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Dinner prices start at $4.00, featuring a great variety and including our new Szechwan Chicken, Mandarin Chicken, Lemon Chicken, and Love Boat. 6) Our fried rice, inexpensive in price and abun- dent in quantity, has a reputation for being ex cellent. 7) A complete dinner like Sweet and Sour Chicken inludes egg roll, soup, and rice is moderately priced at $4.50 and up. 8) Our family style dinners which come with an entree, steamed or fried rice, soup, fried shrimp, egg roll, fried won ton, iced tea, and ice cream, are only $7.00 per person. Mon-Sun 11-2 PM 3805 S. Texas Ave. Mon-Sun 5-10 PM 846-8345 AM s THURS., MARCH 26, 8PM - MID. NOW OPEN! We've got the FRESHEST FRUITS & VEGETABLES in the Brazos Valley. Come on down to our gar den. . Farm Fresh Produce, Bedding Plants, Mexican Im ports, Hanging Baskets, Gifts and More. Come by for our Grand Opening Specials on Thurs day, March 26th. Get a 10% Discount on our already low prices with a Texas A&M I.D. Garden 1/2 Mile South of 2818 on Texas Ave. 3122 Texas Ave. College Station 693-3627 Pacje 12^116 BattalionAThursday, March 26, 1987 World and Nation p a Wife pleads for release* 0 of ill American hostage irac keel e BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The wife of American hostage Alann Steen, whose captors say he is ill and may die soon, pleaded Wednesday for his release. There was no word of a French man whose captors withdrew a threat of death, then said they might kill him after all. In the plea for her 47-year-old husband, Virginia Rose Steen said kidnappers “should release people that are sick so the person can get the best medical treatment possible, so I hope he would be released very soon.” Steen is held by an organization calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which said Monday he was very ill and “may die in 10 days.” It offered to trade him for 100 Arab prisoners held in Israel and de manded that the United States inter cede with Israel. The U.S. and Israeli governments refused the deal. Another group, the Revolution ary Justice Organization, has re newed its threat to kill Jean-Louis Normandin, a 35-year-old French television lighting engineer kidnap ped March 8, 1986. “The organization announces that the execution of the spy, Norman din, was not postponed and was not canceled,” the organization said in a statement issued Tuesday. The group is believed to consist of Shiite extremists loyal to Iran’s Aya tollah Ruhollah Khomeini. On Monday the kidnappers re leased a videotape in which Nor mandin said his abductors had de cided to spare his life. They previously threatened to kill him Tuesday. Al-Ittihad, a newspaper in the Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi, quoted “well-informed diplomatic sources” as saying Syrian troops de ployed in west Beirut had located Steen and the three other men kid napped with him in January. The Arabic-language p : iOon, whil which has been inaccurate the organ: stories about hostages, quoiepte n( Uunc sources as saying the fourwetiffiSfeanwl pected to be freed by iheenc jious acti\ month. mem mad It gave no further inforrjn 31 ! as he about its sources. i threaten lalliant <• Twenty-four foreigners, >even year ing eight Americans, are miss; h rema Lebanon and believed heldbspf the mon lent extremists. pAnd a I Syria sent 7,500 soldiersintoiplars to sh Beirut on Feb. 22 to stopaMdoniinatioi factional war. The Syrians a.-aased Asst the release of two Saudi Aijhat PIT o hostages last week. jpreports Steen, two other Americanist •is and an Indian were kidim |an. 24 from the campus of4 i niversity College in west T* The others are Robert Polhiijg |esse Turner, 39; and Mithib-^ snurh. 60. who is a leeal •• ^1 Senate Democrats fail on third effort to stop filibuster WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats, after failing a third time to choke off a Republican-led filibus ter, abandoned on Wednesday their drive to force President Reagan to fully account for all assistance flow ing to Nicaragua’s Contra rebels. The Senate voted 54-46 in favor of cutting off the filibuster, but that was six votes short of the total needed to end debate. Still, it pro vided evidence there may be a Sen ate majority ready to reject new aid installments. “The vote bodes well for halting Contra aid next fall,” said Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., the deputy Dem ocratic leader. “The 54 majority vote to stop the filibuster clearly reflects the erosion of support for the Contras,” Cranston said. “It shows the growing concern over the cover-up of what happened to the money for the Con tras, money that has either vanished or gone into illegal channels.” Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., was more cau tious. He had said earlier in the week that he wanted to show that a “con stitutional majority” of at least 51 votes could be rallied against Contra aid. But Byrd told reporters on Wednesday that reaching that level now does not automatically mean the Senate will defeat Reagan’s re quest for an additional $105 million for the Contras when it reaches the Senate floor this fall. “The $105 million will have a hard time,” Byrd said. “But events between now and then could affect votes — including mine.” He cited possible new disclosures or conclusions from the congressio nal investigations of the Iran-Contra affair as well as unexpected events in Central America. At the same time, Byrd renewed appeals for the Reagan administra tion to “get behind" the peace pro posals of Costa Rican President Os car Arias and to shift emphasis away from policies which he said place ex cessive reliance on military force. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- Mass., said Wednesday’s vote made clear that “the handwriting is on the wall that the current installment of U.S. military aid is the last instal lment.” The filibuster by Contra-aid sup porters prevented action on a House-passed resolution to freeze a $40 million aid installment, origi nally approved last year, to permit time for a full accounting of all money, private as well as public, which has reached the Contras. Wednesday’s vote on closing off the filibuster was the third of the week. Byrd said it would be the last. “The Republicans for the most part are blocking action on this mea sure so I don’t think there is any point in staying on this,” he said. On Monday, those seeking to end the filibuster fell far short, in a 46-45 vote, of the 60 votes — three-filths of the 100 senators — needed to shut off debate. On Tuesday, the Senate split on the issue, 50-50. ■EW Y< ,/irus may li Armed coup!p ■ Bps. SUg; frees hostagef may ■Py infer surrenders far ins had b ... „ , „, Melon AI SAN SALVADOR, El (AP) — A heavily armedccJfg Res mo SAN DIF claiming to be leftist guetr uxik over a school Wedne* with about 1,000 students teachers inside, but then g ually freed everyone and themselves up. The man and woman left! school they had held for than six hours in a blue mi c I' 11 1uuit; ihe ..nm.butfr^noihr;; Munirs wiiulci not s.n where vt . n were being taken. kilns l.i , Gen. Adolfo Blandon,heat |i e , ij:ili|i the joint chiefs of staff, hadnjj| ei a f et i, tered the school to helpperstt p, ]y(i t ], the couple to end the siege. .'! omiation I signor Gregorio Rosa Cha ast year tin .uixili.w s bishop of San Sahac jjvgJjej. ( |j also helped. ter alu-i Rosa Chavez said after amoved, siege ended at about 4:45 pm pvery oj i ,.l time. "I have the nnpK-ect.il canct that they are not guerrillas, brchemotf c ause their arguments aretoo:|p, es j t j ent coherent.” ^nor color The takeover of the San !g 0 anc i cinto grammar and high scfelfoy. started at about 10:30 a.m ; f]"his in; half-hour after rebels in ong time tc neighborhood intercepted a|’§| lic e patrol car, killing twooffc'Bt and wounding four other peo[iiK#^%J The two inc idents werenot:lP\^ W lated, said Gen. RinaldoGoldit chief of the Treasury Police;: fLosco' the top-ranking securityoflicefl les Qn w the scene. Ifc < The man told a reporterol/Mjj® ( television newscast TeleprtJ slalin, wl invited to enter the San a«C . , , • , , , r j .until his fit: school tor an interview, that .*• , , ... . QUring his I was heavily armed. |j n t j ie s Ri S. Kin rsonality’ Senate asks court to force disclosure of bank records WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate attorneys sought a court order Wednesday to force former Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord to give them access to records of foreign bank accounts that investigators be lieve he controlled as part of the Iran-Contra connection. In a U.S. District Court filing, the Senate said Secord should be held in contempt if he refuses to comply with a valid court order. ted from Iran arms sales to the Con tra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government. The two sessions took place amid unusual concern about secrecy. Since th< feder has t Hjlissimo ; lauded as tl over Nazi G In past w winted arti Mitary jud ing his rule , camps. chairman of the committee, s pTh e i a t es “In a fairly tedious way, we "iyiet leader The Senate authorized the step in a vote last week. House members were given three-ring notebooks containing material obtained by the staff inves tigators, but were required to hand back both the notebooks and any handwritten notes before leaving the committee room. Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., over those documents one b)‘openness tb line by line, as an introducM'|o aie SO cial events. It’s not exactly exdting'iMarch 1985 ing.” Hamilton and his counterpfe the Senate, Sen. Daniel Inouft Hawaii, both said they would* the removal of any committee# her caught leaking unauthorized formation to reporters. ThejA the penalty for staff leaks won!: dismissal. Secord has cited his Fifth Amend ment right against self-incrimina tion in refusing to comply with a re quest from the Senate investigating committee that he sign an order di recting foreign banks to make avail able the information. Kidnappers: Death threat stands for French hostage We Investigators, including the presi- dentially appointed Tower commis sion, say the former Air Force offi cer helped organize shipments of weapons to Iran and the Nicara guan rebels, making use of Swiss bank accounts under his control. The Senate request for court ac tion in his case came late in the day after Senate and House committees investigating the Iran-Contra affair held separate meetings to take stock of their work so far. Two members of the House com mittee, speaking on condition of an onymity, said there was no evidence to dispute President Reagan’s statement that he did not know funds were apparently being diver- / BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) —- Mos lem kidnappers announced Tuesday they are still considering the “execu tion” of French hostage Jean-Louis Normandin, a day after the captive said his abductors had suspended a decision to kill him. The threat came from the Revolu tionary Justice Organization in a statement delivered to the indepen dent newspaper An-Nahar at 9:30 p.m. “The organization announces that the execution of the spy, Norman din, was not postponed and was not canceled,” said the one-page hand written Arabic statement. “It (the execution) is still taken into consideration at any time until we are certain about the intentions and promises which, if fulfilled, will lead to very positive and speed 1 suits that will solve this issue statement said. Revolutionary Justice, bei made up of Shiite Moslem z® loyal to Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, released a videotaf* Normandin on Monday which the captive said the group suspended plans to kill him. Normandin, 35, a lighting neer with France’s Antenne-2 vision, was kidnapped Mart 1986. After a series of threatsi him, the Revolutionary Justice me only they suspended a decision tokii^ after appeals from ranking'I Moslem religious leader Sheikj hammed Hussein Fadlallah Greek Catholic Bishop Hilariot pudji.