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NIGHT LEG CRAMPS
G & S studies is participating in a nation
wide study on a medication recommended
for night leg cramps. If you experience any
one of the following symptoms on a regular
basis call G & S. Eligible volunteers will be
compensated.
’ restless legs * rigid muscles
’ muscle spasms * weary achy legs
' cramped toe * Charley horse
G&S STUDIES, INC.
846-5933
♦ FOR RENT
Near Campus
• Luxury 1-2 Bedroom Units
• Pool • Laundry
• Shuttle • On-site Security
• 24-Hr. Maintenance
• Shopping Nearby
Rent Starts at $275
SEVILLA
1 Blk. South of Harvey Rd.
693-2108
SKIN INFECTION STUDY
G&S studies, inc. is participatingin
a study on acute skin infections. If
you have one of the following con
ditions call G&S studies. Eligible-
volunteers will be compensated.
* infected blisters * infected burns
* infected boils * infected cuts
* infected insect bites * infected scrapes
(“road rash”)
G&S STUDIES, INC.
846-5933
Cotton Village Apts.,
Snook, Tx.
1 Bdrm,; $200 2 Bdrm.; $248
Rental assistance available!
Call 846-8878 or 774-0773
after 5pm. 4tf
2 Bedroom house, all appliances, trees, use of pool,
$370/$395, 693-1723. 150tfn
2 Bedroom Studio, appliances, shuttle, jogging trail,
creek, $325/$350, 693-1723. ISltfn
Valley View 4-plexes. Washer & dryer or connections
available. 2 Bdrm/lVfc bath. Up or downstairs units.
Open for fall leasing. $325-$350. Wyndham Mgmt.
846-4384. 174tfn
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$305
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696-7380. 178tfn
Luxury large 2 bdrm/11/2 bath 4-plex. Washer & dryer
’ - - 774-
connections. Appliances, $325. Close to campus, 77
7970,693-0551. 62tfn
SMART MOVE Graduate/Couple Community near
campus, W/D connections; $321 up. ANDERSON
PLACE API S. 693-2347. 178tfn
3 bdrm/] VS bath, $350 mo. SW Parkway, Trinity Apts.
Call 693-5177 after 5 p.m. 179t8/10
CLOSE TO EVERYTHING Tennis Court, Pool, Bike
to Campus. Efficiency, 1&2 bdrms $260 up. VILLAGE
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All Bills Paid!
• Luxury Redecorated
• 1 -2-3 Bedroom Units
• Ceiling Fans • Dishwasher
• Patios • Pool
• Saunas •Tennis
• Near A&M Campus
• On Shuttle • Security
• 24-Hr. Maintenance
Std. 1 BR as low as $318
One Check Pays All At
VIKING
1601 Holleman
off Texas
1 Blk. South of Harvey Rd.
693-6716 1
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Good condition full size waterbed. Must sell! $75. Call
822-1839. 183t8/4
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All Bills Paid!
• 1-2 Bedroom Units
• On Shuttle • Tennis • Pool
• On-site Maintenance
• Close to campus
Rent Starts at $310
SCANDIA
693-6505
401 Anderson
1 Blk. off Jersey - W. of Texas
The Houston Chronicle
is taking applications for immedi
ate route openings. Pay is based
on per paper rate & gas allowance
is provided. The route requires
working early mornings, 7 days a
week. If interested call: James at
693-0016 for an appointment.
TIRED OF HIGH UTILITIES?
Come to Tanglewood South
• Great Location • Party Room/Study Room
• 2 Pools • 2 Laundry Rooms
• Exercise Room/Fitness Center • Covered Parking
• During orientation we are open until 8:30 p.m.
All Utilities Paid
411 Harvey Road, C.S.
693-1111
Pre-leasing for fall
2 Bdrm 1 Bath
Pool, laundry
On shuttle bus route 1/2 mile from campus
Casa Blanca
4110 S. College Main
846-1413
PLANTATION OAKS
6 Floor Plans
No Utility Deposit
Shuttle Bus-Tennis Courts
1501 Harvey Rd., C.S.,Tx.
693-1110
♦ HELP WANTED
Restaurant: Neat, good personality. Apply in person.
2305 Cavitt, Bryan. 18U8/2
Assistant for doctor’s office, typing required, will train.
Apply at 3030 East 29th Street. Suite 109, Bryan.
18U7/29
“C” programmer for IBM PC and/or Macintosh. Con
tract work through spring. Experienced only need ap
ply. Full or part time. Very good wages. Call 846-3294
afternoon. 182t8/ll
Part-time student w/sales experience & computer
knowledge. 20 hrs. plus. Call 693-8080, ask for Sharon.
182tfn
Need someone to do inside painting. Must have sheet-
rock repair experience; $4.00 p/hr. Call Sharon 696-
0683. 180t7/29
The Costume Connection needs male dancers for Par-
tygrams. Call 693-3004. 179t8/3
♦ SERVICES
ON THE DOUBLE Professional Word Processing,
laser jet printing. Papers, resume, merge letters. Rush
services. 846-3755. ISltfn
AGGIE WORD PROCESSING - Close to campus.
Theses, Dissertations, Laseijet printing, competitive
prices. !78t8/2
TYPING: Accurate, 95 WPM, Reliable. Word Proc
essor. 7 days a week. 776-4013. 85t2/30
Professional Word Processing, Resumes. Guaranteed
Error Free. PERFECT PRINT 822-1430. 162t8/10
Accurate, fast reasonable typing. Call Pat 696-2085 af
ter 5:30 p.m. 177t8/16
Need help getting in-state tuition? Call Sgt. Jeff Har-
relson, Texas Army National Guard at 779-0943 today!
182t8/10
Experienced librarian will do library research for you.
Call 272-3348. 173t8/31
Typing, word processing. Reasonable rates. Call Ber
tha 696-3785. 180t8/4
CAL’S BODY SHOP. 10% discount to students on la
bor. Precise color matching. Foreign & Domestics. 30
years experience. 823-2610. 11 Itfn
• WANTED
Part-time housekeeper M-F. Experience preferred.
Call 846-0615. Country Place Apartments. 18117/29
Student seeking Student Organization for money mak
ing project. No Investment. Great Opportunity. Jimmy
846-8611. 170t8/12
Queen size bed with frame. $50. 696-4254. 183t7/28
Good condition king size waterbed, dining table, and
chairs. 696-1682. 180t7/29
Occasional babysitter for 9 month old. Call 696-3626
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World and Nation
Rate of inflation
expands despite
better economy
Study shows
rural housing
may succeed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
economy expanded at a healthy 3.1
percent annual pace from April
through June, but rising food, en
ergy and clothing costs pushed the
inflation rate to 4.7 percent, its high
est level in almost six years.
Some private economists worried
that the bigjump in inflation was sig
naling the concluding stages of the
current long economic recovery and
could well result in a recession some
time next year. The White House
dismissed the inflation figure.
The Commerce Department re
ported that the growth rate in the
gross national product, the econ
omy’s total output of goods and serv
ices, was down only slightly from a
revised 3.4 percent increase in the
First three months of the year.
But inflation, as measured by a
price index tied to the GNP, regis
tered the biggest advance since the
third quarter of 1982. The GNP
price index had risen at 3.5 percent
rate in the first quarter.
The Reagan administration,
which is counting on a strong econ
omy this year to keep the White
House in Republican hands, hailed
the strong growth numbers and dis
missed the higher inflation rate as an
aberration.
“Prices have temporarily picked
up, but they are not a harbinger of
more general inflation,” Beryl
Sprinkel, the president’s chief econ
omist, said. “The price increases are
reflecting the drought and higher
import prices because of the fall in
the dollar.”
Others were more concerned.
“We have had a definite upturn in
the inflation rate which is a by-prod
uct of our long expansion,” Allen Si
nai, chief economist of the Boston
Co., said. “The demand side of our
economy is now exceeding our abil
ity to produce, which is causing price
pressures.”
The Federal Reserve has already
pushed interest rates higher as a way
of dampening demand, and Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan
said the central bank stood ready to
tighten further if inflationary pres
sures did not abate.
Michael Evans, head of a Wash
ington forecasting firm, said he
agreed with the administration’s as
sessment that the spike in inflation
in the second quarter was likely to
moderate in coming quarters. He
said it was produced primarily by
higher clothing and energy costs,
which have already declined since
spring. He predicted that food costs
would moderate as well, especially if
more rain falls in the parched Mid
west.
All economists agreed that overall
growth during the second quarter
showed the hoped-for movement
away from a consumer-led expan
sion to export-led growth.
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home are cost-effective and shout
he expanded. Rep. Henry B Goni*
lez said Wednesday in releasing,
private study showing the prograt
lias succeeded in “the very toughtt
hardscrabble places.”
The non-profit Housing Assit
tance Council study found panic
pants in the Farmers Home Admit
istration’s low-inconn
homeownership program hadexcci
lent repayment records, their snks
dies declined and their incomes
creased over a five-year span, arc
the number of children livingbeloi
the poverty level decreased signi
cantly.
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families nationwide who obtaict:
subsizied mortgages in 1981 ai:
concluded the rural homeownersk;
program “represents a cost-effecni
strategy to provide decent shelter;
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them in overcoming the burden:
poverty.”
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from the Ford Foundation, ak
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benefits, particularly on childnt
such as stabilizing family livesoftk
children.
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or below 125 percent of the feden
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Still nursing scars from the
Iran-Contra affair, Reagan administration officials are
publicly imposing ground rules which seemingly limit
flexibility to win the liberation of American hostages in
Lebanon.
Officials at the White House and State Department
say no deals will be negotiated with Iran and that the
U.S. government will discuss the hostage situation only
with “authoritative” representatives of Tehran.
Neither of these limitations was placed on the jockey
ing in 1985-86 that led to the clandestine sales of U.S.
arms to Iran, the diversion of proceeds to Nicaraguan
rebels and the subsequent indictment of two one-time
White House officials.
Two American hostages — David Jacobsen and the
Rev. Benjamin Weir — were released during that mer
curial period.
President Reagan subsequently argued that he was
merely seeking an opening to Iran, not an arms-for-
hostages trade, when he approved the transfer of TOW
anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran.
A presidential panel disagreed with him, and so did a
joint congressional investigative committee.
Reagan eventually acknow’ledged that what had
started out as an overture to moderate political el
ements in Iran had turned into what the publicp
ceived as an arms-for-hostages swap.
Iran’s acceptance last week of a U.N. resolutioniir,
posing a cease-fire in the long war with Iraq has raised
expectations of an improved climate for getting tie
hostages out of Lebanon.
When asked Monday if the time was ripe to try out
again to talk to the Iranians about the hostages, Reap
said of the Iranian officials, “If they’re ready and wil
ing to talk, it’s time.”
But administration officials followed that broad
brush remark with a series of statements stressinglimi
tations on U.S. willingness to deal with Iran onthissuh
ject. They said the administration would not againfal
prey to something that can be construed as bargainiat
with a terrorist nation for the release of hostages.
While steadfastly insisting that officials aredoingal
they can to learn the whereabouts of the nine Amen
cans and get them out, minimization of the significance
of statements from Iran suggesting a new interest in the
issue has ensued.
FAA scrambles
to understand
airline changes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Federal Aviation Administration
vainly is scrambling to catch up with
a rapidly changing airline industry
whose decisions at times are driven
by dollars and not safety, a congres
sional study said Wednesday.
The 183-page report by the Of
fice of Technology Assessment sug
gests that Congress provide the FAA
with additional funds and press for
more inspectors and air traffic con
trollers as well as organizational
streamlining that places more em
phasis on safety.
Unannounced inspections and pe
riodic in-depth inspections of both
large and small airlines by the FAA
“are indispensable tools for ensuring
public safety” but currently the FAA
doesn’t have enough inspectors, the
report said.
The OTA is a nonpartisan agency
that helps Congress deal with com
plex and often highly technical is
sues.
Rep. Norman Mineta, D-Calif,
the subcommittee chairman, said the
report’s call for “stable and adequate
funding” for the FAA is among its
most important findings.
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“For the balance of this century,
the FAA’s funding needs will con
tinue to increase if we expect to
maintain the high level of safety
which the public demands of avi
ation,” Mineta said. But he acknowl
edged those funds may be hard to
find “under the enormous deficits
that have piled up in recent years.”
Safety records of U.S. airlines
rank among the best in the world but
the intense changes in the industry
and airline competitionposes safety
concerns, the report said.
Girl escapes on U.S. Navy destroyer
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) —An Ir
ish teen-ager with a history of
running away from home stowed
away on a U.S. Navy guided mis
sile destroyer, and five sailors ac
cused of helping her during 10
days at sea have been arrested, of
ficials said Wednesday.
Police in Ireland identified the
girl as Suzanne Twomey, 15, of
Cork. She was hospitalized in sat
isfactory condition Wednesday
after an illness delayed attempts
to return her to Ireland.
The five sailors accused of
helping her during the USS Con-
yngham’s trip were being held at
the Norfolk Naval Base.
The teen-ager was found
aboard the guided-missile de
stroyer on Saturday when it re
turned from its visit to Ireland.
She was being taken to Atlanta
for a return flit
came ill.
light when she be- ' |
The girl apparently slipped
aboard the Cionyngham while it f |
was on a courtesy call in Cork;
Harbor. The ship held an open 1
house during the visit, officials |
said.
Sematech appoints inventor as leader
WASHINGTON (AP) — Se
matech, a research consortium of
14 semiconductor manufacturers
in partnership with the federal
government, announced the ap
pointment of longtime industry
leader Robert N. Noyce as chief
executive officer.
Noyce, once called “the Mayor
of Silicon Valley,” is a co-inventor
of the integrated circuit, a critical
element in computers and other
electronics. He is also the co
founder of Intel Corp. and its
vice chairman.
Charles E. Sporck, chairmanot
the Sematech board of directors,
also announced the appointment
Paul P. Castrucci, a top technical
executive at International Busi
ness Machines Corp. with 32
years’ experience, as Sematechs
chief operating officer.
Sporck said Sematech’s exec
utive search committee went [
through chose Noyce out of!
names.
Newlyweds disappear for 3 months
CHICAGO (AP) — A pair of
missing newlyweds have turned
up in California, police said
Wednesday, 3 months after the
couple dropped out of sight with
out a word to relatives or class
mates at a suburban Christian col
lege.
Carolyn MacLean, 22, and
Scott Swanson, 23, had eloped a
week before they vanished April
2. Their ransacked luxury car was
found in an alley, its motor still
running.
The couple were not seen or
heard from until they sent letters i
to their parents and contacted the
MacLeans by telephone Tuesday,
Commander Ettore DiVitoofthe
police department’s youth divi
sion said Wednesday.
DiVito refused to provide de
tails about the condition or ‘
whereabouts of the couple excepi
to say they had called from the
San Diego area.
“As far as I know, there is no
criminal activity involved in the
case,” said DiVito.