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Time's Running Out! Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, July 22, 1988 Armenians ignore call for strik to protest annexation rejectionR MOSCOW (AP) — Armenians ignored activ- parked in protest of the decision Monday by the declined to give his name. Pressed tosaywhetl ie ists’ calls for a strike Thursday to protest the gov ernment’s rejection of their demand to annex a region in neighboring Azerbaijan, residents and the state-run media reported. central leadership to keep the region within Azerbaijan. The broadcast blamed local officials for failing to encourage workers to return to their jobs. anyone was striking, he conceded, “Somee prises are not working fully.” The reports indicated the government, after a five-month struggle, may be gaining the upper hand in controlling labor unrest that has caused millions of dollars in lost production in Armenia. However, a 2-month-old strike was reported continuing in the disputed region, Nagorno-Ka rabakh, whose population is mostly Armenian. The national television news program Vremya broadcast footage from Stepanakert, the region’s administrative center, showing trucks and buses standing idle, construction sites empty and work ers milling around the city. Vremya showed hundreds of buses and trucks “The people are embittered,” said a worker with the Gostelradio state broadcasting authority in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh’s administra tive center. “We don’t know what to do. But we know that the refusal to make Nagorno-Kara bakh part of Armenia wasn’tjust.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Vadim PerfL told reporters at a briefing that industriesin| menia were nearly back to normal. Nagorno-Karabakh has been part of the dominantly Moslem republic of Azerbaijan 65 years, and Azerbaijani leaders had vetoed region’s decision to secede. [ er A correspondent for the official Soviet news agency Tass in the Armenian capital of Yerevan said the call for a strike beginning Thursday went largely unheeded. “The majority of enterprises are working. It’s a normal working day,” said the journalist, who Armenians make up three-quarters o(ffi,ynet 160,000 people of the contested region, and >ublicat tend that Azerbaijanis discriminate againsttMnmb tl (fond.i\ I he annexation movement began in Februj « \ m after central authorities rejected an initialap® n g from Nagorno-Karabakh. w; ^SUHDAy BRlinCfiX 1 Bum $4.95 Soviet consumers saving their rubles An Array of Salads; Fresh Fruit and Melon Muffins & Biscuits Egg Specialties, Sausage, Bacon Potatoes, French Toast and More 607 Texas Ave • 696-1427 • Across from Texas A&M CifctrUX Odtort j%ND ’ ' PLIITTHtATRES AfidAlN MStiN€£ daily : A t ALL SHOWS 0EFORE B At SttTClFD THtATRtS CHtCK SM0WTIMES RESTAURANT 4004 Harvey Rd. College Station, Tx. 308 N. 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It was revealed Thursday in a partial report on So viet economic performance in the first half of 1988. P t josits of 280 billion rubles ($451 bil- P C lion) for the nation’s 284 million res idents, said Nikolai G. Belov, deputy Caddy Shack II ,r) Bull Durham 2:104:107:109:10 (R) Cinema III 2:10 4:25 7:10 9:25 Midnight Run <„, Post Oak III 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 Cinema Ml Die Hard Big Top Pee Wee ( pg) 2:05 4:05 7:05 9:05 Cinema III (R) 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 Post Oak III chairman of the Soviet State Com mittee on Statistics. That indicates Soviet citizens have far more savings in relation to in come than people in the United States or other Western industrial countries. What it says about the Soviet econ omy is that desirable goods are scarce and consumers appear to be stashing their money in fear of high prices when subsidies are removed from basic items like food and hous- plan crafted by Mikhail S. Gorba chev and his advisers calls for simul taneous increases in quality and quantity, which Western analysts and some Soviet economists consider un realistic. Although broad figures Belov gave at a news conference indicated the Kremlin was seeing the quantity output it has ordered, the savings figure and a look in any state-run store illustrate the slow im provement in production of con sumer goods and services. Only about 10 percent of Soviet families own cars. Laundry is done by hand in most homes for lack of washing machines and many adults own just three or four changes of clothing. Economist Nikolai Shmelev has said the high savings level indicates pent-up demand among consumers and is a potential cause of inflation. Savings accounts grew by 42 bil lion rubles in 1987. mg. The current five-year economic Per capita savings on an annual basis were not given in the Soviet economic report. The average American last year saved only 3.7 percent of his income and Japanese workers put aside about 15.6 per cent, according to another published report. World briefs 10 dead, 13 hurt in Mexican prison MEXICO CITY (AP) — In mates in a Michoacan state peni tentiary disarmed guards but failed to escape and started an hour-long riot. Officials said 10 prisoners were killed and 13 peo ple wounded in a shootout with police. State attorney general Jose Franco Villa said the violence Wednesday at the prison in Morelia was “an attempt at a mass breakout.” It was not clear how many of the prison’s 2,000 in mates were involved. Franco Villa blamed the rioting on a “group of highly dangerous inmates, most of whom weresei tenced for drug trafficking,bar: robberies and homicides." »■. Franco Villa told a newjtoiB^ to ference Wednesday night thailB . , inmates were killed and 13 s pie wounded, including pristB, s ^ ers, guards and two visitors. ® He said prisoners tosseda! lotov cocktail into administra,.— (( ices and destroyed virtually*' „ ^ s of pending court cases. li T’ ,, penitentiary includes six sig | ril courtrooms. ‘ Franco Villa acknowledt:*^ j there were “material damages significant importance.” he offic files Fish oil may help clear clogged arteriCd “Som Hi dec WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil from cold-water fish, shown by several studies to help prevent heart attacks, may work its magic by retarding a growth protein which promotes clogged arteries, a Cleveland researcher says. Paul L. Fox of the Cleveland Clinic Research Institute said Thursday that test-tube experi ments showed that oil extracted from the flesh of fish that live in cold water decreases levels of a protein called the platelet-de rived growth factor. Reducing this protein, Fox said, suppresses the growth 10t msi smooth muscle cells in arter# t * ie * and, thus, helps stem the blooM r . vessel narrowing that can lead: a heart attack. ■v 5 *! Ke of But Fox said the finding dcusuallv! not mean that {>eople should stiff/ popping fish-oil pills as a hear; “We tack preventative. More studHpng needs to l>e done before there elaid, proof that such dietary supp?ailed ii ments can be effective, he said Ifedul one b- “1 would not personally recoc|[, no mend that people take fishoiip said Fox. '‘'fllMiB Minority (Continued from page 1) tendon is actually the key to A&M’s recruiting success. “Minority students who come to A&M do extremely well,” he said. “The retention of minority students at A&M from 1986 was the highest success ratio of any institution in the state. Eighty-eight percent of the Hispanic freshman of 1986 came back as sophomores and 87 percent of the black freshman came back as sophomores. “These numbers are within a point or two of the Anglo students’ return ratio, and that’s remarkable when you consider how it has been in the past.” A&M’s minority recruitment and retention is even better than UT’s, Cooper said. “Of those minority students that come here, we retain a higher num ber than UT does, which is another step toward saying that ‘ours’ will graduate. If you just count numbers of minorities initially recruited then UT would be ahead of us, but if you count retention of students then it’s definitely A&M.” A&M has programs and incen tives to help keep minority students enrolled and successful, Cooper said. “We have excellent retention pro grams here,” he said. “We have the student affairs of fice, the outreach center and most of the academic colleges have summer enrichment programs for minori ties. We also offer a lot of schol arships to selected entering fresh men as an incentive to come to A&M.” One of the best services offered to minority students at A&M, Cooper said, is the Multicultural Services Center. Kevin Carreathers, coordinator of the center, said they do everything possible to keep the minority stu dents enrolled and to help them prosper. “Since the center opened Sept. 1, we’ve touched the lives of 3 to 400 students in some form or fashion, and it’s been very rewarding,” Car reathers said. “We help them find summer apartments and summer in ternships as well as helping them to get scholarships, grants and loans. The center also provides school counseling.” Cooper said one problem that particularly concerns him is the high school dropout rate. “Eighty-five percent of the in mates in the Texas Department of Corrections are high school drop outs,” Cooper said. “And, we’re los ing about 50 percent of the Hispanic and black students in Texas right now before they even finish high school. “We can’t recruit them into col lege if they never finish high school. When Is Your Rental READ IT |]The Battalion m Get into circulation! Let our classified section display your rental services . . . it's a fast, efficient p\ way to do business! Something has to turn that art* and we really are trying.” Cooper also said that Tesj||US' soon to be in a very desparatet »nt ne tional situation based on recenigjnfoi mographic reports. 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