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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1978
Page 3
By SCOTT PENDLETON
Battalion Staff
Virtually no political surprises
were in store for local members of
the Mexican-American Democrats
as they listened to local party candi
dates Thursday night.
With only 11 days before the elec
tion, the race, as Congressional
candidate Phil Gramm described it,
is like the last two minutes of a bas
ketball game.
None of the candidates were
about to risk what in some cases is
certain victory by a surprise move
this late in the game.
No new issues were discussed. In
fact, Kent Caperton, representing
gubernatorial candidate John Hill,
even declined to state the issues.
“I think it would be repetitious to
II you who he is, what he stands
for, and what his qualifications are,
Caperton told two dozen MAD
members in attendance.
About the closest anyone came to
naking a campaign promise was
when Caperton said that John Hill
“is going to remember you.
Phil Gramm, who said he has
stuck to the issues all through the
campaign, repeated his stands in
hvor of putting the federal govern
ment on a budget, deregulating
natural gas, and reducing the
imount of government regulation of
business.
AO reports
metric liquor
may cost more
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WASHINGTON — If you’ve ar-
ued with your liquor dealer that
Iter bottles of booze seem to cost
more per ounce — or centiliter —
than the old quart or gallon jugs,
you now have a government agency
on your side.
A General Acounting Office study
Wednesday showed wine and beer
Kittled in new metric containers can
cost consumers up to 10.5 percent
more than the old bottles.
The GAO found the switchover,
ipproved by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, resulted in a
largely detrimental” impact on
mnsumer prices, and said the
igency should inform buyers of the
:hange.
The switch to metric bottling will
oe completed for wines at the be
ginning of 1979 and for liquors a
year later.
The GAO found wines increased
n price by 2.9 percent when
banged from a four-fifths quart bot-
le to a 750-milliliter container.
The increase was even more —
0.5 percent — for the conversion of
one-half gallon to 1.5-liter bottles of
wine. And the gallon to three-liter
ihange cost consumers a 6.7 percent
irice hike.
In an interview while MAD con
ducted other business, Gramm said
he would not propose any specific
legislation to help Mexican-Ameri-
cans. He said that a healthy business
climate would benefit all citizens.
“We re all being hurt by exactly
the same things,” Gramm said.
“Certainly, poor people are hurt
more.”
Weren’t his policies and attitudes
a little Republican?
“I think the day has passed when
any reasonable person would stand
up and say all Democrats are good
and all Republicans are bad,”
Gramm said.
“Nobody d believe it,” he said.
If both parties would improve
their candidates, the process would
improve the country, Gramm said.
But before Brazos County Repub
licans can improve their candidates,
they are going to have to find them.
One of the candidates at the meet
ing, Travis Bryan III, has no oppo
nent for the position of district at
torney of the 85th judicial district.
Democrtats run unopposed in seven
other races.
Bryan told the MAD members
that he would try to stick by his
campaign promise of “an open door
and a firm hand.”
Bryan advocated strong punish
ment for criminals who are repeat
offenders or who commit violent
crimes.
Referring to a large increase in
crime in Brazos County, Bryan said,
“I want to do my part to ward off
some of that.”
Bryan, sheriff candidate Bobby
Yeager, and incumbent tax
assessor-collector Buddy Winn in
vited the audience to come in and
discuss problems, or see how their
offices run.
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340 Jersey — At the Southgate
Bike stolen from man, 53,
cycling across continent
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Carlos Leopoldo Sanches
pedaled eight months through
seven countries only to have his
specially equipped bicycle sto
len.
Sanchez, 53, left Panama on
Feb. 17 and made his way
through Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
Honduras, El Savador,
Guatemala and Mexico.
On arrival in this city across
the Rio Grande from Laredo,
Texas, this week, Sanchez went
to a newspaper to have his pho
tograph taken and give a prog
ress report on his trip that was
scheduled to take him to Canada
and then back south to Cape
Horn.
While inside the newspaper
building, someone stole his bicy
cle.
Sanchez remained on foot in
Nuevo Laredo waiting news from
police on whether they had re
covered his two-wheeler.
Now you know
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