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bruarv 12, isi i i ■ im. »ad trip ts4 World & Nation dnesday, February 12,1992 The Battalion Page 7 :k surgery in leinecke sa back to thetej! itting for abot; lecke said. "S ■ back is not]| e're hopingsj against LSU[ jies are a three fresh®; and one sen;; iks the team!; i their first H;! more organ;; now," he sat been pretty;. >ut our ■ork. If our si; do a goodjo| Small businesses prevail in court over size dispute I WASHINGTON (AP) - Small compa nies such as advertising agencies won a victory over the Small Business Adminis tration in federal court Tuesday, as a judge threw out the SBA's way of deter- ining the size of such a firm. U.S. District Judge Thomas Flannery, ding in a case brought by Stellacom Inc. of Houston, said part of the SBA's regula tion defining annual receipts — the way it Determines if a company is small enough to be considered for federal contracts lim ited to small businesses — is "arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law." The issue is crucial for firms like Stella- jom, which contended that its survival is dependent on qualifying for contracts set aside for small businesses. Stellacom is an affiliate of an advertising agency, Walter Bennett Communications, which owns 72 percent of Stellacom's stock. Company officials were jubilant over the decision, with chief financial officer Curtis Logan exclaiming "Praise the Lord, that's wonderful news." In the decision, Flannery wrote that "Before 1989, the SBA did not count the client billings of an advertising agency — the monies the agency receives from its advertising clients and pays immediately to media vendors ... — in its calculation of the agency's annual receipts." Gross income fails as guage for granting federal contracts Instead, the SBA counted only the agency's gross income and did so because that figure "does not include the full amount of these client billings; instead, it only includes the commission made on the client billing," he wrote. "The SBA followed this policy for nearly 30 years." When the SBA proposed amending its regulations in 1987, it said the change simply "would have codified its existing policy." However, Flannery said the final rule, as adopted, "limited the exclusion for amounts collected for anoth er to the client billings of travel agents and real estate agents." The change excluded "not just the ad vertising agency industry, but all agencies who collect client billings," Flannery wrote. SBA spokesman Dan Eramian said offi cials there had not seen a copy of the deci sion and could not comment until it was reviewed. The situation that brought the matter to court was Stellacom's bid in Jan. 1991 to provide television support services to the Johnson Space Center, part of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administra tion. The contract was limited to small busi nesses. » To be considered "small," a bidding firm's average annual receipts could not exceed $14.5 million. Stellacom's exceed ed that amount, but Logan said the com pany's $30 million in gross receipts re flected only $3 million in income. "We feel like we cannot compete with large businesses which is the category we would have been thrown into,' v Logan said. a j jy u.S.-Japan trade dispute parks 'buy anything' plan e was excils r e the oj ational 3en the seaso Ision kin Classical]! al ESPN nd Texas wi posure. kM appears aes. Ad on ABC. Hu HJ, Arkansai nt in game . A&Mlosl Cotton Boi n’s 23 3purs tics (AP) - i 23 points : Parish in a An tonic ( ■84 victory xtal oH ,s man] is quarter,!) rish byl! ■d him IS overs, 'arish ad 30 points grabbed unds in tht cs' ry over San inio at (lie >n Garden, eggie Lewis Boston's ig scorer on 22 points, l 13/ >ints for tin :d the first i quarter to :on used juarter, fir Joe Kleine, a Spurs behind 7f- .n 8-0 burst left. 1-40 at the late in .37-32 lead DALLAS (AP) — Car dealers, it ;eems, are less interested in a Buy American movement than one urging -- Buy Anything. As the 75th convention of the ational Automobile Dealers As sociation ended Tuesday, some expressed strong support for Buy American fever. But more said they were con fused by it and were being ren dered helpless by the U.S.- 'apanese trade dispute. "It's disappointing," said Stu art Rappaport, a Honda dealer from Albuquerque, N.M. "It's a simple solution to a complex problem and it's so clouded as to what's American that it's not sim ple anymore." On the other hand, Bobby Lang, a Decatur, Ala., Ford dealer said of Buy American is "the only way to go ... I think people will be come embarrassed to buy Japanese cars." The four-day convention was a jumble of conflicting messages for the 16,000 dealers and suppliers. Behind closed-doors "make meetings" with automakers, deal ers said they heard top executives of U.S. companies bash Japanese competitors. But the NADA's leaders ex pressed support for free trade. Iran exalts Islamic revolution, anti-U.S. furor NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Proclaiming "death to America," hundreds of thousands of Irani ans demonstrated in their capital Tuesday on the 13th anniversary of the Islamic revolution's tri umph over Iran's pro-Western monarchy. President Hashemi Rafsan- jani told demonstrators the sight of such large crowds, some of whom walked for hours to get to the rally, brought tears to his eyes, Tehran radio said. Tehran television showed Freedom Square and the sur rounding streets packed with crowds that looked to be in the hundreds of thousands. It also showed rows of buses, sug gesting many people were brought from outlying areas. Iran's offi cial media, monitored in Nicosia, said 2 million people, or the equiva lent of one-fifth Rafsanjani of Tehran's population, gathered to renew allegiance to their revo lutionary patriarch. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Although the chants and demonstrations were familiar. Iran has changed considerably since Khomeini died of cancer on June 3,1989. Rafsanjani has sought to end the Islamic republic's isolation and shed its pariah image by building bridges with the West and Iran's Arab neighbors. He has also called for an end to "empty slogans." However, he has not gone so far as to oppose anti-Western ral lies or threats against the United States and Israel. Doing so would play into the hands of his radical opponents, who already accuse Rafsanjani of betraying Khomeini's legacy. An Iranian resistance leader Tuesday condemned Iran's lead ership in a statement sent by fac simile from Paris to The Associ ated Press in Nicosia. Massoud Rajavi of the Peo ple's Mojahedin of Iran said Khomeini and his followers "have brought nothing to the Ira nian people but pain, suffering, misery, misfortune, destruction and homelessness." Tuesday's rally was the cul mination of daily celebrations that began Feb. 1, the anniver sary of Khomeini's return from exile in 1979. He seized power 10 days later. NEWS SUMMARY Lawyers analyze case, study Tyson's defense INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - In the end, the Mike Tyson jurors believed the vic tim's story that she was raped and the de fense's story that the boxer was a foul- mouthed womanizer who could not keep his hands to himself. Perhaps the defense strategy backfired, or perhaps his attorneys simply made too con vincing a case, lawyers who followed the trial said Tuesday. Or perhaps, as the Tyson jury said after the verdict, the state just had a better case. "The 'creep defense' usually only makes sense if you're pleading insanity," said Dan Caplis, a trial attorney and legal analyst for KCNC and KOA radio in Den ver. The portrait of the former heavyweight boxing champion merely added weight to her charges and made it that much easier for the jury to convict him, Caplis said. "The jury heard over and over through the defense that he was such a vulgar, ob scene individual that any woman with him should have been placed on notice to what he wanted and who he was," said Linda Pence, a local defense attorney who attended the two-week trial. Tyson could be sentenced to 60 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for March 6. Bad economy stunts airline growth plans NEW YORK (AP) - First, the reces sion devastated earnings at the nation's airlines. Now, it is forcing a sobering re duction in growth plans at the two biggest carriers. At first blush, one might think slower expansion could make the aviation super powers, American Airlines and United Airlines, a little less of a threat to their weaker rivals. But experts said Tuesday that less spending on airplanes and other equip ment at two of the so-called "mega-carri ers" won't make life easier for smaller carriers. It does, however, raise questions about whether the third-largest U.S. carri er, Delta Air Lines, could soon announce reductions in its own expansion plans. The airlines have been put into a finan cial tailspin, first by the Persian Gulf cri sis, which raised fuel prices and spooked passengers, and second by the recession, which cut into demand for air travel and prompted struggling carriers to initiate harmful fare sales. "If it's tough on the big guys, the strong guys, it's 10 times as tough on the people that are already in financial diffi culty," said Lee Howard, president and chief executive of Airline Economics Inc., a Washington-based aviation consulting firm. "The competition that the big guys are offering is still very, very keen," Howard said. But the biggest airlines acknowledge they need to slow the pace of their dizzy ing growth. Chicago-based United announced on Monday that it was cutting its capital spending plans through 1995 by about $6.7 billion, to $12.2 billion. United will achieve this cut by taking delivery of 156 aircraft during that period instead of its initial goal of getting 278 new planes. Tsongas gets respect, rides high in NH polls PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - Rose mary Colliton waited more than an hour to deliver her pledge to Paul Tsongas: "I'm going to vote for character and not charisma," she promised. "You can do both," said Tsongas who suddenly sits atop the shifting presiden tial polls in New Hampshire replied with a smile. The former Massachusetts senator for months was seen as the Rodney Danger- field of the Democratic field. Tsongas' painstaking organization and steady campaign style, and message seem to be paying off. With New Hampshire's lead-off primary a week away, he is lead ing the polls or at least tied with Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. Even if he won New Hampshire, cash- poor Tsongas would be given little chance of getting the Democratic nomination. And even if he did somehow become the nominee, few believe he could beat Presi dent Bush. The perception is based partly on the sour memory of 1988 nominee Michael Dukakis. Democrats worry about the im pact a Tsongas-led ticket would have on prospects for the party's Senate and con gressional candidates. "Some of the candidates and their sup porters are very nervous about the prospect of another Massachusetts nomi nee," said Democratic strategist Ann Lewis. "This is supposed to be a national party." Tsongas offers a no-frills economic message anchored on restoring America's manufacturing base. be first Lewis just 43 due to luscie, action shots d of 1 to be Ding the ise. By ive, how iaybe it he ac- 5 some- lutfield- ;s if he he ality any- veen DOt e tween tan be- Qualified artist to teach basic drawing techniques to A8M students. References are required. Salary is negotiable. For more info, contact Melissa 822-9154 or Erik 846-3624 Sfiend te&a tCtfce €tnd SfisU&t^ '#2 Subside Beach Annual Spring Break Festival For more information please call or write: P.O. 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