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Responding, a spokesman for Bush’s Texas effort said the chal lenge would be reviewed and added, “When it comes to energy, Michael Dukakis may as well come from the planet Mars.” Railroad Commissioner John Sharp, Dukakis’ Texas chairman, said he wanted to debate his candi date’s position with former congress man Tom Loeffler, co-chairman of Bush’s campaign. “For eight years the Republicans have ignored the problem of enegy- producing states like Texas, hoping they will go away. They’ve let our lo cal economies be destroyed. They’ve let more than 3,000 rigs shut down. They’ve let people lose their jobs,” Sharp said. “We owe it to the people of Texas to present our respective candidates’ views on energy and bring this issue to the forefront of the campaign in Texas,” Sharp added during a cam paign stop in Longview. Reggie Bashur, Bush’s deputy Texas campaign manager, said such a meeting would be no contest. “John Sharp needs to talk to his candidate and ask why he has sup ported a windfall profits tax, why he has been against the decontrol of natural gas, why he has been in favor of the control of oil prices and why he did not know what a rig count was,” Bashur said. “He (Dukakis) has been until this election year a typical, anti-energy EDS claims Perot liberal from the Northeast,” Bashur charged. Sharp, in an open letter to Loeffler, said he thought both cam paigns understand the importanc of energy issues to Texans. “I know you agree that devel oping a national energy policy is a top priority for Texas,” Sharp told Loel Her. “I am confident that Mike Duka kis and Lloyd Bentsen are addres sing this issue and are telling Texans about the energy policy they would develop for this country. Since George Bush refused to addressj energy forum in Houston lastly Texans have vet to hear hon : stands on this critical issue,”$lu wrote. But Bashur said Texans are*; aware of Bush’s energy policies. “George Bush is pro-energy,"j campaign aide said. “He comes(. of the T exas oilfields, where 1 stated a business in 1948. Andl( ans know George Bush will fort national energy policy that wills^ lize oil prices.” Dallas residents work to preserve city’s landmarks violated contract DALLAS (AP) — Electronic Data Systems Tuesday filed suit against former chairman Ross Perot, claim ing he is violating an agreement made when he left EDS not to com pete in the same markets as his old company. The suit, filed in a Fairfax, Va., circuit court, seeks an order enforc ing a December 1, 1986, agreement in which Perot said he would not compete with EDS for three years, EDS spokesman Bill Wright said. “We are asking the court to ask Perot to honor this contract,” Wright said. The alleged violations include Perot’s proposal earlier this year to automate the U.S. Postal Service. Af ter protests by EDS and other com panies, the General Services Admin istration suspended Perot’s postal contract. Wright said the suit claims Perot with his public statements and mar keting activities is showing that he has no intentions of honoring that agreement. Though he had not seen the suit, Perot said, “It really looks silly.” “All they do is spend a lot of money on legal work,” he said. Perot founded the giant computer services firm in 1962 and sold it to General Motors Corp. in 1984. In December 1986, after a highly publi cized conflict between Perot and GM, Perot and three other top EDS executives left the firm when GM agreed to pay them about $850 mil lion. Wright said Perot agreed when he left EDS not to compete with the company for three years. The same agreement precludes Perot from op erating a for-profit company until December 1989. The purpose of the agreement was to prevent Perot from using pro prietary and strategic information about EDS’ markets and services to compete with the company, Wright said. In June, Perot founded Perot Sys tems Corp. and the company ob tained the controversial no-bid con tract to automate the Postal Service. The contract was suspended by the GSA under pressure by EDS and other companies. Perot has chal lenged that action. The Postal Service contract is just one of Perot’s activities EDS says are in violation of the 1986 agreement. Wright declined to give other ex amples of how Perot and his new company may have broken the agreement, but said they don’t think it will be hard to prove he broke it. “Suffice to say, it’s (violations) across a broad range of markets EDS serves,” Wright said. “It’s across the board.” In July, Perot bid on a Medicaid contract, which expires in 1989. EDS won the lucrative Medicaid contract in 1976. DALLAS (AP) — Lew people would deny that the view from Deb orah Kops’ office on the 29th floor of 2001 Bryan is panoramic. She can see acres of treetops shad ing homes in North Dallas and the Park Cities, she can glimpse just enough of the major north-south freeways to choose the best route home at rush hour and she can ad mire the artistry in some of the city’s newest Arts District high-rises with out obstruction. However, it is the closer view of downtown Dallas — looking more directly down to street level or south over the Farmers Market District — that shocks visitors and saddens Kops, a real estate consultant and member of the city’s Landmark Commission. The crazy quilt of blacktopped parking lots punctuated occasionally by 40-to 60-story corporate mono liths, a few blocks of smaller office buildings and parking garages dra matically illustrates a point that the Landmark Commission and other preservationists are trying to make to the City Council: Dallas is losing its older buildings at a frightening rate, and if something isn’t done soon to stop random destruction there won’t be anything left to save. “The old buildings gave the city interest and flavor; that’s gone now, and all that’s left is pavement." said Bob Canavan, chairman of the Landmark Commission. According to statistics the Land mark Commission recently pre sented to the City Council, parking lots are rapidly replacing older buildings and overtaking construc tion in downtown Dallas. Of the 316 buildings identified in Quayle rallies students, slams Dukakis at University of Houston HOUSTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candiate Dan Quayle rallied students at the University of Houston Monday when he suggested Cougars foot ball coach Jack Pardee team up with Michael Dukakis to show him a strong defense. Quayle, making his first campaign swing in his run ning mate’s home state, told the 1,500 students gath ered at an outdoor rally that George Bush and he would “run a campaign like Carl Lewis.” “We’re going to jump like Elvin Hayes and Akeem (Olajuwon). And we’re going to play defense just like the fighting Cougars,” Quayle said to cheering students at the “Election ’88 Showcase.” “I read that the University of Houston has the second toughest defense in the country. I think we ought to get the governor of Massachusetts together with Jack Par dee so he can learn what a strong defense is all about.” Lewis, who was honored with a gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in the 100-meter run, Hayes and the Houston Rockets’ Olajuwon all are former students of the school. The Indiana senator said Dukakis uses the same kind of offense used by the Cougars football team — veer of fense. “Only his problem is that he always veers to the far left,” he said as several students stood behind him hold ing red, white and blue balloons and “Bush-Quayle” signs. Duimg Ins speech, Quayle strayed from ms speed] to respond to several students holding Dukakis-Bentsen signs that were shouting and trying to drown him out. “You listen to these people shout down here,” Quayle said. “If I had to support Michael Dukakis, I’d have to shout, too. They shout because they have no ideas; we have new ideas.” Quayle brought the students to their feet when he ar rived and held up his hand in a Cougar print sign. In his introduction of Quayle, Cov. Bill Clements held up the wrong sign and had to get help from a nearby stu dent. The students cheered even louder when Clements said, “I’m not going to take much of your time.” Quayle planned to travel to El Paso on Tuesday night. Despite Quayle’s response at UH, one student was disappointed there were no new issues or ideas from the speech. “He didn’t say anything he hasn’t said,” said Lee Nguyen, a 19-year-old psychology major, who’s looking forward to voting in his first presidential election. “I haven’t made up my mind on who to vote for; both people have good things to say.” Quayle suggested that Dukakis be referred as “Mr. Tax Increase, Mr. Polluter, Mr. Weak on National De fense, but let me tell you something. There is some thing the American people will not refer to the gover nor of Massachusetts and that is Mr. President.” a survey commissioned bythefo ervation League in 1980aspota; < itv landmarks, only 178 remain! place of the 138 that were den lished are 129 parking areas a three new buildings: Momenn Place, Lincoln Plaza and theGj 1 lome Restaurant. Amonglhestia tines lost to parking were the fa Building, the Texas Building,thti stored 712 Commerce Street BiJ ing, the Medical Arts Buildings; the Metropolitan Building. Nearly all the bulldozedbuMi were victims of owners trying to duce their property-taxbillsorifi ulators who believe a paved M more lucrative and attractive loti estate shoppers than an old, van building, city planners say. But based on statistics providdi the Central Dallas Association.® of the additional pavement is una essary and underused, presm tionists say. Surface parking! cover more than 36 perceni downtown acreage and, comfa with the spaces in parkinggart? provide one parking slo( for w 1.7 downtown workers. Andaboa third of the downtown workersli byses to work. “That translates to lessthana person per parking space,”dtypb ner Ron Emrjch said. Although mere is little cityol cials can do to reduce the numbti surf ac e parking lots, landmarkw missioners contend there are sew things that can be done tomak harder to create new onesbyteati down historic buildings. Among their suggestions: Develop ordinances regulaii: the amount of surface parti downtown and making it morel cult for property owners to ota permits for new parking lots. Establish a policy for increasi the rate of city landmark dea nations regardless of whetheri! property owner wants the dts nation. Since the landmarkprogn began 16 years ago, only 31® have been designated, andtheQ Council has refused to grant to mark status over a propertyotfflt objections. Many property ort have opposed landmark design^ because they fear it will pie' 6 them f rom demolishing a builft when in fact it only imposesali clay stay on the issuance of a deffli tion permit to give preservationist chance to negotiate alternatives,& rich said. Improve tax incentives fororf of older buildings so they will I* dined to renovate them or te them standing while the proper!' for sale. Create disincentives — such* penalty fee equal to the appn® value of the historic structure- 15 would discourage the destriktioi 1 buildings with landmark des nation. The reasoning is that apt' erty owner should reimburse- public: — represented by thecitf for the historic resource it is bf- deprived of by demolition, Cam 1 said. 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