Thursday, September 15, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7
What’s Up
Thursday
FACULTY FORUM: Dr. John McIntyre will speak about "Why Modern Science
Was Born in a Christian Culture” at 12:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Exxon will offer infor
mation on careers in data processing at 7 p.m. in the University Inn penthouse
suite.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB: will have an ice cream social at 6 p.m. in Kle
berg.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: Dr. Anthony S. Jou, from the
soils and crop sciences department will speak about “New Horizons in Tropical
Agriculture and Resource Management” at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
THE SOCIOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
TAMU SURF CLUB: will have a party at 8:30 p.m. at 710 Swiss Court.
AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 113 Kleberg.
INTRAMURALS: will meet with flag football team captains at 5 p.m. in 601 Rud
der and 16” softball team captains at 6 p.m. in 167 Read.
30 LOVES: will have a general information meeting at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
AGGIE SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: will have a general meeting at 7
p.m. in 027 MSC.
Friday
MANAGEMENT 481: Creed Ford, executive vice president of Chili's, will speak
at 10 a.m. in 114 Blocker.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington.
TAMU MOO DUK KWAN TAE KWON DO: will have a workout and new mem
ber signup at 5:30 p.m. in 255 G. Rollie White.
DELTA SIGMA PI: will meet from 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. at the Flying Tomato for
lunch. All business students are welcome.
COLOMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a general meeting at 7 p.m.
in 404 Rudder.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: a speaker will discuss “In Hope of
Christ’s Return” at 8:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
ECUADORIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 6 p.m. at the Flying To
mato.
WESLEY FOUNDATION: will have a welcome back dance at 7:30 p.m. at the
Wesley building.
INTRAMURALS: entries close for exercise classes at 5:30 p.m. in 159 Read.
PLACEMENT CENTER: will have an orientation session for all December, May
and August graduates at 10 a.m. in 504 Rudder through Friday.
THE AGGIELAND: Freshmen and sophomores may take their yearbook pho
tos from Sept. 12 to Sept. 23 at Yearbook Associates behind Campus Photo at
Northgate.
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Police Beat
The University Police Depart
ment received the following re
ports between Sept. 7 and Sept.
13:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A student reported that
someone removed the right front
parking light assembly from his
1985 Toyota, which was parked
in Parking Annex 56. Another
student reported the theft of all
four hubcaps and outer chrome
rings from his 1969 Chevy Cam-
aro, which also was parked in that
lot.
• A library staff member re
ported that someone stole his
son’s passport from the table on
which he had left it in the Sterling
C. Evans Library.
• An ornamental plant was
stolen from the lobby of the Old
Veterinary Hospital Building.
• Also reported stolen this
week were 11 bicycles and Five
backpacks.
HARASSMENT
• A resident of Clements Hall
reported that she has been receiv
ing annoying telephone calls at
odd hours.
FELONY THEFT:
• Someone removed a stu
dent’s 1987 Kawasaki Ninja mo
torcycle from where he had
parked it next to Lounge F on
Sept. 8. The motorcycle was re
turned on Sept. 10, with about
$ 1,500 in damages.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• While on surveillance of the
west campus area, officers ob
served two students knocking
over pylons in Parking Annex 56,
which had been set out by the
Sports Car Club.
• Staff members in the Chemi
cal Engineering Office reported
that someone put green slime on
their office door.
• Officers responding to a call
discovered that five fire extin
guishers had been emptied into
the third floor men’s restroom of
the Civil Engineering Building.
• Someone removed a depart
ment money box from a room in
the Oceanography and Meteorol
ogy Building.
• Grounds Maintenance re
ported that someone stole an Al
lied “Hole Hog” underground
piercing tool from the mainte
nance compound.
Business deals
of Delta crash
raise questions
AUSTIN (AP) — Some laywers
have raised questions about State
Bar of Texas President Jim Sales’
role in preventing illegal or unethi
cal soliticing of business from victims
of the Delta Flight 1141 crash, the
Austin American-Statesman re
ported Wednesday.
Sales denounced what he called
“scurrilous charges and innuendo
that (some plaintiff’s lawyers are)
trying to insert into the media to dis
credit what has been the first effec
tive deterrence of prohibited law
yers’ conduct before it happened.”
Within hours of the crash that
killed 13 people Aug. 31 at the Dal-
las-Fort Worth airport. Sales an
nounced an aggressive bar effort to
prevent improper solicitation of
business from victims or their fami
lies.
But the American-Statesman re
ported that in the past week, some
trial lawyers have called attention to
the fact that Sales is chief of liti
gation for the law firm of Fulbright
& Jaworski of Houston. The firm
has among its clients U.S. Aviation
Underwriters, Delta’s insurance
company, the newspaper reported.
Sales said the firm’s connection to
Delta’s insurance company had
nothing to do with the State Bar pro
gram. He said the attacks on him
probably were motivated by the suc
cess of the effort to stop what is le
gally known as “barratry.”
Fulbright & Jaworski, he said,
doesn’t represent Delta. It has rep
resented the insurance company
only in minimal ways in the Houston
area, he said.
The trade publication Texas Law
yer reported this week that an exam
ination of state district court dockets
showed -the law firm representing
the insurance company in two cases
in Houston, neither involving Delta.
Sales said the bar had received
some complaints about lawyers’ con
duct after the crash and that the
bar’s general counsel, Steve Peter
son, is investigating. He declined to
give details about the complaints.
David Perry, president of the
Texas Trial Lawyers Association,
said that Sales should have disqual
ified himself from participation in
the Dallas program because of his
Firm’s connection with Delta’s in
surer.
Perry said the bar’s program
should cover lawyers for insurance
companies trying to get quick and
cheap settlements as well as lawyers
seeking a contingency fee by suing
the insurer. He also said he was con
cerned because it appeared the bar
had advised victims of the crash and
their families not to seek legal coun
sel when legal counsel was critically
needed.
A news release issued by the bar
on the day of the crash said, “At a
time of intense emotional distress,
no one need make immediate deci
sions concerning legal matters or le
gal representation.”
Sales said the advice to victims was
that they wait a little while and then
consult with people they trust.
“At no time did we suggest they
not hire a lawyer,” Sales said. The
advice to victims was that they wait a
little while and then consult with
people they trust, he said.
Four men plead not guilty
to charges of engine theft
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Four
[men indicted on charges of stealing
[helicopter engines that later were
[confiscated from national powerboat
owners and a tractor pull competi
tion will face trial next month.
The four pleaded innocent to fed
eral charges accusing them in con
nection with the theft of 10 heli-
[copter engines in' 1986 from the
Corpus Christi Army Depot.
Marvin Kottman of West Point,
Neb.; Raymond Kovic and Clem Mc-
Clane, both of Mineola; and William
Felts of Corpus Christi were released
on $10,000 personal recognizance
bonds each after an appearance be
fore U.S. Magistrate Eduardo De
Ases.
All four men will be tried at the
same time, U.S. Attorney Robert
Berg said. Their trial is scheduled to
begin Oct. 26.
A federal grand jury indicted the
men Sept. 2 on two counts each —
conspiracy to steal, then stealing the
T-55 turbine engines.
The FBI and the Army started
tracking the engines after it was dis
covered that they were missing from
the helicopter repair facility at the
depot following an inventory in late
1987.
Federal agents confiscated the 10
engines in May from powerboat
owners on the national racing circuit
and from a competition tractor
puller in Kentucky. Owners had
purchased the engines from inde
pendent dealers for at least $22,000
each and apparently were unaware
they had been stolen.
According to federal indictments,
the men gathered at McLane’s house
in Mineola on March 19, 1987, to
plan the thefts.
According to the indictments,
Felts, who worked at the depot, had
T-55 engines used in older models
of the Army’s Chinook CH-47 heli
copters placed in his work area to be
stolen from the depot. The engines
were then shipped to people who
sold them, FBI agent Brian Marshall
of Corpus Christi said.
The engines were being dis
mantled at the Army Depot when
they were stolen.
Merchandise trade deficit shows
biggest improvement in 6 years
AUSTIN (AP) — The U.S. mer-
i chandise trade deficit show'ed the
biggest improvement in almost six
years in July, a dramatic 28 percent
narrowing that reflected a big de
cline in Americans’ appetite for for
eign goods, the government re
ported Wednesday.
See related stories, page 1
The Commerce Department said
the difference between what the
United States imports and what it
sells abroad shrank to $9.53 billion
in July, down $3.6 billion from a
fune deficit of $13.22 billion.
The Reagan administration lost
no time hailing the huge decline as
proof that the administration’s eco
nomic strategy of fighting soaring
trade deficits with a devaluation of
the dollar w'as paying off.
In a speech in Cape Girardeau,
Mo., President Reagan called the
trade Figures good new^s that proved
that w'hen America goes into the
market to compete, we play to win.
The 28 percent June-to-July de
crease was the biggest monthly im
provement since a 35.7 percent nar
rowing in September 1982 and gave
the country the lowest overall im
balance since December 1984, when
the deficit w'as $8 billion.
While the trade deficit has been
showing improvement, for most of
this year, the gains have all been on
the export side, reflecting the fact
that the weaker dollar has made
American products competitive once
again on overseas markets.
Imports, however, had remained
at stubbornly high levels. Analysts
said this made the July drop partic
ularly encouraging.
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