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No purchase is necessary to enter or win, and the winner need not be present. Good luck! couece General Motors..'.'sharing your future” CALL BATTALION CLASSIFIED 845-2611 For FAST Results 1 l • Page 6 The Battalion Wednesday, April 26,198S Dallas executive receives entrepreneur award The Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award will be given to Dallas business executive Nor man Brinker Thursday at 10 a.m. in Rudder Theater. A short news conference will follow the ceremony in Rudder Exhibit Hall. The award, to be given an nually by the Texas A&M Center for Entrepreneurship, is based on five criteria, including the devel opment of a business idea, pro duction and marketing of a serv- ice, managment of a company and watching the company grow into a successful operation. Brinker, the founder of Steak & Ale Restaurant, is the chief ex ecutive officer of Chili’s Restau rant in Dallas. He sold his Steak & Ale Restaurant franchise to Pill^niry Corporation and be came Pillsbury’s largest individual stockholder in 1976. He was ap pointed the president of the Res taurant Division of Pillsbury, but resigned in 1983 to buy a major interest in the Chili’s Restaurant chain. Proposed cutbacks in Pentagon budget could cause layoffs FORT WORTH (AP) — Defense spending cuts proposed Tuesday in clude axing funds for the new V-22 Osprey transport aircraft, a move which could cost the jobs of up to 2,000 Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., company officials said. See related story/Page 11 The workers could face layoffs within 10 days, and another 500 jobs could be cut within a year, Bell offi cials said in a letter to employees. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney outlined $10 billion in Pentagon cuts before a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee. Cheney said the Marine Corps has been told to scrap development of the V-22 aircraft, which is manufactured as a joint project by Bell and Boeing He licopter Co. of Philadelphia. The two companies are devel oping the tilt-rotor aircraft under a $1.8 billion contract, scheduled to run through mid-1992. The Pentagon is required to cut future spending plans by $10 billion for the next fiscal year under a bud get agreement the Bush administra tion and Congress reached earlier this spring. Beil officials did not immediately return telephone calls Tuesday front the Associated Press following Che ney’s appearance on Capitol Hill. The company posted notices and began mailing letters Monday to all employees notifying them of “a ma jor reduction-in-force” if Bell pro grams are cut. The cuts also report edly were to include cancellation of another large Bell program, the OH-58D AH IP helicopter. After a delay of more than six months, officials flew the V-22 pro totype for the first time on March 19 at Bell’s Flight Research Center in Arlington. House begins debating company liability limits AUSTIN (AP) — The House Tuesday began debating proposed limits on the liability of companies sued for allegedly defective products under a measure one consumer group called “the worst” and the sponsor said would “weed out bad cases.” Lawmakers considered about 25 amendments to the measure, and there were about 18 pending when the House stopped debate after about three hours. Members are to take the bill up again Wednesday. Rep. Curtis Seidlits, the bill spon sor, said about five amendments he accepted were “some good conces sions to trial lawyers and consumer groups.” Several amendments pushed by the Texas Consumer Association were defeated, including one to al low jurors to be told the effect of their decisions on “special issues,"or 3 uestions whose answers are used in eciding guilt. “One of the biggest” concessions Seidlits said he made was changings provision some said would bar re covery in a lawsuit for people who had misused, altered or modified! product. Seidlits, D-Sherman, said he did not think the provision would have been a complete bar, but it was taken out “to make sure there were no mis conceptions.” Modification of a product under, the bill as amended would be used by the jury to decide what percentage of fault was the consumer’s, he said. The Texas Consumer Association in a letter to House members said the measure is “the worst piece of legislation affecting consumers.” A&I Develoj By Sherri Rober STAFF WRITER Two Texas A&I ists have develope transferring gene process that may b oping crops with g insect resistance. Dr. Roberta Sm soil and crop scier Gould, a Texas Ag ment Station scier transferring forei corn plant which from the shoot ap< of the plant, in gene was inserted bydm soil bacteria, “This technique through because it sibility of putting plant,” Gould said. Smith said the Deaf te< awaits i of parei HOUSTON (A] old deaf Vietname going blind due t< hoped for a drea Tuesday with the a of her parents to th Thao Phan was by her parents, v then 7-year-old d: treated in the Unit< er’s Syndrome, a disease that took a and is robbing her * It took two year: Houston, where tv had settled. Thao now has only 15 inches. He to see her parents ers and sisters agai completely blind. Geri Konigsberj dons spokesman fc ing& Power Co., tc terest in Thao’s pii contacted by sch< years ago to see if arrange for clothii the girl. When Thao told the rest of her fa: leaned on U.S. Rep D-Houston, to use hopefully trim th usually stymies for of exit visas that alb come to the United no diplomatic rek nam. Leland, who vi fall, told the Vie minister about T1 mentioned the girl minister later visite* 1989 ma ofUT’s Earthquake (Continued from page 1) phone. “We did a survey by radio.” The U.S. National Earthquake In formation Center in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake registered 6.8 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was 40 miles east of Acapulco, about 200 miles south of Mexico City, said seis mologist John Minsch. Mexico’s Seis mic Institute calculated the quake at 7 on the Richter scale. The tremor hit Mexico City at about the same time of day as the massive earthquake that hit on Sept. 19, 1985 that killed at least 10,000 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings. That quake measured 8.1 on the Richter scale. “There’s a real psychosis here about earthquakes since 1985,” said Alejandro Maura, an office worker who like hundreds of others had not re-entered his building hours after the tremor. Francisco Guerra, advertising di rector of the newspaper Novedades de Acapulco, said the quake caused brief power failures and panic. “I’ve never felt a tremor so strong in the city and I’ve lived here for 30 years,” he said. “I thought the build ing would collapse.” The quake was reported in the southern states of Oaxaca, Morelos, Michoacan, Jalisco and Mexico. In Mexico City, the earthquake began as a small jolt and stopped momentarily. Then buildings began swaying back and forth, with plaster cracking and windows breaking. It knocked down power and tele phone lines and damaged water lines in some areas. Shattered glass showered some streets. A man of about 30 was electro cuted by a fallen power line just north of the city center, said Maria Cortina Benitez, a spokesman for the police department rescue serv ice. The two women who leaped from a building suffered cuts and fractures, she said. Mexico City’s subway stopped temporarily while officials checked for damage, and traffic lights went out at major intersections, causing tieups. Protest (Continued from page 1) throughout the country. Missouri officials and the Bush administration are urging the court to use the case to overturn or sub stantially limit the Roe vs. Wade de cision. The decision — expected in July — will be viewed as a barometer of the current court’s commitment to the ruling. To counter-protesters who chan ted “Thou shalt not kill” during her speech, Michelman said, “I respect all you folks over there who are try ing to say that choice is not a consti tutional right, but here are the ma jority. You are the minority.” “This struggle is about religious freedom,” she told the crowd. “Should a fundamental religious mi nority be allowed to impose its be liefs on a majority that don’t believe them? No.” About 40 people led by Fort Worth preacher W.N. Otwell marched through the crowd, chain ing and telling those gathered that “abortion is the judgment of God. 1 ' “We spent eight days in an Atlanta jail protesting these things. Its wrong, it’s murder,” said Otwell who said he came to Austin to call for laws helping the homeless and decided later to attend the abortion rally. During the rally, organizers played on loudspeakers graphic de scriptions by women of abortions be fore the decision. One woman’s voice said, “Women now don’t know what it was like then ... It will happen. 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