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I 1 i \ i \ \ \ Beautiful Roses (Red, pink, yellow) from The Dixie Rose Company Ruv one dozen Qet ^ Buy , „ f^r i/ 2 price per dozen second dozen To Order Call 693-2749 before Friday Roses will be available for pick-up from 2:00-6:00 p.m. Friday, November 1 in front of Sbisa Dinning Hall and in front of Commons. sponsored by ENVE $4 00 Dial One Elyht Hundred Opportunity win Answer •\ V\»s Yrvfoxw*'’' 0 " * *»'Mk v, ; "la #r- •' '• - . ft^orNW'^ 'if'*, -''. ••• ;i ^ **■'' * ' ''' “ - Graduate Management Admission Council. 11601 u/ii.k. 90025-1748 wshire Boulevard * I’m interested. Please send me THE MBA: ACCESS TO Opportunity ' Su '»e 1060, Los Angeles, CA Name Address Phone, Including areacoda □ Information for Black students □ Information for Hispanic students r C a l l 1 - 8 0 0- 842-5555 In California, 1-800-231-7292 Razzle, dazzle and dancing feet! presents Hubbard Street One of the zippiest shows of the 1985 season! From jazz to ballet and modern dance to rhythmic tap. Hubbard Street's ensemble of 14 dancers exudes vitali ty, pulsating energy, and impressive flexibility. They step, spin and whirl through a magnificently set, staged, costumed and performed repertoire. "A pure joy for any lover of dance!'' Hovember 17, 1985/8:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium/Texas AfirM University Tickets available at MSC Box Office/845-1 234/MasterCard/VISA Page 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, November 12, 1985 SHOE by Jeff MacNelly competition is ruining American industry like steel, shoes, cars, motorcycles, dnl textiles, . * - Jil Mexican opposition party says mayoral races rigged Associated Press MONTERREY, Mexico — The opposition National Action Party ac cused the government Monday of vote rigging in Nuevo Leon state municipal elections and said the sys tem that allowed such practices was responsible for the low turnout. The government’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, claimed victory in all 51 mayoral elections held in the northern state Sunday. But National Action, known as PAN, said its candidate, Jose Luis Coindreau, defeated the PRI’s Luis M. Farias for mayor of Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest city. It also claimed that Alejandro Paez defeated Alejandro Chapa of the PRI in the wealthy suburb of San Pedro, and that Luis Prieto defeated the PRI’s Roberto Campos in an other suburb, San Nicolas. The results must be certified by the PRI-controlled State Electoral Commission to be official. Under the front-page headline, “Abstentionism and Anomalies,” the Monterrey newspaper El Porvenir said, “Abstentionism was the major winner” in Sunday’s elections. “Elections leave a bitter taste,” said a headline in the newspaper. “There was everything, but not cleanliness,” it said. Official figures had not been re leased, but local newspapers that re ceived copies of Voting results said Monday that about 75 percent of the more than 1 million eligible voters in the Monterrey metropolitan area stayed away from the polls. Gov. Jorge Trevino, commenting on Sunday’s lack of voters, said, “It’s a constitutional right to vote or not, and the act of abstaining is not pe nalized by law.” Speaking at a news conference Sunday, Trevino said, “II there is valid proof that fraud exists, it will be corrected.” PAN candidate Coindreau called the abstentionism “a pity.” But, he said, “the system is worse. When a good government arrives in power we’re going to wake up the people.” Despite new election procedures implemented by Trevino to quell the cries of fraud, local newspapers Monday were filled with stories about voting irregularities. Reporters assigned as poll watch ers for the daily newspaper El Norte said they saw PRI supporters steal ballot boxes after the polls dosed, detected “tacos,” the term used fora bunch of illegal ballots stuffed to gether into the box, and saw PAN representatives being forcibly evicted from the polls. jesus Cantu, managingdirectorof El Porvenir, said he voted with a false credential to prove how easilyit was to stuff the ballot boxes. Prieto, state PAN president, charged th.it PRI-orchestrated fraud in the July 7 gubernatorial race re- suited m Sunday’s low turnout. He said citizens failed to go to the polls because thev felt their vote was not respected in the summer elec tions when the PRI’s Trevino tri umphed. Scattered outbreaks of fistfights and clubbings throughout the state marred an otherwise peaceful elec tion, but the Monterrey metropol itan area, where about 75 percent of the state’s 3 million people live, was quiet Monday. Report: U.S. can endure key mineral embargo Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States has stockpiled enough of the four most strategic minerals to weather a 14-month cutoff in im ports, a group of private defense analysts said Monday in a report de signed to minimize fears of future foreign embargoes. The report also said the Reagan administration should increase the stockpiles and get new overseas metal sources so it can reduce the level of spending on military forces built to protect existing foreign sup plies. “Even if short-run economic costs were high, a cutoff would not consti tute a threat to national security,” said the report by the Center for De fense Information. “In a national emergency, no economic cost would necessarily be high enough to force fundamental security concessions.” The center is a liberal-oriented re search group directed by several re tired military officers and is fre- uently critical of administration efense policies. Interest in strategic minerals pol icy has been heightened in recent months by warnings from leaders in South Af rica — whose relations with the United States have worsened — that a cutoff in sales of key strategic minerals would hurt this country. The report said that in 1983, the United Stales imported SI.8 billion in minerals from South Africa — 51 percent of U.S. chromium consump tion, 35 percent of manganese and 50 percent of platinum metal groups. South Africa is not the key supplier of the other most critical material, cobalt. Chromium and manganese are important for steel production and platinum metals are used in electri cal circuitry and as catalysts in chem ical reactions. “Cutoff risks for the four most critical minerals are substantially re duced by the fact that their present stockpile levels are sufficient to meet emergency demand for at least 14 months.” the report said. History today Today is Tuesday, Nov. 12, the 816th day of 1985/There are 49 days left in the v< ar. Today’s highlight in history: ' On Nov. 12, 1920, baseball got its first “czar” as Judge* Kennesaw Mountain Landis was elected commissioner of the American and National leagues. f| On this date: In 1927, Josef Stalin became the utuhspuied rnlet ot the Soviet Union a.s Leon Trotsky was ex pelled from the Communist Party. In 1982. Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the latej Leonid I. Bre/hnev as general sec tel at v of the Communist Paf tv’s Central Committee, ' ;J| One year ago: Space shuttle Discovery astronauts Dale Gard ner and Joe Allen snared the wandering satellite Pafapa B-2 in history’s first space salvage. I bought for i othiv: "Consid ering how dangerous everything U f nothin 4 ing.” - (1874-1946) iiU« 11 I M 11 2+2+2 = $21,000 That’s Army math. It means that after 2 years of college (60 semester hours or equivalent) and a 2- year enlistment, you could have up to $21,000 to continue your eduation. Courtesy of the New GI Bill and New Army College Fund. (Effective July 1, 1985). That other 2 means you can get two years of ROTC credit by enrolling in ROTC at the third year level (with the approval of the college’s Professor of Military Science) when you reenter college. You’ll earn $ 100 a month in ROTC. Qualify, and you’ll start your enlistment with a promotion. And just because you’re out of school doesn’t mean you stop learning. We’ll teach you a skill that can help you go places later. And you’H go places now, because we give soldiers an opportunity to travel. And a chance to make new friends. Not to mention a lot of money for college. Plus the chance to become an Army officer. Contact your local Army Recruiter today. COLLEGE S TATION RECRUITING OFFICE 1500 Harvey Road, Post Oak Mall College Station, Texas 77840 (409) 764-0418/0572 ARMY. BE ALL YOU CAN BE.