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Reg. £8 MasterCutS j family haircutters $4 OFF STUDENT CUT i 1 Reg. $8 MasterCuts ! family haircutters I 1 $eOFF ANY PERM 5 MasterCuts \ family haircutters MasterCuts family haircutters ^ POST OAK MALL 693-9998 AP) —^Organized labor groups -fare fighting to save their roots in ^Southeast Tex^s, where the de- ' pressed energy industry has taken its r itoQ on union membership and strfength. Unemployment has risen and la- boy’s traditional strongholds in the iareas of steel, construction and pe trochemical manufacturing are 'slorwly drying up. ■< "These are not happy times for working people and they are not habpy times for the labor movement :eit|ier,” said Don Horn, executive isecfretary o£» the Harris County Cc|ancil of the AFL-CIO, which rep- Tesents about 120 local unions. Employn|ent at Cameron Iron <W<!>rks has fallen from a peak of iib^ut 7,000 in 1982 to 1,800 in the Houston area, while nearby Bay- down’s USX*steel plant is closed. ? Construction jobs are almost non- ■fexistent-in Houston and automation Scoihtinues to knock workers out of he petrochemical production ranks, he Houston (Chronicle reported Sunday. j |The AFL-CIO claims losses of labput 100,000 since the late 1970s, with numbers dropping to 400,000. Lopal union membership has fallen £rom 86,000 to 85,000, the newspa- r er said. !' (Texas’ depressed economy as well as larger forces that have weakened the labor mpvement on the national front have had an impact on local unions. Pickens tests magic of finding gold in offer for mining company plays and JATI0X L rs |A&M employees, don’t lose your i right to choose! Traditional medical insurance offers one key advantage no clinic-based HMO can match — freedom of choice. Joining an HMO means surrendering the right to choose your own doctor from among all the l physicians in an area. Since clinic-based HMOs4 pay only for visits to physicians employed joy :r ^ the HMO, joining such a health plan signifi- % cantly restricts your access to the community's full spectrum of health care providers. - The same is true of hospitals. Clinic-based HMOs pay for hospitalization only at participat ing hospitals. So your ability to seek cancer therapy at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital, or cardiac surgery at St. Luke's, is similarly re stricted. Add to those limitations the loss of all dental coverage and most psychiatric benefits, and the true cost of HMO participation becomes apparent. Before you abandon your proven medical insurance for the latest trend in health care delivery, be sure you know all the facts. ! A message in the public interest from your >|p Brazos Independent .Physician DALLAS (AP) — T. Boone Pick ens has made a fortune for himself and investors through takeover ^s for major energy companies now he’s testing his magic in gold. ^ ast week, a Pickens investor part- »hip(iioffered>ltgvh|Uy Newmont Mining Corp., the largest gold pro ducer in Npr y th(America, for $>5.7 biftion. Analysts saw the $95-a-share offer bylvanhoe Partners as the answer to where Pickens would strike next. Pickens, chairman of Mesa Lim ited Partnership in Amarillo, launched hostile takeover bids for major oil companies including Gulf Oil Co. and Phillips Petroleum Corp. The Newmont takeover bid is at tributed to various motivations by Tickens watchers. | Some suggest a need for a cash- Iflow injection to fund Mesa’s $2 an al distribution. Another motiva- mentibhed is a fascination for Mexican Socialist Party votes to pick presidential hopeful and MEXICO CITY (AP) — Members sympathizers of the newly Mexican Socialist Party vpted in 3,OOf) polling booths nation wide SundayV^ekr one of four hope fuls, who will be their candidate in next year’s presidential election. ' This is the fifst primary election cin record in Mexjoo and the Social- ■iSts, considered the second biggest of seven opposition groups, expressed hope it willTay a challenge for the ruling Institutional,, Revolutionary Party, also known as PRI. ; Ar midday, there was no immedi ate word dn the primaries’ turnout. Castillo, 59, one of Mexico’s best known leftists and founder of the Mexlt&ri Workers Party, is one of the leading primary candidates along with Eraclio Zepeda, 50, a wrjter, ac tor, ex-congressman, anthropplqgist and professor. WELCOME HOME AGGIES ?! STUDENT CHECKING •NO MINIMUM BALANCE. NO MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE. 711 University Drive CALL-AMERIC, William J. Moore, a labor special ist, said many people are not as in terested in being a union member these days. “The traditional growth sectors of unions such as construction and manufacturing are where they have lost jobs in the past 25 years and the people in the high growth sectors of technology are not interested in join ing unions,” he said. Attempts to unionize workers in the traditionally non-union indus tries such as office and high-technol ogy industries have not met with much success. “These workers don’t want to team up with others,” Moore, a pro fessor of economics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, said. “They don’t want to invest their time in a job they aren’t going to re main in. They would rather work harder and move up by individual effort. “Blue collars have less upward mobility. They are locked into the same type of job. They have to try to improve the job and get more money out of it because that’s the way they can succeed.” Moore said he does not believe there is much hope for a resurgence of unions unless there is some cat aclysmic event like the Great Depres sion of the 1930s. But he added he believed organized labor’s mem bership will stabilize and unions will continue to exist. commodities trading and an eye for undervalued assets. The company making the New mont offer, Ivanhoe, is a part nership 45 percent controlled by Mesa, 25 percent by Harbert Corp., a Birmingham construction con glomerate, 20 percent by NRM En ergy Co. of Dallas (a limited part nership one-third owned by Mesa) and 10 percent by Galactic Re sources of Vancouver, British Co lumbia. Ivanhoe owns 9.95 percent of Newmont and is offering to pay $95 per share for the rest of the com pany. Some analysts say there is a possi bility Ivanhoe would acquire New mont and split up its assets, leaving the gold mining operations to Pick ens and Mesa. William Siedenberg, an invest ment analyst with Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. in New York, said, “This is a scenario that seems to make good sense.” The other two —Jose Hernandez Delgadillo, 60, a muralist, and Anto nio Becerra Gaytan, a 52-year-old educator — are lesser known. As in previous years, both the PRI and the conservative National Ac tion Party, or PAN, are selecting their candidates in closed meetings of party leaders. The PRI candidate, to be chosen by outgoing President Miguel de la Madrid, is expected to be an nounced later this month. Whoever the candidate, he is certain to be elected president July 6, and take of fice for a single six-year term Dec. 1, 1988. The PRI has not lost an election for president or governor since it was founded in 1929. 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