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I said, “Kevin Ml a car' and added s Ianub-member Associated Press WASHINGTON — Setting a goal of a tobacco-free United States by the y ear 2000, the 271,000-member uie " e(1 « l “ B WRri can Medical Association called on Tuesday for laws to ban all adver tising and promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. jpAfter passing the anti-advertising resolution, the association’s poli- dSymaking House of Delegates also voted to press for a 21-year mini mum age for buying tobacco prod ucts; for a ban on vending machine cigarette sales; and for required health warning labels on smokeless tobacco such as chewing tobacco and snuff. ,, Association officials acknowl edged it would be difficult to get such proposals through Congress, Especially in light of objections al ready raised concerning possible vio- ?/7se ?, he said, tliei sb ■ii names, ou t recommend t the test unlessiht tlentilied,' Robtrti bile gays are ors are pondeiiiii latiqn of free-speech rights, re is still a greatdcali- g llt d oc t ors contended in debate iknown about AID 1 that tobacco and lung cancer are it may be too earltr clearly linked, that tobacco advertis- impact AIDS i® Mng,encourages Americans to use to- nunity. bacco products and that the medical re still in the inland profession has a duty to try to do Rea said, It mad iomething about it. .ui the road before*! “We expect a challenge; we’re e ol impact this fe nlling to fight it,” said AMA general he community.' xmnsel Kirk Johnson at a post-vote < - con f ere nce. ^ Asked for comment one day ear- \ J \ 6er, Anne Browder, of the Tobacco m ■ % P® tute > which represents the in- % ■ ■ sa *^ a ^ an on print ad- ■ posing would violate the industry’s I nght of free speech and that such r«\*M»«M l C :)ans in other nations haven’t worked iCDonaios inyway . l fi D.E. Ward of Lumberton in to- v By~ri c h North Carolina, the only iKFAST EAERl doctor speaking against the propo- MORNING said his state’s delegation consid- the action “inappropriate for .. the House of Delegates which in the -P WANTED:Mhas championed constitutional reedoms.” He argued that manufacturers (hould be allowed to advertise le gally produced tobacco products. Attempts to persuade publishers 0 voluntarily stop advertising have Tient checkouted bnly modest success, the propo- enance. est . imatin g un d8a ' ... ette advertisers spend $2 billion a ation, contact Paccar on ads. r at 845-7826. As for production legality, Dr. lobert McAfee, the South Portland, physician who presented the f r* * w urtt^mti-advertising proposal, said that -luAY hOUpasla very good question” that night be addressed “in the very near hours tor the (future.” Q and G. Rollie t' Other doctors, however, said they hnliriav hroaUaroai 1 ^*d not foresee the association rec- noiiaayDreaKarea5' lmmending an outright ban on moking. ember 21-Decetf>: Monday-Sunday lOa.m.-IOp.m. Building will be 0 iber 31 and J ling January 2 ill resume the g hours. Photo by LEA HOOPER Blinded By Science David Treadwell, a Texas A&M graduate student in chemistry, finishes up the synthesis of “Trans”-Bis (Alkyl-Di-Phenol-Phos- phine) Chioro-Bocarbonyl-Iridium (I), also known as a polymer- nound homogeneous catalyst. The catalyst speeds up reactions and can be separated readily from the product. Vote on tax bill could affect A&M pensions By JENS B. KOEPKE Senior Staff Writer The future of the Optional Re tirement Program, which covers most Texas A&M University System faculty and administrators, will be decided by the outcome of tomor row’s vote in the U.S. House of Rep resentatives on the comprehensive tax reform bill, System officials said. Michael Lytle, special assistant to the chancellor for federal relations, said that the House Ways and Means Committee’s proposed bill will sub ject the ORP to regulations from which it had been exempt in the past and that this could lead to its elimi nation. John Honea, A&M System direc tor for insurance and risk manage ment, said that the bill added a non discrimination clause to the tax code section that governs the ORP. The clause would make the ORP illegal because the program is available only to state university faculty and professional staff and not to other state employees. If the proposal be comes a law, the state would have two years to modify its retirement plans to meet the new standards. The ORP covers about 30,000 fac ulty and administrators at 95 state- supported institutions of higher ed ucation, he added. The bill will be presented to the House tomorrow under “closed” rules which prohibit representatives from proposing amendments, Lytle said. House members will, however, be able to vote on an alternative Re- A&M's faculty reacts to proposed reforms By MARYBETH ROHSNER Staff Writer The attempts by the U.S. House of Representative to generate reve nue through tax reforms may result in the loss of retirement programs for many Texas A&M faculty mem bers and administrators. “(The legislators) are looking for every pigeonhole they can find to produce revenue,” Faculty Senate Secretary Jerry Gaston said. The “pigeonholes,” to which he’s referring, are provisions of the tax reform bill that could eliminate Texas Optional Retirement Pro gram (ORP), if passed. One Texas A&M University Sys tem official said that if the bill is made into law in its current form, Texas A&M and other state univer sities could suffer because it would eliminate the ORP. John Honea, director of insur ance and risk management at Texas A&M University System said the pension provisions could also force the state to place about 5,000 System faculty and professional administra tors in a less practical retirement program, such as the Texas Teacher Retirement System (TRS). Honea said the House’s addition See Faculty, page 14 publican proposal which does not in cludes restrictions that will affect the ORP, he said. The Republican pro posal will be voted on first, and if it is rejected, the House will vote on the committee proposal. If the commit tee proposal passes, it will be sent to the Senate Finance Committee, which will begin writing its version of the tax bill in January. Even if the committee proposal is passed, Lytle said, the A&M System will have more opportunities to lobby for changes in the pension sec tion. Lytle said he will work together with his counterpart in the Univer sity of Texas System to present their grievances to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D- Tex., who sits on the Finance Com mittee. A spokesman for Sen. Bentsen said the senator will not comment on the tax bill until the final version has been sent to the Senate and stressed that the senator will consider the ef fects of all the provisions of the bill. See Bill, page 14 Combating AIDS Federol health agencies to spend $126 million on research, treatment i student ng with tion equipment, dual will bed By SCOTT SUTHERLAND Staff Writer Although doctors are optimistic that AIDS will not be the national epidemic it is feared to be, studies say that the bout with the disease will be long and costly. “Right now one of the things we know about AIDS is that it will be very costly to fight this disease,” said Dr. Ted Rea, a gastroenterologist in Bryan who has treated AIDS cases in the past. Modern Medicine magazine says there are probably 1 million Ameri cans who have been exposed to AIDS. A spokesman for the Center for Disease Control says the country’s four major health agencies — the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the Center for Disease Control; the Food and Drug Admin istration; and the National Institute of Health — will spend a combined $126 million this year on AIDS re search and treatment. The majority of that money, $70 million, will go to the National Insti tute of Health. And that money will be spent fighting an epidemic that has grown rapidly since 1981 when the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in the United States. Last week, the Center for Disease Control issued a weekly report stat ing there are now over 14,000 cases of AIDS in the country. Homosexuals, intravaneous drug users and hemophiliacs have the “People have to be aware that any single sexual en counter could result in the transmission of AIDS. ” — Dr. Henry Masur, Na tional Institute of Health. highest chances of getting AIDS, but the total number of heterosexuals contracting the disease will get larger, says Chuck Fowless, a spokes man for Atlanta’s Center for Disease Control. “There will be more heterosexuals who will get AIDS,” Fowless said, “but they won’t be larger than 1 per cent of the total number of AIDS ca ses.” Even though the percentage of heterosexuals with AIDS won’t in crease, physicians are already warn ing heterosexuals to be aware of the prevalence of the disease. In a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Neal Schram wrote that physicians should warn their patients that any one that is not in a monogamous relationship is at some risk of acquir ing AIDS. And in the November issue of Modern Medicine Magagzine, Dr. Henry Masur of the National Insti tute of Health put the AIDS threat in perspective. “Both homosexual and heterosex ual people have to look at it the same way they look at syphillis or gonor rhea,” Masur said. “They have to consider the risk. “People have to be aware of the fact that any single sexual encounter could result in the transmission of AIDS.” But despite warnings by physi cians, a recent Washington Post tele phone poll revealed that few people are taking steps to avoid contracting AIDS. Seventy seven percent of those polled said that they were not taking any special precautions to protect themselves from contracting AIDS. And 73 percent said that they were not afraid of getting AIDS. .5 billion Pennzoil award upheld 6^ Associated Press 101 HOUSTON — A Texas judge on Tuesday accepted U.S. history’s largest civil damage award, agreeing ivith a jury that Texaco should pay Pennzoil Co. $10.53 billion for using ^inethical tactics to break up " “No, I would not (like to be chairman of Texaco), think that’s a hot seat at the moment. ” — Pennzoil chairman Hugh Liedtke. CAMPIONS nerger between Pennzoil and Getty Visiting State District Judge Solo- IS Of the ArClieff P 00 Casseb Jr. upheld the award af- er lawyers and officials for both oil lompanies huddled more than three lours behind closed doors to work 2J; >ut an agreement that would keep . he nation’s third-largest oil com- i^iany out of bankruptcy proceed- 25c n 8 s - j Casseb said in his order that with merest payments since Jan. 5, 1985, he total award to date will be $ 11.12 •illion. He also said that during any ap- ^•eal, the award would collect 10 per- ent interest from Tuesday until the ward is paid. Pennzoil attorney Joe Jamail said, ni’ Decembers. er vathy Craig like Malone Weiner WALS S must renew them tf 1 was always confident that the ng the locker clearei w ™ ld en j er the judgment be- , 3 ause ot the evidence in the law. beginning January^ Pennzoil chairman Hugh Liedtke, <er at any time inM Sked if he wanted to be chairman of ice, Room 159Reafexaco. laughed, saying, “No, I 'Quid not. I think that’s a hot seat at ' ^eSler, moment.” Chairman Alfred e moment. Texaco Vice DeCrane walked out of the court room, barging through dozens of cameramen and reporters, and then paused long enough to say the com pany would appeal. Texaco purchased Getty Oil Co. last year for $10.1 billion, the sec ond-largest merger in U.S. cor porate history behind Chevron Corp.’s $13.3 billion purchase of GulfCorp. But a jury ruled Nov. 19 that Tex aco used unethical tactics to break up a previous merger agreement be tween Getty and Pennzoil. Jurors recommended that Texaco pay $7.53 billion in actual damages — the amount Pennzoil claims it suf fered by losing access to 1 billion barrels of Getty Oil reserves — and another $3 billion as punishment. Texaco argued Pennzoil and Getty never had an ironclad deal and Texaco is being punished for simply taking advantage of a “good business opportunity.” Texaco contends the landmark judgment would damage the free- enterprise system, leave 55,000 Tex aco employees worldwide without jobs and signal the “total destruction and obliteration” of Texaco, even before it has a chance to appeal the case. Casseb said Pennzoil would not be allowed to file any liens against Tex aco property during an appeal or make any attempt to collect the award without the court’s permis sion. He also said Texaco and Getty Oil may not sell assets except those that would be sold during normal busi ness, and Texaco would be prohib ited from filing reorganization peti tions under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The judge said if Pennzoil violates its end of the agreement, Texaco would be granted a new trial. If Tex aco violates its end of the agreement, Pennzoil would no longer be bound to uphold its end. Texaco has 30 days to ask for a new trial. The judge has 30 days to rule on that request. If he rejects the request, Texaco has 30 days to post a $12 billion bond for an appeal, an amount company officials have said Texaco could not afford. Jamail said Texaco is allowed to appeal the verdict without a bond but said that if the company did not post the $12 billion bond, Pennzoil would be free to take assets. If Pen nzoil did so and the case ultimately was reversed, he said Texaco then could sue Pennzoil for damages. The judge’s order said if Texaco files for bankruptcy, Pennzoil would be free to attach liens to Texaco as sets. Casseb summoned attorneys to court on Tuesday after hearing ar guments in the case last week. The judge opened the hearing by asking for any further statements. Texaco attorney David Boies said the two companies have been meet ing over the past two days, appar- endy to delay entry of the final judgment. Jamail immediately objected to Boies’ statement, saying it was not the time to discuss the matter. Casseb recessed the hearing to meet with the attorneys privately. Boies emerged from the hour-long session, saymg that two proposals were being considered. See Judge, page 14 Activists demonstrate against prize winners Associated Press OSLO, Norway — Two physi cians — one American, the other Soviet — who helped found a doctors’ anti-war group received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Tuesday as human rights demon strators protested in the icy streets outside. American cardiologist Bernard Lown and Soviet deputy health minister and heart specialist Yev geny Chazov, accepted the award as co-founders of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. But demonstrators protested Chazov’s presence because he participated in a 1973 political at tack on Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Lown and Chazov were called together to receive the medal and a $225,000 award which will go to their organization. Soviet dissidents and hundreds of Sakharov supporters demon strated, but it passed without inci dent. The two doctors read separate acceptance speeches after being summoned to receive the prize by Egil Aarvik, 73, a retired journal ist and former government min ister who now heads the Norwe gian Nobel Committee. The ambassadors of the United States, West Germany and Britain normally attend but were out of Norway Tuesday. Their absence was viewed as demon strating unhappiness with the se lection. In a white-tie ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday, five Americans, a West German and a Frenchman received Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, econom ics, physics and literature. The prize in medicine went to Americans Michael S. Brown, 44, and Joseph L. Goldstein, 45, for research into how the body han dles cholesterol. Americans Jerome Karle, 67, and Herbert H. Hauptman, 68, received the chemistry prize for developing methods of determin ing crystal structures. And Naturalized American economist Franco Modigliani, born in Italy 67 years ago, re ceived the economics prize, estab lished in 1968 by Sweden’s cen tral bank.