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This is A K T R news archive tape recorded April 2nd 1980 with news features from 12 1979 and spring 1980 first report filed on September 8, 1979 on a rally in downtown Houston to attempt to stop the Amtrak system from discontinuing the Lone Star train

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route which at that time ran through Houston running time approximately four minutes. The Lone Star is the only train that goes through Houston daily. Each day trains start out from the Houston Amtrak station and head on the three day route toward Chicago. But the trains will

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stop at the end of this month of Amtrak management has its way. Six routes including the Lone Star are scheduled to be cut out at the end of September on Saturday. About 500 people showed up at the Amtrak station to protest the cancellation of the Lone

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Star route. Among them, rice, Professor Francis Lon, old an old train supporter and I hate to see this train go. I've been here 20 years in this town and I wouldn't like to see this train go. Now, I've ridden this train dozens of times and I

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continue to ride these trains. And I think it's a disgrace. It's hard to believe that what the fifth or sixth largest city in the country. We have a train three days a week. Can't go to Dallas, can't go to Fort Worth, can't go to Kansas City,

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can't go to Chicago. It's hard to believe the save of the trains rally was organized by the Texas Association of Railroad Passengers and Houston State Representative Val Edwards in morning workshops. The group developed a platform calling for an intercity rail network in Texas, tax incentives to

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keep railroad beds usable. And a personal meeting with President Carter to try to persuade him to save a lone star route. Representative Edwards, we're going to do everything possible to get to the president every way possible to get to him and see if he'll give us

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some help. Now, when I say give us some help, I'm not only talking about the train that leaves Houston and go to Chicago saving that one, but we're talking about even the other four or five train that's going to be a cut out around the country.

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This is not just a Houston fight or a Texas fight in as much as I represent a district from Texas because we need traveling to be made available all over the southern part of the country, all over the southwestern part of the country and all over

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the United States spirit like other countries. We want his support and if you want ours, I'm sure he'll give us our. And I think he's going to have to understand that, that we want him to help. This is the time when the South needs his help

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because that was the time that he needed ours. And I'm sure there's going to be another time that he'll need ours and we want to make sure that's real plain and clear to him. But even without the president's health efforts are underway on other levels, Jim

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Hoffmeister is chairman of the Texas Association of Railroad Passengers, Attorney General of Texas. Mark Wright has filed suit in federal court to block any discontinuance of rail passenger service, not only in Texas but throughout the country and he's done so on the grounds of a failure

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of the Department of Transportation to comply with the law that set forward or set up this process in the first place. We think he has a very strong case. He thinks he has a very strong case and he will be working to block any discontinues the

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rail passenger service. So that's what's really under way at this point in time. If whites efforts are successful, the rally organizers look forward to eventually expanding railroad routes in Texas but not immediately, Jack Martin, a guest speaker at the rally heads the National Association of Railroad

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Passengers. I think routes to the South and Southwest are going pretty well be held in limbo expansion wise until we have another census and we get a better distribution on our representation in the Congress and then the northeast is not going to be able to hold

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all the cookies the way they do today. You've got tremendous growth in Texas and they haven't counted the people in Texas officially since 1970. You haven't had an opportunity to send more people to the Congress. You'll have that chance in 1981. But the fight to save

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the Lone Star is the immediate concern with the most pressing deadline. The lobbying efforts and court actions have to pay off before September 30 because that's the date. The last Lone Star is scheduled to leave Houston David Butler, K T R U News. This next report,

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a feature on the Shaker on the Baker College Shakespearean Festival produced on Monday, March 17th, 1980 running time. Four minutes, 10 seconds five. Again this year Baker College is hosting the Shakespearean festival. The fair on Sunday boasted plenty of food and fun. Among the fun was

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these stocks where one could place his best friend or enemy in bondage for a price. It seem to be a stock. Yeah, I do. Well, how did you get into this predicament? I wish I knew you in charge of this here. Yes, sir. Just be cents

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in 10 minutes. Anybody you like or anybody you hate, especially me, I suppose. Oh, no, you can love them too. You can get married right here. In the stocks. We have Father Ucci hanging around absolutely free. Do you think you're ever going to get out of

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this, sir? You think you're ever going to get out of this? Well, it's looking bleak. The rope ladder attracted many people. The object being to reach the bell at the top of the ladder. Excuse me, I'm Billy from KTRE News. You're about to climb this ladder

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here. Yes, I am. You can get to make it. I know I'm going to make it. You know, you're going to make it. What are you going? If you get up there, 50 cents is worth, of course. Ok. He's now climbing up the ladder. Get it.

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It's a fantastic festival and a good crowd out today. That's good. Do you think the weather's going to ruin it? Any? I know it's just starting to rain here. It's sprinkling. But I think no one's spirits are dampened. That's good. Glad to hear it. The second

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half of the fair featured a slave auction and a magic show going on right now. The slave auction. $16 $16 grand. No, he doesn't like you. No, he doesn't like you. Ok. Well, here, $16 16 54 $16 for hunt. He doesn't have any money. $16. Great.

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17, we're in a favor with Dr Kurzman, the master of Baker College. How do you think it is going so far in this booth? It's going real well. Slaves are looking real good. The bidding is going up high. We've got lots of good people Dunkin and

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dunking booth. People are eating too much drinking too much. Its going very, very well. Sounds like it is going very long. What happens to the money that they raise? What happens to the money that they raise? Well, party, the party. Well, the first thing it goes

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to is liquor. That's the first thing. Second thing it goes to is liquor. Third thing it goes to is liquor. After that comes beer. And finally women, I see. OK. This party for any and all party. This is her in the uh uh the Shakespeare play

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on this week. Right. Right. OK. Thank you very much. Doctor. Think that after the auction came the magic show which is a very interesting and entertaining you. After the magic show, I was able to ask the magician a few questions. Magic is the oldest art form

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in the world. Everything that we know of as an art form, architecture, paintings, dance music was originally part of a magical ritual of some sort of some sort even architecture. The biggest magic trick in the world is the great pyramid of Egypt because the function of

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it is to cause a man's soul to go from this life into the afterlife and to be comfortable without anyone disturbing him. Yeah, it didn't work. We finally disturbed him despite the weather that they have afforded the fun at the Shakespearean Festival Colleges then asked to

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provide everyone plenty of fun food and a special drink says Marine at the Shakespearean Festival. This next report, an announcement by President Norman Hackerman at the faculty meeting on Monday, March 17 1980 announcing the conversion of Lovett and Jones Colleges

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to Co Ed status. One of the reasons the, uh there are so many students here. If they are interested in the colleges, there will be five of them next fall. Uh including Jones and Lovett that will start in the fall. And the only restriction I was

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to put on it is at least for next year to use one of the Jones towers uh for single sex dormitory purposes. I will provide for those uh girls in that college or for many of my hope who were not persuaded of the desirability of Jones

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going coed this next report, a review aired Tuesday March 18th on the Baker, Shakespearean play for 1980 Romeo and Juliet Baker College is now presenting Shakespeare's great romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet produced by Barry Bryce and directed by Katie Salmons. Everyone should be familiar with the

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story of the two young lovers from feuding families who both end by killing themselves for each other. In the Baker production. The relationship between Juliet and Romeo is well handled full of passion but not soupy. Indeed, the whole cast worked together well, displaying the enmity between

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the capulets and Montagues and expressing the camaraderie and love within each family. Unfortunately, there were a number of rushed and garbled lines in the first act perhaps due to opening night jitters. But things improved. Notably, as the play progressed, the outstanding performance of the night was

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given by Karen Chatfield who truly shown as Juliet physically well suited to the role of a young lover. Her voice is strong and clear and her acting superb. Robert Catterall as Romeo had the difficult task of keeping pace with her, but he managed successfully after a

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slightly shaky start, Mark Cotton's portrayal of the cynical meo was lighthearted but convincing and his constant companion, Ben Voglio played by John Gray was witty and charming. Gilberti. Barbs Tibbles was excellently fierce, especially impressive was Joe Ricky as Friar Lawrence, the somewhat earthly man of God

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who performs the marriage of Romeo and Juliet. His performance was steady and showed an understanding of the difficult part and his clear diction made the Shakespearean dialect seem natural. Playing Juliet's nurse. Susan Darnell brought the loquacious old woman to life though she garbled some lines. Also

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of note were Lady Capulet, played by Diana Vansen and Peter, the nurse's servant, played by Steve Kirkland. The un ostentatious lighting in the simple but versatile set, contribute to the production, which is a fine presentation of Shakespeare's great tragedy and well worth seeing Romeo and Juliet

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will be presented every night this week through Saturday in Baker Commons. There is an admission charge And for more information call this number 6611671. This is Paul C Graves for K T R News. This next report, a review by Paul Graves of the Rice Players production

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of Edward Albee's play Seascape report aired on March 24th, 1980. The Rice Players are performing Edward Albee's play Seascape. It will run through March 29 th at Hammond Hall performing at eight o'clock nightly in it. Chris Mayes and Patrick Brady play Nancy and Charlie. A settled

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married couple who have watched their Children and grandchildren grow while Charlie feels he has finally earned a little rest. Nancy refuses to let 60 years take her teeth, weigh down her breast, wrinkle her face and give her nothing in return. She remembers more than the wonderful

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years she and Charlie shared. Nancy recalls Charlie's impotence as well as her feelings of encroaching domesticity as she is attempting to awaken her tired husband from his lullaby of memories. They are happened upon by two exquisite lizards. Ironically, the lizards have left the sanctuary of the

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water for the unknown but possibly fulfilling prospects of the shore with all the fears and misunderstandings that accompany communicating with the foreign culture. Nancy and Charlie join with the lizards. Sarah and Leslie in their exploration of a life away from it all. Nancy Webb and John

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mcconnell certainly look wizardly in Neil Haven's newest production, their movements around and disbelief of the human forms they encounter are both plausible and amusing makeup wise. In the small ham and hall auditorium, Chris Anne Mays and Patrick Brady were overly done as 80 year old lepers.

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Fortunately, their actions undermine their appearance of a century old as they play. Endearing and endearing elderly couple. Seascape is directed by Neil Havens. It is an interaction of exquisite lizards experiencing the midlife crisis with the Polyester set. The play will run through March 29th. You can

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call the play or box office at 5274040. That report obviously not by Paul C grave but by Mary Kay Zarra. This next report aired Friday March 28th, 1980. A report on the appointment of new administrators at the upper levels of rice. There's been another round of

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changes in Rice's top administrative posts. University President Norman Hackerman announced two appointments, one promotion and one resignation. This afternoon, Dr William Gordon, the Dean of the Weis School of Natural Sciences has been appointed as Rice's New Provost in that job, he'll be responsible for maintenance of

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the academic programs at Rice and the maintenance of the Fondre Library. Acting Proctor E C Holt of the civil Engineering Department has been given a three year appointment as permanent Proctor at Rice University. Dr John Margrave, the Dean of Advanced Studies and research has been promoted

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to the position of Vice President of Advanced Studies and research. He's still responsible for all graduate studies, but now he's on an equal administrative level with the vice president for administration and with the Provost and Dr Robert Sterling, the Dean of the Jones School of Administration

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since its founding in 1976 has resigned to take a job with the University of Alberta. Dr Dean Tuggle, associate Dean of the Jones School will serve as acting dean while a search committee looks for a replacement for Dr Sterling. The latest round of administrative changes still

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leaves openings for the Dean of the School of Engineering. Now for the Dean of the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Administration at Rice. This is David Butler reporting for Kru News. This next report is part of an interview with Dr Arnie Trolls of

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Rice University professor of electrical engineering and acting master of Sid Richardson College who announced at the Sid Rich College Night in spring 1980 that he would be retiring from Rice at the end of the year, Dr Arnie Troster was interviewed by Bill Bray. It's such a

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small school. Uh Even I taught a, a rather large class most of the time I was at I, I taught the, the big N G 2 41 circuit class which usually has about 100 students each semester in semester in it. And, but still, you know, I

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had a feeling that I really knew almost everybody in that class and, you know, I had time to uh uh to talk to the students personally. And I, I, I, I enjoyed that aspect of it and I think in a, in a, I taught before in

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a, in a, in a much bigger state school, the University of Illinois in Chicago. And I felt that there was much less the possibility of doing that. And I think it right is really the interaction between faculty and students, I think is one of the, the

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things I enjoyed most here. And Rice as far as teaching goes as far as teaching, did you have the opportunity to do the kind of research and other things here? The research opportunities are are very good here. I think it's the environment is is very uh

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uh go to develop uh research. Uh The only thing is you are usually the programs are rather small. Like in bioengineering, there were only at the end two faculty members in our department involved in bioengineering research and that is sometimes difficult. It's sort of a small

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mass, it's some, some it's below, below the critical mass. You need to get a viable program. This next report, a continuation of the interview with Dr Arnie Trostre. Again, Dr Troo, interviewed by Kru news director, Bill Bray. This is Bill Bray with a KT news feature.

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Dr Arnie Trostre is a professor of engineering at Rice University. He is also the master of Sid Richardson College. Trolls announced this year that he will be leaving Rice at the end of the spring semester, I had the chance to talk with Dr and Mrs Trostre

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in their home at Richardson College. I wanted to know why they have decided to leave rice. This year, I had a sabbatical year and the year before this was my sabbatical year. So we decided that I wanted to take that and, you know, try out a

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couple of things and of course, I had to come back for a year after that sabbatical. I took my, my sabbatical year after I think, nine years instead of the usual and the seventh year. But I had to come back for another year. That is sort

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of the agreement you have with, with Rice University. And this then looked as good a time as any to, to, uh, to leave. Yeah. Uh, I was going to ask you if, if the salary situation here has anything to do with your departure. Now, that's a

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hot issue on campus. Now, I know, but it had nothing to do with it. I asked Dr Troster about his plans for next year. I will be going to North Carolina. Well, we have a house in North Carolina and some property and that's where we're going

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to live. Will you be teaching over there or? No, I'm going to retire from academic life. I'm going to do a lot of things. I have a lot of hobbies and things I would like to pursue. I have a lot of time for yourself and your

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family. That's right. Mrs Trolls said she was looking forward to next year. I like the better. This is too much, too closed in, too closed in. Too much cement, too little pressure and, um, too, well, too much traffic and all that kind of thing. You know.

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What do you plan to be doing next year? Uh, a lot of tennis, a lot of hiking, a lot of growing things. What kind of advantages or things have you enjoyed about, about working at rice? I like rice. You know, because it's such a small school.

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Uh Even I taught a rather large class most of the time I was at, I, I taught the big 241 Circuit class which usually has about 100 students each semester, a semester in it. And, but still, you know, I had a feeling that I really knew

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almost everybody in that class and, you know, I had time to uh uh to talk to the students personally and I, I, I, I enjoyed that aspect of it and I think in a, in a, I taught before in a, in a, in a much bigger

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state school, University of Illinois in Chicago. And I felt that there was there much less the possibility of doing that. And I think at R C is really the interaction between faculty and students I think is one of the, the things I enjoyed most here at

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Rice. As far as teaching goes, as far as teaching, did you have the opportunity to do the kind of research and other things here? The research opportunities are, are very good here. I think it's the environment is, is very uh uh go to develop uh research.

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Uh The only thing is you are usually the programs are rather small. Like in bioengineering, there were only at the end two faculty members in our department involved in bioengineering research. And that is sometimes difficult. It's sort of a small mass. It's some, it's below, below

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the critical mass. You need to get a viable program. You've been master at Richardson now for this semester, I'm sure there have been things about it that you've enjoyed and probably things that you haven't. So, what are the high points? Well, what we really enjoy is

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the interaction with the students sort of on an informal basis. You know, living here in the college, we, we lagged at, you know, certain aspects of it. What really we found was the most difficult thing is, uh, you know, being 24 hours, you know, they involved

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with things that go on at rise that, you know, you, you miss leaving your work and leaving all your troubles behind and go to your home and here you stay on campus, you be, you, you're there all the time. And that was sort of, especially at

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first sort of in the, you had to get used to that. I'd like to thank you both very much for the interview with Dr and Mrs Trostre. This has been Bill Bray for K News. The next report was filed by David Tuttle on April 11 th

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1980. About the beer bike race running time is approximately 50 seconds. Final preparations are now being made for the annual Relais Beer bike race scheduled for this Saturday afternoon in the Rice Stadium parking lot. the track has been repaired and repainted and the teams have been

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holding practices every day this week, a final meeting of beer bike captains will be held at one PM tomorrow at the track. If all, if all goes as scheduled, the women's race will begin at two PM, followed by the men's race an hour later. However, if

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our present rainy weather continues through Saturday, the races will be moved to Sunday at three and four PM and if it's still raining Sunday, the team captains will meet and decide on another date sometime in the near future. If the race is held Saturday or Sunday,

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K tru will be covering it live for you. So be sure to tune in. And if it's held on another date, we're not quite sure whether we'll be able to cover it. And, ah, if we can, we'll tell you this is David Tuttle reporting for K

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T R U Sports. This is another continuation of K T R U news morgue of carts and things today is May 1st 1980 we're starting with April 22nd, 1980. A quote from someone in the Anderson campaign on Rice University telling us about Anderson's upcoming Independents or

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independent running for the presidency. Ok. Well, first of all the, he's not gonna come to the legal and voters debate for obvious reasons. Um, he, he would be debating Republican candidates and he's not a Republican anymore as far as, you know, the candidacy goes, uh, it

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general knowledge and we have it from the people in Washington, but they won't allow us to quote him on it. So you, you can't quote him. It's off the record. But be assured that on Thursday, John Anderson won't. John Anderson won't be an independent president, presidential

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candidate that ran approximately 20 seconds. The next cart run on or actually made on April 23rd, 1980. Bill Bray talks about a bomb which exploded on the seventh floor lobby of Sid Richardson College time is whatever it is. When I say at the end, a small

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homemade bomb exploded this afternoon on the balcony of the seventh floor of Richardson College. The blast destroyed two windows but caused no personal injury. Fred Ender, 1/7 floor resident was in his room when the bomb went off from the direction of the lobby. So I ran

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out there, my door was open, I just ran out of the lobby and when I got out there, I was the only person there and two large cans of glass were just cracked into 1000. And so I went out onto the balcony and looked around to

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see where the explosion came from. And I found fragments of a kind of a homemade looking bomb out there that was made out of nylon packing tape and wire and I could smell gunpowder. The bomb was exploded at about 1 25 PM. The two windows destroyed

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will cost more than $500 each to replace. According to rice buildings and grounds maintenance coordinator, Mark Johnson Johnson expects the repairs to take about two weeks to complete. Sergeant Manning of the rice campus. Police said that so far investigations into the bombings have had negative results

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for K tru news. This is Bill Bray that ran approximately one minute and 15 seconds. The next report is Paul Graves at the league and league of women voters debate that was held on April 23rd. This runs approximately three minutes and 15 seconds problem. The 1980

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presidential forum held in the Albert Thomas convention center Wednesday evening held no big surprises. Reagan and Bush agreed on basic policies. The differences they expressed were minor. Bush proposed a smaller initial tax cut than Reagan in order to help balance the budget. A big difference. For

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example, that the governor and I have regards this tax cut. He feels I don't want to put words in his mouth and he's here to defend or explain his position that you can cut taxes by 70 billion in the first year. The Wall Street Journal attributed

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the figure to that tax cut idea to 90 billion in the first year inheritance and gift taxes. We computed that at $5.4 billion and still balance the budget and still increase defense spending. President Kennedy suggested this cut that was implemented by Johnson. The cut was 11.4

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billion. It resulted in a $4.4 billion revenue loss. Inflation then was 1.8%. Today, it's 18 investor confidence was out there today. There's none. So in my judgment that economic program would exacerbate the deficit. It would result in less stimulation of the economy because of the conditions.

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And I believe that before we can have massive across the board tax cuts, we've got to get the budget in balance. So I am proposing a $20 billion as opposed to 70 or 90 supply side tax cut to stimulate savings for home to stimulate business. Bush

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said he recognized there might be a temporary increase in unemployment accompanying his plan, but that there would be a stimulation of the economy through a less extensive tax cut and a balanced budget Reagan, however disagreed and had this to say, I believe the alternative to inflation

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is recession. I think that's old fashioned economics. I don't think that you have to trade unemployment. And incidentally President Carter as a candidate said that he would never fight inflation by using unemployment President Carter in his present economic message has said that as a part of

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his fight against inflation, unemployment is going to be allowed to go up 1 to 1.5 or 2% points. Now this is self destructive because for every single percentage point that you add to the unemployment rose, you add 25 to $29 billion to the federal deficit, both

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in the loss of revenue from those no longer working and in the benefits that go out to them. Underlying the few disagreements. Wednesday night, both Reagan and Bush reiterated the Republican theme that Carter must be beaten. They both supported cuts in taxes and government spending and

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a stronger national defense. Kru News talked to Anne Nance, a member of the audience at Wednesday evening's press forum when asked what she thought of the debate, she responded, I thought it was very good. I thoroughly enjoyed it, very impressed at the solidarity. But yet at

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the same time, I was hoping for a little bit more argument. The most striking characteristic of the debate was a similarity, a few points rather than the difference between Bush and Reagan. This is Paul Graves for K News. The next car is General David Jones reaction

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to the attempt by President Carter to free the Iranian hostages that ended in tragedy and eight people being killed. This runs approximately 20 seconds, I believe it was a complete darkness. They had night vision devices, but it was unfortunate on the lift off. It appeared that

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the helicopter struck the C 130 they were both in Gulf in flames. Alright. So that was shorter than 20 seconds, about 10. Now, we have two quotes from. The first one is from John Ford, Press Secretary for Governor Bill Clements, and the second one is from

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John Tower, both commenting on President Carter's action in Iran. Uh his reaction to the rescue operation was that to his best knowledge. This was President Carter's own initiative. He said the president started it and he ended it and he's bundled it again. And now John Tower

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have reached the tentative conclusion that there was no breach of either statutory or constitutional restraint by the president. There may have been other failures of judgment failures to plan thoroughly failures in overall command and inadequate consideration of political and military risk. The final judgment on these

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matters should await full disclosure of the facts as they unfold. And now another car, Senator Kennedy's reaction to Carter's actions. This one runs approximately 45 seconds. I share the feeling of all Americans at this sad moment for our country. We grieve for the loss of the

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eight Americans who were killed, our hearts and our prayers go out to their families. They died in the service of their country. We are also united as Americans in our determination to hold the Iranian government fully accountable for the safety of the hostages. Whatever our other

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differences, we are one nation in our commitment to the hostages, are concerned for their families and our sorrow for the brave men who gave their lives trying to rescue their fellow citizens. This is Richard Suge reporting with the Kennedy campaign. The next report is about the

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Lovett College Chili Cook off. This was submitted at on April 28th, 1980 runs one minute. This is William Laa last Sunday. A challenge by the resident associates of Lovett College was met. The challenge is for anyone to cook a more toothsome batch of chili than theirs.

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The judging which took place at six PM. Sunday was done by the distinguished team, Russ Coleman who was the head judge, Mike Goa and Fred France. All of Lovett College entering the contest were the resident associates of Lovett, Mike Freeman and Ross Jennings along with Mr

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and Mrs Haman who were faculty, associates of Lovett and these students, Rafael Longoria Ken Hines, Phil Bell and Kevin Lind Kevin Lind with his Campbell soup chili. After much sampling and deliberation, the judges chose the south of the border chili made by Rafael Longoria as the

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best and tied for second were Phil Bell and the resident associates Freeman and Jennings. Rafael receives a bottle of 12 year aged chili Regal for his wonderful batch of chili and a special award went to Kevin Lynn for his chicken chili. The award being a can

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of Hormel Chili for K T I U News. This is William. The next report is President Carter's reaction to the resignation of his Secretary of State Cyrus Vance Vance resigned because of his protest of the attempted rescue of the Iranian hostages. This was submitted on April

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28th, 1980 is the fine and dedicated man who has served me and services nation. Well, he leaves his post red series of great accomplishments behind him with an offer to help me in any way. I ask you in the future and with my gratitude and friendship

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intact. His departure did not have any adverse effect at all on the efforts to rescue the American hostages. The next car, David Butler ah relays the fact that Earl Cooper, a Rice fullback who had graduated or who was graduating in 1980 was drafted 13th in line

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in the national football league college draft. This runs approximately one minute. The first round of the NFL draft is over and Rice running back, Earl Cooper was selected in the first round by the San Francisco 49 ers the 49 Ers picked up Cooper late in the

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first round after trading their second place spot in the first round to the New York Jets. The Jets took that opportunity to pick up the University of Texas wide receiver Johnny Lamb Jones, other Southwest conference personnel going in the first round included MS running back Curtis

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Sticky picked up by the Baltimore Colts and defensive end, Jacob Green selected by the Seattle Seahawks and Texas defensive back, Johnny Jones, who's going to the Rams again to repeat. Earl Cooper was selected in the first round of the NFL draft by the San Francisco 49

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Ers. We'll have updates later on tonight. This is David Butler for K Sports that was submitted on April 29th, 1980 as this as is this other NFL report submitted by David Tuttle. This runs approximately one minute and 50 seconds. The first round of the National football

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league college draft was held Tuesday morning and there were some last minute deals but few surprises. The first player to be chosen was Billy Simms running back from University of Oklahoma. Sims was picked by the Detroit Lions. The second person to go was Johnny Lamb Jones.

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The speedy running back from the University of Texas. He was acquired by the New York Jets who made a last minute trade with San Francisco for the number two position other Southwest conference signees in the first round in the number five spot. Curtis Dickey running back

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from Texas A and M went to the Baltimore Colts and in the San Francisco New York Jets deal, the number 13 position went to San Francisco who chose Earl Cooper of Rice. Johnny Johnson defensive back from University of Texas goes to the Los Angeles Rams who

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got the number 15 position from Cleveland and in the number 17 position, Jacob Green defensive end from Texas A and M goes to the Seattle Seahawks in other draftees outside of the South West conference. Mark Wilson quarterback from Brigham Young University considered to be the best

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in the nation last year went to the Oakland Raiders in the 16th position and in the 25th position, Vegas Ferguson running back from the University of Notre Dame went to New England. This is the position where Houston was to have selected a draft choice, but the

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spot was given to the Patriots last year for defensive tackle Leon Gray and number 27 down the line, Heisman trophy winner, Charles White running back from the University of Southern California went to the Cleveland Browns. The owners didn't get to pick in the first round but

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they will get two, number two draft, second round draft choices that is and the Cowboys will not be getting a draft choice until the third round. We'll have more for you when the information becomes available. This is David Tuttle reporting for K T R U Sports.