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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, November 19,1984 GRADUATES MOVING TO HOUSTON DO YOU NEED HELP FINDING A PLACE TO LIVE? CALL DIANNE AT APARTMENT WORLD LOCATORS WE ARE A FREE SERVICE 6372 RICHMOND 713-783-0333 Pcmu+'a, Pigaa At Alfredo’s Come and Get it Aggies 16” Pizza Supreme Cheese $099 846-0079 Hours: 5-12 Daily We Make Our Dough Fresh Daily 846-3824 Open early Thurs. & Fri. Qc the politics OF POLLUTION Conoco Inc. VS. Sierra Club 8 p.m. Tues. Nov. 20 l^tlTlemomal Student Free Rudder 601 NEW DINING HOURS Dine at the MSC Cafeteria Open Each Day Mon thru Fri 6:30 AM to 7:00 PM Sunday 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM TOWER open Mon. Thru Fri. 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. jiappy. Warped by Scott McCullar for SG liaisg the\ to council ban By ROBIN BLACK Senior Staff H’riier United Prei SHOE by Jeff MacNelly Clint Eastward is back in action with a new release, entitled, "Pirty Harry Gets Annoyed.’ In this most recent effort Clint launches | his usual assault on badouvs... .. znigxd'tasfe.. Although the Bryan City finally agreed Monday, Nov. H allow a student liaison for It A&M to sit in on its meetings, victory for Student Governmi only half-hearted. The new liaison, whose exol status is on a trial run untilMj will not be allowed to sit on the with the other council membeii the College Station City Coundl son Mike Hachtman does. Laura Carrell, reporting for the Student Government now Bryan City Council liaison, sit with other observers in the cil room. She will not be allows speak at will, but may be called01 the mayor if she raises her hand She also will be provided wr. council agenda and sup uments, which are available citizen who requests them. Brett Shine, Student Gon LONDON - Britain began c |0 million Mars ay because mi Kid they spiked on’s best-sellinj n to protest r m monkeys. Scotland Yan ars containing en found in [cross the natio orth to Ply mo id a “full-sca volving police Britain has begu The wrapper as marked witl nk, and each < nessage that si his is not ajok as been adulte: At least three -year-old girl,; Vandiver honored for help in creating defense plans University News Service Texas A&M University President Frank E. Vandiver was among select American Security Council rep resentatives honored at the White House for their active support in helping formulate strategies for na tional defense. President Reagan personally hosted the group and expressed ap preciation Thursday for the founda-- tion’s work on behalf of the Coali tion for Peace Through Strength, a bipartisan alliance of 158 national organizations and pro-defense lead ers, including some 250 members of Congress. The American Security Council Foundation, which serves as the edu cational coordinator for the Coali tion for Peace Through Strength, was asked by Sen. John Tower of Texas at the outset of the program to seek the broadest possible partici pation in further defining and de veloping proposed United States strategies for defense and for ex panding democracy throughout the world. A&M, one of the participating universities, and the campus-head- quartered Texas Engineering Ex periment Station, conduct several E rograms devoted to defense-re- ited studies and activities. Among them are the Center for Strategic Technology, the Military Studies In stitute and the Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise. Vandiver is a military historian and has written and edited 20 books. ne, aiuaem tw aturd but n ment s vice president forextemil ff . ' Smtla fan s said he is disappointedtha kesman said Student (government didntp ei Ilia( i e “j, asked for in the liaison position,! 10v ° and ch ecl he said he still considers the lira ... position a step forward. “These peop Shme and College Station 0 nangry M ichi council liaison Mike Hachtman^ £ overe( j a no t e ihe Bryan City Coundl a pra f ter f 7 j s w jf don <>n why the Student Govt: ia hter Chan ment wished to have a liaison on aturc i av council. ; The liaison provides a k needed information link betwi the approximately 5,000 studti living in Bryan and the dty conn Shine said. Another factor Shine said council should consider is that other 36,000 students interactrti larly writh the businesses in Bra furthering the effect the studs have on the city. Man Olympic Go .etton will be Activity Cente The council was reluctant topi ^ ar °lyi on ■' u Programming team wins contest Texas A&M’s computer program ming team won first place Friday at a regional programming contest spon sored by the Association for Com puting Machinery. Forty-four teams from 34 colleges and universities from Louisiana, Ar kansas, Oklahoma and Texas com peted for scholarships, hardware and software prizes. Competing teams had to solve six programming problems in 5 hours. Teams then were ranked on the basis of the number of problems - solved, the time of completion and the number of tries. arship, donated by Borland Interna- ai i The members of A&M’s winning team are team captain Scott Boyd, Lily Barkovic, Guylaine Pollock and Tomas Rokicki. For its first place finish, A&M’s team was awarded a 10MB hard disk-based TI Pro Personal Com puter and TI-850 printer, donated by Texas Instruments, Inc. The team also won a $ 1,000 schol- tional to the computer science de partment. Borland International donated $1,000 scholarships to the top three teams at the competition: A&M, Texas Tech and the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at San Antonio placed fourth. A&M and second-place Texas Tech will compete in the interna tional competition in New Orleans this spring. the liaison position, and it passed! a slim 4 to 3 vote in Monday’siw ing. Shine said the coundl would not have approved theliais without the help of Bryan Ron Blatchley, who works with the University. State representative-elect Rick Smith, a former Bryan mayor,;! ‘took her advised the students on howtoi proach the council. A reason for the council’s re! tance, Shine said, may be its distal from the University as compare the College Station City Gouncil. The Bryan City Council’s ol are about four or five miles fromi! Groups disrupt New Caledonian elections A&M campus while the CityofG lege Station facilities are just am the street from the University Shine said the council considei the liaison issue in 1980 but turned! down. United Press International NOUMEA, New Caledonia — Re sults in violence-marred elections for a territorial assembly on the French island of New Caledonia showed Monday the major pro-France party won 70 percent of the vote. Pro-independence Melanesians disrupted the elections Sunday by burning, attacking and occupying town halls where voters cast ballots. suits as “the calm of the forces of or der.” Results showed the pro-France Rally for the Republic in Caledonia (RPCR) Party won about 70 percent of the votes, officials said, which would give the party 34 of the 42 seats in the assembly. set up road blocks in rural areas in efforts to disrupt the elections, the first stage of a five-year plan by the French government for “internal au tonomy” for the South Pacific terri tory 1,000 miles east of Australia. At least 20 people were injured and 32 were arrested in violent clashes between French riot police and demonstrators opposed to colo nial rule, according to French tele- The French government moved Monday to downplay the election-re lated violence. French Minister for External Territories George Le- moine, in a broadcast on French television, described the election re- The overall voter turnout was re ported at 59.5 percent, compared to 75 percent in 1979. Participation in the strongly pro-independence areas on the east coast was only 26 per cent. The main pro-independence par ties, running under the banner of the Kanak Socialist National Liber ation Front (FLNKS), boycotted the election. The plan will culminate in 1989 with a referendum in which the ter ritory’s inhabitants will decide if they wish to continue with internal auton omy, change it or have complete in dependence. Melanesian activists under the banner of the FLNKS burned down town halls, smashed ballot boxes and The FLNKS has demanded im mediate independence and plans to establish its own “provisional” gov ernment on Dec. 1. They want to call the nation Kanaky. New Caledonia has been ruled by Paris since 1853. Its 140,000 resi dents include about 60,000 Melane sians, 50,000 whites and immigrants from other former French Pacific possessions. Police Bed The following incidents wen reported to the University Politf Department through Sunday. MISDEMEANOR THEFT • A brown backpack was len from the third floor of Stet ling C. Evans Library. • A maroon Schwinn 15-speei bicycle was stolen from in fronto! a student’s apartment. • A wallet was stolen from; desk in 112 Chemistry. • A wallet was stolen fromtlit! East Kyle Field locker and shod area. DISORDERLY CONDUCT: • Someone set off an explosive device in the Aston Hall court' yard. There were no injuriesot damage. By MEI St inic and exhi Ramiro G; (\erofit, said i hat he got Rel Galindo sai aiser for Pres on where Ret tllegiance. 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