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Video games popular in MSC
David Gordon, a sophomore petroleum engineering ma
jor from Houston, shows off his talented wrist in the
MSC Bowling and Games area downstairs in the Memo
rial Student Center.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A can
didate for governor says the City
of El Paso, which has filed a fed
eral suit to gain access to water in
southern New Mexico, actually
encouraged its consumers to use
more — rather than less —
water.
Democrat Aubrey Dunn says
he bases that contention on re
sults of a private engineering
study he commissioned.
“I’ve said all along there’s
more to this lawsuit for New
Mexico water than meets the
eye,” Dunn said Sunday. “And
nothing I’ve learned so far con
tradicts that conclusion.”
He said he is “increasingly
convinced that this suit is an
attempt to establish a precedent
for taking New Mexico water
out of state, in order to use vast
amounts of it for coal slurry
pipelines in the near future.”
A pending lawsuit filed by the
far West Texas city asks a feder
al judge to strike down New
Mexico’s water export ban on
grounds it is unconstitutional.
The dispute between El Paso
and the state has sparked emo
tions on both sides of the Rio
Grande.
Of the proposed water impor
tation, Dunn said: “It would be
another example of New Mex
icans allowing themselves to be
colonized by energy companies
from other states, particularly
Texas, if we accept their false
claims on our underground
water.
Dunn says his study indicated
El Paso has a minimum water
allowance 2.5 times greater than
that allowed by “most New Mex
ico cities.”
He said El Paso permits users
to consume 7,500 gallons of wa
ter per month on a minimum
charge of about $5.05. He said
New Mexicans generally are
allowed a minimum monthly usf
age of about 3,000 gallons.
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DALLAS — Texans have paid
|2.9 million less for road and
Iridee materials since the start
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chasing irregularities and kick-
acks by county officials, a news-
aper reported.
In a copyright story, the Dal
las Times Herald said Sunday
hat prices paid for road and
fridge supplies showed a
arked cost in some Texas
Icounties decrease since the
robe began.
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secutors say they intend to pur
sue the investigation across the
state, concentrating on areas
where prices have fallen in a
period of 12 percent national in
flation.
“When someone has to pay
commissioners a ‘fee’ for doing
business, the money has to come
from somewhere,” U.S. Attor
ney John Wortham said.
In a study of 51 Texas coun
ties, the newspaper said the cost
of major road and bridge sup
plies had decreased in 45 per
cent of them since October
1980, when the federal investi
gation become known.
The newspaper said of 23
counties where prices dropped,
taxpayers paid a total of $2.9
million less for road and bridge
materials in 1981 than in 1980.
“The decrease has saved tax
payers hundreds of thousands
of dollars,” the newspaper re
ported.
Although the kickback inves
tigation evolved into one of the
largest public corruption scan
dals in Texas history, Wortham
said it had only touched the tip
of the iceberg.
In Oklahoma, where a similar
investigation began in 1978,
more than 165 commissioners,
former commissioners and sup
pliers have been convicted,
pleaded guilty or agreed to
plead guilty to various charges.
Some county officials attri
buted the lower prices to effi
ciency and increased competi
tion. But prosecutors and other
public officials believe there is a
direct link between materials
bought at lower prices and the
federal investigation.
Armed with calculators,
grandjury subpoeanas and their
own copying machine, a strike
force of five FBI agents has
appeared unannounced at more
than 20 Texas courthouses and
dozens of banks.
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AMARILLO — Trespassing
charges are pending against a
man who it is charged
threatened to hijack a Braniff
International jetliner at the
Amarillo International Airport,
an FBI spokesman says.
The FBI spokesman said Lar
ry Darnell Wallace, 25, was in
custody and probably would be
charged with trespassing and
theft more than $10,000, on
Monday.
Amarillo police said Wallace
boarded the Boeing 727 aircraft
about 11:30 p.m. Saturday while
it was parked at the terminal for
the night.
Police said the passengers
and crew had already left the jet,
but a custodian was on board
when the incident began.
A police department dis
patcher said the man apparently
did not have a weapon.
Officials said the custodian
notified police after the man got
on the public address system
and said he was going to hijack
the plane.
A police statement released
Sunday said the police SWAT
team and negotiators from the
FBI were able to talk the man off No hostages were involved
the plane after approximately and the man was not injured, the
45 minutes. statement said.
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