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AUSTIN — Texas cable television
companies Tuesday began warning
C eople who pirate cable service that
eginning Sept. 1, such thefts are a
crime that could bringjail sentences.
“If they are receiving cable TV
programming and not paying for it,
the show’s over,” said Bill Arnold,
executive secretary of the Texas Ca
ble TV Association.
theft of our product by educating
the public.”
The Legislature this year enacted
the law making cable TV theft a
Class B misdemeanor, punishable by
up to six months in jail and a $1,000
fine.
For the next 45 days, cable com
panies will conduct an advertising
campaign to alert Texans of the new
law and urge them to comply, Ar
nold said.
Arnold said the law won’t apply to
people who receive signals via satel
lite dishes but will include those who
tap cable lines or tamper with chan
nel selector equipment.
with the loss in state sales tax reve
nue estimated at more than $5 mil
lion, Arnold said.
Arnold said cable operators hope
to convince Texans to come forward
and pay up before Sept. 1. and un
derstand tnat they are committing a
crime.
hopef ully will decide to begin sen;
as a paying customer.”
Arnold said cable operators h»
many ways of determining whetke
a household is illegally taking calj
service.
“Our goal is not to put people in
it i
jail,” he said. “Our goal is to stop the
He said cable operators estimate
that one of every eight people in
Texas receiving cable service obtains
some level of it without paying.
Revenue losses are estimated at
more than $50 million annually.
“You’re not going to convert ev
ery illegal customer to service out
there,” he said. “But you’re going to
make known to those folks that in
deed you’re serious about the theft
of cable service now.”
“Those
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been compounded by the fact
up until now it was very difficulii
point out to anyone that there was
specific law that covered the theft
cable services,” he said.
Arnold said many cable operaicrj
intend to allow people to pay upon;
“no-questions-asked basis” if tfej
come forward before the law tal
effect
Dallas pays $1 million
in discrimination suit
Associated Press
DALLAS — A federal judge has
approved a settlement under which
the city of Dallas will distribute $1
million to about 300 current and for
mer black city employees.
The workers, who are due the
payments by July 25, contended they
were underpaid or denied promo
tions because of racial discrimina
tion.
Assistant City Attorney Gary
Keane said the suit probably was
cn settlem
The city of Dallas employs about
14,000 workers.
The settlement, which was ap
proved Monday, is among the larg
est paid by the city in a discrimina
tion suit, an attorney for the workers
said.
The class-action suit was filed in
1981 by six employees of the city’s
Equipment Services Department,
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which maintains city vehicles.
among the largest such settlements
the city has made, but he did not
have exact figures to compare it
with.
The suit claimed that workers
were victims of institutionalized dis
crimination against blacks.
U.S. District Judge Barefoot
Sanders approved a plan to distrib
ute the $1 million, a figure agreed
upon late last year. Some of the indi
vidual awards will be as high as
$20,000, Albright said.
The city also pledged in the set
tlement to discontinue the use of
written tests and education require
ments for determining promotions
in several jobs and to end pay dis
crimination.
The city also agreed to promote
29 blacks within the Equipment
Services Department by 1987.
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Doctors assess Reagan’s chance of recovery
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The estimate that
President Reagan has a better than
50 percent chance of being cured of
his colon cancer was based partly on
standard medical rankings of the tu
mor’s invasion and the appearance
of its cells says a medical official.
Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the Na
tional Cancer Institute says outside
experts were conservative in making
that assessment on the president’s
condition.
Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the
institute and one of the president’s
doctors, said the cancerous polyp
was a “Dukes B” growth that was
“moderately well differentiated.”
Differentiation is the extent to
which a tumor’s cells, under a micro
scope, resemble normal cells from
wherever the tumor was found. The
greater the resemblance, the less
chance some cancerous cells had es
caped to other parts of the body be
fore the growth was removed.
The Dukes rating refers to a clas
sification system established in 1932
by English pathologist Cuthbert E.
Dukes.
It measures the extent of invasion
by a cancer in the colon or rectum.
Authorities give these general de
scriptions to the different categories.
An “A” lesion means the cancer is
in the colon’s innermost layers. The
inside lining of the colon is called the
mucosa where colon cells secrete and
absorb fluids. Some authorities con
sider a cancer that has barely in
vaded the surrounding muscle to be
in this category.
In a “B” lesion, like Reagan’s, the
cancer has invaded the muscles
across and along the colon that con
tract to keep its contents moving. It
may include invasion of the serosa,
the tough, fibrous covering of the
colon.
In a “C” lesion, the cancer has
broken through the serosa and es
caped to lymph nodes.
The cure rate falls as the extent of
invasion climbs because of increas
ing chance for spread of the cancel
About 95 percent of patieisl
whose cancers were removed whilfl
confined to the thin inside liningtij
main cured for five years, whilea
cers that have gone deeper but t
broken through the outer surfaced
the colon have about a 65 toSOpei
idru
cent rate, says Dr. Thomas Hendrii
chief of gastroenterology at Job
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Cancers that have broken freeo:
the colon and spread to lymph node
have only about a 20 percent to
percent cure rate, he says. Ifthecan
cer has spread to the liver, few pa
tients live five years, Hendrix says.
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Stock prices respond to president's health
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Stock prices swept
ahead to new highs in active trading
Tuesday after the market responded
calmly to the latest news on Presi
dent Reagan’s health.
The Dow Jones average of 30 in
dustrials climbed 12.43 to 1,347.89,
topping the record closing high of
1,338.60 it set last Friday. Several
other, broader market measures also
rose to new peaks.
Volume on the New York Stock
Exchange stepped up to 132.50 mil
lion shares from 103.92 million
Monday.
Wall Street passed a bull-market
landmark when Wilshire Associates’
index of 5,000 stocks reached $2 tril
lion for the first time, rising $19.5
billion to $2,015 trillion.
Just after the market closed on
Monday, doctors reported that a
polyp they had removed from the
President’s colon was cancerous.
But they also said they found no
evidence that the malignancy had
spread. They estimated the chances
of no recurrence of the cancer to be
better than 50 percent.
On Tuesday, Larry Speakes, the
White House spokesman, said,
“There are no complications on the
President’s road to recovery.” Finan
cial analysts said investors were
heartened by reports of Reagan’s
rapid recovery f rom his surgery.
However, they also observed that
the situation raised some uncertainty
about prospects for legislative action
on measures being pushed by the
President to narrow the federal bud
get deficit and overhaul the tax sys
tem.
earnings, but the company h
h those c
given advance warning of
cumstances, and analysts said inve
tors generally were relieved than'
news wasn’t worse.
At the same time, Wall Streeters
were looking ahead to congressional
testimony today and Thursday by
Chairman Paul Volcker of the Fed
eral Reserve, for possible signs of the
future course of the Fed’s credit pol
icy and interest rates.
International Business Machines
climbed 3 to 128'A. On Monday
IBM reported lower second-quarter
As they studied IBM’s quarter!
report in detail, some analysts ot
eluded that the company’s outlool
for the second half of the yearanJ
beyond was improving.
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among other computer and techno!
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roughs 1% to 59%.
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