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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MAR. 26, 1976 Page 4 Camel visits vet center Cleopatra suffering sinus ailment She has blonde hair, weighs 800 pounds, and is six-feet tall measured just to the shoulder. She’s a 14- year-old camel named Cleopatra that has a severely swollen set of sinuses. Cleopatra has come to Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine to seek relief for her ail ment. Dr. David Hanselka, associate professor of veterinary medicine and surgery said, “She has an enlarge ment on her head, a tumor possibly, or a chronic infection of the sinuses. ” The camel is but one of the exotic animals that A&M’s College of Vet erinary Medicine has treated in the past few months. Hanselka said, “We’ve had an os trich, an elephant, a gazelle, an ibex, bears, and a bengal tiger.” Why do those animals wind up at A&M’s clinics? Hanselka said, “We have better X-Ray equipment and get better de tail on large heads. This X-Ray machine can penetrate more tissue than the ordinary kind.” In the case of Cleopatra the camel, Hanselka said, “She was referred to us by another veterinarian who had treated her previously.” Cleopatra does no work, like cros sing the hot burning sands of south west Texas where she lives near Barksdale, but is just a pampered pet owned by Doug Marshall. —Owen Rachal (Shala's &hoes has moved to 707 TEXAS Across from Charli’s Active GIs may get back pay Persons engaged in active military duty during 1972 may have some back pay coming to them. The Texas National Guard says it is still looking for former Guardsmen who have not yet claimed their back pay. In 1974 the U.S. Court of Ap peals ruled that a government pay raise scheduled for October 1972 was illegally delayed and must be paid to those active that year in the military, reserve forces or the National Guard. Reservists who have separated or retired since Oct. 1, 1972 are also eligible for the back pay. Former Guardsmen and reservists who wish to claim their money should contact their former unit. Those needing the address of their former unit should write: Texas Ad jutant General’s Department, Atten tion: Comptroller, P. O. Box 5218, Austin, Texas 78763. A NEW CONCEPT IN STUDENT STORAGE SAFE • CONVENIENT • INEXPENSIVE “WE RE THE PROFESSIONALS" CALL 822-6618 2206 PINFEATHER RD. 50 CUBIC FT plywood VAULTS FOR: BOOKS REPORTS PROJECTS STEREO’S OR JUST PLAIN JUNK Officers smuggle heroin Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Operating from the safety of U. S. military bases in this country and Thailand, a syn dicate led by Army and Air Force sergeants smuggled more than $300 million in pure heroin into this coun try on Air Force tanker planes, fed eral officials say. The heroin was hidden in false bottoms attached to wooden tables and other furniture shipped from U Tapao Air Force Base in Thailand as military baggage or was concealed in black AWOL bags — the small hand luggage carried by returning GIs. That was the account given Thurs- ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE "Where satisfaction is stanclard equ ipitient’’ 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 day by officials here and in Washing ton after federal indictments were returned in Raleigh against 14 per sons, most of them present or former military men, on charges of conspir ing to import heroin. The three-count indictment re turned by a federal grand jury was made public after 11 of the defen dants were arrested in a series of coordinated raids by military police, federal agents and local police. Three of those indicted were already in jail, one in this country and two in Thailand. The heroin arrived via Strategic Air Command planes at Mather and Travis air force bases in California, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., and Langley Air Force Base, Va., officials said, and was soon on its way to the streets of New York and other major cities. At least 220 pounds of heroin came into this country that way between August 1974 and last October when the operation began to fall apart, offi cials of the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administra tion said. But the syndicate had been operating since 1968 from the American Star Bar on Pittbury Road AGGIES . . . DON’T DELAY! Order Your Boots Now For Future Delivery — Small Payment Will Do YOUR BOOTS MADE TO ORDER Convenient Lay-A-Way Plan ONLY $100.00 A PAIR We Also Have Spurs & Chains Economy Shoe Repair & Boot Co. 109 E. Commerce San Antonio, Texas 78205 — CA 3-0047 E! A Public Service of This Magazine & The Advertising Council This ad is the work of Orrie Frutkin and Gavino Sanna. How would like to sign t work you do? decked by Ed MafcAer Would you be willing to tell the world, “I did this?” After all, you're pretty good at what you do. Probably proud of it, too. Well, most of us will never get to sign our work. And maybe that's a shame. Because as good as we are, it might make us better. And we can afford to be. Whether were teachers or short-order cooks, farmers or steamfitters, sales managers or city managers. We’ll all have more to show for k. More money, for one thing. Because we’ll be giving each other our money's worth for the products, the services and even the government we pay for. For another thing, we’ll be giving Amer ica a better chance to take on our foreign business competitors. Not just here. All around the world. That would help bring the lopsided balance of payments back onto our side. And make your dollar worth more. Best of all, as we hit our stride, we’ll be protecting jobs here at home. For ourselves and the future. And we’ll have a deeper sense of satisfaction in the jobs we’ve got. You don’t have to sign your work to see all these things happen. And more. Just do the kind of work you’d be proud to have carry your name. America. K only works as well as we do. P ##roduct in Bangkok, and officials refused to say how much heroin the ring might have shipped into this country dur ing that time. Peter N. Bensinger, federal drug enforcement administrator, said in Washington that the demise of the syndicate would “have a major crip pling impact on importation of he roin into the United States.” One of those indicted in the heroin conspiracy was Leslie “Ike” Atkin son, 50, a retired Army master sergeant from Goldsboro, N.C., who is serving a 19-year sentence in the federal prison in Atlanta on a previ ous conviction for importing heroin from Thailand. The indictment said Atkinson had continued to run the operation from his prison cell with the help of his daughter, Leslie Sharon Atkinson Arrington, 24, and her husband, Michael Otis Arrington, 24, of Raleigh, both of whom were also in dicted. Also named in the indictments, for allegedly serving as packers, couriers or mailers of heroin to other defendants in the United States were Freddie Clay Thornton, 40, Detroit; Rudolph Valentino Jennings, 49, Goldsboro, N.C.; William King Wright, 30, Washington; William Thomas, 42, Goldsboro; Monroe Lorenzo Martin Jr., 43, Long Beach, Calif; Robert Ernest Patterson, 34, Hampton, Va.; William Kelly Brown, 38, Augusta, Ga.; James McArthur, 40, Fayetteville, N.C.; and Charles Murphy Gillis, 40, Goldsboro. Biker checks scene By M. J. WOLFF Behold, a wondrous phenomena upon our fair campus: The Aggie Bicycler. There he goes on his shin ing machine; intent on his path, sec ure in his domination, stricken to his skill, faster than a speeding bullet, nothing to fear but fear itself, Tip pecanoe and Tyler too, etc In recent years the Bicycle has come to conquer A&M in perhaps the same way the Normans took Eng land, Hitler took Belgium, Adam took Eve (and so on). Everyone on this campus, from President Williams down to myself, has asked himself the reason behind it all. If you are (a) a pedestrian or (b) a pedestrian who has been hit by a cycler (a plus b equals c: a great deal of pain mingled with much usage of four-letter adjectives) then you have doubtlessly wondered about the mystique and motives that surround this creature of steel and flesh, this whirlwind of the ten-speed steed that barrels over hither and yon (ac tually it’s Hither’s fault, he should have jumped out of the way). And, if you are one of these in teresting inhabitants of the two wheeled tornado, then perhaps you have wished for insight into the messy workings of your own soul (i.e. why did he zig when you zagged?). If you are one of the above ti, take heart. During the near fill® is my lofty ambition to analyze; rudiments of cycling upon thejri and fertile shores of Texas .14 Every week Thunder Penney’s 3-speed) and I will«|ii the riding areas of the campusaii as probing, the things thatimkl average Aggie Bicycler one wonders of the Maroon and^ US contacts Hanoi to set up talks Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States has sent a care fully worded message to Hanoi through a foreign government, probably France, that it is will ing to sit down with Communist Vietnam and begin talks that could eventually lead to a nor malization of relations. U.S. officials said Thursday night that the first order of busi ness would be settling the fate of Americans missing in the In dochina war. A response from Hanoi is being awaited. The feeler follows a report to Secretary of State Henry A. Kis singer by Rep. G. V. Did you bother your bike this will it be there when to lock morning? you return? REELOCK is the first bicycle locking system to offer convenience and absolute safety. The system attaches to the frame crossmember, and cannot be removed in lock position. Chain retracts into tamper proof case when not in use. Locks and unlocks in seconds! compact steel case bolts to frame. locks and unlocks in seconds, cut, shatter and tamper-prool inadequate V REELOCK | The W»rth ktot AJwttd Biryde LodikgSyUwiij Available only by mail from: The Williams Company 370 East Uth Avenue Denver. Colorado 80203 Montgomery, D-Miss., »ii that headed a congressional tea that went to Paris and Hanoik December for informations more than 800 missing Aim cans. Paris is considered apros[» tive site for the talks. While the fate of the miss Americans would be thefti item on the agenda, it is stood the talks could move beyond that to Hanoisa lations with Thailand other neighbors in Soutliei!| Asia. State Department spoil man Robert L. Funseth firmed the overtures to Has |iek saying: “We are prepared to with the Vietnamese to disci all of the Vietnamese-relateds sues. That includes themisi in action.” PIE dV fest ir fa ay i Fan lepl ml ay atr Vizi ack will irda ■112 (wl Leakey to pre0 ‘Nature of M nzi R. E. Leakey will visit the At campus on Monday, March! part of the Centennial Acades Tih Assemblies Program and the C« Issues Committee’s “NatureoW series. Leakey, a well known: speeted anthropologist, will at two discussion sessionswhoses nad con Still Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery jects will be determined by tions from the floor. The first session will run from! 'elk 11:30 a.m. and the seconds'll mve from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Both will! place in room 401 of the Rudderl wer. Leakey will present a formalli (Y F ture at 7:30 p.m. Monday io Rudder Auditorium. The National Commission on #ra)ductivity, Washington, D.C Now Better Than Ever. 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