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Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, February 5,1988 Wet invite you to Cornerstone Free Will Baptist Church meeting at the Ramada Inn, Room R Sunday, 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Rev. Luther Sanders 764-0772 When you need a friend... We're here and we care. Valentine Personals Put Your Heart On the Line in our Valentine • • Love L to be publ For $5 00 someone special. Co^e^bythe/l^glish An nex, Mond^!myu Fgi^ay, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. to place yours. Pizza Inn UWAY [MflGDfT Bodacious Buffet! 6-8 p.m. All You Can Eat 2901 Texas Ave. Vz Block N. of Villa Maria At our Pizzeria: t-y XI XI $4.25 * All You Can Eat Buffet Pitcher of Beer $2.00 Free nonalcoholic beverage with student I.D. The other Pizzerias: $10.99 $1 <49for extra ingredients FREK salad if coupon used Monday, Thursday or Saturday night ~ I medium Cheese Pizzas $10.99 j extra ingredients 69C per ingredient per pizza | 822-6790 Valid for Dine In, Dilivery, Pickup Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Dole accuses Bush of attack World Briefs Scientists report drifting in flu strain on his integrity (AP)— Republican Bob Dole con-' fronted chief opponent George Bush on Thursday, accusing the vice president of a campaign designed “to impugn my integrity” and de manding to know if Bush authorized an aide’s harsh statement. The two met face to face on the Senate floor in a moment orches trated by Dole following escalating tensions between their two presi dential campaigns. Enjoying the GOP brawl, Demo crat Bruce Babbitt ridiculed Dole from afar for leaving his vision of the future locked in a blind trust. The Democratic presidential can didates crowed over Wednesday’s narrow House defeat of aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Republican candidate Pat Rob ertson looked to score a victory in Hawaii’s re-scheduled GOP caucuses and straw vote Thursday night. The Bush and Dole campaigns acknowl edged that Robertson — who nearly doubled GOP membership in that state since December — had the numbers to win. Dole, the Republican leader of the Senate, handed the vice president a copy of a statement by Bush’s Iowa chairman. “I wanted the vice president to tell me man to man that he had autho rized it,” Dole said. “He said he had authorized it but hadn’t read it. So I handed him a copy.” Bush, the president of the Senate, was presiding during a procedural vote on aid to the Nicaraguan Gon- tras. Bush and Dole both broke off campaigning four days before Io wa’s crucial caucuses to return to Washington where Senate Republi cans hoped to breathe life back into President Reagan’s Contra aid pro posal. “I know a Bush set-up when I see it,” Dole said. “And this is Bush- league operations, trying to impugn my integrity. “I told him he owed Elizabeth an apology ... Iff were going to make a very personal attack on a candidate and his wife, I would want to read it and not let some state chairman is sue it and say later, ‘Well I’m on the high road, I haven’t read it but I au thorized it.’ ” Only hours earlier, Dole and Bush tangled from afar in Iowa over Bush state chairman George Wittgrafs written statement released the day before which accused Dole of “a his tory of mean-spiritedness” as well as cronyism in helping a former aide win a government contract. Dole demanded an apology from Bush and said Bush should lire Wit- tgraf over the remarks. Bush re sponded, “No, I don’t endorse them, but I don’t reject them.” “I’ve just stood there and taken a pounding from other campaigns and I’m going to continue to do that.” ATLANTA (AP) — Govern ment scientists Thursday re ported new evidence of a possible “drift” in this season’s predomi nant influenza strain, reducing the effectiveness of the current flu vaccine. The national Centers for Dis ease Control warned last week that because the influenza virus circulating most often in the United States this winter ap peared to he drifting toward a somewhat different virus, this year's flu vaccine may not provide “optimal” protection. Thursday, the GDG repotted that more than 100 U.S. passen gers aboard a cruise ship in Asia last fall became ill with a flu-like illness — later confirmed as in fluenza in some cases — which apparently was not affected by this year’s flu vaccine. Thirty-six of the tourists were people over 04 — and thus at nigh risk for more serious com plications from flu — wholjj ceived the 1987-88 fluvana August or September. Olj people, 30 percent becamj] spite the vaccine, compart 37 percent among unvatt travelers in the same the GDG reported. And vaccinated, ill pas# were sick for an averaged days, not much differem the 22-day duration reports older, unvaccinated pas^ who bec ame ill, theCDCsanil The findings support labi ies “that suggest thatthe cine may not provide op protection against the stt virus recently identified ini cifit Basin and nowpresenn United States,” offictalsoft lanta-hased GDC said. The most common tvpe seen in the United StatestU ter has been the type reseat;] know as Type A-H3N2, three major types of flu. ann I [he Jhe 1 led Debate about Mexico pollution build Mobil workers strike to get pension benefits MEXICO CITY (AP) — Luis Jaimez Ocampo is convinced the air in this city won’t get cleaner unless the government puts some teeth into its anti-pollution cam paigns. •“The people will never re spond until the government forces them to,’ : he said. “They won’t use public transportation unless they have to. Until then, the air’s only going to get worse.” Suffering another winter’s se ries of smog caps, many Mexico City residents shrug off the finer points of a debate between eco logists and the envernmenf o*-er the air quality here, geK considered the world’s worst The mountains that rini metropolitan area ol mort 18 million normally hinder circulation of the air, andi the tons of noxious pr emitted daily by the 3 milt hides and 35,000 industn the valley. From December to each year, frequent them versions compound the problem by trapping the ion near the ground fork a time. Advisor shows support for starwarsli I m<d (AP)—More than 2,500 oil refin ery workers were on strike Thursday against Mobil Gorp. and units of BP America Inc. in five states over a se ries of issues ranging from union ju risdiction to pension benefits. Affected are Mobil operations in Torrance, Calif., Ferndale, Wash., and Beaumont, Texas; BP Oil Inc. in Marcus Hook, Pa.; and Sohio Oil Co. in Toledo, Ohio. BP Oil and Sohio are subsidiaries of Standard Oil Co., which is a sub sidiary of BP America, which is wholly owned by British Petroleum PEG of London. The walkouts were called by locals of the Denver-based Oil Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union, which represents about 40,000 workers in 300 contracts. About 14,000 have settled, including a tentative pact reached Sunday night with Amoco Gorp. that is ex pected to set the pattern for set tlements in the industry. The Amoco pact calls for raises of 2.1 percent this year and 3 percent next year, raising the average wage to $15.10 from $14.44 an hour. It has yet to be ratified by members. The strikes against Mobil, Sohio and BP Oil began late Wednesday. At Mobil, the walkout was called because of company plans to use managers in jobs the union believes are within its jurisdiction and a dis pute over staffing levels at the com pany’s new centralized control cen ter in Texas. WASHINGTON (AP) — fid- ward Rowny, a senior U.S. arms control adviser, said Wednesday night the United Slates should work out an explicit agreement with the Soviet Union to go ahead with the star wars program and not “kick the can down the road.” Otherwise, Rowny said in an interview, Congress would not approve a treaty to cut strategic nuclear weapons stockpiles in half because the Soviets might scrap the accord over the star wars issue. He said the Reagan adminis tration has “every intention” of going ahead with the anti-missile program. "This has goi :| made explicit, in niv vk said. “If we fuzz it up, the>| can always invoke this kte START (Strategic Arms tion Treaty) is called offl you guys violated it,” Roumt “So we got to clear this up.' r'With this : bm thi: This : ses th 4 — lit StOOl The dispute over testings nology that might be deploi space to shoot down Soviet pnnp ased i Iment tic missiles upset the power summit and threatent cloud President Reagan's i here last December with f Althoi break M’s al nts set Secretary Mikhail S. GorbaclitB'p ra( |j ) mg sc Bills will help doctors with premium^re, Mecham denies hiding loan PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) — Gov. Evan Mecham denied Thursday that he had tried to hide a $350,000 cam paign loan, during testimony before a House panel considering whether to impeach him. The House could decide on Fri day whether to impeach Mecham, select committee Chairman Jim Skelly said. He said he believes there are enough votes for impeachment “assuming no dramatic turnabouts.” Mecham press secretary Ken Smith and legislative liaison J. Ran dall Thomas said Wednesday it was their “gut instincts” that Mecham will be impeached. Mecham also faces a recall elec tion May 17 and a March 9 criminal trial on charges of concealing the $350,000 loan. The first-term Republican gover nor’s temper flared when he accused a committee member of insulting him by including the names of crime bosses in a hypothetical question. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Legislature passed bills Wednesday to establish voluntary arbitration in malpractice cases and limit damages for pain and suffering, measures aimed at slowing the explosion in doctors’ insurance premiums. The measures also would pro vide tougher discipline for doc tors who repeatedly commit mal practice. It also would give physicians some immunity from lawsuits when they treat unfamil iar patients in emergency rooms. The House and Senate ver sions differed on several key points, such as whether to roll back insurance premiums and He at J&imber how much immunity to gAceinlx doctors. 'They also differed Bony an the issue of whether theresbB't Have he a program of long-term»nts in for babies horn brain damagtdBl seme The two measures are log “The submitted to a joint confei committee Thursday, the day of a special session problems of medical maipi insurance. Fear of lawsuits and hij miums have prompted Florida trauma centers andei gency rooms to curtail Some doctors in high-risk s| ties like obstetrics, neurosm and cardiology have refit! treat patients. In I I'he T l 11 ! will HEALTH CAREER OPPORTUNITY DAY FEB. 9,1988 224 MSC 9 By ANYONE INTERESTED IN A HEALTH CAREER IS WELCOME TO ATTEND ; .Jhe T« ^ have [ 0n >plete Hoach a„ 1 he vie Riled A Z, — ANY MAJOR — — ANY LEVEL — COMPANIES, SCHOOLS, AND HOSPITALS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE r lre ctor 5 pguish tl parbook, diff ith s: .herein partook rodent b f ha ,' make u at ^ nd the st ,l; e ° form; N ht >” Smi