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AT8cT split
to raise rates
By KAREN WALLACE
Staff writer
General Telephone cus
tomers in Bryan-College Sta
tion may see an increase in loc
al rates and monthly phone
access rates by April 3, GTE
representative John Wallace
said Tuesday.
These increases, a result of
thejan. 1, divestiture between
American Telephone and
Telegraph and Southwestern
Bell, are necessary to make up
for the loss of long distant ser
vice, Wallace said.
Wallace explained that
prior to the breakup long dis
tance service was more expen
sive for the customer to use
than lor GTE to provide. The
opposite was true of local rates
which were less expensive for
the customer to use than for
GTE to provide. The excess
revenue from long distance
rates was used to help pay the
local rates.
With the divestiture,
AT&T became a long distance
service, and GTE became a
local service, he said.
Now, GTE has no alterna
tive but to raise the local rates
to help pay for the loss of long
distance revenue, said Phil
Dole, AT&T representative in
Austin.
"There’s really nothing
else to do,” Dole said.
F,
Lanet Greenhaw, regional
public relations manager
from AT&T, said an in-
creased phone lease rates ^Iso
are needed to help with the
loss of revenue. The smallest
increase, from $1.25 to $1.50,
will be for the traditional tele
hone. The largest increase,
Tom $3.60 to $4.60, will be
for the trim fit telephone.
“One thing that is unique is
that a person doesn’t have to
lease a phone from the same
company that provides your
service,” Greenhaw said.
Greenhaw said that
another reason for the in
crease is leasing prices are no
longer regulated. Prior to the
divestiture, leasing prices
were established by the Public
Utility Gommission in Texas,
she said.
“AT&T committed to an
average national price, and
decided to maintain that price
for two years,” she said.
These two years would give
the customer time to look at all
the options and would give
AT&T a chance to ease into
the competition market, she
said.
“It gives the consumers
and AT&T a chance to adapt
to the transition from regula-
tion to competition,”
Greenhaw said. “It was a situa
tion we recognized years ago.”
School systems blamed for low scores
United Press International
EL PASO — Low Scholastic
Aptitude Test scores are
brought about by a failure in the
state educational system, not the
influx of minority students,
Texas Education Commissioner
Raymon Bynum said Tuesday.
Bynum faulted the state’s
educational system after a re
port prepared by the U.S. De
partment of Education showed
minority students traditionally
have received lower SAT scores.
SAT scores are used by colleges
and universities to determine
which students will succeed at
higher education.
Texas Hispanic leaders criti
cized Bynum when he allegedly
blamed an influx of Hispanic
students in the state for the low
SAT scores in Texas.
Bynum said he was mis
quoted both by television repor
ters and reporters for the San
Antonio Light.
“I said that our failure to ade
quately meet the educational
nee^ s . °* m i nor ity people is re-
spopsible for Texas scoring so
Jq W ’’ Bynum said.
j^tate Sen. Carlos Truan of
Corf ,us Lhristi, who was critical
of By nur «. he would give
the commissioner the “benefit of
the a°ubt.”
j-jy. Ernesto Perez, director of
the ]jilmg ua l Education Train-
ing Technical Assistance
NetvV or k at l be University of
T ex3 * at El Paso, said Bynum is
maki^S no effort to support
bilingual education programs in
Texas schools.
Perez said bilingual educa
tion is important because Hispa
nic students who speak only
Spanish learn English as quickly
as possible to succeed in school
once they have mastered the lan
guage.
Bynum said bilingual educa
tion is “working very well” in El
Paso but that it is too early to tell
whether students who partici
pated in bilingual education will
succeed when they enter college.
Perez said the low SAT scores
is the responsibility of the Texas
Education Agency.
“The true fault now and al
ways has been with the Texas
Education Agency,” he said.
“The agency should look at it
self, at its leadership, at its curri
culum, and then see where the
blame actually should go. The
blame should be nowhere else
but on the agency and on its
leadership.
Judge says Continental had
no choice in reorganization
rtayor
eacher conflict
United Press International
HOUSTON — A bankruptcy
judge Monday sided with Con
tinental Airlines and against
three striking labor unions, who
had charged the beleaguered
carrier had filed for Chapter 11
reorganization to ban unions
from the company.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge R.F.
Wheless Jr. said in a strongly
worded statement that the com
pany had no alternative but to
file for reorganization.
“This court finds that the
Continental Airlines group filed
their respective Chapter 11 pro
ceedings for the purpose of
attempting to keep the com
panies alive and functioning and
that they had no other viable
alternative to that end.
“The unions have not satisfac
torily demonstrated that there
was any reasonable alternative
under which the airline would
keep operating, and this court
finds that there was not,” Whe
less said.
The battle between Continen
tal and the Air Line Pilots Asso
ciation, the Union of Flight
Attendants and the Internation
al Association of Machinists be
gan in September when Con
tinental filed for reorganization.
The company stopped flying for
two days, and then resumed
flying a reduced schedule with
one-third of its employees work
ing at half pay.
A spokesman for ALPA said
the union would definately
appeal the judge’s decision.
“We are disappointed and we
plan to file an prompt appeal,”
said ALPA spokesman Dick
Smith. “I think it demonstrated
that Continental sought a bank
ruptcy ruling to rid itself of the
union contract,”
Continental spokesman
Bruce Hicks said the company
was pleased with judge’s deci
sion.
‘‘This ruling definitively
states that Continental has acted
in the best interest of our em
ployees, our shareholders, cre
ditors and the traveling public,”
said Hicks.
“The court has stated that
Continental has acted in good
faith in order to preserve jobs
and provide a viable future for
this 0i r li ne ar, d its employees.
Aftef countless hours of testi
mony’ hundreds of thousands
of p<*S es corporate papers
turn£“ over to union attorneys
and the deposing of key man-
agen» ent officials, the court’s de
cision * s a clear sign that we did
what we fi ac ^ to to save Con-
tinen ta h” Hicks said.
Sjpce September when Con
tinent 3 * filed for reorganization,
the company has denied any
atteitipt to bust the unions,
which 11 s fi** recognizes. It said it
filed f° r protection because it
lost million between 1979
and 1^83, would have run out of
cash by l he end of 1983 and had
financial problems on many
fronts-
-fhe company argued the
strikiOS labor unions did not
undef sta nd the seriousness of
Conti nenta l s financial prob
lems 2 nc l rejected the company’s
efforts to persuade them to ^
make a 9 u ick $150 million in 0
conc^ ss i ons that might have 0
avoided bankruptcy. ^
I/^M went on strike Aug. 13
after contract talks failed.
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JUAREZ, Mexico — Mayor
fandsco Barrio, fearing a vio-
ed, vi« tut confrontation between left
(TOTfs; ling teachers and police, Tues-
^ lay called on American tourists
’ ostay away from the border city
1 , lexl Saturday.
ernslH ma y 0r ’ s warning, dis-
eminated to news media in El
aso, drew angry comments
rom Apemio Jayme Salazar,
" enf iresident of the Juarez national
) enfoi hamber of commerce, who cal-
ngalu ed for the mayor to maintain
studti irder or resign.
The protesting teachers are
members of a leftwing union
Los Democraticos,” who have
ieen critical of administrative
idicies of the federal Secretar-
at of Education. The teachers
ay the agency shows favoritism
n promoting teachers to admi-
le hail listrative positions and accuses
idministrators of corruption.
Some 28 teachers were Fired
Q rll j three months ago when they re
fused to accept transfers, claim
ing the agency discriminated
against them. They are seeking
reinstatement.
Teachers, together with the
. Comite de la Defensa Popular,
g to» :he Committee of the People’s
ipiltct
Defense, has joined with the
teachers and have announced a
massive protest demonstration
through the streets of Juarez on
Saturday.
CDP leaders say they and the
teachers will block international
bridges and tie up commerce be
tween Juarez and El Paso.
The mayor, in response to
inquiries from officials at Fort
Bliss, advised all Americans to
stay home Saturday for their
own safety, even though the
protest has nothing to do with
the United States or American
policy.
A spokesman for the Mex
ican federal police said force will
be used to keep the international
bridges open. Police hinted the
Mexican army may be called out
to control the demonstration if
Juarez anti-riot police can not
handle the situation.
In a hurriedly-called news
conference shortly after noon,
the mayor and members of the
Juarez national chamber of
commerce reaffirmed that the
international bridges linking the
two cities would be kept open at
all costs.
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