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MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/ Chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/Cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea O 1 o c.« THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese- Tossed Green Salad v Choice of Salad Dressing—Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FOR YOUR PROTECTION OUR PERSONNEL HAVE HEALTH CARDS FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL Fried Catfish Filet w/Tartar Sauce Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Roast Texas Style (Tossed Salad) Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy Roll or Com Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee “Quality First” SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING Roast Turkey Dinner Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And Your Choice of any One Vegetable Page 14/The Battalion/Thursday, October 18, 1984 Nuclear power plant documents remain sealed Press access denied United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court refused to open sealed docu ments Wednesday in a lawsuit be tween Houston Lighting & Power Co. and Brown 8c Root Co., the for mer contractor at the South Texas Nuclear Project. Without comment, the high court rejected motions from Austin City Council members, the Houston Chronicle and the Austin American- Statesman to open the documents, which were sealed at the request of HL&P on Dec. 29 bv District Judge G.P. Hardy of Matagorda County. Hardy’s order sealed all deposi tions and answers to written ques tions filed in the case. HL&P, which is the managing partner of the nu clear project, also used the order as a reason not to provide certain infor mation in its $554 million rate re quest pending before the Public Util ity Commission. HL&P, which shares ownership of the nuclear plant with San Antonio, Austin and the Central Power & Light Co. of Corpus Christi, filed suit in 1973 against Brown & Root and its parent company. T he suit alleged that mismanage ment in the construction and design of the project had caused delays and large cost overruns. Brown & Root was fired as design engineer of the project in 1981 and later resigned as construction man ager and was replaced by Bechtel Energy Corp. The Austin City Council recently gave up its attempt to find a buyer for the city’s 16 percent share of the project and indicated it would also file a lawsuit against HL&P. The estimated cost of the power plant under construction near Bay City was $1 billion, but that figure has risen to $5.5 billion. The ex pected completion date of the pro ject also was pushed forward f rom 1982 to 1987. iell teria I • U L 1 I C<] In its request that the documti ^pthem be opened to the public, the H»{ ' ■- ,r: ton Chronicle said informationj Uni BOSH Dr. Vi Hopkins gardmg delays and cost ovettii | ea | t h pol could he found only in thecounji | 10t , re ttin pers. I ■ - The newspaper also said the in umenrs contain the "uncensonj truth regarding the capacity as Lfoes, tl ability of the project to optu saf ely in avoidance of a nuclear tastrophe.” 'In [lashes a I Lportati In a recent development,thePnl lie Utility Commission receivedj independent auditor’s final repe on the HL&P management.Iktn port identified 16 areas in whicH commission could save nearly! million. But the report from Young and Co. also praised the® pany, saying it “is beginning achieve the benefits of a number new and innovative programs.” Study shows increased Hispanic voting power United Press International Hispanics — geographically con centrated in Texas anti eight other strategic states — may have a signifi cant impact on the 1984 presidential election, says a research study re leased Wednesday. “The Hispanic Almanac,” an ana lytical study by the Hispanic Policy Development Project, states that Hispanic voters have the capacity to influence the outcome of elections because they comprise a growing percentage of the politically active population. The report states that 85 percent of all voting age Hispanics are con centrated in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Flor ida, New Jersey, New York and Illi nois. Los Angeles, with more than 2 million Hispanics, tops the list of cit ies with the largest Hispanic popula tion. New York, with 1.4 million His panics, ranks second, followed by Miami with 580,000; Chicago with 509,000; San Antonio with 481,000; Houston with 425,000; and San Francisco with 351,000. The Hispanic population of El Paso is 297,000. “The Hispanic Almanac” said the nine states control 193 electoral votes in the 1984 presidential elec tion, 71 percent of the 270 needed to win. “In view of their increasing num bers, concentration in key states and growing political activism, Hispanics must be recognized by presidential and other public office aspirants as a significant political force," said Siob- han Oppenheimer-Nicolau, presi dent of the project. The growth of the Hispanic pop ulation is the result of immigration and a comparatively high fertility rate, Oppenheimer-Nicolau said. The population has a median age of 22.1, she said. The study also found that: • In just 30 years, the number of Hispanics living in the United States tripled to nearly 15 million in 1980, outpacing every other ethnic or ra cial group in America. • By the year 2000, if current growth rates continue, Hispanics will comprise the largest minority group in the country. • Two-thirds of all U.S. Hispan ics live in just four states: Texas, Cal ifornia, New York and Florida. The report states the increase in the number of Hispanics elected to of fice has not corresponded with the population growth. The study shows that nine mem bers of Congress are Hispanic, and eight Hispanics are mayors of cities with populations of more than 30,()()(). Toney Anaya of New Mex ico, a Mexican-American, is the only Hispanic governor, the study re ported. Texas election officials said the number of registered Hispanic vot ers in 1984 is about a million, or 13.3 percent of the electorate. Officials said Hispanics represented only 9.5 percent of the 1976 electorate in Texas. Citizens oppose TV show United Press International AUSTIN — A black ciiiicj group has started a protest again cable television program that is p duced by a man associated withi! Ku Klux Klan. The six-part television ssiit "Race,” is produced by In Metzger, former grand the California KKK and foundn the White American Potoal ciation. The program aired Iasi in Austin. Members of the Black Gi iiuch po| me,” he v land Jot Ur HOI dispute and n 1 Southe stminei with ie intetpr Univer Justi 14th i: claitnec H. Res the ma ing to t ists. "All getting fact tha ror,” Ft Press rancy i in the s tion of believe of the 0(0 04 N OCO <bcd 0) Tf (0 oo CO Lkl. T ask Force protested the sedest cable commission meetingTudr "It should l>e locally produd local Kl ansmen so they would ea out of the closet,” said Don Turner, task force president.“Hi know who I am when I amonll should be able to see whotheyait Cable officials, however, saidl were obligated by the First Amt mem to show the series, but would consider moving it toam mg time slot. Daniel Miller, a member of National Association for the vancement of White People flue, tin, sponsot ed the program. 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