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Faculty, staff & students receive a 10% discount CarePlus^U FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER and Pharmacy 696-0683 1712 Southwest Pkwy • C.S Open 8 to 8 Every Day MSC GREAT ISSUES & THE MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION PRESENT COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS A DISCUSSION OF CHRISTIANITY ISLAM, AND JUDAISM HOW THEY SEE THE WORLD WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 7:30 PM RUDDER THEATRE FREE ADMISSION 'MSC GREAT C.L Tr SLIM UDENTS IATION. Page 10/The BattalionAVednesday, September 30, 1987 Bush tours death camps at end of visit to Poland OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A somber Vice President George Bush on Tuesday toured Nazi concentra tion camps where 4 million people died, and expressed the hope that the children of the future “be spared the agony of this horrible past.” Both the vice president and his wife, Barbara, were visibly moved as their Polish guide, who was impris oned at the Auschwitz camp for five years, explained how the Nazis sys tematically and sadistically gassed or shot their victims. Walking together under threaten ing skies, the Bushes saw the small, dark cells where prisoners were left to die standing up, the gas chambers where millions of men and women were killed and the “Wall of Death” where victims were shot through the head. Signing a guest book. Bush quoted a saying, “In remembrance lies the secret of redemption.” He added, “May the children of the future be spared the agony of this horrible past.” During his stay in Poland, the vice president met with government offi cials, church leaders and leaders of the outlawed Solidarity union movement. At a news conference in Warsaw on Tuesday morning, Bush said he would report to President Reagan that the basis exists for “lasting, pro ductive and mutually beneficial rela tions between our two countries.” Tuesday night, Bush left for Bonn, West Germany, the next stop on his nine-day European tour, after being seen off at Krakow’s Balice Airport by Deputy State Council Chairman Kazimierz Barcikowski and an honor guard of Polish moun tain troops. At the death camps, Bush’s aides maneuvered for the most dramatic possible news coverage for the American television audience. At one point, one aide asked ev eryone to wait for the Bushes to make a dramatic walk alone, appar ently for the benefit of the TV cam eras and still photographers. Domestic politics also came up at the Warsaw news conference. Bush was asked whether he thought his trip to Poland, including appear ances with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, would help his unan nounced campaign for the 1988 Re publican presidential nomination. “I don’t know,” he replied. "I really don’t know. But when you say do I hope it helps you, of course, I hope it helps me with everybody.” Yale officials remonstrate article depicting school as homosexual NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University Presi dent Benno C. Schmidt Jr. has labeled as “drivel” a newspaper article that depicts Yale as a “gay school,” and a school officer said Tuesday that homosexuals make up only “a minute fraction” of its population. Schmidt harshly criticized both the Wall Street Jour nal and the free-lance author of the article in a letter written to about 40 alumni and then distributed to about 2,000 fund-raisers. University Secretary Sheila Wellington said Schmidt wrote his letter in response to letters from alumni who were upset by the Journal piece. But she said she did not believe the publicity would cause a drop in dona tions. The JournaFs Aug. 4 article was a first-person essay in the Leisure & Arts page by Julie V. lovine, a 197/ Yale graduate who lives part time in New Haven. In the article, lovine quotes one Yale student whd said she re ceived a notice calling one in four Yale students a gay. The article goes on to conclude that “suddenly, Yale has a reputation as a gay school.” Schmidt and Wellington challenged the assertion that 25 percent of Yale students were gay. “The attribution . . . has no basis in fact,” Wellington said. Kris Franklin, a junior and the co-coordinator of a group called Yalesbians, agreed with Schmidt, saying she didn’t think Yale had more gays than anyplace else. “Possibly people here are more open about coming out,” she said, referring to the liberal nature of student life. Another student, Anna Louisa Tittmann, a junior from Concord, Mass., echoed Franklin’s point. “I think Yale is a place where people stand up for their rights and are more obvious about it, but 1 don’t think Yale is a gay school,” she said. In 1986, the student Yale Gay and Lesbian Cooper ative estimated that about 10 percent of Yale’s students, faculty and staff were homosexual. The figure was based on a 1948 study by the Kinsey Institute that esti mated that 10 percent of the general population had primarily homosexual tendencies. Stock market falls back to 2,590 level NEW YORK (AP) —Thestod market retreated Tuesday in an erratic session marked by concern over rising interest rates. The D ow Jones average of 31 industrials closed down 10.93 ai 2,590.57 on Wall Street. Declining issues outnumbered advances by about 3 to 2 in the overall tally on the New Yori Stoc k Exchange, with 619 up,933 down and 429 unchanged. Stock prices started out moder ately higher due to the dollar strength in foreign exchange,tra ders said, but a weak bond mar ket and rising interest rates back an advance. Also contributing to Tuesdays pullback were some profit-taking from the previous session’s strong finish and late-afternoon futures related program selling, traden said. Program trading is a strategy in which professionals using com puter programs play off differ ences between futures options and their underlying ‘'baskets”of stocks. As rates move higher, stock- holders worry that investors mav pull their money out of stocks and into higher-yielding bonds and that future corporate earn ings could be hurt. On Monday, the Dow indus trial average climbed 31.33poinis to 2,601.50. Dayton Hudson rose lYj to 59% after Dart Group raised iis bid to acquire Dayton Hudson lo $6.62 billion, or S68 per share. 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