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ar tween > after t they a bor- >anon, fture. I, said began an ac- e area g," he ipping he job inians tians,’’ 3 said, ist the avem- aid. won’t ns are e gov aid. “I reople aanese demo- force, anon.” d, dis- sense’” 11,” he olitical se. n have ercent to the ivern- le, no atives t care lollars THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1978 Page Aggies prepare for battle Freshman Steve Yodldn, left, and sophomore session near the Grove recently. The SCA, Russell deCastongrene, members of the local which recreates medieval fighting styles, will chapter of the Society for Creative Anachro- participate at the Texas Renaissance Festival ism, prepare their weapons for a practice this weekend. Battalion photo by James Hamilton Pressmen’s strike over; New York dailies to return United Press International NEW \ORK — Until 12 weeks ago, Sunday mornings for many New Yorkers were defined by the ritual of walking home with bulky editions of the Times and News under one arm while the other was pulled by' a dog on a leash. Sunday afternoons meant rear ranging the dozen or so sections and reading them in an order that un questionably characterized a New Yorker’s priorities. Monday mornings meant leaving them piled up in neighborhood recycling cen ters. Wednesday, it looked as though the 85-day-old cold turkey with drawal the city’s readers have suf fered during the pressmen’s strike against the two papers may be over Sunday, just in time for the weekend ritual to begin again. The walkout, the third-longest in me city s history, tentatively was settled Wednesday with an agree ment between the Times, the News and the pressmen’s union. Publishers of the two dailies said ihey hoped to have their papers on me stands Sunday if they are able to wrap up agreements with four other unions — the drivers, pa- Perhandlers, machinists and auto mechanics. | The pressmen’s union said it should hold a ratification vote on the ^ year pact as soon as the drivers’ union reached a tentative agree ment with the papers. .Talks between the publishers and be unions were scheduled for •nursday. | B The tentative agreement came at -20 a.m. Wednesday — 12 weeks to the day after the strike began — following a grueling 22-hour bar gaining session that saw the pub lishers agree to the union’s major demands on the crucial issues of pressroom manning and job guaran tees. The settlement capped weeks of difficult and sometimes bitter negotiations. Apparently facing a united front formed by the Times, the News and the New York Post at the beginning of the strike Aug. 9, the pressmen eventually succeeded in driving a wedge between the publishers. On Sept. 27, Australian publish ing magnate Rupert Murdoch with drew the Post from the joint talks and concluded a separate agreement with the pressmen, prompting angry outbursts from the publishers of the Times and the News. Th e y have been feuding publicly with Murdoch ever since. The walkout idled some 10,000 employees at the three papers and cost the publishers more than $100 million in lost circulation and adver tising revenue, according to city es timates. The pressmen each lost thousands of dollars in wages. The strike’s impact on the city’s economy was more difficult to as sess. In the early stages of the walk out, the city estimated it was costing business $1 million a day. But that figure was sharply reduced when interim newspapers and other forms of advertising took hold in the ab sence of 3.3 million daily and 4.2 million Sunday newspaper copies. THE FORTUNE COOKIES 1313 S. College, Bryan 822-7661 FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR WHOLE FAMILY SUNDAY EVENING BUFFET (5:30-8:30) ALL YOU CAN EAT FOR $2.98 Wonton soup egg rolls Sweet and Sour Pork Moo Goo Gai Pan Pepper steak onion (spicy) Shrimp fried rice RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED BUT RECOMMENDED Cosmonauts set new space record; 139 days is longest manned flight United Press International MOSCOW—Two Soviet cos monauts ended the longest manned space flight in history — 139 days — with a safe landing Thursday in Cen tral Asia. “History’s longest manned space flight has been successfully com pleted,” the official Soviet Tass news agency said. Tass reported that Soyuz 29 cos monauts Vladimir Kovalenok and Alexander Ivanchenkov made a soft landing in the recovery zone in Soviet Central Asia. “A preliminary medical checkup showed that they had withstood well the long orbital flight,” Tass said. Launched June 15, at 11:17 p.m., the two cosmonauts spent 139 days, 14 hours and 48 mL.utes in space — a new record for manned space flight endurance which surpasses the earlier mark of 96 days, 10 hours set by two of their Soviet colleagues earlier this year. Soviet television interrupted its normal program schedule to show film of the Soyuz capsule undocking from the Salyut station at the end of the historic flight. A television newscaster said the Soyuz capsule touched down with the help of parachutes and rocket engines at 2:05 p.m. Moscow time (6:05 a.m. EST) about 115 miles southeast of Dzhezkazgan, a city in the Soviet Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan- Interviewed on television at the Baikonur Mission Control Center, Gen. Vladimir Shatalov, chief of cosmonaut training, said the suc cessful landing signaled the start of a difficult period for the two men, in volving medical checks and readaptation to the crushing weight of earth’s gravity. “This is the start of a very difficult period of medical examinations which will enable us to determine their condition and their future abil ity to work in space,” Shatalov said. “This gives us the possibility to look boldly into the future and look forward to other, doubtless no less long, missions in space.” The landing came five days before the Soviet Union’s biggest annual holiday on Nov. 7, anniversary of the 1917 revolution. And the cos monauts are bound to be decorated for their mission. The Salyut 6 has been the scene of a variety of space firsts that have won the Soviet Union recognition for a space program previously mar red by failure and tragedy. 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