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Friday • February 14,!
Dave House, The Battalion
Flipping for art
Karie Fehler, a sophomore ag. journalism major, checks out
posters for sale in front of the MSC Thursday afternoon.
► State
A&M officials accused
of illegal contributions
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Top Texas
A&M University System officials may
have violated the law by discussing
campaign contributions for a state
senator, the San Antonio Express-
News reported Thursday.
A Texas A&M System spokes
woman, however, said no laws'were
broken at the February 1994 system
meeting in Laredo.
At issue is whether state time,
employees or resources were used
for political purposes.
James Bond, university system
counsel, told officials at the meeting
about an upcoming fund raiser for
state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo,
who was a majority member of the
Texas Senate Education Committee.
Bond said he “hopes that many”
of the presidents and directors of
Texas A&M agencies would attend
and “give monetary support,” ac
cording to minutes of the meeting.
Then-Chancellor William Mobley
raised the possibility of sponsoring an
event for Zaffirini, but the response
was the “problem is that she has an
opponent,” according to the minutes.
Texas A&M System spokes
woman Terri Parker said Wednesday
neither comment broke the law or uni
versity system rules.
“Based upon a passing comment
at a meeting three years ago, we
can’t say that a system policy was vi
olated,” she said.
Mobley, Bond, a former chancellor,
presidents of two A&M campuses
and a vice chancellor each gave at
least $100 to Zaffirini just over a
week after the meeting. Mobley gave
$500 and Bond gave $150.
Zaffirini said she recalls attending
a fund-raising luncheon at the time at
which she received contributions
from Texas A&M officials.
“I certainly believe that every law
should be upheld, and I would as
sume they (Texas A&M officials) fol
low the letter of the law," she said. “I
can’t imagine they wouldn’t."
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Coffee-worker strike
causes pricing hike
CHICAGO (AP) — Coffee lovers
may be in for an unexpected jolt when
they reach for that morning cup of joe
— higher prices.
Striking workers in Colombia and
rain-soaked plantations in Latin
America are threatening to cause a
big drop in deliveries, a prospect
that is already sending coffee fu
tures soaring.
That could lead to price hikes in
coffee shops and grocery stores, but
java drinkers appear no more jittery
than usual.
“We just can’t do without it," said
Yvette Kukuk, who was sipping decaf
with a friend at a Seattle Starbucks
on Wednesday. “We’ll just scrimp for
change the days we don’t have
enough money if the prices go up.
We’ll just deal with it.”
Futures prices — the cost of a
pound of coffee to be delivered to a
New York Sugar, Coffee and Cocoa Ex
change warehouse later in the year
— have increased 65 percent in the
last eight weeks.
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truth about the Rev. Martin Luf-
Jr.’s assassination will diewi;
Earl Ray, King’s family is asking!
be given a trial to answertheque
that have haunted them for30i
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mine the truth.”
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Ray, 68, pleaded guilty tcBnting Barbos
King and was sentenced to 9fH president o
in prison but almost immedia kfy, said Barb
canted his confession. He da wy debut lam
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named “Raoul" who arranged"frusic.
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near the shooting scene.
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tel in 1968, several theories^
faced as to who was responsi
This day in history
► Weather
Today is Friday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 1997. There
are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day.
On this date:
In 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the re
cently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for
the first time as it arrived in France.
In 1876, inventors Alexander Graham Bell and El
isha Gray applied separately for patents related to the
telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled
Bell the rightful inventor.)
In 1895, Oscar Wilde’s final play, The Importance of
Being Earnest, a comedy, opened at the St. James’s
Theatre in London.
In 1920, the League of Women Voters was founded
in Chicago; its first president was Maude Wood Park.
In 1929, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre took
place -in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al
Capone’s gang were gunned down.
In 1962, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a
televised tour of the White House.
In 1984, 6-year-old Stormie Jones became the
world’s first heart-liyer transplant recipient at Children's
Hospital of Pittsburgh (she died in November 1990).
One year ago: Texas Sen. Phil Gramm bowed out of
the race for the Republican presidential nomination fol
lowing his poor showings in the Louisiana and Iowa cau
cuses.
► Today's birthdays
Tonight
Tomorrow
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T oday’s Expected:!
48°F
Tonight sEipectedl!
TV personality Hugh Downs is 76. Actress-singer Flo
rence Henderson is 63. Journalist Carl Bernstein is 53.
Actor-dancer Gregory Hines is 51. Cajun singer-musi
cian Michael Doucet (Beausoleil) is 46. Actor Ken Wahl
is 41. Actress Meg Tilly is 37. Tennis player Manuela
Maleeva-Fragniere is 30.
Cloudy with a
chance of rain during
the day.
Decreasing cloudi
ness and clear at night.
Sunny and cool.
Tomorrows!^®
High
65°F
Tomorrow Nf
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39°F
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MSC Visual Arts and MSC Literary Arts present
Layers of African-
American History
The Works of Leamon Green
and Phillis Wheatley
Tuesday, February 18
5 to 7 pm
Visual Arts Gallery
Memorial Student Center room 289
5 pm. Discussion with painter Leamon Green
6 pm. Reading of poetry by Phillis Wheatley
Refreshments provided
The Leamon Green exhibit is open until February 2 7
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