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Page 10 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1979 the world i Castro rejects charges United Press International HAVANA — “We call it a training center and our right cannot be questioned. That is the end of it.” With those words at the start of a news conference in the pres idential palace Friday, Cuban President Fidel Castro flatly re jected charges that Soviet troops were stationed in Cuba and ac cused President Carter of being “dishonest, insincere, immoral. In Washington, Carter said he watched Castro’s speech on tele vision and added with a smile, “I will comment Monday night ’ when he makes a television ad dress to the nation. Castro answered questions for 70 minutes from eight American journalists invited to Cuba osten sibly to hear him announce the release of a new group of Cuban prisoners. He said, almost in passing, that he would soon “release hun dreds more” including his former comrade-in-arms Huber Matos, who has almost finished a 20-year prison term that started in Oc tober 1959. Castro, however, wanted to talk about the Soviet troops, which he identified for the first time as “military training center number 12.” He insisted that the number and function of those troops is es sentially unchanged since 1962. U.S. intelligence has put the number of Soviet troops at 2,800. Castro also wanted to talk about President Carter, who he said “has created an artificial crisis” because of his political crisis and whose motives may have been “to disrupt the nonaligned conference and the process boomeranged.” Castro also rejected the idea of a face-to-face meeting with Car ter to settle the issue -— “because I have an elemental feeling of dignity” and Carter is “insin cere.” Castro, dressed in his usual outfit of neatly pressed olive drab fatigues and shiny black boots, smoked small cigars almost con stantly, gesturing with both hands as the battery of television cameras captured each move. Although Castro claimed the number of Soviet troops has re mained constant, he said their equipment has been updated. But he declined to give details because “that is a military se cret.” He rejected a proposal that a group of American reporters ex amine the training center to take a first-hand look at the situation. Castro said he would do so only if the United States would permit Cuban journalists to examine U.S. military installations — “beginning with the nuclear in stallations and the command sta tion.” PETROLEUM ENGINEERS<Permcment & Summer) MECHANICAL ENGINEERS CHEMICAL ENGINEERS MASTERS GEOLOGISTS GEOPHYSICISTS (Permanent & Summer) ACCOUNTANTS & MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Our Representatives will be interviewing on campus for these career opportunities on: October 1st through 8th, 1979 Contact your placement office for further details SUPERIOR miL P.O. Box 1521 Houston, Texas 77001 The Superior Oil Company is an equal opportunity employer, m/f 'ADVERTISEMENT' ANOTHER LIFE For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a desire to be close to God and really know Him. My problem, however, was that I was never quite sure just exactly how He fit into my life. My parents took me to church every Sunday, so I fig ured I was at least doing my “duty” to God by attending. Al though I felt I was probably good enough to squeeze into Heaven, I was continually plagued with nagging doubts and fears. Was this what it meant to know God? Would I really go to Heaven if I died? There had to be more — something I was missing. Because ot my insecurity and need to be loved, I clung tightly to my family and a few close friends during my high school years. Although I enjoyed this, I looked forward with great expec tation to going away to college and at last becoming my own person. Upon graduation I entered a small university in cen tral Texas. Much to my surprise, it wasn’t anything like I had ex pected. I found it difficult to break ties with family and friends and many of my hidden in adequacies and needs began to surface. My so-called “indepen dence” was the pits. I always thought it was what I wanted but quickly discovered that I was much too insecure to be inde pendent. Even though I made a few new friends, the relation ships seemed shallow. I felt an absence of genuine love and that no one was honestly concerned for me as an individual. I began to hate school and traveled the seventy miles home each weekend to seek the shelter of my family, yet I knew I didn’t really belong there either. I sought to escape into a make- believe world of kikker dancing and drinking as a means of over coming my inhibitions and inse curity. Although it helped a lit tle, it always left me wanting. I knew there had to be something more — something that would last longer than an evening or a night. Late in the spring of my freshman year, I decided to transfer to Texas A&M. Since I had always been a loyal Aggie fan, I was excited about the change. I just knew that this would be the answer to all my problems. I would at last be able to make something of myself and acquire the independence and security I so desperately longed for. Boy, was I wrong! I suddenly found myself with all the same problems, but this time too far away to go home every weekend. The roommate I was counting on to help me survive moved out during the first week. I was lonely, homesick, and often de pressed. I longed for deep and meaningful relationships but didn’t know where to look. Then I got an idea. Why not join a sorority? Surely I could find security and love among the “sisterhood”. I quickly pledged into one, only to find out that it was another great disappoint ment. Relationships were shal low and selfish. Even dating was superficial and meaningless. Once again, I retreated into my shell of loneliness and depres sion. What was the problem? Why was I always so miserable? One night as I was pondering my hopeless situation, it sud denly dawned on me that my real need was to know God and be close to Him. I had tried so many things to find fulfillment, but all had eluded me. I quickly picked up the telephone and called an elderly lady I had known for some years. As I poured out my frustration to her, she shared with me how Jesus Christ loved me so much tbat He died to pay the penalty for the sin that stood between Him and me. He wanted to fill the void in my life if I would only let Him. As she continued to talk, I realized for the first time that although I had always gone to church, I’d never personally given my life to Jesus. It was something I wanted and knew I needed. I felt pretty good for the next few weeks following our conver sation but then things gradually began to sour. I dropped out of the sorority and sought love and security through a relationship with a guy. At first things seemed so perfect; we loved one another and felt secure in having someone who really cared. But soon what we called love turned into a nightmare. Jealousy and selfishness crept in, and I felt trapped on a meaningless dead end street. Eventually it ended as I knew it would and I was hurled into depression and lonel iness once again. It was at this time that I cried out in desperation to the God I had been rejecting for years. I asked Him to forgive me of my sin and rebellion and to take con trol of my life. I simply told Him that I now belonged to Him. Since that time, I’ve learned the total fulfillment and security that comes from letting Christ rule my life. His unconditional love for me has made it possible for the first time to have the meaningful relationships with others I so desired. Although there have been difficult times, they don’t even begin to com pare with the emptiness I had before coming to know Jesus personally. He’s filled the void of love and meaningness in my life that I tried for so many years to fill with people and things. Now I am secure in His love and know that He will never leave me or let me down. Gail Berry ’78 Food Science & Technology 846-6904 . I retreated into my shell of loneliness and depression. . ,ADVERTISEMENT* Defection crackdown starts United Press International MOSCOW — Despite defec tions, and the resulting embarass- ment to the Kremlin, Soviet troupes and groups are still flying to the United States in force. The musicians, dancers and athletes visiting the United States in coming weeks also must convince KGB agents traveling with them in a variety of guises that they will hap pily return to the motherland. Example: one day after canceling the Soviet State Symphony’s month-long tour, apparently be cause of the risks of new defections, the Soviets applied to the U.S. Em bassy for 35 visas for their European Cup Boxing team to compete at Madison Square Garden in Oc tober. Only 11 members of the group are boxers. Six more were described as masseurs, physicians and inter- preters. And the other 18? “Well, they call them trainers, said one Western source. Could they be security agents, possibly with the KGB, sent along to prevent any defections? “Let’s just say that the boxers are the skinny ones.” Members of the Soviet State Television and Radio Symphony ar rived in the United States last week for a brief tour. Why was their tour permitted when the Soviet Symphony’s tour was scratched? “Because,” said one source famil iar with the Moscow music world, “there are more Jewish musicians in the Soviet Symphony than in the TV and Radio group.” It is clear that the Soviets regard Jews as a much greater defection risk. The 120-member Bolshoi Or chestra left for Japan last week at the invitation of the New Artists Associ ation of Japan, but only after a few personnel changes one day before their departure. Visa applications for two mem bers — director general M.K. Davydov and musician U.G. Loevsky — were canceled for “health reasons.” Their places were taken by two others. Both those kept back were Jewish, one source said. The real degree of Soviet concern with defections was seen in the can cellation of the Soviet Symphony’s October tour of 24 cities in the East and South. The first performance was to have been Monday at Carnegie Hall in New York, under the baton of Maxim Shostakovich, son of the Russian composer Dmitry Shos takovich. Rumors began circulating early Thursday that the tour had been canceled because officials feared more defections. The Ministry of Culture said only that negotiations for the tour were “still under way” — three days be fore the group was to have left. The definitive word came not from the Culture Ministry but from the State Concert Enterprise, Gos- koncert. The tour was off, Goskon- cert said, because the “American representative had failed to fulfill several conditions of agreement.” The unfulfilled condition was re portedly a guarantee from Columbia that no defections would take place. Other rumors, nearly impossible to substantiate, said authorities were conducting a “purge” of artists and athletes to weed out possible defectors before they were allowed to travel abroad. The Russians obviously did not want to endure another month like the one that began Aug. 22, when Bolshoi ballet superstar Alexander Godunov defected in New York. His ballerina wife, Ludmila Vla sova, returned to Moscow a tense three-day standoff with Department officials at Keni airport, but the Soviets were noli be spared further humiliation. On Sept. 16, Godunovs Bi colleagues, Leonid and Valeti Kozlov asked for and receii asylum in Los Angeles. They their post-defection debut Oct in New Orleans. A week later, it was learned two former Olympic ice ski champions — Oleg Protopopov his wife Ludmila Belousova - fected in Switzerland Sept. 17. As one Russian remarked un; “Now you know why they wai the games held in Moscow the only place they knew where one would defect.” Energy agency urges even higher fuel prices United Press International PARIS — A study released Friday by the International Energy Agency urged even higher prices for gasoline and other fuels in the United States and Canada to curtail consumption to meet energy con servation goals set for 1985. “There is a growing risk of a seri ous imbalance between energy sup ply and energy demand in the 1980s unless strong action is taken now,” the study said. It urged higher energy prices in the United States and Canada in order to dampen demand and thereby increase supplies. Japan was also cited as needing to conserve more but through incen tives rather than price and, if neces sary, “mandatory measures.” The two-year study compared energy consumption and conserva tion efforts among the 19 members of the IEA, set up to help monitor oil use and cooperative energy ef forts in the wake of the Arab oil boycott and price increases of 1973. In addition to the United States, Canada and Japan, the agency in cludes all major West European countries except France. The IEA said it was encouraged by increases in U.S. gas prices to a $1 a gallon in the past year. But it noted gasoline prices in North America were still “generally less than half that in other coun tries,” mainly because of “relatively small” taxes. In Italy, highest of the IEA countries and among the heaviest taxed, gasoline costs three times as much as in the United States. International Meditation Society There will be a free introductory lecture on the Transcendental Meditation Program on Tuesday the 2nd of October at 7:30 P.M. in Room 140 MSC. This lecture is for those just interested in the general knowledge or in learning the technique for expanding awareness and increasing enjoy ment of all aspects of life. Note: There will be an organizational meeting held at 6:30 p.m. the same evening for those who are already TM practitioners. World briefs Town ruins found at bottom of Latvian lake United Press International MOSCOW — Out of the waters of the Latvian lake of Arayshuks emerged the almost completely preserved ancient fortress of Latgak, the Tass news agency reported. The fortified settlement, home of the ancestors of modern-day Lat vians, was discovered by aqualung divers who spotted strangetmveis and battlements on the lake floor. At the request of archaeologists of the Latvian Academy of Sci ences, the lake was drained and the fortress emerged with articles made of wood, leather, birch bark, and even foodstuffs preserved^ the centuries of layers of silt, Tass said Thursday. According to specialists, the so-called “Lake Temple” is the oldest and best-preserved settlement ever discovered in Eastern Europe Traffic law aimed to protect Colosseum Me mi this sf Felts : A ROME — City authorities will close major traffic lanes borders the Colosseum to protect it from corrosive automobile fumes vibration, authorities said Sunday. They said studies of the Colosseum’s walls made after the SeptJ earthquake revealed serious new fissures in the first-century at phitheater. Aftershocks from the quake chipped small pieces from the Colos seum, the Arch of Constantine and several temples in the Romai Forum. Traffic superintendent Tullio De Felice said the city was study® plans to build a sloping embankment running beside the Colosseum to keep cars and buses away from the main walls. “The earthquake was just the last straw, said Adriano La Reggina. superintendent of antiquities. Man commits suicide in shredding machine JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A man apparently committed suicide by jumping into a giant shredding machine at a sewage treat ment plant, police said. The unidentified man was found asleep on the plant’s grounds Sunday by a watchman. He managed to break away and then, as the watchman looked on, jumped into a massive bacteria cleaning unit which has four shred ders. The machines were immediately switched off but police wereun able to find his body. Mixed reactions to papal peace plea The T jumped, their way Memphis The sli] turf of the mg came l the fumbl came iron A&M de St. all nij holding t points. Aggie t the offer quarterb David Be But it James Za Green, G won the y Dickey times for from one touchdow in the g; score whe reserve 1 Martin ai the 1. Two mi David Hr goal to b existed si ter. The Ag for Lubhx scoring ir United Press International DUBLIN, Ireland — Pope John Paul II carried his historic peace pilgrimage to Ireland Saturday, begging Catholics and Protestants “on my knees’ to end their murder and bloodshed. Massive crowds chanting “John Paul, John Paul!” — perhaps 2 mil lion people in all — surged to the pope’s side throughout his first day in Ireland. The Irish Republican Army gave a guarded but positive answer to the pope’s plea for peace and nation Mosley Announcing THE LAST TACO EATING CONTEST OF THE 1970s October 20, 1979 Entry blanks and details available at your local Jack in the Box Restaurant. College Station or Bryan. Prizes 2 Schwinn 10 speed bikes (Supplied by Wheel World) 2 Cold Weather Parkas 2 Cold Weather Vests $20 in free food First 2nd 3rd Fourth Special Prize $ 100 to the organization with the most participants. Entry Fee: $5.00 per team, (2 people). T-shirts to all entrants. Mexify it! QUACK in IMEBOt reconciliation, hut a Proteste 1 leader from Northern Ireland saidi was “nonsense.” The British ernment said the pope’s condemn* tion of violence “will be widely® genuinely welcomed.” The pope’s message, deliveredin a stirring speech at Drogheda, n» the Northern Ireland border,® aimed not only at the bombers aid the snipers but at all the 5 people of the two Irelands, he begged to “walk the pathofu conciliation and peace.” The enthusiasm of the Irish a»‘ the pontiffs exuberant respond lengthened his schedule by 2Vi hours, and it was nearly mid night when the 59-year-old leaden'! the world’s Roman Catholics if tired, ending an 18-hour day. More than half the nation turned out Saturday. Throngs filled even place the pope appeared —airport! parks and city streets — waving flags of the Vatican, Poland and Irf' land, shouting greetings, small children aloft to see the firs 1 pope ever to visit Ireland. The pope’s tour rapidly fell 1 hind schedule. John Paul’s dramatic message Ireland came near the northed border, at the ancient walled city® Drogheda, where he said, “On®! knees I beg you to turn away fro® the paths of violence and to retu® to the ways of peace.” Answers came within hours! Belfast, but they were sharply vergent. First there was the Rev. Ian Pa® ley, an Ulster Protestant lead® who condemned the pope’s words® “nonsense” and said the Drogfredi speech would “only give comfortl ; the terrorists ... (and) give fuel® the IBA.” But a senior member of tlf Provisional IBA’s Belfast commai® said his group might react to tl> ( pope’s call for peace by declaring unilateral cease-fire in tl violence-scarred north. The anonymous IRA spokesm® said such a truce was possible “iftk f holy father can offer the possibilit! of justice for Ireland. ” touchdow Ate Ui LOS A Beep’s e scored Je with the > the Hou: ending vi Dodgers. The A: innings, c sixth on I two more