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an plans to build ext wonder of world United Press International QUEBEC — Jean Saint-Germain plans to dwarf the ielping dti feat Pyramid of Egypt with one of his own that will be o has takijjbiggest in the world, with room for 2,000 coffins, one rvation pra jllion urns — and a restaurant on the top. >n the far Now all he needs to build his own wonder of the world ily since islthe sleepy village of St. Simon, 33 miles outside iy I’ve iitigntreal, is permission from the Quebec Province zon- oard. nt-Germain says his idea for the 49-story pyramid hich in effect, would be a mausoleum — “has ;rs were swing to do with mysticism.” is in theyM just think it’s a practical idea,” said the man who d until illhe is a “thinker” when asked his occupation. “It ’ be convenient and a tourist attraction as well.” nt-Germain said he was upset that his pyramid leaked out because he wanted to keep them secret he found out whether the zoning board would him to build the 534-foot-high structure, e area where I want to build is zoned agricultural iso usedtluB’ve applied for permission to build,” the 43-year- he soil froil old father of 12 said. “I should have an answer by Nov. 14.” “If they say no, I’ll take my idea to Ontario or the United States,” he said, adding that the pyramid — which would house a museum of inventions on the ground floor and a restaurant on top — would cost between $40 million and $60 million to build. Saint-Germain, who claims to hold the patent on many inventions, including the Playtex nursing bottle, has already built a so-called “Aerodium,” a building which resembles a silo where customers can become weightless through what he terms a “vertical air press ure system.” He said he has already sold the patent of the Aerodium to a Japanese company for an undisclosed fee. The world’s largest pyramid is actually not in Egypt, but is the Quetzalcoatl, 63 miles southeast of Mexico City. It is a mere 177 feet tall; its base covers nearly 45 acres, and its volume of 4.3 million cubic yards is almost 1 million cubic yards bigger than Egypt’s Pyramid of Cheops. preme Court will decide UT must have interpreter agon was >mbine, W| 5(1 kernels, vere dump id the cows ! fields tod ecattle,wliL , • ii r it United Press International zcrinthel^ASHINGTON — The Supreme , he said, )urt ^ a g ree( J t 0 consider er colleges accepting federal l-e required by the Rehabilita- amant tkik-Act of 1973 to pay for an inter- rily assunr for a deaf graduate student, care of :.- .flu justices will hear an appeal arming by the University of Texas gency areJI 3 ^ng that the school must ricanasanjp a si 8 n language interpreter in the eriti-P ailc l* ca PP et l persons may bring States "lieMinder the 1973 act to enforce Might. | suit was brought in March, K by Walter Camenisch, a stu- i\7 N at tbe University of Texas at / V ■’ re 9 u ' re ll' 6 university to J pish him with a sign language in- Mter to assist in his classwork. He argued he needed the inter- Er to complete work for his mas ter’s degree by the end of the 1978 summer term in order to keep his job as acting dean of students at the East Campus of the Texas School for the Deaf. The Rehabilitation Act provided that “no otherwise qualified hand icapped individual” could be denied the benefits of any program receiv ing federal financial assistance, he argued. At the time, the University of Texas received some $31.4 million in federal aid. However, the school de nied Camenisch’s request on grounds he did not meet the univer sity’s criteria for financial assistance to graduate students. The decision forced him to pay for his own inter preter. Several months after he filed his suit, a federal district court held Camenisch had the legal right to bring suit under the Rehabilitation Act without first exhausting admin- sitrative channels. The court also required him to file an administrative complaint with a federal agency before initiating a suit. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, finding Came nisch had a right to bring suit under the Rehabilitation Act. However, the court refused to require Came nisch to file an administrative com plaint first. Texas appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing a 1979 Supreme Court ruling barred the courts from imposing the financial and adminis trative burdens of providing inter preters. riendliness one reason .S. draws Europeans •? United Press International NDON — From this side of the Atlantic, America looked so inviting. iropeans in ever increasing numbers are visiting United States. While bargain air fares and a cheap 6r are primary reasons, returning tourists and travel nts say there is more to it than saving cash. .mmcans, they say, have earned high marks for w mdliness and fairness, for providing good service ■ i Jia minimum of hassles, for welcoming tourists as , n ^ d -m their doflars. R v lie spoken to a lot of people and I must confess that Mbody has said they’ve had a marvelous time,” said 16 ni ^ n( ^ erson Thomas Cook Travel Ltd. “You’d , a 5 a , ak that someone would have something negative to wlfut 110 -” pens Biere is an infatuation among French people for the ican way oflife,” one Paris travel agent said. “They jt as a country 10 years ahead of Europe. Also, lie are not so reserved as in France. They are always to talk to you, particularly in small towns.” :hink it’s important to have been there,” said Wal- Leber, 25, a Bonn school teacher who spent six in California. “So much of what we have comes . —here and you can understand it much better if you mingemp' )w background.” ty amongtijljg sa jj s [j e Americans because they were back to f r j enc JIy “ anc l paid absolutely no attention to ive less seiW|^ rances you could wear what you liked, do what o satyed 01 raked, ' n contrast to here.” Yet no matter how much foreign visitors may love n Oct. 1, ^ w York, California or Florida— the three big destina- wotkefi fjl_ j ow a i r f ares an( j g ooc j value for their francs, eluded imf iks or pounds remain the cornerstones of the boom, king cowMisider this; jpervisori- \ McDonald’s Big Mac, small french fries and milk costs about $2.20 in Miami and Los Angeles and atit $2.60 in New York. (I Willi IriStockholm, the same meal costs about $4.80 and in Q FODliS "I London and Hamburg, about $3.75. Other food ^ ,, ices are comparable: In London any cheeseburger Tax. ™ the ketchup costs $5. In Bonn, a cup of coffee and- lice of cake fetches $3.40 and a can of beer $1.70. “(iheapness of food and good service are mentioned ':O0P.II Moften by returning tourists,” Anderson of Thomas The same applies to hotels. Ii London, a Holiday Inn room for two people ranges DAY ira $110 to $152 a night. PECIAL | :d steak msc AGGIE Bravy j itoesand l | ie other ' ale dandB# Tea In Miami, the average price of the same Holiday Inn room is $42. At $56 a night, the Holiday Inn near the Vatican is cheaper than New York City’s $73, but the Big Apple is still less than Paris ($97) or Cologne ($80). U.S. Travel officials trace the tourist boom to the Bicentennial year of 1976. “We saw a concerted effort by the United States to promote itselffor tourists aboard,” said Roger Eennings, public relations consultant to the U.S. Travel Service in London. “That coincided with the lower air fares being offered by operators like Freddie Laker and Jetsave.” This winter, economy seats on all the major airlines will sell for about $220 one way from London to New York, with comparable prices to other destinations. But perhaps more important are the cheap package vacations, which combine air fare, hotels and usually breakfast. One of the largest package tour operators in Britain is Jetsave, and its most popular destination is Florida. A Jetsave spokeswoman said that next year a 14-day Miami vacation will sell for 280 pounds — $675. “Florida,” said Fennings of U.S. Travel, “is not like other patterns: it is an example of sudden, explosive growth. The thousands of tourists who used to frequent the Mediterannean picked themselves up en masse and went to Florida for a good time.” Miami’s Dade County reported 192,615 European visitors in the first six months of 1980, 124,615 from Britain. “Each month, without fail, the figures rose in occu pancy and resort tax collections,” said Dade County Tourism Director Lew Price. In the Bicentennial year, tourism from Britain leaped 32 percent. “It’s been growing by between 25 and 42 percent annually every year since then, ’’ Fennings said. “This year we feel confident it will grow another 40 percent. ” The same holds true for other European countries. In 1975, the Central German Tourist office reported 297,964 Germans visited the United States, compared with 485,000 in 1979 and a projected 600,000 this year. French tourist officials estimate 350,000 Frenchmen will visit America this year, 13 percent more than in 1979 and 32 percent above the 1978 figures. “For many people it is a dream trip,” said Jeannette Howl of the U.S. Travel Service in Frankfurt, West Germany. “And now they can afford it.” "YANKEE DOODLE! DANDY" WEDNESDAY NOV. 5 7:30 P.M. RUDDER THEATER $1.00 WITH TAMU I.D. 1 ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE MON.-FRI. 9 A.M.-5 P.M. TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE 45 MIN. BEFORE SHOWTIME iitiiiiiil THE BATTALION Page 5B WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1980 FTC streamlines antitrust case United Press International WASHINGTON — A Federal Trade Commission move to stream line its antitrust conspiracy case against eight major oil firms for alleged, pre-1973 crude oil price fix ing contains almost nothing new, Ex xon attorneys say, but it could cut years off the time needed to finish the case. An Exxon spokesman said the company was still studying FTC staff documents, although Exxon attor neys detected “nothing more than a restatement of the broad range of still unsupported allegations.” “While the FTC appears to have dropped or modified some prior con tentions, the thrust of the case re mains generally the same,” the spokesman said. The FTC staff s new 394-page case document, although it deletes some issues, still accuses Exxon and seven other firms of “a powerful inference of conspiracy” before 1973. A commission attorney said the document was significant because it simplified the case and removed an industry complaint about vague charges. “You can’t read that document and not know what you are charged with — violating sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act,” he said. It charges the firms with “a tacit conspiracy with regard to raising crude oil prices to artificially high levels.” It also says they cooperated to “maintain a non-competitive mar ket” in downstream operations — marketing, refining and pipelines — to keep independents from under cutting crude prices. The attorney said only an effort to sustain crude prices could explain decisions by the majors to continue with marginal or unprofitable down stream businesses. He said the con trol of crude oil prices dictated other moves because it is easier to shield those upstream profits from taxes. Restatement of the staff antitrust complaint could cut as much as a decade from the time it would take to obtain a court verdict in the massive pre-1973 crude oil price conspiracy case. It saves time mainly by drastic ally chopping the number of eviden tiary company source documents to half a million. The FTC attorney said the staffs decision to steadily narrow the issues draws on a procedure adopted by the judge in the celebrated American Telephone & Telegraph Co. anti trust case. As a result, he said, “it’s not out of the question that the trial could begin in two years and the trial itself might not take that long. “The last remedy available would be divestiture,” he said, but “we have not focused on any particular remedy at this time.” Two issues dropped from the case document dealt with anti competitive effect of interlocking corporate directorates and alleged efforts to weaken independent rivals. 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