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y ' : - S Tuesday, January 24, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 to the finish Photo by KATHERINE HURT iley rew Hindi oca le newspif >ailabilit)( wards ad aer of bid a previous Ricky Croft, a third year veterinary student from College Station and Jimmy Rhodes, a senior agricultural education major from Cleveland struggle to win an arm-wrestling contest on Saturday in Post Oak Mall. The contest, sponsored by radio station WTAW, was part of Post Oak Mali’s “Little Bit of Country” mallwalk sale. Anti-abortionists march on capital. High Court United Press International I WASHINGTON — About 4(),000 abortion opponents, wowing not to compromise and ■edging to defeat the Equal ■ghts Amendment, rallied at ■e White House Monday, then ■arched on Capitol Hill and the Ivyn Bruik Stipreme Court to mark the • S. Distnt||th anniversary of the court’s decision legalizing abortion. ■r to granni 6 6 informal ?ral goven K to Caubltr ; his trial. .eanyacffll t. His ofcl >out2 y’sSupreffll ■ach I ,* See related column page 2 Led by a dozen coffins sym- lizing the 15 million legal rtions in the nation since the h court’s Jan. 22, 1973 deci- ^^Ifsion, the marchers cheered for ^ viv he re-election of President agan, Sen. Jesse Helms, R- jC., and Rep. Henry Hyde, R- 11 and chanted “No ERA, No A” as they walked down Con- litution Avenue toward the tigress and court. |As the demonstrators — in- ding large numbers of young pie from parochial and pri- t$ oween d nt, the jut jeals froi an, ofDtf mates fro: i Nebrask •ennan an! I cast rinst capiii ises. mvicted ar-old sot inide-lacti night 19ft i need aji® Group collects aircraft ) life ins«>' out for died. vale schools bused in tor the event — gathered on the Ellipse behind the White House, lead ers of a number of groups in the often-fractious movement met inside with Reagan. Jean Doyle, president of the National Right to Life Commit tee, the largest of the grass-roots anti-abortion organizations, said Reagan promised “stronger support in the future than that we nave seen in the past.” “We have made progress. We have to admit that,” she said. “But we have to look forward to even more progress in the fu ture.” Outside, Helms and a num ber of members of Congress talked to a cheerful, peaceful and nearly all-white crowd, urging them to lobby for defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment when it again comes before the Congress. “The ERA is the most danger ous threat” to the anti-abortion movement in the coming Con gress, Rep. Barbara Vucano- vich, R-Nev., told the rally. “And this time the job (of killing ERA) will be harder. We must hope and pray that America will never accept an ERA if neutral abor tion language isn’t attached.” Anti-abortion leaders say the Equal Rights Amendment, if accepted as presently worded, would write the right to an abor tion into the Constitution. Neilie/Gray, a Washington lawyer who has organized the annual “march for life” since the first one was held in 1974, also told the crowd there will be no more compromises within the movement. “There is only one position — the paramount right to life. And that right is protected by the Constitution,” she said. Last year, differences in the movement over various propos als put forth in Congress to bar abortions were credited with a stinging defeat in the Senate over the issue. The Senate ended up reject ing a compromise constitutional amendment, offered by Sen. Qrin Hatch, R-Utah, that would have give states authority to reg ulate or ban abortion. As protesters poured from rented buses onto the snow- covered Ellipse behind the White House, march officials passed out small, fetus-shaped placards emblazoned with the Christian cross for those without signs. Airshow tour planned United Press International HARLINGEN — An organi- lled histf aiion which boasts the world’s argest collection of flyable World War II aircraft, the Con- indy toft federate Air Force, plans to par- his son at tipate in the International Air oustoni® |attoo in England and 35 other trshows in Europe during 985. The decision was announced y CAP Col. Jack Skipper after ir Commodore Michael T. itantonof Great Britain’s Royal lir foce Benevolent Society, and international Air Tattoo Direc- br Paul A. Bowen during a veekend meeting at CAF na- ional headquarters in Harl- ngen. | Skipper said preliminary Jans call for the CAF, a non- Witli Foods ; Tax OP.M Ai leak and —ier Butter profit patriotic group dedicated to preserving World War II air craft, to take 30 of its military planes to the International Air Tattoo at Grenham Common Aerodrome in southern Eng land in July 1985. Bowen said it was hoped the CAF also could put on its aerial warefare demonstrations at 35 other European air shows front Spain to Scandanavia during the summer of 1985. “There is tremendous in terest in World War II avaiation in Europe,’’ Stanton said, “perhaps much more than in the United States.” Skipper said the CAF was in vited to participate in the 1984 Farnborough International Aerospace Exhibition and Flying Display in England. He said the invitation was extended at the request of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. But Skipper said the logistical and financial problems of mov ing CAF craft across the Atlantic on such short notice were too great for the 1984 proposal. The vintage multi-engine bombers and military transports can be flown across the North Atlantic, Skipper said, but the smaller aircraft must be dis assembled and shipped by sea. State charges men with bid-rigging United Press International AUSTIN — Attorney Gener al Jim Mattox filed suit Monday against a former Texas prison employee and his business part ner, alleging the two cheated the state out of $100,000 by rigging bids. The lawsuit alleges that for mer Texas Department of Cor rections employee Leon M. Dan- chak, previously a construction estimator for TDC, and Howard L. Jackson, president of Supply and Service of Texas Inc., con spired to stifle competition for construction supply contracts at the prison. “The state of Texas has been defrauded out of at least $100,000 because of these alleged illegal activities,” Mattox said. “We’ve caught them, and we’re going to try and recoup those losses.” The suit, which was filed in a Travis County district Court, seeks the recovery of actual damages, $ 1 million in civil dam ages from each corporate defen dant and $5 million in punitive damages. Named as defendants were Danchak, Jackson, Supply and Services of Texas Inc., and three other companies operated by Jackson under assumed busi ness names. Danchak was fired from TDC in December after an investiga tion into bidding irregularities. While working tor the prison On larger projects, the suit system’s Beto Unit, he was re- said, Danchak subverted formal sponsible for purchasing con- bidding procedures by breaking struction supplies and services large orders into several smaller for TDC projects. According to Mattox’s suit, Danchak and Jackson conspired to fix and maintain artificially high prices by submitting ficti tious bids from non-existent companies and by submitting bids from companies that had the possibility that criminal actually offerred bids at lower charges would be filed against prices. Danchak or Jackson. purchases that did not require the formal bids. Mattox said his office also is looking into the construction of a dairy at TDC and also certain architectural fees. 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