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iTi [7 :n ;i It’s only a state BEST PICTURE LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION Starts A UNIVERSAL Release C1M8 UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS. INC. RL^ Friday Sat & Sun 2:00/4:30/7:00/9:30 Mon-Fir 7:00/9:30 #? CANNON fllMS, INC Starts Friday Mon-Fri 7:30/9:30 Sat & Sun 1:30/3:30/5:30 7:30/9:30 rtn wm mu TtMvtt HlGHlANnER ©1986 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOXl IrmA Starts Friday Mon-Fri 7:30/9:10 SXACCS CtNTEA 846 6/14 Sat & Sun 1:00/3:00/5:20/7:30/9:10 THEATRE GUIDE Informaflort Lfrie - 846-6714 Midnight Movies 2 for 1 Fri. & Sat. buy one ticket for 2.50 and get the 2nd free with coupon 60 oz. PITCHERS THURSDAY 2- 8:00pm - Midnight FRIDAY 2<29 4:00pm - 9pm *5.00 for any two slices and a pitcher! vmzuti 303WUNIVERSITY- 846-1616 Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, March 6, 1986 Final Four important for Dal las 1 self-image TANK ftPNAMAKA Associated. Press DALLAS — Mayor Starke Taylor says he wants people to know his city is more than J.R. Ewings in cowboy boots and hats. That’s why Taylor is happy that Dallas is “successfully” preparing and bracing itself for the NCAA Fi nal Four basketball tournament March 29-31 at Reunion Arena. “I travel a lot, and when people think about Dallas they think about the television show,” Taylor said Tuesday. “The show has created an image that isn’t true. When they think of Texas, they think of west ern. I think Dallas is more sophisti cated than that.” A lot of the projected image in part depends on the Dallas Final Four Committee, that has less than four weeks to prepare a three-day event for an estimated 20,000 visi tors. “People know about our (NFL) Cowboys and hopefully now our (NBA) Mavericks,” said Taylor. “People who come to the Final Four from across the country, maybe around the world, should consider that Dallas is a great basketball town, a great sports town.” The city played host to the NCAA regional tournament last year, the NBA All-Star Game Feb. 8-9 and will host the Southwest Conference tournament this weekend. The All-Star Game generated $2.7 million for the local economy and the SWC tournament will add $3.5 million March 7-9. The estimated $7.5 million out-of- town guests are expected to spend for the Final Four is not as impor tant as what they see during their stay in the nation’s third busiest con vention city, city officials said. Dallas City Manager Charles An derson cited two-year studies that in dicate Dallas leads the nation in job growth, office construction and ab sorption, and rate of increase in re tail sales. Surveys also show the city has the third highest concentration of high-technology industry, he said. “We want to spread the news*” Anderson said. “And I think we’re ready.” It hasn’t been easy preparing, Fi nal Four Committee members say. The committee will have spent more than $650,000 preparing pri vate events geared mostly toward NCAA officials, National Associa tion of Basketball Coaches conven tioneers and VIPs and members of the media. The $46 tickets — divided be tween the final four schools, NABC and NCAA — are sold out for the 19,000-seat Reunion Arena that has been reduced to 16,500 to facilitate the news media. “We should be well into the black because the NCAA allows it,” said Beckman. “You can’t compromise on this event. You can’t be embar rassed. And we’re not going to be embarrassed.” Arkansas basketball playe apologizes for drug usage ■ OSLO, Endie ol Nprwegiar NATO wii least seven ■red and Blitary an | Hundre Copters an with dogs ning for tl |*scue eff Knd and lid. dpirn Lt. Col maneuver said all thi Nurwegi: aigency qi dead men tals in Hi miles non I About •in memb Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas basketball player William Mills apologized Wednesday for a drug problem which led to his dismissal from the Razorback problem squad. “It was stupid to get into drugs in the first place but once we did, it was hard to get out,” William Mills said in a statement released by the University of Arkansas athletic department. “I’m embarrassed about it, but the problem kept eating a little more out of me until I couldn’t handle it.” On Feb. 25, Razorback Coach Nolan Richardson suspended Mills and Kenny Hutchinson for the re mainder of the season for what he said were discipli nary reasons. The Benton County Daily Democrat re ported in a copyright story Friday that Mills and Hutchinson were in Charter Vista Hospital at Fayette ville, a rehabilitation center which treats drug, alcohol and stress-related problems. Athletic department and hospital officials declined to verify the report. Mills did not specify which drugs he had used. The athletic department said there would be no further comment on the statements. Mills is a 6-foot-7 junior from Perkins, Ga. Hutchin- called A son is a sophomore guard f rom New York City, held thn “I’d like to apologize to the University of ArUlway uni administration, the University of Arkansas and thtL kansas fans,” Mills said. “1 don’t know if we shouliB forgiven but I hope we will be forgiven." Hutchinson, too, apologized to the school anil athletic department. “This is the best thing for us,” Hutchinsons “Coach Richardson has done a lot for us. We apf ciate the fans being supportive of us. When we[ of this, we want to get our lives together and dop I tive things with our lives.” J Richardson has said the suspension does non the players cannot return to the Razorbacks nextif “Whether or not they’re on scholarship is uptotht!| Richardson told a news conference last week. 1 door is not going to be closed and it ain’t goingK open. It’s not closed but it will be cracked.” “I hope people will give us a chance when we out. We want to get about our lives in a positive® ner,” Mills said. “I really appreciate Coach Richards taking the time to look at our problem and havingc compassion to forgive and not just cast us out. Her ized our problem and did what was best. It was most positive thing that could have happened tous F Hans Ki RESTAUR am RESTAURANT 4 : 4 We now have accomodations for larger par ties and welcome your party to come in Free Birthday Cake for Birthday Parties Saturday’s Special 1 /2 price beer or wine for party of 10 or more with meal. 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