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'"l Vi ■ ■ V- i iii mu) < imiliirMKfitfciitfiliiri' ,ocal / State THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1981 Page 5 ICi ^oftheltj r she want J ihers of t on the Kcommeni ts and jgij tp, the y for as b j be, m oging CaJjj atain a j> remain inli i. Office also requ nit then lecificratJ mg behin;;l » ' Sfi s up at Texas ay iOCIATIONjWill hold Night PAKISTAN CLUB:Wi« hold their first mee lL r ~>r the fall semester at 6 p.m. in Room 504, v, STU . HS- 10p.mv i _ HHLI ®ipp, s I CANTERBURY ASSOCIATIONrWi 11 hold Communion Service at 6 a.m. in the Episcopal Student Center. ; of the semester at 6 p.m. in Room 231, MSC. i-11 p.m. in Room 225, MSC. Sparks Dorris will be the * v u i • i 4. All’square dancers arc welconfT ".S'erSn” " 8 INTER VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPsThe Re- < verand Al I^aCour of Westminster Presbyterian Church will ak at 7 p.m. in Room 402, Rudder Tower. .... ... .... 1 SPORTS CAR CLUB:Will STUDENT ASSOCIATK 6 p.m. in Room are ord sued for deaths of 3 youths te aeiformd! the like Doujl Cadets»! at B United Press International BROWNSVILLE — Three ithTexas men died a fiery death I rear-end collision because fi Motor Co. did not want to Kan extra $8 to fix each of the lustang gas tanks it knew were jnsaft 1 . attorneys charge. •“Ford knew there was a reason- safe alternative, but they t want to use it because of ” said Houston attorney Lar- Watts. Watts, presenting opening jgments Wednesday in a $ 113.8 Bon federal civil lawsuit against J, said the auto manufacturer |ev the fuel tank design for the Mustang was unsafe. Th^ has been recessed until next day. Carlos Garcia and Hector Ariz- i, who burned almost in each s arms in this car, didn’t to be sacrificed for that $8 per ff he said. “They (Ford) spent the lives of these boys.’’ The families of the three youths killed in the March 12, 1978, two- car collision, and a young woman who survived it, claim Ford knew of nine safety defects in the com pany’s popular 1965 Mustang model. But William Slusser of Hous ton, an attorney representing the auto manufacturer, told the four- man, two-woman jury the acci dent and resulting gas tank explo sion and fire was not the fault of Ford. He said the car that rear- ended the Mustang was traveling at a high enough speed to rupture any gas tank. “Ford was a pioneer in safety,” Slusser said. The lawsuit claims the 1965 Mustang driven by Robert G. Schach stopped along a county road near McAllen, Texas, to try to render aid to persons involved in a two-vehicle accident. Schach got out of the car, but Arizmendi and Garcia, both 16, remained in the Mustang. The car was then hit from be hind by a vehicle driven by David Lyssy, 20. Arizmendi and Garcia died at the accident scene and Lyssy later died in a county hos pital. Katherine Flint, who was a pas senger in Lyssy’s car, suffered se vere burns but survived the acci dent. Three witnesses to the accident testified Wednesday, including one who said Lyssy was going fas ter than 55 mph when he hit the Mustang. Andy Durbin, a 21-year-old oil field roughneck, said Lyssy’s car was traveling an “average highway speed” — greater than 55 mph — when it rear-ended the Mustang. He said Lyssy was on fire when he ran from the car. “He was screaming and in pain,” Durbin said. “(He was burning) from head to toe. Every thing was melted on him.” Schach, the Mustang’s driver who now lives in Laredo, testified briefly Wednesday before the trial was recessed until next week. Nicaraguan arrested in dope bust United Press International HOUSTON — The former con sul general of Nicaragua, Jose Estebon McEwan, who lives in Houston was taken into custody late Wednesday following the de livery of an estimated $70,000 worth of cocaine to an undercover police officer. McEwan, 46, was arrested along with a 29-year-old woman. Carmen Smith, narcotics detec tives said. • Police said undercover detec tives received 17 ounces of cocaine during a street drug deal about midnight Wednesday. No charges have been filed and the case was expected to be refer red to a state grand jury. McEwan was sentenced to 10 years probation earlier this year after pleading no contest to a charge of possession of cocaine, involving the April 1980 discovery of cocaine traces in his Rolls Royce and a pound of cocaine in his home, police said. Welcome Back 3 Aggies! Just a reminder that we’re open for all your auto repairs and maintenance. Quality Service at a Price You’ll Like!” Owners Dan Waskow & Wayne Pritchard CO-OP TEXACO 696-3294 Jersey across from the University Police Dept. ffoe becomes thumb or 4-year-old boy water, bard Sin h would ate’s conk Texas cif fexicowJ Jew Mei Staff United Press international empt tojlCLEVELAND — If 4-year-old indergralryan Cavasas can give a irderin.Vthumbs-up” sign to the Houston Ips when they play the Cleve- Mexicoinlpd Browns Sunday, he’ll have 'ater, savi#; Avrum I. Froimson to thank. i on expoif Bryan, of Houston, was born itionally | jthout a thumb on his left hand merce. d Froimson, head of the depart- tively sck ent of orthopedic surgery at Mt. beforet' inai Medical Center in Cleve- rd Brailt: nd. Tuesday took a small bone ide by nil oni the fourth toe of Bryan’s left coral te* stand put it where his thumb elysoley houkl be. [“Half of these bone transplants JMSUett Qw and half don’t,” Froimson theElPf id. “In any event, he now has a ;s do tesi limb up to the first joint and I am testing iry optimistic that the bone will ■ontheptt Iw.” th in N» E Bryan’s parents, Gary and ermitted 1 larolyn Cavasas, decided on Mt. inai after Mrs. Cavasas’ father, vell-drftfik> lives in nearby Medina, read 96,000ae p.similar operation at the hospit Anacrefej 329gate_ born without a thumb and no die or ring finger (on his left id),” Mrs. Cavasas said . “I was [hock. After all, I wanted him to perfect. ” he said doctors in Houston told her not to worry, that the problem could be corrected sur- gally when he grew older. “Well, his body rejected a bone from the bone bank and it appeared to me that they made his middle finger too big,” she said. “They told me nothing else could be done about his thumb, but I wasn’t ready to give up.” Froimson, who said the other fingers would be taken care of la ter, said Bryan’s fourth toe would be about the same length as his fifth toe. “We took from the left foot be cause most people kick with the right foot and use the right foot for the brake and gas pedals,” he said. Quality Guitars Some Reasonably Priced. 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Tt’s a lot easier with a Texas Instruments calculator designed to solve business problems.” Touch a few special keys on these Texas Instruments calculators, the TI Business Analyst-ir''and The MBA™, and lengthy time-value-of-money problems suddenly aren’t lengthy anymore.You can automati cally calculate profit margins, forecast eak and u NG •jN^ Off Campus Aggies Apartment Council President Elections: Sept. 23-24 Filing: Sept. 14-18 pick up information at OCA cubical in SPO Off Campus Center Meeting — 201 MSC Sept. 15 6:30 p.m. sales and earnings and perform statistics. And problems with repetitive calculations are a piece of cake for the MBA, because it’s programmable. These calculators mean business, and what they give you is time-time to grasp underlying business concepts, while they handle the num ber crunching. To make it even easier, each calculator comes with a book written especially for it, which shows you how to make use of the calculator’s full potential. 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