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Chronicle publisher Nick Barbaro said H.E.B. has the right to pull the newspaper from its stores, but he may call for a readers’ boycott against the San Antonio-based gro cery giant. “I hate to see them (H.E.B.) cave in to that kind of pressure with the feeling they’re not going to get any pressure from us,” he told the Aus tin American-Statesman. The Chronicle is distributed at no charge in 500 outlets around Austin. Barbaro said about 2,000 copies are delivered by a San Antonio-based distributor every week to H.E.B., which has carried the newspaper for about a year. Weaver, an ordained Baptist min ister, has frequently lodged protests against publications and businesses that he claims promote pornography and homosexuality. He also heads the American Family Association of Texas and said the ads promote promiscuity and homosexuality, and contribute to the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted dis eases. By KEVIN THOM 50 AS THE SUN SETS ON AM* DAY IN AGCIELAND,WECANOH' HOPE THAT PRESIDENT M06i WILL GUIDE A*M THROUGHT-i great many changes m THE- university... Adventures In Cartooning by Don Atkinson "Prmng Gcstfipo " Training Scmiwrr... /^now rr<5 time: to SHOW YOU ALL HOY/ tv use TV£ NEW HAND-HELD TTCACT- ING COMPUTERS. ITS U5RV 6IMRLC. •SWITCH THE UNIT ON AND CNTER YOUR RI N. CODS. _ Next, envER the: STUDENT’S STICKER CODE AND OFFENSC. THE TICFET WILL PRINT OUT PIT THE TOR EVERYONE UNLERSJT*^- GOODS NOW LETS Give IT A TPM. FIRST. ENTER VCXJR RI.N. CODE INTO THE COMPUTER:. J -i B6£P' 60 tf ‘ y-U'S' 1 “SS'#*' ( NEXT, YOU . .7) In addition to features on city pol itics and the local entertainment scene, the Chronicle publishes a va riety of personal ads in its classified advertising section under the head ings “Men Seek Women,” “Women Seek Men,” “Men Seek Men,” “Women Seek Women,” and “Varia tions. T don’t think there is anything wrong with our personals,” Barbaro said. The newspaper probably rejects one or two ads each week “because they describe sexual acts specif ically,” he said. Others, he said, are not accepted because they “just sound weird.’ Board: Alton bus wreck avoidable AUSTIN (AP) — The state’s largest trucking industry organization said Thursday a school bus accident that killed 21 students last month in Al ton might have been prevented if other trade groups had not delayed implementation of new safety regulations. The National Transportation Safety Board found half of the brakes defective on a soft drink truck that hit a school bus, sending it into a wa ter-filled pit. Lee Dickinson, an NTSB member, told the Austin American-Statesman that the Dr Pepper truck “would have been taken off the road” un der a routine inspection in any state but Texas. gators following the Sept. 21 crash that killed 21 and injured 60. NTSB spokeswoman Drucella Andersen in Washington Thursday backed up Dickinson’s as sertion, but she also pointed out that investiga tors had found nothing “to indicate a total failure of the braking system.” organization’s director of public relate Hampton Rogers. The Texas Motor Transportation Association said it began lobbying in 1985 for “strong truck safety regulations in Texas,” but other special in terest groups resisted. “The actions of special interest groups to post- nigdit have be “The laws were finally passed in Texas in and set to be enforced beginning in 1988,"Fh said. “However, our initial success was short-in when certain groups pressured the Legislate! postpone enforcement so they could seek exec tion from the new laws during the 1989 regc session. He said three of six brakes on the truck were not properly adjusted. Thorough inspections were performed on the vehicle by NTSB investi- pone enforcement of these laws might have been a factor in this tragedy,” said Robert Floyd, presi dent of the Texas Motor Transportation Associa tion. Enforcement of stricter trucking safety regu. tions in Texas went into effect last Sunday days after the Alton tragedy. The TMTA represents about 450 trucking companies and 350 affiliated companies, said the During its regular session last May, the lature reconsidered the laws and approv weaker version of the federal truck safety regt tions adopted by 49 other states NAACP threatens complaint against DHS AUSTIN (AP) — A branch of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People ac cused the Texas Department of Hu man Services of discrimination Thursday and called for a meeting with the agency’s commissioner. The NAACP’s Austin branch will file a federal complaint if its con cerns cannot be resolved through negotiations with Human Services Commissioner Ronald Lindsey, said Gary Bledsoe, branch president. “I would like to request that you take the bull by the horns and rem edy past discrimination in your agency immediately and adopt some policies that will allow qualified blacks and Hispanics to move up in your agency,” Bledsoe said in a letter to Lindsey. Lindsey, who was named commis sioner in July, did not immediately return a telephone call from the As sociated Press. DHS spokesman Bill Woods said he was confident Lind sey would meet with NAACP rep resentatives. Thirty department employees from around the state have filed dis crimination complaints with the NAACP, Bledsoe said. Several of the workers appeared with him at a news conference. The discrimination complaints in volve policies concerning employ ment, promotion, treatment on the job, discipline and retaliation, Bled soe said. In order to give Lindsey time to respond, the NAACP branch said it will wait one week before filing an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Hu man Services. “This alternative is being offered because the employees have all ex pressed views that Mr. Lindsey seems to be a person who wants to do the right thing and should be given a chance to do so,” Bledsoe said. its federal funding to any entity!' discriminates, Bledsoe said. The NAACP branch said th blacks fill none of the 27 highestp sitions at the welfare agency,# that 75 percent of all agency empl ees terminated for insubordinat are black. Twenty-three agency divisions sections have no black represe® lives, except for support staff $ soe said. He said complaints k come from Austin, Dallas, Housi San Antonio, Abilene and Brvan A* G/ 0 ❖ <> Officials charge SADD sends ‘mixed message’ If the response is not satisfactory, a complaint will be filed under a pro vision of the U.S. Code that prohib- “We are ... greatly concerned 1 ’ the very low numbers of black authority positions in your agent 1 he said in the letter to Lindsey. i ; not understand how your Teen?' gnancy Program can fail toempk black staff person.” AUSTIN (AP) — A student pro gram against drunken driving was praised by state and local officials Thursday but charged with sending a “mixed message” to junior and se nior high school students by Texans’ War on Drugs. Students Against Driving Drunk, or SADD, which uses money from Anheuser-Busch, Inc., joined House Speaker Gib Lewis and others on the steps of the Capitol for a statewide organizational effort. John Rogers of the Department of Public Safety, who is state coordina tor for SADD, said the goal of the program was to place a chapter in every junior and senior high school in Texas, reaching more than 1 mil lion teen-agers. “You are the backbone of the pro gram, the model for your peers,” Rogers told approximately 75 stu dents, who wore T-shirts saying, “The best of life is yet to be.” Lewis, w'ho raised the SADD flag at the Capitol, said the organization “can make, and is making, a remark able difference in the lives and po tential of our students and their families.” He described students as the “heart of the campaign.” SADD noted in a statement that Anheuser-Busch had recently an nounced that it would make avail able to every Texas high school kits to start SADD chapters. In Advance NOVACON convention invades MSC today In the dealer’s room, war afi cionados can buy or trade war paraphernalia, such as board games, comic books and armor made at the convention. NOVA expects 60-100 people to participate in this convention, a warm-up to its bigger convention, WARCON, in the spring. Tickets are $4 and go on sale today at 4 p.m. in 203 MSC. NOVA, a student fantasy any wargame club at Texas A&M,*® hold its fifth annual mini gaming convention, NOVACO' this weekend. An assortment of wargamfr board games and fantasy/rok playing games will be play f - around the clock at the MSC. V movies w'ill be shown in 146 MS throughout the conventio 1 w hich begins today. Y Y Y Y Y