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THE BATTALION Page? FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1979 ? pecans [James Kneip helps prepare pecans for sale by the Texas Vgricultural Experiment Station. The nuts can he purchased Monday through Friday at the Horticulture Farm until the Christmas holidays. They will be sold in 10-pound bags with prices ranging from $1.10 to $1.60 per pound. usmessman sues er long kidnap United Press International 1 noted DV once Foum predict ing the i outcome happened lien govei its control air traveler! before dere (1 out that red ckers to optWEW YORK — A businessman t-serve basi whu was kidnapped and held by Col- med pricerMbian terrorists for eight months us have ailikBnplained that “I thought I had il the induftn forgotten’ by liis company, I under the which he is suing for $115 million for erefore, ca ft adequately protecting him. ■lus Curtis, 54, of Laredo, was the ftf000-a-year head of the Beatrice Foods Co. subsidiary in Bogota iC 111'J Hfen' he was kidnapped on Sept. 28, 1^6. He was held for 235 days in a 3 foot cell at the base of a moun- mine shaft. of death, ifthe non-jury trial in U.S. District ■nt fatality Court in Manhattan is believed to be ft first of its kind. Mlurtis, whose wife Vera was a also be lid Bl-known television personality in ■ivil engine Bogota, testified he was warned by a me-car attiw 6 Department official in Col- Hbiathat he was in danger of being gapped two months before his cal began. le said he told his superiors at the icago-based conglomerate that he in danger and repeatedly asked a transfer to another country. Don’t worry about it. Everything be all right,” the company ered, according to Curtis’ lint. urtis worked for Beatrice Foods ogotafrom 1969 until November eagen, Regan or is it Reagan? ■ 1|6. I lesdmi' & 846-1151 Lite nt!" United Press International i WASHINGTON — Someone in nald Reagan’s campaign head- ilarters gets the spelling award for arsday. |n a release announcing Frederick Biebel had joined the campaign, agan’s name was spelled three tys — only one of them right. The choices were: Reagen long), Reagan (right) and Regan {(vrong). \nd Biebel’s name was spelled libel two paragraphs later. L PACi : FOR ALL' rasberg 1977 when, he said, he was “forced” to resign after the company asked him to return to Bogota. The terrorists, numbering at least 22, originally demanded $5 billion in ransom. The company, however, hired two British terrorist experts who negotiated the figure down to $450,000. Curtis testified he was pulled from his car while being driven home and was bound and blindfolded and taken in the terrorists car to the head of a deep shaft into which he was lowered by a sling. He said he was met at the bottom by a hooded woman who told him he had been kidnapped and who led him into the “cage-like” cell, where he changed into pajamas and where he was locked up alone in “absolute silence.” Curtis said his captors “played” with him. They put a loudspeaker in his cell and nearly drove him out of his mind with raucous music, he said. He never knew when he was to get his daily ration of food and water. They even “took time away from me,” he said, and not knowing the time was a “shattering experience.” Make (HAPPY COTTAGEl Your Christmas Headquarters IWe have: !• Music Boxes Tree Ornaments from Germany )• Nativity Sets Pyramids Nutcrackers [• Jewelry from around the world [(Located across from Luby’s) XEROX COPIES (24-hour service for 25 or more) m 331 University (Above Farmer's Market) 846-3755 Professional Services Typing Editing Translating Binding Open 7-10 Mon.-Fri. 9-5 Sat. Halt political questioning of Iranians, agents told & # PARTY SET-UPS 7 A.M. 11 P.M. % ^ % ICE 693-4750 RHEA'S Country Store 2751 Longmire, Cr&. 693-8733 United Press International WASHINGTON — Acting Im migration Commissioner David Crosland has ordered agents nation wide to stop asking political ques tions of Iranian students in deciding whether they should be deported, officials said Thursday. John Russell, a Justice Depart ment spokesman, said Crosland heard news reports that such ques tions were being asked, and re sponded by sending a telegram to all field offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. He said the telegram ordering an end to the practice was sent Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Un ion had complained in a federal court suit that Iranian students were being harassed in the immigration inter views. “They are being hounded with questions like, ‘Are you pro- Khomeini? What demonstrations have you been to?”’ said Charles Sims, an ACLU lawyer in New York, in a telephone interview. He said he talked to 20 students who alleged they were asked politic al questions, and other complaints came from ACLU affiliates in Texas, northern California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Russell said the ACLU suit “had nothing to do with this decision. ” He said Crosland acted on his own after hearing press reports of the ques tioning. At the same time, INS disclosed that 26,148 Iranian students have turned up at immigration offices across the country to comply with a Nov. 13 order to report within 30 days and prove they are in school, or face deportation. INS said 3,592 of those who have reported have been deemed “out of status” and deportable, but only 405 have agreed to leave voluntarily. INS agents are checking documenta tion of another 1,900 students. It said 293 have requested asylum in the United States. The ACLU charges in its suit, to be considered by a federal judge Tuesday, that the entire program is discriminatory because it singles out Iranians for an enforcement crack down. Some students, Sims said, have been found to be deportable merely because they transferred schools without INS approval, after waiting months for agency permission with out a response. -Tc cTc clc ctwrac etc cTc cTr O U u L> O O mmmm O CJ u o o o Labor, HEW dispute bills Carter’s health plan urged o o HURRY ON DOWN FOR OUR Football Chopifed BBQ sandwich 1 Fixin — Beans Tarter Salad Cole Slaw 1 Small Drink With Tin* Coujmhi United Press International WASHINGTON — HEW Secret ary Patricia Harris urged Congress Thursday to adopt President Car ter’s national health insurance plan, and said a more expensive alterna tive by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Mass., would mean rationing of health care. Harris clashed with organized labor on the issue in testimony pre pared for two House health subcom mittees which are beginning hear ings now on the controversial issue. Action is not expected until next year. In his prepared remarks, AFL- CIO President Lane Kirkland said the Carter plan merely “relies on old solutions which are part of the prob lem.” Kirkland endorsed the Ken nedy plan enthusiastically, calling it “reasonable, rational and sound- .”The administration proposal,” he said, “would merely pour new money into the present system, which is inherently inflationary and which puts emphasis on reimburse ment for sickness, rather than pre vention of sickness.” But Harris said the Kennedy bill is beyond anyone’s capability to man age and the Carter plan is the only one that can work in an era of tight budgets. She said the Kennedy idea of budgeting certain funds for health care providers “would inevitably re sult in an arbitrary rationing of health care services.” Harris said she believes Congress can pass an acceptable national health insurance bill next year, but the legislation will need a broad base of support that only the president s bill can attract. The White House believes the Carter plan would cost between $24 billion and $26 billion. Kennedy’s would be $40 billion or more. FcTc c c c c c c CATTLS COMPANY 3807 Tmm 8f •. 848*3172 cTc FROM YOUR LOCAL , DIET^- CENTER You can go home for the holidays' thinner and healthier without spending a fortune. NOW THE BEST COSTS EVEN LESS! Don i waste any more time and money on short term or inetiective fad diet programs. You can win at the losing gantf! PHONE 779-6124 7-1 and 3:30-6 one potato, two potato... A budding new taste sensation appear ing now in College Station! OPEN NOW!! 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