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SPACES ARE LIMITEDl Tequila Tuesday JTi i 7*4 1 f | $ 1.75 Margaritas Tequila Sunrises itmi 1.75 Dos Equis x A Free Chips and Salsa Page 4 • The Battalion State Tuesday • February 13, IS! Gramm deals with poor showing □ The Texas senator looks to the New Hampshire primary after a defeat in Iowa. WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Supporters of Phil Gramm put on a better face af ter his fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses than the candi date did himself. “I think you’ll see quite a change coming up,” said Craig Collins of Urbandale. “Maybe he can use this as a wake-up call.” Gramm, who bragged about his superior grass-roots organi zation in Iowa, limped home with just 9 percent of the vote Monday to finish well behind Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, Lamar Alexander and Steve Forbes. Gramm and his wife, Wendy, displayed grim-faced smiles and tried to put on brave faces as they entered a room of 150 sup porters whose spirits didn’t ap pear to be lifted at all by pep songs blared out by a seven- piece band. “I am stunned. I was hoping he would do better. I was hop ing he would be third, or at least fourth,” said Donna Sullins, of Clive. Gramm, upset by Buchanan in the Louisiana caucuses last week, spoke about two minutes to supporters — hardly enough time for them to finish their sandwiches and beer. “Nobody had a better grass roots organization in Iowa than we did. Nobody worked harder than you did,” the Texas sena tor said. “You did everything you could do and I am proud of your ef fort,” he said to applause. “I want to congratulate Sen. Dole. I want to congratulate the other candidates. I leave this state with a heart full of love,” Gramm said. Back in Texas, state GOP chairman Tom Pauken said Gramm may be getting closer to shifting his campaign back to ward being re-elected to the Senate. “At some point, Sen. Gramm will make that determination,” Pauken said. “My guess would be that at some time he’s going to focus on the senate race.” Gramm heads into the New Hampshire primary next Tues day needing a strong showing. “I hope he catches on,” said Larry Pratt of Des Moines. “But even if he doesn’t. I’ll support whoever the nominee is. I’ll take the last place guy in the Republi can field over that guy in the White House any day.” Fifty weeks ago, on a gusty day in College Station, Texas, Phil Gramm stood before fam ily, friends and a boisterous audience and formally de clared his candidacy for the White House. Since then, the Texas Repub lican has spent thousands of hours crisscrossing the country from Alaska to Florida and points in between, with fre quent forays into Iowa and New Hampshire. As in any campaign at the top rung of American politics, the ef fort is a mind-numbing, physi cally grueling test of endurance interspersed with a handful of defining moments. His momentum was stalled during a punishing 24-hour peri od last week. Gramm had to con- Battalion File Photo, Tin Mq Last spring, presidential hopeful Texas Sen. Phil Gramm announced his candidacy at Texas A&M University, where he once taught. tend with both a loss in a made- to-order Louisiana beauty pageant where he long had promised victory — and a rash of criticism in agriculturally in clined Iowa for missing a key Senate farm bill vote. “Texas Democrats hope that Sen. Gramm continues his quixotic campaign until he uses up all his time, energy and mon ey,” Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman Anne Marie Kil- day said last week. University of Texas political scientist Walter Dean Burnham suggests Gramm is feeling little pressure to abandon the presi dential trail and begin his Sen ate campaign — where he faces only token primary opposition and an as-yet undetermined De mocratic rival from a field oftou hopefuls. “This is not a major them! or factor in his campaigt considerations at the momein' Burnham said. “It’s hard for me at then ment to see how a Democrat ii going to stop him in the ( ate race) in the fall.” But Democrats contend Gramm’s dual candidacies, per mitted under Texas’ “LBJ Law, anger voters and hand Demot rats an opening to suggest tk he’s ignoring Texas. They also point to recent poll that show declines in Grarami base support in Texas — albe with the senator retaining commanding lead over his pota tial Democratic opponents. Eight suspects held in gang shooting Ewe □ Sunday's act of violence in Pasadena injured nine people, including two critically. PASADENA, Texas (AP) — Police are trying to sort out what happened at an apartment complex to prompt a gunfight between two rival gangs that sent 16 people to hospitals. “It’s a pretty complicated situation be cause of the number of people involved and the confusion going on at the scene,” Sgt. Kelly Payne said today. “We’re trying to find the parties responsible for the shooting and anybody else who might have been a conspirator.” Pasadena police continued to hold eight suspects in the Sunday shootout, but said charges likely wouldn’t be filed until later today. Of the injured, nine were male and seven were female. Eight people remained hospi talized Sunday, including two critically, po lice and hospital spokesmen said. The 16 victims were members of the Pasadena Homies and the Latin Kings, ranging in age from 14 to 22, Payne said. All were attending parties at the Bentley Apartments about 2:55 a.m. when shooting between the two gangs erupted. Although different residents at the complex said they believed the gunfire lasted anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 minutes, Payne said it lasted about 10 minutes and was still going on when the first officers arrived. “There was quite a cross-fire going on in the courtyard, and they couldn’t immediate ly rush in because not only did they not want to get shot, they didn’t want to start shooting and strike bystanders.” Investigators say two members of rival gangs exchanged words in the courtyard be tween apartments No. 250 and No. 257, where some 30 people were attending the two parties. One member returned to his group and then a shotgun was fired across the courtyard. “I was awakened by my son yelling, apartment resident Ray Salazar told the Houston Chronicle. “There was so mud shooting I couldn’t believe it. My wife ran into the living room and I grabbed her and pulled her to the floor, but she was shot be fore I could get her down.” The shotgun, a revolver and a semiauto matic pistol were retrieved from the&eiie. The Latin Kings have about 1(10 mem bers, he said. The other gang has 50 to 60 members, Payne said. “They’re not new,” Payne said. “Unfortui nately, they’ve been around for a while.” Most of the injured were treated and re leased from area hospitals, but the six most seriously injured were transported to Her mann Hospital in Houston. The two 19-year-olds in critical condition suffered single gunshot wounds, said Lee Farrell, hospital spokesman. Four others — ages 17, 16, 22 and 20- were in guarded condition for multiple gun shot wounds, but their condition was not as serious, Farrell said. Come see what TAU KAPPA is all about! Tau Kappa, the Junior Honor Society, is looking for new members for the 96-97 school year. 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