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Yet such restrictions are typical of a new breed of alternative dental plan popping up around the country. These programs go by different names and impose different limits. But they all share one thing in common: the focus is on money, not health. Remember this: No plan that restricts your family's access to the dental care they need is likely to be in your best interest. Something to consider before you surrender your freedom of choice. A MESSAGE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST FROM: James Arents, D.D.S. Karen Arents, D.D.S. William Birdwell, D.D.S. Russell Bradley, Jr. D.D.S. John Case, D.D.S. Thomas Davis, D.D.S. Ronald Dusek, D.D.S. Charles Ernst, D.D.S. Curtis Garrett, D.D.S. Charles Gray, D.D.S. Robert Hall, D.D.S. Manta Kennedy, D.D.S. Sigurd Kendall, D.D.S. Tom King, D.D.S. Cynthia Langley, D.D.S. Dan Lawson, D.D.S. Stanley Maliska, D.D.S. Scott Makins, D.D.S. Donald McLeroy, D.D.S. Richard Mogle, D.D.S. Stephen O'Neal, D.D.S. Brian Payne, D.D.S. Gordon Pratt, Sr., D.D.S. Gordon Pratt, Jr., D.D.S. Michael Reece, D.D.S. Michael Riggs, D.D.S. Dickie Rychestsky, D.D.S. John Steck, D.D.S. Oren Swearingen, Jr., D.D.S. Steve Ursa, D.D.S. Tracey Varvel, D.D.S. Herbert Wade, D.D.S. Garland Watson, D.D.S. Robert White, D.D.S. William Wiley, D.D.S. Richard Williamson, D.D.S. James Wilson, D.D.S. Grant Wolfe, D.D.S. Page 6 The Battalion Wednesday, June 14,1989 Reagan says U.S. should risk trusting Gorbachev LONDON (AP) — Ronald Reagan said Tuesday that Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is possibly his country’s only hope for change, and “we should take the risk” of believing he is serious about arms control. Of China, the former president said, “The Chinese government hasn’t learned something very elementary: you can’t massacre an idea. You cannot run tanks over hope.” Reagan was addressing The English Speaking Union I believe we should take the risk that the Soviets are serious in their efforts to reach genuine arms reductions with the West.” — Ronald Reagan in the Guildhall, the 1,000-year-old seat of London city government, where he spoke as president 13 months ago and where Gorbachev gave a speech in April. Reagan, on his first visit to Britain since leaving the White House, mixed jokes and reminiscences with a sweeping vision of a world where “The Goliath of totali tarian control will rapidly be brought down by the Da vid of the microchip.” “I believe Mikhail Gorbachev realizes these things,” said Reagan. “It is true that the West could stand pat while thisis happening. We are not the ones who must change. Itis not our people who’re isolated from the information that allows them to be creative and productive,” he said “But it is exactly when you are strong and comfort able that you should take risks.” He said, “ I believe we should take the risk that the Soviets are serious in their efforts to reach genuine arms reductions with the West. I support President Bush’s proposal to keep pressure on the Soviets to male good on their calls to reduce arms.” “The biggest of Big Brothers is increasingly helpless against communications technology,” he said. “Information is the oxygen of the modern age.... It seeps through the walls topped with barbed wire.lt wafts across the electrified booby-trapped borders. Breezes of electronic beams blow through the Iron Cur tain as if it was lace.” He said that as long as the Soviets restricted the flott by such measures as banning the unauthorized used photocopiers, the West should go on refusing to sell the Soviets modern computers. “Amazing things are afoot in the world this spring," he said. Poland had held its first semi-free election in li years; Hungary was moving to multiparty democraq, and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov gat in Parliament, Reagan said. to I U.S.S.R., West Germany join to ‘heal wounds’ from division BONN, West Germany (AP) —So viet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and West German Chancellor Hel mut Kohl endorsed a joint strategy Tuesday to “heal the wounds” of Eu ropean division, which their nations helped inflict half a century ago. They assured the world their partnership poses no threat this time, as it did when Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin divided Poland in their 1939 non-aggression pact. Both nations want “a common Eu ropean home in which the United States and Canada have their place” and all nations exist in “peaceful competition with one another,” the joint declaration says. dictators and the destruction of World War II. At least 3,000 people, many wav ing Soviet flags and hand-painted banners with greetings in Russian, welcomed Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, in sunny, cobblestoned Mar ket Square. Chants of “Gorby! Gorby!” arose when he ventured into the crowd to shake hands, as he so often does on visits abroad. Sebastian Schilling, 4, photographers and crowd. front of clteerinj A tidal wave of goodwill toward Gorbachev on the second day of his state visit appeared to wash away fears rooted in the collusion of the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokes man Gennady I. Gerasimov said the crowd “made a strong emotional im pression” on Gorbachev, and “he said he felt as if he were on Red Square among his own people.” On the steps of City Hall, Raisa Gorbachev beckoned a flower-wav ing child. At a state banquet at Augustus burg Castle, Gorbachev declared “Our cooperation can serve as acat- alyst for new relations between tin whole of East and West.” Also on Tuesday, he used a speech at the Cologne stock ex change to outline economic reforms intended to encourage joint ven tures with West German businesses, He appealed for integration of tk economies to make relations “mort quake-resistant.” Texas Lef WASHING! Gingrich, the a man who spar! of Jim Wright, GOP fund-rais major gains” i tions, letters he tributors indicai He wrote fou year, asking tb :ors to put pre ethics commute as well as give n ter, dated the < nounced his r< leaker, sought eclaring the nly corrupt De Gingrich, nor can whip, made peals as gener; PAG, a tax-payi tries to elect Re] islatures and s GOP candidate; The organiz $1.9 million las from 1987, but diately how mu the letters Gin Wright investig; Only days af ethics complain cratic House sj gan sending o Her husband held up Heinrich- Gorbachev’s four-day visit, whit) began Monday, has been markedf a clear desire on both sides lor a tie* start in Soviet-German relationsatif the cooperative pursuit of Europea! unity by historic adversaries. Government reports S&Ls lost $3.4 million in ’89’s first quartei Reagai honora knight WASHINGTON (AP) — The na tion’s beleaguered savings institu tions lost $3.4 billion in the first three months of this year, in sharp contrast with commercial banks which enjoyed record profits of $7.3 billion, the government reported Tuesday. As in the past, Texas S&Ls, suf fering from a depressed regional economy, contributed the bulk of the savings industry’s losses. Texas thrifts lost $2.2 billion, although that was a 38 percent improvement over the same period in 1988. Seventy-three percent of S&Ls na tionally earned a profit — $1.3 bil lion. But that was swamped by $4.7 billion in losses at the 27 percent that lost money. from $6.7 billion in the final three months of last year. The bank board revised its pre viously reported S&L loss total for all of last year, adding $900 million to bring 1988 red ink to a post-De- pression record of $13 billion. James R. Barth, chief economic of the bank board, said heavy Ski- losses would continue until CongrS enacts President Bush’s bailout bill Wreckage of sightseeing plane found on Hawaiian cliffside The Federal Home Loan Bank Board reported that losses by the 2,938 S&Ls worsened from the re vised $3.2 billion in the final three months of 1988. Meanwhile, profits at the 13,001 commercial banks hit a record level for the third straight quarter, up HONOLULU (AP) — The wreck age of a sightseeing airplane that had disappeared with 1 1 people aboard was found Tuesday strewn over a rugged cliffside in a remote valley on Hawaii Island, authorities said. There was no immediate sign of survivors. The crew of a Hawaii County Fire Department helicopter sighted the Scenic Air Tours Hawaii plane above Waipio Valley on the island’s northeast coast, according to Hawaii County Fire Batallion Chief James Higashida. The twin-engine Beechcraft appeared without indication oftro« ble Sunday afternoon during planned hour-long flight fromH Airport on Hawaii to Kahului Af port on Maui. A Marine Corps reconnaissaiB team equipped with mountaineerin! equipment was lowered onto a p teau at the 2,000-foot elevation,W feet above the crash site, and pelled down ropes to the wreckagi Hawaii County Civil Defense spok man Bruce Butts said. Fire extinguished on Soviet oil rig after 3 weeks MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities used water cannons to extinguish a fire that blazed for three weeks on an offshore oil and gas platform in the Caspian Sea, Tass reported Tuesday. The fire began May 26 and af fected six wells on a platform 86 miles off Baku, the capital of the re public of Azerbaijan, the official news agency said. The entire firefighting fleet of Azerbaijan converged on the plat form with portable and stationary water cannons to unleash the jet of water that experts said was needed to put out the fire, according to Tass. Earlier efforts using water and foam had failed, it added. The Soviet Union’s top experts were called into to help douse the fire, and U.S. firefighters also pro vided assistance, the news agency said. The cause of the fire has not been determined, Tass said. The Soviet Union is the w'orld’s largest oil producer and Azerbaijan, 1,200 miles southeast of Moscow, is the country’s fourth-largest oil pro ducing region. What’s Up LONDON ( beth II made knight Wedne; kneeling and knighthood is given foreign* called “Sir.” The Buck! nouncement e lation about 1 president, whe conservative ar friend of Prirr Thatcher, wou honor for not foreigners are government. iReagan told palace: “I feel g He emerged (preen with a b signia of an ho Cross of the M of the Bath, o ders of chivalry Sir” is a titl< but at dinner ] closer to the qi former presid the initials “Gd rap Unlike Brit hoods, Reagar and be tappet the royal swor handed him t itar, badge a crimson silk. Reagan was given an he Other Americ include phila Getty II, Her Secretary of St tors Douglas I ney Poitier. Wednesday MEXICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a general meeting in 510 f derat 7 p.m. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more information cod' tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contac! the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. For more information contact the C.D.P.E. at 845' 0280. Thursday AGGIES FOR MOTHER EARTH: will have a membership drive with Dan Rust- of KTSR FM radio station at 3 p.m. in the MSC parking lot. For more informal#)! contact Dan Rush at 846-0011 after 11 p.m. KSRC & AVS HELP DESK: will have a short course on MACSYMA at 10 a.#! For more information contact John McClain at 845-8415 or Walter Daughertyat 845-1308. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. For more information contact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more information cod- tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contad the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. Chii intei Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDora- no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. 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