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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1979 Sun Theatres 333 University 846-9808i The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week i Open 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat. 12 Noon * 12 Midnight Sun No one under 18 Escorted Ladies Free ( BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS Vessel boarded by island pirates United Press International JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Spear-wielding pirates boarded and looted a research vessel in the Indian Ocean, seized three American crew members and led one away with a noose around his neck, an amateur radio operator says. The ham operator said he picked up distress calls from the 350-ton Alysse Maru saying hundreds of Moslem Maidive Islanders swinging machetes and spears clambered aboard the converted minesweeper. They looted cabins, terrorized the crew and seized the captain and two other crew members. The natives of the Maidive Islands, which lie in the Indian Ocean 400 miles southwest of Sri Lanka, have been famous as sailors for centuries but in recent years have resorted to piracy. Radio Operator Gary Blumenthal barricaded himself in the trans mission room and sent out distress signals. They were heard in Johannesburg by amateur radio operator Eli Salant, who passed them on to the U.S. Navy base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. He said the pirates boarded the oceanographic research vessel, after it developed engine trouble Sunday and dropped anchor in an island port. The pirates swarmed over the Panamanian-registered ship, ran sacked cabins and ripped navigational equipment and other fixtures from the walls until one of 10-man crew fired a burst from a carbine into the air. When the marauders left the ship, the crew weighed anchor and headed for Diego Garcia, several hundred miles to the south. In Washington, the Pentagon confirmed its Indian Ocean base was keeping in touch with the Alisse Maru. There were unconfirmed reports that American officials had opened negotiations with au thorities on the Maidive Islands — a British protectorate until 1968 — to secure the release of the hostages. Slip-slidin away Sunday’s ice storm makes a last stand on this sign two miles outside Bryan on Tabor Road. The sheet of sliding ice creates a double in effect as it moves downward. MSC AGGIE CINEMA :★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 1 MANOR EAST 3 t *- * MOMENT BY MOMENT A RAISIN IN THE SUN |P~ rated G Wednesday February 21 8 p.m. MSC 201 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ‘EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE’ Texas counties gerrymander I voting districts, speaker says KING OF THE GYPSIES SKYWAY TWIN WEST COIN’ SOUTH PLUS CITIZEN’S BAND EAST OLIVER’S STORY PLUS FIRST LOVE CAMPUS PARADISE ALLEY starring Sylvester Stallone Fri. and Sat. Midnight ROCKY HORROR if I if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ * Movie Posters Yourself Or For For Gifts Chinatown Taxi Driver 2001 Clockwork Orange Rocky Horror Picture Show Lord of the Rings Superman Annie Hall Heaven Can Wait 1900 Duellists Seven Beauties Swept Away Story of O Providence Aguirre Wrath of God Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Obscure Object of Desire Madame Rosa Lace Maker Face to Face Personna Gone With the Wind Zardoz Pink Flamingos Star Wars Flesh Gordon Jaws Exorcist Remember Me Magic Godfather Wizards Rollerball Young Frankenstein Fellini’s ‘‘Roma’’ Fellini’s “Casanova" Monty Python and the Holy Grail Cria Man Who Loved Women King of Hearts Ruling Class Strozeski Allegro non Tropo Fellini’s “Amarcord" Metamorphoses Female Trouble By ESTHER CORTEZ Battalion Reporter Mexican-Americans in Texas have a very difficult time obtaining politi cal office, despite high voter regis tration and turnout of the Mexican-American population. Gerrymandering of the voting districts is the problem, according to William Velasquez, director of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. Velasquez spoke Tuesday night at the Memorial Student Center to about 60 people on gerrymandering in Texas counties. He was spon sored by the Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture (CAMAC). Eliminating gerrymandering is important in keeping our country true to its ideals, meaning equal, just application of its laws, Velas quez said. All of the first 66 counties which his organization investigated were gerrymandering against Mexican- Americans. And that just doesn’t happen by chance, Velasquez said. According to Velasquez, the Mexican-American is very in terested in local elections, but he becomes discouraged when his hard work and efforts show no results. “He gets to be like Charlie Brown who’s lost all 894 games,” Velasquez said. “He keeps asking him self, 'How can we keep losing when we re so sincere?’ “They conduct good voter regis tration drives, educate the voter, and have excellent voter turnout, but are still losing elections,” Velas quez said. He adds that voter regis tration among Mexican-Americans has increased by more than 21 per cent over the past two vears. ■ hJi This type of losing has a detri mental effect on both thevolti the political leader, he said tually, both become conviidl no one cares, and that it isjml worth the trouble.” Doctor 'inoculates’ youths against pressure to smoke PHI THETA meeting at 7 national con SAN ANTONK 7:30 p-m. m TAMU surf c followed by Tower. MSC ARTS CO p.m. in Roo TAMU SPORT p.m. in Roo SMITH COUN 7:30 p m. in information, TAMU STAMP tors and dea: Rudder Tow hillel CLUI Foundation BLACK AWAR business at STUDENTS ( terested stm Room 216T, WOMEN IN basement of call 693-959 Itamu road future runs, Physics Buil BRIDGE CLU for room nu \GGIE CINE stars in this $10,000 insi money, will PLACEMENT for the folios views on Mi Cutler Ham Entex Inc., wath, McAl tion, Marsu Standard Oi Trano., Uni: United Press International WASHINGTON — A behavioral scientist reports some success in psychologically “inoculating” youngsters against the peer pres sures that often influence that first smoke which might lead to a lifetime habit. Dr. Alfred L. McAlister of Har vard University’s School of Public Health says the unique approach works on the idea that it should be a lot easier to help people avoid smok ing in the first place than to try to change habits already established. “A great deal of information about the risks of heavy smoking has been disseminated in the past 15 years but the fact that one in five young people continues to adopt the habit clearly indicates that a more sophis ticated approach to the problem is needed, he said. McAlister told a recent American Heart Association meeting at Hilton Head, S.C., that over half of all young people who smoke today adopted the habit before or during their ninth grade in school. “The major factor that students themselves report as influencing their decisions to experiment with tobacco is peer pressure, and direct influence from a ‘favorite’ peer ap pears to be the most potent of those pressures,” McAlister said. He said youngsters often consider smoking a sign of independence from adult authority, and a sign of maturity. He said a child who re fuses an offer of a cigarette may be called a “chicken.” “The young person who accepts an offer of a cigarette gains not only greater acceptance of smoking peers hut also the appearance of being more ‘tough,’ ‘cool,’ mature and ad venturous than his or her non smoking peers.’ So McAlister and two colleiA at Stanford University devtl AMU HUMA the psychological approacl counter those peer pressure likened it to the concept ofiw WATEl tion in preventive medicine, the “germs” of smoking social pressures. He said the infection ofsiiti “Human Fa p.m. in Roo MSC Fount can be prevented if the subje exposed to a weak dose oil germs’ to facilitate thedeve 1 of ‘antibodies’ which McAiisI fined in this case as skills for ing the pressures of smoking, ‘‘The applicability of the co of inoculation is obvious, lie “If youngsters are likely tobt ‘chicken’ for refusing offers of: rettes, they can be forewarn pressures of that sort and pro assertiveness training whichd able them to counter those the Aggie Players present: THE THREEPENNY and much more to choose from, including 8x10 photos, lobby cards, and other memorabilia. Bertold Brecht's sardonic script and Kurt Weill's haunting music seize upon John Gay's 1728 "Beggar's Opera"* . . and turn all of its lavish hypocracies and shark-like sentimentalities squarely upon the modern world. ^ X.A I V. 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