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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, December 2, 1985 t BIG FOOT Waldo by Kevin Thomas has no advantage! SHOE All our SALE BOOKS are priced $1 90 per foot 0>CH ,..I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP IN MKING ME A BETTER RECEIVER. r by Jeff MacNelly I KNOW I VE 1 EOBBLEPA FEW PARSES ...ANP ITS % C05TU5AFEW 6 ames, sure.. BUT ARE w S>0RE THIS VELCRO JER5EV IS LEGAL?j'| ~jr Wife of Russian dissi is While the supply lasts I granted visa for treatment Associated Press ^ __ VA bookstore IN THE MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER MOSCOW — Yelena Bonner, wife of dissident physicist Andrei Sakhar ov, is booked to leave Moscow today for medical treatment in Italy and the United States after a 19-month exile during which sources say she spent months isolated from her husband and friends. Bonner has promised Soviet au thorities she will not meet the news media during her three-month stay in the West. Uniformed guards have kept watch on her Moscow apartment since she returned to the Soviet capit al Tuesday. Sources, who spoke on the condi tion they not be identified, said the 62-year-old looked very tired and in poor health after she returned from internal exile in Gorky, 250 miles to the east. Bonner, who suffers from heart and eye ailments, had not been in Moscow since the spring of 1984, when she was helcl in Gorky on charges of anti-Soviet slander. She la ter was convicted and sentenced to five years’ exile. Sakharov, 64, once one of the na tion’s most prominent and decorated scientists, has staged at least three hunger strikes to win permission for his wife to get medical treatment abroad. Sources said that while Sakharov was hospitalized, Bonner was kept isolated from him and from any friends and relatives. She reportedly was closely watched in her apartment and followed whenever she went out on to the authorities reversed their previous stand and said Bonner would be allowed to leave for three months. She told relatives in Newton. Mass., by telephone Thursday that she had received an exit visa for Ids and the United States, and planned to leave today for Italy, whereshewill receive treatment for the eve ailment glaucoma. Later, she will travel to the United States for a coronary bypass opera- lion. street. The couple apparently were reunited in late Octooer, when Soviet Bonner traveled abroad for treat ment of glaucoma in 1977 and 1979 and was also allowed to go to Oslo, Norway, in 1975 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband. Sources quoted Bonner as saying that Sakharov, although weak front his lasting, is in good spirits now that she has been allowed to go abroad. Unbelted drivers to be penalized continued from pagel OFFICIALS WANTED ✓ Good Pay Flexible Hours Outdoor Soccer Basketball Orientation meeting: Mon, Dec 2 6 p.m. Room 164 Read Bldg. Intramural Recreational Sports Room 159 Read 845-7826 usage rate of the 12 sampled areas. Nancy Hatfield, a TTI program manager working in Austin, said the survey, which included the observa- ion of 36,441 vehicles state-wide, only monitored vehicles covered by the law. She also said the observations were limited to the use of shoulder belts. “For one thing, it’s (usage of shoul- ler belts) easier to spot, but also the year the three-point lap/shoulder belt system became required equipment was in 1968,” Hatfield said. “So really there aren’t too many cars that are out on the road today that would not come equipped. “The way we check for that (whether the car is equipped with belts) is that, in the same year head rests also became required safety equipment. So if we limit ourselves to vehicles that have the headrests we know a shoulder belt is available. “The main point was that we were trying to get at observation sites in these cities that we can replicate again in the coming year so that we’ll have some comparisons that we can make between the year before the law and the year after.” “But you would be in non- compliance if you had a car whidi came with safety belts and you had taken them out,” she said. “Thai would be a violation.” Hatfield added that another sur vey will be conducted in the same areas between January and June of 1986. “We wanted to wait until after Dec. 1 for sure just so that the law would he enforced,” she said. Streetman also said the enactment of the law has resulted in a financial break for Texas drivers. “Late last month the State Boardof : Insurance had several hearings on rates,” she said. “And they madea decision to reduce automobile rales based solely on the safety belt law, Ann Streetman, public affairs manager of the Texas Safety Associa tion, said older model cars which were produced before seat belts be came part of standard equipment are exempt from the law. “Furthermore, that was based on the assumption that 65 percent of the motoring public would buckle up. Usage is certainly coming up. Yon can tell if you just look.” /] Streetman added that Texas is one of 16 states which has a mandaton seat belt law. The District of Col umbia also has a seat belt law. rs* %6et mom with WANT AW Try our Battalion Classified!! 845-2611 IN THE WM7 WHO SAID MAH WAS HOT MEANT TORY? Air Jordan™ Hi Our Price $58 ! 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