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Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 1, 1986
Texas banks
credit ratings
are lowered
DALLAS (AP) — Moody’s Inves
tors Service Inc. and Standard &
Poor’s Corp. lowered the credit rat
ings ol several major Texas banks on
Monday, citing the grim outlook for
the oil-dependent state.
Moody’s reduced its rating on
Dallas bank companies MCorp, In-
terFirst Corp. and Republicbank
Corp. and Houston’s First City Ban
corp of Texas Inc.
“T he potential for those banks is
negative over the next few years be
cause of the hostile operating envi
ronment,” said Don Noe, Moody’s
associate director for financial insti
tutions.
S&P said it cut the rating on
MCorp’s senior debt to reflect ex
pectations that the oil price decline
will adversely affect MCorp.
The rating on Texas American
Bancshares’ senior debt was also low
ered by S&rP. The credit rating
agency said the cut reflected the
bank holding company’s aggressive
growth strategy.
The two banks were among six
that S&P placed on a special “cred-
itwatch” for possible downgradings.
Fhe other four placed on cred-
itwatch on March 18 were Allied
Bancshares, InterFirst, Republic-
bank, and T exas Commerce.
A deterioration in a company’s
debt rating usually makes it more ex
pensive for the company to raise
cash for capital or other projects.
Spokesmen for InterFirst and
First City declined comment Mon
day on Moody’s actions, and off icials
from MCorp did not return calls
from The Associated Press. A
spokesman for Republicbank said
officials may respond later.
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Student apartheid group to hold rallf
By Mona Palmer
Stuff Writer
Students Against Apartheid will
hold a rally Friday in observation of
National Divestiture Day and the as
sassination of Martin Luther King.
The rally will begin at 4:30 p.m. at
the College Station City Hall.
Norman Muraya, president of
Students Against Apartheid, said he
will speak on the divestment of
Texas A&M holdings in South Af
rica and Carey Cauley Jr., president
of the Brazos County Chapter of the
NAACP, will discuss the significance
of King’s assassination.
After the speeches^ Muraya said
he will lead a freedom march from
the city hall down Texas Avenue to
Rudder Tower.
Speakers and supporters from
several organizations will speak at
Rudder Tower, including the
NAACP, Amnesty International and
Students Working Against Many
Problems, he said.
Dr. G’s nightclub will open after
the rally at 8 p.m. for a "Rock
Against Apartheid" featuring a reg
gae hand, Muraya said.
“They’ll just he reopening for that
one night,” he said. “It’s been closed
the rest of the time.”
Muraya said SAA has been trying
to get an audience with the Texas
A&M University System Board ol
Regents to discuss divestment.
But, five months after filing theii
Oct. 28 request, the board told the
organization that it is not within the
board’s limits to consider Universitx
divestment, Muraya said.
“ 1 he letter from the Board states
that divestment is not within the
purview of the Board of Regents."
Muraya said, “hut I know that with
the other institutions it’s been an is
sue that only the Board of Rf
can legislate.
“We’ve been frustrated bi
delay foi five months, theydi
us on the meeting last seme*!
the meeting at the heginninyd
semestei and we were hopingt
in the one ihis past week."
I he legents met MardiM
"During this same timeJm
institutions have divested and s
tal corporations have wiiMi
from South Africa, 700peopls!
been killed and thousands non
(ained without trial,” Murayasai
Seat belt law helps
lower death rate: DPS
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas’ new seat
belt law and stronger efforts to curb
drunken driving contributed to the
state’s lowest traffic death rate since
1976, Department of Public Safety
director Col. Jim Adams said Mon
day.
Texas traffic deaths declined by
5.9 percent last year as 3,682 people
died, 231 fewer than the previous
year. Adams said the death toll last
year was the lowest since 1976.
The death rate per 100 million ve
hicle miles traveled also dropped —
five years ago it was 3.9, but in 1985,
Adams said, the death rate was 2.6
per 100 million miles, the lowest
ever recorded in Texas.
“I see two principal reasons for
this saving of lives,” Adams said.
“When the safety belt law went into
ef fect on Sept. 1, 1985, we began no
ticing a monthly drop in fatalities.
The four-month average decrease in
front seat fatalities was 14 percent.”
The law requires persons in the
front seat of an automobile and most
pickup trucks to wear a seal belt.
“Secondly, I iliink the continuing
— and growing — emphasis on the
dangers of drunken driving, cou
pled with strict enforcement of DW1
laws by police agencies, has had a
definite impact on the number of
traffic deaths,” Adams said.
He said that in 1985, the number
of DWI-related traffic deaths in
Texas fell by 60 from die previous
year to 989, a 6-percent drop.
Adams noted, however, that while
overall the number of traffic deaths
decreased, the number of motorcy
cle riders killed in accidents lose 1
percent to 364.
In Advance—
Student Senate to considei
amendments to constitutio
Fhe Student Senate will con
sider two amendments to its con
stitution in its final meeting
Wednesday night.
Wednesday also is student elec
tion day, so voters will he choos
ing a new Senate, which will take
over at the April 16 meeting.
One proposed amendment
calls for student body presidential
candidates and executive vice
presidential candidates to run to
gether on a common tic ket. Cur
rently, the student body presi
dent appoints the executive vice
president.
The other proposal calls for
the inclusion of an equal oppor
tunity statement in the Student
Government constitution. Judi
cial Board bylaws, electionrtj
lations. the Texas A&Mgradu
and undergraduate catalogs,!
all Student Government puH
pi intecl or written statements!
advertisements.
(’oust itutional amendment!!
quire the approval of bothi
Senate and the student body.
Cla\ Baker, Senate vice pit
dent of rules and regulatw
said if the- Senate passesthepi
posals his committee will in
have them placed on the ballot
the student runoff eleclit*
whic h, il necessary, will be
9.
1 he Senate will meet all:
p.m. in 204 Harrington Cli
room Building.
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