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Thursday, January 23, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 American still grossing most money Associated Press FORT WORTH — Record earnings were posted by AMR Corp, the parent company of American Airlines, for tne third consecutive year, company offi cials said Wednesday. AMR had preliminary unau dited net earnings of $345.8 mil lion in 1985, surpassing 1984’s re cord of $233.9 million. Earnings per share last year were $5.94, compared with $4.37 per share in 1984. Company chairman and presi dent Robert L. Crandall said, “These record results reflect the ongoing success of our growth plan, made possible by the ded ication and hard work of each of our employees." Operating earnings last year were also a record $536.6 million, a 45.6 percent improvement from $368.5 million in 1984. AMR officials said operating revenues were $6.13 billion, a 14.5 percent increase over $5.35 billion in 1984. Operating revenues in the fourth quarter of 1985 were Si.48 billion, a 10.2 percent in crease over $1.35 billion in the same period of 1984. AMR spokesman Joe Stroop said, “Our growth plan is based on acquiring new, more efficient airplanes and hiring new employ ees at market competitive rates of pay” Judge to decide if hearing necessary in Pennzoil case Associated Press HOUSTON — A judge said he will meet with attorneys for Texaco Inc. and Pennzoil Co. before decid ing if a hearing is needed to decide whether another judge was qualified to hear a lawsuit between the two companies. Texaco attorneys say visiting State District Judge Solomon Casseb was not qualified to hear the lawsuit last year because he did not take an oath required by state law. Administrative Judicial District Judge Thomas Stovall Jr. of Sea- brook said Tuesday he will schedule a conference on the matter as soon as he can get attorneys for the two oil companies “huddled up in one pile.” Casseb could not be reached for comment Wednesday at his San An tonio home or office and did not re turn calls to The Associated Press. In December, Casseb upheld a Houston jury’s decision to award $10.5 billion to Pennzoil after find ing Texaco foiled Pennzoil’s at tempts to purchase Getty Oil Co. The judge also added interest that brought the award total to more than $11.1 billion. Casseb took over the trial after the original judge, Anthony Farris, be came ill. But Texaco claimed in a motion for a new trial filed Jan. 9 that Cas seb was not legally qualified to pre side over the eight-week trial. Casseb served as a district judge in San Antonio from 1960-68 and re tired as a former judge, meaning he had not served enough time on the bench to qualify for state retirement benefits. By presiding over the Pennzoil- Texaco trial, he qualified for a state pension and earned the designation retired judge. However, Texaco claims Casseb failed, upon returning to work, to take another oath of office. Stovall said it is not yet clear whether such an oath is required by state law. “From everything I know, he’s a retiredjudge,” Stovall said. “We have to rely on them to fill the holes. Since 1925, we’ve been able to use retired judges.” He said Casseb has sent him a copy of his retirement certificate from the state Employees Retire ment System and a letter from the state chief justice certifying his re tirement on May 21, 1985. Principal: Bused blacks treated differently Associated Press DALLAS — A principal testified in federal court that black students who were bused to an elementary school were not allowed to play with children from the mostly white neighborhood. The principal of H.S. Thompson Elementary School in south Dallas, Don Williams, testified Wednesday about students bused to Reinhardt Elementary School in Northeast Dal las. 1 “They were not allowed to mix with the kids from the neighbor hood,” Williams said. “They were not allowed to play with the neighborhood children,” he said. Don L. Smith, principal of Re- “7'hey (black students) were not allowed to mix with the kids from the neighborhood. ” — Don Williams, principal of H.S. Thompson El ementary School. inhardt Elementary, could not be reached by telephone for comment. Williams was the third principal to testify before U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders on whether to open four more “super schools” as an alternative to busing for 1,650 minority pupils in West Dallas. Thompson was one of three heighborhood schools in south Dal las to which 1,300 black children re turned to grades 4-6 in fall 1984. Don Williams also agreed with the testimony Tuesday of Pearl C. An derson Principal Wilber Williaijis, who said some black youngsters bused to schools in mostly white neighborhoods in northeast Dallas were wrongly placed in special edu cation classes or unfairly denied pro motions^ Wilber Williams said Anderson received at least five black pupils who had been misclassified in white schools as having learning problems and needing special education. Leader urging raise in Mexico non-oil exports Associated Press MEXICO CITY — President Mi guel de la Madrid said Mexico is committed to increasing its non-pe troleum exports and that the private sector should change its “attitude and mentality.” De la Madrid’s speech to the Na tional Association of Importers and Exporters of the Mexican Republic was Tuesday, the same day that the rice of crude oil dropped below 20 a barrel on some markets, an event that only means trouble for the Mexican economy. The government, trying to keep up with payments on a $96.4 billion foreign debt, has been promoting non-petroleum exports to compen sate for falling oil prices and de mand. It also has been moving quickly to reduce trade restrictions. Mexico’s private sector has long had a protected domestic market that insulates many of its industries from foreign competition. And De la Madrid said the government “reaf firms its pledge to establish general conditions that stimulate and facili tate exports.” At another meeting, he said, “It is indispensable that (economic) rules that could be justified in other times be adapted to the new (times) and those that are to come.” Recently the government an nounced it would begin membership talks with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a 90-nation trade group. To join, Mexico would have to dismantle some of its trade bar riers. Luis Bravo Aguilera, assistant for eign trade secretary of the Com merce Department, told the export ers and importers that non-oil exports will increase to $7.7 billion. Total exports will rise to between $21.5 billion and $22.5 billion, de pending on the ability to export 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, he said. The balance of trade surplus for 1986 will range between $7.5 billion and $8.5 billion, Bravo Aguilera said. 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