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SATANIC MUSLIMS’ CRITIQUE speaker MR. NAMED GHAZALI MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION CENTRAL ZONE REPRESENTATIVE 7=30 PM THURSDAY 30th MAR 89 RUDDER TOWER ROOM 701 CHECK IT OUT AGGIES!! Looking for housing? Auto sales or service? A good place to eat? Need eye care? Laundry & cleaning? A good bank or a loan? A temporary job? Office supplies? Copying work? Home computer? Telephone service? Stable for your horse? Child care? Motel room for your parents? Weight loss program? Bakery products? Affordable furniture? Tee shirts or signs? School for children? Newspaper delivery? or a good church for Sunday worship? CHECK OUT THE LOCAL ADVERTISING IN THE BACK OF YOUR CLASS SCHEDULE DIRECTORY!! You'll find Coupons, Student Specials and Discounts. Tell the local advertisers you saw their ad in the Class Schedule Directory. 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Dr. Clement Henry, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas and specialist in Middle Eastern affairs, will speak about U.S. policy in the Middle East at 7 tonight in 701 Rudder. Ambassador William Craw ford, former ambassador to Ye men Arab Republic and Cyprus, will talk about Islam: Culture and Religion Wednesday at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC. Steve Gutow, a Dallas Jewish community leader and former di rector of the southwest region of the American Israel Public Af fairs Committee, will give the fi nal lecture in the background se ries April 5 at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC. Gutow will speak about Jewish ethics and their impact on Ameri can Jews and the government ol Israel. The talks are free and are par tially sponsored by the Middle East Institution, a non-partisan educational organization based in Washington, D.C., to promote knowledge of Islam. The Program Symposia, April 12 at 8 p.m. in Rudder Audito rium, will include United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perezde Cuellar; Admiral Stansfield Turner, former CIA director for the Carter administration; and Robert McFarlane, national secu rity adviser for the Reagan ad ministration. Ed Bradley of CBS' “60 Minutes” will moderate. Tickets are $6, $8 and SlOfor students and $8, $10 and $12 for non-students and are available at the MSC box office. Before the panel discussion on April 5, de Cuellar, Turner and McFarlane will present individual seminars. Those interested in at tending may pick up an applica tion in the Student Programs Of fice. Aggies promote Muster Awareness Week By Juliette Rizzo STAFF WRITER As part of Muster Awareness Week, which continues through Friday, Muster committee mem bers, at a table in the Memorial Student Center, will distribute “Pass It On” cards to promote and publicize the tradition. The holder of the card signs the back of it and passes it on to a friend who continues the process. Muster committee members also will be available to provide infor mation about Muster, answer any questions and spread the word. Muster is a time-honored cere mony that allows Aggies to gather and remember fellow comrades who have passed away. Ann Doan-Do, Muster public relations committee co-chairman. said it is the committee’s goal to make all Aggies understand and he aware of the tradition, so that the image of Muster 1989 will live long past the actual ceremony. “We want to stress the sol emnity and significance of Mus ter, especially to freshmen,” she said. She said that in order to prove that Muster is indeed A&M’s most sacred tradition, everyone needs to he able to feel and ex press the emotion involved with the tradition. A history of Muster is available at the table in the MSC andavi- deotape of last year’s ceremony will he shown. Aggie coins also will be on sale this week. “We want the image of Muster 1989 to live long past the actual ceremony,” Doan-Do said. Austin community protests expansion of Baptist church AUSTIN (AP) — While the pre acher preached and children fid geted on a recent Sunday, home- owners disguised in church-going attire tucked fliers on the wind shields of cars belonging to Hyde Park Baptist Church worshipers. “How Would You Feel?” the mes sages asked, to find “your ‘neighbor hood church’ had taken out demoli tion permits on most of the houses on your block?” Not far behind, church messen gers followed, picking up the fliers. The melodrama in historic Hyde Park has continued for more than a decade. As the church has expanded and chomped into the neighbor hood’s core, homeowners have grown increasingly antagonistic to ward the Baptists. On one side is the city’s largest Christian congregation — 10,000 members, a church with the re sources to do God’s work on a grand scale. On the other side are the home- owners. They love their old houses and love life in the central city, but they don’t have much love left in their hearts for “that church,” as they call it. It’s God’s house against all the others. The Hyde Park neighborhood was born before the turn of the cen tury. Then, the neighborhood and church were growing up together, as allies. By the 1960s, however, Hyde Park was on a skid. Homes were de teriorating, and the growing Univer sity of Texas to the south brought in renters. Character was replaced by characters — such as hippies. Fam- iles moved to the suburbs, but re turned on Sundays for church. In the 1970s, there was a renewed interest in Hyde Park’s unique homes. People began moving back to the central city, renovating and showing off the properties with an nual spring home tours. Hyde Park Baptist Church, under the lead ership of the Rev. Ralph Smith, be gan to prosper. The bickering began. At their simplest, squabbles have been about parking. Every Sunday is Easter Sunday in Hyde Park, with a parade of churchgoers parking burnper-to-bumper for blocks. “It’s like an automotive equivalent of a blood clot,” homeowner Grant Thomas told the Austin American- Statesman. “Frankly, we feel like a lot of it is anti-church sentiment,” Smith said. “I have prayed so often. It’s gotten to the point of not knowing what to do.” An entire block is taken up with the church’s educational buildings, administrative offices and two sanc tuaries. Another block is reserved for parking, including a multi-level garage. Nearby are two playgrounds and senior-citizens center. Church programs include ihox for international students, food lot the needy, family counseling, ami daily hospital visits. It has a sdm> for kindergarten through M grade. “Because God has blessed th work, the church has grown,' church business coordinator Dat Gardner told the newspaper. Bt do not apologize for this growth." Impregnation techniques fail with Dallas ape DALLAS (AP) — Jenny, a 31- year-old lowland gorilla, has failed a home pregnancy test and conventional test after attempts to impregnate her through artifi cial reproduction techniques. If she had become pregnant, Jenny would have been the first gorilla to conceive with the help of “test tube” fertilization or sur rogate parenting techniques de veloped for use in humans. “I’m so bummed out about it," Naida Loskutoff, a research asso ciate for the zoo and Texas A&M University, said Tuesday. Jenny, a Dallas Zoo gorilla, has not been able to conceive natu rally since she first gave bird) when she was in her teens. Her sole offspring reached adulthood but died before reproducing. A month ago, Loskutoff and a team that included a human in fertility specialist and veterinar ians tried two approaches to im pregnate Jenny. The attempt was their fifth —and their second with Jenny — to achieve a preg nancy in a gorilla with artificial reproduction techniques. After Jenny had been given a fertility drug for five days, doc tors removed one of her eggs, added sperm from one of the zoo’s male gorillas, OmBom, and deposited the mixture into one of her Fallopian tubes. Into Jenny’s other Fallopian tube, they placed an egg that had been fertilized in a laboratory dish and frozen two months ear lier. That egg had been removed from the zoo’s other female, Demba, and fertilized with sperm from the zoo’s other male, Fubo. Loskutoff said she and her col leagues aren’t sure why Jenny didn’t become pregnant.