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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, March 27, 1986 Has Pizza lost its pizzazz? Does Chicken make yon squawk? Do burgers make yon Blah? Then You Need A Change! Delivers!! Anywhere in B/CS minimum order 1 lb. ^Jj>1 Delivery charge Call 764-0076 Movie renews Cold War fears Soviets make film about U-2 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 MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union has made its first movie about the U-2 incident 26 years after shooting the spy plane down, resur recting Cold War fears to deliver an ominous message about U.S.-Soviet relations. “Miy Obvinayem” (We Accuse) is showing in the midst of a heated Kremlin campaign against what it calls anti-Soviet U.S. films that color the way Americans view this coun try. It seems clearly intended to back the current official line that the United States threatens world peace and cannot be trusted. A Soviet anti-aircraft missile downed the U-2 on May 1, 1960, which is the international labor day and a major Soviet holiday. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was captured on a farm in western Siberia and convicted of espionage in a trial staged before the world’s press. The movie includes about one minute of film from the trial, but the rest is made with professional actors. It also leaves out some relevant his tory. There is no mention of Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Kremlin leader of the time, who ordered the plane shot down and made the announcement to the world. Khrushchev later fell from grace and has been expunged from Soviet history books. While castigating Washington for sending the U-2 over the Soviet Union, the movie neglects to note that Powers was exchanged in 1962 for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet super-spy who had run a large network of agents in the United States. The central message is driven home in the closing scene, in which prosecutor Roman Rudenko is shown fishing with his son after the trial. “Rudenko thought about how his son never heard the guns of war,” the narrator says. “But he knew tin those who planned this flight wouli not stop at that. There would It other acts. And there were." According to the film, America: businessmen, spies and general! used Powers to scuttle the 1960Pare summit between Khrushchev ami Dwight D. Eisenhower. Al Anc New therapy smashes gallstones WORDSTAR FOR THE BEGINNER One-week classes for those who want to learn this popular word processing program Evans Library LEARNING RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, 6TH FLOOR March 31 - April 4 10 a.m.-noon COST: $35.00 For more information and registration forms, go to Library, LRD, Room 604 or contact Mel Dodd at 845-2316 BOSTON (AP) — Shock wave therapy, which has revolutionized the treatment of kidney stones, can also smash gallstones inside the body, potentially eliminating the need for some of the 500,000 gallb ladder operations performed in this country each year, researchers re port. A study conducted in Germany shows that a machine called the li- thotripter can — at least in some carefully chosen cases — pulverize these stones into tiny fragments that pass harmlessly from the body. The researchers speculated that this new approach may resolve life- threatening conditions in selected patients. However, questions remain about potential side effects, and the re searchers concluded: “It is difficult to make a prediction about the fu ture role of shock wave treatment in therapy for gallstones.” of Massachusetts General The gallbladder is a sac-shaped organ that stores digestive juices. jainful stones form inside, When Mulley Jr. Hospital. In December 1984, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of lithotripters to smash kidney stones that otherwise would require surgery. Now, about 50 hospitals in the United States have these ma chines, which cost $2 million apiece. ps the gallbladder frequently must be removed surgically. The latest study was conducted on 14 patients by Dr. Tilman Sau- erbruch and colleagues from the University of Munich. It was pub lished in last Thursday’s New En gland Journal of Medicine, along with an editorial by Dr. Albert G. Patients are lowered into a stain less steel tub of water. An electrode produces a blast of shock waves that pulverize the stone inside the body. The shock is focused on a partic ular point inside the body and the waves pass harmlessly through soft tissue and bones. Car bomb, fighting kill 22 in Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-A car bomb killed eight people and wounded 80 Wednesday when in estimated 440 pound load o( TNT exploded in front of a five story apartment building in easi Beirut. Police also reported that a se ries of artillery exchanges and gunbattles killed 14 people in Lebanon’s bloodiest day in seve ral weeks. At least 70 people, mostly dvi- ians, were wounded in the fight ing between Christians and Mos lems in the capital and thehillsio the east, police reported. Another bomb exploded wo hours earlier in a six-story build ing wounding six civilians. Routin The > team ha< field wit! Wednesd Park. f Aggie who has pad an E|sual pitching Bitter, st ingonlvi 1 A&M year’s N added at 111. | And l jgyhat it t the win c 1 “No(ii Rin),” A, “We’re t [job alter I Brom a : C aliforni ■iesterda' “ did a got 1 A&M Marriages down, divorces up in 4985 nings, gc But' Heightly first hit i / It out in The Battalion Classified WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans got married last year than at any time in nearly a decade, and the divorce rate headed up again af ter a brief decline, new government statistics show. Overall, preliminary numbers from the Na tional Center for Health Statistics indicate that Americans were still twice as likely to marry as to divorce last year — 10.2 marriages per 1,000 people compared with 5.0 divorces. But the marriage rate was down from 10.5 a year earlier, and the 1985 level was the lowest since 1977. The divorce rate, meanwhile, edged up 2 percent. After peaking at 16.4 marriages per 1,000 people in 1946, the rate dipped to 9.9 in 1952 and remained below 10 until 1968 when it climbed to 10.4 per 1,000. It edged up slightly in the early 1970s, dipped to 9.9 in 1976 and 1977, then climbed back to 10.6 by 1982 before begin ning to slide again. The 5.0 divorce rate, up from 4.9 in 1984, matched the rates of 1982 and 1983. Divorce peaked at 5.3 per 1,000 people in 1979 and 1981 after rising steadily in recent years. In total, the Center reported that there were 2,425,000 marriages in 1985, down from 2,487,000 in 1984. And there were 1,187,000 di vorces, up from 1,155,000. There were 1,665,000 people added to the U.S. population last year as a result of natural in crease — the excess of births over deaths. The rate of increase was 7 per 1,000 people, the same as a year earlier. The Center said there were 3,749,000 births during the year, the most since 1965. That notwithstanding, the increase in births is not another Baby Boom, since the rate remained constant, due to the larger overall population The birth rate was 15.7 per 1,000. Population experts refer to the current in crease in births as an echo of the post World Wai II Baby Boom, since it stems primarily fromtk large number of Americans born after the wai currently in their prime childbearing ages. field wit |> n g- | Then order an Mizera. - Mizer pitch dr landed fence, vv; son and The report showed 2,084,000 deaths in tht United States last year. That is 37,000 moretk in 1984 and the largest death total ever reporttJ in the United States. The rising proportion of elderly in the Ui population, and an influenza outbreak in earh 1985, contributed to the death toll last year. However, despite the increase in total death the jump paralleled the rise in population, so tht death rate remained the same as in 1984,8.7pn 1,000 people. 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