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i NOW 2 LOCATIONS Northgate Redmond Terrati>& - (acroftft from Post Office) (next to Academy) Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, December 4, 1987 ^Louporsui HOLIDAY PLANS! TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM BOTH HOUSTON AIRPORTS •Three round trips daily •We accept VISA, Mastercard & American Express OUR RATES BEAT COMMUTER FLIGHTS •5Sc??i3£^. RESERVATIONS TeroLink AIRPORT LIMOUSINE SERVICE 823-2318 i Large 16” One Topping Thin Crust Pizza L Small 12” One Topping Thin Crust Pizza Free Delivery 846-0379 Best Pizza in Town I Northgate $5” ! Free Delivery 846-0379 Best Pizza in Town I Northgate £4" ■ dK + tax | Mighty Mouse. $88.00 Logitech C-7 opto-mechanical mouse, no pad or power supply required, high resolution (200 dots per inch), 3 high quality tactile feedback switches, connects to any serial port, Microsoft compatible. Sale ends December 12, 1987. More bytes, less bucks. CO/MPUTER 268-0730 403B University Dr. (Northgate) HIM fAiMH happy hour friday 2-6 movie rental over 4,000 titles $2.49 Children’s 99$ Everyday • Adult Movies $2.49 $2 00 off all LP’s and cassettes $8.98 and up all CD’s $13.98 and up all books 25% off 30% off all hardbacks (excludes remainders and sale books) OPEN: Sun.-Thurs*, 10-10 Fri. & Sat., 10-11 Culpepper Plaza, College Station 693-2619 " - ' ' ' ","1 ' ' ' ' ' " U'*" News Briefs Nicaragua, rebels open negotiations SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Nicaragua’s leftist government and U.S.-backed rebels on Thursday opened their first ne gotiations on ending a 6-year-old war that has killed 40,000 people and been a major concern in obtain ing world peace. Police provided unusually tight security for the indirect negotia tions, in which the Roman Catholic archbishop of Managua, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, is serving as go-between. Obando y Bravo met with the Contra rebel delegation at Catholic church offices in Santo Domingo. Obando y Bravo said that he would relay their proposals as best he could to the Sandimsta delegation at the Nicaraguan Embassy. Church officials said they would try to persuade the delegations to meet face to face to try and further negotiations in hopes of ending the battle permanently, but Nicaraguan Ambassador Daniel Valle Martinez said that was out of the question. On his arrival in Santo Domingo Thursday afternoon, Obando y Bravo said it would be hard to ar-. range direct talks because of the amount of hostility flowing between the two negotiating countries. House votes for cut of U.S. aid to Haiti WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted without dissent Thurs day to cut off all U.S. aid to the gov ernment of Haiti until a civilian elec toral commission is reinstated and the impoverished nation is put back on the road toward free elections. The House action, on a voice vote, essentially ratified the earlier sus pension of nearly $64 million in U.S. aid by the Reagan administration and added the legal requirement that the Provisional Electoral Com mission must be reinstated in order for aid to be resumed. The move means revoking badly needed economic aid to Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. However, the measure’s sponsor, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., said it was the only way to express U.S. outrage over the violence that canceled Sunday’s elections. “Anything we take away is going to hurt people,” Oberstar said. “But this is the only action we can take that will mean something to the gov ernment that ambushed democracy on Sunday and to the forces for de mocracy who are looking to the United States to do something ... to help put democracy back on track. We can help re-establish the process that was snuffed out.” Oberstar’s legislation, attached to a massive catch-all spending bill, also contained non-binding language. The bill calls on the State Depart ment to suspend Haiti’s eligibility for trade benefits under the Caribbean Basin Initiative and to seek an inter national arms embargo and other economic sanctions. Another $35 million in humanita rian aid flowing through private re lief organizations for public health, nutrition and housing programs would be unaffected by the change. The money bill, with the aid cut off attached, was sent to the Senate for further action. House approves massive spending bill WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a massive $587 bil lion spending bill Thursday that would push Congress to meet its def icit-reduction goals but also risk a presidential veto because of a rash of attached controversies. “This is the first step that I believe must be taken ... to move against the deficit and begin a coordinated effort by the two political parties,” House Majority Leader Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash, said. But House Republican leader Bob Michel, R-Ill., said beneath the rhe toric was a package laden with spe cial-interest spending, a bloated monster created by Democrats act- ing “as a legislative Dr. Frankenstein.” “This is government by appetite and I’d respectfully suggest the Democratic leadership put itself on a legislative diet,” he said. Despite opposition from most Re publicans, the bill was approved 248- 170 and sent to the Senate. A GOP attempt to send the package back to committee was also beaten by Demo crats on a 220-198 party-line vote. U.S., Soviets work on mission to Mars WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and the top Soviet space scientist agreed Thursday to pursue a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars aimed at making the superpowers friends, not foes in space. Rep. Robert Roe, D-NJ., who heads the panel, said he believes a common effort to explore Earth’s neighbor could shift the interna tional focus on space from Star Wars to a mutual star trek. After meeting with Raold Sagdeyev, who heads the Soviet Space Research Institute, the New Jersey lawmaker called the goal “definitely possible.” “The rewards and benefits to mankind in space are 10,000 times better than the destruction of man kind in space,” Roe said. Sagdeyev agreed, saying the ex ploration of Mars, some 49 million miles away, is “probably . . . the most challenging project of this century.” Neither Roe nor the Soviet scien tist predicted a timetable for a Mar tian mission, said by most experts to be at least decades away. But neither man flinched at the possiblity of putting a man or woman on Mars. “There’s no ques tion about it,” Roe said. House rejects pollution act extension WASHINGTON (AP) — The House overwhelmingly rejected on Thursday an industry-backed drive to take the tough, controversial is sues of air pollution and acid-rain control off the congressional agenda until at least 1989. In what members called the envi ronmental vote of 1987, majorities in both political parties combined for a 257-162 defeat of an amend ment that would have extended the Clean Air Act’s compliance dead lines until Aug. 1, 1989. Instead, by voice vote the cham ber approved an extension of the law’s Dec. 31, 1987, deadline for curbing ozone and carbon monoxide pollution until next Aug. 31, giving Congress eight months to work on revising the law. The eight-month extension would prevent the Environmental Protec tion Agency from imposing sanc tions during this period against any of the 60 or more metropolitan areas and cities that EPA says will miss the Dec. 31 compliance deadline. The Clean Air Act allows EPA to penalize areas that fail to attain the law’s health standards on pollutants. Sanctions include cutoff of federal aid for highways and sewers and a ban on construction of facilities that would add to air pollution. EPA Administrator Lee Thomas has said he is considering construc tion bans against 12 to 14 cities that EPA says have made little or no ef fort to comply with clean air require ments set by Congress in 1977. Former professor may get nomination WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Reagan plans to nominate Wendy Lee Gramm, a former A&M economics professor, as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the White House an nounced Thursday. Gramm, the wife of Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, has been associate director for information and regula tory affairs of the Office of Manage ment and Budget since 1985. If confirmed by the Senate to her new position, she will succeed Susan, Meredith Phillips. Gramm, 42, was born in Waialua, Hawaii, and educated at Wellesley College and Northwestern Univer sity. She was at the Institute for De fense Analyses and the Federal Trade Commission before joininsr OMB. D.K. ARENA Specials for Students STALLS FOR RENT Lighted arena • Roping stock furnished For info contact: DEE WOODWARD 2715 S. Texas Ave., Bryan, 77802 e409-822-4833® Lutheran Collegians provides Rides to MIDWEEK ADVENT SERVICE ’Daniel's Vision of the Son of Man 1 Wednesday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m. Beautiful Savior Lutheran church Call 693-4514 How about CHINESE FOOD for your Christmas Party 2 Banquet Rooms: one sits 95 one sits 45 CALL 846-0828 Putt Priced to suit your budget. Catering Service available PACIFIC GARDEN CHINESE RESTAURANT 701 Unlv. E. College Station (Between Hilton & Chimney Hill Bowling) THEATRE GUIDE Flowers in the Attic (PG-13) The Sicilian,» Sat & Sun 2:10 4:10 7:10 9:10 Sat & Sun 2:10 4:20 7:10 9:15 Post Oak Mall Cinema III Dancers ,p 01 The Running Man (R) Sat & Sun 2:00 4:00 7:00 9:10 Sat & Sun 2:05 4:20 7:05 9:20 Post Oak Mall Cinema III Suspect (r) Less Than Zero,,., Sat & Sun 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 Sat & Sun 2:05 4:05 7:05 9:05 Post Oak Mall Cinema III Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute! Now is the time to order your Aggie gifts for Graduation. Let your parents know of your appreciation and love Let your friends know of your pride in their achievements. Custom Engraving, genuine OMC products NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The State Department of Highways and Public Transporta tion will hold a Public Hearing concerning the proposed highway construction on State Highway 21 from the Little Brazos River east to the Texas A&M Annex; State Highway 47 from the Texas A&M Annex south to Farm to Market Road 60; Farm to Market Road 60 from Farm to market Road 2818 west to the Brazos River; and Farm to Market Road 1688 from the end of existing Farm to Market Road 1688 south and west to Farm to Market Road 60. The meeting will be held in Assembly Room No. 2 at the Brazos Center at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 15, 1987. Maps and other drawings showing the proposed locations and designs will be displayed at the public hearing together with the Environmental Study. The State Relocation Assis tance Program, the benefits and services for displacees, and information concerning the relocation assistance office will be discussed. Tentative schedules for right of way ac quisition and construction will also be discussed. All interested citizens are invited to attend this public hear ing. Verbal and written comments from the public regarding the projects are requested. Comments may be presented either at the hearing or may be submitted to Mr. Carol D. Zeigler, District Engineer, at: P.O. Box 3249, Bryan, Texas 77805, but must be received not later than 5:00 p.m. December 28,1987. A basketful of cash is better than a garage full of 'stuff' Have a garage or yard sale this week - Call 845-2611