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Leadership... It’s A Tradition Texas A&M - Texas Aggie Credit Union President: H Dennis Smith Your Texas Aggie Credit Union is upholding the tradi tion of offering high yield savings accounts. Certificates of Deposit and Money Market Accounts to our members and using the deposits to make educational loans to Aggie students under the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Program, We re also leading the way with new, innovative programs and services designed to keep Aggies and the Texas Aggie Credit Union #1. Board ol Directors Chairman; Dr Malon Southerland. '65 Vice Chairman: L A. "Andy" Anderson. '50 Secretary Gordon W Zahn, '49 Treasurer: James R ' Randy" Matson, '67 Robert Massengale. '60 Dr. Lee J Phillips. '53 RM "Bob" Rutledge. III. 65 TEXAS AGGIE CREDIT UNION i:red by the National Credit Union AdministrationCNCUAi 301 Dominik Dr. College Station. TX 77840 (409) 696-1440 The Directors S3 Texas Aggie Credit Union 1 1 1 1 1 1 I....1 Maroon MasterCard Touch Tone Teller -OH 1 Mir "New” Pulse Card S' / / / / / s ^ Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, June 16, 1988 World and Nation Retail sales growth slows in May; Tiday, Ji WASHINGTON (AP) — Retail sales grew just 0.1 percent in May, the government said Wednesday in a report analysts predicted would help ease fears of infla tionary pressures in the economy. The Commerce Department said sales by retailers, which represent about one-third of U.S. economic ac tivity, edged up a scant 0.1 percent in May to $131.9 bil lion, after a 0.4 percent drop in April. Much of the slowdown came from two successive drops in auto sales, but other categories, including de partment store sales, also were anemic. “If you put the two months together, there is not much evidence of strength,” said Sandra Shaber, an economist with The Futures Group, a Wai based consulting Firm. “Department stores are a major barometer, continue to be veryn But Shaber and other analysts said slack ( spending, while bad for retailers, is good fort! omy as a whole because it should calm thei ters that troubled financial markets earlier this J Economists have been looking toward risin;] sales as a cure for the swollen U.S. tradedefic ever, retail sales jumps of 1.6 percent in Mart: ! percent in February fueled concern that) rise as manufacturers found it difficult to meets] from both forign and American consumers. Stop^Procrastinating^Start Perfecting 1003 University Dr. East ^^ ^^ 846-1013 Reagan wants probe of Wright by counsel WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Reagan suggested Wednesday that “everyone would feel that it was more proper” if House Speaker Jim Wright were investigated by an inde pendent counsel instead of the House ethics committee. The committee is looking into al legations by Rep. Newt Gingrich, R- Ga., and others that Wright, D- Texas, has violated House ethics rules by misusing his office for per sonal gain and improperly interven ing with federal regulators. Some Republicans, including Vice President George Bush, have sug gested that it would be better to have the investigation conducted by an in dependent counsel. Reagan, asked whether he agreed, said: “I have to wonder if it should not be an independent counsel from the standpoint of the relationship of the speaker to the majority of the committee. And I think everyone would feel that it was more proper if it was done by an investigator out side— an appointed investigator.” Although Reagan spoke of the majority of the committee, the panel is actually evenly divided among Re publicans and Democrats, with six members from each party. The chairman of the committee is Rep. Julian Dixon, D-Calif. Wright was not immediately avail able for comment. World briefs -^(i Bryan dnesday t relocatin lig Wellbo [n a June Rebels kill U.S., Peruvian agronomi£' ateJa<k LIMA, Peru (AP) — Leftist re bels dragged a U.S. agricultural adviser and a Peruvian colleague from their farm truck and killed them, officials said Wednesday. It was the first death of an Ameri can in Peru’s insurgency. Police Col. Cirilo Pacheco said a cadre of Shining Path rebels halted the agronomists’ pickup truck on an isolated road in *he _ kofan agr central Andes Monday becked their /■to mayor papers Stat ; <)n , killed each man with twiT t() shots in the back of the hear™ brten. Cour tified ,, i , .. Hn the letti Pacheco and the ^ .. ana., Research InsBuK» - lhls the victims as ConL®,. T and Gustavo Rojas.aSS-y A\ e[lcv sai Peruvian. ■ • , . ™ project ii Gregori, Salk: Tests of AIDS vaccine promis precedes STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — The pioneer of the polio vaccine presented encouraging hut pre liminary test results Wednesday of a new vaccine intended to keep people infected with the AIDS vi rus from getting the disease. Dr. Jonas Salk described the experimental use of his vaccine on nine men who had ARC, or AIDS-related complex, a disease that often AIDS. Although Salk made nos claims about the initial resu I said they persuaded him to sj giving the vaccine to 541 who nave been infected wit AIDS virus but who havenel become ill with ARC or AID'f i million, t Ih for the tments am jgovernme : his repre “We believe we might l )fc '« WASH j N get a positive answer,” he said j ^ Soviet textbooks criticized for lies thi nigh job: MOSCOW (AP) — President the government daily thun:J aiceding orpni work ro Kennedy was murdered in a plot by Texas oilmen. The Red Army won World War II virtually alone. These and other lies have fatally flawed Soviet textbooks, according to the official media and educators. “Huge, unmeasurable is the guilt of those who deluded gener ation after generation, poisoning their minds and souls with lies. recently in an attack ' N tions and omissions in thescK u 1X1 ' Ixioks and on theirauthon re( l mi< s s,t 1 peation of i 11 istory texts are sooutofj 11 ^, ' 0 '^,!? 1 * , .. , , , onlii'sc lik,- with Gorbachevs campaig KL inothers “glasnost” that 160 teams ciR. . thors have competed towrii f 11 ' , ai , 1 . . , Wole the I) textbooks and history exam' , , r 7 , ■provemer been canceled for studei j L. their final year of school. ™ 7 MAGNAVOX VIDEOWRITER J Presenting the word processing machine that’s so user friendly you get a bonus! Plans to n o a slat won’t affect BcM payr University o |Nancy V ifesident at no char ployees wl .checks at th< I “It’s goi usual,” she s I Almost a are paid thr ■counts. Ed Janos 599. 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