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a Thursday, September 27, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 m WILLIAM metal ’ a Rho Gramm says Daggett lacks Texas values By JAMES WALKER Staff Writer Accusing his challenger of op posing traditional Texas values, Congressman Phil Gramm charged state Senator Lloyd Dog- gett with “representing a philoso phy that is alien to the average Texan.” In a Wednesday morn ing new's conference at Republi can Party Headquarters in Bryan, Gramm addressed the issues of labor, defense, taxes and homo sexual rights. “My opponent (Doggett) ... said to them (AFL-CIO) that one of his tw'o goals if he were elected to the Senate would be to get as much as he could for labor,” Gramm said. During the primary season, Gramm said, his oppo nent received a quarter of a mil lion dollars from eastern labor union political action committees. Gramm reiterated his support for right-to-work laws, saying no Texan should be forced to join a union or pay dues in order to work in the state. He also accused Doggett of be ing “anti-defense” for accepting $74,000 from the Council for a liveable World, a Boston-based organization. “This group pointed out that my opponents views are normally found in candidates running in Massachusetts or California, and not candidates running in Texas,” Gramm said. He also criticized Doggett for actively soliciting the support and financial backing of gay and les bian activists. He has “committed to support their ... so-called gay rights bill that would give homo sexuals special status before the law and affirmative action,” Gramm said. 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When Gramm became direc tor, almost 50 percent of the anti trust cases were being turned out of court, incurring substantial costs on taxpayers. She attributed this to poorly supervised attor neys who were eager to bring cases to court. Since then, Gramm said, a cost benefit analysis system has been imposed to ensure that cases are actually worth bringing to court. “We have 30 percent fewer re sources than when we started,” Gramm said. Progess was made despite the high number of Car ter appointees still in the agency, she said. “We need another four years so that the changes that we have made slowly but surely will be continued and so that we have more Reagan appointees,” she said. Gramm said that she has had a first hand opportunity to witness the strides made by Reagan in promoting women’s rights. 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College & Villa Maria 'Now that they’ve called my attention to it, I really want to. ” East Bypass discussed The College Station City Council met Wednesday in a 5 p.m. workshop to discuss the status of East Bypass overpasses with Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation officials. In tonight’s regular session at 7 p.m. in City Hall, the council is ex pected to discuss the state-funded extensions of Holleman Drive, Dart mouth Street and FM 2818. The council also will discuss the laning of Holleman between Winding and Wellborn roads. The road is currently four-laned in that area. The council is expected to consider whether to convert it to two lanes with a continuous turn lane. The council will designate Octo ber “Texas Restaurant Month” as well as “Clean Up and Spruce Up Month,” and it will consider four re zoning requests. First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church School at 9:30AM College Class at 9:30AM (Bus fromTAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10AM Northgate 9:15AM Youth Meeting at 5:00P* Nursery: All Events li s s TEXAS AVE c 2 5 O > 'ir § CARTER CREEK PKY first 4- Presbylerian 1 Church Explosion wrecks consulate United Press International NEW YORK — A single terrorist group using different names may be responsible for a powerful explosion at the South African consulate as well as 13 other bombing attacks, in cluding one on the U.S. Capitol last fall, the FBI said Wednesday. The 12:23 a.m. explosion rocked the 33-story skyscraper on Park Ave nue in Manhattan, caused extensive damage to seven floors and dev astated the 12th floor that housed the South African consulate. No one was injured in the explo sion. No one has been killed or injured in the 13 other blasts in the New York area and in Washington since December 1982. A group calling itself the Guerrilla Resistance claimed responsibility for the Wednesday blast. Kenneth Wal ton, deputy assistant director of the FBI, said the group is an American terrorist organization protesting apartheid in South Africa. FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette said the Guerrilla Resistance may be one in the same with three other ter rorist groups. He said the FBI and New York police were investigating the possi- oility that The United Front, the Armed Resistance Unit, the Revolu tionary Fighting Group and the Guerrilla Resistance may all be iden tical. “The only reason we can deter mine for these different names would be to confuse the various law enforcement agencies investigating the cases,” Valiquette said. Walton said the FBI linked the four groups through “the targets, the rhetoric, the M.O. (method of operations) and the symbolic nature of all the attacks.” The building bombed Wednesday was damaged extensively inside. 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