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oberl9,lf i T ues d a y' October 19,1993 The Battalion Page 7 O^Battle to take > birtlover Paramount iSSyntinues to rage Sj The Associated Press th tD 1 NEW YORK “ The batt,e for Y YY , Paramount Communications con- 1 ‘ U fY tinues to rage with cable shopping u l '/ channel operator QVC Network e to havefcK adding $1 billion in financing from two huge private media k !° I companies to its hostile bid. had alustaiBcox Enterprises Inc. and the C '' ™ whouse family's Advance August! 1 . publications Inc. each pledged :■ decision (jjtjQQ minion to QVC Chairman Barry Diller's effort to wrest hat Ivedi p ara mount away from its earlier e for myc mer g e r deal with Viacom Inc. s going toshT The development seemingly s, V\il]iaE| u t s more pressure on Viacom *y car ) tac ' Chairman Sumner Redstone to ine, itsmc:-pj se the amount of his friendly merger bid. lied the dill QVC, based in West Chester, ipt to kt:|p a and MTV cable channel oper- g present d:|tor Viacom have each offered combinations of cash and stock onceptiontbfor Paramount, but QVC's $9.7 David tormslillion bid is worth $1.8 billion hild, Oileiflore. Namias saiiH Paramount had no comment at as soor.Sunday on QVC's new financing, ne, he won®t Viacom criticized the ton." arrangements and repeated its isertion that "the Paramount Vi- babv when! a( : om mer g er be completed." id ^ Blhe scramble for Paramount , r !, has become one of the wildest takeover fights since the 1980s, me shewa<T h some of the bi §S est names I said, 'Hen in '^ edia choosing sides, i . ( nA LL.rH Paramount is a movie maker 1 and publisher. Its library of films cniJd TV programs are extremely L attractive to cable TV and tele- en it come: . • i • ^ nrt h ph° ne companies planning to use ■ Slis \r a ^ vance d technology to deliver is information and entertainment to ■ homes. jiruortaDie. ^ QVC said Advance p u bli C a- " 1 tions Inc., the Newhouse family- an 8 es , .Bntrolled owner of Conde Nast its to ht magazines and Random House Campus News Briefs Two A&M engineers awarded professorships Two Texas A&M College of Engineering profes sors have been awarded professorships. Dr. Phillip Eubanks received the Joe M. Nesbitt Professorship in Chemical Engineering and Dr. Rayford G. Anthony was awarded the C.D. Hol land '53 Professorship in Chemical Engineering. Eubanks research interests include thermody namics, plasma and spark dynamics and electrical discharge machining. Eubanks has received more than $1 million in research grants and contracts over the past five years. He has written and co-authored more than 120 technical papers. Anthony is a specialist in design and synthesis of new catalytic materials. His research focuses on a method to remove radioactive metals from waste streams. Anthony has three U.S. patents and has pub lished three books, including two textbooks on chemical reaction engineering and more than 100 publications. Aggie Democrats to host U.S. Senatorial candidate Richard Fisher, U.S. Senatorial candidate and former senior foreign policy adviser to Ross Perot, will be in College Station Tuesday to address stu dents. Fisher will be in Rudder Theater at 8 p.m. The event will focus on re-inventing govern ment and how politically active citizens can en hance the process. The program, which is spon sored by the Aggie Democrats, is free to the public. Fisher said his goal is to attain Texas' U.S. Sena torial seat and unseat Kay Bailey Hutchison. A&M named research center for transportation The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University has been named a Research Cen ter of Excellence for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems by the Federal Highway Administration. The center could add $6 million to TTI's re search program over the next five years. Researchers plan to improve the nation's trans portation network by researching three main areas, public transportation services, traffic management services and international border transportation services. The new center will be supported by a federal re search contract worth $1 million per year for a mini mum of two years and a maximum of five years. TT1 is the largest university-based transporta tion research agency in the United States. The in stitution is an official research agency of the De partment of Transportation. Career Center to sponsor business etiquette seminar 5p< ■ b onsor a usiness The Texas A&M Career Center will s seminar on professional etiquette in the world. The seminar will focus on "learning the p's and q's" of the business world and will be Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. in Room 111 of the Student Ser vices Building. Officials consider laws for ice cream trucks Nails, etc. Full Set Acrylic Nails $18.00 Refills $15.00 764-5988 110 Lincoln Ste. 107, C.S. SllrJOs COSTUME RENTALS Rents Costumes & Accesories RESERVE NOW!!! Sells Makeup & Accesories 779-4444 1901 Texas Ave. Bryan fTownshire Shopping Cntr. next to Blinn College! QUAKERS Working for Social Justice Join us for Silent Worship 846-7093 823-6334 Nation's #1 Source For The Latest Updated Sports Infb & Scores! 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But in Dallas, that lure has turned dangerous, drawing five children to their deaths in the last three years when they darted into streets for the treats. On Monday, the city's Health Services Commission heard differ ent ideas on how to tighten vend ing regulations on the ice cream trucks in hopes of increasing safety. One proposal suggested treat ing the vehicles like school buses, forcing the treat trucks to flash their break lights and forcing traf fic to stop. Another idea was to lower the decibel-level of the trucks' blaring stereos. Among those asking for rule changes at the hearing was the family of Victor Alfonso Garcia, a 7-year-old killed two weeks ago when he ran through traffic to get to an ice cream truck. The idea of a policy change worries Hoss Rafaty, owner of the Yumi Ice Cream Co., one of the area's largest frozen-treat distrib utors and chair of the Internation al Association of Ice Cream Ven dors' safety committee. He's spent four months work ing with city officials to tighten rules governing mobile vendors. "Do we get rid of all the cars?" he asked "It's very easy to take on some guys who are trying to make an honest living." Rafaty,* a father of two, said he sympathizes with the Garcias. "This accident is a very tragic thing, but the drivers cannot do everything," he said. "We have some responsibility toward our children." Party Time Rents Halloween Decorations Sells costumes & Accessories 1901 Tx. Ave. Bryan (409) 779-0094 TCA CABLE CHANNEL 31 MCAT. Expert Teachers Permanent Centers Total Training Call today for a free diagnostic. 696-3196 707 Texas Ave. Ste. 106-E KAPLAN RULES zing how in^ ave become:! put meaning I ing it outinj g superficial! s not just the! staff. Ifsl lat's doneisl will have) mces the Oil-1 down, rry for rough. They I ith less cash ] rthing a littli first child, or the coach- ife as a play I ,s a debilitat- :e of pigskin sts is hardly [ t. 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