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Wednesday, August 24, IQSSA'he Battalion/Page 5 3j5TE chooses Texas towns or move from Connecticut 3 H)t, DALLAS (AP) — GTE Corp. has chosen mes outside of Connecticut for two of its tele- 'leiglij one units and is searching for a headquarters the third, f ueling speculation that it will soon vethe state altogether. Analysts said Tuesday that since the company ected Houston for one of its units and CTE’s this Jr( airman is from Texas, GTE would be wise to U fterniu latiti. >ve its entire operation there to save money. can’t see any advantages to staying on Con- cticut,” said Ken Leon, associate director of ar Stearns in New York. “I think they should f or ji jve the whole company to Dallas. . . . They uld sell at a premium in Connecticut and buy eap in Dallas.” Jack Grubman, telecommunications analyst a .h Paine Webber, said he believes Dallas will be ected as the site for the local telephone unit, ethird to be moved. He also predicts the entire corporation will ive Stamford and move to Dallas within the 'ecaiisti *t few years. yed foo hleticdl vhich* over ml would say Dallas has to be the optimum fa- Iriteforthe third unit and mavbe even its henH- quarters for the whole company,” Grubman said. “Rocky (GTE Chairman James L. “Rocky” John son) went to Texas Tech and he is still a Texan.” Stamford is located on Connecticut’s “Gold Coast,” so named for the wealthy communities along Long Island Sound. Housing prices in the Stamford area are among the highest in the country and the transportation system is choked daily. “It’s very expensive to get a secretarial pool (in Stamford). You can’t even live 25 miles from Stamford,” Leon said. “American Airlines and J.C. Penney have done it (moved to Texas) and corporate managers talk to one another.” American Airlines moved to Fort Worth in 1979 and J.C. Penney is moving to the Dallas sub urb of Plano. Both formerly were located in New York City. GTE began restructuring its telephone opera tions, its largest business, in March. Telephone operations account for $12 billion of GTE’s $15 billion annual revenues, according to Jana We?therhee, a GTE spokeswoman. So far, the business has been restructured into three groups — the mobile communications unit, which will be located in Houston with 1,000 em ployees; the information services unit, which will be moved to Tampa, Fla., with its more than 5,800 employees; and the local telephone service unit. The location for the local service unit hasn’t been selected yet, Weatherbee said. She declined to comment on a report in the Dallas Morning News that GTE was searching for office space and building sites in Dallas this week. “We’ve never issued a list of the cities we’re looking at and we can’t comment beyond that,” she said. The telephone operating group, which is com posed of the three units, has a total of 91,600 do mestic employees, Weatherbee said. The company has 1,100 employees at its cor porate headquarters in Stamford, 300 of which are in the telephone operating group. tudents may uffer due to Military image changes fhen, Den- ition, vhich nder- :rs of maL Bur ners Club presi- igde- " And idents 'e. come never yet he mous siness, ner o( F imber, deo- High )enton le’sac- Jnited lenton nd h( ttle on ountn :ted in misun- 1 ropt of tht rys As- lis wife events ie said nan 7! ;conds. that at- out tht iucation plan from traditional viewpoint EDINBURG (AP) — School dis cs with many migrant students d children with limited English uld suffer from a plan to link ed ition funding with test scores, a ie ribbon panel was told Tuesday. Members of the Select Committee Education, however, told educa- sinthe Rio Grande Valley that it ly plans to recommend incentives improving scores. Children of migrant farmworkers en spend only a short time in the I tool district during the year, said T. Carl McMillan, superinten- Intofthe Harlingen Independent tool District. Those students, he said, could mg the district’s average down if :y are there during the period lien the basic skills tests are given, m sit- Uriels like Harlingen would suffer migrants’ scores were included h students attending year-round any plan that ties scores to fund- McMillan said. “Just judge those that we’ve got :re and we’ve had a chance to ich a significant amount of time, feel we’ve got a teaching staff that lldoagoodjob,” McMillan said. The 15-member select committee pointed by Gov. Bill Clements last Mary is examining the state’s pub- school funding and evaluating the eration of the entire educational tem. The committee is holding arings to help prepare a report the Legislature. State District Judge Harley Clark Austin last year ruled that Texas’ iblic school finance system is un- nstitutional because it does not en- re that each school district has the me ability to obtain money to edu- :e students. The state and some wol districts have appealed the cision, known as Edgewood v. rby, but the 3rd Court of Appeals snot issued an opinion. Larry Jenkins, chairman of the mmittee, said Tuesday the com- ittee probably will recommend fi- ncial incentives that will reward stricts for improvement, not their rformance compared to others. It iuld not affect basic funding, he Ided. “We are looking at ways to im- ove rather than simply reward ose that are doing quite well,” said nkins, a vice president with the Kkheed Missiles and Space Co. in istin. Richard Cantu, a member of the lard from state education District which stretches from Laredo to ownsville, said the level of English oficiency in the area also brings lores down. a Eighty-five percent of students in e Rio Grande Valley have Spanish rnames and many speak Spanish "st,Cantu said. don’t think it’s fair for us as ed- ators to ask the public for more oney without being willing to show me results,” Cantu said. FORT HOOD (AP) — The pla toon sergeant tells the enlisted sol diers that their lieutenant has or dered them to complete an assignment. A private clears his throat to ask a simple question. “Why?” The private is not condemned to spend the rest of the day cleaning the grounds. Instead, the sergeant either explains the purpose of the exercise or the lieutenant will volun teer an answer. This scenario may not fit the mili tary image where subordinates have traditionally been told when, and what, to think. But many of the 2.1 million active duty personnel in to day’s armed forces believe the new military, while still rich in tradition, is a far cry from some of its prede cessors. During the 1970s, the military went through a period generally re ferred to as the “Hollow Army.” The unpopularity fo the Vietnam War, rampant drug abuse and unchecked insubordination created a service that was out of control. “It’s no secret we had cases of damn near open rebellion within units,” siad Army Col. Bob Fiero, 49, corps operations officer at Fort Hood. Fiero, who has served in the Army for nearly 28 years, recalled how drug abuse and undisciplined sol diers created havoc for the officers trying to train them. “We had cases where officers and NCO’s (non-commissioned officers) were afraid to go into the barracks at night. They were literally afraid to,” Fiero said. “We had cases in Ger many where they were actually walk ing with armed guards around.” An evolution apparently began to take place with a changing of the guard when the nation went from a drafted military to an all-volunteer force. Today, officers boast of hav ing one of the best-trained, well-dis ciplined and best-educated soldiers From 1968 to 1978, recruiters had little success increasing the ranks of high school graduates. The percent age of recruits with diplomas rose only 3 percent — from 74 percent to 77 percent. As of June 10, 92 percent of the military’s new recruits were high school graduates. “The real target now is all high school grads,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Sammy Wise, commandant of the III Corps NCO Academy. In addition to the high percentage of high school graduates, Defense Department records indicate many of them are pursuing a continuing education, either through local ju nior colleges or correspondence courses. “Soldiers are a lot smarter today. By virtue of that, they don’t wait around to be told,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Robert R. Poole. “They want to lead from the front.” Poole, 47, and Wise, 45, have at tained the second highest rank of any non-commissioned Army offi cer. Only the sergeant major of the Army ranks higher. “There was an old saying: ‘If you couldn’t make it at anything else in this world, we’d put you in the infan try or make a cook out of you,’ ” Wise said. Cholesterol drugs may not be researched, doctor says DALLAS (AP) — A doctor who specializes in cholesterol-lowering drugs believes physicians may be too quick to use a powerful new medica tion whose long-term health effects are unknown when more proven drugs or diet and exercise changes might do as well. Physicians who through screening exams identify patients with high disease risk should give them four to six months to make changes with diet and an exercise program, said Dr. Wayne Peters. If the regimen doesn’t work, Pet ers has a wide range of medications to recommend, from proven drugs like bile acid resins and niacin to newcomers Gemfibrozil and Lovas- tatin. Researchers have experimentally shown that Lovastatin fights low- density lypoproteins (LDLs), the type of cholesterol which can dam age artery linings. But Peters stresses the drug’s long-term effectiveness has not been proven. Peters, an assistant professor of medicine and preventative medicine and biometrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said his concern is educating doctors to prescribe more proven cholesterol- “The concern about the Lovastatin drugs is be cause they are so easy to take, so impressive in their effects on lowering choles terol, that many physi cians start out with them first, which is not an NIH recommendation.” Dr. Wayne Peters fighting drugs before trying experi mental ones. “Lovastatin, like Gemfibrozil, in hibits the liver’s ability to manufac ture cholesterol,” Peters in a recent Dallas interview. “The concern about the Lovastatin drugs is be cause they are so easy to take, so im pressive in their effects on lowering cholesterol, that many physicians start out with them first, which is not an NIH recommendation.” The National Institutes of Health has designated bile acid sequestrant resins and nicotinic acid, or niacin, as drugs of first choice. “On Lovastatin, the long-term safety concerns we just don’t know,” said Peters. “Practicing physicians are over prescribing that medicine without giving patients an informed choice. The informed choice should be, ‘Do you want a little inconvenience but we know it’s safe, or would you rather choose convenience and a question mark as far as Lovastatin safety?’ In the short term, there ap pears to be no problem with it.” A systemic drug, Lovastatin was approved by the U.S. Food and i Drug Administration in 1987, based on about five years’ use in humans. “It is very effective in lowering the LDL component,” said Peters. “It is quite well tolerated, a pill like Gemfi brozil. But the longest it was used in humans is five years. We have really no idea what the long-term safety re cord will be.” Peters, who addresses doctors’ groups and consumers on choles terol-lowering drugs, said treatment options have changed radically over the past five years and physicians must keep up with them in their clin ical practices. Professional Title Service Assistance in Auto Titles, Problem Titles, Registration & Notary 775-4522-Peggy Clay 907 S. 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