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lul)s ." O'Coni 1 llle guysfi 10 gfi brusl, P«s that •ts were ^ devoting all t ny. Texas | ,e< l in 1980 { eloping hist S n >ng from i on in 1986. ays, have h{ cesses, out in 1981* ates,”0'Co® were sold selling in l( Britain, fras a. o has spam itions by 00 ig comb iske ough a stii g, he says, million case in ’86," 00 ested is a to ip off (lies, Man keeps cash found in Houston ROSEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Oien he gave authorities $4,700 cash he’d found in a Texas air- jort, Donald Oberdorfer wasn’t king for a reward, let alone getting the whole amount back. 1 But get it back he did, after po lice were unable to find the owner of the money, which was in a plas tic bag and in $ 100 bills. I Oberdorfer, a Roseville resi dent and director of the Ameri- n Lutheran Church media serv ices center in St. Paul, said Tuesday, “I really wasn’t tempted to keep it. People turn in money all the time.” Not according to officials of Continental Airlines, who got the ckage of money from Ober- lorfer after he found it in their Houston terminal in November 1985 while on a business trip. ■ “This is the first time it has ever occurred,” said David Mes sing, a spokesman for Continen tal. “We get the regular assort ment at our lost and found, like briefcases. But never cash.” I When police could not find the owner, Messing said Continental decided to give the money hack to | Oberdorfer on Tuesday, this time in the form of a check for $4,700. Tliursday^pri^^^&T^TeBattalion/Page^ World and Nation Commander says guerillas infiltrated Salvadoran base SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Guerrillas enlisted in the army and infiltrated the El Paraiso infantry base before the big attack that killed 69 Salvadoran soldiers and a U.S. military adviser, the base commander said Wednesday. The Green Beret U.S. army ser geant killed was the first American serviceman to die in battle in El Sal vador’s 7-year-old civil war. “There had to be someone who infiltrated,” Col. Gilberto Rubio, commander of the base, told report ers. He said the army had concrete leads and was investigating the infil tration of the 4th Infantry Brigade garrison, which was attacked before dawn Tuesday by guerrillas using mortars; rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons. “I won’t say the number or names” of the infiltrators, Rubio said. Another officer at the base Tues day identified one of the dead guer rillas as an infiltrator. “He’s a recruit,” the officer said. “We don’t have his name, but, he en tered (the army) a short time ago and was wearing shorts from the Panther Battalion.” He refused to be further identified. Helicopter-borne troops and in fantry soldiers combed the northern mountains Wednesday for the at tackers from the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, an um brella for five guerrilla organiza tions fighting the U.S.-backed gov ernment. Soldiers in camouflage fatigues cleaned up the charred debris around the barracks at the base 37 miles north of San Salvador in Cha- latenango province. Several build ings had gaping holes in their walls from mortars, grenades and explo sives. Nine rebels were killed in the as sault, the armed forces said. The body of Staff Sgt. Gregory A. Fronius, 27, of Scottdale, Pa., was flown Tuesday night to his base in Panama. He had arrived in El Salva dor on Jan. 6 for a six-month tour, the U.S. Embassy said. In Panama, U.S. Embassy spokes man Bill Ormsbee said funeral serv ices for Fronius, who was married and the father of two children, would be conducted Friday in Penn sylvania. Fronius was the only American at the garrison at the time of the at tack, the U.S. Embassy said. The other military adviser assigned to the base was in the capital. The U.S. Congress has limited the number of American military advisers in El Salvador to 55. They are prohibited from going into com bat situations. However, they carry small arms and are allowed to de fend themselves if attacked. The armed forces press office, whose casualty counts usually are low, reported 64 Salvadoran mili tary deaths and 60 wounded in the military hospital in San Salvador. Soldiers at the base Tuesday put the number of wounded at 104. The guerrillas, in a broadcast on their Radio Venceremos station Wednesday, hailed the attack and repeated that it is part of a new of fensive. It said government forces were “weaker and more demora lized than ever.” A Salvadoran military source told the Associated Press he estimated 100 rebels participated in the attack. A San Salvador radio station Tues day morning reached a soldier at the base by telephone, and he said the attackers numbered as many as 800. About 250 soldiers, out of about 1,600 normally assigned to the base, were at the barracks when the rebels struck at about 2 a.m., the armed forces said. Most of troops were out on patrol when the attack occurred. The base was ringed by land mines and barbed wire and other wise fortified after a similar guer rilla raid in 1983. for killings icd. he says is liquid and i of inhaling s. ilescnfc i pet brush, thawetcarpt sing groC'i . fly repdler; are planned xr and his c re advantage g comb overt killing fleas ss expensi't rategtcallypt , and less of U.S. to consult with Japan on computer chips ■ WASHINGTON (AP) — The Reagan admin- istiution, while standing fast to its plans for sanc tions on Japanese electronics imports, has agreed to a Japanese request for “emergency consulta tions” in the intensifying dispute over computer chips, U.S. officials said Wednesday. HA team of Japanese trade specialists will arrive in Washington on Friday for negotiations with Stheir counterparts in the departments of State, Commerce and office of U.S. trade representa tive, the officials said. HThe semiconductor talks, to get under way in earnest on Monday, will he followed later in the week with meetings in Washington among higher-level trade officials of both nations, gov ernment spokesmen said. ■However, U.S. officials held out little hope thai the dispute over semiconductor pricing practices could he resolved in time to avert the proposed duties on $300 million in Japanese products from taking effect on April 17. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, who has said there would be “no last-minute re prieve,” will propose the sanctions be slapped on for a three-month, “trial period,” Baldrige spokesman B. Jay Cooper said. Cooper said the three months would give the United States time to monitor prices of Japanese semiconductors — or computer chips — to see if the alleged “dumping” that provoked the sanc- tions has ceased. “The promise to stop dumping alone wouldn’t be enough,” Cooper said. Dumping is a trade term that describes the de liberate selling of products by one nation in other markets at prices far below their true costs. U.S. seminconductor manufacturers claim that Japa nese dumping of computer chips is costing them nearly $1 billion a year in lost sales. The duties of up to 100 percent on a wide range of Japanese electronics products were an nounced last Friday by the Reagan administra tion as retaliation for what it claimed was Japa nese refusal to live up to a semiconductor agreement negotiated last summer. As part of that pact, Japan promised to stop selling semiconductors in the United States and other markets at bargain-basement prices, and to give U.S. semiconductor makers more access to U.S. markets. The administration contends that Japan is continuing to underprice semiconductors in markets outside the United States and has re fused to take steps to open Japanese markets to U.S. sales in violation of the agreement. In Tokyo, Noburo Hatakeyama, director gen eral of the Japanese International Trade Admin istration Bureau, said that the government would meet with Japanese electronics companies to urge them to buy more U.S. products — but would not make major concessions in the semi conductor area despite the announced U.S. sanc tions. Reagan: Stress morality in AIDS education ■PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Presi dent Reagan, in his first major rspccc I: on the health crisis, said wedncsditv that parents and local schools must decide how to educate children on the threat of AIDS but also must stress morality and avoid a “value neutral” approach. He told reporters, however, he doesn’t quarrel with calls for use of preventive measures such as con doms against the sexual transmission of the disease. ■“All the vaccines and medications in the world won’t change one basic truth — that prevention is better than cure,” Reagan told the Phila delphia College of Physicians, one of the nation’s oldest professional med ical associations. ■"We’ve declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1,” the president said. And he pledged, “I’m deter mined we’ll find a cure for AIDS . . . we’U find a way or make one.” Reagan said the federal role amounted to giving “educators accu rate information about the disease.” But, supporting statements by Ed ucation Secretary William Bennett, he also said the dissemination of such information “must be up to the schools and the parents, not govern ment.” Until now, the administration’s E rincipal spokesman on the issue has een Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. He has taken a more aggres sive stance than Bennett, saying that beyond abstinence, the surest pro tection is the use of condoms and the education of children as early as the third grade. But Reagan also told reporters that “I don’t quarrel with” Koop’s advice on prevention. Contact Lenses Only Quality Name Brands (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) 00 -STD. DAILY WEAR SOFT LENSES -STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES SPARE PR ONLY $20 with purchase of 1 st pr. at reg. price 00 -STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES ISPECIAL ENDS MAY 29, 1987 AND APPLIES TO CLEAR STAN DARD EXTENDED WEAR STOCK LENSES ONLY Call 696-3754 For Appointment Eye exam and care kit not included CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Asked earlier if people should “just say no,” he replied, “That’s a pretty good answer. Yes.” First lady Nancy Reagan has used the slogan “Just Say No” to help youngsters bat tle drug abuse. AIDS, or acquired immune defi ciency syndrome, is a contagious, fa tal disease that attacks the body’s im mune system, rendering it incapable of resisting other diseases and infec tions. In most cases it is spread by sexual contact, and health officials estimate that between 1 million and 1.5 million Americans have been ex posed to the virus. As of March 23, actual AIDS had been diagnosed in 33,158 Ameri cans, of whom some 19,000 have died since 1979. While the president has spoken on the AIDS issue before — request ing Koop Feb. 5 to undertake a study of the problem — he has been largely silent on the issue of giving advice to Americans on preventive and protective measures. In his speech, Reagan noted that the Public Health Service has issued an information and education plan to help control the spread of the dis ease, which has no known cure. “But let’s be honest with our selves,” the president continued. “AIDS information cannot be what some call ‘value neutral.’ After all, when it comes to preventing AIDS, don’t medicine and morality teach the same lessons?” Reagan spoke one day after en dorsing AIDS education in schools as long as it includes the teaching of sexual abstinence — “if you say it’s not how you do it but that you don’t do it.” IBJG MEAL DEAL! ITS ALMOST MORE THAN YOU CAN EAT! 1/3 LB. HAMBURGER WITH FRIES SUPER SUNDAE ONLY *139 WITH COUPON exam life ifae/ve/fo c-- 5 ! *3.93 BRING THIS COUPON BIG MEAL DEAL I Get a 1/3 lb. Hamburger with French fries, large soft drink and a Super Sundae with your choice of toppings. _ GOOD FOR UP TO 4 PER COUPON. CHEESE AND/OR BACON EXTRA. 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