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MARDt GRAS A T A&M '88
SEND A SPECIAL THANKS TO:
AGGIE BEACH CLUB
AGGIELAND AWARDS
ALLIED RENTALS
BENNIGANS
B’OR INTERNATIONAL
BUD WARD INC.
CASA TOMAS
CHOCALATE CHIP COOKIE CO.
EL CHICO
FAJITA RITA’S
FRED BROWN MAZDA BMW
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GODFATHER’S PIZZA
JULIE’S PLACE
JAY’S GYM
MASTER CUTS
THE RAINBOW STORE
RECORD BAR
REGIS HAIRSTYLIST
THE SILVER STATION
SWENSEN’S
24 HOUR GYMS OF TEXAS
WOLF CREEK CAR WASH
KORA
PRIZES TO BE GIVEN AWAY FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12,1988
AT GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION
SUBMIT TO
categories: Collage, Drawings, Paintings, Pastel,
Miscellaneous (no photographs)
entries:
will be accepted in the MSC Gallery from
11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., February 22-24.
Entry fee is $3.00 per piece, limit 4 pieces.
judging
ebruary 25, 1988.
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LOUPOT'S
OFF CAMPUS CENTER
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES
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Lock It Up Or Lose It:
How You Can Prevent Being the
Next Victim of Crime!
The Create Attitudes for Rape-free Environment
(C.A.R.E.) and the Safety and Security Commit
tees are jointly organizing a full week of events and
presentations to promote awareness among the Texas
A&M University community about sexual assault, personal
safety, and home security. The activities will take place as
follows:
Monday, February 15
7:00-9:00 p.m.
201 Memorial Student Center
Good-Bye Cinderella and Rambo:
Men’s and Women’s Issues
Tuesday, February 16
7:00-9:00 p.m.
201 Memorial Student Center
Dating and the Hidden Threat
Wednesday, February 17
4:00-1 0:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 18
10:00-3:00 p.m.
212 Memorial Student Center
Safety and Security Exhibit Fair
Wednesday, February 17
7:00-9:00 p.m.
201 Memorial Student Center
Lock It Up or Lose It
Speakers from the University, Bryan and
College Station Police Departments and
the County Attorney’s Office.
Thursday, February 18
7:00-9:00 p.m.
701 Rudder
S.C.A.M.: Stereotypes, Safe Sex and
Spring Break Planning
During the Safety and Security Exhibit Fair, vendors from the community will exhibit products re
lated to safety, such as alarms and dead bolt locks. McGruff, the Crime Watch dog, “PC”, a remote
controlled mini police car from Bryan Police and Freddie, the robot from College Station Police will
be on the show. Door prizes will be awarded at the conclusion of the Fair.
Mardi Gras at A&M
Benefitting: The Brazos Animal Shelter
Sponsored by: OFF CAMPUS AGGIES
FEBRUARY 12, 1988
PARADE
6:00 PM
between MSC
And Commons
DANCE
Following the Parade
at Graham Central Station
Listen to 98.3 KORA for more details!
AT THE OFF CAMPUS CENTER,
WE GO THE EXTRA MILE
Off Campus Center, Department of Student Affairs
Located In Puryear Hall, across from the YMCA Building
Open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am. to 5:00 pm.
845-1741
Acknowledgement
Loupot’s Bookstore at Northgate (across the Post Office) and in
Redmond Terrace (beside Academy) sponsored the Off Campus
Connection. From Mr. Loupot, the 1988 Mardi Gras King: “Thank
you Aggies for your patronage of my new store in Redmond Ter
race.”
Stories and artwork are provided by the Off Campus Center.
February 1988
Editor: Erika Gonzalez-Lima
World Briefs
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NRC checks products for radiation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
government has ordered inspec
tions of beer, soft drinks, baby
formula and dental and cosmetic
products from more than a dozen
plants across the country because
of possible radiation contami
nation, officials said Monday.
Production was briefly halted
over the weekend at several Coca
Cola plants but they were re
opened after no contamination
was found in product samples,
the Nuclear Regulatory Commis
sion and officials for the company
said.
Similar surveying was under
way at Anhauser-Busch breweries
in St. Louis and Jacksonville, Fla.,
and at an Abbott Laboratories-
owned baby formula plant in Ari
zona, an Avon cosmetics plant in
Illinois and a dental products
plant in New Jersey.
NRC and Food and Drug Ad
ministration officials emphasized
that no contamination has been
found so far in examinatiorj
the products at any of i
plants.
Dr. Frank Young, coirj
sioner of the Food and Drug I
ministration, said a
health hazard is unlikely,eij
some soft drinks, beer or oj
products are found tol
mated.
If ingested, the particltsj
which are encased in a cerd
covering and come from as
removing device manufactij
by 3M Corp. — are mostM
pass through the body wilt
any radiation being releaseij
said.
Of 25 plants where officialJ
f ar have uncovered leaks off
polonium particles exceed
NRC guid dines, 15 prod
food, beverage, drugorcosu
products, officials said.
“The good news todateiscj
there is no evidence of conn
nation,” Young said.
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U.S. war on tax cheats costs states
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con
gress’ war on tax cheats is produc
ing some innocent casualties:
state and local governments that
may be forced to cut services in
order to pay a federal tax on gas
oline.
The gas tax will he refunded by
the federal government but no
one is sure how long that will
take. In the meantime, states, cit
ies and counties will lose the use
of the tax money.
“We buy about $885,000 worth
of gasoline a year and the tax on
that is about $80,000,” Mayor
Wayne Corpening of Winston-Sa
lem, N.C., explained. “What we
do is pay that $80,000 to the gov
ernment and lose interest on it.
We can’t spend the money where
it’s needed. And the law creates a
lot of paperwork for us and for
the IRS.”
A similar problem faces farm
ers who use diesel fuel for off-
Officers wound Palestinian youth
JERUSALEM (AP) — The
army said Tuesday an Israeli offi
cer shot and wounded a 16-year-
old Arab protester, and Arab re-
E orts said another youth died of
eating injuries. A Jewish settler
was being investigated in the fatal
shooting of a demonstrator.
U.S. envoy Richard Murphy
began talks Tuesday night with
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
on a peace process to help end ri
oting in occupied territories that
has claimed 51 lives since Dec. 8.
Shamir lashed out at the Pales
tine Liberation Organization for
its plans to send a boat loaded
with 200 Arab deportees back to
Israel from Athens, Greece. He
called the action a “declaration of
war” against Israel.
The Palestine Press Service, an
Arab-run news agency, said Fuad
Tarazi, 17, of Gaza City died
Tuesday of injuries sustained
during a beating while in army
custody.
Palestinian sources s
diet s chased the youth;
threw stones and arrested li
his house Monday. His moi|
told a reporter: “They
son, they beat him. TheybJ
his bicycle.”
The army confirmed Tarl
death but said the cause was!
der investigation.
A military spokesmansaic:j
during a demonstration an hn
officer drew his pistol and sin
16-year-old Palestinian in t
in Rafah, a Gaza Strip towns
dering Egypt.
The Palestine Press repel
four separate incidents in
Jewish settlers smashed can
clows or damaged houses in j
areas of the West Bank Mob
night and early Tuesday,
army said it had no informs:
They also said that policewerij
vestigating.
USDA lifts ban on Florida citrus fruit
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The
U.S. Department of Agriculture
on Tuesday lifted a 3-year-old
ban on the shipment of Florida
fresh citrus fruit to other citrus-
producing states because of the
threat of bacterial canker.
The USDA ruling, announced
in Washington and effective
Thursday, means $25 million in
annual sales to the state’s em
battled citrus industry.
“We are simply delighted that
justice has prevailed,” state Agri
culture Commissioner Doyle
Conner said.
“We’ve contended all along
that it is biologically sound to do
that,” he said. “We’ve gone to a
great deal of care to make sure
that our fruit is canker-free . . .
for the protection of our neigh
bors. We are just real pleased that
the USDA agrees that there is no
exposure.”
The Florida citrus industry has
been battling a nursery strain of
the disease since August
destroying almost 20 million
and young plants at 118 nil
ries, retail outlets, grovesa
vate homes to prevent spt'j
The disease weakens trees ‘
mars fruit.
A second, more seriousc
strain was found in a small nj
her of mature producingtrej
the Tampa area, but the Wl
acre citrus belt has been (
wise unaffected.
There has been no inter'I
ion of harvesting, processing
shipping, except for the 1
fruit embargo to other state: ]
grow the fruit.
Florida officials had
tently urged a lifting of]
USDA shipping ban, partioj
in recent months when sciej
announced that the
strain is not closely relatfJ
other citrus cankers anddof-f
pose a threat to commen
grown fruit in mature groves
Panel: Waldheim knew of war crimes
VIENNA, Austria (AP) —
Claims that an investigative panel
found President Kurt Waldheim
innocent of war crimes “stands in
starkest contrast to our findings,”
a commission member said Tues
day.
After the report was presented
to him Monday, Waldheim said it
cleared him and made clear he
would not resign. Some newspa
pers proclaimed him innocent.
The international panel of six
historians said in the report that
Waldheim was in “direct proxim
ity to criminal actions” during
World War II as a German army
lieutenant in the Balkans.
They said Waldheim knew of
Nazi atrocities and did nothing to
stop them. The 202-p
ment said the investigators fe 1
no proof that he was guiltyoW
crimes, but were leavingthef
tion of guilt open.
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ence by panel members W
Yehuda Wallach of Israel J
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Germany defended the rep
against conservative
attacks i
disputed Waldheim’s conteni|
that he was cleared.
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pers, without identifying®
that printed headlines
exoneration.
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isn’t in our report. Thatsian-I
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