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hursday "January 22, 1998 —The Battalion News GREAT HAUL, GRIMMY. By Quatro HAP SOME TIME TO KIU-. A we Hall By JED ■i ■ STIU SPUtifJij ■EHt-S HuH? 'VE 5PUcet> THE 'EWeHfltt" <SreHe i Mro THIS tirr6(?OF Pit ecus. Box aren't PIT BULLS \liooo$? . \T^ KOT ^*4 FfW r iimel & Lewis By Mell A!?E yoU HyPEb ABOUT 'HE SuPgR. Bouuy |Kot reallv. A I'VE Planmimg mv PAerV, PaiNtiHo- /ny $ODV AHD Myc\HCr /AV FOOTBALL hat. so uhaT have You Vo\m Au WEEK? ZC Postmaster General to resign Runyon credited with making Postal Service more modem, efficient WASHINGTON (AP) — Post master General Marvin Runyon, credited with modernizing the postal service and turning it into a profitable business, announced today that he is resigning. During his six years at the helm of the nation’s largest civilian em ployer, Runyon, 73, was credited with improving delivery of first- class mail while trimming the ad ministrative staff by 23,000. He also looked to technology to help speed up mail processing. For instance, he added robotic com puters, optical character readers and other computer automations. The U.S. Postal Service turned a $1.26 billion profit in 1997 and ex pects a profitable 1998. The Postal Service’s financial successes of 1997 follows profits of $ 1.77 billion in 1995 and $1.57 billion in 1996, after years of red ink. The strong three-year per formance trimmed the agency’s long-term financial deficiency from $5.9 billion to $1.36 billion. “We have made significant strides in raising our service performance levels, in developing a customer-fo cused approach to postal issues....” Runyon said in a statement. Runyon’s time with the Postal Service was marred by a conflict of interest investigation that ended last year with him paying $27,550 as part of a civil settlement. Runyon was accused of break ing federal law by taking part in talks about placing Coca-Cola ma chines in post offices. He owned Coke stock at the time. The deal was never completed. A former executive at au tomakers Ford and Nissan Amer ica, Runyon was named chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Reagan. At the TVA, he earned the nickname “Garvin Marvin” when he slashed the pay roll by one-third. In 1992, the governors of the U.S. Postal Service recruited him to become postmaster general. Runyon said he will remain post master general until Feb. 15 and then return home to Nashville to consider other job opportunities. “I like a challenge and would like to find something like a TVA or a Postal Service, which gives me that challenge,” Runyon told the Nashville Banner. “What would really be good for me is to find something that can create a partnership between business and government. That would be along the lines of what I have been doing.” Abortion-rights debate continues as court ruling anniversary nears WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of the 25th an niversary of Roe vs. Wade, the woman at the center of the landmark Supreme Court ruling says she wants to see the law overturned — either by Congress or the court itself. “I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life un doing the law that bears my name,” Norma McCorvey, the Texas woman who was the plaintiff under an as sumed name in the 1973 case, today told a Senate sub committee hearing on Roe vs. Wade. “It is my sincere prayer that there be no 30th an niversary of Roe vs. Wade,” she said. “I would like nothing more than to have this law overturned, ei ther by an act of Congress or a reversal in the Supreme Court.” McCorvey stunned the abortion-rights community several years ago with her announcement she had come to believe abortion was wrong. McCorvey, who worked in several abortion clinics, said she finally grew “tired of the lies and deception and decided to come out and tell the truth.” After 25 years of legalized abortion, “I can tell you from the bottom of my heart that our experiment with legal abortion has utterly failed,” she said. Abortion-rights advocates, meanwhile, gathered a few blocks from the Capitol for a breakfast that includ ed numerous Hollywood celebrity supporters who lat er would lobby the few members of Congress who were in town. President Clinton reassured them he was on their side. “I'm committed to keeping abortion safe, legal and accessible,” he said in videotaped remarks, “and to making it rare.” Activists representing both sides also demonstrated in the capital Hxesday. Carol Wall had four children in 1966 when she found out she was pregnant. She and her husband felt un prepared to have another child but after deciding to opt for abortion they encountered another problem: The procedure was illegal. “My husband and I had a warm, loving family,” Wall, who traveled to Puerto Rico for an illegal abor tion, said. But “it was extremely clear to me that, fi nancially and emotionally, I could not have anoth er child.” Wall joined other abortion-rights supporters outside the Supreme Court Tuesday to share personal experi ences from both before and after the ruling that legal ized the procedure 25 years ago. Anti-abortion activists made their voices heard too, shouting over the speakers with their comments. “This court stands in contempt of the God almighty,” the Rev. Philip Benham, Operation Res cue’s national president, said, pointing to the Supreme Court. He and others protested the event sponsored by the National Abortion and Reproduc tive Rights Action League. 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