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CUSTOMER INFORMATION FROM GENERAL MOTORS Page 4AThe Battalion/Friday, November 14, 1986 HOW TO HELP SAVE LIVES AND REDUCE INJURIES AUTOMATICALLY THREE-POINT PASSIVE SAFETY BELT SYSTEMS ARE AN EFFECTIVE COMPLEMENT TO BELT-USE LAWS. General Motors is equipping 10% of its 1987 model cars with automatic lap/shoulder belt systems for the driver and for the right-hand front seat passen ger. It is the first step in meeting a federal require ment to phase in passive restraints. The automatic sys terns will be standard equipment on most 1987 models of the Pontiac Grand Am and Bonneville, Buick Somerset, Skylark, and LeSabre, and Oldsmobile Calais and Delta 88. By 1990 we plan to equip all GM cars with passive restraint systems. The belts in the GM system will be connected to the car at three anchor points —one toward the center of the front seat, and two on the front door. Three-point automatic lap/shoulder belt systems offer the same advantages as GM’s current three- point manual systems. Lap and shoulder belts allow you to “ride down” the crash as the vehicle absorbs the impact. They also help pre vent you from being thrown from the car in an accident, where you are more likely to be killed or seriously injured. Safety belts have proved effective in reduc ing injuries and fatalities. That’s why GM supports belt-use laws. Automatic lap/shoulder belt systems will make it even easier for people to comply with these laws. Opening the door pulls the belts forward for entry. Closing it brings the belts into their operating position. A single push button at the center anchor point releases the system in an emergency. Retractors pull the released belts into storage positions on the door. designing energy-absorbing interiors. We are phasing in rear-seat lap/shoulder belts, beginning with some 1987 models—kits will be made available through GM deal ers to retrofit most older cars with these systems. And we will be equipping some 1988 model cars with driver-side air bags to supplement safety belts. General Motors has been a leader in automotive safety because we believe that building safer cars is good for you. And good for us. This advertisement is part of our continuing effort to give customers useful information about their cars and trucks and the company that builds them. Extra attachment points will be built into cars equipped with these systems so you can secure most child restraint systems with an auxiliary lap belt. General Motors is pur suing other programs that will help reduce the number and severity of injuries caused by accidents. We are Chevrolet • Pontiac Oldsmobile • Buick Cadillac • GMC Truck CAMBODIA: Mass Graveyard For 2,000,000 Innocent People Present DITH PRAN on Nov. 18 and the movie based on his life THE KILLING FIELDS on Nov. 17 RUDDER THEATER 7:30 Movie $2 Program $2 Combined $3 Advance Ticket Sales Available Precinct 4 office still undecided What’s up Vote recount set for candidates By Jo Ann Able Staff Writer A recount of votes cast in the Pre cinct 4 race for Brazos County com missioner will be conducted Satur day morning at the county courthouse and should be com pleted by about noon, County Judge Dick Holmgreen said Thursday. Candidate Rodger Lewis officially filed a petition for the recount with Holmgreen Wednesday morning at about 11:30, after a loss to incum bent Milton Turner in the Nov. 4 election by a count of 2,159 to 2,1 14. The 45-vote difference made Turner the winner on the first count with 50.5 percent of the votes to Le wis’ 49.5 percent. The deadline for requesting the vote recount was at 5 p.m. Wednes day. Lewis said he requested the re count because there were a number of counting errors and machine dif ficulties during the night of the elec tion tallies. “Some very clear programming problems also surfaced in other pre cincts,” Lewis said. “There is no other way to know if there were problems in our precinct unless we have them do a manual count,” he said. Lewis said a small discrepancy in the count could make the difference. “If there were 23 votes counted for my opponent which should have been counted for me, then I would win,” he said. A misinterpretation of this nature would'give Lewis 2,137 votes and Turner 2,136. The recount procedure requires a deposit of $290, which is forfeited if the new totals don’t change the out come of the election. Holmgreen said, “The vote may be different, but the election results must change for the deposit to be re funded.” Holmgreen met Thursday with Joe Barron, county election judge, and Bill McFall, alternate judge, to set the recount date. Friday UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will hold a "peanut butte:! fellowship” at 11:30 a.m. at Ruddei Fountain andaBibitj study at 6:15 p.m. in the oil ice of the A N M Presbyteriarl Church. AkJjjffl OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: Mat ch Gras vice chairmenapplia.| dons are due at 5 p.m. in 223 Pavilion. LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: u I hold a “sandwich seminar” at noon in the Latter-day Sait | Institute Building at 100 E. Dexter. INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will presenl “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” withal slide show, “The Promise and the Blessing,” at 7 p.m. i 601 Rudder. PUERTO RICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet a | 7:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder. Saturday NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS A! MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY:! sponsor a Placement Center drive lot summer employ ment and co-ops for minority engineering students trot 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the 10th floor of Rudder Tower. INDIA ASSOCIATION: will meet at 6 p.m. in 410 Rudder Sunday PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY: will sj ><>n.sor a canned I f ood drive lot t he Bi a/c>s ( Jim eh Fo<>d Pantry from 9;n: [ to 6 p.m. at the main ent ram e c >1 the I * t parking lot on | Texas Avenue. Monday STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: Paolo Bai ucchieri, A&M’sIiil ian Center faculty member, will present a seminar on “The| Florentine Contribution to the Arts” at 7 p.m. in 203 MSC MSC CAMERA COMMITTEE: John Ryan will speak on bool fire photography at 7 p.m. in Ruddei Power. Check mt I itor for the room. PRE-MED/PRE-DENT SOCIETY: Dr. Carlos Pestana wi speak on “The History of Surgery” at 7:30 p.m. in 2$ speak o HECC. DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND| THEATRE ARTS: will nihuimh Di I John Lawrence from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, speaking on % plaining Science and Technology to the Public” at 7 p.mL' 301 Rudder. MSC FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS: will meet: 7 p.m. in 601 Rudder. AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will meet and give square-danctj lessons at 7 p.m. in 226 MSC. STUDENT ACTIVITIES CALENDAR: recognized stuck organizations can submit dates to the 1987 Spring Cal-1 endar through Thursday to the Student Activities Office | 208 Pavilion. STUDENT ACTIVITIES SPEAKERS SEMINAR: applied tions for the 1987 Speakers Seminar are available througli Nov. 25 in the Student Activities Office, 208 Pavilion. 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