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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, September 20, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ STATE
Olympics expected to boost Atlanta’s economy.
ATLANTA (AP) — The national economy may be sliding into a
recession and Atlanta’s mid-1980s boom may be over, but economists
say the 1996 Olympic Games will give the area an economic shot in
the arm that could last into the 21st century.“Atlanta will be a pocket
of prosperity in a dismal national scene,” said Jeffrey Rosensweig, an
assistant professor of finance at Emory University Business School.
“This will be a catalytic event, restarting the metro Atlanta
economy." The Olympics will have a $3.5 billion financial impact on
metro Atlanta, including $1.2 billion in direct spending by the
Atlanta Organizing Committee, said University of Georgia economist
Jeffrey M. Humphreys. Another $400 million is expected to be spent
by visitors to the area, and $1.9 billion in indirect spending is
projected, said Humphreys, who is director of the university’s
Economic Forecasting Project .The Games are expected to generate
85,000 new jobs.
Protesters: Use money to clean up Savannah River
Site. SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Savannah Ri ver Site officials are
touting their progress on a multibillion-dollar plan to clean up
radioactive and chemical contamination at the plant, but some
residents want the cleanup to move even faster. A group of protesters
showed up at a meeting in Savannah Tuesday night to urge SRS
officials to take money earmarked for restarting one of the nuclear
weapons plant’s idled reactors and use it to clean up hazardous waste
instead. About 100 people attended the briefing on the 30-year
cleanup plan, put on by the U.S. Department of Energy and
Westinghouse Savannah River Co., the contractor that runs the plant
near Aiken, S.C. Outside the meeting, Coastal Citizens for a Clean
Environment picketed to demand that funds earmarked for the
December reactor restart be directed toward the cleanup instead.
Isakson, Miller snare celebrities for fundraisers.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s gubernatorial race became a battle for
celebrity fund-raisers Wednesday as GOP nominee Johnny Isakson
announced President Bush will come to Georgia next month to help
raise money for his campaign. Democrat Zell Miller counterpunched
with his announcement that both Georgia senators, Sam Nunn and
Wyche Fowler, will host a fund-raising dinner on Miller’s behalf 10
days later. Bush will visit the state Oct. 10 for a $l,500-per-couple
fund-raiser for Isakson, according to an announcement by the
campaign. Isakson press aide Anne McMahon said the campaign
hoped to raise about $500,000. Although the announcement to the
press said that this was the first time in Georgia history that a
president would come to the state for a fundraiser for a Republican
candidate, Mack Mattingly used a similar tactic in 1986 when then-
President Ronald Reagon came here to help his unsuccessful bid for a
U.S. Senator position. The White House and the Republican National
Committee have targeted the Georgia race as a political priority this
year. Earlier this month, Vice President Dan Quayle visited the state
in Isakson’s behalf. Tickets for the Oct. 18 Nunn-Fowler dinner for
Miller go for $1,000 per person.
Psychiatric tests ordered for Moody. MACON, Ga. (AP) —
Mail bombs suspect Walter Leroy Moody Jr. must undergo
psychiatric testing to determine if he is competent to stand trial, a
federal judge ordered Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Wilbur D. Owens
Jr. ordered that Moody, who is being held in the Atlanta Federal
Penitentiary, be examined within 30 days. Owens has set a Nov. 26
trial date. The courts estimate the trial will take about two weeks.The
evaluation was requested by federal prosecutors, who said Moody’s
mental health history from 1967 to 1988 indicates “there may be
reasonable cause to believe” Moody suffers from a mental disease.
Moody and his wife, Susan, are named in a 13-count federal
indictment accusing them of peijury, bribery and obstruction of
justice. Moody, 56, of Rex, is the chief suspect in the December mail
bombings that killed federal appeals court Judge Robert Vance and
Savannah lawyer Robert Robinson. No charges have been filed in
those bombing cases.
■ NATION
Defense bill passes House. Washington (AP) — The
House on Wednesday approved a $283 billion defense bill that slashes
$2.4 billion from President Bush’s fiscal 1991 budget request for the
Strategic Defense Initiative and halts production of the B-2 bomber.
By a vote of 256-155, the House adopted the military budget despite a
presidential veto threat as it pushed to recess for the Jewish holiday
of Rosh Hashana. In a final plea, the ranking Republican on the
House Armed Services Committee said Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney had just told him that President Bush would veto the bill,
citing the drastic cuts in SDI, the B-2 stealth bomber and troop
strength. Overall, the legislation slashes $24 billion from the
president’s request for defense in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
Voters show anti-government sentiment in primaries.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a primary election that was reminiscent of
the French Revolution, heads rolled at all levels of the Massachusetts
ballot.“A lot of voters have been very angry for a long time and they
finally got a chance to go to the ballot and say so,” said Ralph
Whitehead, analyst at the University of Massachusetts. In the
Democratic primary, John Silber easily defeated former Attorney
General Francis Bellotti for the nomination to succeed Gov. Michael
Dukakis. Silber, on leave as president of Boston University, ran as
the anti-establishment candidate. Candidates all the way down the
ballot who held elective office were defeated, including Attorney
General James Shannon, who said he was swept away by a political
“tidal wave.”A certain kiss of death was close association with
Dukakis. In Silber, Democrats nominated a candidate who admitted
without hesitation that he voted for Republican George Bush in the
1988 presidential election.
■ WORLD
Canadian troops tear gas Mohawks. Kahnawake,
Quebec (AP) — Soldiers fired tear gas into a crowd of Mohawks and
clashed with Indians at a reservation where soldiers were searching
Tuesday for weapons. Three Mohawks and five soldiers were injured,
authorities said. In one of the most violent clashes since the Mohawk
standoff began more than two months ago,soldiers used rifle butts to
keep back Indians protesting the raid on small Tekakwitha Island.
One soldier was dragged to the ground, kicked and struck repeatedly
over the head with his helmet. That soldier and at least four others
were injured, according to military spokesman, Maj. Rusty Bassarab.
A 15-year-old girl and two other Indians were injured, said Louis
Montour, medical director of the nearby Kateri Memorial Hospital,
located on the Kahnawake reservation south of montreal. At least 75
people, including several Indian children, received treatment for the
tear gas, Montour said. Tuesday’s clash began when about 200
Mohawks gathered on the bridge to the Indian island in response to
the army search. About 25 soldiers had gathered outside the Kateri
hospital, near the bridge.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
Athens Area Habitat for
Humanity will meet today at
7:30 p.m. at Faith Presbyterian
Church, 2191 Mars Hill Road,
Watkinsville. For more
information on the meeting and
on getting involved, call 543-
6239.
The Culture of the South
Association will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 138 of the Tate
Center. All interested are
welcome.
The Project Safe group for
battered and formerly battered
women will meet this evening.
The support group is for women
who have been physically,
sexually, and/or emotionally
abused by their partners. The
location and all information at
the meeting is kept confidential,
and child care is provided. For
information, contact the hot line
at (404) 543-3331.
Items for UGA T<xlay must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be printed.
Include specific meeting location,
speaker's title and topic, and a
contact person's phone number.
Some go the extra
mile for cheap gas
Chris Rank/The Red and Black
Globe Oil Co.: On Milledge Ave. showed some of the
lowest gas prices in Athens Wednesday
By MICHEAL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
The advent of the Middle East
Crisis has brought gasoline prices
to the forefront of Americans’
minds, and penny-pinching college
students are no exception. Some
may even waste gas traveling to
find the lowest price.
One day it goes up and
one day it goes down; it
changed nine cents
over the weekend;
sometimes they
change the prices
three times a day.
“I tend to recognize cheaper
prices; I’ll drive an extra mile to get
a cheaper price unless I’m on
empty real bad,” said Kara Wal
drop, a pre-nursing sophomore.
Waldrop scoured the town
searching for the best bargain. She
said she found it right across the
street.
After traveling to the Racetrack
near Georgia Square Mall then up
Baxter and Prince Streets, she set
tled on buying gas at the Chevron
Food Mart on Baxter, across from
Russell Hall, at $1.15 per gallon of
regular unleaded gasoline.
If Waldrop had traveled a little
farther, out Milledge Avenue near
the Macon Highway, she’d have
found regular unleaded at the
Globe Oil Company for $1.13. Gas
prices vary throughout Athens and
fluctuate every day.
On Baxter Street, prices ranged
Wednesday from $1.15 to $1.23 a
gallon. One Chevron service sta
tion was selling gas for $1.17 a
gallon, another for $1.31 a gallon.
“It comes and goes,” said Roy
Meeler, owner of the British Petro
leum service station at the inter
section of Milledge and Lumpkin
Streets.
“One day it goes up and one day
it goes down; it changed nine cents
over the weekend; sometimes they
change the prices three times a
day,” he said.
Meeler’s station is a company-
owned station and has its prices
dictated to him by BP. Other sta
tions are independently owned and
operated, and can set lower prices.
‘The independents are putting
us out of business,” Meeler said.
‘They aren’t running us out,
they’re renting us out; you have to
sell gas to pay the rent.”
Charles Hofer, a professor of
business management, said there
may be many different reasons for
different prices.
Service stations in a high-traffic
area with many other stations
around usually have more compe-
tetive prices, while others in areas
by themselves may be able to
charge higher prices.
“It’s the old law of supply and de
mand,” Hofer said.
Also, ofT-brand and independent
service stations may buy gas from
different suppliers to get the
cheapest price.
The owner of the Chevron Food
Mart said he keeps lower gas
prices by selling gas exactly at cost.
Although he doesn’t make a profit
from the gas pumps, he said it
brings in more business for his food
mart.
Regular unleaded gasoline deals
at stations around Athens
The cheapest prices around:
• $1.13 at Globe Oil Company, Milledge Ave. near Macon Highway
• $1.15 at Crown Gas, Prince Ave. across from Navy School
• $1.15 at Amoco Gas, Barnett Shoals at College Station
• $1.15 at Chevron, Baxter Street across from Russell Hall
• $1.15 at Hess, W. Broad near Mexicali Grille
• $1.16 at The Stop, W. Broad at Church St.
The heftiest prices in town:
• $1.27 at Shell, Prince at Finley
• $1.26 at Phillips 66, Prince, across from Athens Medical Center
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