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The College of Engineering
at Texas A&M University
presents the
1983 DEAN’S LECTURE
Lecture and Medallion Presentation
Distinguished Lecturer
Mr. Erich Bloch
Vice President of Technical Personnel
IBM Corporation
Lecture Title
The Role of the Corporation in the
Education of Scientists and Engineers
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March 1,1983
3:00 p.m.
Room 102 Zachry Engineering Center
Texas A8cM University Campus
College Station, TX
The Public is Invited
A brief reception will follow at 4:00 to allow
informal interaction with Mr. Bloch,
the 1983 Dean’s Lecturer.
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February 28,1983
Murder suspects
plead ‘not guilty’
United Press International
SEATTLE — Two men
pleaded innocent in the slayings
of 13 people at a Chinatown
gambling den, and police re
portedly are trying to implicate
them in other killings.
Attorneys for Benjamin Ng,
20, and Kwan “Willie” Mak, 22,
entered pleas of not guilty to 13
counts of aggravated first de
gree murder and one assault
charge Friday. Both men face
possible death sentences if con
victed of the massacre.
The two defendents stood si
lently with their lawyers during
the Five-minute arraignment
hearing and then returned to
jail. King County Superior
Court Judge Gerard Snellan
ordered they remain held with
out bail.
Shellan also ordered a hear
ing on pretrial motions for
March 8, although both attor
neys for Ng and Mak said it is
unlikely they will have enough
information to proceed by that
date.
John Henry Browne, repre
senting Ng, and John Wolfe,
Mak’s attorney, said they may
seek to have the trial moved out
of Seattle because of the put
ity about the worst massmurds
in the city’s history.
Television station K1R0 rt
ported \g and Mak also are sit.
pects in the murder of Franl
Leach, 71, who was kille
months ago while jogging.
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<g and Mak werearrestedn
the basis of information i
vided by the massacre'slonesi
vivor, Wai Y. Chin, 61,wlioit
mained in serious condition fa
day at Harborview \
Center.
Carmakers say new
auto demand rising
United Press International
CHICAGO — The auto in
dustry is optimistic — genuinely
so, it appears — and that is news
in itself.
After several years of tough
times, American and foreign
automakers see lowered interest
rates and slowed inflation as
signs the “pent-up demand” for
new cars is about to become un
pent.
And they hope that natural
improvement in the economy
will let them end the artificially
low interest rates many of them
have been supporting for
months.
“Everybody’s betting that the
marketplace will improve and
interest rates are going to come
down and there won't be any
need for stimulation (through
interest rate supports),” said
Chuck King, Nissan vice presi
dent for sales.
King said the 9.9 percent rate
Nissan guaranteed on its small
trucks, “frankly, took us out of
an inventory problem and let us
introduce new products a
month early. It has been expen
sive. We’d like to see the natural
trend get down to the 10 percent
range.”
Nissan is introducing a new'
range of small trucks, wbich
eventually will be produced at a
new plant in Smyrna, Tenn. The
fate of that truck line may hinge
in part on the availability of
financing.
General Motors officials
agree that interest rates are a key
to the rest of the 1983 model
year and the 1984 autos.
“We’ve proven over the last
few months that interest rates
Topaz, also expressed
dence in an economic t
ound.
“We’ve started ourdimbls
up the hill," one said duringii
unveiling. “I’m optimistic thd
dustry will have the econonwj
its side this year.”
How strong is the op
Most of the executives!
ing about an industn-widea
figure this year slightly 2
million units.
But one segment of their
try, the luxury segments
less concerned with the eel
are very important to our cus
tomers,” McDonald said of GM’s
successful 11.9 percent interest
rate subsidy.
Ford executives, introducing
their new Tempo and Mercury
nomy or interest rates.
“Cadillac, as you know, h
I seen cruising pretty well in
market over the pasttwoa
dar years,” said Robert D.
ger, Cadillac division chief.
In 1981, he said,
were up 8.3 percent.In 1982,
8.1 percent. And in the firs
days of 1983, up9.4percet:
. Cadillacal i e
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Twice-wedded Mormon
quesdons polygamy law
Astui
is goin
United Press International
MAGNA, Utah — A twice-
wedded Mormon, who filed the
first federal court challenge of
polygamy laws in more than a
century, says having more than
one wife isn’t much fun.
“It sounds like fun, but if you
get into it for fun, it won’t last,”
said Royston Potter, 30, who was
fired from his job as a Murray
police officer when his superiors
discovered he had two wives.
He was offered the job back
— if he discarded one of his
wives. He refused and filed a
federal court suit against the city
and the state of Utah charging
unequal enforcement of the law.
Potter is one of the hundreds
of polygamists who live in Utah
without being arrested or prose
cuted.
The task of juggling the
needs of two wives and families
while spending only half-time
with each is formidable, Potter
said.
“Most men who try it, don’t
like it,” he said. “Most women
aren’t willing to enter into some
thing like this.”
“If I put myself in his place, I
would be, well, overwhelmed,”
said Denise, 29, Potter’s high
school sweetheart and legal wife
of 1 1 years.
With her. Potter fathered
four children before he entered
into a non-legal marriage 2Vv
years ago with JoAnn, 30.
The two wives became pre
gnant at the same time and bore
Potter’s fourth and fifth chil
dren within four months of each
other.
“If I didn’t think he loved me,
I wouldn’t have let him,” said
wife No. 1 of marriage No. 2.
“I know Roy loves Denise and
the children more than anything
else in the whole world,” said
JoAnn. “And I know he loves me
and our baby more than any
thing else in the whole world. It’s
the shme.”
Potter describes himself as a
Mormon who believes in the
teachings of church founder
Joseph Smith, who began the
practice of plural marriage. The
church outlawed polygamy in
1896 to gain statehood for Utah.
Many Mormons left the
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter-day Saints to form splinter
groups with their own prophets
who espoused multiple mar-
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riages.
Potter predicted his$50§|
damage suit will likelt
appealed by one side or
other all the waytothelj MllSCl
court.
Robert B. Hansen, fon
Utah attorney general, said
statute won’t stand upbeoi Jgppg
the Mormons who praiti
polygamy after it wasoullw Of
in the 19th century did soul f night
religious beliefs protected^
First Amendment.
“It was unconstitutional, 1
my opinion, during the W
mon polygamy days, anditiii
constitutional now,” Ha®
said.
Potter, who converted
Mormonism in his teens,does
belong to a polygamist sett!
said he adopted the practite
ter studying the teachings^
early Mormon leaders.
While admitting the notin
plural wives “appeals to the
er part of me,” he said his
ary motivation is bu ’
kingdoms in the afterlife ^
mon doctrine says
achieve godhood andtheif< ll!
“can each be Eves in '
Gardens of Edens,”!
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