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A Texas A&M police officer and emergency
medical technicians administer aid to Kevin
Noland, a freshman biochemistry major from
Houston, who was injured in a bicycle accident
Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses said Noland
jumped a curb on Lamar Street in front of Biz-
zell Hall, and then lost control of his bike and
flipped over the handlebars, landing on his
face. Noland was treated and released at a lo
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5K CHARITY FUN
Aggies Run Your
Heart Out!
RUN
Beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday, April
hundreds of runners will take off for a
run that’ll be loads of fun and will
save lives. In conjunction with the
Student Engineering Council,
Mobil will make a contribution to
the Bryan-College Station-American
Heart Association for each runner in
race. And, there’ll be prizes for the winners
too! The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd males and
females to the finish line will each win an
award. And, a special Masters category
wili award the fastest male and female who’s
40 years of age or more.
The first 750 people to register will receive a
Fun Run T-shirt and other special prizes. So be
the first to register between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
at one of the following locations:
Blocker — March 27-28
MSC — March 28-29
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NEW YORK (AP) — American
Airlines’ announcement Wednesday
of three mammoth orders for new
aircraft and engines worth billions of
dollars is the latest step in the car
rier’s aggressive expansion program.
At a time some competitors are
racked by financial losses and labor
tensions, American plans to spend
np to $14 billion through 1994 to
modernize its fleet. Over the last two
months American, the nation’s sec
ond-largest carrier, has gone on an
aircraft shopping spree exceeding
$ 10 billion.
Executives *• of the Fort Worth
based carrier held a news conference
to announce orders for up to 150
Fokker-100 short-haul planes and
35 Boeing jetliners.
Fokker, the Amsterdam, Nether
lands-based aerospace group, dis
closed March 16 that it was negotiat
ing the order.
American has a fleet of 478 planes
that already is one of the youngest in
the industry at an average of about
9.4 years. The carrier plans to re
duce the average to around 8.4 years
by 1992, with a fleet of more than
600 planes by 1991.
The industry average age was
about 12.67 years as of July 1, 1988,
the last date reliable statistics were
available, according to Avmark Inc.,
an aviation consulting firm in Ar
lington, Va.
“The public wants to fly on air
lines that have younger, quieter air
craft,” Robert Crandall, American’s
chairman and president, told the
news conference.
Last week, American announced a
$95 million expansion of its cor
porate headquarters in Fort Worth,
and began distributing $121 million
in profit sharing to employees. The
carrier also plans within the next
several weeks to announce the loca
tion for a new $200 million mainte
nance facility.
Industry analysts say the expendi
tures indicate American’s financial
strength and reflect its strategy for
fleet upgrading and route expan
sion.
AMR Corp., American’s parent,
earned a company-record $4/6 mil
lion last year on $8.8 billion in reve
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 24-
hour hot line that allows students
to snitch on their cheating class
mates has drawn dozens of crank
calls and criticism that it invites
false accusations.
The telephone line was in
stalled two weeks ago at the Uni
versity of Florida in Gainesville,
but of ficials say it’s too early to tell
whether any tips will lead to
cheaters.
So far, crank callers have been
eager to turn in people for cheat
ing on their girlfriends and boyf
riends.
The university’s 75-year
student Honor Court, which han
dles about tw'o dozen cases a year,
set up ihe hot line to encourage
reticent students to rejiort aca
demic crimes.
All callers have to do is leave
the name and class of the of
fender on an answering machine,
and the court will investigate and
take any necessary action.
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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) —
President Bush flew here from
Washington, the nation’s murder
capital, to tell high school stu
dents that rising drug use in this
pristine, pastoral area of Amish
farms shows “how vulnerable ev
ery American city and town is to
the menace.”
But, he told his audience, “T he
good news is, you’re fighting
back” with homegrown efforts to
stop young people from using
drugs before they ever begin.
From here, he shuttled to Wil
mington, Del., to proclaim that
drugs are not an issue with
“shades of gray.
“It involves good guys and bad
guys, white hats and black hats,
good and evil.”
Preceded on stage at Lancas
ter’s Conestoga Valley High
School by a young man who told
how drugs had wrecked his life,
the president railed against casual
drug use and reiterated his
pledge to destroy foreign drug
crops and the labs that process
their harvest.
Addressing 3,090 students and
parents packed into the school
gym, Bush told the crowd:
“Together, let’s you and me
send a message on drug abuse to
the so-called casual user.”
GOP chooses Gingrich as minority whip
WASHINGTON (AP) —
House Republicans elected right-
wing activist Newt Gingrich of
Georgia to their No. 2 leadership
post Wednesday and charted a
course for battle with the ruling
Democrats.
Gingrich, the chief accuser of
House Speaker Jim Wright and
the publicity-hungry leader of a
neo-conservative faction, de
clared he would “build a much
more aggressive, activist party.
“I’m going to be happiest when
two Republicans are debating an
issue on TV and there’s no room
for a Democrat,” he said.
Gingrich, 45, was elected mi
nority whip over Rep. Edward
Madigan of Illinois, 87-85 in a se
cret ballot of House Republicans,
who hold 174 of the 435 House
seats. One Republican was absent
and another voted for “other.”
The vote for Gingrich was
widely taken as a rebuke of the
low-key style of the current Re
publican leadership, and a desire
in the House GOP to concentrate
more effort on attacking the
Democrats.
“As whip, Newt’s task will be to
count votes, create consensus or
piece together a majority for ini
tiatives sponsored by the Bush
administration,” said Rep. Tony
Goelho, the House Democratic
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Democrats recognize possible threat to power
WASHINGTON (AP) — One Democrat calls it
“trickle-down Republicanism.” Another warns of the
“McDonaldization” of American politics.
Their message is the same: the assumption that Dem
ocrats can count on remaining a powerful party out of
power is shortsighted politics. After losing four out of
five presidential elections, the party could see the trend
trickle down and threaten Democratic dominance in
Congress, too.
Sen. Bob Graham of Florida used the McDonald’s
analogy. He said people are getting political messges
the same way they hear about hamburger chains, on
television. Graham said that goes double for people
who move from one state to another, with the Sun Belt
trend taking most of them toward Republican areas.
In that situation, he said, the notion that there can be
two Democratic parties, one of presidential losers and
the other of congressional winners, is one that can’t last
forever.
William A. Galston, a University of Maryland politi
cal scientist and an adviser to former Vice President
W’alter F. Mondale in the landslide Democratic defeat
of 1984, supplied the theory of trickle-down GOP
strength.
He said that is more likely than a permanent, split-
level realignment in which there’s a congressional party
and a presidential party. Galston pointed to Texas as an
example of what could happen nationally — rising Re
publican strength beginning at the presidential level
and gradually spreading down the ballot.
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in 1992. according to Galston.
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middle in order to field a presidential candidate whoj
can win.
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Sam Nunn of Georgia, the chairman, said some Demo-jj
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