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Page 10 The Battalion Friday, September 13, DON’T CRACK UNDER PRESSURE TAG-Heuer SWISS MADl. SINCF I860. AVAILABLE AT 2^. tzHuniby Una. (rormerly or Texas Coin Exchange) 'Vcty Personal Investments’ Rare Coins, Loose Diamonds, Precious Metal, Pine Jewelry 6c Watches 404 University Dr. East • 046-0916 O ** *islia1br' K MS 0 pr-ejentg coMedio* david NASTEfi m « <£3, 1990 Campus Comediaruif me Year As Seen on MTV Half-Hour Comedy Hour Friday, September 13 Rudder Theater 7:00pm BUY TICKETS NOW: $3.00 Student $5.00 Non-Student KTSR/f92.1 Residents oppose home for Attorney urges Navratilova to settle lawsuit out of court retarded DALLAS (AP) - A planned home for the mentally retarded is opposed by a neighborhood asso ciation which contends a county agency tried to deceive it about ac quiring the site. The choice of the McShann Road area rather than a white neighborhood in North Dallas was also racist, residents said. "Why on this street?" Dallas County Commissioner Jim Jackson told the Dallas Times Herald in Thursday's editions. "This is a rather old and established neigh borhood and a rather unique African-American neighborhood in my district." Jackson said he would try to stop the county's Mental Health d Mental Retardation Center FORT WORTH (AP) - A lawyer warned counsel for Marti na Navratilova that she and for mer lover Judy Nelson would suf fer "devastating" emotional stress if their palimo- ny lawsuit was not settled out of court, ac cording to tes timony Thurs day. "If litiga tion is filed, the press here and abroad will have a field day," contend ed Jerry Loftin, Navratilova an attorney for Nelson, in a letter sent four months ago to Mike Mc- Curley, Navratilova's Dallas /er. 'The emotional stress and law^t strain on an ordinary individual would be devastating and seem ingly catastrophic to an athlete at tempting to perform," Loftin wrote last spring. " ... Both sides will be the loser.' V McCurley produced the letter and read excerpts into the record during cross-examination of a wit ness in a bizarre preliminary hear ing in which Navratilova is at tempting to have Loftin removed as Nelson's attorney. Testimony in the pretrial issue began Monday, but has been over shadowed all week by on-again, off-again negotiations of a settle ment. Those talks apparently broke off Thursday. The tennis celebrity's lawyers maintained Loftin was negligent when representing her in previous legal matters, including a contro versial document that lies at the heart of the current dispute. They also insist that l role in a previous agreement; tween Navratilova and anot: former companion, Nancy Lie^ | man-Cline, gave Loftin confij: tial knowledge of the player's fairs that should preclude his resenting Nelson. Loftin denies that allegatior. M Iforrm Ijame: ■disan ethni Nelson, 45, contends the;, t threa demo M said. year-old Navratilova breached so-called "non-marital cohat; tion agreement" signed in 19S< pact which sources said couldT Navratilova as much as $4,5| lion. The couple's relationship? ed earlier this year. In his letter of last May! Loftin warned McCurley thata al of a lawsuit would have only personal but financial coi quences Sovie bache athre Be bigge much the in ally c our pj Tf an from opening the group home un til the decision can be investigated. The vacant lot on McShann Road, an area of affluent black professionals, is one of five sites that the county MHMR has target ed for home construction by February. But the McShann Road Neigh borhood Association said MHMR officials, who bought the lot in July, tried to keep the purchase a secret. "They've been deceptive," said Robert Prince, whose house is lo cated next door to the lot. "They didn't take the 'for sale' sign down until this morning." Kickback scam affects thousands Official sues mental health company AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney General Dan Morales on Thursday filed suit against a mental health care company and its Fort Worth affiliate, accusing them of of illegally paying a "bounty hunter" to find crime victim patients the entities could use to siphon state victim compensation funds. After filing suit against Washington, D.C.-based Psychiatric Institutes of America Inc. and Psychiatric Institute of Fort Worth Inc., Morales said the action represented just "the tip of the iceberg" in a kickback scam that has affected thousands of Texans and tens of millions of state dollars. Morales said an investigation was prompted by "an alarming rise" during the last year in paymer; to mental health care companies from the state's v; lent crime victim compensation fund. [simis lechoe Iter E iRussi |Kozyi Kc jof "e> lerenct Irepub |stronj More than $23 million was paid from the fund fiscal year 1991, officials said. "The skyrocketing payments made to bogus the apies now threaten to drain the crime victims' fi undermine its very existence, and prolong thepn found pain the crime victims and their families carr with them day after day," Morales said. The lawsuit was filed in state district court Houston. |gover Ithat li Itrast t Iday b< sian P KalKan 4lllifljf|WARS) Committee considers toll facilities 1. Mars, Incorporated is ... A. A privately owned, multi-billion “o'lar, gfoha' company B. #1 worldwide in confectionery products, pet food and rice Ethel- M C. Producer of five of the top ten confectionery products in the U.S. D. Looking for bright, motivated individuals, interested in another way of doing business DALLAS (AP) - Highwai planners Thursday were considei ing toll lanes on existing routesa; a possible answer to increasing!; snarled freeways in North Texas. Members of a regional tram portation committee in Fort Wort were examining a study by th North Central Texas Councils Governments. The report identi fied 18 projects along new and ex isting corridors that could befi nanced through tolls. _ * "We need to evaluate the pos sibility of building freeway ex press lanes as toll facilities in all existing corridors where it is feasi ble if we are serious about improv ing mobility," Michael Morris, thf council's director of transporta tion, told The Dallas Morning News. "We are talking about nev construction projects only,'' ht said. "Converting existing freeway lanes to toll facilities is against the law, and we are not considering that option at all." Morris was in the regional Se or w. Senati Thursi tion c nance payer who a Th faced - Bush c Wi the bil thwar They I transportation meeting Thursday N1 vange lies th sion p Iminist Gc I lion, c al co- IGormi Jistry b [about Th ; sp and did not immediately return a © All of the above INTERNATIONAL call to The Associated Press. "Toll roads are a good way to build roads when you want them, instead of when the highway de partment says you're going to get them," Tarrant County Judge Tom Vandergriff told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "If the citizens want them, they're one way to expand high way capacity," he said. Jimmy the R« Gorrm Idecide Inc Information Services International mms Eiecmonics Information Session Lobbyists finance trips for legislators, group says September 25,1991 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Room 231, Memorial Student Center Interviews September 26 and 27,1991 Equal Opportunity Employer WASHINGTON (AP) - House members in the last Congress took thousands of trips, many to prime resort spots, that were paid for by lobbyists and other private inter ests, according to a consumer ad vocacy group that condemned the practice as "legalized bribery." Democrat Patricia Schroeder of Colorado topped the overall list of frequent fliers in the report re leased Thursday by Public Citizen. Most of her 98 trips were financed by educational institutions and public-interest groups. Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, took the most trips courtesy of business interests, with 50. Public Citizen's examination of financial disclosure forms for the 101st Congress, in 1989 and 1990, found private groups paid for 3,984 trips by House members. Some were paid by colleges and universities, but two-thirds, or 2,636, were paid for by corpora tions or corporate-sponsored trade associations that lobby Congress on issues affecting their economic interests. SI C/ (AP) ; boltec everm an obs nize t Earth': Dh from i fr © Mars, Inc. 1991