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DO YOU TEACH political science sociology history civics economics government social science social studies literature journalism .creative writing Your students may welcome the opportunity to receive The Texas Observer at special reduced rates for a semester. For orders of ten or more copies of each issue sent to a single address the cost for the semester is just $1.75 per student \(including Semester subscriptions will begin with the issue published on October 1st. In addition we will send, immediately upon receiving your order, your choice of any two of the following issues for each student subscribing: The Texas Water Plan Biggest Boondoggle in History? Reform in TexasI, Reform in TexasII \(a two-issue series on the status of several public policy issues Barnes of De Leon; J. Frank current issue. Requests for other back issues as the bonus selection will be filled as long as the supply lasts. Send your order now, specifying your bonus selection, to The Texas Observer, 504 West 24th, Austin, 78705. You may revise your order as the class rolls settle, at which time we will bill you. We also invite requests for sample copies of recent issues, as a method of introducing the Observer to your students. Learn the secrets of beer cookery Send in this coupon for our pamphlet of free recipes on cook ing with beer. Find out how to make delicious everyday dishes with beersuch as beer meat loaf, beer chicken, beer sausages and beer cake. And then there are such gourmet treats as rarebits and Carbonnades Flamandes. Beer cookery is as traditional as yesterday… as modern as tomorrow. Beer adds a real flavor treat. I’m interested in recipes for cooking with beer. Send me my free pamphlet. Name Street City State Zip UNITED STATES BREWERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 905 International Life Bldg., Austin, Texas 78701 . some $91 million. The acquisition, still subject to stockholders’ approval, would include KRLD radio and television, owned by the Times Herald Printing Co. That part of the transaction must be approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The Kennedy and Johnson administrations brought anti-trust suits against several newspapers to discourage mergers, including a suit which forced Times Mirror Company to divest itself of two newspapers in San Bernardino, Calif., which it acquired in 1964. The Nixon administration has taken firm positions against conglomerate acquisitions which hint of trusts, but has not become involved with newspapers. Both the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Times Herald endorsed Nixon’s presidential candidacy last year. A. C. Green, who formerly ran the Herald’s editorial and book pages and who now is writing books in Austin, says he would drop his suit against his former employers if the merger with the LA paper goes through. Greene has sued the Herald alleging that he has not been given full 14 The Texas Observer value for stock he acquired while still working with the paper. Operation Intercept, the US government’s energetic campaign to reduce the flow of marijuana and narcotics across the Mexican border into the United States, is running into opposition by two straight groups border businessmen and tourists. During the first few days of the crackdown on illegal drug traffic, the customs inspectors seized less dope than they do under normal inspection procedures, but they professed encouragement and said that smugglers must be getting the message. The intensive border inspections created massive traffic snarls and a great deal of international grousing. U.S. Cong. Jim Collins of Dallas introduced a bill that would impose a sentence of up to life imprisonment at hard labor on a “non-addicted” person convicted of transporting narcotic drugs across state lines.