Thursday, September 16,1993
The Battalion
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United Auto Workers, Ford reach contract agreement
The Associated Press
DEARBORN, Mich. - The United Auto
Workers and Ford Motor Co. reached a tenta
tive contract agreement Wednesday night,
nearly 24 hours after the old accord expired.
High-ranking officials with the union and
the automaker met in a marathon session to
settle differences over minor sticking points. In
a statement earlier in the day. Ford said all
major issues had been decided.
"We are confident we have reached an
agreement that ... sustains the momentum of
the domestic auto industry turnaround," said
UAW President Owen Bieber.
Complete details of the three-year agree
ment were withheld pending discussion with
the UAW-Ford National Bargaining Council in
a meeting Monday. The council consists of
presidents and shop chairmen from each of the
43 Ford union locals.
The UAW represents 96,000 Ford workers
nationwide.
A national strike against Ford had been au
thorized, but union leaders said they would be
willing to continue negotiating after the old
three-year contract expired if progress was be
ing made. The Ford-UAW negotiations formal
ly began June 24.
The union extended its agreements with
General Motors Corp. for three days during
talks in 1990 and for about a day at Ford in
1987.
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Bush
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"He hasn't been running for
office all his life, that's true,"
Rove said. "But he's got very con
crete ideas about what needs to
be done. He'll present a reform
agenda on curtailing the growth
or state government, improving
education, creating jobs."
Born in Connecticut, Bush
grew up in Midland and Hous
ton. In 1961, he was sent to
Phillips Academy in Andover,
Mass. After prep school, he en
rolled in his father's alma mater,
Yale, receiving a bachelor's de
gree in history in 1968.
He flew F-102 fighters in the
Texas Air National Guard during
the Vietnam War, and received a
master's in business administra
tion from Harvard in 1975.
He then moved to Midland and
started an oil and gas exploration
company. In 1977, he married Lau
ra Welch. They have twin daugh
ters. In 1978, Bush lost a race to
then-Democrat Kent Hance, who
poked fun at his Eastern roots and
Ivy League education.
In 1989, a Dallas-Fort Worth
investor group led by Bush and
businessman Edward W. Rose
purchased controlling interest in
the Rangers. Bush these days usu
ally is found in the stands.
"The thing that personifies
George Bush is the Rangers
games," Meyer said. "He's out
there, sitting with the regular
fans, wearing his jeans and his
boots, chewing on his cigar."
Perry said Bush is "a great guy
to go a baseball game with and sit
in the cheap seats."
Bush was viewed as a possible
gubernatorial contender in 1990,
but family pressure reportedly
kept him out of the race.
Late last month, as several
prominent Republicans consid
ered the race. Bush met privately
in a Houston office tower with
oilman Rob Mosbacher, son of
President Bush's former com
merce secretary. Mosbacher also
was weighing a run for governor.
Bush returned home to Dallas
without talking to the press. But
Mosbacher emerged to say he
would sit out 1994 and predict
that Bush would be the Republi
can nominee. Both Dallas lawyer
Tom Luce, a former adviser to
Ross Perot, and Texas House
GOP leader Tom Craddick quick
ly backed away, too.
Democrats hooted at the
process.
"A primary election is sup
posed to be when the people pick
their candidates. It looks to me like
the Republicans — and their hired
gun consultants — take their party
for granted," Martin said.
One reason the GOP may want
to avert a bloody in-house rivalry
is the popularity of Richards, who
won her first term in 1990. A Texas
Poll earlier this year found her
with a 58 percent approval rating.
The governor says she's ready
for whatever happens.
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people under one umbrella."
Beauchamp said AFC has been
in existence for 26 years but
wasn't chartered by A&M until
this year.
"A group of involved students
got together and didn't like the
fact that it wasn't recognized,"
Beauchamp said.
Now that the organization is
officially recognized by the Uni
versity, members are hoping the
organization will grow.
Beauchamp said an average of 500
people have attended recently
sponsored events.
AFC also acts as a service orga
nization by working with children
who live in orphanages and mak
ing weekend inner city mission
trips to Dallas and Houston.
Although the organization
does not have any officers,
Beauchamp said, when something
needs to be done, someone is al
ways willing to do it.
"Most of the members really
want to get involved," she said.
The group meets for devotion-
als every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. in
front of the Academic Building.
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