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    Page 16/The Battalion/Friday, January 24, 1986
Whats up
Friday
CLASS OF 86: Elephant Walk party pictures are available
845-1515.
at
SINGING CADETS: are holding auditions for all interested
male students Tuesday through Friday. Call 845-5974 for
MSC RECREATION: will sponsor an ACU-1 tournament for
men and women at 9 a.nr Saturday in the MSC bowling
and games area. For more information contact Tom Blake-
ney at 845-1515.
ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS; will
hold a general meeting in 111 Holden Ids at 7 p.m..
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will hold a “Welcome
•I.-:-. Back Meeting*’ in 108 Harrington at 7 p.m.
MSC VARIETY SHOW; applications are available in 216
It* MSC and are due February 14 in the Variety Show cubicle.
For more information call Staci Parkman at 846-6548.
ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold a
worship and planning meeting in 301 Rudder at 7 p.m..
For more information call Bryan Basden,845~8400.
SC TRAVEL: is signing up participants for Mardi Gras and
Spring Break trips in 216 MSC. For more information con
tact .viSC: Travel at 845-1515.
will hold an Open Rush party at Tree
1 p.m.. For more information call David
ASSOCIATION; requests that all
members come out early to work at the “Annual Judges'
| Seminar” at Freeman Arena, 8 a.m.. .
DELTA SIGMA THETA: will be having a "Missing You”
| $ •p.m., td' T^a.m.- m 229 M$€. Admission is
::»r more information contact Yvette jacquet at 693-
Simday
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOUR DANCERS: invites ev
eryone to join them at 8 p.m. in the MSC (check the mon
itor for room) for teaching and dancing — both beginners
and experienced dancers welcomed. Contact Ellen Luckow
• at 845-2884 or 822-2415.
DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS; starts off this semes-
!lf ter's Sunday night film series with “Taming of The Shrew.”
• I The movie will be shown in 113 Kleberg Center at 7 p.m.
I and admission is free. : .
V Monday
RHA FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP: appli cations for new
members are now available in the RHA office, 215 Pavib
/ ; ion. The deadline is Friday, February 7.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS; will give square dance lessons for
. singles to begin at 7 p.m.. The club will meet from 8:30- 10
STUDENT AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL: wall hold a spe-
dal meeting to discuss the Ag Convocation, Constitution
/ revisions, and JCFA Day. The meeting is at 7 p.m. in 123
1
Publicity from
man’s defection
may aid family
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The lawyer for a Ro
manian seaman who jumped ship in
Houston said Thursday that Secre
tary of State George Schultz’s recent
visit to Romania, coupled with ex
tensive publicity, “has done nothing
but help” protect seaman Paul Firi-
ca’s family.
Firica, 44, was granted political
asylum Nov. 14.
Austin lawyer Edward Roush Jr.
said he recently returned from a trip
to Romania to see Firica’s family
“face to face, to know that they were
alive and well.”
Roush said he had arranged the
trip because of reports that Firica’s
house in Lumina, Romania, had
been confiscated by the government,
that the family had endured lengthy
interrogations and that the older
daughter, Gabriella, had been Fired
from her job, which was the family’s
sole means of support.
“None of those facts are true,”
Roush said.
Asked if he felt what he saw “was
for real,” Roush said the U.S. Em
bassy had informed him that the Ro
manian government “knew of my
presence in the country, but I was
not impeded in any way.”
“I think George Schultz’s recent
visit there, coupled with the exten
sive publicity concerning his (Firi
ca’s) case has done nothing but help
in protecting his family,” he said.
Roush said according to the em
bassy and people in Firica’s village,
“the government has done every
thing they can to keep their hands
off of Paul Firica’s family.”
He said the family’s only contact
with the “secret police” was when
they “stopped by and asked for
Paul’s ID card.”
The family told the police Firica
had his card, Roush said.
Roush also said he obtained certi
fied copies of birth certificates and
the Firica marriage license, which
will be sent to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service in San Anto-
U.S sends battle groups
near Libya's border
(continued from page 1)
age terrorism and keep him gues
sing about what we might do, not
give him an excuse to try it again.”
The United States has accused Li
bya of supporting a Palestinian ter
rorist group suspected of mounting
the Dec. 27 attacks on the Rome and
Vienna airports. Khadafy re
sponded during the first week of
January by putting his military
forces on alert, claiming the United
States was planning an invasion.
The Soviet Union, which supports
Libya, responded by increasing its
surveillance of the U.S. 6th Fleet and
by moving two more combat ships
into the Mediterranean from the
Black Sea.
The United States currently has
31 Navy ships in the Mediterranean,
of which 20 are combat ships. The
combat forces are led by two aircraft
carriers.
A combat incident between the
United States and Libya occurred on
Aug. 19, 1981, when two American
F-14 fighters flying off the aircraft
carrier Nimitz shot down two Libyan
jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
According to Pentagon statements
at the time, the two F-14’s were fly
ing a routine mission as part of a
two-day exercise when the Soviet-
built SU-22 Fighters appeared about
60 miles off the Libyan coast and
suddenly attacked without provoca
tion. The Pentagon said one of the
Libyan jets fired an air-to-air missile
at the jets, which missed. Each of the
F-14’s then fired a single Sidewinder
missile, downing both Libyan air
craft.
Good communication helps process
(continued from page 1)
semester,” Perry said. “It may have
to wait until summer or the follow
ing fall.
“The only limitation is you must
initiate the appeals process, and that
means you must appeal to the in
structor within the next long semes
ter.”
Perry recommended students be
organized when going through the
appeals process.
“The important thing is from the
very beginning to sit down and write
out your appeal in a coherent way so
that at each stage when you give it to
the person they have something to
look at, something to get a hold of,”
he said. “Because a lot of times,
when you just talk to people, you
don’t really get to the point.
“Plus, sitting down and writing it
sort of solidifies things in your mind
and makes you think of other things
you wouldn’t have thought of or
would forget to say in a meeting.”
Perry also said the student should
always be communicating with ev
eryone else involved in the appeals
process.
“What I would do if I was appeal
ing a grade is give the instructor a
copy of what I was giving to the de
partment head just so he’d know,”
he said. “Or, if you wanted to, I sup
pose you could go back to the in
structor and say, ‘Look, here’s the
way I really feel after talking to you
and I’d just like to touch base with
you one more time before I go
through with this process.
Perry said the procedure for ap
pealing suspensions or blocks of en
rollment is not as complicated as the
one for grade appeals.
“A suspension or block of enroll
ment is made by a representative in
the dean’s office of your college,” he
said. “And in this case you need to
see only two people.”
The first person to see is the
dean’s representative, Perry said. If
he denies the appeal the student can
then go to the chairman of the ap
peals panel.
Perry said that at a regular meet
ing the panel usually hears from two
to six appeals. This semester the
panel heard two, both of which were
grade appeals.
Controversy over Marcos’ war record not new
(continued from page I)
role of the country’s guerrillas dur
ing the war,” he said.
After his usual reference to the
five wounds, he told the campaign
crowd, “My opponents now say that
Marcos is not a genuine guerrilla,
that he did not really fight.
“I don’t know where they get such
foolishness. You who . . . fought un
der me, you be the ones to answer
these crazy individuals, especially
the foreign press.”
He said he will ignore his detrac
tors because they are all going crazy.
Some American war veterans
came here as Marcos’ guests to tes
tify against the newspaper We Fo
rum when he shut it down. The clo
sure later was reversed by the
Supreme Court.
At a campaign rally Wednesday,
both he and his wife Imelda took
watches off their wrists and handed
them to an elderly Filipino. Marcos
said the man, Dionisio T. Dagandan,
was with him during the war and
told of both escaping from croc
odiles while eluding the Japanese.
A book on Marcos the govern
ment produced in 1978, during an
eight-year period in which he ruled
by martial law, said, “The young
Marcos’ feats of skill, endurance and
courage in battle are the very stuff of
legend.”
The book describes many ex
ploits, including one in which Mar
cos, then a lieutenant, led three
young recruits in a raid behind Japa
nese lines in which they killed 50
enemy soldiers.
It said he was captured but es
caped to perform other acts of hero-
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present
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GREAT BRITAIN 1986
July 9-August 17 40 days $2500
see the sights of England, Wales, Scotland
for more information
^ MSC Travel 845-1515
Harold Conway 845-8793
Entire remaining stock of 1985
TREK bicycles at Closeout Prices
Savings of $ 1OO and more!
Special prices on other selected models
Visit our newly remodeled and
expanded store
Also featuring a complete line of
skateboards and accessories.
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COLLEGE STATION 696-9490
ism for which he was recommended
for the Congressional Medal of
Honor.
journalist Bonifacio Gillego wrote
in the We Forum series that led to its
closure that Marcos got all but six of
his medals well after the war, 11
while he was a powerful senator pre
paring to run for the presidency and
one in 1972 as president.
KARATE
not actually Karate, but Tae Kwon Do
from Korea
Free
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instruction the rest of January
for new club members only
Gillego quoted several former Fil-
ino military officers as denying
at Marcos performed heroic deeds
or was wounded.
The TAMU Moo Duk Kwon Tae Kwon Do Club
is open to TAMU Faculty, Staff, Students
and Their Families
For more informations come by our table on the sec
ond floor of the MSC or call 693-4590 or 260-3401.
Offer eood till
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