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& GMAC FINANCIAL SERVICES
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
SPORTS OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION
DATE: April 25, 26
RUDDER FOUNTAIN
9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
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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.”
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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
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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. We will do what
we have to do.”
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