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Page 4AThe Battalion/Wednesday, February 29, 1984
Stroke
endorses
Smith
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By KARL PALLMEYER
Reporter
State Republican Party
Chairman George Strake, in a
special press conference Tues
day, gave his endorsement to
Richard Smith, the Republican
candidate in the special election
for the state representative seat
vacated by Bill Presnal.
“We have the opportunity to
put a representative from Bra
zos County in office at Austin,”
Strake said, “And I am en
thused with the quality of our
candidate.” Smith was Bryan
mayor for five years and that,
Strake said, is a very tough job.
Smith has also been a realtor in
the Bryan-College Station area
for 18 years.
“This is what Texas legis
lature needs,” Strake said,
“More businessmen and fewer
lawyers.”
Cue-t trick
Fast Eddie, a pocket billiards trick shot exhibi- shot. Eddie, now 52, has been playing pool since
tionist, sets up what he calls the “Evel Knievel” he was 9. Eddie performed in the MSC on Friday,
Strake said he considers Gov.
Mark White’s setting the date of
the special election on March
10, the first day of Texas
A&M’s spring break, a “slap in
the face” of the 48,000 students
and faculty of Texas A&M.
Strake said if there has to be a
run-off, White will probably set
the date of the run-off election
for that next Saturday (March
17), while most students and
faculty are still on spring break.
Credit surcharges possible
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“I was not aware of the
means the establishment had or
the ways they would use them to
influence an election,” candi
date Richard Smith said.
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WASHINGTON — In a
move that could mean higher
costs for credit card users, the
Senate voted Tuesday to allow
merchants to begin charging up
to 5 percent extra for purchases
made with credit cards.
Surcharges on credit card
purchases have been banned
since 1976 under a law that ex
pired Monday.
The controversial consumer
issue now goes to the House,
which already has voted for a
short-term extension through
July 31 of the expired ban on
surcharges.
To give the House time to
consider how to deal with credit
card surcharges permanently,
the Senate also voted to tempo
rarily extend the law banning
surcharges — but only until
May 15. The vote on the main
bill was an unrecorded voice
vote.
Until the two houses can
agree on a temporary extension
date, merchants technically are
free now to begin charging ex
tra for non-cash purchases.
In often heated debate, the
Senate squabbled over whether
a ban on surcharges is good for
consumers or should be
dropped because it penalizes
cash-paying customers by forc
ing them to subsidize the costs
of processing credit card pur
chases.
“This tax ... will come down
on the working middle-class
people,” protested Sen. Alfonse
D’Amato, R-N.Y., noting that
seven out of 10 Americans own
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credit cards and could be sub
jected to a 5 percent surcharge
each time they use them.
“Police, firemen, working ‘
families, truck drivers and tea
chers who use (credit cards) as a
technique to manage their fi
nances and bridge the gap
when they’re short on cash,
they’re the ones,” lie said.
However, the Senate soundly
defeated, 66-22, D’Amato’s
amendment to reinstate and
make permanent the ban on
surcharges. D’Amato did suc
ceed in attaching an amend
ment, however, permitting
states within three years to act
on their own to ban or limit sur
charges on credit card users.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-
Wis., argued the nation’s poor,
who cannot qualify for credit
cards and must pay cash, are be-
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illusionment with the CIA,
global CIA operations and the
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land and Vietnam, as well as
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lels between Central America
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