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D The Battalion EBR] I I ING Monday • March 24,1 Campus Cadets take trophy at Tug-of-Honor The Corps of Cadets took home the trophy for the Resident Hall As sociation’s Tug-of-Honor for the sec ond time yesterday. This was the second year for the event, which drew a crowd of about 150 students. The purpose of the Tug-of-Honor was to bring Texas A&M students together. Members of the Corps of Cadets, the Resident Hall Association, on- campus residents and other stu dents participated in the event, which was held at Duncan Field. There was also a Northside vs. Southside tug, which the Southside participants won. ► State Cabdrivers offer 'indecent proposals' HOUSTON (AP) — If you are a male visitor to Houston, there is a good chance your cabdriver is going to make you an indecent proposal. ► This day in history Today is Monday, March 24, the 83rd day of 1997. There are 282 days left in the year. On this date: In 1883, long-distance telephone service was inau gurated between Chicago and New York. In 1934, President Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines. In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian parti sans the day before they killed 32 German soldiers. In 1955, the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway. In 1958, rock ’n’ roll singer Elvis Presley was in ducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. In 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. In 1980, one of El Salvador’s most respected Ro man Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnul- For years, some of the city’s topless clubs have paid Houston cabdrivers to direct visitors their way. Cabdrivers are paid by some top less clubs as much as $6 for each per son they bring to the club. That does not sit well with Houston’s imagemakers, who in January slapped the clubs with the most restrictive zon ing regulations in the country. “It is counter to the image that the city of Houston needs to portray that it’s an international city,” said Helen Huey, a city council member who led the fight to restrict sexually oriented businesses. But there’s not much Ms. Huey and other city and civic leaders can do about the practice, which does not vio late the city’s ordinance regarding the licensing of taxis. “It’s hard to say what’s appropriate in a free-enterprise system,” said coun cil member Martha Wong. “But I would just hope that more dis cretion would be used, and I would hope that the cabdrivers see them selves as very important to Houston.” Bob Furey of the Colorado Bar and Grill, which has offered cash incentives for eight years, estimated that cab re ferrals account for about 5 percent of his business. During conventions, the percentage surges much higher. ► Nation Shoppers cut down on coupon clipping WASHINGTON (AP) — Supermar kets and food manufacturers agree coupons are not worth the paper they are printed on, and shoppers are clip ping fewer than ever. But the American passion for bar gains and gimmicks is thwarting com panies that try to replace coupons with promises of lower prices. “It’s a hard sell to customers, be cause ... they like that tangible piece of paper,” said Barry Scher, spokesman for the 175-store Giant Food grocery chain based in Washington. Giant stopped putting store coupons in local newspapers and has argued for years at food industry con ferences that better ways can be found to give shoppers a break. But the chain does not dare quit honoring manufac turer’s coupons. Continuing a five-year downward fo Romero, was shot to death by gunmen as he cele brated Mass in San Salvador. On March 24, 1989, the nation’s worst oil spill oc curred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leak ing 11 million gallons of crude. ► Today's birthdays Today’s Birthdays: Actor Norman Fell is 72. Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie is 57. Rock musi cian Dougie Thomson (Supertramp) is 46. Comedian- actor Louie Anderson is 44. Actress Donna Pescow is 43. Actor Robert Carradine is 43. Actress Kelly LeBrock is 37. Rhythm-and-blues DJ Rodney “Kool Kollie" Terry (Ghostdown DJs) is 36. Actress Annabella Sciorra is 33. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 27. Rapper PA. Pase- master Mase (De La Soul) is 27. trend, fewer than 2 percent of the 286.5 billion manufacturer’s coupons distributed last year were redeemed, according to a survey by Illinois-based coupon processor NCH Promotional Services. Prodded by such studies, Proctor & Gamble, makers of a wide array of household products including Jiff peanut butter, Tide laundry detergent and Crest toothpaste, experimentally pulled coupons from stores in three up state New York cities last year. “We look at couponing as a waste ful practice,” said P&G spokeswoman Linda Ulrey. “There’s nothing from our point of view that is efficient about a practice that fails over 90 percent of the time.” Experts struggle to save baby whale SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rescuers put a 2,900-pound baby whale on intra venous feeding Sunday, fighting to save her from pneumonia and a potentially deadly infection. “The next 24 hours will tell us if she survives,” said Tom Reidarson, staff ► Weather Today veterinarian at Sea World, where the nearly 17-foot whale was under 24- hour watch in an isolation pool. Estimated to be about 2 1/2 months old, she was at least 20 per cent underweight for her age and her infection appears to be getting worse, the veterinarian said. Reidarson put the whale on a new antibiotic regimen and she began re ceiving several gallons of fluid through a catheter in her tail Sunday in an ef fort to correct her dehydration. The whale was dehydrated and malnourished when she was found Thursday in the surf off Santa Bar bara. She apparently became sep arated from her mother during the annual migration of California gray whales from Alaska to Mexico. The whale was trucked 200 miles to the aquatic park. TWA investigators define missile theory SMITHTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The FBI has zeroed in on one area where an at tacker most likely would have had to be located to fire a shoulder-launched missile at TWA Right 800,TtieSs ated Press learned Sunday. The missile theory has deemed no more probable thi possibilities that a bomboi chanical malfunction caused! 17 explosion off the coast ofli land, in which 230 people died vestigators have said it has bee alive because of eyewitnessacu If a missile did hit the aircraft ly would have been fired fromi where ahead of the plane as; along the Long Island coastonj to Paris, said an investigate spoke on condition of anonym! ‘‘The conjecture is that! plane was hit by a terroristetj 01 ' 1 the terrorist would have bee of the airplane when he fired the investigator. “He would been in front of the flight pa? ing the nose of the planes posed to the rear.” Investigators speculate such an assailant would ha« to have been in a boat on lantic Ocean inside a five-m area east of the zone whee Boeing 747’s wreckage spls into the sea. r ;( 1 Tonight Tomorrow Highs & Low Early morning clouds, becoming partly cloudy and windy. Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms. 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