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Battalion Advertising 845-2611 BEYOND 9 TO 5 ■TriTj/vm • Open early • Open late • Open weekends kinko'r 201 College Main 846-8721 Wednesday, October 23, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7 Waldo by Kevin Thomas GOOD EVEN/A/G / THIS IS ED McMAWoV, VOCi/? HOST OF THAT EXCIT///<i SHOW. STAR SEARCH/ TOH'GHT WE HAVE A SPECIAL treat for You, folks/ we HAVE A YOUNG, HOT NEW SEHSATIOH WHO IS GOING, TO JUGGLE HER BOOBS/ Texas representatives divided over Gramm’s budget proposal stitute of Technology, who earlier roposal Associated Press The Boot Bam JUSTIN ROPERS $79 00 Largest Selection Lowest Price in The Brazos Valley 2.5 Miles East of Brazos Center on FM 1179 (Briarcest Dr.) Mon.-Sat 9:30-6:00 WASHINGTON — Ap by U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm of College Station to balance the federal budget by 1991 is viewed by his House col leagues from Texas as ranging from an excellent, ingenious idea to a so phisticated mess. Gramm’s fellow Republicans lauded the measure, which would E ut statutory limits on the national udget until it balances six years hence, while Democrats praised the motive but not necessarily the vehi cle. “I think it’s an excellent, in genious idea, and I think we should go further with it,” said Rep. Dick Armey, R-Denton, who like Gramm, used to teach college economics. He disagrees with 1985 Nobel prize-winning economist Franco Modigliani of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technolot this week called trie measure a “Mickey-Mouse” proposal that will lull lawmakers into thinking they’ve taken care of the deficit until it is too late. Modigliani said much deeper cuts in the budget must be taken immedi ately and that lawmakers should not rule out raising taxes. The proposal is currently before a House-Senate conference commit tee. It was approved by the Senate. The House endorsed the concept but avoided voting for the legislation itself. Rep. Albert Bustamante, D-San Antonio said, “It’s a very sophisti cated mess. “Everybody is question ing whether it is constitutional. I don’t think the Senate knows what they voted for.” Bustamante said he favors an freeze, across-the-board budget combined with a minimum cor porate income tax. Rep. Larry Combest, R-Lubbock, said he, like Armey, was an original co-sponsor of the Gramm proposal. “Do you cut spending or continue to try to fool the people?” he said. “It may not be the only thing out there we can do. It’s just the best thing I have seen.” Rep. Mike Andrews, D-Houston, said he applauded the effort to set statutory budget targets, but said there are too few cuts in the budget in 1986. The toughest cuts will come in 1989 and 1990, he said. “We really have to make some very very difficult choices in the next 12 months,” Andrews said. “Every month we delay coming to grips with the deficit is one month closer to economic disaster.” Prehistoric bird Group plans to fly replica of pterosaur in Washington 822-0247 Associated Press AUSTIN — The largest winged animal known to science has not flown in more than 60 million years. But it could take to the air next spring if a group of aeronautical en- E pneers, with advice from paleonto- ogists led by a University of Texas professor, succeed. Douglas Lawson, a UT-Austin graduate student, discovered the fossilized remains of the creature, “Quetzalcoatlus northropi,” or the Texas pterosaur, in Big Bend Na tional Park. The pterosaur has a wing-span of 35 feet. The team has scheduled a full- scale model of the pterosaur to fly next spring in a public demonstra tion outside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington. “We will launch the beast from the steps of the Air and Space Museum,” said Wann Langston, UT professor of geological sciences and director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Labo ratory of the Texas Memorial Mu seum. “It will fly down the mall, circle the Washington Monument, pick a small boy out of the audience and eat him, and finally return to the museum, where it will permanently reside,” Langston said jokingly. Unlike its Hollywood role as bru tal carnivore, the pterosaur probably was a fish eater, supplementing its diet by pulling small burrowing ani mals out of the riverbank sand like a sandpiper does. Langston heads a group of pa leontologists who provide specifica tions about bodily dimensions and range of movements to an engi neering and robotics team headed by Paul McCready, creator of the Gossamer Albatross — the first hu man powered vehicle to fly across the English Channel. The model will be battery pow ered, and internal equilibrium sen sors will control the airborne model automatically through wing and body movement. Ground operators will control turns by remote radio. WINTER BREAK OFFICIAL SKI BREAKS JANUARY 5-12 and 12-19 DELUXE CONDO LODGING / LIFT TICKETS MOUNTAIN SKI RACE I PICNIC I PARTIES 5 Nights 1/5-10 & 12-17 $ 155 retail value $230 a 33% savings! 7 Nights 1/5-12 & 12-19 $ < P* retail value $300 from JL jr a 35% savings! Weekends 1/10-12 & 17-19 from $ 75 retail value $1 00 a 25% savings! 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