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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1979 LAKEVIEW CLUB 3 Miles N. on Tabor Road Saturday Night: Country Side From 9-1 p.m. STAMPEDEDANCE Every Thursday Night $2.00 per person All Brands, Cold Beer 55 Cents 8-12 Soviets: We’re in Cuba World briefs United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet Union heaped sarcasm and counter charges on American protests that Soviet ground troops were stationed in Cuba, but did not deny their presence. The official Tass news agency said Monday Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, who first publicized the presence of the Soviet forces, dis played “surprising farsightedness.” Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “was FREE CLOTHES DRYING (When You Wash) able to see without any optical de vices what different U.S. services were unable to spot prior to that with the help of the most sophisti cated technical equipment,” Tass said. However, Tass did not deny that Soviet combat troops were in Cuba. The State Department Saturday made a public protest to the Soviet Union over the stationing of some 3,000 troops in Cuba, and con firmed Church s report the troops brought artillery and armor with them into the small island country 90 miles from the Florida Keys. Soviet Ambassador Vladillen Vasev was called to the State De partment earlier in the week for talks with an unidentified official. United Press International BUDAPEST, Hungary —Texas Gov. Bill Clements and38f arm ers and agricultural experts from the United States Tuesday visited Hungarian collective farm at Csepel near Budapest. Before starting their trip to the state-owned farm on the banks f the Danube River, they discussed agricultural subjects with niem bers of the Hungarian national council of agricultural cooperatives The group, on a three week tour through Europe, arrived earlie this week as part of a people-to-people talk program. Clements and his group said they did not plan to meet any official government leaders. They will proceed to Prague, Czechoslovakia on Wednesday before continuing to the Soviet Union later this week. at Hank’s BIG COOL LAUNDRY — See Coupon For Details ★ Aggieland’s Largest Cleanest Washateria. ★ Wash, Dry & Fold Service. and the top U.S. official in Ce Smith, was told to raise the matter with the Cubans. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said the troops do not constitute a threat to the United States in any xvay, but he would not speculate on the Soviet motives for the move. Some U.S. senators have called the troop movement reason to post pone a decision on the ratification of the SALT II treaty until the Rus sians remove the men. MANILA, Phipippines — Police Tuesday arrested five Filipj no youths who officials said confessed they killed an American militan nurse in a holdup attempt but claimed she was shot accidentally whei she resisted. Authorities said the suspects, who said it was their first yfo were arrested in their homes and in a shim quarter they used as hideout. The arrests came four days after the body of 1st Lt. Man Byrd, 26, of Enid, Okla., was found with a bullet wound in the head outside the base main gate. Lt. Col. Everlino Nartadez, regional intelligence chief of the na. tional police, said the five told police they staged the holdup after midnight Friday following an evening of drinking. The holdup netted them a camera and a handbag containing $5,7|) Nartadez said. They said they saw her walking alone, presumably on her wav back to the base, when they fell upon her,” Nartadez said. Miss Byrd had earlier gone to some nightspots with American friends in town of Angeles just outside Clark. Peking, Cairo also angered ★ 24-Hour Dry-Cleaning Service. Castro talks blasts U.S. OPEN ALL-NIGHT FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE AUONnVT 3702 S. 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But instead, the bearded Cuban leader, wearing his traditional mili tary uniform, launched into what one Yugoslav source called “a brut ally frank and surprisingly tough speech. ” Castro’s finger-waving attacks on the United States, Egypt and China during his 85-minute speech triggered a walkout by U.S. and Peking diplomats and a heated three-hour discussion on the EgyplTsrael peace treaty. Castro accused Washington of ev erything from trying to assassinate him to fueling the Middle East crisis, keeping poor nations from developing and trying to unclerniia the non-aligned summit. But the part of the speech tk most surprised the 1,400 delegati and 1,100 journalists at the confei ence was where he admitted! close ties to Moscow — and ( fended them. “We owe a debt of gratitude socialist solidarity,” Castro sail reminding the audience of Sovit aid to Cuba since Washington posed a “savage ” economic blockai againat the island in 1963. “Cuba is a socialist country h we do not impose our system eitk outside or inside,” he said, stressii| that the Caribbean island is not tool of Soviet policy.” “No one has ever told us what# do.” Sadat in Isreal for Mideast summt L. V United Press International HAIFA, Israel — Egyptian Pres ident Anwar Sadat, his yacht under heavy protective cover, sailed into Haifa Tuesday for a summit with Prime Minister Menachem Begin and said the “umbrella of peace” should be spread to include the Palestinian people. Ten Israeli missile boats,- three Egyptian warships and two Ameri can warships, including a nuclear submarine, protected Sadat’s presi- dential yacht Al Horreya as it sailed to Haifa on the Egyptian leader’s third visit to Israel. The summit, the fourth between the two leaders, marked the first time Egyptian warships had an chored in Israeli waters. Sadat, who promised to press for answers to two of the toughest Mid dle East issues — Palestinian self- rule and the future of Jerusalem — stepped off his yacht a minute be- IDrip* fore noon (5 a.m. CDT). He was welcomed by Begin, Prftj ident Yitzhak Navon and tlieii wives. Sadat was accompanied b his wife, Jihan, in her first visit Israel, and their daughter. An Is raeli military band played the Egf tian and Israeli national anthems is cannons fired off a 21-gun salute Sadat’s yacht, escorted by the three Egyptian warships, was by the 10 missile boats as it entered Israeli territorial waters two hows earlier. 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