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sion. Tracking teaches the horse to stay close behind the steers
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and accustoms them to the swinging of the rope. Chapman has
been working with the colt for more than three weeks and is very
pleased with the animal’s progress.
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Chinese democracy leader urges
end to World Bank loans to China
HOUSTON (AP) — Chai Ling, a leader of the
Chinese Democracy Movement, said Monday she
hopes world leaders attending the economic
summit will reconsider resuming World Bank
loans to China.
“If China is to rejoin the family of nations, it
must adhere to certain principles of basic human
rights,” Ling said during a breakfast meeting
with reporters. “Until there are such changes in
China, international pressure is the best way to
encourage reform.”
The 24-year-old, who until recently was living
in hiding in China, said she came to Houston in
hopes of getting world leaders to pay closer at
tention to the Chinese government’s actions.
“I am here to emphasize the resumption of
World Bank loans to China only slows the inevi
table trend towards democracy for which so
many . people died last spring in Tiananmen
Square,” she said.
“Renewal of World Bank loans will merely
prolong the tyranny under which the Chinese
people now live.”
She said the resumption of the loans are for
projects which do not directly benefit the
Chinese people.
Ling had hoped to meet with the delegations
of the participating summit countries meeting in
Houston this week, but many have declined her
request, said David Phillips, executive director of
the Congressional Human Rights Foundation.
The Japanese government is refusing to meet
with her this week as are the Germans and
French, who say there is no need to meet with
her in Houston because she lives in Paris. U.S. of
ficials are not meeting with her either, although
she has met previously in Washington with Vice
President Dan Quayle and National Security Ad
visor Brent Scowcroft, Phillips said.
She also is sending a letter to Bush signed by
153 members of Congress who are supporting a
moratorium on World Bank lending to China.
The Canadian delegation will be discussingtt
trade issue with Ling, and the British and Italia
officials are undecided, he said.
Ling said certain incentives such as resum|
tion of World Bank loans should be awardij
only when there are fundamental changes
China.
Those changes, she said, include:
• acknowledgment of student democraiil
leaders as “patriots” not as “counter-revolutioni!
ries.”
• an end to jamming the frequency of Voio|
of America and harassing Chinese student
abroad.
• resumption of pre-Tiananmen levels ofi
ternational cultural and academic exchange.
She also is asking for increased private ow
ership and economic decentralization, spedfij
steps toward a multi-party democracy and therI
lease of greater numbers and more significant
political prisoners.
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Suit names competitors
DALLAS (AP) — Texas Instru
ments Inc. filed suit Monday against
Five semiconductor makers, claiming
they are violating a 13-year-old pat
ent governing computer chip man
ufacturing.
The lawsuit is the latest in TI’s 4-
year-old campaign to benefit from
its past technological advances,
which cover more than 5,00.0 pat
ents, including the forerunner of to
day’s computer chip.
“TI is taking these actions to pre
vent the unauthorized use of its
technology and protect the signifi
cant investments the company has
made in development of intellectual
property that is used in integrated
circuits around the world,” said com
pany general counsel Richard J. Ag-
nich.
The lawsuit, Filed in U.S. District
02303001 Court in Dallas, accuses
the companies of illegally using a TI-
developed process for covering com
puter chips with plastic. It asks for
unspeciFied damages.
A companion complaint filed with
the International Trade Commis
sion accuses the five companies of
importing and selling plastic-en
closed chips without a license.
“Texas Instruments has been de
manding some incredibly high roy
alty rates,” said Jack Menache, gen
eral counsel at Integrated Device
Technology Inc. in Santa Clara,
Calif., one of the companies named
in the complaints.
Menache said IDT officials met
with TI representatives in December
to discuss the patents, but no nego
tiations had been held in the mean
time.
Menache said the process TI seeks
to claim “touches a process that’s
been around for a long, long time.”
Besides IDT, the other companies
named were Analog Devices Inc.,
Norwood, Mass.; Cypress Semicon
ductor Corp. and VLSI Technology
Inc., San Jose, Calif.; and LSI Logic
Corp., Milpitas, Calif.
Officials at the other four compa
nies said they had not seen the law
suits and would have no comment.
A TI engineer is credited with co
inventing the integrated circuit in
1958, and the company is now the
No.2 U.S. manufacturer of com
puter chips behind Motorofa Inc.
It wasn’t until 1986, however, that
TI began to enforce its patents.
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AUSTIN (AP) — A New Jersey
company is hoping Texas will be
come the first state in the country
to leap into high technology by
putting laser video technology in
the classroom.
Videodiscs are the video ver
sion of compact discs used in au
dio recordings. Optical Data
Corp. says the videodiscs can be
•used instead of, or as a supple
ment to, standard science books.
The State Board of Education
textbook committee opened hear
ings Monday on 1991-92 teaching
materials and was expected to
look at Optical Data’s proposals.
“If Texas chooses to adopt our
program, it will be the first time
in the country that an electronic
instructional media such as video
disc has been recommended on a
statewide basis,” said Pam
Herber, spokeswoman for Opti
cal Data. “No other state has done
this.”
The textbook committee plans
to make recommendations to the
full v State Board of Education
Aug. 20. The board is scheduled
Nov. 10 to choose the books that
will be used in public schools for;
the next six years.
Texas Education Agencv I
spokesman Joey Lozano said
Texas schools will purchase $12(1
million to $135 million of the
adopted hooks and materials dur
ing the first year.
Optical Data says its videodiscs
have a big advantage over film
strips, slide shows, overhead pro
jectors and video tape because the
operator can move quickly from
picture to picture without fast
forwarding or rewinding.
The high-tech approach to tea
ching science means a teacher
wouldn’t have to wait more than
10 seconds to move from one sub-1
ject to another — on a disc that!
holds 54,000 images on a side. ;
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teacher operates the videodisci
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Judge: New school funding plan likely to be used
TEXA
AUSTIN (AP) — A state judge
said Monday he probably will allow
Texas’ new public school funding
plan to be used this school year —
even if he ultimately overrules it.
Opening a trial on whether the
school funding law passed last
month is constitutional. State District
Judge Scott McCown said halting the
measure now could be disruptive to
school districts in the upcoming
year.
“We don’t want a school year in
chaos,” the judge said.
McCown said he hopes to decide
by Sept. 1 whether the new finance
law meets a unanimous Texas Su
preme Court order to equalize fund
ing between rich and poor school
districts. This trial likely will take two
weeks, thejudge said.
Poor school districts which chal
lenged the old system as unfair op
pose the Legislature’s latest plan, ar
guing that lawmakers didn’t go far
enough to help them.
Sixty-eight poor school districts
are challenging the education re
form plan, which adds $528 million
to state education funding for the
1990-91 school year. The money is
being raised through tax increases,
including a quarter-cent boost in the
state sales tax.
The plan is designed to phase in
an equitable funding system over
several years, lawmakers said.
Leaders in the predominantly
Democratic Legislature and Repub
lican Gov. Bill Clements agreed to
the plan after three months of spe
cial sessions this year.
Clements and other state lead'
have said they believe the system'
pass court muster.
But poor school districts say
law failed to make meanin|
changes in the $13.5 billion-a-'fl
finance system, which relies on 4
aid, local property taxes and so^
federal money.
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