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Long distance for less. call America 106 E. 26th /Bryan, TX 779-1707 presents •I, LIVE MUSIC tonight tough Town I 50 Frozen Margarita’s & Hurricanes from 8-1 I 509 University 268-0486 J Airline denies any interest in Pan Am FORT WORTH (AP) — Ameri can Airlines’ officials denied their in terest in acquiring Pan American World Airlines during a series of frank talks with employees, a spokes man said Tuesday. AMR Corp., American’s parent company, made the announcement Monday. The company did not rule out buying any assets of the interna tional carrier. “If assets were to be made avail able by Pan Am or any other airline, it would make good business sense for American Airlines to consider those assets at that time,” American spokesman A1 Becker said. However, Becker said that’s only a hypothetical issue. “To my knowledge. Pan Am has not made anything available,” he said. Officials at Pan Am’s parent com pany said Monday they are consid ering selling the carrier’s Northeast shuttle route. Jeff Kriendler, a spokesman for Pan Am, said the carrier does not want to sell the shuttle and will do so only if labor costs cannot be reduced through present negotiations with its two unions. AMR’s announcement came about a month after reports that the company was eyeing Pan Am as a possible acquisition. Becker said the company usually doesn’t comment on reports, but made an exception in this case. “Obviously, it has gotten a lot of attention,” he said. “We are going to begin our round of employee meet ings. One of the issues we are going to address is just to tell employees where we stand on the Pan Am ques tion.” Becker said American’s growth philosophy focuses on internal re structuring rather than outside ac quisitions, although he noted Ameri can is trying to acquire AirCal. The Department of Transporta tion announced last week it was granting tentative approval to that merger. Wall Street analysts said the Mon day announcement wasn’t a sur prise. 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Commit tee members in the association haven’t talked with University offi cials about serving liquor. Matson said the topic must be dis cussed with officials, and if they de cide against it being served, then the association will continue to have some functions at the Hilton Hotel in College Station. Kathy Vonderhaar, Matson’s sec retary, said the special functions probably will consist of dinners and receptions for executive council members that are conducted an nually in conjunction with evening council meetings. The new former students’ associa tion building is at the corner of Jer sey Street and Houston Street across from the University Police Depart ment. Matson said, “I think that serving liquor would be on a limited basis.” The types of liquor and when they would be served also is undecided, he said. Vonderhaar said the new alumni center will consist of offices for the staff, meeting rooms and a large lec ture room that will hold about 200 people. The association is more than 100 years old and it’s time it has a perma nent home, Matson said. The association’s new home will have an area of about 6,000 squart- feet, he said, while the association’s old facility has approximately 1,800 square feet and is too small to ac commodate the asscxiation’s needs. “Even though the MSG was a good location For us,” Matson said, “the alumni will have more visibility with the students in the new build ing.” Grandmother watches government Muckracker keeps city hall honest “Wt numbs ten no Gov. J hope t suppo will gii Congr The SI u| si N pries an e slow weel T 6.74 erinj poin Vi Stoc milli milli Ei ket’s sign- trole havi agre Ai com debt that est j forei BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Every city needs a woman like Josephine McLean. That’s what even the detractors say about her — Brownsville’s most celebrated muckraker. She’s tenacious: certain in her cause and relentless in her pursuit. And she’s devoted to her self-ap pointed role as a full-time govern ment watchdog. She’s a slight, 5-foot-tall, gray haired grandmother of nine whose very presence has been known to inspire migraine spells in the most sublime minds that rule over City Hall. “She’s a hard pill to swallow.” said one public official who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But I can honestly say there’s a place in every community for someone like her. “She plays an important role: keeping city officials on their toes and perhaps a little more honest than they might otherwise be.” City Commissioner Harry McNair said, “I’d rather have her for me than against me because once she gets on a roll about something she thinks you’ve done wrong, she’ll look into each and every action you take and won’t leave one stone un turned.” Although others are not as kind in their appraisal of this “little of lady “I don’t call myself a trouble maker. I don’t make trouble, I just uncover trouble somebody else has made.” McLean acquired a reputation as a gadfly of bureaucracies soon after “Because I raise hell when I think something is not right, people call me a troublemaker. But I just believe in standing up for people who . . . can’t stand up for themselves. ” —Josephine McClean in sneakers” — as she often refers to herself, most of the regular observ ers of City Hall politics are ambiva lent. Is she a professional citizen or a perennial troublemaker? McLean, 68, says she is neither. “Because I raise hell when I think something is not right, people call me a troublemaker,” she said. “But I just believe in standing up for peo ple who for some reason or another can’t stand up for themselves. she was employed in 1969 as a tea cher of the handicapped in the Brownsville public school system. First she challenged the school district’s policies toward orthopedi- cally handicapped students, main taining that they weren’t getting the attention they deserved. She ended up requesting a reassignment. In u 19 l 2, she sin g ,e -handedly took on the Texas State Technical Insti- tute campus in Harlingen, alleging among other things, ,1,1, school cials had set up on campus a posh private weekend retreat for TST1 officials from Waco, a dry city. Her husband, Charlie, was fired as head of the electronics divisional the vocational school. Despite ap peals to state and federal autnorides, McLean was never able to muster an official investigation. After she retired from her teach ing career in 1984 — to wage a failed campaign for a seat on the school board — McLean became an institu tion at the Brownsville City Commis sion meetings. That same year, she helped orga- nize Concerned Citizens of Brownsville Inc., a non-profit, gov ernment watchdog group. Finally, she was no longer a lone crusader. But McLean’s critics say she is di recting a witch hunt based on ru mors and gossip. “She gets hold of some rumor about something alleged to have happened and she just goes crazy," another city official said. McLean says she only does what any concerned taxpayer should: Keep watch on how tax dollars are spent. A NEW AGGIE TRADITION PARADE - 6PM Between MSC and Commons MARCH 6,1987 MASQUERADE BALL - 9PM Ramada Inn Pool Area Tickets on sale in MSC Feb. 24 - March 6,10am-3pm $6 single/$8 couple in advance $8 single/$10 couple at the door book spring break now. ofii* PUERTO VALLARD • ACAPULCO 5167 ruen ST. THOMAS $280 ' LONDON $428 FRANKFURT PARIS $495 MADRID Fares Roundthp from Houston * San Antonio Departures 1-800-252-3565 1904 Guadalupe St. Austin, TX7870^ y^iciL l6 nt Travel s Pecial ists Since 1947 $i BEl march :o occ and ki an ore Th< )attle< out of diers. Ass two ra port c memb nist P the p; Th* move<