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Red Cross sponsors local health fair
By Taani Baier
Reporter
More than 80 exhibitors will set
up in Post Oak Mall on Friday
and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10
p.m. to inform the public about
the health and safety agencies in
the local area.
The fair is sponsored by the
Brazos County Chapter of the
American Red Cross and takes
“Why Wait? Make a Date with
Health Fair ’88” as its theme.
Diane Church, coordinator for
the fair, said this year’s fair looks
like it will be the most successful.
“This is the first year that we
will be completely filled,” she
said. “Every space in the mall will
be occupied.”
Church said the fair’s purpose
is basically two-fold.
“First, we want to let the com
munity know what health and
safety agencies are in the area,”
she said. “And secondly, we’re
there so that the agencies can get
information out to the public.”
Emily Stiteler, director for the
Brazos County Chapter of the
American Red Cross, said the fair
is emphasizing convenience.
The public is being offered a
number of different medical
screening tests at no charge and
in a convenient location.
“The location and fact that the
tests are free should get a few
people out,” she said. “The most
important thing is that people
who can’t afford to get the tests
done, can get them done.”
A variety of health and safety
organizations will be there to dis
tribute information, give free
medical screening tests and inter
pret the screenings.
Classes will combine semi-formals
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By Holly Becka
Reporter
The classes of ’89 and ’90 will
have a combined semi-formal ball
this year as part of class officers’
efforts to promote unity be-
tweeen the two, said sophomore
representative Katherine Smith, a
business major from Houston.
“It’s something new,” she said.
“We decided to do it as something
different and to promote class
unity. Previously, we’ve found
that there is a lot of apathy when
it conies to class balls. This year
we tried to generate excitement
and higher attendance.”
The semi-formal will be Satur
day from 8:30 p.m. until 12:30
a.m. in the MSC Ballroom. Tick
ets will be on sale this week for
$12 per couple in the MSC, the
Commons and Sbisa Dining Hall.
Smith said the theme is “ Dou
ble Feature Premier — A Formal
Event,” because of the combined
classes. Live music will be pro
vided by a rock band with mem
bers from Austin and Houston
called “The Shaft,” she said
Smith said by combining ef
forts and money they could have
more money and make more ex
tensive plans for the ball.
“This year is unique because
there has never been enough
money to pay for a live band be
fore,” she said.
Big Event will help B-CS community
By Kathleen Reilly
Reporter
Students interested in doing
community service will get their
chance Saturday during the Big
Event, a community service pro
ject sponsored by the Student
Government at Texas A&M every
spring.
“It usually occurs in mid-
March but spring break forced us
to move it up,” Student Govern
ment Big Event chairman Debbie
Massey said. This will be the sixth
year for the project.
Massey said students will give
four hours of their time to work
in the community. Students will
help paint houses, move furni
ture, babysit children and clean
up sections of Texas Avenue.
Volunteers also will help the Girl
Scouts clean up their campsite
and put up tents.
Massey said the deadline for
applications has passed but indi
viduals interesteef should call 845-
3051 as soon as possible.
Massey said about 1,000 people
turned out the first year, and the
event has grown since then.
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Sunset Today: 6:24 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday: 6:48 a.m.
Map Discussion: A split in the prevailing westerly flow aloft is moving into the
northern jet stream through the northwestern states, to the Central Mississippi
Valley and the Mid Atlantic states. The southern jet stream extends from Baja
California through Southern Texas and along the Gulf Coast. With an abundant
inflow of low level moisture into Texas, an upper level low pressure system coming
out ot the Southwestern United States, and difluence aloft, all systems are “go” for
significant precipitation in East Texas and Louisiana. The high pressure system
moving into the Dakotas will produce slightly cooler temperatures tomorrow while
upslope flow will be the cause of snows in the Texas Panhandle and Colorado
today and tonight.
Forecast:
Today and Tonight. Cloudy, warm, and humid with scattered showers and
thundershowers, some of which may be locally heavy. High of 79. winds
southerly at 10 to 18 mph. Low Thursday morning of 56 degrees.
Thursday. Cloudy through 1 p.m. then becoming partly cloudy and slightly cooler
with some shower activity lingering into the morning hours. High of 71. Winds
northeast at 10 mph.
Weather Fact: Hail — Precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice,
always produced by convective clouds, nearly always cumulonimbus.
Thunderstorms characterized by strong updrafts, large liquid water content, large
cloud-drop sizes, and great vertical height are favorable to hail formation.
Prepared by: Charlie Brenton
Staff Meteorologist
A&M Department of Meteorology
Texas teachers
desert Simon,
back Dukakis
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas State
Teachers Association on Tuesday
dropped its endorsement of Illinois
Sen. Paul Simon, dealing another
blow to a presidential campaign that
a Simon official said has been mis
construed as dead in the South.
The TSTA decided to switch to
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis
as its candidate in next Tuesday’s
Texas Democratic presidential pri
mary.
“While Sen. Simon’s strong na
tional record on education
prompted our endorsement, his de
cision not to campaign in Texas
forced us to re-assess our position,”
TSTA President Charles Beard said
at a news conference.
Simon announced last week that
he does not have sufficient money to
mount full campaigns in the Super
Tuesday states, including Texas.
But Bob Krueger, Simon’s Texas
chairman, said Tuesday that Simon
is running in Texas and expects to
earn some delegates.
“Paul Simon has not chosen to buy
paid television (ads) for Super Tues
day, but that does not mean he is not
in Super Tuesday,” Krueger said.
“He is on the ballot. He expects this
to be a marathon that will go all the
way to California. And he expects to
be in the White House.”
Simon will campaign in Texas
Monday and Tuesday, according to
Krueger.
The Illinois senator had won the
unanimous endorsement of TSTA
on Jan. 30, several weeks before his
sagging finances for :ed him to scale
down his Super Tuesday efforts in
Texas and other states.
Beard said TSTA felt a need to
support a candidate with a more ac
tive Texas campaign.
He said Dukakis “will carry the
education banner into the White
House and will be our partner in our
quest to make America’s schools
world-class institutions.”
With 95,000 members, TSTA is
the state’s largest teacher organiza
tion.
“For a matter of practicality, for
our people to be able to influence
this system, then we have to play
Texas politics, and when your candi
date takes himself out of the picture,
then they are no longer a player as
far as we’re concerned here,” Beard
said.
Krueger said Simon has not taken
himself out of the Texas picture.
“There was a perception some
how that Paul had dropped out of
Super Tuesday,” Krueger said. “He
did not drop out. All he ever
dropped out of was buying paid tele
vision.
“We want our delegates. We want
people to go to precinct conventions.
We want people to vote for Paul Si
mon. The perception that he is not
in the race has certainly cost us some
support.”
Federal jury begins
deliberation in suit
against magazine
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal
court jury Tuesday began consid
ering whether relatives of a Texas
woman should be awarded millions
of dollars from Soldier of Fortune
magazine because an ad in the mili
tary publication led to her death
three years ago.
Gary Wayne Black, 18, and Mar
jorie Einmann, 64, were seeking
$22.5 million in the negligence suit
against the self-styled “Journal for
Professional Adventurers.”
Sandra Black, Gary’s mother and
Mrs. Einmann’s daughter, was shot
to death Feb. 21, 1985 at her home
in Bryan.
Mrs. Black’s husband, Robert, is
on Texas’ death row for paying John
Wayne Hearn $10,000 to kill her.
Hearn is serving three life terms in
Florida for the Black slaying and two
others in that state.
Robert Black contacted Hearn
through a personal services classi
fied ad Hearn placed in Soldier of
Fortune in late 1984.
been both tried and punished. You
can’t blame Soldier of Fortune for
ever just because John Wayne Hearn
met Bob Black through an ad in the
magazine.”
The jury was asked to consider up
to seven questions, including award
ing of monetary damages.
“They’ve had all the sympathy
they could have for one lifetime,”
Hill said, referring to Gary Black
and Mrs. Einmann, who quietly
sobbed and wiped away tears.
Hill said at $100 per day, Gary
Black, based on his mother’s life ex
pectancy of another 16,000 days,
should be
lion.
:>e entitled to nearly $2 mil-
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Are you going to shout or are
ou going to whisper?” Ron Frank-
in, attorney for the plaintiffs asked
the jury, asking for $20 million in
punitive damages. “The mark of a
civilized stxriety is how much value
we place on a human life.
“We’re here about Soldier of For
tune’s conduct, Soldier of Fortune’s
arrogance. Thanks to (publisher)
Robert K. Brown and his magazine,
he taught his readership how to con
tact and hire a professional hitman.”
Graham Hill, another attorney for
the plaintiffs, said, “They knew
those ads could encourage their
readers to engage in illegal activity.”
He added that the magazine showed
conscious indifference toward oth
ers.
“Sandra Black’s murder is of the
same general character of stuff that
had been going on for years,” he
said.
But Larry Thompson, lawyer for
the magazine, insisted the plaintiffs
were interested only in money.
“Soldier of Fortune did not mur
der Sandra Black,” he said. “John
Wayne Hearn did. Soldier of For
tune did not solicit the murder of
Sandra Black. Robert Black did.
We’ve got to focus on John Wayne
Hearn and Robert Black.
“The blame does not rest with
anyone but those two men who have
“When he walks up to get that di
ploma in a couple of months, his
mom isn’t going to be there to share
that moment,” Hill said. “What
would it mean for a 15-year-old boy
to walk into the kitchen and see lying
on the floor in her own blood his
mother with two bullets in her
head?”
Hill asked the jury to assess puni
tive damages as an example for oth
ers.
“Speak loud enough so they can
hear you in Boulder, Colo.” he said,
referring to the home base of the
magazine. “We didn’t come down
this long road for half-justice.”
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sues of Soldier of Fortune, offering
services of former Marine and Viet
nam veterans and weapons special
ists with jungle warfare expertise for
“high-risk assignments” in the
United States or overseas.
Attorneys for the magazine and
its parent company, Omega Group,
Ltd., do not dispute the ad brought
Hearn and Black together, but insist
publisher Brown had no way of
knowing the ad was for illegal activ
ity.
“They knew and chose to con
tinue running those ads,” Hill ar
gued. “He (Brown) likes the mys
tique and sensationalism because it
makes him money.”
But Thompson said only a “thin,
minute thread” connected the mag
azine to the slaying, that Black for
months had wanted to kill his wife
and that he talked to Hearn on nu
merous occasions before hiring him
to do the killing.
State to probe donation to bankrupt Bishop College
DALLAS (AP) — Events surrounding a dona
tion to Bishop College that was withdrawn and
later reoffered are “too strange,” a spokesman
for the Texas attorney general said.
Jim Mattox’ office will investigate the founda
tion that pledged $300,000 to the financially
strapped black college, and then reneged on the
donation before reoffering the money.
Businessman Clifford Sugarman, through his
Sugarman Foundation, initially promised an
anonymous donation of $300,000 to Bishop Col
lege if it could raise a matching amount.
Supporters raised $450,000 in one week in
January, but negotiations between attorneys for
Sugarman and the school over terms of the gift
broke down and the money was never donated.
After news reports identified Sugarman as the
donor and said he had an extensive legal history,
including pleading guilty to worthless check
charges, a civil fraud verdict and two Chapter 13
personal bankruptcies, he withdrew his offer.
He renewed the offer Saturday in a letter to
Bishop’s bankruptcy attorney, T. Glover Roberts.
In the letter he gave Bishop until 5 p.m. Mon
day to deliver documents detailing the sources
and forms of the $300,000 it raised, how a por
tion of the $300,000 had been spent, and to give
him a copy of a bankruptcy court order that al
lowed part of Bishop’s funds to be spent.
Sugarman said in the letter if Bishop provided
the information, he would place his $300,000 in
an escrow account by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
But Roberts said the school met Sugarman’s
latest demands two weeks ago and that it is time
for him to release his pledge to the school.
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