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Page 16/The Battalion/Friday, October 26, 1984 Texas A&M Plaque - Stands out 4 inches from the wall and is 7Va inches across. Bronze colored Reveille sets on a maroon Texas State background along with “Gig EM Aggies,” “Old Sarge," and the “ATM" emblem all in white. The Texas A&M plaque is constructed of a fantastic new solid material that is Super Durable and shows the finest detail. Money back guarantee. Frankie’s Designs 307 West Avenue A Sweetwater, Texas 79556 Enclosed please find: Check, Money Order or charge to my VISA or Mastercard No. Exp. Date for Texas A&M Plaque(s) @$15.95 plus 80c tax plus $1.75 postage and handling TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED NAME ADDRESS. CITY STATE ZIP CODE Please allow four to six weeks delivery. Glass of *86 Picnic Buns Bonanza Sun. Oct. 28 1-4 p.m. Bee Creek Park $3.50 Tickets on sale now in Room 216 MSC kEY KOJRSEIlF A m ^ The atmosphere is different — perfect for your favorite cocktail. And what food! The menu is pure temptation with a variety of selections • Popular prices, too. Discover Julie’s Place soon! 607 Texas Avenue (across tram Texas A&M) 696-1427 HALLOWEEN FUN! HALLOWEEN CHILDREN’S PARTY OCTOBER 30, 1984 7:00 - 8:30 pm 201 MSC For Faculty’s, Staff’s, and Student’s Children Ages 3-12 4r MSC Hospitality Regrade and resubmit An overzealous sidewalk artist neglected to check his facts when he made this correction on the pavement at the inter section of Jones and Houston Streets. According to Webster’s Dictionary, the word “buses” may be spelled “buses” ot “busses.” So add the five points back, and send theartistbad to English 103. Norway denies part in oil crisis United Press International HOUSTON — A Norwegian en ergy official denied Thursday that his country precipitated an oil crisis by cutting its North Sea oil prices and reiterated Norway does not plan to go along with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in curtailing production. “There actually is no surprise at all in the Norwegian policy,” said Arild Roedland, State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Petro leum and Energy. “Norway sells at the prevailing price on the market and it is a mis conception that Norway has lowered its price,” Roedland told UPI after Crown Prince Harald addressed 400 oil industry representatives attend ing a “Norway Petroleum 1984" symposium. Crown Prince Harald called for closer ties between the United States and his country, culturally as well as economically. But the prince made no reference to the current world oil price situation and steered clear of .reporters wanting to question him about it. Roedland said he was aware that Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani planned to be in Norway Thursday trying to per suade Norway and other OPEC and non-OPEC countries to work to gether to prevent any price-cutting war. Yamani also visited Nigeria seeking to have Gen. Muhammed Buhari to rescind an oil price cut that followed Norway’s. The Norwegian official said his country has not departed from past the “past OPEC procedure” of pub lishing its plans tor production and development, despite reports that its independent-minded state oil com pany precipitated a possible price war by slashing prices oy up to SI .50 a barrel last week. “Norway is the producer of only 1 percent approximately (worldwide). Norway is not in a price leadership position; it is really subjected to the price of the market.” In his luncheon address, (Town Prince Harald noted that Phillips Pe troleum Co. was the first to discover oil in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea in 1969 and that 20 American oil companies im unlay in Norway. "We ... hope that AmeriaS panics will continue to pimi substantially in the expbran] development of the NonrH tinental shelf to our mutualt* he said. Prince Harald also saida| creased trade with the UnMI has Isenefitted his country. “Thus far this yearthevobl merchandise exports is Mm alsove the level of last year,1 terms of value more than Mpi higher. Deliveries to theLij thus made a very sizeable(oa lion to the jxisitive trend fa! way's export industries,"htsai Sweden ensures parents child care United Press International NEW YORK — American work ing mothers who feel there’s no solu tion to the conflict between jobs and children might consider the Swedish system. Helen Ginsberg, professor of eco nomics at Brooklyn College, said she was struck by the efforts Sweden makes to ensure that parents can work and still be available to their children. Ginsberg is the author of “Full Employment and Public Policy: The United States and Sweden,” recently published by Lexington Books. Mothers and fathers are eligible for up to a year of paid leave when the child arrives, 60 days sick leave per child per year to tend ailing off spring, and state-funded day care, Ginsberg said. “The aim is to have parental in volvement, quality in the home as well as in the workplace,” she said. The system does not work per fectly, Ginsberg said. In theory, the government is committed to provid ing child care for every working par ent, “but in practice a lot depends on where you live. In some areas they have waiting lists. That’s a big issue. The women are up in arms about it.” The fees at the centers are based on the parents’ salaries, but admis sion is not restricted to those with lower incomes. “It’s considered a right for people of all incomes,” she said. Ginsberg found the day care cen ters she visited “excellent.” While child care is also available from women licensed to keep children in their homes, she said, most parents prefer the public facilities. When a baby is born, both parents qualify for a year of paid leave, Gins berg said. “For nine months they get about 90 i>ercent of their wages, and they get three additional months at a flat rate that’s the same for every one.” The parents can use the leave any time until their child is eight, Gins berg said. “The aim was to nave both parents equally involved in bringing up the children. But the fact of the matter is, the proportion of fathers using their leave is considerably lower than the proportion of moth ers.” Men with professional jobs are much more likely to take the paren tal leave than blue-collar workers, Ginsberg said. Government posters urging fathers to use their leaves al ways feature “a big huskyibI said. Parents whose child is skill pet ted to stay home Marti® or her, Ginsberg said. “Tlwl days leave a year foreaditil used to he ten days.anditwj not bv the leftists but duntt® called bourgeoisegovemme I When she asked an aqsi whether sixty days wasn'tafal "ix*! g said, she got looksofslmj “The theory is there art4 children who are going to bt® that period of time. Butifil sick that long, it is probalily'i and possibly terminal. Titij parent should beabletobt*® child.” More fathers usfBJ leave provision than takeifal of paternity leave, shesaid I Teacher testing to cost millions, state official says United Press International AUSTIN — Education Com missioner Raymon Bynum said Thursday the Legislature’s fail ure to fund one of the most con troversial parts of the recent edu cation reform bill — teacher competency tests — could cost the state an extra $13 million. Bynum said the cost of testing more than 200,000 public school teachers — many of them taking tests in several subjects — will not be determined until the new State Board of Education decides whether an existing test can be used. Bynum said he knew the ques tion of funding was still “up in the air” when the Legislature passed the reform bill last summer. “The only question then, and it’s still a viable question, is: Are there available tests now without having to develop one? If that a uestion is resolved unfavorably, ten there will be some costs.” He said the lack of funding and the time necessary to develop and administer the tests could make it difficult to meet another legislative mandate that requires all teachers in Texas to pass a competency test by June 30, 1986. “That’s a very tight deadline,” Bynum said. He said developing, adminis tering, monitoring and scoring the tests could cost as much as $13 million and could force the Texas Education Agency to ask the Legislature for an emergency appropriation. The state board has directed the TEA to find the necessary funds within the agency’s budget. “There would just have to be an agreement to develop it over a number of years and squeeze it (money to pay for the test) out of the agency budget,” Bynum said. Sen. H. Tati Santiesteban, a member of the House-Senate committee that worked out com promises in the education bill adopted in June, said he believed an oversight led to the failure to fund the testing. But Sen. Carl Parker, chair man of the Senate Education Committee and an opponent of teacher competency tests, said he believed the lack of funds was no oversight. “An oversight is something you forget about,” he said. Court refuses to ord U.S. to inform aliens United Press International NEW ORLEANS — A federal ap peals court has refused to order the government to inform all aliens in deportation proceedings of their right to petition for asylum, court re cords showed Thursday. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals also ruled that the Immigra tion and Naturalization Service does not have to inform aliens that seek ing asylum automatically delays de portation. “Viewed alone, the giving of blan ket notice may seem to be a small matter, little to ask,” the court said. “But one quickly sees that it is actu ally only a tile of a mosaic with a complexity of balance which coun sels against tinkering.” The appeal was filed by El Salva dor natives Jose Irene Ramirez-Oso- rio and Jose Ismael Rubio, who en tered the United States through Texas in 1982. They were ordered to appear be fore immigration judges at the Los Fresnos Service Processing Center to explain why they should not be de ported. Both said they wished to be de ported to El Salvador and were not afraid of persecution, but they later retained a lawyer who took their case to the Board of Immigration Ap peals. The board claimed they should have been informed of their right to apply for asylum and were inade quately informed of their right to counsel. The 5th Circuit upheld-'®” 2-1 with Judge Reynaldof’Bj dissenting. He said the® P nored two injunctions the INS to notify aliens vador and Guatemala of to apply for politicalasyli® L, Garza also said the IN' ® have been aware of the that aliens from El Sal'*fH sen ted a special problem'E who keeps up with the nf'’® blind to the fact thatthefi'^T El Salvador continueswilfqlf both sides.” The majority said it re* 1 ® many aliens may be una^H right to petition for asylu^E due process does not re#® notice. The court also said*® ad m i n istrative burdens j|' “Although blanket#'® he calculated to avoid Mr® him rights, we have no t$® counting the INS judg®'®, would generate such laf ® of f rivolous claims as to' purpose.” The 5th Circuit also !l » aliens are told of theif nt' 1 if sel. “If it appears that an persecuted on return o'j presses fear or ifheistdH to a country other thanH designates, INS tells hi®q petition for asylum.”