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WORDSTAR FOR THE BEGINNER BYTE BACK! One-week classes for those who want to learn this popular word processing program June 30-July 7 July 7-11 1.00-3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. COST: $35.00 Make sense of computers at the library. Evans Library LEARNING RESOURCES DEPARTMENT For more information and registration forms, go to LRD, Room 604 or contact Mel Dodd at 845-2316 Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, July 2, 1986 7*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥-*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ M Happy Independence Day From JEAN WILLIAMSON Write In-Right On Independent Candidate For Justice of the Peace C.S. “ALL FOR A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR ALL':’"l 80% of JP Court cases are Landlord/Student disputes. Please elect one who loves Texas A&M, ^ JEAN WILLIAMSON, for Justice of the Peace. 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Pool, Laundry Facilities Large 1,2,&3 Bedroom Units 2 Blocks from Campus Rent from $250 tor loll Fiat, Studio, <£ Loft Fioorpians Available for You at * SCANDIA TAOS AURORA GARDENS 401 Anderson 693-6505 SEVILLA NORMANDY SQUARE 1501 Holleman *33 693-2108 SUMMER RATES Iron, S150 HOURS- M-F 9mn, - Opm.Smt 10»m ■ Sptn. Sun 1-Spn, m Amonltios vary at mach proparty I World and Nation May economic indicators up slightly WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s main economic fore casting gauge crept up 0.2 percent in May, far below the increases of the previous three months, the Com merce Department said Tuesday. The tiny advance in the depart ment’s Index of Leading Indicators followed a giant 1.3 percent gain in April, the largest in almost three years, and robust increases of 0.6 percent in March and 1 percent in February. Private analysts said the May slow down was accurately signaling that the economy is not going to be as strong in the second half of the year as had been expected. They said a rising jobless rate, sharp cutbacks in oil and gas drilling and other weaknesses were pushing the long-awaited rebound further into the future. Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for the National Association of Man ufacturers, said, “The anemic May leading indicators are another sign that the expected rebound in the second half may not happen. The economy appears to be getting weaker, not stronger.” Other analysts noted that the big gains in the leading index in the pre vious three months came from strength in the financial sector, which overshadowed continued weakness in manufacturing. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said most of the growth in the index this year has come from gains in the stock market and expan sion of the money supply, while or ders for business equipment and consumer goods have been weak. The Reagan administration is pre dicting that the economy, as mea sured oy the gross national product, will expand at a robust 4 percent rate this year, almost double year’s weak 2.2 percent increase. But private forecasters have lx come more pessimistic in receti months, given the severity of cm backs in the energy industry becaust of falling oil prices and no im-i provement in the country’s hup foreign trade deficits. David Berson, economist at Whar ton Econometrics, said it is non likely that the economy will limL ■ • alonj) in the i uneiit Juh-Sc-pieni'rftCTI quarter before beginning to reviupVl I in the final three months of thevearL,., .. ■.W v Weinberger requests SDI fund restoration WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, renewing his defense of the Penta- gon’s fiscal 1987 budget request Tuesday, announced a “very note worthy achievement” in the Star Wars research program. Addressing his first general news conference in five months, Wein berger opened with a prepared statement in which he focused par ticular emphasis on the Star Wars program, known formally as the Strategic Defense Initiative, and its budget. The Senate Armed Services Committee recently voted 10-9 to slash more than $1 billion from the Pentagon’s fiscal 1987 request for that program and to restructure its goals. Weinberger criticized both moves as improper and asserted that the Senate panel was endangering the “noble purpose” of Star Wars at a time when the research was begin ning to bear fruit. He then disclosed an experiment last Friday at the White Sands Mis sile Range in New Mexico, during which he said a small hypersonic missile had successfully destroyed a target moving more than three times the speed of sound. The test marked the first time that the missile had been fired at a mov ing target and used its on-board guidance system to track and then destroy the target by direct impact, Weinberger said. The Senate committee also voted to recommend that President Rea gan change the emphasis of Star Wars to focus on the defense of America’s nuclear arsenal instead of protecting the entire country and U.S. allies. AIDS patients, researchers say victims need test drugs WASHINGTON (AP) — Re searchers and AIDS patients told Congress Tuesday they welcome a government program to test drugs on 1,000 victims but said much larger numbers of people with the deadly disease should get experi mental medicines. “I am unable to secure any experi mental drugs that might, in fact, prolong my life,” an AIDS patient who identified himself only as “John Smith” told the House Government Operations human resources sub committee. “While we sit here and talk about whether these drugs should be made available, people are dying, and I am one of those people,” he added. A government program an nounced Monday to begin testing drugs on AIDS victims will add 1,000 people to the 3,000 that are al ready receiving experimental drugs. But even then, only one third of all 12,000 victims will be helped in their battle with AIDS, for which there is no known effective treatment. “It is a national tragedy that so few patients are now in controlled trials” of anti-viral drugs, said Dr. Martin Hirsch of Massachusetts General Hospital, He added that AIDS patients will go to great, usually illegal, lengths to get the drugs. Public Health Service officials who picked the 14 medical centers to receive $100 million for the five-year drug testing program, conceded that more money could be spent effecti vely on the research effort. “We probably could do some more,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, di rector of the National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases. of World Briefs John Paul II begins tour of Colombia or, g; imfgrant: ty, wl rllighte fou BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Pope John Paul II arrived Tues day afternoon for a seven-day tour of this overwhelmingly Ro man Catholic country, which is plagued bv guerrilla violence and grinding poverty. He referred to those problems, saying: “I know that your country has been tested in the last years by difficult events, whose unspeaka ble pain and shame have fallen upon its people. "But I also know that your spirit has not been weakened and that you keep alive your hope and your firm will to fight againsi ad versity- From this moment on I will walk with the peace of Christ on the roads of Colombia.” The visit is John Paul’s firsi to Colombia and seventh to Latin America since 1981. |at as thi Millions ■-in-a-l ng in th k Wed ft, imp ■1 pleas lie hai temtion ( Ion fe I and t Itatue preside lebrate lonight New York prepares for liberty weekend |ht*n ■ $66 i |Lady NEW YORK (AP) — The pace quickened Tuesday in New York Harbor as more tall ships arrived and workers strained to complete work on the Statue of Liberty be fore Thursday’s centennial cele bration. The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy was guided into the har bor and dropped anchor near Liberty Island. It will be a floating reviewing stand for the news me dia during the centennial obser vances. Two groups vowed to hold vig ils in view of the national land mark to protest Reagan adminis tration policies toward the poor and homeless. President Reagan is scheduled to “unveil” the refurbished statue with a laser light show to kickoff a July Fourth weekend cele bration that is expected to attract 13 million people. But in t ■ery P; tyN ho iptiesth rxes to light. ■hey v Egf Jack ting exc Ire tick Stock market hits record high 1,903 NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market maintained its record-set ting momentum Tuesday as late buying boosted the Dow Jones in dustrial average to its first close above 1,900. Buying interest picked up in the afternoon and allowed the Dow Jones average of 30 industri als to break out of a tight trading range. The blue chip barometer climbed 10.82 points and finished the session at 1,903.54. Wall Street’s best known indi cator first closed above 1,800 on March 20 when it rose 16.29 points to 1,804.24. Hopes that falling interesl rates will eventually bring better business conditions and im provements in corporate profits nave whetted investors’ appetites for stocks. No roadblocks for Oregon, Michigan Police will block roads to catch drunken drivers over the Fourth of July weekend in some states, but not in Oregon and Michigan, where courts recently ruled that the tactic was unconstitutional. In Michigan, Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael R. Stacey issued a permanent injunction on June 24, saying police check lanes violated Fourth Amendment guarantees against unlawful searches. The state has not de cided whether to appeal. I featui resident lice go |The cit iireau sa pre still; ic visitor Ejily or i jillion re ere leavi :hers wo lan said. In Nev ©m arot fednesd; ma, whi ie Hud; onal na\ ill ships rae up : The h )ats, inc nd as r Ccted, sa erRandy Judge grants delay for serial killer Bundy’s execution blocked FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday refused to grant serial killer Theodore R. Bundy a lengthy reprieve, but blocked his scheduled Wednesday electrocution for 24 hours to give him time to take his case to an ap peals court in Atlanta. The ruling by U.S. District Judge William Zloch delayed the execution until 7 a.m. Thursday, five hours be fore Bundy’s second death warrant for the murders of two sorority sis ters would expire. The appeals court was expected to take up the case this morning. Bundy, a 39-year-old law school dropout, was convicted of strangling two young women as they slept in the Chi Omega sorority house on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee. Prosecutors said he beat those two sorority sisters and two others with a tree branch, seriously injuring the survivors, then broke into a nearby home and beat another woman. Bundy also was convicted of mur dering a 12-year-old schoolgirl who was abducted from her school, and has been linked by the FBI to as many as 36 killings of young women and girls, mostly in the Northwest. The handsome, articulate Bundy, whose case was recently the subject of a television movie starring Mark Harmon, was being kept in a death- watch holding cell at the state prison in Starke, a few feet from the pris on’s oak electric chair where Florida has executed 16 men since 1979. Department of Corrections spokesman Vernon Bradford said when he saw Bundy on Tuesday morning, “he appeared to be ner vous, which I guess is pretty natural. It was his eyes more than anything else that made me think he was ner vous. Bradford said Carole Boone, who married Bundy while he was on trial, visited her husband Tuesday with her son from a previous marriage. Zloch first rejected the request for a six-month stay, then huddled with lawyers from both sides and granted the 24-hour delay so Bundy’s legal team could take the case to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Assistant Attorney General Gre gory Costas said, “The 24-hoursia' would still allow the carrying outol the execution.” He called Zloch’s ing “an extension” rather than a because the death warrant remained in effect. Bundy’s attorneys, James E. Cole man and Polly Nelson, earlier hai said both they and their condemned client were confident the execution would be blocked. The lawyers had turned tofede court after losing appeals Monda before the state circuit judge wb sentenced him to death and beta 1 the state Supreme Court. Bundy and Stano declined m media interviews Tuesday. M. CHARLES GANDY and EUGENED. 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