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Page 6rThe Battalion/Wednesday, April 27, 1988 CASH FOR BOOKS! [ Northgate Redmond Terrace ((across from Post Office) i. next to Academy) Company shuts office doors in two cities TWO LOCATIONS! We Service Imports Too! Auto Service 111 Royal Bryan across S. College from Tom’s BBQ 846-5344 This Ad is Good for $5 OPP any Service or Repair Mot valid with any other coupon or discount expires 5-15-88 ODESSA (AP) — Amoco Produc tion Co. announced Monday it will shut the doors of its Odessa and Brownfield offices. The company plans to relocate about 200 employees in an effort to increase productivity and efficiency in its offices. The consolidation of several of the Amoco offices followed months of discussion about the possible clos ings, Amoco spokesman Greg Clock said. “I think everyone’s sort of been waiting for the other shoe to drop,” he said. Some workers will be asked to re locate to Houston or Tulsa, Clock said. Other company workers will be asked to go to operations centers in West Texas and eastern New Mex ico, Clock said. Amoco still will have 900 workers at field operation centers and gas processing plants in the Permian Ba sin and eastern New Mexico, Clock said. Employment counseling and se- verence pay will be given to those workers who choose not to move, Clock said. He also said the company would help those workers who are willing to make the move to another area the company serves. This summer, Amoco also plans to consolidate Texas district offices in Tyler and Alvin into its Houston regional office, Clock said. Amoco also will consolidate of fices in Anchorage, Alaska; Mont- bello, Colo.; Liberal, Kan.; and Pow ell and Riverton, Wyo., into its Denver region office. In mid-1989, Amoco plans to con solidate district offices in Farming- ton, N.M.; Oklahoma City; and Casper and Evanston, Wyo., into its Denver office. Diaries (Continued from page 1) notes were released Tuesday. Often interspersed in notations about lo gistics of the war effort of the Nica raguan Contra rebels are numerous references to drugs, the Drug En forcement Administration and the Customs Service, Panamanian ruler Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega and CIA agents. But Kerry complained that most such references are preceeded or followed with large blacked-out sec tions. One note dated June 27, 1984, says, “Drug Case — DEA progress on combating cocaine,” and refers to Primary B Street by Jon Caldara JV£ B 31 RUT omPlCS. TVZNT *18. THE fllStC VIDEO pmiHOH. cmcswiiTs msi uhtch niCHRU JACKSON'S '£>00' VIDEO OUR RHD OUR the record IS 8 TIHES, HELD fly A BUND AND DEAF mti !H LUBBOCK TEXAS. NO! NO Warped by Scott McCulla Waldo by Kevin Thomas howdy; class' a funny 1 THING HAPPENED ON ' THE WAY TO THE COTTON BOWL, 30 I'M YOUR NEW PR0FE550ft! CAPTAIN - ) JACK?/ j -jr' TODAY3 LECTURE IS ON "ATHLETES FOOT...* possible Colombian negotiations to move drug refining to Nicaragua. An entry from the previous month notes that CIA Latin Ameri can chief Duane Clarridge had called and indicated that “(name de leted) contact indicates that Gustavo is involved with drugs.” It is unclear to whom “Gustavo” refers. A July 24, 1984, entry states: “Clarridge: (paragraph deleted) — Arturo Cruz Jr. — Get Alfredo Ce sar on drugs.” The passage’s meaning is unclear. Cruz is the son of a former member of the directorate of the United Ni caraguan Opposition, at that time the Contra political umbrella. Cesar. now a member of the Contra politi cal directorate, was at the time asso ciated with the southern front in the Nicaraguan civil war, which was at odds with UNO. Kerry has made clear he believes there was a connection between drug running and efforts to supply and arm the Contras. Some testi mony before his subcommittee on narcotics and terrorism has focused on that possibility. Contra leaders, however, have denied involvement in drug traffick ing. Censored versions of the diaries originally were provided to the con gressional Iran-Contra committees under the grant of limited immunity from prosecution given to North in exchange for his testimony before the panel last year. '* | Kerry said that in order to speed up the process, the Iran-Contra p- els permitted North and Sullivan to block out sections they deemed tobe irrelevant to that investigation. But Kerry said John Nields, chief counsel of the House Iran-Contra committee, said there were many sections that appeared to be “very relevant” to the Kerry narcotics in vestigation. Lighten up with the fastest, easiest approach to weight ioss ever! Not only will you lose weight 20% faster in the first few weeks than on any previous Weight Watchers program, you can actually customize a plan that will fit your personal needs and lifestyle. Join non for only Registration Fee $17.00 First Meeting Fee .... $ 8.00 Regular Price $25.00 YOU SAVE ....$13.00 Offer Ends May 8, 1988. 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Before the votes were counted in Pennsylvania, Dukakis already had 1,101.15 delegates, to 838.1 for Jackson. It takes 2,081 to gain the nomination at the Democratic Na tional Convention in July in Atlanta. Bush had 1,081 of the 1,139 needed to nominate. Former tele vision evangelist Pat Robertson, who has ceased active campaigning, had 31 and offered fresh congratulations to Bush as he neared the nominating majority. Bush’s nomination has been all but assurred since he routed his Re publican rivals across the South on Super Tuesday last month, and his aides have been working for weeks on their strategy for the GOP con vention in New Orleans and for the fall campaign against the Democrats The vice president has been run ning virtually uncontested for weeks, winning primaries and cau cuses as they rolled by on the cal endar and methodically claiminevr- tually all of the delegates available. He needed to win only 58 of the 78 Pennsylvania delegates at stake to amass a nominating majority in the AP count. Renovate (Continued from page 1) “It was a real challenge, but we’re about there now,” Smith said. Planning for the Duncan renova tion began about 10 years ago and the actual renovation, which was ex pected to take only one year to com plete, began in January 1986. Upon completion, the project will have taken approximately one and a half years to complete at a cost of about $5 million. But Smith said it should be well worth the wait. “This is the first time some of these things, like the plate-ready sys tem, have been done anywhere in the world,” he sdid. Smith said the new facility will be able to serve 2,200 people in about 12 minutes. The Commons is scheduled to be renovated and expanded, in con junction with several new residence halls planned for the area. The Commons renovations are expected to increase food produc tion and feeding capacity, with the addition of new equipment and the expansion of both sides of the dining facility. Seating will be increased by about 400, bringing the Commons’ total seating capacity to about 1,400, Smith said. Sbisa Dining Hall seats about 1,600. Design documents for the Com mons renovation are anticipated to be completed by early August, in time to take contract bids at the Sep tember Board of Regents’ meeting, Smith said. Total cost of the renova tion is expected to be $2.3 million. “We’re hoping for completion in late November 1989,” he said. Free shuttle Infs this summer. N Hvvy. 6 Bypass DB PLANTATION Post Oak Mall Harvey Rd Texas Ave I he IAMU xluilllr Inixcx will only make ,i lew stops this summoi ,ind Pl.int.ilion ().ikx is one ol them. And we re pit kitTR Lip tho bill. 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