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★★★★★★★ ★ ★★ ★★★★★'A Please elect Jean Williamson Justice of the Peace Republican Primary Tues., MarchS, 1988 * 80% of the J.P. cases in College Station are Student/landlord disputes ^ • My opponent is a major landlord in College Station “I will serve Texas Aggies, not exploit them” Admitted to the Texas A&M Graduate College, 1969 and is still attending school here Please elect one who loves Texas A&M __ 6th Generation Texas 3rd Generation College Station if'k'k'k'k'k'+c'k'k'k'k'ik'k'k'k'k'k'k'k'k'k Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, March 3, 1988 cyi ryyian dy Glfc( uare (Ai iy K^yquare ls tp arlvnenls • Large Bedrooms, Windows & Closets • On Site Manager • Swimming Pool • Preleasing • 2 & 3 bedrooms • Close to Campus 501 Nagle, College Station 846-4206 Culpepper Plaza Cnear Hasting’s) Jewelry Limited High Quality 20 pt. diamond set in Aggie Ring $185°° Any watch battery $3°° • Ring stripping available PARTIES RESTAURANTS CLUBS PARTIES FISHING CAMPING PARTIES FUN GOOD TIMES AND PARTIES S urfside, Texas is the best kept secret on the Gulf Coast. Join the party this spring break. We offer more than 13 miles of beach. We permit beach driving, bonfires and lodging is pro vided in town. Surfside has excellent weather, camping, fishing, and a friendly atti tude. Come on down and join the party. Contact the Surfside Tourist Council for information at (409) 233- 7598. ■UndtSCpVCrediVbxrfcfBRLk * Lovta'X 4- ( Man injures four during shootout in San Antonio Phone No. 696-1827 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man toting two guns and “acting like John Wayne” leaped from a taxicab near the Alamo Wednesday and ran domly shot four people before being gunned down by lawmen, authori ties said. Todd Tarble, 20, who was waiting for a bus near the shooting scene about three blocks from the Alamo, said he begged onlookers to stay back after the shooting started about 9:30 a.m. “He got out of the cab. He just started shooting,” Tarble said. “All hell broke loose. He had two guns in his hands. I’ve never seen anything like that. The guy was acting like John Wayne. This guy was crazy.” John Wayne starred in the 1960 classic “The Alamo,” and ironically, this week marks the 152nd anniver sary of the fall of the mission to Mex ican troops. The suspect, identified as Marvin Duncan, 55, has been arrested nu merous times since 1973 on a variety of violent charges and was expected to be charged with six counts of at tempted capital murder. Police Chief William O. Gibson said at a news conference. “As to why the suspect began shooting, we don’t know why, with the exception that he wanted to gain some attention,” Gibson said. ried,” Ortiz said. At about 9:30 a.m., as the taxi ap proached the corner of Houston of Losoya streets, about three blocks from the Alamo, the man began fir ing randomly out of the window, Or tiz said. Ortiz said the gunman got out of the cab and continued shooting. Ilian Niaves, 17, who was walking on the sidewalk, was struck in the right leg. The gunman then walked to a car and continued shooting, Ortiz said. The gunman then walked north on Broadway Street and continued firing. A passenger in a car, Toni Longoria, 16, who also is seven months pregnant, was shot in the right thigh as she was stepping out of the vehicle, Ortiz said. Experts will discuss nuclear power The gunman, whose shooting spree was cut short by a lawman’s gunfire, was shot once in the left thigh and was in good condition at Medical Center Hospital, hospital spokesman Inez Eisazadeh said. His most seriously wounded vic tim, Deborah Reyes, 29, who had opened her car door and was trying to hide from the gunfire, was shot in the chest and stomach, Ortiz said. The other victims suffered rela tively minor gunshot wounds, offi cials said. Homicide Lt. Albert Ortiz said the man was picked up by a taxicab at his home and asked to be taken down town. “From the time he was picked up at his residence, throughout the shooting he remained calm and his actions were deliberate, not hur- Another passenger in another car, Alton Watson, 16, of Midland, suf fered a graze to his right ankle, Ortiz said. As passers-by dove for cover, offi cer Donald Kawazoe, a downtown foot patrolman on his way to work, saw the man and ordered him to stop. After the two exchanged gunfire, the gunman ran and was confronted by Park Ranger Bennie Burley Those two also exchanged gunfire before the gunman was appre hended and two large-caliber weap ons were recovered, Gibson said. Gibson said the gunman suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh, but he was not certain which officer shot him. The man has an arrest re cord dating back to 1973 and in cludes robberies, assaults and shoot ings. Another witness, Juanita Gubillos, said she tried to help Reyes. By Lyneen Johnson Reporter A public forum titled “The Economics and Safety of Nuclear Energy” will present opposing views on various issues surround ing the use of nuclear energy to night at 7:30 in 201 MSC. The forum, sponsored by the A&M Green Earth Society, re sulted from the society’s concern for public education, Gilbert Gonzalez, Green Earth Society president, said. “We hope to give the public an opportunity to get direct answers to their questions,” Gonzalez said. Donald Pisani, faculty adviser for the club, said the forum is de signed to be a representation of opposing viewpoints to increase public awareness about the dan gers of nuclear power. The de sign, planning and implementa tion of the group’s activities are handled completely by the stu dents, he said. Program coordinator Victoria Zabaras said the speakers will in clude Kenneth Peddicord, A&M nuclear engineering professor; Bryan Baker, president of the Committee for Consumer Rate Relief; Dr. Frank hidings, a pro fessor emeritus affiliateu with the Committee for Energy Aware ness; Tom Smith, state director of Public Citizen; and Dr. George Zabaras, an expert in gas-liquid two-phase flow. Also scheduled to speak are Jell Pruitt of River Bena Nuclear Station and Stephen Fenberg, a Houston businessman who writ ten articles concerning nuclear energy for the Houston Post and the Houston Chronicle. Zabaras said, “With a broad scope of ideas, from journalists to environmental experts to nuclear specialists, there is the potential for controversy, but it shouldn't get out of hand.” Uie forum, structured to give each speaker a five- to seven-min ute opening comment and two minutes of rebuttal, is expec ted to continue for about an hour and a half, Gonzalez said. “We will spend about 40 to 50 minutes with the speaker presen tation, but the majority of time will he for a question and answer session,” he said. “If necessary, we will close the formal segment and adjourn to the back of the room to provide the public witha chance to ask questions on a per sonal, conversational level.” The Green Earth members are intrigued and excited about the range of topics to be covered, Gonzalez said. “One question that we plan to ask is about the decommissioning of nuclear power plants,” Gonza j? lez said. “No one is sure of the ® lifetime of the plant, hut we know that they don’t last forever. . a lifetime may be anywhere irom 30 to 50 years. “We do know that they have to !>e cased in concrete and this is a more expensive procedure and contributes to high employee turnovers due to radiation expo sure. The disposal of wastes is also a concern.” Learning about any new tech nology would help to answer a lot of the public’s concerns, he said. itt »h r iiil iing ,S. Commission will offer rides to Padre Island “I went over there to help her be cause she was shot bad,” Gubillos said. “She said just to take care of her purse. I was scared that he was going to shoot me, too.” Niaves was in good condition at Medical Center Hospital, Eisazadeh said. Watson was treated and re leased from Downtown Baptist Me morial Hospital, said a hospital spokesman who daclined to give her name. AUSTIN (AP) — The Railroad Commission has granted emergency authority to Island Express Inc. of Brownsville, allowing it to offer bus service between Brownsville and South Padre Island for the next 45 days. Commission Chairman James Nu gent said the bus service is designed to make it safer for students on spring break to travel from the pop ular beach area, Padre Island, to Brownsville.. “Unfortunately,” Nugent said “many students drive that routt while intoxicated, endangering oil: ers as well as themselves.” Nugent said last year 15 peopltj died in DWI-related traffic accidents along the Brownsville-South Padre Island corridor dut ing spring break He also said 1,200 traffic citations were issued. The temporary bus fare one was would be $5, Nugent said. Scientist: Acid rain a problem in East Texas DALLAS (AP) — Acid rain, once believed confined to the industri alized Northeast, is on the verge of killing trees and fish in rural East Texas and is already causing respira tory problems in urban areas, a sci entist said. Pollutants, including coal-fired power-plant fumes and vehicle emis sions, have combined to produce rainfall about 10 times more acidic than normal since at least 1979, when a state acid rain monitoring station was set up in Tyler. “It is a problem which has existed for at least that long and is steadily getting worse every year,” said Dr. George W. Crawford, a Southern Methodist University physics profes- The pollutants create acid-form ing molecules, the third leading cause of respiratory disease because they damage tissue and reduce lung capacity, he said. Crawford, who set up his own monitoring network, claims the problem is worse than state and fed eral regulators’ data indicates be cause of inaccuracies in reporting air pollution and acid rain data. “We’re too dumb to learn from our own mistakes,” Crawford said. “We’re going to wait until trees are dead and then officials are going to say, ‘Hey, something’s wrong. Let’s lock the barn.’ It’s tragic.” A big pollutant is sulfur dioxide, and tens of thousands of such emis sion sources exist in Texas — more than in any other state — Texas Air Control Board officials said. Winds bringing sulfur dioxide from lignite-fired power plants that lie in an arc through East Texas, combined with nitrous oxide and di oxide from vehicle emissions, are producing sulfuric, nitrous and ni tric acid rain in Dallas. East Texas is particularly vulnera ble both because of its 14 coal-and lignite-fired power plants and natu rally acidic soil, which does not tend to neutralize acid rain when air borne. But acid deposition is a statewide phenomenon, a Texas Air Control Board official said. Monitors show, as an annual aver age, that “acid deposition — both wet and dry — is occurring through out the state, but more frequently and with lower pH in Northeast Texas,” said Dr. Thomas H. Porter, environmental quality specialist in the TACB research division. Dallas has serious air pollution problems because of ozone, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide and diox ide, said Crawford, and all pollut ants are at higher levels during dn periods than during wet ones. The nitrogen oxides react with hydrocarbons in sunlight to produce ozone, a prime component of smog. Elderly people and those with res piratory problems are most at risk from acicl deposition, and breathing sulfur dioxide or ozone creates le sions in lung tissue, Crawford said. r MS Pol Fot happy hour Friday 2-6 movie rental over 4,000 titles $2.49 Children’s 99$ Everyday • Adult Movies $2.49 $2°o 0 ff all LP’s and cassettes $8.98 and up all CD’s $13.98 and up all books 25% off 30% off all hardbacks (excludes remainders and sale books) OPEN: Sun.^Thurs., 10*10 Fri. & Sat., 10*11 Culpepper Plaza, College Station 693*2619 Official Formal Headquarters Cologero’s and Bridal Boutique have beautiful gowns and a large se lection of tuxedos for that special night. 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