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The Battalion/Page 9 Shcharansky family gets exit visas from Russia MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet authon ties on Tuesday issued exit visas to the family of treed Soviet human rights activist Anatolv Shcharansky, his brother Leonid said Leonid Shcharansky said he re ceived a visa, as did his mother. Ida Milgrom, his wife. Raya, and their two children. Alexander. 14, and Boris. 1. "I just got the papers today and I haven't had a chance to buy any tick ets yet, so 1 don't know when we will be leaving," Shcharansky said He said earlier his family had been riven permission to leave by next Monday, Aug. 25. The family plans to leave the So viet Union for Israel via Vienna, Austria, the normal route for Jewish emigrants. Shcharansky said The granting ot the exit visas was part of the arrangmfient that freed Anatolv Shcharansky in February. He was released in an East-West exchange after nine years in prison on charges of spying for the United States. Both Sncharansky and the United States denied he was a spy. Stock market declines in quiet trading m NEW YORK (AP) — Stock prices pulled back in subdued trading Tuesdav despite a buoyant bond market If not lor strength in the stock of International Business Machines and a handful of other blue chips, the market would have had a worse showing The Dow Jones average of 50 in dustrials finished with a loss of 6.61 at I.M62.9I, ending a six-session string of advances. Losers outnumbered gainers by about 100 issues at the close of trad ing on the New York Stock Ex change The NYSE's composite in dex of all its listed common stocks fell 0.41 to 141.91. Volume on the Big Board fell to 109.51 million shares from 112.84 WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE? WHY SETTLE FOR LESS? t • » V V V million on Monday. At the American Stock Exchange, meanwhile, the market value index ended 0.65 lower at 270.59. The Commerce Department re ported T uesday that the economy crawled at a feeble 0.6 percent C wth pace from April tnrough e. The increase in the gross na tional product was the smallest since the last recession and was down from an initial estimate of 1.1 per cent the department made last month The unexpectedly large down ward GNP revision intensifies pres sure on the Federal Reserve Board to cumulate economic growth by driving interest rates lower, several analysts said In the daily tally on the NYSE, 855 issues declined in price, 749 in creased while 590 were unchanged. Nationwide turnover in htVSE- listed issues, including trades in those stocks on regional exchanges and in the over-the-counter market, totaled 152.81 million shares German paper prints photos of Rudolf Hess BERLIN (AP) — A West Berlin newspaper printed a five-page arti cle T uesdav on Rudolf Hess, includ ing three photographs that it said were taken in Spandau prison where Adolf Hitler's former deputy is serv ing a life sentence The Bcrlmci Zritung newspaper said the pictures were exclusive and were taken despite a ban on photos or interviews of Hess ordered by the World War II Allies America, the Soviet Union. Britain and France. It also said that a French chaplain who had regularly visited Hess had not been to the prison to see him in the past six weeks, and that the Sovi ets may be blocking his visits. fit* Berliner Zenung said Hess is suffering from muscular dystrophy m his right leg. a degenerating spine and stomach cramps, and is visited twice daily by medical aides color photograph showed the 92-vear-old Hess in gray trousers and a white shin standing at the foot of a bed The newspaper said that and two other photographs were “the latest exclusive pictures of Hess." but k did not say who took the photos or how it obtained them Loupot’s Means Book Reserves Wouldn’t it be nice to have one less line to stand In? Ole'Army Lou understands. He’s been serving Aggies for over fifty years and some things never change. That's why Loupot's offers book reserves Just hand in your schedule and Lou’s crew will handle the rest. Drop back by at your convenience and a bag of books with your name on it will be waiting. Reserve before September 1 and receive a free Aggie T-shirt, too! Loupot’s Means Used Books without a Hassle Thousands of Aggies sell their books back to Loupot’s each semester, so they have plenty of used books for every class you're taking No digging through lists and piles of books to find ' the right one for your class section - Loupot's does all the work for you. Just hand them your schedule and they get your books before classes start!