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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, December 10, 1984 Agriculture Majors Animal Science Production Field Study Course Meeting Monday Dec. lOth 5:00 p.m. 113 Kleberg Trip is from Jan. 3rd~l 2th, 1 985 Visit 34 Animal Production Units of all types to see application of classroom theory. If can’t attend meeting, call Dr. Howard Hesby, 845-761 6 for information and reservation. Give a gift wi great taste INTERURBAIV Give an Interurban Gift Certificate! 505 University Drive College Station 846-8741 ►mall Wonders & Christmas Delights These samples from our large selection of small gifts represent more than just products for sale. We 1 j the products themselves 'or enhanced observation ley will inspire when shared. Leaded Glass Crystals From Austrra in a myriad of shapes £ sizes. Add a sparkle to the season) Choose Sprmg.Summer 1 Fall or Wintei—ora set of all four, featuring our favorite newscaster £ some of his best monologues. 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Whole Earth Provision Co 105 Boyett College Station 8f6“8794 awcw mutgtiuntm tw »rwr r> nrr* Tif WiMWrTanaHihx ’ r ifAHKMKWfijHawm; aa.1 Guerrillas end Duarte's hopes for holiday truce ( United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Salvadoran President Jose Napolean Duarte said Saturday leftist guerrillas have ended all hopes for a Christmas truce in the country’s bloody civil war, but that he will continue to press for a long-term cease Fire. Duarte, accompanied by El Salva dor Supreme Court President Fran cisco lose Guerrero and U.S. Am bassador Thomas Pickering, told reporters he came to the United States to explain the peace process currently underway in the troubled Central American nation. Duarte said leftist guerrillas are engaged in two wars — one against the military and the other against the Salvadoran people. “The first step is to eliminate the war against the people,” he said, adding he w'as sorry that “the people on the left ... have rejected this possi bility.” Duarte said negotiations with guerrilla leaders at La Palma and elsewhere failed to end with the adoption of his Document for Peace, which calls for a temporary truce. He said he would continue to ne gotiate for the adoption of a second document, the Human Session, which calls for a cease fire, an end to long-term hostilities and bringing the guerrillas into the Democratic process. “What we have to do now is make them come back and reason,” he said. “I have plans to resume the talks. The problem is, is it possible? Do they really want to have peace talks? “We have to make them under stand that I am ready for peace, but not ready to be an instrument of tac tical dialogue,” he said, referring to guerrilla tactics of using the talks for propaganda purposes. Duarte said El Salvador needs economic aid from the United States and Europe to keep pace with arms being funnelled into the country from leftist forces in Nicaragua. “I’m really worried about the next shipment of armaments (from the Soviet Union),” he said. “What is going to happen to the helicopters and planes they (Nicaragua) nave now? It could be the next escalation in this process. “If we don’t get aid, it will be easy for the guerrillas to take over.” Duarte said the peace process is being hindered by theextremcj forces, which seek total victon?, the guerrillas. “There is no question the ii would like me to be hard, W (peace initiative) is theaimoll people,” said Duarte, whose; appeared on a death list »1 agreed to negotiate with there “I don’t accept pressureM right or the left, the inside#! outside,” he said. About 60 demonstratorsopt U.S policy in Central Amerita^ ted and waived signs outside^ University, where Duartes more than 2,000 people at all Af f airs Council forum. He repeated his pledget further peace talks with tnej las. Duarte traced El Salvador ferns to East-West strugglesWJ the United States and the y| Union, and the country’s I concentrating power inthey| a f ew ruling families. “I’ve been fighting for 23vq find my country in a DemocrattJ sition. I will not stop now," he si “I believe this is the bestthinjil do, f ight for peace.” Iraqi attack on supertanker meant as warning for Iran United Press International ABU DHABI, United Arab Emi rates — An Iraqi warplane fired a missile into a Bahamanian-regis- tered supertanker in the Persian Gulf Sunday, damaging a tank but causing no injuries in the second such attack in less than a week. Gulf shipping sources and Lloyds of London said the 163,155-ton B.T. Investor was hit by the Iraqi missile as it sailed toward Iran’s main oil ter minal at Kharg Island. The supertanker was hit in a wing tank, but there was “no loss of* life, no ingress of water,” and the vessel was proceeding south to the United Arab Emirates port of Dubai for re pairs, a spokesman for Lloyds, the world’s foremost shipping insurer, said. An Iraqi government spokesman said Sunday’s attack was meant as a warning to Iran's clients tTat Bagh dad was continuing its blockade of Kharg Island and all Iranian ports within a war zone it declared at the northern end of the Gulf. “Those who are dealing with the Iranian regime should suffer from the outcome of their attitude toward their peoples and the world public opinion,” the official Iraqi news agency, monitored in Abu Dhabi, quoted the Iraqi spokesman as say- ing. 1 he latest attack came less than a week after Iraqi warplanes attacked the Gypriot-owned Minotaur, dam aging the 392,543-ton supertanker as it was sailing toward Kharg Is land. The Minotaur, the largest vessel hit in the Persian Gulf conflict, sailed to the Dubai dry dock for repairs. The missile attacks broke a six- week lull in the so-calledtaniti between Irao and Iran, been at war along their bordeui northern end of the PersianC more than four years. At least 56 ships have been it year in raids ana counter-raid^ I raq began attacking Gulf s in a bid to cripple Iranian oil nues need to finance its ware” The lull, coupled with i of up to $3 a barrel and b< seamen willing to travel to tkj zone, have pushed up Iranianj duction to afxaut 2.5 million!) day, above its OPECquotaofUi lion barrels a day, Gulf oil exec said. Diplomats said the renedl tacks also indicated Iraqi tience in so-far unsuccessfulrej and international peace initiatra end the conflict Baptist baptisms declining with other church activities United Press International WASHINGTON — The Southern Baptist Con vention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomina tion, is projecting the lowest record for baptisms in five years for 1984 and expects a sluggish year overall for other key church activities. The denomination reported a projected decline in baptisms of 6.5 percent and the lowest number of baptisms since 1979. According to projections last week by the South ern Baptist Sunday School Board, small gains are expected in church membership, Sunday school enrollment, church music enrollment and Broth erhood (men’s auxiliary) enrollment. Total membership in Southern Baptist congre gations was projected to increase by 1.2 percent when final year-end statistics are compiled, according to the Sunday School Board. That would bring the church’s total membership to 14,355,679 — the smallest increase since 1977. In recent years the denomination has been em broiled in what some have called a “holy war” be tween fundamentalists and moderates over control of the church. Issues in the fight include methods of biblical in terpretation, ordination of women to the ministry and church-state relations. The fundamentalists have claimed the church’s seminaries, boards and agencies are becoming too liberal. The dispute has led some leaders to warn that the internal struggle is sapping the denomination’s mission and evangelism energy andsowingci sion among rank and file Southern Baptists. A meeting of state evangelism directorsheldliil week in Vancouver, British Columbia, expr«4 concern over the baptism figures — akeycatejoi| for the health of the denomination. “We are not winning America to Christ, wa«l losing it,” tfie state directors said. According to Southern Baptist officials, itiiti*l second time in the 1980s that the number of af| baptisms has sunk below the 400,000 mark. A report by Baptist Press, the denominatioil official news agency, said one evangelism officiilj the Vancouver meeting blamed the decline ink tisms on controversy in the church and Baptists tors’ reporting of it. “Baptisms are down, and I'm not surp said Joe Ford, associate vice president in theHoml Mission Board evangelism section. "EventheBafl tist press has ‘bought into’ the value system ofik| secular press. Rather than seeking to aiffusemudj of the controversy, they (Baptist editors) 1 " flamed the fires of it in our convention.” Other statistics projected by the SundayScWl Board included modest gains in both missionfI ing and total receipts for the church. Mission expenctitures are projected to incrtasl by 6.7 percent to nearly $565 million doll higher than inflation rates but lower tha year’s 8.7 percent gain. Others may contest Pickens’ United Press International NEW YORK — Analysts are di vided over whether other contend ers will jump into the ring to outbid maverick oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr. in his current campaign to take over Phillips Petroleum Co. Some believe Pickens, the catalyst for Chevron Corp.’s $13.2 billion purchase of Gulf Oil Corn, and a promoter of other megabuck oil mergers, is trying to goad Phillips into making a counter offer for Mesa Petroleum Co., 'which he heads. Pickens and his partners plan to launch a $60-a-share cash tender of fer for 23 million shares of Phillips in a move to gain eventual control of the nation’s 10th largest oil com pany. At $60 a share Phillips, which has more than 154 million shares outstanding, would cost the Pickens’ group about $9.5 billion. Analysts in the bearish camp think declining oil prices will deter poten tial takeover candidates from top ping Pickens’ bid. BuU other specialists expect at least one large oil company to dive in after Phillips because its 750 million barrels in U.S. oil reserves are worth far more than $60 a share. “There are no white knights left anymore in the oil industry,” said William Randol, analyst at First Bos ton Corn. “Pickens had better be prepared to win this one with Phil lips.” Industry sources who asked not to be identified said Pickens, armed with more than $400 million in prof its that he made on the Chevron- Gulf merger, chose Phillips as his takeover target because its manage ment is the weakest among the oil gi ants. Some industry officials are con vinced that Pickens, who started his career at Phillips in 1951, is com mitted to buying the Oklahoma com pany and revolutionizing the way it is run. “I saw the need for a lot of innova tion at Phillips,” Pickens told UPI in an interview last year. “If I could have kept my mouth shut, I proba bly would have moved into senior management — not necessarily the CEO — but in the top ranks.” Pickens seems unperturbed at the prospect of a bigger company gob bling up Mesa, a relatively player ranked 92nd in the Hi industry, and. has flirted will) idea of becoming a financiali»' merit advisor in New York. “Phillips is more attractive 1 ) other frequently mentioned ^ over targets, such as Unocal or ^ said Alvin Silber, head of Pet# Perspective energy research» “Phillips has more domesticoJ the kind of assets that tillin' 1 should appeal to a larger oil 1 pany buyer.” Phillips has the added ado of operating a small marketing network, the ti stumbling block in antitrust $ of oil mergers, he said. Silber thinks a major oil a# — perhaps Exxon Corp., $ Richfield Co. or Standard Oil 1 (Indiana) — will toss its hat# ring and better Pickens’ $6l)J i; offer. “Even at $75 a share Philli[ would be a good buy,” Silber “Large oil companies are hash creasing difficulty replacing U.S. oil. ;d ad# refining’