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insurance chers undo y the state active Sept. kana, said 'onId have )uld cost lead first year, in with ir. the "stark tt ters’ faces nl ealth insurai 1 a local sell! lolutely of the peoplt kage with I the Senatei; ould limit t o the teat etirements if nearly $!i| s - $85.7 ie Teacher kt =r$ y Ill to propoi! enues it Washing get mofi rate, hoi- is also blad to let emploi ing’s birthd)' on the combining fi oes Day. Tht| •d on Jan. Lee (Jan. sident Jeffet 20 ell ) Friday, May 3,1985/The Battalion/Page 15 WORLD AND NATION SHOE AREW-SOPE m pewisr is by Jeff MacNelly E.F. Hutton pleads guilty to mail and wire fraud Associated Press WASHINGTON — E.F. Hutton &Co. Inc., a leading Wall Street bro kerage linn, pleaded guilty Thurs day to 2,000 felony counts of mail and wire fraud. 1 he fraud resulted from a $4.35 billion scheme to intentionally write checks in excess of funds on deposit at more than 400 U.S. commercial baiyks. Calling it “a sad and difficult day for E.F. Hutton and for me person ally,” Robert Fomon, chairman and chief executive officer of the nation’s fifth largest brokerage house, said the practices alleged by the Justice Department “represented violations of our policy and procedures.” Attorney General Edwin Meese III told a news conference the guilty plea sends “a message to the business world that so-called white-collar crime . . . will not be tolerated.” No individuals were named in a 2,000-count mail and wire fraud criminal information filed by the de partment in U.S. District Court in Scranton, Pa. Nor was the parent E.F. Hutton Group Inc., named in the criminal information. E.F. Hutton agreed to pay a $2 million fine — the maximum al lowed under the law — and to estab lish an $8 million fund to cover resti tutions to banks, which will be decided by a court-appointed special master. E.F. Hutton also will pay the go- verment $750,000 to defray the costs of the federal investigation. Robert W. Ogren, chief of the fraud section of the Justice Depart ment’s Criminal Division, estimated late Thursday that the amount of restitution needed would be “in the tens of millions,” far above the $8 million E.F. Hutton said it set aside. Award-winning film Movie gets cult following Associated Press WACO — Sara Driver is the pro ducer-production manager of the Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or Award-winner, “Stranger Than Par adise,' opening this week in general release throughout i he country. Driver has deep family roots in Waco hut currently lives in New York. “Stranger Than Paradise” is a black and white film made on a min uscule budget of less than $130,000. It follows three nearly inarticulate friends through a series of non-ad ventures in New York, Cleveland and Florida. A predominately amateur cast, Jim Jarmusch’s creative script and a particular directing style have cre ated a cult following wherever it has shown. “ ‘Stranger Than Paradise’ began a couple of years ago when noted di rector Wim Wenders gave us his left over film stock from ‘State of Things;’ about 50 minutes worth,” Driver said. “Well, in New York, if you rent a 35mm film camera on Fri day, you only have to pay for it for Friday. So we shot 28 minutes worth of film in 21 -2 days.” The footage became the first part of “Stranger Than Paradise.” Jar musch entered the short film in a Rotterdam film festival and walked away with top prizes. “Shortly after that we met Ger man film director Otto Groen- berger,” Driver said. “He liked what he saw and put up $ 100,000 for us to finish the picture. We went over that by $30,000, but when Otto saw the rough footage, he was so pleased he got a German TV company to put up the rest of the money as a pre sale fee for German TV.” The remaining 60 minutes of “Stranger Than Paradise” were filmed in 16 days by a crew of eight and the acting leads. “We all work on each other’s films, it’s really the only way to do it,” Driver said. “You have to have that solid support system. Woody Al len uses the same people every time. So does Fassbiner, so does Bergman. We go against the system in a lot of ways.” Budgetary constraints meant that “Stranger Than Paradise” doesn’t have a Jot of the techniques taken for granted in big budget films. There are no fades or abrupt cuts. Each scene is done before an almost sta tionary camera, much like a play. “Jim rehearsed the actors for a month before filming began,” Driver said. “Since every scene was a ‘master shot’ without close-ups, he had to know exactly how he wanted the scene to look in his head before hand.” “Stranger Than Paradise” even looks different than an ordinary film. One scene where the heroine changes from a dress to a suit on a street corner was lit only by a solitary street lamp — yet the audience can see action at the end of the street, a block away. Despite her strong roots in Texas, Driver hasn’t made any films with a base in that state. Yet. “I’ve thought about it a lot,” she said. “When my grandparents died, I was offered the old home. I love the idea of Texas being a nation within a nation, but I don’t have any plans to film down there right now. I know Jim is toying with the idea of making a film in Mexico. Still, I’m very interested in suburban drama, and Waco woidd make a nice setting for that.” Vaccine tested on animals; dormant herpes prevented Associated Press WASHINGTON — Government researchers say an experimental vac cine tested in animals not only wards off herpes infections, but also pre vents the viruses from taking up res idence in nerve cells for later attacks. National Institutes of Health sci entists say the prototype vaccine, still years away from human testing, also appears to offer simultaneous pro tection against different types of herpes viruses that cause human dis ease. The vaccine, described in a report to he published today in the journal Science, is one of several being de veloped by researchers worldwide who are taking different approaches to Finding a preventive for herpes. A number of these prototype vac cines use live herpes virus or parts of the viral protein coat to stimulate production of protective antibodies in animals. But the NIH vaccine, which com bines parts of a herpes virus with one used in the smallpox vaccine, is the first to indicate prevention of la tent infections that can spur later at tacks — one of the biggest problems associated with herpes infections, the researchers said. The researchers, including Drs. Bernard Moss, Kenneth Cremer and Abner Notkins, said the vaccine de veloped from herpes simplex virus type 1, which causes cold sores, also offered protection against type 2, the most frequent cause of sexually- transmitted genital herpes. “We are encouraged by the cross- reactivity of the vaccine, in which the immune response against one virus seems to offer some protection against others,” said Notkins, a re searcher at the National Institute of Dental Research. “But the most encouraging find- Prisoners, all female, create new Lutheran congregation Associated Press It’s an odd congregation. Only women are members. They’ve all been convicted of some crime. They’re pris oners. But they're an of ficial congregation of the Amer ican Lutheran Church. “We are forgotten by society, but never by God,” members of the unusual prison church wrote for cere monies at which it was formally received into the de nomination. The pastor, the Rev. Edmund K. Nesselhuf, says the prison congregation, the Community of St. Dysmas Lu theran Church of Jessup, Md., is the first in the country included in a national church body. Members are inmates of the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women. While many prisons have groups that function inde pendently as worshiping congregations, Nesselhuf says they aren’t formally integrated into denominational folds. St. Dysmas is named after the penitent thief who died on a cross beside the crucified Jesus. The repentant, dying thief begged: “Jesus, remem ber me when you come into your kingdom,” as re corded in Luke 23:42-43, and Jesus said: “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in par adise.” Of 430 inmates of the prison, about 40 of them, along with 30 visitors from outside, attended the service of congregational organization March 18 at which Nes selhuf was installed as pastor by Bishop E. Harold Jan sen. Shortly afterward, at a convention in Pittsburgh of the denomination’s eastern district, the congregation was officially received into membership, says a report of i office. the denomination’s communications > INTER NATJOKAl HOUSE USSIWntANT 4-10 p.m. Sunday Pancakes Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Spaghetti Shrimp $1.99 $1.99 $4.99 All You Can Eat All You Can Eat- All You Can Eat Saturday Special Steak Dinner $4.99 Complete 103 N. College Skaggs Canter v m # Corning to Summer School? OPTIONAL MEAL PLANS ALL students may dine on a meal in the Commons Dining Center from June 3 until July 10 (excluding July 4). We offer 3 plans: 7 day - 3 meals a day, except Sunday evening $227.00 plus tax 5 day - 3 meals a day Monday through Friday $210.00 plus tax Any 12 - Choice of 12 of 20 meals served $204.00 plus tax during the week Indicate your choice of plans during registration on June 3. Although Driver, Jarmusch and the cast all believed in “Stranger,” she’s still somewhat overwhelmed at its success. ing,” Notkins said in an interview, “is preventing the latent infection — keeping the virus from getting into nerve cells. Once the virus gets into nerve endings, it moves into the nerve cells where the antibody can’t get to it.” Notkins said other types of candi date vaccines also may block the vi ruses’ entry to nerves, but none has yet been tested for this ability. Because so much remains to be learned about the safety and effec tiveness of the candidate vaccine, Notkins said trials with monkeys are perhaps a year away and any human trials would come a couple of years later. A preventive vaccine probably would not help people who already have herpes infections, he said, be cause the virus already would be in corporated into nerve tissue where it is protected. Aggie Point Accounts are active during the entire year, so you may either open an account or add to your account at any time at Validation Center, Sbisa Basement. Our bar serves food. Happy Hour at Padre Cafe means free food. Our food bar is more than the chips and dips you find at some other places. We serve finger size portions from our world famous menu. And all drinks are $1.00 off from 4 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to close. Try the happy hour you can really sink your teeth into. 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