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Wednesday, November 30,1988 The Battalion Page 7 :ott McCi winThom wley/ iT'a ATERNITY 5CAVEN©' NT 1 THI5 ONE WW 'PLAYTEX" GIRDLE 1 i 1 > / - lu» ^her >rder I exas populalioD. pulation, 89 pera ii urban counties, r population earn' * in the state, wit of Commerce f in 1986, the per exas was SI3,486 18,422 for the •or Departmentfi( 1987 unempbi ii tier hit a high rr County. affic order , a customs broker lie has noticed a rdii g time. ; going to be realp jecause this is the here where you dedicated to oner said. Hidalgo bridge, cal McAllen Internal® ■ U.S. side and Rew icico side, is the mpleted across thel year. 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They ref® ais appeal twice win in state co® ted the issue in he again lost in d® ay Nowlin, d sued Mauzy anil egedly violating atribution and exf ! vs. That case was Howell asked the . tea review the World/Nation U.N. votes to ask U.S. officials to grant PLO leader Arafat visa UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The General Assembly’s legal committee voted 121-2 Tuesday night to ask the State Department to grant PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat a U.S. visa. Only the United States and Israel were oppeased. It was an indication of how lop sided the vote is likely tea be Wednes day when the 159-member General Assembly takes up the Arab-spon sored resolution deploring U.S. de nial of a visa to Arafat so he can ad dress the assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York. In denying the visa on Saturday, the State Department said Arafat had condoned acts of terrorism com mitted by the Palestine Liberation Organization. On Tuesday it said its rejection was final. All U.N. member nations are rep resented on the legal committee, but not all were present for the vote Tuesday night. U.N. officials, meanwhile, began calculating the cost of the unprece- lented step of moving the General Assembly to Geneva to hear Arafat speak on the Palestinian problem and Middle East issues. One source suggested it could run around $150,000. Arab diplomats, speaking on con dition of anonymity, said they have enough votes to reconvene the Gen eral Assembly in Geneva. They said the session probably would be in the week of Dec. 12-16, with Dec. 13-14 the likely dates. Most nations were expected to as sign their Geneva ambassadors to the session and nations would bear the cost of their own travel, diplo mats said. The General Assembly on Tues day delayed its annual debate on the Palestinian problem, originally scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Dec. 6, to permit arrangements for Arafat to speak elsewhere. The U.S. rejection of a visa set off an international uproar and de mands that Arafat be allowed to speak. If U.S. authorities reject the reso lution to reconsider, as is expected, the next step will be a second resolu tion later this week seeking to move the assembly to Geneva, the diplo mats said. Backstage deliberations spon sored by the British failed to remove harsh language from the first resolu tion. It says America is in “violation” of the host country agreement and “deplores” the failure to grant Ar afat a visa. Under the 1947 U.S.-U.N. Head quarters Agreement, the United States pledges not to impede the travel or work of U.N. diplomats or guests. The PLO holds non-voting observer status at the United Na tions and is an honored invitee. mate representative of the Palestin ian people and is invited to speak in all such debates. In Washington, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the strong op position to his decision to bar Arafat shows that people are forgetting what a threat international terrorism Itjs considered the sole, legiti- is. Two dead, one wounded in bagel restaurant shooting ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two men are dead and a woman was in critical condition Tuesday after a shooting at a bagel restaurant in Al buquerque’s Northeast Heights, po lice said. Albuquerque Police Sgt. Ruth Lowe said a man walked into the Ba gel Lovers restaurant about 9 a.m. and opened fire, shooting a couple in the shop and a man behind the counter. All three were shot in the head, police said. Lowe said one man, identified as Richard Wilt, 39, of Albuquerque, Pentagon says B-1B crash does not show ice as factor WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force does not believe a buildup of ice on the wings caused the Nov. 17 boti crash of a B-1 B bomber in South Da- fid kota and sees no need to consider the addition of wing de-icing equip- olji ment to the long-range bombers, of ficials said Tuesday. Pentagon spokesman Fred Hof fman said, “We do not have any evi dence that icing was a contributor to the B-1B crash at Ellsworth (Air Force Base). “Wing icing was not considered a potential problem when designing the aircraft and there never has been any operational evidence that wing icing is a problem,” he;said. Lt. Col. Rick Oborn, an Air Force officer and Pentagon spokesman, said, “We have no plans to study the addition of de-icing equipment. That hasn’t even been considered.” The spokesmen were responding to continuing questions prompted by a published report last week that the B-1B may have been downed by ex- scok cessive ice on its wings. The Air Force previously had downplayed that report by the Chi cago Tribune, but Hoffman’s statement Tuesday was the most cat egorical to date. In a related development, Hof fman said the Air Force would look into allegations by some Rockwell International Corp. employees that flawed parts might have been used in building the B-1 B bombers. “But the Air Force does not have any evidence at this time, which cor roborates the assertions by former Rockwell employees that substan dard parts were used in the con struction of B- Is,” Hoffman said. “However, the Air Force is investi gating or is looking into these allega tions.” A copyright report Monday by WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, noted workers as saying substan- ard parts disappeared after being rejected by plant inspectors. The employees said they believe those parts subsequently were used in building the bombers to meet pro duction schedules. The $280 million B-1B, like many types of military aircraft, does not have any built-in de-icing equipment for its wings. It does, however, carry an anti-ic ing system for its four engines and an ice detection system for the wings. Pentagon officials, speaking on condition they not be named, said Tuesday the ice detection system on the plane that crashed at Ellsworth did not indicate the bomber had ex perienced a dangerous build-up of ice. “There was some icing,” one source said. “There was ice on the wings of another B-1B that landed just before this one. But it wasn’t a problem.” Another official agreed: “There is no indication at all of a problem hav ing occurred with icing that would eventually lead to an accident.” Capt. Jay DeFrank, an Air Force spokesman, said the rationale for leaving de-icing equipment off the B-IB was simple. “The B-1B can fly at such high speeds at low altitude that it nor mally melts what would build up on (the wings,)” he said. “And if you know you’re facing ic ing conditions, you normally fly to another base or move to a different altitude. “The plane has an ice detection system for the wings.” The Pentagon sources insisted the problem of icing had been consid ered adequately in the design of the B-1B. The plane’s General Electric Co. engines, in particular, were built to survive the ingestion of ice and keep flying, one source said. And the wings, which can be swept forward and backward into different positions, were tested ex tensively in wind tunnels, the source said. The B-1B that crashed Nov. 17 was practicing instrument landing approaches. It was attempting to land shortly after another B-1B made a success ful approach and for reasons un known, came in too low and clipped a utility pole and power lines. The four crewmen survived after successfully ejecting from the plane. “What we still don’t know conclu-! sively is what caused what,” one Air) Force official, commenting on the| service’s investigation, said. was dead at the scene. The other, identified as Joseph Famiglietta Sr., 62, of Rio Rancho, died at University of New Mexico Hospital at 10:27 a.m., hospital spokesman Bob Hlady said. Wilt’s wife, Jean, was in critical condition at the hospital, Hlady said. Officers said two other people in side the shop were not injured and no money was taken. Police were looking for a white male in his early 30s, about 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-8 and clean-shaven. They said the man was wearing a ski mask. Lowe said a witness told police the gunman paced back and forth in front of the restaurant before he went in. Witnesses told police that when the man entered the shop he pulled out a gun and shot Famiglietta and Mrs. Wilt. Rick Wilt ran to help them and also was shot, police said. The man fled and Wilt staggered outside the shop behind him before collapsing on the sidewalk, officers said. Albert Chavez, manager of a neighboring office supply store, said one of his employees stumbled on the scene shortly after the shootings and thought Wilt had injured him self. “But when I saw him I knew something more had happened and I set off our alarm,” Chavez said. Walt and Famiglietta, who was Mrs. Wilt’s father, were co-owners of the shop. Both families had moved to Albuquerque from New York about a year ago, said Jim Moore, who owns another neighboring shop. Forecast doesn’t stall Atlantis countdown CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA forged ahead Tuesday with the countdown for the secret mission of space shuttle Atlantis de spite a forecast for unacceptably high wind at launch time. The forecast, which also con tained clouds and isolated showers, was examined closely by shuttle managers as they met to decide whether to launch Atlantis on Thursday on a flight carrying five astronauts and a spy satellite. “All countdown activities are on schedule,” the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a five-paragraph statusjreport. Democrats elect Mitchell Senate majority leader WASHINGTON (AP) — George Mitchell of Maine was elected Senate majority leader on Tuesday by Dem ocrats seeking a forceful new spokes man during yet another Republican reign at the White House, and he quickly promised George Bush his initiatives will be met with “interest and enthusiasm.” the next said. administration,” Mitchell Mitchell, who was just elected to his second term in the Senate, has a liberal voting record but promised “to work with all the Democrats in developing a broad agenda.” That statement and the manage ment team’s decision were the only announcements expected from the usually open space agency. Air Force rules prevented the civilian agency from holding its usual pre-launch briefings. The Air Force has said only that the launch is scheduled for Thurs day between 6:32 a.m. and 9:32 a.m. EST. The precise time will be dis closed just nine minutes before lift off. The big countdown clocks at the site were kept blank. 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PHONE: 845-0544. Once they have released the satel lite, dropping it overboard using the shuttle’s robot crane, Atlantis will hover nearby to make sure every thing works. If it doesn’t, the astro nauts will retrieve the Lacrosse and bring it back to Earth. NASA said there was a 70 percent probability that the weather will be below the strict limits laid down since the Challenger explosion Jan. 28, 1986, that claimed seven lives. Those rules include winds of less than 19 mph from the south or 28 mph from any direction, no rain at the pad or in the flight path and no thunderstorms within five miles. The forecast was for winds of 15 to 28 mph, three layers of clouds and isolated showers. The flight will be the third shuttle mission dedicated to the military and the second flight since the Chal lenger disaster. No details will be re leased during the flight unless some- thing goes wrong with the spacecraft. The other all-military flights were in 1985. The crew will be Navy Cmdr. Robert L. 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New Mexican president must deal with poor economy, opposition Mitchell received congratulatory calls from Bush and Vice President elect Dan Quayle, as well as Presi dent Reagan. “The Democrats await with inter est and enthusiasm the proposals of MEXICO CITY (AP) — Carlos Salinas de Gortari has proved himself tough and flexible, necessary qual ities for dealing with the economic crisis and growing political opposition he will face after becoming presi- dent on Tnursday. He is an economist with no experience in elective of fice, and at 40 will be Mexico’s youngest president in half a century. That may be fitting, since more than half the nation’s 84 million people are under 16. Salinas also has a disadvantage none of his predeces sors has experienced: serious division within the Insti tutional Revolutionary Party, which is known by its Spanish initials PRI and has governed Mexico since 1929. In addition to being the youngest president in de cades, Salinas also is one of the best educated. He has two master’s degrees and a doctorate in pub lic administration, all troin Harvard, and speaks tluem English and French. Salinas is known as a demanding boss who expects things to run on time — what Mexicans call “American time” rather than the less precise “Mexican time.” Salinas won narrowly in an election July 6 that was tainted by charges of fraud. The PRI won only 260 seats in the 500-seat Chamber of Deputies, compared with its customary 70 percent or more. Political analysts say the results last election’s results indicate people are weary of the PRTs high-handed ways and want a change. In speeches and interviews, Salinas has said he will “modernize” Mexico, paring down the bureaucracy, getting rid of state-owned companies that lose money, fighting corruption, balancing the budget, reducing in flation, forcing export industries to become more effi cient and reforming the PRI. Department of Speech Communication & Theatre Arts Texas A&M University Present A PROVOCATIVE MUSICAL REVUE The Colored Museum, a from-the-inside-out satire of Black history and cultural stereotypes, features performers from Dallas' Theatre Three’s critically acclaimed production under the direction of TAMU's own Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Charles Gordone. December 2, and 3 8PM December 4 2 PM Rudder Forum Texas A&M University General Public $7.50 Students $5.00 Tickets available at the Rudder Box Office For reservations phone 845-1234 Underwritten, in part, by the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, TAMU Department of English, and MSC OPAS and Black Awareness Committees. Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. Committed to a New American Theatre realized through Cross-Cultural Casting (