oberl9,lf i T ues d a y' October 19,1993
The Battalion
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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<
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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.
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The Associated Press
DALLAS — The familiar jingle
of ice cream trucks have sent chil
dren racing for the luscious
deserts for decades. 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."
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