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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.
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