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’88 Model Closeouts! Quantities Limited-Hurry While Supplies Last! Page 4 The Battalion Monday, January 30,1989 Bicycles Specialized Hardrock ATB reg $379 95 NOW $324 95 Specialized Rockhopper ATB reg $449 95 NOW$399 95 Raleigh Aluminum Flashpoint reg $359 95 NOW$319 95 Schwinn World 10-speed reg $217 95 NOW$199 95 Accessories Vetta Cycle Computer reg $34 95 NOW$19 95 Cannondale Mesh Back Leather gloves reg $19 95 pr NOW $9 95 pr Summit U Lock extra long w/ carrying bracket $27 95 Come in for AGGIELAND SCHWINN! me- other specials! TAMU Texas 17071 l.^ Your information station for upcoming rides & events Not valid with other offers SI A S. 809 S. Texas Ave 696-9490, ACCOM mm @©orir ®im iniFir ©m mi Price Waterhouse will be on campus MONDAY AND TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6 AND 7 to interview junior accounting majors for participation in our summer internship program, leadership conferences, audit training classes, and other summer events. Please arrange to interview with us through your placement office, located on the 10th floor of Rudder Tower. For further information, please contact: Nancy S. Maurice 1700 Pacific Avenue Suite 1400 Dallas, Texas 75201 (214) 754-7918 Mark E. Day 1201 Louisiana Suite 2900 Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 654-4100 Price Waterhouse Expect More From Us Equal Opportunity Employer Houston-based Arm plan to make history in space Company expects to launch commercial rockei HOUSTON (AP) — A local company expects to be come the first privately funded firm to launch a com mercial rocket into space for a paying customer. The customer of Space Services Inc. will be the Uni versity of Alabama-Huntsville’s Consortium for Materi als Development in Space. The tab for lofting 625 pounds worth of science experiment materials on a 15- minute, 200-mile high dip into space in March is $1 mil lion. The cost can be considered a bargain, since it will cost Space Services about $1.2 million to buy the compo nents of the two-stage, solid-fuel rocket and assemble them into a package. But Space Services needs the business, because so fai there’s been no business for fledgling private enterprise launch companies. Now that a first shot has come its way, SpaceSei has no plans to run off future business with I handed prices. The company, headed by former Mercury astti Donald K. “Deke” Slayton, thought business won lively in 1985, when it announced plans to begintf, of private space ventures by launching human into orbit on behalf of a Florida funeral home ! plans have gone belly up. The March launch involves a suborbital, or sous rocket. The purpose of the flight is to delivt materials processing experiments to about seven utes worth of microgravity near the apogee, or hi; point, of the trajectory. A&M Regents select Prairie View dean to fill academic affairs post UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE Dr. Milton R. Bryant, dean of busi ness at Prairie View A&M University, has been promoted to the post of vice president for academic affairs of the Texas A&M University System. Texas A&M regents confirmed Bryant for the position on the recommendation of Prairie View A&M president, Percy A. Pierre. “We believe the strengths that Dr. Bryant will bring to the academic pro gram are those most needed to make our educatonal programs competitive with leading edge trends in the field of edu- caion,” Pierre said. Bryant, a former faculty member and administrator at the Air Force Academy, has been dean of Prairie View A&M’s business school since 1985. He has a bachelor’s and master’s de gree from Florida Southern College and a master’s and Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M. Prior to going to Prairie View A&M, Bryant was chairman of computer infor mation and administrative services for seven years at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. Bryant, 53, is a member of the gov ernmental relations committee of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, and in 1987 was appointed to the Texas Basic Skills Council formed by the Texas Higher Ed ucation Coordinating Board. In Advance A&M will host nuclear engineering seminar Nuclear engineers from nine countries will attend the First RELAP International User Seminar Tues day through Thursday in room 302 Rudder Tower. The seminar, coordinated by Dr. Yassin Hassan, associate professor of nuclear engineering, in conjunction with the Idaho National Engi neering Lab, will focus on RELAP, a thermal hydraulic code for the anal ysis of nuclear reactors and the. safety and performance of nuclear power plants. “Since the Chernobyl incident,” Hassan said, “interest in the analysis of nuclear plants and their perfor mance and safety has increased, and those involved with nuclear power have realized the advantage of global perticipation.” Dr. Brian Sharon, director of the research division of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commis sion, will get the seminar underway Tuesday at 9 a.m. Congressman Joe Barton will ad dress the issue of nuclear energy in the U.S. from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at a dinner banquet in the Clayton Wil liams Alumni Center. Cuba (Continued from page 1) pledge not to invade Cuba. At a news conference wrapping up the conference Sunday, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Mc Namara said the figures on Cuba’s war readiness and casualty estimate were provided by Jorge Risquet, a member of Cuba's ruling Politburo. “They say they had armed 270,000 men,” McNamara told re porters. “They were determined to Fight to the death of every man. and they believed there would lie 100,000 Cuban and Soviet casual ties,” Other American officials said pri vately the Cubans had said the cas ualty count could have reached 800,000. Cuba’s population at the time was 8 million. McNamara said that of the troops. 40,000 were Soviet, four times higher than U.S. intelligence esti mates at the time. Risquet cited the figures to show his country seriously believed that a U.S. invasion of his island was immi nent. McNamara said no such inva sion ever was contemplated, but speaking of the Cubans, he added, “If I had been in their shoes, I would have believed the same thing.” American officials have said thev were never sure whether any Soviet nuclear warheads actually had reached Cuba but that they assumed they had. Col. Gen. Dmitri A. Volkogonov, director of the Defense Ministry’s Institute of Military History, said that at the time of the crisis 20 Soviet nuclear warheads were in Cuba. An other 20 warheads were headed to the island aboard a Soviet ship. Plan would place limits on donation HOUSTON (AP) — Gov Clements — the state’s all-ti champion political spender- dorses a proposal to place precedented limits on cqntrilc lions to candidates. The proposal, to be airs Wednesday at a meeting ofClei ents’ task force on campaign nance reform, would prohibii dividuals from contributing men than $25,()()() a year to any comb nation of candidates, officeholii ers or policital action committ* the Houston Post reported Sun day. Texas now has no limit onini vidual contributions, so thepr- posed limit woidd force dramau changes in fund-raising practice Several political operatives est mated that more than 200Te ans each spread around mo than $100,()()() a year in polilia contributions. The proposed $25,1 would apply only to state race Congress regulates federal race Also in a draft of recommere tions by task force staff membci is a proposed $ 10,000 limitontl amount a PAC can give an ini vidual candidate per year. Hie is no limit now. In addition, the draft recoi mends ending the ban on cot porate and labor group contril* tions to candidates. Ten stale prohibit labor contributions,air corporate giving is outlawed in states. Clements, who has spent moi than $30 million on three natorial races, told the Postk optimistic a “meaningful" nun her of reform measures wi legislative approval this year “I can’t say everything intbfl is going to pass, but 1 do there will be a serious effort act much of it probably will,” Cb ents said. But critics of the task forcean lining up. Much of the criticism focuse on Clements’ decision to appok Secretary of State Jack Rains- former major contributor to publican campaigns who has sail he is 95 percent certain he run for governor in 1990 - task force chairman. “This is all just a bunch a p cal bull,” Houston attorney Jamail said. Jamail is among the most erous of Texas political contrb tors. He estimated he gave than $300,000 to candidate PACs and political causes in Warped by Scott McCull Oh, !>'• ^os[\ o-lI 1 ...i-P you'll hoW on a. are. early. X wees jctsLI second ill jive you COminj tacK -prowl a. a. <^uicK movie ALLEV, HOLD 0//. 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