some of their strategic importance w ith the e n d of the Cold War and their im portance im proved further with lessened U.S.-Soviet cooperation after the Ltiled coup in Moscow The U.S. g o v e rn m e n t had said leaving the N avy w ould begin Fhev said holding a public re­ the fe re n dum could u n de rm in e Western nations press Bush for increased aid to Soviets Associated Press W A SH IN G TO N — President Bush was pro d d e d by G e rm a n Chancellor H elm ut Kohl o n M on d a y to provide financial aid to the disintegrating Soviet Union but said the United States w as " n o t ready vet" to help. "In principle, w e 'd like to be of so m e as­ sistance," Bush said. Yet, h e said, W ash ­ ington w'as unw illing now to go beyond ship m ents of food a n d medical s u p p l i e s to help the Soviet Union deal w ith a hard w in­ ter. things." "W e will m o ve as expeditiously as w-e can,” Bush said, a d d in g that th e Soviet U n ­ ion m u st em brace economic a n d political reforms to qualify for financial help. Bush also said the military threat from the Soviet U nion "is far less today — far, far less than it's b e e n " b e c a u s e of th e col­ lapse of com m u nist rule. He said prospects for assistance w ere not linked to the red u c e d military threat, but "clearly if the missiles were not aim ed at the United States, it would facilitate a lot of Bush and Kohl held m ore than three hours of talks in their first m eeting since last m o n th 's aborted coup in the Soviet U n­ ion u nleashed far-reaching cha n g e s in M os­ cow a n d its in d e p e n d e n c e -m in d e d r e p u b ­ lics. Bonn has com m itted billions of dollars to the Soviet Union in return for M oscow 's as­ sent to the reunification of G erm any. Kohl is arg uing that G e rm a n y 's p u rse has been depleted and that o ther W estern nations should sh o u ld e r some of the b u rd e n . "1 think ¡t is wise to help a n d it is reason­ able to help now so that a free and liberal order can be established in the Soviet U n ­ io n ," the chancellor said, sta n d in g alon g­ side Bush tit a Rose G arden new s confer­ ence in sweltering heat. "Later on, I predict that things w ill get far more expensive than they are n o w ." Bush s a i d he agreed with Kohl that h u ­ manitarian aid should be provided verv soon. But, he said, "th e y 'v e got to get on with the r e f o r m s ” to qualify for financial assistance He specifically m entioned a pe n d in g agreem ent setting o u t the g ro u n d rules for po w er-sharing betw een the K rem ­ lin and the republics. “ We will move as expeditiously as we can, but w e're not ready vet," the president said On a separate issue, Bush underscored his call tor a 120-day delay on Israel's re­ quest for $10 billion in U.S. housing loan Israeli leaders have angrily re- guarantees jected his proposal a n d the dispu te h a s cast u dark cloud over U S.-Israeli relations. Gates admits ‘misjudgments’ in Iran-contra Associated Press W A SH IN G T O N Robert G ates said M onday at the o p e n in g of confirm ation hearings on his nom ination as CIA director that he m a d e "mis- ju d g m e n ts " d u rin g the Iran-contra affair and "sh ou ld have asked m ore question s ” Skeptical Democrats accused him of willful ignorance the five-year-old affair Q u estio ning of Gates w as d o m in a te d by Iran- that unfolded c o n t r a , while G ates was the No. 2 official at the CIA. N ow a national security aide at the W hite House, Gates was n o m in ated l as t July by Presi­ den t Bush to succeed William W ebster at the CIA helm. Gates repeatedly d e n ie d he had any k n o w l­ ed g e of the diversion to the N icaraguan contras of protits from the sale of U S. arms to Iran be­ fore speculation on such dealing was brou gh t to his attention o n Oct. I, 1986. I he 47-vear-oId analvst had m a d e the sam e contention d u r in g hearings on hi- previous nomination to the- to p LIA post by President Reagan in 1987 — a nom ination that w as w ith­ draw n amid heated q ue stio ns a b o u t his possible role in tin affair. T h i s time, hi s denial was ot- fered with contrite additions. ” 1 could have a n d probably sh ould have acted more aggressively" in trying to find out more information, G ates said. In his defense, he told the- Senate Intelligence C om m ittee that d u rin g that period he had been preoci upied with o th e r d e velop m ents, such as a coup in the Philippines a n d a su p e rp o w e r su m ­ mit, "an d frankly I d id n 't pay m u ch atten tion " to the Iran-contra d e v elop m en ts. "I suspect few people have reflected more than 1 have on the Iran-contra affairs ... but to­ day I want to -.peak about the m is |u d g m e n ts that I m ade and the lessons I learned," G ates told the committee. "At the- sam e time, 1 believe that the actions 1 did take- were well-intentioned and h o n e s t,” he said But Sen. H ow ard M etzenbaum , D-Ohio, told him, “ You were absolutely su rro u n d e d by the tru th — how could sou possibly not know ? As No. 2 man at the agency, such willful ignorance is inexcusable M etzenbaum said that in hi- w ritten responses G ates had said 33 times th a t he eouldn t recall his part in events su rro u n d in g the Iran-contra affair ” 1 hope your m em ory im proves during the course of those he a rin gs," the senator said C ates indicated that the late CIA director, Wil­ liam Casey, had kept him in the dark. "There w a s a certain distance in the relationship, he said, and also C asey knew Gates o p p o se d selling w ea p o n s to Iran as a wav of gaining the release of W estern hostages In addition to the Iran-contra issue, some senators have found tault w ith Gates' perform- Associated Press Robert Gates is sworn in at the beginning of his confirmation hearings. Prosecutor calls Noriega ka crooked cop' Associated Press MIAMI — M anuel Noriega, the most powerful man in Panam a, was "just another crooked cop" w ho sold his nation to I olombian co­ caine kingpins, a p rosecutor said M onday to o p e n the o usted dicta­ tor's d ru g trial. Pointing to Noriega and i ailing hun .i "small m an in a g eneral's u n i­ form ," h ad p rose c utor Mu haul Sul­ livan said tlu* go ve rnm e n t would prove Noriega abu sed his authority to help a flood of cocaine p o u r into the i niied States Noriega cam e to the Medellin car­ tel's attention in the late 1970s w hen he arrested sm ugglers a nd inter­ cepted d ru g shipm ents, Sullivan said. " Fhe cartel chiefs sat d o w n and said they were either going to elimi­ nate him, or they were going to buy him ," the prose c utor said. “ They dei ided to buy h im ." 1 he defense elected to hold its opening statem ent until the p ro se ­ cution take m onths, rests, which could A m ong the first prosecution wit nesses was c o m u ted U.S d ru g traf­ ficker Max Mermelstein, w h o was, am o n g others, expected to outline operations of the Medellin cartel. M ermelstein is in the federal wit­ n e s s protection program an d said there's a $3 million price o n his head. He took the sta n d u n d e r tight security. U.S. District Judge William H oeveler asked sketch artists n o t to draw lus face. M ermelstein, who sm uggled 55 tons of cocaine to the United States in the early 1980s, traced his in­ volvement in the cartel, w hose- drug and financial records he eventually controlled. M e rm e lste in , w h o was paid $250,(MX) by the governm ent for in­ formation, said he met in 1981 w ith Cartel leaders jorge t K hoa a n d Pa bio l.scobar in Panam a to disi uss ex paneling their business He d id n 't m ention Noriega in his testimony but was expected to atter hts si h e d u le d return to the stand on I uesday. Larlier M onday, prosecutors re­ ferred for the first time to two face to-face m eetings Noriega allegedly held with cartel leaders in Panama in 1982 and t olombia in 1983 to ne­ gotiate- a deal According to witnesses w h o will include the cartel's convicted U.S. manager, Carlos 1 e h d e r Rivas, N o riega proved willing to sell himself but greedy. He- quickly b u m p e d his price from a p ro p o s e d $30,000 a s h ip m e n t to a s m uch as $500,000 per load, the g o v e rn m e n t said. Noriega received a m in im u m of $10 million from the cartel, the g o v ­ e rn m e n t has said. His activities often were dis­ c u s s e d in the cartel's top-level m eet­ ings, Sullivan told the jury. "M an u e l Noriega w a s just a n o t h ­ er crooked cop the cartel was paying off h u n d r e d s of c o p s," he said th a t Sullivan c a utioned jurors would not hear any e vidence trial Noriega ever directly to u c h e d or even saw- the cocaine. Instead, he said, Noriega o rd e re d sm ugglers, planes a n d b oats released, a n d al­ lowed protected cocaine flights to slip m a n d out of his country. Noriega also protec n-d illegal arm s sh ip m e n ts and allow ed d ru g profits to be funneled into secret, n u m b e r e d P an am anian bank ac­ counts, am o n g othei services, said the prosecutor. 'W h e n m em bers of the Medellin cartel ... n eed ed a safe- haven, they came to P a n a m a /' he- said “ I hey the were protected a u s o ic e so f General Nurieva " there u n d e r Associated Press Sov iet Georgian opposition leader arrested after protests in capital I B1L1S1, U.S.S.R. — An op position leader in the republic of Georgia was arrested M onday, h ou rs altei th o u sa n d s of protesters m o bbed the capital in the fiercest confrontation vet over President Zviad G a m ■ sakhurdia. Georgy C hanturia, leader of the N a t i o n a l Demo­ cratic Party, w as arrested with an aide, Irina Darishvi- li, .it Tbilisi s airport M o n da y evening, according to Russian television and trie- independe nt new s agency Express Khronika said Uzbekistan embraces I hina-style communism I 5.S.R I'ASHKLNT I /b e k is ta n 's p resident and C o m m u n ist Party leadei on Monday d e n o u n c e d Mikhail G orbachev's su sp e n sio n of the party and said his newlv in d e p e n d e n t republic would follow C rima s model of reform. Islam Karimov also told reporters he w ould m a in ­ tain a ban on political rallies until hi-, central Asian republic of 21 million people holds new presidential and parliamentary elections. Uzbekistan is one of the tew places in the Soviet Union w here the C o m m u n is t Party rem ains fully in power. In most republics, the party was dissolved after last m o n th 's hard line c o u p against Gorbachev Salvadoran rivals begin I .N. meetings UNI I ED NA LIONS U.N Sec re ta il-G e n era l Jav­ ier Perez dc- C uellar held the tirst in a set ot meetings M ondav with El Salvador's p resident a n d the leader­ ship of the lefti st rebel m ovem ent. President Alfredo C ristiani a n d the five senior com ­ m and ers of the- Farab un do Marti National lib e ra tio n Front, or FML.N m et separately with th e I N leader Mondav to exchange proposals aim ed at en d in g the 12- year Salvadoran civil v\ ar. Shuttle swerves to avoid Soviet garbage C \P E C AN XVT RAL, Ha. Mondav d o d g e d a c h u n k ot a Soviet rocket such near miss of the shuttle program . Lhe Discovery early the first l h e shuttle a nd the debris about the size of a van passed w i t h i n about Iff miles o t each other m i n u t e s atter m idnight lt 1 hscoverv had not c h a n g e d its o rbi t , it w ould have come within about 1.4 miles of the rock­ et, N VSA sp o k e s m a n lames H artstield said late M on­ dav alternoon. NT V\ YORK \C T officials hail minority gains on test A \e ia g e s c o r e s on the A C ! A s s e s s ­ m e n t held steady in 1991 from the previous year, but test officials hailed the results as a sign minority stu d e n ts are gam ing in s c h o o l achievem ent. AC 1 P r e s i d e n t Richard Ferguson said he w as e n ­ couraged t h a t s c o r e s h a v e held u p d espite steady in ­ c r e a s e s in t h e n u m b e r s of minority test-takers Mmor- itv grou ps c ontinue to score well below tlu- national average, a lth o u g h t h e i r 1991 sto re s held steady Oi shghtlv im proved. EDITORIALS At this point it doesnt matter much if Clarence Thomas becomes a fellíteh ATURA CcN^IfcNe* T H K 1 ) 4 1 ! \ T K W V Page 4 Tuesday September 17, 1991 TH E DAILY TEXAN E d ito ria l B o ard Matthew Connallv ( dit or sec ' The DaOy Texan Cun Bessel man Associate Editor Vtewpomt >ptr David Be/anson Associate Editor Fmng Line ' > ~?z ds Be VIEWPOINT H a r d l y 1E3C16 Multiculturalism in a go o d way 11 | A tier several sears uf multicultural fe u d in g at the Universi­ ty, a reasonable plan has been offered. The University , C ouncil's Com m ittee on Multicultural Education recom ­ m ends that future students com plete a six-hour multiculturalism requirem ent The individual student would choose between the studs of at least one m inority culture within the United States, or a study of at least one non-W estern or Third-World culture. Which makes sense. Stud en ts would have more to gain if they studied one culture intensively rather than received a sketchv \ iew of several. This would a No help mitigate fears that instruc­ tors would indoctrinate students: They would be teaching about one culture, not searching for ideological uniformity am ong manv cultures T he p<>lic\ would give the faculty of the department in which the course is offered the sole discretion as to w hether or not a course should qualify as a m ulticultural course. Stu den ts could conceivable choose a class from English, History, Spanish, or any num ber of departm ents At the sam e time it dc>esn't pr< >p<>se relieving the legislative requirem ent for 12 hours of American historv and government T hese reo tmmendations are a reaction to the demands of sev­ eral student groups, particularly Black Students’ Alliance and Todos Unidos A multiculturalism requirem ent would be, a- the faculty stated, a sort of affirm ative action applied to culture*-. Granted, the proposals resulted from political, not necesssarily academ ic, pressure. But they do represent an honest attempt to reduce racial intolerance on cam pus and accom od ate minorities, while enriching undergraduate education. These com m ittee's plan is not some radical diatribe, destined to wind up as an evidential footnote proving w acked-out politi­ cally ccirrect excesses m Dmesh D'Souza s nc > t e » p. >se Rather it is a com promise on the is s u e s revolving around m inority ad- vancement The Universitv C ouncil's recom m endation, a< pro­ posed, would alleviate fears on all s des • i the debate that intel- iectual freedom is at stake. Som e questions are as yet unanswered. How* to add the 50 courses recommended by the com m ittee; how' to fit the extra hours into a degree plan; how to recruit and pay for the profes­ sors to teach the courses. Bui those, the com m ittee says, are problems for the adm inistration to handle Though the proposal is a reaction to racial tensions on campus, it offers more than classes on sensitivity. \\ hile it fads to give strong academic justification for studying different cultures, odds are students would profit from the added exposure. — Matthew Cotinally SPEA K EA SY Does it really matter? "A n ?hes< people really students Adan Cline professor ofcomputi U.S. government overspends on AIDS T he U .S. governm ent spends m endously tragic cases of AIDS acquired from t r a n s p l a n t s . But as tests get more and m ore ac­ curate, a decline will be seen in the num ber of transfusion and transplant victims. This w i l l lead to an even greater percentage of AIDS traced to behav ior. far too much on AIDS The C enters for Disease Control allocate- spending on preven­ tion and education for AIDS patients The ratio of dollars spent for each AIDS patient to each cancer patient is 50-to-l The ratio of dollars for AIDS sufferers to cardiac patients is 2 , 5 XMo-1. Blake Mosher TEXAN COLUMNIST Statistically, there are more cancer d e a t h s each year than deaths due to AIDS. There will be 44,000 victim s of breast cancer this year, com pared with 30,000 AIDS deaths. A l­ zheim er's disease kills more than 100,000 pr o- pie annually, but breast cancer is a better com ­ parison because it more closeh resem ble1' the age bracket of those suffering from AIDS. D isproportionate am ounts o f m oney are spent for AIDS because its sufferers have the loudest voice in C ongress and the prc—". There h a s been no march to demand more funding for Alzheimer's in Kennebunkport, M aine, but protest attendance should hardly be the sole factor used to allocate m oney for disease con­ trol. C ongress should fund on the basis of need We have been led to believe bv then.» various AIDS activist g r o u p s that there is an AIDS ep i­ demic, ev en though, according to Comnieiitary, AIDS dropped from the 14th biggest killer in America to No. 15 We must continue to aid those who have al­ ready acquired the disease and continue to ed ­ ucate the public, but this should not be done at the expense of funding more serious diseases. When allocating governm ent funds, more thought needs to be given to the nature of the disease and the behavior that causes it. Som e diseases can be controlled to a certain extent bv lifestyle. For instance, those that suf- fer from heart disease, w hich will kill around 775,000 Am ericans this year, can eat right, ex­ ercise and regularle seek medical care. Along the same lines, quitting sm oking greatly re­ d u c e s the risk of lung cancer. Acquiring AIDS for the most part can be reduced by health- conscious behavior. AIDS is transm itted alm ost exclusively through behav ior and hence, as the name indicates, AIDS is the acquired im m une deficiency svnd rome . Consider this A ccording to statistics provid­ ed bv AIDS Services of Austin {which w ere compiled by the U .S. D epartm ent of Health and Human Services), 84 percent o f all AIDS cases reported over the vears are due exclusively to intravenous drug and or hom osexual use. Although AIDS is portrayed as a heterosexual disease by AIDS activists, these sam e activ ists reveal 1 uliv reasoning by arguing that a cut in spending would constitute a genocide of hom o- sexuals. th e se staggering facts led M ichael Fum ento, author of The Myth of Heterosexual Aids, to con­ clude, "A ID S is contagious alm ost exclusively through behavior, and modification of that b e­ havior could m theory reduce future AIDS cas- es virtually to zero without another penny -.pent on research and w ithout a single medical breakthrough." Som e diseases are for the most part non-life­ style controlled, breast cancer being one. Hence a woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer (there wfere 142,000 cases in 1989) is a victim. "Y 'ictim " is used purposely since diseases ob­ tained purely as a result of behavior are not the result of an accident. O ne does not say "sy p h ilis victim " and therefore should n o t say AIDS victim w hen AIDS w as acquired through behavior. Notice, a hom osexual can drastically reduce his risk of AIDS by practicing intelligent health behavior, w hile his risk of dev eloping a form of cancer rem ains the same. We need to concentrate governm ent alloca­ tions for disease on diseases w here research can do the most benefit. A ID S research has not been productive. In fact, o f the first three drugs com m only used in treatm ent of AIDS, tw'o are traced to cancer research — AZT and alpha in­ terferon. W e must continue to fund research for a cure for AIDS, but this needs to be done with the whole of the population in m ind. Private com panies can pick up the research slack in the search for an AIDS cure, but we should put our tax dollars to work w here the real need exists and a difference can be m ade in term s of total lives saved. O therw ise, thou­ sands w'ill die of other diseases due to over­ budgeted AIDS spending. if the University ( here do exist the highly publicized and tre­ Mosher is a history senior. Neoconservatives abandon the principles of the true right A t a time when the eco­ tions for the United States, involv­ ing the livelihood and econom ic well-being of its citizens. nomic backbone of the Nathan Klatt TEXAN COLUMNIST "w ith binding governm ent the chains of the t S. C on stitu tion ." Unfortunate y most conservatives of the day have abandoned the right, tolerating big governm ent af home and abroad. I To right can thank its forefa­ ther w hie h have prov ided a bac * - bone of m odem conservatism . Johr Locke's philosophy is seen throughout our ow n declaration and Constitution: G overnm ent should be only strong enough to individual property and protect God-given nghis, tolerance o f r e ­ ligion and freedom s of press and speech The French econom ist/states­ man Frederic Ba~n.it believed that the United States, circa 1850, pro­ vided an excellent exam ple o f the legitimate duties of a just political society — to protect life, liberty and property Bastiat cited tw o violations bv the United States 'he Lau These governm ent stains on an otherw ise dean bill were slavery — a violation o f life and liberty — and protective tar­ iffs, a violation of the right to proper* v in Historically, the left s ideologv has kept them firmfy planted in the Utopian prom ises of W oo­ drow W ilson's "W ar to end ail w ars," FD R's New Deal or LBJ's Great Society Dom estically, neo- cons continue t