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Annual Calendar
This is open for any girls currently enrolled at Texas
A&M University, for possible selection for our 1988
calendar. If interested please submit your photos to:
MSC P.O. Box 4936
College Station, Tx 77844
Please include your name, home phone number, and
classification
Deadline for entering is March 26,1988
Photo Shooting will begain in April
Any questions please call Jorge Pinera at 693-1007
Page 12/The Battalion/Wednesday, March 2, 1988
World and Nation
Reagan to join
Western allies
at NATO summit
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) —
President Reagan, urging Western
solidarity in arms talks with the Sovi
ets, arrived Tuesday for the first
NATO summit in six years.
After Air Force One touched
down on the tarmac at Brussels Za-
vantem Airport in windy conditions,
Reagan was reunited with Secretary
of State George Shultz, who had ar
rived from London, and met briefly
with Belgian officials.
In a gesture of reassurance given
in a departure statement Tuesday
morning at the White House, Rea
gan pledged that American troops
will remain in Europe “so long as
Europeans want them to stay.”
He also promised to protect NA
TO’s interests in any arms deals with
the Soviet Union.
“We will never sacrifice the inter
ests of this partnership in any
agreement with the Soviet Union,”
he said.
Posing for pictures at the airport,
Reagan said he was still troubled by
congestion and cold-like symptons
that had bothered him in Washing
ton.
“The allergies are still bothering
me,” Reagan said, adding in an aside
to Shultz that his ears were stopped
up after the long flight. Reagan
coughed loudly as reporters were
ushered from the room.
The two-day meeting at NATO
headquarters in Brussels, beginning
Wednesday, brings together the
heads of state or government of the
16-member North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
In his departure statement, Rea
gan hailed the newly signed treaty to
abolish U.S. and Soviet interme
diate-range nuclear missiles (INF),
but said, “the purpose of this summit
is not self-congratulations.”
“Our first priority is to maintain a
strong and healthy partnership be
tween North America and Europe,
for this is the foundation on which
the cause of freedom so crucially de
pends,” he said.
Reagan said the United States will
continue to press for a 50 percent re
duction in strategic nuclear weapons
and a global ban on chemical weap
ons.
Beyond that, he said the NATO
leaders will try “to give negotiations
on conventional forces a new start,
as well.”
On the eve of the summit Alton G.
Keel, the U.S. NATO ambassador,
said he thought the leaders would
likely declare that NATO places a
high priority on negotiating conven
tional arms stability in Europe.
Alliance sources, declining to be
identified publicly, have said that
such a declaration may be in addi
tion to an overall statement which
will boil down to a renewed pledge
of confidence in NATO policies and
goals.
Theory links acid rain
to colon cancer rates
NEW YORK (AP) — The pollut
ants that cause acid rain may be indi
rectly responsible for elevated rates
of colon cancer in parts of the
United States, researchers said
Tuesday.
The theory, which has not yet
been tested, is an attempt to explain
why colon cancer and other cancers
are more common in the north cen
tral and northeastern United States
than in other parts of the country,
said Cedric Garland of the Univer
sity of California, San Diego and his
brother Frank of the Naval Health
Research Center in San Diego.
According to their theory, sulfur
dioxide, one of the principal contrib
utors to acid rain, absorbs certain ul
traviolet rays in sunlight that trigger
the skin to produce vitamin D. Stud
ies by Cedric Garland and others
have suggested that vitamin D may
help protect against colon cancer.
The Garlands, who described
their research at a press conference
Tuesday morning and at an af
ternoon symposium at the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in
New York, said that vitamin D aids
the absorption of calcium, and that
calcium and vitamin D together ap
pear to lower the risk of colon can
cer.
The Garlands also cautioned that
people should not spend more time
in the sun to increase their vitamin D
production, because exposure to
sunlight increases the risk of skin
cancer.
World Briefs
Delvalle tries to create cash-flow crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) —Pana
ma’s president in hiding, Eric Ar
turo Delvalle, called on all Pana
manians Tuesday not to engage
in any financial transactions with
the authorities who seized power
from him last week.
The proclamation contem
plates a series of steps aimed at
creating a cash-flow crisis for the
new government, which Delvalle
regards as unconstitutional.
The document, made public by
Delvalle’s ambassador in Wash
ington, Juan B. Sosa, states that
payment of debts, taxes and other
w
til (
until constitutional government^
restored in Panama.
The Panamanian National At
sembly, dominated by forces loyal
to military strongman Manuel
Antonio Noriega, deposed Del
valle last Friday after the presij
dent had attempted to fire No]
riega as defense chief.
Panamanian opposition leadel
Gabriel Lewis, a former ambassaj
dor to Washington, said leja
steps were being taken to freezl
Panama’s assets in the Unitetl
States.
Rioting in Soviet city prompts curfew |°;
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Armenians was ma/* u ^
MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities
have clamped a curfew on a
southern city where weekend ri
oting broke out and tensions are
still running high because of a
territorial dispute between ethnic
groups, a Soviet official said
Tuesday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Gennady I. Gerasimov suggested
that the Sunday unrest in Sum
gait, as well as demonstrations
and other violence elsewhere in
the Caucasus region in which at
least two people died, were due to
“mistakes" made 65 years ago
when a territory composed
largely of
part of neighboring Azerbaid;P stl
nan.
He told a government nevl
briefing that “there were cenail
injuries” in Sumgait, an industrs
city of more than 160,000 peopt l0t
in Azerbaidzhan, where boo!
gans were blamed for touchirii
off the Sunday riot.
“The situation is calm thereto
day, but it is tense,” Gerasiim
said.
The official was peppered niu
questions about the civil unresti
the southern Sovfet republics
Armenia and Azerbaidzhan.
Pageant ends three bizarre weeks
EL PASO (AP) — The Miss
USA pageant Tuesday capped
three bizarre weeks in which two
contestants quit because of police
records, animal-rights activists
protested the awarding of fur
coats and the co-host was attacked
in a hotel elevator.
Actors Tracy Scoggins and
Alan Thicke were signed as co
hosts for the program, to be tele
vised by CBS.
Ten semifinalists were chosen
last week. The judges were to
score each semifinalist on the
swimsuit, evening gown and
terviews and the five higl
scorers would become the
nalists.
The late departures of tw
contestants, both from Minnt
sota, opened a spot for Julie Nd
son, 20, of Minneapolis, butth
lateness meant she arrived aba
a week after the other come
tants.
About 25 animal-rights acti
ists picketed Tuesday outside I
El Paso Convention Center
protest the awarding of furs
the winner.
Koop seeks education to slow AIDS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sur
geon General G. Everett Koop
told a White House panel Tues
day he is concerned about the
spread of AIDS among teen-ag
ers and expressed outrage at sug
gestions the disease cannot be
spread through heterosexual in
tercourse.
Reiterating his call for sex edu
cation beginning at elementary
grade levels, Koop said, “I think it
is quite possible to raise a genera
tion of adolescents down the road
that would be far less sexually ac
tive than the present one.”
He emphasized that such pro
grams should involve parents and
incorporate moral and social vz
lues along with anatomical stud
ies. '
But in the best of futurt
worlds, he said, “that leaves tin
teen-agers of today.”
“Many people are discouragec
about teen-agers because someol
them are so sexually active,'
said.
While it is important to recomj
mend abstinence, Koop said,
think it is also realistic to undei
stand that sexually active teen-aj
ers are unlikely to reverse thei
pattern . . . and therefore prevea
lion for them has to be our
line of defense.”
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