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83 No. 108 USPS 075360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 28, 1986
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By MIKE SULLIVAN
Reporter
he Texas A&M Micro Center
pi Apple Macintosh personal com-
Htrs to students, faculty and stall
‘ ^Ber an agreement with 3f^>ple
Ir^^^Jiputers that is no longer being
pfered to other universities.
along with 224 other uni-
uiiities, is working with Apple un-
■ the University Purchase Pro-
S 'arn, said Kathleen Dixon,
anager of public relations f or edu-
itiun and consumer markets for
Apple Computers.
Bniversities working with Apple
undo the L'PP are permitted to de-
fflde how much local dealer partici-
paton they want in their individual
■grams, Dixon said.
TU'e strongly encourage a
itionship with the dealer for all of
ij UPP schools,” Dixon said. “The
ee to which they do that is up to
;heln.”
| Dixon said some UPP schools op-
e their entire program through
bcal dealers, while others choose to
■rate independent centers with no
|ler participation.
ibout 50 percent of all UPP
ols include local dealers in their
rams, Dixon said,
ixon said the purpose of the spe-
rialagreement with the UPP schools
j) gain widespread acceptance of
the Apple Macintosh in the leading
naersities.
She said mass acceptance of the
kintosh will be good for Apple
its dealers in the future.
John Kane, manager of the Micro
■ter, said A&M sells the Apple
tintosh at a discount, but has
ed to let Yes Computers sell the
|>le II.
ixon said although she couldn’t
ment on a specific case, she is
|re some Apple dealers are expe-
ing a loss in sales because of the
bgram.
tWe recognize the need for the
lers to have university business,”
Dixon said.
Jor that reason, she said, Apple
Mil not take any more schools under
thelUPP.
Eixon said the nearly 3,300 other
uniyersities in the nation fall under
theTducational Purchase Program
(EPP).
A university working with Apple
under the EPP is not licensed to re
sell Apple computers and must work
ikough its local dealer, Dixon said,
■ixon said Apple developed the
Apple University Consortium pro-
n in January 1984.
ixon said 24 top universities, in
cluding Yale and Harvard, were
% V^asked to work with Apple to further
develop the Macintosh computer.
W She said the schools were obligated
toRroduce new software programs
ebnii
See Contract, page 12
42nd Street
Elizabeth French and James Darrah lead the final number in
“42nd Street" in Rudder Auditorium T hursday. See story page 7.
Lawyer says KLS trying
to avoid suing A&M
By SCOTT SUTHERLAND
Assistant City Editor
An attorney for the Texas A&M
University System said Thursday
KLS Computers’ $4.05 million dol
lar lawsuit against the System comp
troller was an attempt to avoid suing
the University to shut down the Mi
cro Center.
Jerry Cain, associate general
counsel for the TAMU System, said
he doubts that System Vice Chan
cellor and Comptroller Bill Wasson
can be held accountable f or damages
inflicted by a University-sanctioned
business.
The Battalion incorrectly reported
that KLS Computers was suing for
$1.35 million. KLS is actually seek
ing $4.05 million in damages. KLS
said the Micro Center has taken
$1.35 million in business from local
retailers and is asking that damages
be tripled as a punitive measure.
Cain said KLS is trying to avoid a
more costly and difficult law suit that
would result from suing a state insti
tution. In order to sue A&M, KLS
would have to receive the legis
lature’s permission and sue in fed
eral court. Federal court cases are
often hampered with lengthy delays
that drive up attorney’s fees, Cain
says.
KLS Computers filed the suit in
January seeking $4 million in dam
ages and an injunction that would
close the Micro Center, A&M’s dis
count computer store. KLS says the
University is using public funds,
public facilites and public employees
to operate a business that has de
stroyed the local computer market.
KLS’s petition to sue asks that
Wasson be held accountable for al
leged unfair business practices.
KLS attorney John Haw'trey says
he can’t sue the University because
the Micro Center is operating as a
separate business. Hawtrey says
Wasson himself has made numerous
See KLS asking, page 12
U.S. computer dealers:
Sales hurt by colleges
By MIKE SULLIVAN
Reporter
Computer retailers in the
Bryan-College Station area say
the local university is unfairly un
dercutting their prices, but they
aren’t the only commercial dis
tributers in the country w'ho are
voicing that complaint.
Kevin Henderson, account ex
ecutive for Chip’s Computer Cen
ter in Hanover, N.H., the location
of Dartmouth College, said the
college is buying the popular Ma
cintosh computer in volume
from Apple Computers and sell
ing them at prices so low he can’t
possibly compete.
Jerry Pierce, assistant director
of admissions at Dartmouth, said
the college does encourage the
students to purchase computers
through the school, but they
don’t require it.
“Eighty-five percent of the stu
dents (incoming freshmen) did
purchase computers through the
college,” he said.
Bob Croot, director of fresh
men admissions at Clarkson Uni
versity in Potsdam, N.Y., said
they have been requiring their in
coming freshmen to purchase Ze
nith Z-100 personal computers
through the university for three
years.
“Next fall, the cycle will be
completed,” Croot said. “With
that class, every student will have
his own micro computer.”
Croot said the cost of the com
puter is built into the tuition, and
when the students arrive in the
fall, computers are waiting for
them.
Croot said students like the
convenience of their personal
See Retailers, page 12
Tips to help expedite income tax returns given
By JIM LUTHER
A P Tax Writer
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a
series of five articles written to help
taxpayers prepare their 1985 in
come fax returns. This installment
covers expediting your return.
WASHINGTON — A foreteller
in Washington claims to have the
formula for getting your tax return
through the Internal Revenue Serv
ice without an audit or any other
hitch. Just be sure you file it when
the moon is in proper alignment
with the stars, she says.
Lynn Koiner says there are four
periods in 1986 when that will hap
pen.
The final “window”: from 6 p.m.
to 1 1:43 p.m. on April 14.
If you don’t believe in astrology
and you’re due a refund, you might
want to file your return as quickly as
possible.
Although the IRS is going all-out
to avoid a repetition of last year’s de
lays in processing returns, the
sooner you file, the sooner you are
likely to get your refund.
An early filing could produce a
refund in as little as four weeks;
waiting until the April 15 deadline
may mean a wait of up to 10 weeks.
Some other tips that might expe
dite your refund and help you avoid
a costly or troublesome mistake:
• There’s just no way to pay the
tax you owe now? Don’t let that keep
you from filing a return and work
ing out an arrangement with the IRS
to pay later. There’s one penalty for
failure to file and a separate penalty
for not paying on time.
• If you don’t have the records in
hand to complete your return by the
April 15 deadline, file a Form 4868
by that time and get an automatic
four-month extension. You’ll still
have to estimate what you owe and
pay it by April 15.
• Generally, a person you claim
as a dependent must have had a
gross income of $1,040 or less last
year. But the limitation does not ap
ply if the dependent is your child
who was under 19 at the end of the
year, or was a full-time student (in
cluding on-the-farm training
courses) during five months of the
year.
• Such a dependent child also
must file his or her own return if in
come totaled $3,430 or more, or if
self-employment income was at least
$400, or if unearned income, such as
interest, was $1,040 or more. Even if
you don’t have to file, do so to get a
refund if any tax was withheld.
• Income averaging is less benefi
cial since passage of a 1984 law, but
it still can save money for a person,
such as a farmer, whose income can
fluctuate sharply from year to year.
See Early filing, page 12
IRS: Taxpayers receiving
refunds faster than last year
IRS News Release
Tax returns are now arriving
at the Internal Revenue Service’s
Austin Service Center faster than
they were a week earlier, and tax
payers are receiving refunds at
more than twice the rate of last
year, according to the IRS.
As of Feb. 14, the Austin Serv
ice Center — which processes re
turns from Texas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Kansas and New Mex
ico — had received 2,456,000 re
turns, compared with 2,584,000
last year at this time — a decrease
of five percent from last year.
Currently the Service Center
has processed 442,000 returns,
up 63 percent from last year’s
271,000 at this time. So far 18
percent of the returns received
have been processed, compared
with only 10 percent last year.
Nationwide, the IRS has re
ceived 20,102,000 returns, down
1 percent from last year’s
21,621,000. A total of 5,413,000
returns have been processed, up
54 percent from last year’s
3,520,000.
The IRS has mailed 1,934,000
refunds nationwide, up 68 per
cent from last year’s 1,151,000 at
this time. The average refund is
$606, down from last year’s $684.
A new toll-free number, 1-800-
554-4477, not listed in the in
struction packet, will allow tax
payers to call TeleTax, a system
of about 150 recorded messages.
The instructions for using the
system are in the tax instructions.
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Panel chief criticizes
NASA decision-making
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The chair-
tn of the presidential Chal-
iger commission bluntly de
nounced NASA Thursday for a
Iplearly flawed” decision-making
process, after hearing of a second
instance in which the space
agency brushed aside contractor
fears for the safety of the shuttle
and crew.
I Summarizing three days of
hearings at which several wit
nesses complained their concerns
were not passed to the agency’s
top officials, Chairman William
Rogers lectured four senior
NASA officials: “You eliminate
the element of good judgment
and common sense.”
K Rogers said he was speaking
for the entire panel in saying the
process “should require people to
take stands, and you should have
a record on it.”
His statement after testimony
by the official who decided to
launch Challenger that he re
jected an unsafe-to-fly warning
from the spaceplane’s manufac
turer, because “it was not an ob
jection to launch.”
Arnold Aldrich, the No. 2 man
in the shuttle program, said he
rejected an objection on the
morning of the jan. 28 liftoff by
Rockwell International that ice on
Pad 39B made conditions “not
safe to launch.”
But, he told the presidential
commission, “I would think it was
more than reasonable that if
someone were still concerned this
was a very bad judgment or bad
action, they would call me. I left
every opportunity for that to hap
pen.” No such call came.
New president suspects pilfering
Aquino’s Cabinet takes over
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Corazon
Aquino’s Cabinet officers took over
their posts Thursday and she or
dered all departments to check their
records because of reports that some
documents had been destroyed by
supporters of the deposed Ferdi
nand E. Marcos.
T he new government said hun
dreds of political prisoners held by
the fallen Marcos regime probably
would be freed next week.
Thirty-nine prisoners were or
dered set free Thursday.
A spokeswoman for Task Force
Detainees, a human rights group,
said that as of Friday morning, 16
prisoners had been released from
military detention.
The process was slowed by medi
cal clearances and the fact that each
release had to be signed by several
people in different locations, offi
cials reported.
Former Sen. Raul Manglapus re
turned to his homeland Friday from
the United States, where he had
spent 14 years opposing Marcos’
government.
Manglapus had left the Phil
ippines the day before Marcos de
clared martial law' in 1972.
“So, I’m back, and as I was saying
before I was so rudely interrupted
by Ferdinand Marcos, we are going
to be the greatest democracy in the
world," Manglapus said at a news
conference at Manila International
Airport.
He praised Aquino as a “goddess
of democracy,” and President Rea
gan for help in persuading Marcos
to leave.
“It was the people of the Phil
ippines, people power, that pushed
the dictatorship to the brink,” Mang
lapus said, “but it was the final Rea
gan touch that pushed him over.”
Philip Habib, the special U.S. en
voy. spent 1 '/j hours with Aquino on
Thursday.
A statement from her office said
Habib extended “the warmest greet
ings of President Ronald Reagan
and the American people.”
He told Aquino that the popular
uprising that forced Marcos from of
fice, which was largely peaceful, had
“deeply moved the American people
and those in the highest circles of the
U.S. government,” the statement
said. It did not say what the two dis
cussed.
Aquino’s executive secretary,
Joker Arroyo, ordered heads of gov
ernment offices to preserve all re
cords and make inventories of their
assets and finances.
A government announcement
said he issued the directive in re
sponse to reports of “deliberate de
struction and pilferage” of records
at several minstries and agencies.
Among them were Human Set
tlements, a heavily funded ministry
headed by Inielda Marcos, the for
mer president’s wife; the Govern
ment Corporate Counsel; and a
gambling regulatory board.
Aquino’s official spokesman,
Rene Saguisag, told a news confer
ence that a five-member committee
was reviewing lists of political pris
oners and decisions on release were
being made on a case-to-case basis.
He said the committee would
meet again Saturday, and “we would
hope to be able to announce by then
the release of maybe hundreds of
political detainees.”