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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1978 More and More People are Swinging to “College Station’s Biggest Little Hair Cuttery” JflUlEAlC I II A f t 209 UNIVERSITY DR. 846-4771 SALT talks to proceed despite actions in Africa United Press International WASHINGTON — Defense Sec retary Harold Brown says unless the 'activities of the Soviet Union and Cuba in Africa are checked, there will be a “real risk of another Cold War. But Brown, interviewed Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” reiter ated the United States has no inten tion of sending combat troops to Af rica in an attempt to halt Soviet- ICuban involvement. “I think if the Russians and the Cubans are not checked in Africa it will create a very serious situation, and 1 think its effects will not be lim ited to Africa,” Brown said. “I think ithere would be a real risk of a return jto the Cold War.” i Asked if that meant American mil itary action in Africa or anywhere else in the world, he replied: “I ve said, and I repeat, we have no inten tions of engaging U.S. military forces in combat in Africa.” Brown said although U S.Soviet relations have not been favorable recently, “there has not been, and this administration does not intend to have, a return to the Cold War. For that reason, we hope that the Soviets will not carry out actions that might push the world in that direction.” Brown also said the United States would not hold up progress on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviets “in order to dem onstrate unhappiness with Soviet actions in Africa.” But he said the reaction from Congress could be a different mat ter. “I think inevitably African adven turism on the part of the Soviet Union would make it harder to get a SALT agreement approved by the Congress,” he warned. Soviets expel American guides United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet Union Sunday ordered the expulsion of two American guides at the travel ing agriculture show in the U.S. ex hibition on grounds that they slan dered the Soviet state and social sys tem. 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Seven Day - - $144.00 June 6 through July 3 Five Day — -$127.00 and July 5-12 U.S. Embassy spokesmen con firmed that the Soviet Foreign Ministry had protested what it called the “impermissible activities” of the guides and ordered them ex pelled. The guides were identified as Walter Lupan of Washington, D.C., and Anthony Mashiocci of Boston. Lupan, the only Ukrainian speaker among the 23 guides, left the Soviet Union last week when the show ended its stay in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. Mashiocci was scheduled to re main with the show for the rest of the tour to Tselinograd, Dushanbe, Kishinev, Moscow and Rostov-on- Don . Diplomatic sources said they could not recall a previous expulsion of a guide at a U.S. exhibition in the Soviet Union although veterans of the shows said the Soviets fre quently complain about answers given by guides, usually in response to heckling. Ambassador views display Iranian ambassador Dr. Ardeshir Zahedi, left, examii passive solar energy system models while Texas A&M toral student Mo Hourmanesh explains them. Texas AM seeking $290,000 from Iran to conduct architectural reseaul into passive systems. Hourmanesh, an Iranian, woulddin| the experiment. Age-old curse lingers Drinking still a problem for people in Soviet Unio United Press International MOSCOW — More than 1,000 years ago, as the story is told, St. Vladimir offered an assessment of a problem that has been an age-old curse for Russia. “It is Russia’s joy to drink. We cannot do without it, he reportedly said. It is February in Tyumen, the biggest town in the Soviet Union’s vast Western Siberian oil producing region. At 10:30 p.m., it is so cold that the wind cuts through four layers of clothing. Four teenagers stand on a street corner across from a park, their wool coats opened to the wind and cold. The weather doesn’t seem to bother them, and the reason for their in visible insulation becomes apparent to a passing Western reporter. “Say, what region are you from?” one of the boys calls to the reporter. He and his friends are swaying like saplings in a changing wind. They are sharing what is left of a clear glass bottle of vodka. It is a scene often repeated across the Soviet Union. The government long ago recog nized it faced a national drinking problem. Hardly a year has passed that has not included another attack against the age old devil recognized by St. Vladimir centuries ago. The Soviet' Council of Ministers opened the latest offensive in April, approving a series of measures de signed to educate Soviet society about alcoholism, and failing that, to scare drunks back into line. Gorky which showed that half of the city’s heavy drii S family incomes of less than! L e * riev month. The Soviet press isoneoll indicators of the extent f a Du art of ing problem. Cases of alo that reach the publicity st ^ II . ’ generally intended to serve! msi s ings to the general public. Six of the 11 measures against al cohol fall into the educational cate gory. The remainder fall into the legal category, and they indicate Soviet police will be cracking down on public drunks. It is difficult to pinpoint the ex tent of the problem in modern Soviet society because the govern ment keeps secret its figures on hospitalization and treatment for al coholism. It also denies there are sociologi cal causes for alcoholism in the Soviet Union — at one point offer ing the explanation that there were more alcoholics because people had more free time to drink and more money to spend on vodka. Western analysts reject that ar gument, pointing to a study in iy at le e for h I'h i le t nbers sity b; Mexico City has annual housing because of migration from rural areas The magazine Young Coi reported in 1975 that alcohol more than half of the suicii dental deaths and crimestnlgrams, place in the Soviet Union. )ul balls, , i i W’ sun f It cpioted research shov|J. co ar in one rural region of centni!IL[ )a ]] (( the average child first dran»] le ^. r at the age of 11 and one-halMmond ken ness was cited as theraJL) p 0 j s percent of all divorces in thf® ta ] <e Nationally, the data is H U' woir ficult to pinpoint. TheSo«fWop-n e< stopped publishing the aniijj,-^ an sumption figures jn theearlILp 0 f However, Harvard f^heerleadi Russian Research Centere 1 Andy p the average Russian drinl| ailU g er 6.3 quarts of alcohol ayOarling ai pared to 4.75 quarts for iky ca t t .h, American. chen she B The |s As ti the c tuson United Press International MEXICO CITY — Mexico City has an annual housing deficit of 805,600 dwellings because of in creasing migration from rural areas, according to a study by the city gov ernment’s Immigration Commis sion. Only 110,000 new housing units are built in Mexico City every year, while the population increases by 1.5 million, the study said. In addition, there are 240,000 marriages in the Mexican capital each year, and newlyweds have a difficult time finding a a The growing influx from'! tryside has made the m" ment situation in Mexico the study said. Two milk are out of work and eigt' more are underemployed. THE DECISION It was a hot day in August on the Texas Gulf coast. I was working on a construction job then and it was at this time that I made the decision. I decided, almost for no rea son, to quit my job and return to college. At first it seemed like an insignificant decision. It was just a decision to go back to school, to get a better job, and to somehow broaden my hori zons. But this decision actually was the turning point and cul mination of a young life already disillusioned. At twenty years old I really had not tried a lot of things, but the few things I had tried just didn’t fit me. They were like trying on an ill-fitting suit which, after having been worn a moment, is taken off with dis gust while still looking for the suit with the proper fit. I had already tried college on before, but at that time it just didn’t fit. Working and making money also wasn’t quite the fit I was looking for. I even tried on the hippie philosophy, as that movement was waning, and again the suit didn’t fit. So the decision on that day in Texas was really a milestone in my life. It really meant I had tried everything I could — and still I had nothing. So, almost in disgust, I returned to school. After a few weeks back with my friends and a fresh start in school, the turning over of the proverbial new leaf began to lose its greenness and started to dry up like all the other ventures I had tried. At this point in my life a mar velous experience took place. I was sitting in a Christian meet ing, a meeting similar to the hundreds I had been in as a youth. But this time something was different. The words that were spoken that night pierced every part of my being. They were words, but words that conveyed the Lord Jesus to me. It was then that I realized that He was what I needed. He was the suit with the proper fit. The more I listened that night, the more I was drawn to Him. The decision I had made earlier that summer was for the decision I was facing that night, had to make the decision cisions. That night I c* 11 longer resist Him, so the decision to receive take Him as my veryli that moment os decisii whole life was revoluti' Instead of disillusionffl 0 disgust, I was full ancM in every way. This wasf thing for me — the suit* fectly. 1 gave myself wfo the Lord Jesus. All w’ sions became decisions' low Him. Since then the" never been any decisi* disgust, just decisions of follow the Lord Jesus iili Freddie Salassi, 1980 846-3175 Paid for by Christian s' on campus Bible Study, Wednesday All Faiths Chapel w Room (