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THE BATTALION Page 9 £4 Lockheed 1 Quake causes future trouble inked in payoffs ncesasctj d grain t ’s meal, | mpy wtia prices oil nake it 4 stock. 1 ConsenIL Associated Press nillion atJoME — Rome s biggest news- as toTescfer joined the Italian Communist ;oday in demanding an official igation of reports of payoffs by kheed Aircraft Corp. and the ientral Intelligence Agency to politicians. Communist party, which ran 1 erosion d moretl i had been :>rado, loma and 13,000 lose second to the Christian perats in elections last June, the president of the lower J of parliament to call a special Q)h of the foreign relations com- p “to probe the Lockheed af- and the inadmissible inter- of the CIA.” font-page editorial in II Mes- fo, Rome’s biggest newspaper, investigations ordered in The glands and Japan of alleged ;d payoffs there to get air- fcrders, “but from us? It’s all rvice ] at the in cboiuj bout ssness, «l seven To remain silent or to pretend to out oi Ling nothing is not only grotes- ublic 5 b u t, for the majority of citizens, most timmoral. becausi fbc new Lockheed scandal fell on Premier-designate Aldo who was trying to put to- |r another minority cabinet up of Christian Democrats The political world and the jlic waited to see whether he retain the interior minister in government, Luigi Gui, who two newspapers said was paid Loc kheed money while he was defense' minister in an earlier government. Gui denied the accusation and filed a statement with the state pro secutor asking him to conduct an in vestigation. A 1970 Lockheed memorandum released in Washington last week by a U.S. Senate subcommittee said the aircraft manufacturer paid $1.6 mill ion to promote the sale of 14 C-130 cargo planes to Italy. The memoran dum did not contain any names. The Italian left is also making hay with the earlier report from Washington that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and the CIA earmarked $6 million for anti- Communist parties and politicians in Italy in an effort to reduce Com munist election gains. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — One week after Guatemala’s de vastating earthquake, officials are turning to such longer-range prob lems as the wheat harvest, recon struction of shattered villages and towns, and clearance of the highway from Guatemala City to the coast. There has been no increase for more than 24 hours in the official toll of 17,032 dead, almost 55,000 in jured and more than a sixth of the country’s 6 million people homeless. Emergency foreign aid is pouring in, no serious outbreaks of disease have been reported and business activity is resuming in Guatemala City. The corn harvest was over before the quake, but workers are needed to get the wheat crop in during the next two weeks. The nation’s bread basket, between Chilmaltenango and Lago de los Cisnes Swan Lake was hit hard, and many farm workers were killed or injured. Many of the survivors are busy rebuilding their adobe homes. Officials said priority must also be given to rebuilding the small towns in which damage was heaviest. Many are just piles of rubble. Guatemala is an agricultural country, and the rural towns are regional centers of com merce and government. Inspection teams are also looking for future trouble spots left by the quake early last Wednesday and more than 600 aftershocks since then. The spring rains due in mid- May could cause floods if natural drainage channels are still blocked by landslides. A military engineering group was due in today to survey the highway from Guatemala City to Puerto Bar rios and Santo Tomas on the coast. The main route for imports from the United States, was blocked by more than 100 landslides and the destruc tion of two major bridges. In Guatemala City, lines formed outside banks. Shops and stores opened. Motor traffic was hectic once again, and parking places were scarce. But thousands still lined up for the distribution of food. An average of one plane load of aid arrived from abroad every hour. Two more 200- bed U.S. Army field hospitals came in Tuesday night, and the U.S. Em bassy estimated there were 430 American military personnel on re lief duty in the country. Today in history Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 1976. There are 324 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On this date in 1945, the World War II Yalta Agreement was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Soviet-backed force takes ports wn on ikl /as 216 Di ans in fo 02 Repti! Associated Press The Soviet-backed MPLA faction in Angola has announced the capture of the two ports at the Atlantic end of the railroad across the central part of the country, and British correspon dents report that the MPLA and linking still problem for Soviet workers ortant, a jn activi icas. airman >| a mee t|]K Associated Press would MOSCOW — After nearly 60 of Soviet power, drink still is rseofthe Soviet Union’s work- sses and the Kremlin doesn’t able to do much about it. ile many Western countries mentedii have serious problems with al- , hoi. the issue is especially touchy rssaid the Soviet Union, where the mes di immunists proclaim they are creat- elt eoulijanew — and sober — Soviet needed nB ,dge Patfwenty years ago, Soviet au- othem#es maintained that they had ourt feelB nate( l the basic causes for ex- n actir w r ' n ^ n 8 : exploitation, injustice f the pwf the “poverty of the toiling mas- ather mf 61 drunkeness persists despite a cover °1 antidrinking laws, fulmina- lale, Liilf* by top leaders. Communist :y, De/jN ecrees and newspaper articles intingout the evil consequences of |ng drink. I Tlrive through Moscow streets in Ivening can in some areas be- e an obstacle course of drunken Brians. Restaurants are always I of Russians downing glass after ss of vodka and cognac. The p also probably produce more i brew than any country in the proved! he phorJ ig for d:'f stern businessmen are told to |re the vodka-laced meals of- by their Russian hosts. Foreign lations have hazy memories of entertained at parties where to “peace and friendship ’ be- too numerous to count, n a statement that could be u ghtto -My applied in the Soviet Union, "i lewspaper Izvestia pointed to own where the people drank council antin' gefor udson lay’s act ssion -ather ? free dir neetinf ; npany r date If ntial ontli b® vodka “to celebrate every conceiva ble occasion — birthdays, Saturdays, Sundays, paydays, the arrival of re latives, vacations, purchases, sales, etc. ” The frequent press reports on misuse of alcohol show the problem is too serious to ignore in the Soviet Union. But the Kremlin won’t di vulge the true dimensions of al coholic consumption because it probably wovdd reflect unfavorably on life in the Soviet Union. Since 1963, statistical books have dropped figures on alcohol produc tion and there is no breakdown of fered on the amount of State revenue derived from the sale of vodka and other spirits. Andrei Sakharov, a leading Soviet dissident, wrote that per capita con sumption of alcohol in the Soviet Union “is three times more than in Czarist Russia.” The figures cannot be verified, but some Western experts believe the Soviet Union ranks first in the world in consumption of alcohol per person over 15 years of age. Some other Westerners have calculated that the annual liquor bill for Soviet citizens exceeds the announced defense budget, announced as 17.4 billion rubles — $23.4 billion at the official rate of exchange. To combat drunkeness, Soviet au thorities have raised vodka prices, substituted inferior brands, closed bars, regulated buying hours at liquor stores, increased penalties for drunkeness, built sobering up sta tions, begun compulsory treatment of alcoholics and even tried to step up production of beer and soft drinks. \ The ^ i The only full service hair shaping emporium in the Northgate area. Call or come by: Above Kesami Sandwich Shoppe 331 University Drive College Station, Texas 713/846-7614 77840 Cuban forces are moving toward con frontation with the South African army. Jane Bergerol of the London Fi nancial Times reported from Luan da, the Angolan capital, that the MPLA Popular Movement an nounced its unopposed occupation Tuesday of Benguela, the coastal terminus of the Benguela Railroad, and Lobito, the country’s chief port 20 miles to the north. “The rout of the pro-Western UNITA (National Union) in southern Angola now is virtually com plete .... A direct confrontation with the South African army now seems imminent,” Nicholas Ashford of the Times of London reported from Johannesburg. The MPLA regime, which earlier took most of northern Angola from the FNLA (National Front), another Western-backed faction, also scored a diplomatic victory with the an nouncement by President Idi Amin of Uganda that the Organization of African Unity now ecognizes it as the legitimate gov ernment of Angola. Amin is the pres ident of the OAU. An MPLA broadcast reported there was no resistance to the forces that moved into Benguela and Lobito and the people of the two towns gave them a “resounding wel come,” the Financial Times corres pondent said. The broadcast “made clear the Luanda government has no intention of stopping its southern advance or of leaving the South African forces to continue their occupation of south ern Angola,” Miss Bergerol said. The broadcast said the offensive will now move on toward the south ern city of Sa da Bandeira, some 200 miles south, which has an important air base for the South African forces. The South African army is re ported to have established a mined defense line manned by an estimated 5,000 troops 50 miles north of the border between Angola and South-West Africa Namibia and about 100 miles south of Sa da Ban- diera. The South African govern ment says its troops are in southern Angola to defend the Cunene Dam on the Cunene river, which forms part of the border and supplies elec tricity to South-West Africa. The capture of Benguela and Lobito and last weekend of Huambo, 150 miles from the coast, gave the MPLA control of both ends of the strategic railroad, an outlet before the civil war for copper from Zambia and Zaire. Following the fall of huambo, which had been the UNITA capital, MPLA and Cuban forces were also reported advancing on Silva Porto, UNITA’s military headquarters 9 miles to the east, and on Luso, 175 miles from the eastern end of the railway. The MPLA has held the eastern end of the line at Teixeira de Sousa for months. The OAU said today that Angola had been admitted as the 47th full member of the pan-African body. OAU headquarters in Addis Ababa made public a telegram from OAU Secretary-General William Eteki Mboumoua to the head of the MPLA government, Agostinho Neto, in forming him that his government qualified as a full member since it had been recognized by a majority of the member states. Amin, in announcing the OAU recognition of the MPLA regime, also announced his own govern ment’s recognition and said it was the 26th of the 46 OAU nations to endorse the pro-Soviet faction. He said that under OAU rules, recogni tion by a majority of the membership automatically made the MPLA An gola’s legitimate representative in international affairs. CWIAS RE CUEM Recipe #.00008 & ELLOWi TNOW: 1. Fill a glass with nice, clean snow. (White only, please.) 2. Add Cuervo Gold Especial. 3. See it turn yellow? 4. Put a straw in and drink. 5. If snow is unavailable, use crushed ice. Or, forget the snow, and just put a straw in the bottle. Or forget the straw and just pour some Gold in a glass. Or just have some water. Must we make all these decisions for you? JOSE CUERVO® TEQUILA. 80 PROOF. IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY © 1975, HEUBLEIN, INC., HARTFORD, CONN. Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 SUPPORT THE AGGIES! Send: SONNY PARKER BARRY DAVIS |#|77R RAY ROBERTS GATES ERWIN HHUt To The PIZZA HUT Basketball Classic Ballot Night Each Wednesday Night Thru February, 5:00p.m. Till Closing. CORRECTLY COMPLETE 20 BALLOTS RECEIVE $1.00 OFF 15” PIZZA CORRECTLY COMPLETE 15 BALLOTS RECEIVE 75c OFF 13” PIZZA CORRECTLY COMPLETE 10 BALLOTS RECEIVE 50c OFF 10” PIZZA OFFER VALID ONLY AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS . . . PIZZA HUT, 102 E. UNIV. C.S. — PIZZA HUT, 2610 S. TEXAS, B. PIZZA HUT, HWY. 79, HEARNE SHOPPING CENTER, HEARNE The Game will be on national T.V., April 5th. All proceeds donated to charity. Ballots available anytime at Pizza Hut or Basketball Game. How a 19-year-old college sophomore can become a21*year-old Army officer. The Army offers college sophomores the opportunity to earn an officer’s commission in two years. It’s tough, but the people who can manage it are the people we want to manage the men, money and materials of the United States Army. You apply for the special Two-Year Army ROTC Program during your sophomore year. Then attend a six-week Basic Camp, with pay. Approximately $500. You’ll learn what it takes to be a soldier—to have your body toughened, your confidence developed. Do well and you can qualify for the Armv ROTC Advanced Course in the fall. Do exceptionally well, and you may be heading back to college with a two-year full tuition scholarship. For the next two years you’ll learn what it takes to be an Army officer. You’ll be challenged both mentally and physically. You’ll get the kind of management and leadership experience that will be an asset to you in any career, military or civilian. You’ll receive an extra $100 a month, up to 20 months. And when you graduate, you’ll have earned your college degree along with the gold bars of an Army officer. The Two-Year Army ROTC Program. If that’s the kind of challenge you’re looking for, you’re the kind of student we’re kxiking for. Contact Captain Orr Military Science Department Texas A&M Telephone 845-1622 DEADLINE: APRIL 2, 1976 ARMY ROTC. LEARN WHAT IT TAKES TO LEAD.