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state Do Something Different Tonight! 120 Walton Drive, C.S, Cranes begin return to Texas HALLMARK CARDS & GIFT CENTER yW S 2 9S ) Corsages V ount Hallmar with Valid rchases pon ct.\ 33-30 Petal Patch United Press International ARANSAS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE — The famed whooping cranes have begun to return to the Texas Gulf Coast this year, but they are minus one of their most historic members. Frank Johnson, the coastal reserve’s manager said: “We flew this morning and we found we have 14 whooping cranes here already — 13 adults and one chick. They’ll be coming on in until late November.” But Nyarling, the whooping crane who made naturalist his tory when she was tracked last year using sophisticated radio beams across the 2,600-mile migration route, will not be pre sent among the migrating cranes this year. Wallace Jobman, biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildife Service in Pierre, S.D., said the crane — found dead in an oat field near Waco — was identi fied by colored bands and a radio transmitter attached to its leg. Officials said the bird may have broken its neck, but did not show any obvious wounds. “We sent 73 (cranes) north last spring,” Johnson said. “We have reports there’s probably five chicxs. So if we get all the older birds back, which is not always the case, we could have 78.” Scientists do not know why the endangered whooping cranes migrate to exactly the same spots each year. They al ways spend the summer nesting at the million-acre Wood Buffa lo National Park in Alberta, Canada, and then make leisure ly stops in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma before settling into the tall marshes of Aransas Bay, about 50 miles north of Corpus Christi. 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LOCATION: Openings on both coasts and in Gulf area. We pay relocation expenses. See the Navy Management Opportunities team in the Rudder Tower Placement Center, October 28 and 29 or call 822-3423 for more information. SMITH has more experience in the County Court at Law in both criminal and civil cases. He's best qualified to be Judge of that court i In a recent poll, a majority of active Brazos County lawyers affirmed Steve Smith as “best qualified” to be Judge of the County Court at Law. 2 The record speaks for itself. Steve Smith has a much broader background in the law, considerably more experience in both criminal and civil cases in the County Court at Law, more seasoning in contested matters and a record of public service to the community. 3 i The Judge of the County Court at Law is not an extension of the prosecutor’s office. It is a place for the citizens as a whole and as individuals to find justice. The person who sits as Judge needs to be well versed, fair and experienced. Steve Smith is best qualihed to hold this important office. We ask for your vote and support. C STEVE B SMITH Paid Political Advertisement by Committee to Elect Steve Smith/Don Dillon. Chairman/Judy Rychlik, Treasurer, Box 9213, College Station, TX 77840 Battalion/Page 10 October 20, Firm investigated for illegal bribes United Press International HOUSTON — A spokes man for a Houston-based gas compression equipment firm said its private investigation turned up no evidence of bribes used to secure multi- million-dollar deals with Pemex, the stateowned oil company of Mexico. John Cassidy, a Washing ton lawyer representing Crawford Enterprises, said Monday the firm “conducted an extensive investigation of its own and has uncovered no evidence that any Pemex or Mexican official has acted irregularly in connection with (Crawford) contracts with Pemex.” Cassidy said, “Contracts with Pemex have been the subject of careful review to en sure the integrity of the pro curement process and no con tract has been awarded to Crawford unless Crawford Enterprises was the lowest oualified bidder who could deliver compressors on a sche dule and in a manner respon sive to Pemex requirements." ments through a Mexiaj; company, Grupo Indusuiil Delta, with $12 millionoltkl $19 million paid alleged, going to two top Pemex oflij cials, the attorney general’srtj port said. The Mexican government accused Crawford and Ruston Gas Turbines Inc., a second Houston company, with giv ing bribes and kickbacks total ing more than $ 116 million to of Petroleos Mex- ing mon officials Crawford and Delta“wrai a contract in the United Suit to cover up the bribes ik Crawford Enterprises, lit paid to some Petroleos Mti icanos officials,” the repot said. It is against U.S. law for American companies to pay bribes overseas. According to the Mexican government investigation, Crawford made the bribe pay- bines and gas extractml equipment Crawford soldd Pemex was overpriced bv million and an investigate continues with Pemei! cooperation into the appare kickback. Unite An El F nie feels “witchcra full whilt claims mi turning 1 cassee. And night en< kind. These fill pages ceived by patchers seem to sv the adver I “You ; moon dot ; what it ca • said Cecil of Publii , manning I switch boa Clements asks Reagan for currency exchange W] Wll United Press International AUSTIN —Gov. William Cle ments said Tuesday he has asked President Reagan to con sider a federally administered currency exchange to help be leaguered border Texas cities cope with the devaluation of the Mexican peso. Clements suggested an ex change mechanism that would permit U.S. border institutions to accept pesos from local resi dents, businesses, and tourists. Those pesos would then be sold to the U.S. government for final settlement. Because of the peso devalua tion and currency exchange re strictions, retail businesses in border Texas cities have been crippled, he said. Retail business is off by 60 P ercent in McAllen and Eagle ass, 45 percent in Laredo and 20 percent in El Paso, Clements said. Unemployment in the retail industry along the border averaging 25 percent. Clements said a govern backed exchange pro[ would remove many of the strictions on the daily flow capital in the border region help the economic recoven the area. “It is imperative thatsomesc Court says ban of show doesn’t equal censorship Unitec NEW Y enied pi rom his 1 Ithough eagues ha will rec< n an unpi ination r The aw United Press International NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court has ruled that the refu fusal of two public television stations to air a 1980 docu- drama about the beheading of an adulterous Saudi princess did not infringe on viewers’ First Amendment rights. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a decision by Houston’s KUHT-TV and the Alabama Educational Televi sion Commission to cancel a showing of “Death of a Princess” in May 1980 did not constitute censorship. Station and commission offi cials decided not to show the na tionally telecast program be cause they feared it would harm U.S. relations with Arab coun ties and threaten Americans in the Middle East. Viewers in Houston and Ala bama tried to force the showing of the program, claiming the sta tions did not have the right to keep the docu-drama off the air. The appeals court ruled Fri day those viewers did not have a constitutional right to compel the showing of the program. “It is clear that Congress did not deem it necessary for view ers to be accorded a right of ac- bility be provided as soonaspiHday by the sible so that commerce bewefls'Human R the two countries can continut year court he told Reagan in a letter, sates Anti JBrooklyn, “It was ion case,” mission at tant thing panic.” It was tl mission aw |vho claim< Jtional on cess to television broadcast s *- 0 ! hcials sa tions,” Circuit Judge James(i Official; Hill w'rote for the court. (Center, th “Indeed it is clear that Coir977 comp gress concluded that the Firt ate comme Amendment rights of puWi* Grasso v television viewers are adequai 1 times fo ly protected under a systi | guan where the broadcast licensee It '■ >spital sai sole programming discretff Was not bii but is under an obligation I rniss * on s ai< serve the public interest." 1101 a pnste 1 he hos Hill also wrote a public tele part-time sion station is entitled to malif 40 per 1 the same rights as its pri'i facility froi counterparts, saying “the Rif977 — w; Amendment does not proW p e was awa the government from speafc; nor require the governmeni* 5 speak.” ICr; BUILD THE H IE in Ln OUT OF BONFIRE DANCE But the decision did preset major warning for the pul stations. “As state instrumentalit)*' 1 1 iq ^ these public licensees are v® '-'•-A A out the protection of the Fr Amendment,” Hill wrote.'Fl'* United lack of constitutional protect^ NEW YC implies only that governni<| i(Su “ ere d se' could possibly impose resl|^ 1977 mot tions on these licensees iyhw.^rd-brec could not impose on prit|r enie nt aga licensees.” | er of the , "'earing. 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