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Page 14/The BattalionThursday, November 7,1985 Colombian rebels attacl court, holding hostages Associated Press This Promotion Sponsored By 'Hut FREE MOVIE Buy any Medium or Large Pizza from Pizza Hut Special Delivery at Regular Price and Get a Coupon for a FREE Movie Rental at Video King s p* Offer Good For Limited Time Only 103 Anderson - College Station 693-9393 Non-Members Welcome & 4207 Wellborn - Campus/W. Bryan 260-9060 TMfc INTEHTAINMtNT O* TOMO«*OW -- Video Kmg 3131 Briarcrest 776-0076 Bryan 3729 E. 29th St. Bryan, TX 77802 (4091 846-KING 900-17 E. Harvey Rd. College Station, TX 77840 <4091 696-KINC HAVE A FORMAL SOON? GET A TAN AND LOOK GREAT! A single 30-minute session in a TAN U Solaire tanning bed is like spending 3-4 hours in the sun. FORMAL SPECIAL!! Bring in this Ad, buy 10 sessions and ' get 1 FREE. Your first visit is always FREE. 104 Old College Main at Northgate Walk-ins are welcome Call 846-9779 for an appointment With your diploma comes a new Buick, Pontiac or GMC and... no payments for 90 days, Quality Pontiac-Buick-GMC. Trucks is offering guaranteed financing for graduating Texas A&M seniors and graduate students. Purchase or lease any new Pontiac, Buick or GMC light truck within six months before or one year after graduation. With your proof of employment and good credit we ll finance your pur chase for up to 60 months through GMAC. With no pay ment due for 90 days. With as little as 5% down. Offer ends April 30, 1986. Gary Stevenson’s flEJAMTY PONTIAOBljlCK»GMC TRUCKS*SUBARU 601 S. TEXAS/BRYAN/779-1000 BOGOTA, Colombia — About 25 leftist guerrillas shot their way into the Palace of justice Wednesday, hut three hours later troops stormed the court building, seizing the lower three floors and freeing more than 100 hostages. Guerrillas of the April 19 Movement were believed to be hold ing about a dozen judges on the fourth floor of the five-story struc ture, including Supreme Court Pres ident Alfsonso Reyes. He was con tacted by telephone and said, “If the government doesn’t cut off its attack there could be a tragedy here.” A police lieutenant said reports indicated the guerrillas were holding at least 10 Supreme Court and fetl- eral judges in addition to Reyes along with an unknown number of government employees. The Bogota mayor’s office re ported that four policemen and sol diers had been killed and about a dozen were wounded. There were conflicting reports on the number of guerrillas slain. The mayor’s office said four were known killed, while earlier reports by two radio stations said two were slain in the initial gun battles and at least 15 more were killed during the army assault. Reyes told radio station Todelar, “We are here with a large number of judges as hostages and it is a ques tion of life or death that the gunfire stop. Please pass that on so the presi dent will give the order to stop the -attack.” As the judge spoke, bursts of sub machine gun fire could be heard from Reyes’ office on the fourth floor of the building. Radio stations said President Beli- sario Betancur’s brother, federal Judge Jaime Betancur, was amoi more tnan 100 court offidalsai workers who escaped unhamid from the building (luring andaflti the army assault. President Betancur met with hs Cabinet in an emergency session, no details were given. There were reports the guerris were demanding that Betancurgi the Palace of Justice to negotiate. A man identiilying himself as f onso Jaquim, a commander of lit guerrillas inside the building, die Todelar station by telephom, “Betancur is irresponsible, heisrt f using to open negotiations or tort ceive telepnone calls from the Sit preme Court president ” Late Wednesday, police on tit third floor liegan lobbing tear p grenades up the stairwells lead the fourth floor, of ficers at the scent said. Sen. Dole says full Senate may subpoena Soviet saila Associated Press WASHINGTON — Senate Ma jority Leader Robert Dole is putting together a plan to have the full Sen ate subpoena Soviet sailor Miroslav Medvid in a bid to forestall his re turn from New Orleans to the Soviet Union, aides said Wednesday. A Dole spokesman, Waft Riker, said staff members were hastily put ting together a resolution to.be acted on by the lawmakers as early as Thursday that would require Med- vid’s appearance before an ad hoc panel of six senators on Friday. “It’s an exploratory maneuver,” said Riker. “It’s not set in concrete, but we’re pursuing it” and cooperat- tht ~ ing with the Reagan administration on the matter. Riker said the plan had the appro- ‘ " H< * north of New Orleans where it waiting to take on a load of grai The snip is expected to be ready leave by Saturday. val of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who first advanced the idea and had pro posed to have Medvid appear before nis Senate Agriculture Committee. “We want to use the legitimate au thorities that we have to give this fel low one more chance to walk out of the gulag,” said George Dunlop, committee staff director. Medvid has three times been re turned by authorities to the Soviet freighter where he works, now moored in the Mississippi River Dunlop said a subpoena could It □poena Senate issued either by the Senate sergeat at arms or the Justice Department and that meetings were in progrts to work out details of issuing lit document and getting it delivered Helms, who also is a member oi the Senate Foreign Relations Coin mittee, alleged that the 22-vea sailor has been "brutalized’ by tk Soviets. Yurchenko leaves U.S. claiming kidnapped Associated Press WASHINGTON — Smiling broadly, former KGB official Vitaly Y urchenko boarded a Soviet airliner and flew home late Wednesday, cap ping a bizarre twist in an East-West spy drama in which the defector be came an accuser against the nation that offered him a new life. After a half-hour motorcade f rom the Soviet embassy to Dulles Inter national Airport outside Washing ton, Yurchenko walked brisklv past three State Department officials, leading an entourage of about 20 So viets into the jet that earlier had re turned Ambassador Anatoly Dobry nin from pre-summit talks in Moscow. Before being allowed to leave, Yurchenko apparently satisfied U.S. authorities that he was returning to the Soviet Union on his own accord, without coercion. No one knew what kind of reception awaited him in Moscow but experts here predicted a bleak future for him. Yurchenko, wearing a brown suit and biege overcoat, grinned as he took his last steps on U.S. soil, offer ing a brief wave to reporters befon stepping inside the plane. American officials had said Yur chenko defected in Rome in Augusi and was brought to this country On Monday, he told a news coo ference at the Soviet compound he had been kidnapped, and held at a GIA safe house iieai Fredericksburg, Va. On Tuesday, went to the State Department a convinced officials that he was i pressured in asking to go home. / A app and brea cert tech d av- ame inch lion rant a P^ nun mad ,ns 0 non men bles< spur tit. brea tom so nr com systt pns( r' 70.9 Riot police storm university campus in Chile Associated Press SANTIAGO, Ghile — Riot police stormed a university campus Wednesday and arrested more tnan 400 people in the second day of pro tests against 12 years of military rule. Two people were shot to death in the outskirts of the capital, police said. Eight others suffered bullet wounds as street clashes, mainly San tiago’s slum districts, continued into the night. The two deaths were the first re ported in the latest round of pro tests. Erwin Iturra, also 21, waskilledin Villa Francia, a slum district in west ern Santiago, the police sources said but they had no details about tk shooting. Police said Emilia Ulloa, 21, was shot and fatally wounded by gun men firing from a pickup truck while she took part in an anti-gov ernment demonstration in Santia go’s Pudahuel zone. Police said 40 people were hull 1 J ie during Wednesday’s demonstra tions, and 400 were arrested, includ ing 396 at the University of Chile! Engineering School campus neat downtown Si BOB BROWN _ UNIVERSAL TRAVEL | COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL Airline Reservations • Hotel/Motel Accomodations Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 • Agency is fully computerized • 410 S. Texas/Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station Santiago. ■ L 1 Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 5sg=gs=ggi«fcgssfeg=a-g=a=a!!!^^ ISLAM It is enough to make a man a liar that he should go on repeating all that he might hear. On Saturday, 9 November, AGGIES will have a unique opportunity to question all that they may have heard. 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