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Page 1 OAThe Battalion/Monday, September 5, 1988 o MSC Political Forum WHAT A TIME TO GET INVOLVED p loin Political Forum for our first General Committee Meeting Wednesday, September 7 Rudder 701 7:00 pm ^Tr V Is this you at test time? 1 Cramming won’t help. Associated Reading Centers can double your reading rate in one hour. Benefits include: ►improved comprehension ►increased retention ►study & test taking skills ►more leisure time ►higher grades Wed. Sept. 6orThurs. Sept. 7 4-5 p.m. or 8-9 p.m. (both days) College Station Community Center 1300 Jersey (across from golf course) for info call: 696-3786 (713)690-5343 V. Whitener, MA Roy’s Ridge Crest Barber Shop (located next to Victors Books on Texas Ave.) Introducing our Corps Special All Corps haircuts only $5 00 so drive a little, save a lot Come see Roy, Don, Cecilie, John Open Mon.-Sat. 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 846-8949 Welcome Back! Jewish Students from Hillel Foundation, Jewish Student Center Pizza-Ice Cream /Vollyball Bash 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tues. September 9 Please stop by or call with your new address. 696-7313 Office 800 Jersey 764-8402 Rabbi Peter Tarlow Spark Some Interest! (Jse the Battalion Classifieds. Call 845-2611 World and Nation F 3-day blackout ends in Seattle SEATTLE (AP) — Electricity flowed downtown again Sunday af ter a three-day blackout that hi ed el evators in high-rises, thawed frozen food and shut down air conditioners during one of the hottest weeks in Seattle history. Power was finally restored to much of the 50-block area Saturday night, but Seattle City Light asked customers to conserve power and not turn on air conditioners until two more fire-damaged cables could be repaired. Three days without eectricity had taken their toll. “Too many problem, too many problems,” Dae W. Kim said as he slowly began turning on the dozen coolers in his grocery and deli. “I’ve got a headache.” About half the biacked-out area’s customers began receiving power via four repaired feeder cables at 6:47 p.m. Saturday. More customers were hooked up overnight. A fifth cable was expected to be fixed by Sunday evening, with the fi nal cable repaired Monday, said Hugh McIntosh, spokesman for the city-owned utility. Until then, many buildings will have only partial power, since they receive electricity from a combina tion of the cables, he said. At the twin towers of the 875- room Westin Hotel, for example, full service was restored to the south tower early Sunday, while the north tower remained on a generator, rented for $6,200 a week, marketing director Dell Schooly said. The six cables were destroyed Wednesday by an unexplained un derground fire. City Light Superintendent Ran dall Hardy said the fire apparently started in the City Light cables, in which power should have been cut off by automatic current limiters that act when a cable gets hot. Electricity also continued to flow through a nearby Metro transit ca ble, powering electric trolleys, and that may have made the fire worse, he said. When the power restoration be gan, patrols roamed the area make sure no fires were triggered equipment left switched on when: outage began. “It went very smoothly. I have reports of problems other thanii sprinkler in the Battery Streeti nel,” which apparently began wj ting clown the tunnel when it i tripped by the power surge, Md tosh said. “We called the fire departir and told them it was their problem Air conditioning was lostasi peratures soared to a Septembers cord of 98 degrees Eriday andtcl record for the date of 92 on Sat. day. Sunday dawned with a cooliJ and a forecast high of only 80 to8i] Soviet cargo plane burns No. 2 engine in show, none hurt FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — A massive Soviet cargo plane aborted takeoff Sunday when flames shot from an engine 100 yards from spectators as Europe’s top aviation event opened under the shadow of last week’s West German air show di saster. Soon after a Soviet MiG-29 fighter thrilled the crowd at the Farnbo- rough Air Show with precision ma neuvers!, a blue-and-white Antonov- 124, the world’s heaviest aircraft, be gan its takeoff. About 10,000 spectators stood by as a 20-foot sheet of flame shot out of the No. 2 engine. spoke on condition of anonymity, did not immediately give the cause of the mishap. The Antonov, 227 feet long with a wingspan of 240 feet and a cargo bay 21 feet wide, was to have given daily demonstrations during the week- long Farnborough show, Europe’s main aviation showcase. Organizers stressed that Farnbo- rough’s safety regulations were stringent. A pilot cut the other engines and halted the nearly 450-ton aircraft of the Soviet Aeroflot state airline. No one was injured. An official of the Soviet dele gation at Farnborough said the An tonov-124 will fly again before the end of the week. The official, who Their comments came after the. Aug. 28 disaster at the U.S. Air Force base at Ramstein, West Ger many. Three Italian jets collided during an aerobatics display at a Ramstein air show, and one of the crashing aircrafts hurtled in flames into the spectators, killing 51 and in juring more than 300. On Sunday, two MiGs, the first advanced Soviet combat aircraft to take part in a Western display, took star billing. Young families face depressed economy WASHINGTON (AP) — The benefits of an improved U.S. econ omy have bypassed young American families, who face an era of vanish ing dreams, according to a new study by the Children’s Defense Fund. “America’s young families are af flicted by an economic depression in the middle of our society’s more general prosperity,” fund president Marian Wright Edelman said in a statement. “The question is not whether the economic glass for America’s fami lies is half empty or half full but rather, older families have a glass that is mostly full; the glass younger families hold is mostly empty,” Edel man said. In terms of constant dollars, the income of families with children, headed by an adult under age 30, fell by about one-fourth between 1973 and 1986, the study said. As a result the poverty rate for such families narly doubled, rising from 12 percent in 1973 to 22 per cent in 1986, the study said. New Census Bureau figures for 1987 were released last week and, while not identical to the Children’s Defense Fund figures, they do tend to support that group’s contentions. The Census Bureau found that the 1987 poverty rate for children — ages 18 and under — was 20.0 per cent, up from 14.2 percent in 1973. And younger families tended to have higher poverty rates than older ones, the Census figures showed. Poverty rates for children, whether black, white or Hispanic, rose between 1973 and 1987, the fig ures showed. “Our children and our young families are this nation’s growing edge because we neglect them at our peril,” Edelman said. “These are the children on whom we must rely to be the workers, lead ers, parents, taxpayers, soldiers and hope of the 21st century. We are get ting them off to the worst possible start.” In the short term, the group called for passage of an increase in the minimum wage and the Act for Better Child Care to improve serv ices for working parents. World briefs $54 million won in Florida jackpot MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — There’s a new multimillionaire somewhere out there, as only one Lotto ticket held the six numbers needed to win America’s richest- ever lottery jackpot of $54 mil lion, officials said Sunday. The winning $1 ticket for Sat urday night’s drawing was pur chased in Longwood, in central Florida, Lottery Secretary Re becca Paul said. She declined to name the store until the winner steps forward. The new millionaire — or mil lionaires, if several persons shared the ticket — has 180 days to claim the prize, which will be doled out over 20 years. The ear liest the prize can l)e claimed is Tuesday, after the I-abor Dai holiday. The previous national record jackpot, $51.4 million, was split by two California lottery players in June. Ro ent Pai Inn Officials had estimated Satur day’s jackpot at $52 million, but the last-minute frenzy of sales that sometimes topped 850 a sec ond raised the total. Saturday sales totaled 14.6 mil lion tickets, and total weekly pur chases were 44.78 million by the 1 1 p.m. drawing. Former officer surrenders hostage ST. LOUIS (AP) — An ex-j>o- liceman convicted in a pension fund scandal surrendered Sun day, 25 hours after taking the man who exposed the scam hos tage on the 15th floor of an office building, police said. Anthony D. Daniele, armed with an unidentified weapon, re leased John Frank, vice president of the city police board, early Sunday and gave up 10 hours later. A day before the standoff, Daniele was sentenced to eight years in prison. Daniele, 39, who was once a member of the Police Depart ment’s hostage-response team, was with his attorney when be surrendered, authorities said. Ht was taken to police headquarters A hostage-response team and dozens of officers who had sur rounded the building had nego tiated w ith Daniele, police spokes man Linda Hancock, said. Daniele’s attorney, Donald Wolf, told radio station KM0X that Daniele gave up after an agreement was reached not to file any further charges against him Hancock said she could not com ment on that statement. Yugoslavians protest harassment ast anc wit! ing ne> inf I by anc 57, the din pie hoi tior the doc bee 1 fire het hel pla the BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — About 70,000 Serbs and Mon tenegrins staged their largest rally so far to demand arms and protest alleged harassment by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo prov ince. Saturday’s rally was in Smede- revo, an industrial town about 25 miles downstream the Danube from Belgrade. About 20,000 Serbs have migrated to Smedc- revo from Kosovo since World War II. Tensions recently have in creased in Kosovo over allega tions by non-Albanian citizens that they are being persecuted and forced to leave Yugoslavia's least developed region by the Al banians, who make up 90 percent of the population. 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