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national Battalion/Page May 5 Coed basic training in Army to end soon Landers to heed advice: no reruns United Press International FORT MONROE, Va. — Men and women will no longer go through basic training together after August because their phy siological differences make it impractical, the Army says. The Army has decided that basic training companies should be segregated by sex to ensure men and women are challenged. It isn’t that women don’t meet the standards, the Army says. It’s just that they don’t meet them the same way men do. “The reason for (the change) is to ensure that the men and women are challenged physical ly, to the full potential of their abilities,” said Capt. Douglas Haywood, assistant public infor mation officer at the Training “We’re not saying that the women don’t meet the stan dards. They meet the standards. What we’re talking about is men and women being assigned to separate companies as opposed to a pure female platoon or a male platoon withm” the same company. The Army decision was made last month and will take effect Aug. 30. Some bases are already phasing in the new requirement. The events in which the Army said men outperform women, High-point man ‘pacs’ computer United Press International BUFFALO, N.Y. — Eric Schwibs, a computer science stu dent at Buffalo State College, put a quarter in a Pac-Man machine at 9:45 p.m. and walked away at 6 a.m. the next day. He had run up a score of almost 3 million points and left the computer game in shock. Schwibs, 18, got his 2,935,590 points between Saturday night and Sunday morning before the Pac-Man machine overloaded and split its screen. “I am the king of Pac-Man,” Schwibs said. His play was wit nessed by a bartender who kept a pub open as Schwibs con tinued to roll up the points. Schwibs said the computer twice turned over after reaching 935,590 points, something the program does because the game only accommodates a six-digit number. However, when his score reached almost 3 million, the im age on the screen divided. SUMMER JOBS $065 Per \J hour Dallas-Ft. Worth Houston and suburbs of above APPLY: LaQuinta Motor Inn Room #202 Wed. May 5, Thurs. May 6 10 a.m., 12 noon 2 p.m., 4 p.m. (No phone calls) DESIRE ENROLLMENT IN REJECTED BY U S. SCHOOLS? You can attend a Philippine school recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association or listed with the World Health Organization. Students are eligible to take the ECFVG or ECFMG exam. All programs are taught in English. FOR APPLICATION AND DETAILS CONTACT: Foreign Educational Services Landol International. Inc. Route 2, Box 388 Delano, California 93215 Telephone 805/725-5536 Please indicate which program — Veterinary or Medical — for proper application Haywood said, include long distance running, road mar ching, and obstacle and confi dence courses. He cited a 12-mile road march, with a full rucksack and a helmet, as an example. “Company commanders and NCOs (non-commissioned offic ers) want an entire unit to finish very close together, finish as a unit,” he said. “You might have “The men can do it quicker than the women,” Haywood said. the men finishing far ahead of the women, which does not en hance esprit d’corps in that unit,” he said. United Press International CHICAGO — Ann Land ers says she saw nothing wrong with recycling old let ters in her worldwide advice column, but now that a small town publisher objects she’ll stop the practice. Barbara Sancken, a repor ter for Illinois’ Pontiac Daily Leader, was compiling the paper’s “Remember” column — a daily digest of newspaper excerpts from years past — when she found letters dating back to 1966 that seemed very familiar. Over a period of several months, she came up with more than 30 letters from 1966 and 1967 that ran again in 1981 and 1982. She showed the rerun let ters to James Pearre, the newspaper’s publisher, who called Landers Monday. Pearre said the columnist admitted the letters were old material, but told him she be lieved the letters “sharply illustrated certain points of continuing concern to today’s readers.” Landers told Pearre she saw “no harm in presenting the old material as new, and she didn’t think the readers would care,” he said. But Pearre said he objected to old letters and advice being recycled and the first lady of problem-solving devised an immediate solution — she promised to stop the reruns. Pearre said Landers’ ready agreement impressed him, adding the Leader will con tinue to run her column, as it has for 24 years. Landers said later in ten statement she re•us(^ , letters occasionally, added, “It had notoccuni me that this would bet dered deceptive. K United “The letters are relt iCONRi and it’s the quality of victed tw answer that counts," sbt capital mi afyoung f Her column appeani: dent that out 1,000 newspapers an cle.id a the world and is readbys wounded 70 million people daily. _ Fermi and Harr I convicted NATIONAL BRAND SMOK-A-POMA l ! * ,IK »J MMYIAMimim WHOLE HAMS SAFEWAY QUALITY MEATS! NABISCO Saltine Cracker! SUPER SAVERS SAVE YOU MONEY PREMIUM GROUND BEEF Safeway Quality & Freshness! 1 Lb ..... Can (Regular Price.... s 2 3 '’) SUPER SAVERS SAVE YOU MONEY! jll DEI MONTE L_ VEGETABLES limit0n« 16Oi.In ICII^ With'10.00 Purdwi or More, tin kti • 1 . • Win* and Tobwcn | f j* .) :L- He (Regular Price.... 99 c )f SUPER SAVERS SAVE YOU MONEY! 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