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• ,, ■ • . . . . , , .. . Monday, November 28,1983/The Battalion/Page 7 \round town udy, ^ss is at) tudeniCtl ^airman, l)le until Dj PPIbtio® will beset! t minute eak 0 P-®- ini Free U driver improvement offered Registration is now open for the Free University Driver mprovement course to be held Dec. 9 and 10. This state pproved course may be used to have certain misdemeanor I raffic offenses dismissed and to receive a 10 percent dis- l ount on automobile insurance. The fee is $22, payable in l ash only at registration. Registration is held in 216 Memo- l ial Student Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through I'riday. Participants are encouraged to register early — the I lasses Fill several days before the course. For more informa- lion call 845-1514. which is a n people; summer a(i d Salvador dl speak ir ; outlay at! " aviewfi program ^ ISC Great! a veteran!! He was t ind flewat he began? ong. He ask utyandlw then latei al school. Overseas Day will be held tomorrow MSC Travel and the Study Abroad Program invites veryone to attend their Overseas Day Tuesday from 10 in. to 2 p.m. in the MSC Lounge. Information will be resented on opportunities for work and study overseas. Society offers free help sessions Pledges from Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering honor iety, will be available to help any student in Math 151 and ug in a Cal 53, an<1 ME 211 and 212. The help sessions will be every ie 111 conlac ue sday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in 104D in relugtt schry. through dead week. For more information call sotphysid ||y nn Lunney, chapter president, at 846-3316. mure.” _ they told dements (k ler and win hggie and photos still being taken I with them required I I, to not treat d :ontrolled aw was a nent killir inately w II their b ailed a coi m not i involved $37.5 million stolen in heist United Press International LONDON — At least six hooded gunmen stormed a heavily guarded warehouse near Heathrow airport Satur day, handcuffed and doused guards with gasoline, then fled with more than three tons of gold and diamonds worth $37.5 million in the biggest robbery in modern history. The gunmen broke into the unmarked red brick and steel building at about 6:40 a.m, evading sophisticated electronic alarms, security cameras and automatic locks, said Cmdr. Frank Cater, head of Scotland Yard’s robbery squad. Police refused to discuss how the robbers got into or out of the Brinks Mat security building, which other workers in the area described as being “guarded like Fort Knox.” Brandishing handguns, with their faces masked by woolen helmets, the gunmen overpo wered and handcuffed six guards who had just come on duty, drenched some of them with gasoline and apparently threatened to byirn them alive if they did not cooperate, Cater said. The gang slashed one man’s uniform with a knife and poured gasoline on his stomach. The gasoline blistered his sto mach and legs, Cater said. Another guard was pistol- whipped and suffered cuts to his head. The gunmen rifled the vaults in the security warehouse, haul ing away 6,800 bars of gold bars and quantities of cut and uncut diamonds valued at $37.5 mil lion — the biggest haul in mod ern history. “What we the police are look ing for is the recovery of a total of 6,800 bars of gold. Indi vidually they weigh somewhere between one and two kilos,” said Cater. Altogether the gold and diamonds weighed three impe rial tons or 6,750 pounds, he said. Cater said the consignment of gold and diamonds was destined for the Far East. He said the value of the cut and uncut di amonds taken was minimal com pared to that of the gold. The gold bars, all individully stamped and numbered, would fit into a box measuring just six feet by three and three feet deep, Cater said. Brinks Mat, described as an Anglo-American firm, refused all comment on the case or the company’s corporate affilia tions. The robbery far surpassed the previous record $15 million in antique jewelry and uncut di amonds taken June 20, 1983, from Bond’sjewelers in London or the $15 million in cash, gems, other valuables stolen from de posit boxes in Bank of Andalusia in Marbella, Spain, over Christ mas 1982. “I think we are looking for a professional team of criminals,” Cater said. As forensic scientists worked behind the giant orange-and- white striped doors of the 150- foot warehouse building, police appealed to motorists who might have seen suspicious activity in the area between 6 and 8 a.m. The security guards did not see the gang’s getaway vehicle. It was the second multi million dollar robbery in three days. Across the Atlantic on Thanksgiving Day, two gunmen robbed Wells Fargo office in Memphis, Tenn., of $2 million in cash and bonds, the largest robbery in city history. Earlier this year in London, f angsters stole an estimated 10.5 million cash from a secur ity express depot after pouring gasoline over guards and threatening to burn them alive. It was not known if the two Lon don robberies were linked. Plane crash kills five after A&M-Texas game United Press International SIMPSON, La. — A Baton Rouge man, his father and his two children were killed Satur day evening when their light plane crashed in far western Louisiana en route from a Texas A&M football game. A dispatcher at the Vernon Parish sheriffs office identified the dead as Joseph E. Mailhos, 71 of Elizabeth, La.; his son, Joseph L. Mailhos, 47, of Baton Rouge; and two grandchildren, Matthew Leeman Mailhos, 19, and J lie Camille Mailhos, both of Bay City, Texas. Dispatcher W.L. By nog said the family was flying from Col lege Station, Texas, where J lie Mailhos was a student, to Oak dale, La., when their Cessna 172 plummeted to the ground 1 !/a miles north of Simpson. State police said they were notified when the four-seater airplane vanished at 7:10 p.m from the radar screen at the con trol tower in Alexandria. Searchers located the wreck age of the single-engine plane at 8:58 p.m. in the heavily wooded area about 20 miles northeast of Leesville. EUROPE PROGRAMS STARTING FROM $ 459.- CALL FOR INFO AND FREE CATALOG NOW TOLL FREE 1-800-638-7640 AESU #1 IN STUDENT TRAVEL juniors, seniors, veterinary and medical school students |in have individual pictures for the 1984 Aggieland taken “jxlay through Dec. 2 at the Yearbook Associates office at 700 S. Kyle behind Culpepper Plaza; and Dec. 5-9 at the Javilion on campus. This will ’ 1 1 e have pictures made. ! be the last chance for students submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion ffice in 216 Reed McDonald. 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