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national Battalion/Page 11 February 16, 1982 study at?; Emergency staff photo by Eileen Manton plan 101 J u an effort to make students more aware of their health, for visitij Texas A&M Emergency Care Team gave free blood p m. attl >ressure checks to students. Debbie Sistrunk, a senior in ilogy; ''111 be showt| y in F health education takes Stuart Chamber’s blood pressure. Chamber is a senior management major from Dallas. Sistrunk is from Bryan. A drivers pay more in ’81; etroit motorists off the hook J United Press International IS | DETROIT — Detroit resi- gk'nts live in the cheapest place B drive, while Los Angeles J Botorists shelled out the most {I Ber mile in 1981, a survey of ■riving costs in the nation’s 20 Brgest cities shows. : estimateiiB The annual survey, released nts a gallon Sunday by the Hertz Corpora te, Bon, showed the average cost rompaniesj pti' mile to own and operate an katsuchcft auto in the cities surveyed was rdly afford cents, up from 39.7 cents in erswhenilpSO. tsed compt Detroit, where automobiles icedindej* dominate virtually every aspect If life, placed 20th on the Hertz goshes, at 41.9 cents per mile. Los Halsey sf ^ Il g e * es was first for the third „ w York,4 stra ight year at 57.9 cents per dse metoV>l e Land New York came in y an efforikcond at 56.6 cents per mile, it of their* An earlier Hertz study showed the average cost to own and operate a car nationwide in |981 was 44.5 cents per mile. he American Automobile xecutivei :rn ( sociation, discontini ervice :h the oil m prices asai Association, however, pegged the cost at 24.7 cents. Major city costs normally are higher than the national average because of higher sales taxes and insurance premiums. The car rental and leasing company blamed the boost in driving costs on high car prices and soaring interest rates. The average compact bost about $7,694 equipped with automatic transmission, power steering, brakes and air conditioning. Hertz said fixed costs such as depreciation, insurance and in terest rates accounted for 31.3 cents of the big city average. Variables such as maintenance, repairs and gasoline accounted for 11.4 cents. While high prices and interest rates played the biggest part in determining the per-mile cost, Hertz said insurance premiums could change costs by several cents a mile. San Fransisco, the nation’s third most expensive city to drive in, had the most expensive cars, highest maintenance costs and service station items includ ing fuel. Detroit had the cheapest cars and service station costs. Insurance cost most in Los Angeles, least in Washington. Atlanta had the cheapest maintenance costs. The highest cities in order of ranking were Los Angeles, 57.9 cents; New York City, 56.6 cents; San Francisco, 56.2 cents; Miami, 49.7 cents; Chicago, 48.5 cents and Seattle, 47.6 cents. The middle group included Denver, 46.5 cents; Houston, 46.5 cents; St. Louis, 46.5 cents; San Diego, 46.4 cents; Boston, 46.3 cents; Minneapolis, 46 cents; Milwaukee, 45.8 cents; Pittsburgh, 45.7 cents; Cleve land, 45 cents; Washington, 44.6 cents. The bottom four cities were Dallas, 43.6 cents; Cincinnati, 42.9 cents; Atlanta, 42.6 cents; and Detroit, 41.9 cents. Suspected terrorists arrested United Press International ROME — Police announced Monday they arrested four sus pected members of the Red Bri gades terrorist gang, including one registered nurse accused of treating wounded members. Police identified the nurse as Paolo Maturi, 27, employed in the gynecology department of Rome’s San Giovanni hospital. The arrest was made two weeks ago, but police said it was kept secret so as not to prejudice their investigation. Investigators said the nurse is accused of extracting a bullet from the left arm of Giovanni Alimonti, 27, the suspected Red Brigades member who worked as a telephone operator in the central Parliament offices. Police say Alimonti apparent ly was wounded in the Red Bri gades’ Jan. 6 attempt to kidnap Nicola Simone, deputy chief of Rome’s anti-terrorist police squad. Simone fired a shot that wounded one of his would-be kidnappers before being se riously wounded himself. Alimonti has been absent from his Parliament job since the shooting. Maturi also was suspected of having treated other wounded Red Brigades members in the past, police said. Police in the city of Livorno in northern Italy said they arrested three dock workers suspected of being Red Brigades supporters. Officers said the three were not major figures in the leftist gang, but that they were believed to have provided it with logistical evidence. Who wears the pants? 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