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Battalion/Page 13 January 20, 1982 national Phone deals getting rare ka, Howaii and Robei pie wouldiaf ison, R-Wyo. 'ev., Howarj n., Patrip itrom Thur owell Helfi omenici, R' ’roxmire, ssebaum, m Chiles, & e who cranij ss releases in} Dole, Projt ; Kennedy ani e known asi earn." :rms of conr e, statesmaj dealing ani ictics: Bab, eader, Alai ’o., Richari Alan Crair aslant minors ; ennett Johit’ el Moynihanj unn, D-Ga,j 1, Paul Tson- ind Howard' Ohio, lest shall r obvioal AT&T rates too high He isn’t Minnesota Fats, but Alex Zimmerman of Amarillo keeps on trying staff photo by Peter Rocha in the MSC Gameroom. Zimmerman is a junior mechanical engineering major. I Is say the no weight as ir skin mot “slippen. the structni: rihuting sirs rface instead aims the Cin eight makes; : fuel effidet ng 35 “passes tllon. Ill has soffi novations, if •everse thrnsi' s two Garni ifan engine rear fuselagt opping quid* short runway ions did no : of designing! i research ani other fields :ply because d tore strings And that’stl* n said, ten any othn 1 in the lastdt another co® ney availablei . It takes a Ion op a new We’re the on' lade the to build anil ’ Vaughan petition coir® iucts, they’ll fi e.” spokesman ^ not worried" petition” fro: >n for pho- you have id knowl- n person : or Ange Western nations debate U.S. trade reduction United Press International PARIS — Representatives of all major Western nations assembled Tuesday for a top- secret conference to debate the U.S. request that its allies reduce trade with the Soviet Bloc to pro test martial law in Poland. Diplomats termed this the biggest meeting of its kind since the Gold War. The first session of the two-day closed meeting of the Control Committee on Trade with Communist Coun tries was to center on Washing ton’s push for sanctions. The meeting of high-level ex perts from 14 NATO nations and Japan faced the difficult task of reconciling the positions of Washington and allies reluc tant to sever trade ties with the East. West Germany has expressed the strongest anti-sanction senti ments, both for political and economic reasons. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt does not want to impede his nation’s “Ostpoli- tik,” which is geared to rebuild ing relations between East and West Germany. West Germany, which con ducts 6.5 percent of its trade with the Eastern Bloc, would lose more than any other West ern nation if business with the communist nations were cut back. France is next in line with 4 percent of its exports going to Eastern Europe. Trade with communist nations accounts for 3.5 percent of Italy’s exports and 2.3 percent of Britain’s. Because of the grain embar go, U.S. exports to the Soviet Bloc in 1980 made up only 1.7 percent of its trade. Grain ex ports have not been affected by the current sanctions. Hundreds of thousands of West Europeans earn their liv ing from high technology ex ports to Eastern Europe, while U.S. technological exports rep resent an insignificant part of American trade to the area. European allies and Japan have defended continued trade by ax guing the only sanction that really would hurt Moscow would be an American grain embargo. A major topic expected at the COCOM meeting was U.S. cri ticism of West German, Italian and French participation in con structing a $10 million gas pipe line from Siberia to Western Europe. Despite American warnings the pipeline will make the West dependent on Soviet energy supplies, West Germany and France are holding to the deal. Diplomats expect the United States will succeed at least in de laying it. A protest from Washington caused the cancellation of a $ 185 million sale of equipment for the pipeline by General Electric Co. Now British, Italian and West German General Electric firms may be forced to cancel their contracts with Moscow. United Press International WASHINGTON — The American Telephone & Tele graph antitrust settlement will eventually make life more com- licated for consumers trying to argain hunt for the best tele phone deal. Sam Simon, head of the Ralph Nader-backed National Citizens Committee for Broad casting, also says he fears con sumers will be underrepre sented in the rate-making pro cess which will occur state-by state in later years once the reor ganization of the nation’s tele phone system is completed. The recent agreement be tween AT&T and the Justice Department to settle the govern ment’s long-standing antitrust suit against “Ma Bell” provides for AT&T to divest itself of its 22 operating telephone com panies — Illinois Bell, South western Bell and the like. AT&T will still remain in the lucrative long-distance business where it already has several competitors. 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New comic book issues arrive first at the “only” comic store in the Brazos Valley. comics bought and sold. We have “Savage Sword of Conan 3527 Texas Ave. iRidgecrest Center 10-5:30 Mon.-Sat. 846-7412 Collector Stamps an even harder time than now figuring out what a telephone bargain is, Simon said, “There’s no doubt about it — that and a more difficult time finding out what he’s paying for and why.” Simon edited a book called “Reverse The Charges” which addresses both the question of shopping for telephone service and equipment, and the more technical aspects of how regula tors determine telephone rates. He said a wide variety of ser vices and charges are available even under the current system, yet many consumers go on month after month unaware that they could be saving money by buying their own telephone, switching to cheaper monthly service deals or subscribing to alternative long-distance pack ages. In the future, he said, the market will become even more complex. In terms of long distance ser- 1 pr will be more of a choice and the choice will be better. I suspect that the (long distance) prices will be driven down somewhat.” His book, available at $6 per copy from Consumer Press Inc., 910 17th St. NW, Suite 331, Washington, D.C. 20006, offers these tips, among others: —Consumers in some cities can subscribe to “economy” ser vice for as low as $3.65 per month and an additional charge of perhaps six cents per out going call. In the case of one city, Simon said, the consumer could pay for 100 calls a month and still not have as high a bill as more expensive monthly service arrangements. —Buying your own tele phone will save you from 50 cents to $2 per month, and even tually pay for the instrument you bought outright. The book also points out the ins and outs of repair problems when you own your equipment. —If your long distance bills are more than $25 per mon ( th, you can save money on the alter native long distance systems offered by companies such as Microwave Communications Inc., Southern Pacific Com munications and U.S. Transmis sions Systems. The AT&T settlement >vill not be finalized for perhaps two years. Simon believes the ratesetting process, which the book addres ses at some length, is the area where consumers must become more involved to make an ipi- pact when the reorganiziatibn does occur. Consumers, he said, “have never been well representeef in rate making,” something that could change if experts coulctbe hired as intervenors, perhaps through a small tax on each tele phone user willing to form such a lobbying group. TWO FOR ONE SALE on All Fall and Winter Holiday Merchandise Pay original price on one item get the second item free! 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