Thursday, August 30, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9
What’s up
Thursday
AG ECONOMICS CLUB: is sponsoring a “Burger Burn” at
6:30 p.m. at the Q-Huts. The cost is $3. All students are in
vited.
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL: will meet at 5 p.m. in
402 Rudder.
BETA ALPHA PSI: Accounting majors who have completed
Acct, 230 with a 3.5 GPR or Acct. 328 with a 3.0 GPR are
invited to attend a meeting at 7 p.m. in 165 Blocker. For
more information, contact Lynne Frazier at 260-0621.
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: is
having a welcome back meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 308 Rud
der.
KANM STUDENT RADIO: will have an organizational and
D.J. meeting for all staff members at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rud
der.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: presents the movie Mad Max
(the original road warrior) at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Admis
sion is $1.50.
MSC HOSPITALITY: anpl ications for membership are
available in the Student Programs Office through Sept. 6.
MSC MADRIGAL DINNERS: is holding auditions for vocal
ists, musicians, jesters and jugglers. Contact the Vocal Mu
sic Office in 003 MSC.
LEGISLATIVE STUDY GROUP: applications for mem
bership are available in the Student Government office,
213 Pavilion, through Sept. 10.
GUATEMALAN STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS: is having a
welcome meeting at 7 p.m. in 140 MSC.
KANM STUDENT RADIO: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 301
Rudder to assign shifts to D.J.s. Newcomers are welcome.
FINANCE ASSOCIATION: will have a general meeting at 7
p.m. in 102 Blocker. Blue Bell ice cream will be served.
CHI ALPHA: will meet for worship and Bible study at 7 p.m.
in 410 Rudder.
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION:
will have their first meeting of the school year at 7 p.m. in
308 Rudder. New students are welcome.
Friday
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will have
an introductory meeting followed by a square dance in 601
Rudder at 7 p.m.
MALAYSIANS IN AGGIELAND: is having a general meet
ing and Merdeka Day celebration.
CLASS OF ‘86: is
Huts from 8 p.m.
free.
sponsoring a back to school bash at the Q
n. until yell. Admission and refreshents are
KANM STUDENT RADIO: is having a “Fountain Float”
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rudder Fountain. Swimwear, in-
nertubes and rubber duckies are welcome.
TAMU CHESS CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
Players of all skill levels are welcome.
Sunday
MSC OPEN HOUSE; more than 150 student organizations
will be represented at booths in the MSC from 4 p.m. to 8
p.m.
DELTA SIGMA THETA: is sponsoring a welcome reception
for new students from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in 501 Rudder.
Come meet new people and make new friends.
Extortion
‘revealed’
in union
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers official charged with extor
tion for allegedly promising to end
union organizing efforts in ex
change for cash was released
Wednesday on bond.
Cecil Moses, special agent in
charge of the FBI office in Birming
ham, said federal agents had ar
rested Robert Wayne Lawson, a
union organizer for the AFL-CIO
affiliate who is from Houston.
Moses said Lawson, chief interna
tional representative for IBEW, had
been temporarily living at a Hunt
sville motel while leading IBEW ef
forts to unionize SCI Inc., an aero
space electronics company, and
other area firms.
FBI spokesman Tom Moore said
Lawson was charged with extorting
“a large sum” of money from SCI in
return for his promise to direct
union organizing efforts toward
other Huntsville firms and away
from SCI.
Moses said Lawson was charged
with a violation of the federal Hobbs
Act, which deals with the extortion
of money for one’s personal use in
connection with labor-related activ
ities.
Lawson was held in the Madison
County Jail prior to a hearing
Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate
James M. Gaines, who set bond at
$5,000. Lawson posted the unse
cured bond and was released.
Lawson was arrested about 9:30
p.m. Tuesday at a popular Hunt
sville restaurant while accepting a
cash payoff from John Wilmer, a
Huntsville attorney with a law firm
which represents SCI in labor-re
lated matters, Moses said.
He said Wilmer had been cooper
ating with the FBI in the case, as was
Olin King, chairman of the SCI
board of directors, and Harvey
Harkness, SCI’s legal counsel.
The defendant must appear at a
preliminary hearing before Gaines
on Sept. 10. If eventually convicted,
he could be sentenced to a maxi
mum of 20 years in prison and or
fined $10,000.
Democrats honor Guest
By JAMES WALKER
Reporter
Texas Democratic Party lead
ership is not wasting time in rallying
support for the general election this
November.
Bob Slagle, Texas democratic
party chairman, said Wednesday
that a fundraising “roast” honoring
Calvin Guest, former state party
chairman (1974-80) and a Bryan res
ident, will be held at the Brazos Cen
ter Sept. 17.
During his tenure, Guest was in
strumental in initiating a program to
build the party by further organiz
ing and increasing party mem
bership. Prior to this program, the
Texas Democratic Party organiza
tion hastily was mobilized every two
years and then neglected between
elections.
Slagle considers Guest to be the
“father of the state (democratic) par
ty” and promised that “no dark side
of Guest will be left unexplored.”
Governor Mark White, Railroad
Commissioner Buddy White and
Texas A&M Regent Joe Reynolds,
among others, will attempt to humil-
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Bob Slagle
iate the “Guest” of honor in front of
an audience of loyal Democrats ex
pected to reach 1,000. This will be
the first time a political fundraiser of by Oct. 7.
this size has occurred in Brazos
County.
Proceeds will be appointed to both
the state and local campaign funds.
County Party Chairman Ron Gay in
dicated that the revenues will pro
vide initial support for obtaining
votes at the expense of the Republi
can challengers.
Brazos County voters are urged to
participate in the congressional races
for U.S. Senate between Lloyd Dog-
get (D) and Phil Gramm (R); Rep
resentative 6th District between Joe
Barton (R) and Dan Kubiak (D); and
State Representative 14th District —
in which Neely Lewis (D) will hope
for another razor’s edge win against
Richard Smith (R).
Local races include the positions
of county commissioner, Billy E.
Beard (R) and Phil Scarmado (D);
district attorney, Hank Paine (R) and
Bill Turner (D); and Sheriff, How
ard Hill (D) and Ronnie Miller (R).
Anyone desiring to vote here in
the upcomming general election
must be registered in Brazos County
Americans travel overseas;
ride strength of U.S. dollar
United Press International
LONDON — Riding the strength
of the soaring U.S. dollar, American
tourists are invading Europe this
summer in record numbers.
The greenback has surged to all-
time highs against more than a half-
dozen European currencies, and
millions of Americans. “Italy has be
come very fashionable,” he said.
'“And Americans have become more
curious and adventurous.”
Washington, D.C., lawyer Ken Ad
ams and wife Anita in Rome said
they found lots of bargains in leather
goods and Venetian glass.
“You don’t have to spend a lot of
money to get good food here, ei
ther,” Mrs. Adams said. She said
they had been spending about $23
for dinner with wine for two, “and
we re eating well — pasta, veal, rasp
berries and cream.”
Her husband added, “A meal like
that costs at least $50 in Washington
and a lot more at Cantina d’ltalia or
II Giardino,” top restaurants in the
U.S. capital.
The Old World is the biggest
tourist draw, but dollar-fueled
Americans also are spilling into
other nearby regions.
In Israel, a spokesman for the
government-owned airline El A1
said, ‘‘AH indications are this will be a
record year for the number of
American tourists.”
A big influx of Yanks also was re
ported in East Africa.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,”
Sammy Maura of safari operators
Abercrombie and Kent in Nairobi,
Kenya, said. “Bookings so far are up
by about 20 percent with the
strength of the dollar the major fac
tor in the increase.”
In London, Americans are filling
one-third of the seats in some of
most popular plays and musicals.
“I could die,” Leona Howarth of
New Providence, N.J., exclaimed. “I
paid $45 to see ‘Cats’ in New York
and I haven’t paid more than $12
for any theater ticket here.”
She said she and her husband
found just about everything is
cheaper than in the States.
“The fancy crystal trimmed in 24-
carat gold that I bought was reasona
ble here and I would have paid a for
tune at home.”
In Brussels, one of the world’s
great restaurant cities, a couple can
get a complete meal — hors
d’oeuvre, main dish, wine, dessert
and coffee — for around $40 for
two, compared with about $50 for
the same meal last summer.
A double room at the downtown
Brussels Amigo Hotel, classified by
tourist officials as “luxury,” costs $60
per night, a slight rise from from
$55 in 1983. But a special summer
discount knocks the price down to
$50 when you ask for it. And a ki
logram (2.2 pounds) of famous Bel
gian Godiva chocolates costs about
$11 compared with $13 last year.
In West Germany, many dollar
prices are down. A single room at
the posh Intercontinental costs $70
and a double $84. That compares
with $77 and $93 last summer.
“We have nothing to complain
about,” Bonnie Field, 38, a television
producer from Malibu, Calif., said
while out for a stroll on
Kurfuerstendamm, Berlin’s main
boulevard. “The weather is fine, the
dollar is at a record level and we all
have extra cash in our pockets as a
result. I just bought two beautiful
leather bags for $110. Back home
they would have cost double that.”
Some American tourists taking
advantage of 160 pesetas to the dol
lar are covering Spain in grand style
at prices that would buy only modest
accommodations back home.
Jerry and Elaine Laurence of New
York City chose luxury at Madrid’s
Palace Hotel opposite the Spanish
Cortes (parliament) with a room for
two at $75 a night.
Two Californians, Scott Colier, 24,
of Fullerton, and Deane Rogers, 23,
of Whittier, camped out and said
they traveled the Iberian peninsula
on an average of $7 a day.
“It’s a lot cheaper than traveling in
the U.S.,” Colier said.
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99
MSC
Cateteria
Now Better Than Ever, You Will Be Pleased With
These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods.
Each Daily Special Only $2.59 Plus Tax.
“Open Daily”
Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.—4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
MONDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Salisbury Steak
with
Mushroom Gravy
Whipped Potatoes
Your Choice of
One Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Coffee or Tea
TUESDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Mexican Fiesta
Dinner
Two Cheese and
Onion Enchiladas
w/ Chili
Mexican Rice
Patio Style Pinto Beans
Tostadas
Coffee or Tea
One Corn Bread and Butter
WEDNESDAY
EVENING
SPECIAL
Chicken Fried Steak
w/Cream Gravy
Whipped Potatoes and
Choice of one other
Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL
Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner
SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE
Parmesan Cheese- Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing—Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
FOR YOUR PROTECTION OUR PERSONNEL HAVE HEALTH CARDS
FRIDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Fried Catfish
Filet w/Tartar
Sauce
Cole Slaw
Hush Puppies
Choice of One
Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
SATURDAY
NOON and EVENING
SPECIAL
Yankee Pot Roast
Texas Style
(Tossed Salad)
Mashed
Potatoes
w/Gravy
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
‘Quality First’
SUNDAY SPECIAL
NOON and EVENING
Roast Turkey Dinner
Served with
Cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Dressing
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Coffee or Tea
Giblet Gravy
And Your Choice of any
One Vegetable