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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1976 Page 7 Enjoy this great new drink from Mexico! We're passing along the recipe used by Mexico City’s famed Las Piramides bar. The secret is in the way these two great liquors blend so well with orange juice. Try one, there’s nothing like it. Caramba! 1 02. Southern Comfort % oz. tequila Orange juice Fill a highball glass with ice cubes. Add the tequila and Southern Comfort. Fill with juice, stir and add a cherry. You know it's got to be good. . . when it's made with Southern Comfort SOUTHERN COMFORT CORPORATION. 100 PROOF LIQUEUR. ST. LOUIS, MO. 63132 Uneasy ceasefire E ^ pt aUeees terrori ° m slows war action Israel plans U. N. reply ^ Associated Press rminoil to talce immediate stens J m Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon — A new cease-fire appeared to take hold in Beirut today, but police said the 13-month-old civil war raged on in the mountains east of the Lebanese capital. Police reported only two persons killed and six wounded in Beirut dur ing the night, the lowest casualty toll in weeks. But a spokesman said there were heavy 155mm artillery duels bet ween Kamal Jumblatt’s leftist Mos lem warriors and right-wing Christ ian defenders during the night in the mountain towns overlooking Beirut. The spokesman said at least 36 per sons were killed and 5 were wounded in these clashes. Bursts of machine-gun fire were also heard in Beirut at midmorning. However, they were sporadic. The Moslems halted a drive to take Beirut’s port area Tuesday night after both sides agreed to a disen gagement proposal worked out by the Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian truce committee. Steel-helmeted troops of the Palestine Liberation Army, the reg ular military of the Palestine Libera tion Organization, set up scores of sand-bagged positions during the night to form a 100-yard-wide buffer zone along much of the two-mile line between Beirut’s Moslem and Chris tian sections. Police said more than 1,000 PLA troops moved into the downtown commercial center and the port area, while reinforced guerrilla patrols policed the city’s Moslem quarters. “It is a test of the real intentions of the combatants. If it succeeds, simi lar disengagement programs will be introduced to de-escalate fighting in the suburbs, in the neighboring mountain towns and in northern Lebanon,” a spokesman for the truce committee said. Associated Press UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Is rael replies at the U.N. Security Council today to an Egyptian charge it is pursuing policies of terrorism, annexation and resettlement in oc cupied West Jordan. “If Israel persists in this most dangerous and illegal policy, it will be solely responsible for the disrup tion of all chances for peace,” Egyp tian Ambassador A. Esmat Abdel Meguid told the council Tuesday. This was the second debate in two months on Israeli policy in the ter ritories Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Meguid urged the 15-nation council to take immediate steps “with a view to putting an end to these violations and to rescind “all previous illegal measures” taken by Israeli authorities in the occupied territories. Meguid said his government re quested the council meeting be cause the situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is deteriorating rapidly. But Western diplomats thought the Egyptians were trying to challenge Syria’s position as the main supporter of the Palestinian liberation movement. Relations between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Syrian President Hafez Assad have worse- Liner’s captain now on banana boat ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Commo'- dore Geoffrey Marr, the last captain of the liner Queen Elizabeth, is working these days as the second mate on the banana boat Manza- nares. “It keeps me young and from rust ing away in the chimney corner of my home in Wiltshire, England, says Marr, who has spent more than 50 years as a seaman. Marr was aboard the Manzanares when it arrived recently in the Port of Albany to deliver a load of bananas. ned because of Assad’s efforts to re strain the Palestinians leftist Mos lem allies in Lebanon. The council voted 11 to 1 to allow the PLO to participate in the debate with the rights of a member state. The United States cast the negative vote, and Britain, France and Italy abstained. The U.S. vote was not a veto since it was cast on a procedural rather than a substantive question. U.S. Ambassador William- W. Scranton said his government had no objection to hearing the views of Palestinians. He said he opposed treating the PLO as a state. Also in vited to the council as nonvoting par- ticipatints were Israel, Jordan and Syria. There have been almost daily riots and protests among the Arabs living in the West Bank territory since a xeligious incident in East Jerusalem in February. Much of the protest is against establishment of Jewish set tlements in the area. Seven Arabs have been killed. Meguid said the protests de monstrated the “determination of the Palestinian people to put an end to the Israeli occupation and ter rorist practices.” Pre-registration shows increase for fall term Pre-registration and new student admissions for this fall show large increases over last year and univer sity admissions officials said they ex pect the trend to continue through September. 13,186 students pre-registered last week, Willis Ritchey, associate director of registration, said yester day. About 11,000 students pre registered for the fall 75 semester last spring. “About 10 per cent of the student body (2,600) couldn’t pre-register because they were on scholastic pro bation,” Ritchey said. A number of eligible students, mostly in graduate programs, did not pre-register and will register the week before or dur ing the week in which fall classes start, he added. Ritchey said last year about 6,000 students registered in August. Dr. Bill Lay, director of admis sions, said A&M had admitted 6,990 freshmen and 1,934 transfer stu dents by yesterday for the fall 76 semester. That is a 25 per cent in crease over last year, he said. Lay said normally about 70 per cent of freshman and transfer stu dents accepted will enroll in the University.. Projected enrollment for the fall ’76 semester is 27,500 to 28,000 stu dents, he said. Fall 75 enrollment was a record 25,243. University President Jack K. Wil liams said in February the A&M Board of Regents would not impose an enrollment limit for the fall 76 semester. They have not done so to date. Williams said projections show A&M facilities can not adequately handle more than 27,500 students this fall. — Lee Roy Leschper When yo come int( Keepsake Gallery, treat you like the star you 're about to be. Keepsake** DIAMOND RING GALLERY EMBREY'S JEWELRY 415 University Monday-Saturday 9-5:30