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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1976 Voter registration drive Kissinger meets with key delegates * 1m „ r If • I I Tt TB is result of earlier campaign AUSTIN — Sec. of State Mark White has announced that his office is conducting a massive, statewide voter registration drive for this fall’s Presidential election. “The new Texas registration law makes it easier than ever before to vote in Texas, and we are trying to make sure every citizen is aware of that fact ’ White said. Under the new registration law, Texans need only fill out a registra tion postcard and mail it, White said, adding that the registration deadline for the Nov. 2 election is Oct. 1. Registration applications are available through county tax as sessors or by calling a toll-free number in White’s Austin office. The number, open during business hours, is 1-800-292-9602. Ocean mining deadlock nears 11th how By SERGE SCHMEMANN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS, N Y. — Secretary of State Henry A. Kis singer is meeting key negotiators at the Law of the Sea Conference in an llth-hour attempt to break a dead lock over mining of the ocean floor. Kissinger scheduled a series of meetings today and tomorrow with delegates from about two dozen countries who have taken a leading role in the United Nations confer ence that started in 1973 and now is near an impasse. The secretary arrived in New York last night. His first appointment today was with Hamilton S. Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka, presiding officer at the 150-nation conference. The effort to write a global treaty covering the use and exploitation of the oceans has come apart over the question of whether American min ing companies should be guaranteed access to the potato-sized nodules of nickel, cobalt and manganese scat tered over the floor of the eastern Pacific. Several American firms are years ahead of other countries in seabed mining technology and are pressing hard to start mining with or without a treaty. 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At the negotiating session in Na York last spring, most delegatesjp peared to accept a compromis sponsored by the United States! proposed sharing the minerals5hS between private firms and an inta ife national seabed authority thatwoui sponsor mining operations on belli the” of the developing cxiuntries. But at the current session ofll ^ a nc3 conference, the group of more tin jot 110 developing countries demandij that the authority have solepowert Jjv grant access to the seabeds. H Fie United States declared firmlyi She would settle for no less than guar# if I teed access for private firms, a talks deadlocked. dee oftl yet forr nea- beh* inte Since this session of the conic enee began Aug. 2, the blockofi veloping countries has been no# she I nated by such hardliners as Tunisia and Egypt, whohaveada# antly opposed any concession Many moderates among them- termed the “silent majority Western negotiators — tacitly w ognized there will he no treatym less the Americans are guaranltd access. Their major concern appears toll that under the parallel minings); tern proposed by the United Stats they would be left with the rigbtsl rich tracts of nodules but withouttk financing, equipment and knowk# to get at them. There was vri& spread speculation among d that Kissinger would offer to suppli this in exchange for the arrangeiM the United States wants. U.S. agency lets folks name mountains Associated Press RESTON, Va. — Maybeyoucai move a mountain, but did you you can name one? You candoitl making a proper applicationtoaW eral agency here. At the Board of Geograpli: Names, about the only name strictly out of hounds are thosetli are obscene, and you cannot namn mountain, creek or other geograpli feature for anyone who’s still alive Lately, the board says it lias re ceived an unusually large numberd requests to put names on the If you'd like to give a nametos unnamed geographic feature, yot must tell the board where it is, wl) it’s like, the reason it needs a name what or whom you’d like to name* for, and exactly why. It helps if the person was in sou way associated with the geograp feature. Ernest Berringer, board’s staff chief, says youd well-advised to check the neigbbon before writing. The board won’t accept anypre posed name unless the people wl* live in the area agree it’s accey and appropriate. Miss Texas Rodeo pageant starts Associated Press STEPHENVILLE, Tex. -LcJ winners begin competition in divisions today in the five-day Mfe Rodeo Texas pageant in conjunction with the Erath County chain pionship rodeo. The winner of the contest will S 1 to the Miss Rodeo America conte c in Oklahoma next December Contestants for the Miss Rodt* Texas crown must be local t. ders sponsored by a chamber 0 1 commerce, city, riding club or association. Trophies will be awarded titk winners in horsemanship, persoi ity and western attire divisions. First lady printer The first female licensed printerin America was Mrs. Dinah NutheaA who inherited her husband’s ness in 1696. busi Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. 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