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U STRETCH Your Dollars! WATCH FOR BARGAINS IN THE BATTAEION!! Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, July 21, 1987 IT World and Nation HAPPENS TOMORR U.S. Supreme Court Justice has l!<»] JI ^ prostate cancer, clinic claims ^ol- 8! 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EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES $99. 00 -STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES DAILY WEAR OR EXTENDED WEAR 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 We’re tooting our own horn . . Battalion Classified 845-2611 ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Su preme Court Justice Harry A. Black- mun, best known for the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion, is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer at the Mayo Clinic, a clinic spokesman said Monday. The clinic called the cancer “a small and localized recurrence.” “The justice is undergoing treat ment which is not incapacitating and is short-term,” spokesman Michael O’Hara said. “The prognosis is ex cellent.” pro removed Nov. 14, 1977, because of cancer. Mayo spokesman Meg Black said the new cancer was in the same area. Blackmun’s Washington office had said Friday that Blackmun was recuperating from minor hernia surgery at his vacation home in Wis consin. His office said he had been swimming and had taken walks after the hernia surgery and made no mention of cancer. O’Hara said the cancer was de tected during a routine examination earlier this month. He said Black mun was in Rochester but was not hospitalized. Blackmun, 78, was a guest at a ho tel in Rochester, a switchboard oper ator said. He did not immediately re turn messages left at the hotel. The clinic and the Supreme Court public information office declined to provide further details of his case. Prostate cancer is the third-most common cancer in men, after skin cancer and lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. The society estimates that this year, prostate cancer will be diag nosed in 96,000 men and claim 27,000 lives. Appointed to the high court by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970, Blackmun often sided in his early years on the bench with Warren Burger, his boyhood friend who be came the staunchly conservative chiefjustice. Blackmun won unanimous Senate confirmation after two earlier Nixon nominees — G. Harrold Carswell of Florida and Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. of South Carolina — were re jected after bitter debate. He took the court seat of Justice Abe Fortas, who resigned during controversy over the ethics of some of his ofl- the-bench activities. By the mid-1970s, Blackmun had become known as an independent voice, sometimes voting with the di minishing liberal contingent and sometimes with the growing conser vative group. He wrote the 1973 Roe vs. Wade opinion that said women in most cir cumstances cannot be barred from having abortions. “Author of the abortion decision,” he said quietly in a rare on-the-re- cord interview with the Associated Press in 1983. “We all pick up tags. I’ll carry this one to my grave.’* Blackmun, who received sands of letters opposing the rl ion, which was supported b) J court vote, seems an unlikelytif for the moral outrage manyi messages expressed. A devout Methodist, he nerj smokes nor drinks. Born in Nashville, Ill., Blad spent most of his boyhood it Paul, Minn., where his father ; fruit wholesaler, grocer andiy I ance salesman who had aspired ] fFG a lawyer. ates (A Blackmun entered law sdiody L uc Harvard only after seriouslycojuv/aiti ering a medical career. He coral): the two interests during the 195raters, resident counsel of the MayoCliJp He won a partial scholars!;::! Harvard and was admitted i Minnesota bar in 1932. Althousj Republican, he backed Hubcni Humphrey’s campaigns. Hump! later hacked him for a seat on 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appl which he held for 11 years. Iran ignores U.N. peace treaty effort, warns United States against attacks Hagan enlist c< KUWAIT (AP) — Iran said Mon day the latest U.N. effort to end the Persian Gulf war is “not worth a penny” and told the United States it will retaliate for any attack. The U.N. Security Council unani mously approved a resolution de manding a cease-fire in the 7-year- old war with Iraq but the Iranians said they would ignore it, as they have several previous resolutions. U.S. Navy warships are stationed just outside the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow southern entrance to the gulf, preparing to escort Kuwaiti tankers that will sail under the American flag. Kuwait is Iraq’s western neighbor at the gulfs northern end. Iran ac cuses it of serving as a conduit for arms shipments to the Iraqis, whose ports have been closed since the war started in September 1980. Iran has attacked ships owned by or serving Kuwait frequently since last September and says it will not be deterred by U.S. Navy escorts for 11 reflagged Kuwaiti tankers or by So viet presence in the Persian Gulf. Kuwait has leased three tankers from the Soviet Union. Navy offers cool reception to ships wondering in gulf thi Iran said its troops have launched new attacks in Iraq, but Iraq denied Iran’s claim that its forces stormed the garrison town of Atrush in northeast Iraq on Sunday. Iraq said its soldiers drove back Iranian as saults on man-made islands in the southern Majnoon oilfields. Dispatches from Iran, monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, claimed 2,700 Iraqi soldiers had been killed or wounded in those attacks and others in the central sector of the 730-mile border. Iraq said its pilots downed an Iranian F-4 Phantom jet in a dog fight Sunday night over the north ern gulf. Conflicting claims could not be verified. Foreign journalists are al lowed into war zones only on rare guided tours. Tehran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted President Ali Khamenei as saying the U.N. effort was worthless and threatened retal- ABOARD GRAYDART, Gulf of Oman (AP) — Looming out of the morning haze 21 miles from land Monday, the gray and black super tanker was one of dozens awaiting a turn to run the Persian Gulfs gantlet of fire. But the calm vanished when re porters aboard this privately owned supply vessel cruised past the U.S. Navy destroyers moored nearby and circled close enough to reaa the words “Bridgetop, Philadelphia” newly painted on the Kqwaiti tank er’s stern. Within seconds, a naval helicopter swooped low overhead while a no- nonsense American voice crackled on the radio at Captain Eduardo An- tisoba’s elbow. “Small powered boat off the bow of Bridgeton, state your name and state your purpose,” it said. Antisoba, the Filipino skipper, re plied, “This is Graydart. We have re porters aboard. Want to take pic tures of the Bridgeton.” The voice barked, “Remain one mile clear of all U.S. warships. Move one mile off the Bridgeton.” Antisoba said, “I will do it. I will do it,” as he deftly spun the helm to take the 90-foot vessel out of what the unidentified voice had clearly implied was harm’s way. It happened off Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, in interna tional waters in the Gulf of Oman. Monday’s chilly reception came from a Navy still smarting from the May 17 Iraqi attack on the frigate USS Stark. The attack, which Iraq said was an accident, killed 37 U.S. sailors. The United States accepted Iraq’s apology. This week, U.S. warships are ex pected to begin escorting Kuwaiti tankers re-registered to sail under the American flag for protection from Iranian attacks. Iran regards Kuwait as an ally of Iraq in the 7- year Persian Gulf war. sured, mor said. “The superpowers are a mistake and are ignorant spirit of devotion and resista our heroic nation.’’ Iraq has sought a negotial dement for years and support Security ( cot ting B'ougl slips to ton m tic Iritk sian Gu biluous Egn M; Be U.l Lfbano uncil action. TheKii*B ve f* 1 newspaper Al-Seyasseh rei Athene; Monday that Iraq would sharp ] c H nien duce military operations in retpH * ‘ ie ^ to a resolution. i f B . suc * Iraq urged the United StalerB 1 ' 11 , 1 ^ Soviet Union to set their differeB 5 *' 01 aside and work together to endf 1 ® 1 a ., B Be Gi war. It made the appeal in a... . rial Monday in the daily Al-TkF 1 ' Un i which speaks for President s ]'!' Hussein’s Baath Socialist Party. ^T ( . ( . ’ 1 foreign minister.' , iv*.,,j it lTdiicu The first two Kuwaiti tankers ap peared ready to sail except for the hoisting of the Stars and Stripes. The former Al-Rekkah, a 401,382-ton behemoth that ranks as the biggest in the Middle East and about sixth in size among the world’s ships, became the Bridgeton over the weekend. Anchored about two miles away was the former Gas Al-Minagish, a 46,723-ton liquid petroleum gas car rier newly renamed Gas Prince, also of Philadelphia. The U.S. Navy’s Middle East Force, recently bolstered to nine ships, will escort the Kuwaiti ships through the Strait of Hormuz, where they face a threat from Ira nian missile batteries, and up the 600-mile gulf to Kuwait’s oil loading terminals. iation for any attacks on Iranian ves sels. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Ve- layati said Sunday that Iran would ignore any U.N. resolution that did not name Iraq, which began the war with an invasion, as the aggressor. Khamenei, also head of the Su preme Defense Council coordinat ing the war, told an audience during a tour of Iran’s northwestern Azer baijan province Sunday that Presi dent Reagan was behina the Security Council resolution. He said the sponsors expected Iran to enter negotiations with Iraq for what the official news agency called an “ignominious” peace. “If Iran does not accept the reso lution, it will be internationally pres- ssein Bahrain Mohammed bin Mubarak al-Kli. was quoted as saying “we will chaos” if U.N. peacemakinge fail. The Gulf Daily News, publ in the emirate, said thesheiki that ah international arniseml be imposed on both combatai the war continued. Crown Prince Saad al-Abdi al-Sabah, prime minister of Km said the United States will d« how to respond to any attacksosi reflagged tankers or their escort He said the ships “are Amen: vessels.” “They are carrying the Amer flag,” he said. “I am suretheAi cans will defend the American “There is no agreement” bel"i Kuwait and Washington on retaliate, he told a news confereri Two of the 11 re {lagged res 1 were anchored south of tneStrc H ormuz on Monday, with four warships standing by. Saact would not say when the cort operation would start, bull congressmen said last week the: convoy would pass through thest Wednesday on the three-dayrm Kuwait’s Al-Ahmadi oil terminal On Sunday, the emirate’s Deli Ministry said U.S., Saudi and waiti teams had finished cleat mines from the channel off Km to be used by the convoys to prop, blbck P mg out themsel told yo wrong. Observers: Power change favors rebels in Sudan war KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The abduction of three American teachers and a British nurse has drawn attention to Sudan’s largely ignored civil war, in which rebels backed by neighboring Ethiopia seem to have gained the edge. The current rainy season and military morale prob lems have contributed to the shift of advantage in the contest between the predominantly Moslem north, which controls the government and army, and insur gents in the largely Christian and animist south. Western diplomats and other observers say the change in favor of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army occurred over about nine months. “Militarily, it looks like the SPLA is in a stronger posi tion,” said Peter Woodward of Britain’s Reading Uni versity, who has studied Sudanese politics for 20 years. “They’re at their strongest yet” in the 4-year-old war, he said. In a telephone interview from England, he pointed to recent rebel victories, demoralization of the army, disagreement among army leaders over the war policies of Prime Minister Sadek el-Mahdi and the govern ment’s inability to keep the army supplied. the Aiab world since die ousiei ui inc audioi iiarian President Gaafar Nimeiri in 1985, have been filled with detailed reports of government defeats. A measure of government concern is a law being prepared that Attor ney General Abdel-Mahmoud Saleh said will require the media to get army clearance for reports. Several foreigners with access to military information from the south commented about the war on condition their names not be used. They say the government made a major mistake by underestimating the rebels, and they gave this picture of the current situation: • Rebel strength has increased by 50 percent to 30,000 men, and the insurgents appear to be gaining the sympathy of more civilians. • Ethiopia’s Marxist government is increasing its support in both equipment and logistics. • Guerrilla forces are conducting a successful offen sive along the southeastern border with Ethiopia, with the objective of controlling a 30-mile strip for use as a base for thrusts into the interior. Woodward said the rebels remain unable to win a military victory, however. He said the fighting could continue “for many years.” Officials rarely comment on day-to-day fighting, but they say consistently in speeches that the government will make war until the rebels agree to talk peace. Sudanese newspapers, among the least-restricted in The latest setback was a political embarrassment rather than a military defeat: the abduction July 7 of three Americans and a British citizen from a Christian college in a town protected by a government garrison. There has been no definite word on the fate of the captives: Mark Nikkei of Reedley, Calif; Steve Ander son, 30, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Katherine Taylor, 32, of Johnson City, Tenn., and nurse Heather Sinclair, 29, of Northern Ireland. Rebels did not claim responsibility, but the hostages were taken in an area largely under their control. Delta plane safely avoid small aircrat A r gprisor Ivith c jjng cl lyho v from night. I -W found by a ^ pfficei I M*, tion v ClUh; ;Alfbr c |t the I M*i 1774 Krim e I Lar in Or: hounc oner’ s rass. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (A — A Delta Air Lines Boeing! passenger jet making its fit [ ■ landing approach was forced turn sharply to avoid a smalls: gle-engine aircraft, federal: cials said Monday. Delta Flight 1943 from Los.i a nkle geles made a 35-degree ban! 10,500 feet to avoid a Cessnai! came to within a quarter mile' the larger plane, said Russ Park, a spokesman for the Ft| eral Aviation Administration, j. There were no injuries andd I“ r y a h Delta plane landed safely, Pt ; I. . ! he said, adding that he did noth how many passengers were board. The incident occurred at p.m. Sunday, Park said, i 'citho. I Oeen j- |fan{ ( |Th { | ha r ge |ery, [. 1 Th e J’hicl'i Park said the Delta plane 1 ]]l uar e descending on its approach toll fhO \- c Sacramento Metropolitan 0,11 port and was about 15 miles fj . exa $ the landing strip when theitj J 0 , ns ’ i dent occurred. K <lJet V owner of the Cessna was notid 1 tified and an investigation 1 continuing, he said. _ Wh the sp. said. Wh, armed t«l, A c | Af t( treaty hospi t le ceiveq Vvith a shot q, I Th e Ihe :|bout —^agency