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/ Barrel Bottom AGGIE CLOCK (Quartz) This clock is molded fiberglass. It is made in West Germany following the tradition of old German craftsmanship. Detail painting in gold, white and maroon, is done by hand. Satisfaction guaranteed. Requires one AA battery (not included). This clock runs in reverse. Ship to: Name . Street . City State . Zip. Cost Postage/Handling Subtotal $28 76 + 3 25 $3201 Orders shipped to Texas add 5.125% tax Total (each) $33.65 Euro-Tex Import/Export P.O. Box 381704 Duncanville, TX 75138-1704 Size: 12Vi tnchea diameter 2Vi inches deep Educational Discount Promotion wPfa Computers 2553 Texas Avenue College Station 693-8080 Announcing a Poetry Contest Rules 1. Submissions must be typed (double spaced). 2. No more than three entries per stu dent are allowed. 3. Entrants must be undergraduates, no graduate students please. 4. No poem which has been submitted to any other publication on contest will be accepted for consideration. 5. All entries must be submitted to the English Department Lounge, Room 224 Blocker, by February 28, 1986. No late entries accepted. 6. The contest will be faculty judged. sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society “Make it a large, Medium charge” All you have to do is say “Make it a large, medium charge” when you order, whether you eat in or have it delivered. No coupon necessary. Good thru March 2. North Campus/West Bryan 260-9060 4207 Wellborn East Bryan 776-0076 3131 Briarcrest Dr. South College Station 693-9393 1103 Anderson (atHolleman) Page 10/The Battalion/Friday, February 7, 1986 World and Nation Reagan says he still feels young on 75th birthday Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Reagan celebrated his 75th birthday with prayer and merriment Thurs day, saying he is “a little amazed” at the events of his lifetime and still feels young despite a year of health problems and international crises. the bank. And here I am sort of liv ing above the store again.” The president began his day at- ' " ‘ tair ~ tending the National Prayer Break fast at a Washington hotel, where he bowed his head in prayers led by the Rev. Billy Graham and others and listened as Vice President George Bush read greetings from world leaders. The estimated crowd of more than 3,200 then serenaded the presi dent with “Happy Birthday.” “I am enormously touched,” the C resident said. “Yes, today is my irthday. Seventy-five years ago 1 was born in Tampico, Ill., in a little flat above the bank building. We didn’t have any other contact with Leaving the hotel, Reagan was asked how he felt. “Just like I’m 39,” he said. Back at the White House, at an Oval Office ceremony at which he signed his economic report, Reagan reminded reporters that indeed he was 75, but added, “Remember, that’s only 24 Celsius.” In a more thoughtful vein, the president said that over 75 years, T’ni a little amazed at our genera tion . . . that our generation has moved from the horse and bu^gy to a plane that can get to Tokyo in two hours, in a single lifetime." After the president finished speaking to the audience of about 3,000 people, first lady Nancy Rea gan came onto the stage wheeling a cart with a six-layer birthday cake on it. A curtain then parted, snowing a huge red white and blue United States map with the legend, “Happy fn Birthday from all of U.S." Fraternity in California loses university recognition Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Pi Kappa Al pha Fraternity was kicked offth( San Diego State University cam pus for at least five years Thun day for its role in an alleged rape of a freshman sorority pledge au party, a university spokeswoman said. In addition, 30 of the fraterni ty’s 1 10 members face adminis trative charges, which could lead to expulsion from the univerisin spokeswoman Sue Raney said. The action against the frater nity is effective immediately and means it will lose recognition on campus and be forced to disband The university is asking h Kappa Alpha’s national head ? |uarters to remove the charte: rom the local group. Delta Gamma Sorority, whose members attended a party at tli( Pi Kappa Alpha house Nov. H was cleared of wrongdoing ex cept for a violation of a stateakc- hoi code prohibiting minors fron consuming alcoholic beverages Reports indicate violence marks Philippine election Associated Press MANILA, Philippines — Reports of violence, cheating, and enthusias tic voters marked the early hours of the presidential election today when millions of Filipinos cast ballots to decide between Ferdinand E. Mar cos, who has ruled for two decades, and Corazon Aquino, widow of the president’s main rival. After the polls opened at 7 a.m., both sides reported harassment, men firing weapons in the air to scare voters, stolen ballot boxes, and votes being bought for as little as $ 1. “It’s a mess, fraud all over,” said Ching Montinola, a press spokeswo man at Aquino headquarters. In Albay province, a pollwatcher reported from Luzon that voting in four towns abruptly stopped after ng day, rdia one hour when unidentified seized seven ballot boxes. After an eight-hour the counting begins immediately, but significant results were not ex pected until the weekend. Peak hours for voting are usually in the early afternoon, election offi cials said, but reports from outlying areas described unusually large numbers waiting in line to vote as soon as the polls opened. The 26 million registered voters are required by law to cast ballots in this nation of 7,100 islands and 54 million people. There were reports of armed men loitering around or invading polling places, firing automatic weapons to scare waiting voters. But senior mili tary officials, interviewed on govern ment television, said things wereii:| der control. Radio reports said a policem;: was wounded in Bacoiod, 300mile south of Manila. In the tapii workers for Aquino’s UNIDOpsr charged that armed men from)!. cos’ New Society Movement £> ducted and beat an Aquino sif porter, whose whereabouts nw unknown. Joe Concepcion, chairman NAMFREL, a 500,000-memberffi zens’ volunteer poll watching gmf said in an interview there was much rampant cheating,” bufik there was confusion in some aifi where voters complained they tot) not find their names on posted!® Pastor convinced woman didn't kill children Associated Press Hours: 11-1 Sun.-Thurs., 11-2Fri. &SaL SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Neighbors expressed shock Thursday over the suspicion that a woman had killed her eight natural children and a foster child since 1972, and the minister who performed one of the funerals said he was convinced there was no foul pJay. Mary Beth Tinning, 43, was arraigned Wednesday on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the Dec. 20 suffocation of her S’A-month-old daugh ter, Tami Lynne. The infant was smothered with a pil low, police said. Tinning was being held without bond at the Oneida County Jail in Utica. State Police Capt. Gerald Looney said she made “statements and admissions” about Tami Lynne’s death Wednesday and is considered a suspect in the deaths of her other natural children and an infant boy she and her husband, Joseph, were to have adopted. Dorothy Posluszny, who lived across the street from the Tinnings from 1980 to 1985, said she was shocked to think that another of the children had died. “I suspected something was wrong for a long time — but I’m not one to go sticking my nose into my neighbor’s business,” she said. “I never actually saw anything out of the ordinary with them. They stayed by themselves and didn’t associate much with thfi neighbors. . . Posluszny said that when she learned the Tinniif were to adopt 2 Va-year-old Michael, she thought 1 ' that nice, now everything will be all right.” Michael died March 2, 1981. The Rev. Roger Day of the Trinity United Mediod ist Church, who performed Tami Lynne’s funert service, said his first reaction to her death was “so® thing is wrong here.” “I went over to the house and I talked tothefarf and I personally was convinced there was no play,” Day said. “They just seemed like such anil family and they just seemed so crushed.” Larry Daly, whose Daly F'uneral Home handled!! rangements for all the children’s funerals, said Ik thought the deaths were “strange, but not anytl where there’s any identifiable marks on the body Authorities say the previous deaths in the Tinniif family were blamed on a range of causes, inc cardio-respiratory arrest, respiratory failure, i pulmonary edema and sudden infant death syfr drome. Schenectedy Police Chief Richard Nelson saidTit ning’s husband is not a suspect and has been coopef ative with police. : : x- r i-