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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1979 We need Aggies! And Aggies need The Floral Center for special mums, special corsa S es ' ^ 4 F w ^jplj special bouquets, and floral orders transferred to other cities. orci f £ en (Next to St. Joseph's Hospital) 823-5782 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE announces a NOVEMBER 1, 1979 deadline for application for the 1980-81 medical school class. All applications and supporting materials must be turned in to the Office of Stu dent Affairs, College of Medicine by this date. Exception will be made for sopho mores who need complete only the application form by the November 1 dead line. Applications are available from the pre-med advisor, Dr. Gilbert Schroeter, Biology Building or the Office of Student Affairs, 301 Doherty MAKE TIME Pay Off Help Supply Critically Needed Plasma While You Earn Extra CASH At: Plasma Products, Inc. 313 College Main in College Station 9 igpiw .• * • ■ . J *.• \ .V • Relax or Study in Our Comfortable Beds While You Donate — Great Atmosphere - $^j Qoo Per Donation — Earn Extra — Call for more information 846-4611 he FBI denies knowing of plotr) r United Press International LOS ANGELES — The FBI says it “has no knowledge” to back up a newspaper report that two terrorist cults have joined forces in a mission to free Charles Manson and jailed members of his “family” and the Symbionese Liberation Army. The Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram said in a copyright story Sunday that SLA and Manson clan members are recruiting new followers to carry out an ongoing crime spree aimed at freeing their imprisoned comrades. “Our street sources tell us that the group is planning something that will make the Patty Hearst thing look penny ante,” the news paper quoted one intelligence agent as saying. Law enforcement officers repor tedly told the newspaper the two groups have merged to carry out a series of recent crimes, including bank robberies in Northern Califor nia and an intricate credit card scam. The group to date has raised nearly $2 million, intended to help Manson, his followers and SLA members escape from prison, in formants reportedly told the FBI. But Harry Brown, the duty agent in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office, said Sunday his office “has no knowledge of any ongoing conspi racy involving the SLA and the Manson group in the Southern California area.” The Long Beach paper said three of the suspects have become profi cient helicopter pilots, and the group has stockpiled weapons and gold and purchased thousands of dollars worth of freeze-dritij and camping equipment. Officials estimate the JlJ clan, which numberedabouli:] ing the 1969 Sharon Tatei spree, has 60 members, i SLA — whose hard-core i died during a 1974 gunbattlei; Angeles — at more thanM Prison officials say letters supporting Mansonc to pour in to the cult leaderii oned in 1971 for the murdtjl Tate, Leno and Rosemary Lai and four others. United 1 1ALTIMO] racters th pne out of a gh P re Orioles jaration f begins idium. lari Weave jire-baitin lies. Chu ived a mar ulie Finle' isco music lubhouse, ■ Will doesn’t deter‘palimony’ Fam-A-Lee. ruce Kisc drew tf if Pittsbur; ■ted to tall United Press International NEW ORLEANS — The daugh ter of supermarket magnate John Schwegmann says her father pur chased two homes and left $100,000 in his will to a woman who filed a “palimony” suit against him. “I think that should be enough,” said Melba Margaret Schwegmann, the only family member who has commented on the suit thus far. “I can’t understand why this woman would do this,” Miss Schwegmann said. Mary Ann Blackledge, 37, who also goes by the last name of Schwegmann, filed the suit last week. It asks for $30 million, half the amount she says Schwegmann earned during the 12 years they % Vogue Hairstyling Salon & & & & & & & & & •§* & (New Post Oak Shopping Center) 3601 E. 29th St. - Bryan 846-8030 Haircuts $5.50 to $8.50 ($6.00 extra for a style) * * * * * * * * * * lived together. Schwegmann, 68, a former state senator and an unsuccessful candi date for governor in 1971, is a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. A hearing on the case may be de layed because Schwegmann was hospitalized at Touro Infirmary after a stroke. Blackledge said she met Schwegmann when she was a 17- year-old snack bar employee at one of his supermarkets and began a re lationship that lasted 20 years. Schwegmann said her earliest re collection of Blackledge dates to the third grade. an ing a starting "That’s when he (her tlBotl 1 club found himself with an 8-yi playoffs, Pitt daughter to raise by himselfb my mother had been ill foi time and he was off in the Si she said. "But she moved in witkj father asking her.” Schwegmann’s daughter, liH_ _ John Schwegmann, 3S,iBr/fXfy Schwegmann Brothers !■ Supermarkets Inc. were nffi| defendants in the suit. Blackledgee is being rep: , | f . time by Marvin Mitchelson, theall«|. who represented Miehell fe Serie: Marvin in a similar surtag«M . ^ tQ Lee Marvin. H 8 u Bkes the wo United 1 BALTIMO Dealers question Exxon ad offer Pittsburgh 1 limore Or Pittsb inselves a ub second, pniable evic ling they di * •’A* *1* United Press International BURLINGTON, Vt. — Several Vermont fuel dealers have chal lenged the nation’s largest oil com pany to make good on its offer to make home heating oil availahl So fixed is about 62 cents a gallon. H instead t An advertisement in Salinates” painte Burlington Free Press, dirmlugout at Th the Exxon Oil Corp., wassiplittsburgh t 12 dealers and participatingrffited the w hers of the Vermont Heat Oil md the mon Revival Oetobei* 7-12 tute. ■onal Lea; Called an “open challengeTindnnati xon,” the ad said: “Weareuii (fark’s public purchase up to 5 million home heating oil at your av advertised wholesale price.” Exxon last week took outi page ad in the Free Press, an fh with m’s offt ge’s “W< lossibly oi tness the Featuring I)i% Rieliiu**! its wholesale price to distrii ilayers show averages about 62 cents a galli|iily relation Vermont dealers immeJilon. contradicted Exxon’s stateffi|Faijier th saying the price quoted is far lohn “Ham what they must pay for oil. ptes’ outfie The retailers also charged o be remove with incorrectly stating the ■Hies due pany is offering the same (iwNot one o: terms as it did before the “oil felly all age. round Mil: Exxon recently sent a left liner’s roo Vermont oil retailers, saying were genui may have to speed up paymei the company this winter to® within their credit limits. An Exxon spokesman form letter was only a reminij First Baptist Church/Bryan Texas Avenue at 27th Street the Fellowship of ENTHUSIASM 2! the established credit terms.H is no change in our policy,” lit' Robert Garside, headofthf 1 mont Oil Heat Institute, sail letter reflects a general tighletf credit practices. The company is not chai3 credit terms, he said, it is ensure compliance with ready established. Assistant Attorney General" ter Malley has said an inveslii will he launched into Exxon’s^ tisement, particularly thestatf^ about credit terms. NOW OPEN IN CULPEPPER PLAZA MEXICO Restaurant Authentic Mexican dishes preparea fresh daily the old fashioned way — DELICIOUS! USSR action ” hurt ’62 spill Bush claims You’ll find our pleasant family atmo sphere will make your visit even more enjoyable. (Orders to go) Hours 11-10 p.m. lues.-Sun. Closed Mondays United Press International NEW YORK — RepublicanP? idential candidate George Busts Sunday the Soviet Union,inf's® troops in Cuba, violated the spi® the agreement ending the : ' Cuban missile crisis. Soviet leaders, the former! director said on the CBS-T gram “Face the Nation,” " i!J have responded to quiet diplo 11 on the matter but President C# in making it public, lost any® uevering room. “They know they’re provoti"? they know it’s a violation of spirit of the ’62 agreement, 8 said. “The fact they say they’re doing that is unimpressive. The administration, said M lost control of the issue when it Sen. Frank Church, D-ldaho,® known for a reelection issue presence of what U.S. intellip describes as a 3,000-man So" 1 combat brigade. Bush said the administrati f would have done better had it® Soviet leaders privately the SAL treaty and other interests couM jeopardized by the presence of troops. “We’re the United States;the) understood us in the past, andif' deal firmly, they’d understandu® the present,” Bush said. “That;) what the president did — its"! 1 he should have done.” V