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Page 16/The Battalion/Thursday, April 23,1987 Culpepper Plaza happy hour friday 2-6 movie rental over 2,000 titles $1.99 all $8.69 list cassettes or LP's 2 for $13 bestseller books 25% off Open: Mon. - Thurs.; 10-10 Fri. &, Sat., 10-11 Sun. 12-10 1631 Texas Ave., College Station 693-2619 gfl P//A MAM© TOGA party tonight $1 OFF COVER for all those in TOGAS $50 Prize for the Sexiest Toga 95* i Corona's = Music by Chuck. Willis and the Untouchables Blues Band 103 Boyett 846-3497 New for juniors! A hot samba threesome with a Latin American beat by Tangiers Echoing the wild, insistent rhythms and sun drenched colors of tropical climates, Tangiers translates three festive match-mates into a smashing combo for juniors. Start with drawstring waist cotton sheeting pants, then add a cotton T-shirt sparked with a vivid screen print design. And layer with a cotton overshirt in brilliant coordinating colors. The collection, in tones of turquoise, yellow, fuchsia and white for sizes s-m- and 3-13, $20 to $28. Mattox (Continued from page 1) Bell Telephone and the Attorney General’s Offices in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, is telemarketing fraud. A pamphlet on telemarketing fraud and how customers can prevent it will go out in billings to approximately five million people in Texas, he said. The Federal Trade Commis sion estimates that over $1 billion will be lost to telemarketing fraud in the United States and millions will be lost in Texas alone. Mattox said Texas is in the process of setting up a computer interlock and exchange program with the FTC, in which the 10 largest states with consumer of fices will communicate com plaints through the FTC. Last year there were 1,000 complaints filed in Texas,and?, day there are about 50compania under investigation, Mattox sail Telemarketing fraud is not in- hibited by state lines, Mattoxsaii For example, a company in Cai- fornia might be selling ptoduc ifx Texas. Mattox said it was important!!, remember that if thedealsomi too good to be true, it probaHu H e ga ve exa m pies of a sponslM that turned out to be nottl more than a blow-up raft wl “eggbeater for a motor,”andIbj gage that turned out lob tied trash bags. Consumers need torepomi pected cases of telemark#®! fraud, he said, so action can vI taken and others will not be if. | ceived. 'V Fas i ii sional Death Penalty Spriss ba flterial | albert H, pV MON (Continued from page 1) prove illegal discrimination in em ployment and unlawful racial bias in selecting criminal juries. But Powell said death-sentencing decisions made by judges or juries are based on too many varying fac tors to let discriminatory intent be proved by statistics. The ruling upheld the death sen tence given Warren McCleskey, who is black, for the 1978 murder ol a white Atlanta policeman. McCleskey’s hopes to avoid death had been pinned on a statistical study by a University of Iowa law professor, David Baldus. In his study, Baldus examined ev ery Georgia murder conviction from 1973 to 1978 and found that those who killed whites were 1 1 times more likely to receive the death pen alty than were those who killed blacks. money it , . , ,, Bels fig! Looking at the smallern* l ienl cases in which the greatestjm® ,hy e no cretion was exercised in sen Baldus found that killers o were four times more like! ceive death sentences. Nationwide, about 95 pertai death row inmates killed wfa though blacks are moreoiti victims of murder in thiscorati "The Baldus study does ntt oust rate a constitutionally sign r isk of racial bias affectig (ieorgia capital-sentencingptx Powell wrote. He said McCleskev would prove "that the decision-nn his case acted with discrai pu r|X)se.” Powell was joined bvCbietJ; William H. Rehnquist and); Byron R. White, SandraDavO 1 nor and Antonin Scalia. Fugitive surrende following intervia on live El Paso TV EL PASO (AP) — A television sta tion rebroadcast on Wednesday a live interview with a fugitive who surrendered to police after being al lowed to appear on television the previous night. Erich Beit/el, 24, called KVIA-TV Tuesday night and asked for a live interview, agreeing to surrender to police afterward. While on the air, he accused his wife, Michelle Beitzel, 22, of having an affair with a Silver City, N.M., police officer, whom he named. He also said El Paso police were persecuting him because the Silver City officer had friends in the de partment. El Paso police spokesman Lt. J R. Grijalva said Wednesday the accusa tion is totally unfounded. After the live interview, KVIA newscasters told viewers Beitzel had only expressed his own opinions, not those of the station. Cary Warner, a KVIA news anchor and executive producer, made the decision to put Beitzel on live, said news director Dan Krieger, who called Warner an experienced journalist. “We disclaimed it as quickly as we could afterward,” Krieger said Wednesday. “1 think he (Warner) made a good decision.” Warner said he was aware that Beitzel was making allegations of his wife having an affair, but he did not know what Beitzel was going to talk about in the live interview. ing driving without a km. instances of driving a vehickt a license plate. He is accused of pullingji when El Paso police Offxtr. Christman responded to art) a domestic dispute at thti house shortly alter8am “According to Mrs. tec (Beitzel) was assaulting te front yard," said Grijalva."' 1 call f rom a neighbor." ■ MSI cimtaine |hile dr Iroval I ft the S< lents. I The ii Bill Clei ftirs in Rake in iic bill ge. ■ Cleim- drinking while dri lew of into law, aspokesi House vote fin TJmrsda if It dIVr; House af lice con 11 -driver c; holic bev ■ The I School start campor;; against Spai JEW Y< millionaire ■ Street ing .scam I a out!' of vi< He face irfon and 21 t was the He said he thought Beitzel going to say that police had wrong person. Krieger confirmed that the station on Wednesday morning rebroadcast the interview with Beitzel, deleting the name of the Silver City officer. TORN 1 LEO (AP)-teN cials have asked parentstoftl 3 , '!' their children if they art f speaking Spanish at schoolii;- S< ' a campaign to improve giafc s u pe r i n tenden t said Wedntsif 11 “We’re not out to starts® of controversy,” Francisife'l “The only thing we're Ii is help our kids do a Intel® j Brooks said he mailed Aq letters on Wednesday,onef< child in the Tornillo Wf School District, asking m voluntarily sign a contract “If you sign and returntte'i you are saying that you * pline your child ifwerepon'l her for speaking Spanishal^l the letter says in part.1fw4 A , sign, nothing will te done are p[ A telephone call to the Silver City police officer was not returned. The Beitzels’ phone number is unlisted. Beitzel was being held Wednesday at the El Paso County jail on $(i,441 bond on charges of aggravated as sault on a peace officer and seven outstanding traffic citations, includ- child for speaking Spanish. | |vi / The letters, m Spanish L .^ ut ghsh, say the campaigns am Lb durir to improve test scores and s j ( | e] . ec | |() glish-speaking ability ofsiudf Tornillo students generaj reSfc= below state and national ave ®j vu | ( standardized tests in mathcftL. • reading and language s|I 0m et l itiv [ school district teaches fopT ent | v r • I o r-i rri io rro Jm it eonrtA ; Hm . • second language but specialized bilingual-edu©' chers, Brooks said. Lightning Whelk design# as Texas' official seashe conducting; |atm P i ■ said tl G. Nauj fid pf grac ‘ding to ma Bide mate BvveeksT pdhe new If “Thev’re pakr ” Kir Dillards AUSTIN (AP) — With a lustrous white Lightning Whelk next to him. Gov. Bill Clements signed a resolu tion Wednesday designating the shell as the state seashell. “I’ve never seen one this large,” said Clements when he was pre sented with the shell. The sample was found off the Texas Gulf Coast, said Mildred Tate, curator of the Brazosport Mu seum of Natural Sciences. Museum officials asked Sen. Bus ter Brown, R-Lake Jackson, and Rep. John Willy, R-Angleton, to sponsor the resolution. Materials. State officials hopeobstacle th ■ the shell will promoteTesnkas orderh and draw more touristst# | “h mig|- The shell, named fepomh-and stripes on the outside, is l, jfi)re we ha few that opens on theItfi'jfork said < shell, found onlyon(heG»lonclusions= appears on U.S. postagesTOg sample lanrlards.'' I he governor also sit | l n a se lamation designatingtlifjHariwig Jr May 15 every yearasb^Sieclianical ment Week. The procla» j Jphysics designates each May I5as ; '| rial day for law officers ; I died in the line of duty. pm