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CASINO '88 Page 12AThe Battalion/Wednesday, April 6, 1988 A night of Las Vegas style gaming Parents' Weekend Friday April 8 7 p.m.-Midnight Memorial Student Center Tickets on sale: Rudder Box Office Commons Quad Sbisa MSC & $4.50 pre-sale $5.00 at the door A V A Grand Prize: Free tickets to Mexico from American Airlines Orient Expnta Texas A&M University ENVE THE SOCIETY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VENTURES Are you a highly motivated person who likes challenges? Do you dream of owning your own business? ENVE helps student entrepreneurs create and develop their own business enterprises on or off campus. Come to our GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, April 6 Blocker Rm. 110 6:00 p.m. Open to students in any major who aspire to have their own business. Anti-abortionists endorse candidate for Texas Senat AUSTIN (AP) — Anti-abortion groups said Tuesday they could pro vide the margin of victory for U.S. Rep. Beau Boulter in the April 12 Republican runoff for the U.S. Sen ate nomination. ally voted for the pro-life policies we support,” Bill Price, the director of the Texas Coalition for Life, said. “Again and again. Beau Boulter has stood with us in our hour of need.” The Amarillo congressman faces Houston businessman Wes Gil breath for the GOP nod to challenge Democratic incumbent Lloyd Bent- sen in November. Although Gil breath also bills himself as pro-life, Boulter picked up the endorsements of several major anti-abortion coali tions. Price acknowledged that Boulter and Gilbreath hold very similar posi tions on abortion. He spoke at a Ca pitol news conference during which Boulter also was endorsed by the Texas Right to Life Committee, the Christian Pro-Life Foundation and the Life Advocates. Price said the groups represent about 200,000 vot ers. “We are backing Beau Boulter . . . because we believe in being loyal to na those public officials who have loy- “I believe the backing of the pro life movement could very well pro vide, and I hope will provide, the margin of victory in thiscam| he said. Boulter welcomed the ments, saying, “1 am notasinjiJ sue candidate . . . but I knondi issue that is more importantfon work on in behalf of the who are the most helplesshuinj ings of all.” He criticized Bentsenasan nent of the anti-abortion moves “Even though I’m not a sin J sue candidate, that reason w J I u 11111-; m ii iv <let imoii in in'.Tip and < l nited States Senate,” Boulter kase 17 ^ Mark Fury, executive direi per rele the Texas Right to Life Com! lers said Boulter has been an on Iran’s mg congressional supportert News Ag aboi t ion measures. tion that ■ways j tern I Inmates shoot officer, escape from patrol car HOUSTON (AP) — Broken handcuffs allowed an inmate to break free inside a moving squad car, grab a police officer’s gun and wound the officer with gunfire, po lice said Tuesday. After officer Dennis Nelius was shot, his unmarked squad car went out of control and collided with a pickup truck on a freeway in Hous ton, Sgt. David Calhoun said. Calhoun said authorities have not determined what caused the hand cuffs’ failure, after which Nelius was shot in the left leg and right hand. The officer lost the ends of two fingers when his .357-caliber Mag num revolver fired as he held his hand over the barrel. His partner — David Baskin — suffered minor injuries in the traffic accident. ing wheel and Nelius’ pistol at the same time. As the car continued to move, both officers climbed into the back seat to retrieve the pistol. “They figured the gun is more im portant than trying to keep control of the vehicle," Calhoun said. The gun fired during the strug gle, and the bullet struck Nelius’ left thigh after mangling his lingers. The car then collided with a truck. Ozuna had been charged earlier with delivery of a controlled sub stance and was being held without bail because he was on probation from a 1984 conviction of indecency with a child. Houston police spokesman Dan Turner said the officers, both mem bers of the Northwest Tactical Re sponse Unit, bought a large amount of cocaine from two men earlier Monday and had taken them first to the northwest station. They were transporting the two to the city jail downtown when the shooting and accident took place. Juan Armando Ozuna, 28, alleg edly freed his hands, reached into the front seat and grabbed the steer- He had been charged earlier w ith delivery of a controlled substance and was being held without bail be cause he was on probation from a 1984 conviction of indecency with a child. Police said he faces a charge of attempted capital murder of a police officer. A second suspect riding in the squad car—Jose Antonio Gallegos, 22 — was taken into custody near the scene more than an hour later. He was charged earlier Monday with possession of a controlled substance with bond set at $5,000. The driver of the pickup truck that collided with the police car was taken into custody on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, Byproducts may be caustl of fish deaths AUSTIN (AT) - thought to be a petroleum j ixoduct has killeci hundred! 1 WAS I Bril Gn small fish in a tributaryi Greek and left officials pus] over the source of thetoxitii charge. Dead fish were found Sum along a three-milestripoflain hill Branch, Capt. Steve Cash of the Fire Department’shaa ous materials unit said. “It is difficult to fingerjrl^ am petroleum produd." J en ^ e< ^ Jack Ralph, contaminantsbuiH 11 '* 1 ist with the Texas Parks 2 Wildlife Department whoi lected water samples from) creek. But Ralph said a rainbowtEtJ created by the sun striking 1 substance on the surfaced! w ater is an indicator of a frW an ' n f leum byproduct. "We can s«p ^he S he said. “We can smell ill- know it's toxic because of lkt:B enatu: killed. ■Harm “Right now, we don’t where it came from.’’ An official of Austin’sDepi ment of Envir al Prd tion estimated indredij small fish, mostly sunfishi pert h, had been killed. H |S dis |d said help ded d jjHann idgeshi |ho at 7 e 4rMSC Wiley Lecture Thought provoking panel discussion with leaders of global scope on an issue of importance to our generation... and generations to come. ~>r MSC Wiley Lecture Series NUCLEAR WAR Thinking the Unthink 3 f April 26, 8:00 Rudder Auditor^ Tickets on sale now -a at the Rudder Box Office 845-12 and at Dillards Call Battalion Classified