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HOUSTON (AP) — The bitter feud between Texaco
Inc. and Pennzoil Co. was fought in various courtrooms
•sanaii for four years, but ended quietly Thursday with bank
transactions that put $3 billion in a Pennzoil account.
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aeUti ton began at 10:03 a.m. CDT. Ten minutes, four trans-
ctions and $3 billion later, the transfer was complete.
“With Pennzoil’s receipt of the $3 billion cash set
tlement, this saga that has lasted a little over four and a
quarter years comes to an end,” Pennzoil Chairman J.
Hugh Liedtke said.
The settlement is part of Texaco’s reorganization
plan, which was approved March 23 by a federal bank
ruptcy court judge. Texaco also will begin making an
other $2.6 billion in payments to its other creditors.
Thursday’s payment ended the bitter legal dispute
between the two oil companies that began with Texaco’s
1984 acquisition of Getty Oil Co.
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Tne Battalion
Vol. 87 No. 128 USPS 045360 16 Pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 8, 1988
Feud ends; Texaco
pays firm $3 billion
Houston-based Pennzoil sued Texaco, claiming in
terference with a planned merger between it and Getty.
In November 1985, a Houston jury shocked Texaco
by agreeing with Pennzoil and awarding the Houston
company $10.53 billion in damages.
Texaco appealed, but a state appeals court upheld
the verdict, reducing the $3 billion in punitive damages
to $1 billion.
Texaco filed for bankruptcy protection, saying it had
to do so to avoid posting a potentially ruinous bond to
continue its appeal of the judgment.
Last November, the Texas Supreme Court refused to
hear oral arguments in Texaco’s appeal and let the ver
dict stand. Texaco then said it was going to the U.S. Su
preme Court, but a committee of Texaco shareholders
proposed the $3 billion settlement to get the company
out of bankruptcy court reorganization.
Soviets say agreement
is near in Afghan conflict
gesif
uringe- f MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet
nYeier; jjUnion and Afghanistan said Thurs
day an agreement is at hand on end
ing the Afghan civil war and urged
that a formal accord be signed in Ge-
ineva so the Kremlin can begin with
drawing its troops May 15.
The target date is two weeks be
fore Soviet Communist Party Gen
eral Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev
and President Reagan begin their
summit in the Soviet capital.
Agreement on Afghanistan would
resolve an issue that has troubled re
lations for nearly a decade, prompt
ing a U.S. grain embargo and keep
ing Americans home from the 1980
Olympics in Moscow.
Gorbachev and Afghan leader
Najib issued a joint statement after
meeting in the Soviet Central Asian
city of Tashkent.
“There is certain to be a signed
agreement on political normaliza
tion,” the news agency Tass quoted
Gorbachev as saying while he toured
Jet refueled after hijackers
vow to fly with empty tanks
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Air
port workers in northeast Iran re
fueled a Kuwaiti jetliner and its Arab
hijackers said they would take off
this morning with about 50 hostages,
who have been held for three days,
Iran’s news agency reported.
The plane was refueled after the
hijackers fired at security guards at
the Masshad airport and threatened
to force the pilot to fly with the little
fuel left in the jet’s tanks, the official
Islamic Republic News Agency said.
According to IRNA, Iranian offi
cials asked the hijackers for the ex
tension to provide time for the
Turkish and Pakistani prime min
isters, Turgut Ozal and Mohammed
Khan Junejo, to talk to Kuwaiti offi
cials in an effort to persuade them to
accept the hijackers’ demand.
IRNA, monitored in Nicosia, said
Ozal spoke by telephone with Prime
Minister Hussein Musavi of Iran on
Thursday.
It said Musavi told Ozal his gov
ernment wanted to end the incident
without “any unhappy event,” but
added: “Of course you should know
that our possibilities are limited.”
a collective farm near Tashkent. “I
think both Pakistan and Afghanistan
will come to agreement, and that we
and the Americans will agree to be
guarantors.”
President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq
said the Geneva accords were ready
for signing, but U.N. mediator
Diego Cordovez indicated problems
remained.
“There are very difficult decisions
and the only good thing — I think
that is important — is that the politi
cal will is obviously there to take
them,” he told reporters in Geneva.
Draft documents in Geneva call
for an end to outside aid for the re
bels and U.S. officials have pressed
for a simultaneous end of Soviet mil
itary aid to Najib’s government.
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Tired out
Mary Bert of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority runs
through an obstacle course during the Greek
Photo by Jay Janner
games held Wednesday at Fraternity Row on Well
born Road. Please see story and photos, page 9.
Playboy attracts nearly 150 students
for Southwest Conference pictorial
Higher cost of service
at post office includes
more than 250 stamp
By Lucinda Orr
Reporter
A&M students will be paying
more for mailbox rental next
year, along with all the other in
creases.
“As of Sunday, box rent in
creased from $ 11 for six months
to $14 for six months,” said Mon
roe Hejl, station manager of the
Redmond Terrace and Aggie-
land post offices.
A national change in postal
rates went into effect Sunday, in
creasing the price of stamps to 25
cents. Hejl explained that postal
increases used to be an item for
Congress, but now are deter
mined by a commission.
“When the post office needs to
raise rates to meet its budget, it
must present its proposal to the
Rate Commission to be appro
ved,” he said. “They do about a
six-month study, and then the
Board of Governors acts on their
recommendation.
“But they don’t always give us
what we ask for. Because of this
short notice, stamps cannot be
printed ahead of time and a letter
of the alphabet is temporarily is
sued to stamps of the new
amount.”
The new “E” series stamps are
worth 25 cents, but cannot be
used for international mail be
cause the amount of postage is
not printed on the stamp.
If someone wants to use any re
maining 22-cent stamps, 3-cent
stamps can be purchased.
“We should have some 3’s in to
use with those 22’s,” Hejl said.
“We sold out, but should have
some more in a couple of days.”
He also noted that anyone who
Illustration by Carol Wells
still has a whole unbroken roll of
22 cent stamps may exchange it at
the post office.
Postal problems will arise if
people continue using the 22 cent
stamps alone, and Hejl stressed
that doing this will only inconve
nience the mail’s recipient.
“The 3 cents will still have to be
collected on the other end,” he
said. “Plus we’ll have to send out
notices of the overdue postage to
those people, they will have to
come pay it, etc.”
Hejl noted that the price of ex
press mail was $10.75 for up to
two pounds, but changed to $8.75
for up to one-half pound.
International mail was proba
bly the least affected by the postal
rate changes, as the price only in
creased from 44 cents to 45 cents
per half-ounce.
By Richard Williams
Senior Staff Writer
About 150 Texas A&M students
have interviewed with Playboy pho
tographer David Chan in hopes of
being chosen for the Playboy women
of the Southwest Conference picto
rial, Chan said.
Because so many women from
A&M already have interviewed, his
stay in College Station will be shorter
than orginally planned, he said.
Originally Playboy planned to stay at
A&M until Wednesday, but because
of the number of women who have
applied, Playboy will leave after to
day, Chan said.
Only about three or four of the
approximately 200 women who ap
ply will be picked to pose, he said.
To pose for the pictorial women
must be at least 18 years old and stu
dents of a SWC school.
Chan said the only other qualifica
tion is that the women must be pho
togenic.
“A lot of people think you must
pose nude to be picked, but that is
not true,” he said.
The application the women filled
out asks if they would like to pose
nude, semi-nude or fully clothed.
Chan said the women who pose
fully nude have a better chance of
being picked, but “the ones that have
the best personalities and faces will
usually be the ones for clothing,” he
said. “In the clothing area sometimes
a little bit heavy doesn’t matter be
cause I can always dress them down
with clothing.”
Women who pose fully nude get
paid more. Playboy will pay $500 for
nudes, $250 for semi-nudes and
$ 150 for clothing shots, Chan said.
Chan, who photographed the last
women of the SWC pictorial for
Playboy, said the women who apply
are about the same regardless of the
part of the country they are from.
However, Chan said women from
A&M are not as sophisticated as
those from Rice University and the
University of Texas — the two other
SWC schools he has been at this se
mester.
“Most of them are not as — well,
you can tell they are not from the
metropolitian areas,” he said. “They
dress a little bit more T-shirt and Le
vi’s. In the big city they would dress
more like they’re going to a cocktail
party ... You could tell that most of
Applicant for Playboy calls posing
for magazine acceptable, tasteful
By Richard Williams
Senior Staff Writer
It’s a fantasy to some and degra
dation to others. But whatever the
reason, more than 150 Texas A&M
women have applied this week to
pose in Playboy magazine.
One of the women who applied
said she did it on a whim. She asked
not to be identified.
“I was looking in the GIGEMAG
magazine and I saw the article about
David Chan and the whole thing and
I just thought ‘why not?’,” she said.
“I think I’m pretty. You know
how it says in there (GIGEMAG)
that a lot of girls do it to validate if
they really are (pretty). I asked my
boyfriend and he said he thought it
would be neat.”
She said she has not told her par
ents she applied.
“I told my mom that Playboy was
in town,” the woman said. “She (the
mother) said, ‘If you’re going to
pose, pose with all your clothes on’
and we laughed about it. I haven’t
told her that I did it (applied for the
job). I don’t think there is any need
to unless I get picked.”
David Chan does not conform to
most people’s image of a Playboy
photographer, she said.
“You’d think they’ve got to be
dirty old men or something to w r ant
to do that for a living, but I think he
looks more at it as artistic,” she said.
If she was chosen to pose, she
would pose fully clothed or semi
nude, she said. But she said she felt
“funny” about modeling a bathing
suit for him during the interview.
The potential model said she is
“fairly” religious. She said she is a
Christian, but if picked to pose it
would not cause a moral dilemma.
“God created us, and our bodies
are supposed to be his artwork,” she
said. “Eve seen Playboy issues be
fore, and it’s very tasteful, very ni
cely done. I think it’s a very classy
magazine, and I would have no
qualms about being in it.
“I’m real modest, but I’m not
ashamed of what I look like at all.”
Posing for Playboy is acceptable,
but posing for Hustler or Penthouse
would be unacceptable, she said.
“Hell, no,” she said. “No, those
are dirty magazines and Playboy
isn’t. I don’t know that much about
them (Penthouse and Hustler). To
me that’s more pornographic than
Playboy. That’s true dirt. Just be
cause I’ve heard of the poses and a
lot of the other things they get into
— no, I’d never pose (for Penthouse
or Hustler).”
Others should not look down on
the women who pose for Playboy,
because it’s not “dirty” to pose for
the magazine, she said.
“I hate that a lot of guys look at
the girls that pose in them as being
cheap or being bimbos,” she said. “I
just think that it needs to be under
stood that I’m not that way ....
and that a lot of nice girls aren’t
ashamed of what they look like, so
they wouldn’t be ashamed to show it
(their bodies).
She said she is not worried about
what others would think if she posed
for the magazine.
“I know that what I did is not
morally wrong, and I’m the one that
has to live with that decision,” she
said. “As long as I know inside, and I
can deal with my own conscience
and my own feelings, then to hell
with everybody else. I can ignore
them.”
these young ladies are from smaller
areas.”
Two women who applied for the
modeling job said the interviewing
process was handled professionally.
One of the women said she was
nervous, but “they really tried hard
to make you feel relaxed.”
She said she would’ be honored if
Playboy picked her to pose. She also
said her boyfriend thought it was
“neat” that she was going to apply.
Not every one thinks Playboy’s
campus search is neat.
In response to Playboy’s campus
visit, the A&M chapter of the Na
tional Organization for Women will
show a slide show about pornogra
phy Wednesday.
Deanne Lynn Whitley, A&M
chapter president, said the group
decided to show the slide show in
stead of protesting Playboy.
The group realizes people have a
right to pose.
“We don’t want to disrupt any
body’s right to participate if they
want to, and on the same token we
don’t want to interfere with Play
boy’s right to publish,” she said. “We
are not questioning their First Ad-
mendment rights. We just want to
make sure the women know what
they are getting into.”
Chan said he thought that attitude
was good.
“That’s a good healthy attitude
that you can do what you want, leave
when you want and are able to dem
onstrate with no hassling,” Chan
said. “That’s what we’re here for in
America.”