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Renegade forces set
fire to Egyptian hotels
CAIRO, Egypt — Renegade secu
rity forces and civilian mobs set fire
to hotels, looted shops, stormed a
prison and sent tourists scrambling
to safety Wednesday after fighting
broke out with army troops near the
Great Pyramids.
Sources said scores were killed
and hundreds were injured.
Edward Bernier, spokesman for
the U.S. Embassy, said about 120
Americans were in the area. None
were injured, he said.
The rioting began when cons
cripts from a Central Security Force
camp near the pyramids protested
against rumors that their term of
service was to be extended from
three years to four, the official Mid
dle East News Agency said.
Suit seeks to close center
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ney’s should not be allowed to rep
resent Wasson, because he is being
sued as an individual and not in any
official University capacity.
“To allow TAMU System attor
neys to appear in this cause would
further allow public facilities and
public funds to destroy competi-
_tion,” the petition says.
Wasson’s defense will probably be
that he’s acting in an official capacity
and performing a viable educational
purpose, the petition states. But KLS
-asks that this protection be denied.
“That exclusion is not intended to
protect overzealous state employees
from creating retail centers under a
claim of immunity. . . the petition
says. “Centers that destroy local busi
nesses, thus depriving private per
sons of property, without due proc
ess of law.”
Wasson, in Dallas on a business
trip, said he was told not to comment
on the case and referred all ques
tions to the System attorney.
Ted Hajovsky, System General
Counsel, said the suit was frivolous
and without merit.
“If we operated according to their
standards, the University couldn’t
even sell food on campus,” Hajovsky
said.
Larry Berry, president of KI.S,
said he has been pursuing legal ac
tion against the University since the
Center opened in 1984.
He says that along with the other
retailers he is slowy being bank
rupted. And he says he is paying tax
dollars to put himself out-of-busi-
ness.
“The center just has everything,”
Berry said, “I don’t think anybody
can compete with them.”
Vendors: Computer sales off
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Center, says the center is able to of
fer a 20 percent to 40 percent dis
count on computers, and a 35 per
cent to 50 percent discount on
software.
The Micro Center’s sales for the
last quarter — from September
through December — were
$650,000, which projects to over $2
million annually.
Berry says he doubted if annual
computer sales from all independent
outlets in Brazos County were as
high as $2 million.
The economy hasn’t been good
for retailers in the past months,
i Wright says.
She says the University and the
area retailers should be helping each
other through the difficult time.
“The University needs growth in
Brazos County to grow itself,”
Wright says. “Why should other
businesses be attracted to the area if
the University can come in and un
dercut them?”
Dr. George H. Lucas Jr., assistant
marketing professor and faculty
committee member for the Center
for Retailing Studies, says the Micro
Center probably isn’t good for the
economy as a whole, but it is good
for education.
“Anything the University can do
to get computers into student’s
hands, the better,” Lucas says.
Lucas said some colleges, such as
Clarkson University in Potsdam,
N.Y., require all incoming freshmen
to purchase computers through the
university at drastically reduced
prices.
According to Lucas, computer re
tailers in Brazos County could com
pete with the Micro Center by con
centrating on the services the center
does not offer.
Kevin Mullenix, manager of Com-
puterland, says they are doing just
that.
“In some ways I figure they’ve
(the Micro Center) helped,” Mulle
nix says.
He says a lot of students come to
him because they’re frustrated with
the Micro Center’s lack of services.
Center providing discounts
(continued from page 1)
would contract directly with the na
tional vendors, Kane says.
The major advantage of this pro
gram as stated by the subcommittee
was the discount that would be avail
able to the faculty, staff and students
of the System.
Kane says the center is a service
organization and is not state-funded.
He said the center’s funds for over
head and shipping come from a 10
percent markup on the price of the
merchandise.
The center is able to offer a 20
percent to 40 percent discount on
computers, and a 35 percent to 50
percent discount on software, Kane
says.
The center can afford to sell its
merchandise at such a reduced price
because it buys directly from the
manufacturer at a negotiated price,
Kane says.
“Unfortunately, the local dealers
can’t compete with the volume dis
counts the large corporations give
us,” Kane says.
Kane says there’s still a big market
for computers in the Bryan-College
Station area. He says the center can’t
provide some services available from
retailers.
“We’re obviously going to do
more volume than the local retailers
simply because of the convenience
factor and of course because of the
discount,” Kane says.
The center does have a contract
with two local venders, Radio Shack
and YES Computers, which offer
similar discounts to the students,
Kane says.
But Kevin Cureton of YES Com
puters says local vendors are not al
lowed to sell such popular comput
ers as the Apple Macintosh, at the
same discount rate as the center.
The center will sell its computers
and software to full-time students,
staff or faculty members only, Kane
says.
When a computer is sold by the
center, buyers must sign a contrac
tual obligation designed to keep
them from buying a computer for
re-sale, Kane says.
The contract is essentially a pur
chase agreement stating that the
computer is being purchased for
personal use or research purposes,
Kane says.
He says it also certifies the buyer is
eligible to participate in the program
and has not bought a computer from
the center within the past 12
months.
The computer cannot be re-sold
within two years of the purchase
date, Kane says.
The center keeps a file on each
sale, but monitoring the location of
each computer sold by the center is
difficult, Kane says.
“It’s tough to monitor that, but if
we are made aware of a violation we
will pursue our legal remedies,”
Kane says.
Those remedies include auto
matic expulsion from the University
if the buyer is a student or dismissal
if the buyer is a faculty member,
Kane says.
There are monetary damages and
criminal charges that can be brought
against a buyer who breaks a con
tract, Kane says.
Some income deductible
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deductible at the rate of 9 cents a
mile, or you may keep a record of ac
tual medical-related expenditures
for oil and gas. In either case, you
also may add parking fees and high
way tolls.
To meet the 5 percent threshold,
you may add premiums for medical
insurance; doctor and hospital bills;
prescription drugs and insulin; the
cost of any legal operation, including
abortion and sterilization; a facelift
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nal Revenue Service has held even a
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cial captioning device that allows a
deaf person to watch television may
be written off. So may the cost of re
moving lead-based paint from a
child’s room — but not the cost of re
painting.
You may not deduct the medical
portion of your car insurance, a
weight-loss or stop-smoking pro
gram, any social activity (such as
dancing) for general improvement
of your health — even if your doctor
prescribes it — or (generally) meals
and lodging when you are away
from home for medical treatment
unless they are provided in a medi
cal facility.
However, up to $50 a day for
lodging outside a medical facility
may be written off if necessary for
medical care, such as a trip to an out-
of-town out-patient clinic.
If you install special equipment in
your home for medical reasons and
on doctors’ orders, a portion of it
may be deductible, depending on
whether it raises the value of your
home.
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