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I Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1979 Unavailable goods advertised Peking ads push Japanese radios New Irish PM condemnsIR United Press International PEKING — A leading Peking newspaper Saturday carried a quar ter page advertisement for Japanese radios and television sets that are not on sale in China. The idea was to get Chinese to have their better-off relatives in the United States and other countries buy the Japanese appliances and send them to their families in China as presents. The ad carried detailed instruc tions on how overseas Chinese buy radios and television sets in the Un ited States, Canada, Europe and Southeast Asia, and arrange for de livery to relatives in China. Television sets built by Japan’s JVC and Sharp Corporations were Gnmn ^BROOKS QconVERSE Men’s & women's tennis apparel T-Shirts & custom-design transfers Complete selection of athletic clothing OPEN 9:30-6.00 -Jh. O' '"'"'fr- Koom "SPORTSHOES UNLIIVUTED" 822 VILLA MARIA RD ACROSS FROM MANOR EAST MALL 7 79 9484 mentioned in the advertisment, along with Sharp and Sanyo radios. The ad said there was no need for overseas Chinese to actually visit their relatives in China and carry the presents themselves. The sets could be ordered over seas at authorized stores. Purchase documents would be forwarded to the buyers’ relatives in China. The Chinese recipients then could pick up the sets at warehouses in Peking, Shanghai or Canton, or else arrange for direct shipment to their homes. China, which has a shortage of foreign currency, does not import foreign consumer goods for its home market. However, television sets and radios with casette capabilities are acceptable if sent as presents from foreign countries. The advertisement said that 10 casette tapes could be shipped into China duty free with each Japanese radio purchased as a present for a Chinese family by an overseas rela tive. United Press International DUBLIN, Ireland — Ireland’s new Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey, once sacked from the Cabinet on suspicion of gunrunning for the IRA, has vowed a tough stance against the outlawed group. Haughey, 54, was elected to replace outgoing Prime Minister Jack Lynch Friday, defeating his old schoolmate and arch political rival Vice Premier George C. Colley by 44 votes to 38 in a secret ballot of the ruling Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) Party’s 82 parliamentary members. Within hours of his victory, Haughey publicly condemned the Irish Republican Army and its objectives and pledged himself to a peaceful solution in violence-ridden Northern Ireland. “I have never done anything else but condemn them,” he said of the IRA in a televised news conference. Newspaper speculation, particularly in Britain, has marked Haughey as a hard-line, anti-British politician who might be soft on the IRA and its campaign of violence to reunite the Protestant North with the Roman Catholic Irish Republic. The speculation stemmed from the arms trial in 1970 when Haughey and two others senior ministers were dismissed on charges of conspir ing to run guns to the Roman Catholic minority in Northern IreW A court cleared Haughey of the charge but a question maikl* always surrounded his views of Northern Ireland—-aquestion he did little to remove when he was reinstated td government Lynch in 1977 by avoiding any utterance on the northern issue. He told the news conference he would regard the “peacefulunfe tion” of Ireland as his primary political priority. Haughey was relaxed but tired when he faced a barrage ofquestio™ mostly concerned with his attitude to Northern Ireland. He said he stood by the 1975 policy statement by his FiannaFi party that called on the British government to make “a statementd) intent’’ of its willingness to withdraw from Northern Ireland “There may be, perhaps, a difference of emphasis on partial aspects but the thrust of the policy will be the same,” he said. This was interpreted by political commentators to mean would press the British for such a statement. For Haughey, a wealthy, suave politican with a flair for pei publicity, Fiday’s triumph was the culmination of his lifelong polilif. ambition — an ambition that never wavered even after his dismissal from the powerful Finance Ministry. Play well-received in Moscow EL P Univers demons but ther police si As the five mer Com mu Revolut student balcony The f through yelled “ leave it! Cans, Russians enjoy Broadway sho Xlircc favorite nesting grounds- all close to A&9I. rj Professional management by Brentwood Properties United Press International MOSCOW — The “Gin Game,” the first Broadway hit to come to the Soviet Union since “My Fair Lady” left Russian audiences agog 20 years ago, has opened to an “unbeliev able” reception. The Russians at the Maly Theater used earphones at each seat to listen to a simultaneous translation of the Interested in Starting Your Own Fraternity? Kappa Sigma Inter national Fraternity is colonizing at Texas A & M 2nd Semester. All interested students and transfers should contact: Pat O’Bierne at 696-0618, 845-4711 or Tony Weiss at (804) 296-9271 English dialogue of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. “The audience really took part in the show and appreciated what they were seeing,” an American official and first-night observer said of the Thursday night opening. The wave of applause that greeted the the two-character play “was un believable,” the officiat aid. Hume Cronyn and his wife, Jessi ca Tandy, performed the same roles they played in the play when it opened in New York two years ago — playing an elderly couple who met at a nursing home through their mutual loneliness and struck up a stormy friendship while playing gin rummy. Although the play has many humorous moments, it ends in a cli mactic argument between the two card-players, who reveal during the game the personality traits that caused their loneliness. Although other American tbal | companies have toured the|| Union, the “Gin Game,” wm first imported Broadway hit aij “My Fair Lady” in 1959, in\£ Rex Harrison appeared. RussIsiL diences received the musical (mjiQ yg ^ great enthusiasm. Cronyn and Miss Tandy evid«ij were touched by the warmtho Russian response. Guerrillas kidnap 11 in Rhodes! United Press International SALISBURY, Zimbabwe Rhode sia — The military command Satur day reported 17 war deaths and said 11 black pupils were abducted by black insurgents from a mission run by the American United Church of Christ. The communique said guerrillas of Robert Mugabe’s Patriotic Front '(n: rnrii no lotluionooo Dionne Warwick thought Red Cross was only about hurricanes. “True. 1 always thought of Red Cross as a kind of rescue force in times of disaster and little more. “Then I learned that in towns and cities across America, Red Cross gives the kind of help to individuals that you rarely hear about, because it doesn’t make headlines in the newspaper. “Red Cross, for instance, helps elderly people get to doc tors’ appointments... and even to the store. They help veterans get back on the track. They teach kids to swim... and how to save lives. “I found out that if you added up all the different humanitarian jobs Red Cross does in different towns, the number comes to over 100! “That’s why I’m helping to keep Red Cross ready. And why I hope you do, too.” Keep Red Cross ready. BLENDS Of Gif I-GIVING I 3609 Place E. 29th - Bryan Come on up | to the 2nd floor of the MSC! i Aggie | Christmas Fair ! Fri. Dec. 7 alliance kidnapped 11 male] Nov. 21 from th Mt. Sdindar on the eastern border with Moi bique. “They were told that they ■ being taken to terrorist base ij Mozambique, it said. "Afters seven days of walking inside Mo| bique, on of the abducteesmaj to escape and returned to thisj try, where he reported to these) ity forces.” The communique said therm abouts of the 10 children guerilla captivity is not known. 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