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& $2.50 ADMISSION (1) M-W-Students w/current ID (2) TUE-Famlly Nlte-AII Seats (3) THUR-‘Over 30‘ Night (4) Any Show Before 3 PM Page 4AThe Battalion/Friday, October 31,1986 PLAZA 3 226 Southwest Parkway Refugee shelter closes; aliens face uncertain future Mon.-Fri. 7:35 9:50 Sat. & Sun. 2:50 5:05 7:35 9:50 “Brilliant!” — Marilyn Beck. CHICAGO TRIBUNE SYNDICATE ‘A deeply romantic... and sexy love story.” - Peter Travers, PEOPLE MAGAZINE WILLIAM HURT A PARAMOUNT PICTURE ■ :Jr * oonwGKT C im« n fAiuMoixn miuics • . . A x OMKMXnOti AU MCHTA ALUXvVC Mon.-Fri. 7:15 9:35 Sat. & Sun. 2:30 4:50 7:15 9:35 He’s survived the most hostile and primitive land known to maa Now all he’s got to do is make it through a week in New York. PAUL HOGAN There’s a little of him in all of us. lPG-13l<ssfr A PARAMOUNT PICTURE SAN BENITO (AP) — More than 500 Central American refugees were forced Thursday to leave a shelter that has housed thousands of refu gees over the past four years and re port to a nearby Immigration and Naturalization Service center and an uncertain fate. The INS said a decision would be made individually on whether the refugees would be deported, placed in a detention center, or released un der their own recognizance. Since the Brownsville Catholic Di ocese opened the shelter in Decem ber 1982, it had housed, c lothed and fed more than 10,000 people, most of them from El Salvador and Gua temala. But Thursday morning, vol unteers at the shelter swept the floors and cleaned breakfast tables for the last time. “I have no idea what’s going to happen to us now,” Maria Benitez, 45, of El Salvador said as she, her 72- year-old mother, and five children prepared to board a bus that would take them to the INS center in nearby Harlingen. Three chartered Valley Transit Company buses began shuttling the residents to the Harlingen INS of fice at 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Omer Sewell, INS district director in Harlingen, said he believes the closing of Casa Roynero is a major step toward cutting an illegal alien pipeline from Central America to the U.S. border. “Casa Romero is a name that passes from community to commu nity in countries like El Salvador, Ni caragua and Guatemala,” Sewell said. “People who cross the Rio Grande at Brownsville are asking di rections on how to get there.” Inundated by complaints from irate neighbors who said that the shelter was overcrowded and that its residents were harassing passers-by in the residential area, city officials in August asked the church to relo cate the shelter. But efforts to relo cate were frustrated. Church offi cials announced Wednesday that the shelter had to he closed. MANOR EAST 3 Manor East Mall . 823- ' 8300 Mon.-Fri. 7:20 9:40 Sat. & Sun. 2:40 5:00 7:20 9:40 Diocese officials said many people are concerned that the refugees will have no place to turn. Rosemary Smith, the Catholic lay missionary who helped to open Casa Romero, said, “1 just hope that the people of the Valley will open their hearts and their homes to these peo ple.” Officials tout Houston to attract Democrats HOUSTON (AP) — Houston of ficials began putting the nation’s fourth-largest city on display Thurs day in hopes of attracting the 1988 Democratic National Convention. The Site Selection Committee for the Democrats, which is in the Hous ton area through Sunday, must de cide among six cities vying for the opportunity to host the convention that will choose the party’s next pres idential nominee. A site decision is expected early next year from among Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Kansas City, New York and VS^ashington. At stake is about $67 million that local officials estimate the Democrats would pump into the ailing oil-de pendent Houston economy. City officials are hoping to lure the Democrats in 1988 with cash and free services and are softening party officials with four days of virtually non-stop wining and dining. “You can’t imagine the details in volved in moving 120 people through your city for four days,” says Clintine Cashion, Mayor Kathy Whitmire’s top assistant. “You have to think of everything, from how to get their luggage to tneir hotel, how to move them from place to place, making sure they have enough time to change clothes for events, feeding them, coming up with menus. There are just a million details.” The Democrats could be $250,000 richer after the first event Thursday night — a S1,000-per-plate fund raiser hosted by Gov. Mark White. A key event is a tour of the new George R. Brown Convention Cen ter, which is still under construction. The center is not to be completed until next year — after the commit tee makes its decision. The commit tee’s inability to view a finished con- . vent ion center is seen as a negative. “But we believe we’re going to lx* able to show the work is on schedule and will be completed in plenty of time for the convention,” Cashion said. r waarfh */■Wr.'caMV 'cwWWmypBBafQKKKmmHKUBQBKSmBmmBM Mon 15 9:30 Sat. & Spn, ?:35 4:55 7:15 9:30 Mon.-Frl. 7:10 9:50 Sat. A Sun. 2:30 5:00 7:10 9:50 SKY UP THERE WITH THE REST OF THE BEST BANDITS TOM CRUISE =IDP 8UN1F (Fii A PARAMOUNT PICTURE lifS) T 1 — KKYS 105 AND SCHULMAN THEATRES PRESENT § 1 DOLLAR DAYS 1 THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING MOVIES FOR JUST A BUCKI Mon.-Fri. 7:15 3 35 Sat. & Sun. 2:15 4:45 7:15 9:35 dolby RUNNING SCARED r Mon.-Fri, 7:25 9:55 Sat. & St/n. 2:25 4:35 7:25 9:55 i fiJACK TO SCHOOL pc-13 Mon.-Frl. 7:20 9:45 Sat. & Sun. 2:15 4:50 7:20 9:45 RUTHLESS PEOPLE r Mon.-Frl. 7:30 9:40 Sat & Sun. 2:10 4:40 7:30 9:40 dolby STAND BY ME r The haircut you want . is tlie haircut you get. 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The speakers will be Dr. Victor Stanley, coordinator of the ani mal science department at Prairie View A&M University Pedro Oliver, professor of mi. ematics at Prairie View from Jamaica. Also spt he Dr. Gwyn Boodoo.ajiaam professor of educational^.- ogy here who is from Triniiij The 30-minute film, it " 1 he Caribbean: Everythimf dei die Sun,” was produce! die (iaribbean fouristBoard , f managi dent of ests wili GOP speakers to address Texas! Vice President George Bush, Sen. Phil Gramm, Republican gu bernatorial candidate Bill Clem ents and Rep. Joe Barton will join together at A&M Monday to ad dress “A Panorama of Republican Perspectives on the State of Tex as,” a presentation sponsored by the Memorial Student Center’s Political Forum committee. Ann Levy, chairman of Politi cal Forum, said each man will speak about 10 minutes oi> portant issues facing T® election time. She said all of j speakers were asked by Pdi Forum — a nonparman o® zation — to address the ifej nated topic and to avoid t dorsing any candidate or |®| the upcoming election. The program will begindj p.m. in Rudder Auditoriim I mission is free. MSC Council meeting set for Monctai The Memorial Student Center Council has scheduled its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in MSC 216-T and has suspended all but one agenda item because a number of other council activities also are scheduled for that day. Council will hear a report from the program review committee and review the minutes from the committee’s last meeting. Programs approved at the meeting were Aggiecon XVIII, Novacon II and MSC' Political Fo rum’s, “An Evening With Dr. Ruth.” The council will meet at 5:30 p.m. in MSC 216-T to organize ideas generated at its Oct. 19 Fall Retreat. Other council; uled for Monday n • A lecture spo oredbiffl litical Forum (eaiuringiiill publican perspective onfel 2:45 p.m. in Rudder Aiii rium Scheduled speater < hide Vice Presidem ( Bush, Sen. Phil Gramm,I t.o\. Bill Clements and i 11 ict Rep. Joe Barton. • A Eaguiappe Lectures on the history of Indian sponsored by thelordanlis for International Awarec 6:45 p.m. in MSC201 • “Festival of India s|>onsored In MSC Ope lYitornnng Arts Sodru p.m. in Rudder Auditoriuir latter don Wi Destiny Buildin LUTHER and cos first loc INTER V7 “Conce UNITED fellows! study v> Church CHI ALP p.m. in CAMPUS 108 Ha MSC HOI plicatio AGGIELt! sophon Photog DEPART and dfe chitecti in the througl STUDY / from u and/or tions at project: Mattox says settlemer will save $1.5 million | TEXAS l hold a AggieL OFF-CAN for bon ITAMU R in Loui : VENEZU nic at I format Attorney General Jim Mattox an nounced Thursday a settlement agreement with General Motors Ac ceptance Corporation and GMAC Leasing Corporation that he savs will save Texas consumers more than SI.5 million. The settlement stemmed from consumers’ complaints saying they were hilled for the 1984-85 property taxes on their GM AC-lcasetl vehicles although their lease contracts did not state they had to pay the tax, M ait ox said. Some contracts did sav the consumer had to pay the tax, he said, but 12,500 contracts did not. Mattox spoke ai a ntv I erne at EasierwoodAirar I Mattox said the GMACi tions are going $250,000 in taxes that te| been paid and nodfv sumers that thev don't te 1 their 1986 taxes. He < those consumers xillsutll OFF-CAft for bor INDIA A 1:30 p. at 845- Tve also instructed uu to collect $10,000 in im < iini', .ind >J -• I he said. "You ought not j>.i\cis lor thest things J the other guvs pavforit." INTERNATIONA! 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