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Page 12/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 11,1985 At Northgate Great Steaks, Shrimp, Burgers, Salads, Baked Potatoes and More! Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday Nights until 2:00 a.m. $2 00 PITCHERS 7 p.m. to midnight every night! t%jii SHOE by Jeff MacNelM Satellite heads to confront the Glacobini-Zinner comet ^MSC GREAT ISSUES 33 years of programming excellence THE COMMITTEE THAT BROUGHT... Carl Sagan • Milton Friedman • James Watt • Ralph Nader • Richard Leaky • G. Gordon Liddy • Buckminister Fuller • Margaret Mead • Madalyn Murray O’Hair • James Michener • William F. Buckley • Muhammid Ali • Leon Jaworski • Jacques Cousteau • Allen Ginsberg GI Tentative Fall Schedule September 11 First General Meeting September 14 Fall Workshop September 25 Dr. Timothy Leary October 23 Aushwitz Survivor Marc Berkowitz FIRST GENERAL MEETING TONIGHT! RM <401 RUDDER 7:00 p.m. Associated Press A drum-shaped satellite, only five feet high but carrying antennas the length of a football field, was racing at more than 46,000 miles an hour Tuesday toward the first rendezvous of a man-made object with a comet. “We are so close to what we aimed for, it’s pitiful,” Jim Elliott, a spokes man for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in this Washington suburb, said in mock complaint. When the objects cross paths mid way between Earth and the sun at 7:02 a.m. EDT today, American sci entists will have stolen some of the glory from their Soviet counterparts who have two spacecraft en route to probe Halley’s Comet next year. The U.S. satellite, sent into space in 1978 to study the “solar wind” — hot, charged gases that flow from the sun — was diverted in 1983 to ward today’s encounter with the comet Giacobini-Zinner. The sun-study satellite, renamed ICE for International Cometary Ex plorer, had already outlived its three-year design life and sampled the solar wind m front of Eartn as well as behind it. It cost $20 million originally, and its new job is bud geted for less than $3 million. “This is the third mission for this spacecraft,” said Robert Farquhar, flight director for the mission. “It has already fulfilled two missions and has performed them very well. It has already been bought and paid for a couple of times now, so that justifies us taking this high risk.” The risk is that the micron-sized grains of dust in the comet tail might damage or obscure the satellite’s so lar cells, robbing it of power needed to get the data to Earth. The satellite has no dust shield. Scientists at Goddard will know Two women survive 21-day ocean ordeal Associated Press PALO ALTO, Calif. — A motor- boat ride in the Indian Ocean turned into a 21-day ordeal for two women who were reduced to “happy hour” meals of toothpaste and rain water after their food ran out. The women, Judith Gale Schwartz and Rickey Berkowitz, were back on more substantial diets in a private home in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday. “They’re eating hamburgers and milkshakes,” said Schwartz’s sister, Wendy Fein, who talked to the women by telephone from Rancho Palos Verdes Calif. “They were supposed to be on a bland diet,” said Fein, who added that beer was also part of the fare. “It doesn’t sound that bland to me.” The two women had left Carita on Aug. 17 for what they thought would be a ‘‘romantic” boat ride with two guides to a camping site at Un- jung Kulon on the island of Java, a trip that was to take five to 10 hours. But the boat’s 25-horsepower engine broke down and the foursome was left to drift. The women reached safety on Sunday, four days after Indonesian authorities had called off the search. HD A Party Comparison Without Party Time The boring party. No fun to attend. Worse yet, a disaster to give. But there is hope...Party Time. Party Time puts an end to the boring party. Small parties. Wild parties. Cocktail parties. Toga parties. Big parties. Birthday parties. Party Time has everything you need to make it a success. From plastic flatware to margarita machines. Tablecloths to a complete Hawaiian luau package. With Party Time It’s all at Party Time. Come in today. And put an end to the boring party. PARTfl TlAE “We Rent Fun” Park Place Plaza, College Station 696-5555 U RENT M Location 1904 Texas Ave., Hi van 779-0085 within minutes whether the IC[I comes through its celestial meetiii;| intact, but results will take a lonJ time to analyze. ICE has traveled more than Ibill lion miles since its launching. li J survives Giacobini-Zinner, it will take readings from afar on Hallevsl Comet next year and possibly be re I trieved and brought back toEarthinj the year 2012 — on Aug. 2. The spacecraft is targeted to pas I 4,900 miles behind the comet’s m l cleus, which is hidden by a gas cloud that grows larger as the comet geu nearer to the sun. The tail, wrudi forms inside the cloud, is 3,000 mite| wide at that point. Originally, plans were totraverstl the tail 6,000 miles behind them cleus, but the comet’s orbit ha! I shifted slightly and Ciacobini-Zinner was flying rather erratically— “bur [ ping” gas that affected its path, out | scientist said. The women suffered sunburn and dehydration, but were otherwise in good shape. The guides were ill, according to Fein. Schwartz’s mother, Ruth, re turned to California on Saturday, thinking that authorities had “ex hausted all possibilities.” The family was told that no one could survive three weeks on a boat in the Indian Ocean. But the hearty women, who had been vacationing in the South Pacific for two months before heading to Indonesia for their sea excursion, were lucky enough to encounter calm waters after their boat became disabled, Fein said. “Judith said that every night they would have a ‘happy hour’ with Col gate” after the food ran out, Fein said. They washed the toothpaste down with rainwater. Schwartz, a special education tea cher who lives in Palo Alto, and Ber kowitz, a hospital administrator in Rancho Palos Verdes, finally reached land when the 25-foot boat broke up Sunday. They and their guides swam to a beach on the south western tip of the island of Sumatra and could hardly walk when they reached the shore, Fein said. New fighting breaks out at refugee camp Associated Press BEIRUT — New fighti broke out at Beirut’s Bout] Barajneh refugee camp Tuesday I despite the efforts of Syrian-led teams to enforce a cease-fire at| the shell-battered shantytown. It was the sixth day of battlesl between the camp’s Palestinian defenders and Shiite Moslem mi litiamen who say they are trying to gain control of tne camp to drive the Palestinian Liberation! Organization from Beirut. Syria has been trying to endl Lebanon’s civil war but has been wary of direct involvement by Syrian troops in Beirut’s street! fighting. The Fighting around the camp,] which started a week ago was un finished business for both sides. The latest bout of fighting has, by police count, killed at least 53 and wounded 250. The Syrian-backed Amal, sup*| ported by the Lebanese Army's 6th Brigade and its tanks, as saulted Bouij el-Barajneh and the nearby Sabra and Chatilla camps in May to smash Arafat's efforts to rebuild the power base he lost in Israel’s 1982 invasion. CHIMNEY HILL BOWLING CENTER 40 LANES League & Open Bowling Family Entertainment Bar & Snack Bar 701 University Dr E. Serving Bluebell Ice Cream next to Dixie Chicken at Northgate ALPHA CHI OMEGA Fall Rush Tuesday, Sept. 10 Wednesday, Sept. 11 Thursday, Sept. 12 For more information, call: Karen, 693-0065 Sandee, 696-5828 ■■■