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The Battalii The Battalion Classifieds HEUPWAmSr The Psychology Department at Texas A&M University is con ducting research on group dy namics and we need participants. We will pay you $30. for 6 hrs. of your time over a 6 weeks period. If interested, please call 845-4990 and ask for Michele, or sign up outside Room 347 in the Psychol ogy Building. Cash + More. Volunteer in a Vitamin + Exercise Study Must Be Inactive Call 822-1734 153t06/08 SWIMMING COACH To fine tune swimming skills for two good swimmers. Experience required. Lessons twice a week, after 5p.m. at a pri vate pool. Call Gay at 776-0400 (8a.m.-5p.m.) I53tttn Schlotzky’s is now accepting applications for the sum mer p/t evening & weekend shifts. Apply in person only between 2-5. 141ttfn Office Clerk: Deluxe Burger Bar. 8-5, Monday through Friday. 846-0928. 157t06/23 ATTENTION-HIRING! Government jobs-your area. $ 17,840.-$69,485. Call 1-602-838-8885, EXT. 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Their hearts slowed and they dreamed of being on that little pearl where the streets are lined with gold dust. Except for the folklore, the Chinese dream of being on the streets of Hong Kong will materialize in 1997, when its lease by the Brit ish expires and falls into the iron grip of the Communists. Where the dream begins for China, it will end another for the people of Hong Kong. For the latter, and particularly one Pan American University student from Hong Kong, a nightmare is just about to surface, thanks in no small measure to the brutality with which the Chinese Communist Party has shown to the world in crushing the student demonstrations for democracy in China in the last few weeks. One Pan Am student from Hong Kong, El lis Mo, may just have his work cut out for him. The 24-year-old Mo, who is pursuing a mas ter’s degree in business administration, is now reconsidering his temporary resident status here. The reason? The Hong Kong he knew for so long may never be the same again.There was a time when Chinese leaders promised Hong Kong would not be subjected to the iron fist with which the motherland is ruled most 3,000 protesters for democracy at Tia nanmen Square has opened their eyes and their minds to a new awareness. a People are losing their faith in the initial agreement between the British and Chinese governments to grant self rule to Hong Kong.” — Ellis Mo, Pan Am University student The recent “Beijing butchery” that shocked the democratic world may have scared many students from Hong Kong from going home. “Who wants to go home now, after what they have done to their own brothers and sis ters?” Mo asks. What the government has done is fast reducing the 5 million population of Hong Kong, he says. Already a million Chinese people have emigrated from Hong Kong. This is because of the hysteria the people experiencing after nearly a million Hu Kong Chinese staged a protest against I Chinese government, Mo says. The Pearl of the Orient is fast becomi the leper of the Orient. What had happen in Hong Kong, situated just two miles offi mainland of China, is burdening this you • ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL WORSHIP HOUR. ALL FAITHS CHAPEL. TUESDAY & THURSDAY. 12:15-12:45. 157t06/16 • FOR SALE Honda Nighthawk-S 700cc. Excellent condition, 1 yr. old. Low mileage. Warranty. 847-0246. 153t06/16 when England’s lease on its little crown col ony expires. The people of Hong Kong be lieved Chinese leaders would grant some de gree of autonomy to Hong Kong. But in the last few weeks, that feeling has changed. Mo and many other students from Hong Kong studying abroad are evaluating their priorities. The merciless killing of al- Financial institutions are looking elsewhere to invest their capital, and wealthy business men are closing their accounts and opening them somewhere else that they feel is safe, Mo says. The general price index in the Hong Kong stock exchange reportedly dropped 500 points June 5, after tne weekend bloodshed at Tiananmen Square. Even looting, a rare occurrence, is taking place in this tightly secured island country. “Because I love my parents very mud now have to find a way to get them om Hong Kong,” Mo says. Others like Mo are also consideringii grating to Australia, France, Germany, Ei gland, and Canada, which has the largeslo centration of Hong Kong Chinese. H« away from home will never be the same,! these people are not ready to place their.ini in the Chinese Communist government, “People are losing their faith in theii agreement between the British and Chine governments to grant self rule to Hoi Kong,” Mo says, adding that the sameki that happened at Tiananmen Square inB; ing, China, may very well be repeated Hong Kong should a demonstration result 3bdrm./2bth. mobile home, country setting. 2 acre.- lots of trees, available April 1st. $385./mo. + $200. de posit. 693-2128. 120t04/03 Professional Racing Bike Fuji Team, excellent condi tion, $150.-, 845-9598 (EPB401, ask for Detlef) 159t06/16 Consumer advocate calls nuclear plant savings 4 big lie AUSTIN (AP) — It is a “big lie” for Houston Lighting & Power Co. to say the South Texas Nuclear Pro ject will save customers money, a consumer group said Thursday while contending the nuclear plant will cost billions more than a lignite- fueled plant. “Like a poker player who has bet his life savings and drawn losing cards, Houston Light Sc Power is try ing to run a bluff,” said Bryan Baker, director of the Houston- based Committee for Consumer Rate Relief. “HL&P wants to bluff ratepayers into handing over the pot for the South Texas Project.” HL&P, which is the managing partner of the Matagorda County nuclear power plant, dismissed Bak er’s comments as “gibberish.” Other partners in the project are Central Power and Light Co. of Cor pus Christi, and the cities of Austin and San Antonio. Cfi Like a poker player who has bet his life savings and drawn losing cards, Houston Light & Power is trying to run a bluff.” _ Bryan Bakerj Commitee for Consumer Rate Relief to be nearly twice as expensive o its lifetime as the company’s mosi cently completed lignite plant, Bal said. While there are fuelcostsf ings, those are dwarfed by exci construction costs and operaii costs, he said. “If he were confident that his in formation was good, he would have waited for regulatory review of that information (at the Public Utility Commission) rather than holding a press conference,” said HL&P spokesman Floyd LeBlanc. He ac cused Baker of “attempting to sell his snake oil to the public through the media.” Baker said a witness will testify to the regulatory commission — which is considering rate increase requests by HL&P and CP&L — on the fig ures he made public. According to those numbers, iHL&P customers would pay $11 bil lion more for the nuclear plant over 30 years, if all costs are passed to ra tepayers, than they would for an equivalent lignite plant. Such “excess costs” for all four co-owners “may approach $30 billion,” Baker said. Testimony submitted by HL&P in its rate case shows the nuclear plant While acknowledging that l next plant HL&P builds will bel nite-f ueled, LeBlanc said thecom| rison is not fair because the nuclfi plant appeared to be the bestopm when it was started in the mid- It is to customers’ benefit to the plant, based on price and ski rity of fuel supply, he said. Teachers’ union to grade state on school reforms AUSTIN (AP) — A teachers’ union said Thursday it will ask public school teachers in 50 districts across the state to grade results of educa tion reforms the Legislature enacted five years ago. Texas Federation of Teachers President John Cole said the survey, to be completed by fall 1990, might illuminate weaknesses in the reforms set out by House Bill 72 in 19- 84. The changes included “no-pass, no-play” re quirements, minimum skills testing and teacher career ladders. Cole said the state’s teachers will be asked to grade 10 areas of reforms on an A through F scale. Areas to be reviewed include teacher sala ries, paperwork reduction, and the Texas Educa- “Obviously, we will share this with the State Board of Education and the Legislature,” he said, adding that if certain programs show up as “losers,” lawmakers could change them during the 1991 session. tion Assessment of Minimum Skills test. “We have all of these reforms now imple mented . . . and we can now stop and take a look and see how well these things are doing,” Cole said. “We can see which ones the teachers think are worth keeping and which ones should be scrapped. During a news conference to announce the survey, Cole also criticized recent efforts by the Legislature to equalize state aid to poor and wealthy school districts. “Unfortunately, the Legislature failed to deal with the school finance issue in any meaningful way, and that is a time bomb that is ticking away at the heart of our whole education system,” Cole said. “Until it is dealt with, our education is going to continue to suffer,” Cole said. UT plan expands health care in Rio Grande Valley AUSTIN (AP) — Health care and health education programs would be expanded in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, one of the country’s poorest regions, under a plan by the Univer sity of Texas. “I just know that it is a health-care deficient area, and I think we need to keep working at the problem until we can be proud of what we are ac complishing,” said Jack Blanton of Houston, health affairs committee chairman of the UT Board of Re- McGanity said. The project probably would not result in a medical school for the area, he said, “but it would mean a facility for clinical services.” gents. The goal is to make the area “self- sufficient” in health services by the year 2000, said Dr. William McGan- ity, a professor at the UT Medical Branch at Galveston and chairman of a systemwide task force that is coordinating the effort. “If we reach this goal, people in the Valley would not have to go out side for health care and education,” About $200,000 to $300,000 would be needed for planning costs, then about $1 million a year would be needed when the program is fully implemented, McGanity said. Under the plan, government funding would taper off as problems in an underserved area begin to be solved. Much of the effort focuses on ex panding services in the Valley by UT medical schools in Galveston, Hous ton and San Antonio. But other in stitutions, including UT-Austin and the newest UT System members in Edinburg and Brownsville, also are involved. The regents for Texas A&M Uni versity are considering merging or expanding services with West Texas State University. Regents for the two schools met in Canyon Wednesday and planned to complete a merger study by November. Earlier this year, Gov. Bill Clem ents signed into law the merger of three South Texas schools — Corpus Christi State University, Laredo State University and Texas A&I University — into the A&M system. elude a lack of sufficiently funded and equipped general hospitals to serve indigent patients; shortages of health care workers and a lack of ed ucational resources for them; and insufficient health-promotion and disease-prevention programs. The UT Valley-Border Health Services Task Force was formed last summer to advise system officials on health needs along the entire Texas- Mexico border. It is concentrating initially on the four lower Valley counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy. The task force has completed an inventory of UT programs in the re gion and a study of problems that need to be addressed, McGanity said in a report to the regents last week. Main health-service problems identified in the region, he said, in- Half of the population lacks medi cal insurance and cannot afford to pay for health care, he added. A federal report said last fall that the population of the 16 border counties has a higher rate of com municable diseases than the U.S. population as a whole. Leprosy and malaria, which are not common in the United States, also are found in the area. During the next two years, McGa nity said, the task force would like to see UT institutions receive federal funds for health education and training centers that would work with Valley communities. Neighbors fight for custody of dog Kraft cuts deal to compensate contest ‘winneis AUSTIN (AP) — Consume! will be compensated over a mil printed promotional contest 1' Kraft which led more than people to wrongly believe the had won a 1990 van, the attorn general’s office said Thursday. “Kraft was very cooperative and the misprint was not intent# nal on the company’s part,”.h torney General Jim Mattox said SP Friday, Jur Rya spiri Tex ARLING r Valentine sa out the wii Texas Range “He’s sue! that eve/'ybe atmosphere, ager said. Ryan star bleheader sv Angels Wei 10-game hi Texas won Charlie Hoc 5-1 and 6-3 gels. The Ranj stand by lo: Oakland. B pared to lea York Thun 4!/2 games the America “Nolan R long as the they’ll be in Angels mai said. It was onh last 56 years ers 40 yeai started a d( same club. “Both Ry; incredible,” really sometl Ryan imp 3 with a victi 7-5 in the i went seven s second garni kill, 7-3. Jeff Russi to build his i ing 16. Ryan put record boo consider it a Ryan bee; in major lea all 26 major “The onl beating all The misprinted contest lidet were included in packages o! Kraft cheese sold in grocer stores and run as newspaper vertisements. The contest « cancelled when Kraft IcarneT that the misprint had given him dreds of people winning ticket for the van. Under terms of the voluntan compliance agreement — whit! hasn’t been formally si^ consumers who notify Kraft first class mail postmarked midnight Friday with proof their winning tickets will becoi pensated, Mattox said. Consumers with winning t ets for the van will receive? per household. Consumers rfj winning tickets for other giftsu receive per household $50, S| and $5 awards, Mattox said. Then, the tickets of all consumers will be included in| special drawing to be held nesi month for the four vans, ‘ cycles, 2,000 skateboards atl 32,000 packages of processt cheese food. 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Gray said he hears custody battles involving pets two or three times a year and that they are always some what emotional, but said “This one was maybe more so than most.” Greslin says she bought two kee- shonds, Duchess and Robo, for her grandchildren last October. Both disappeared within a few months. Greslin’s husband Larry said he found Duchess several weeks after she disappeared in February, walk ing down the street toward the fami ly’s home. Cooksey, who lives nearby in sub urban Lancaster, said the Qreslins took the dog from his yard. The jury said the dog belongs to Cooksey, who initiated the suit. But Gray ruled that the Greslins may keep the dog while the case is appealed. “He (Gray) says he doesn’t want to upset the grandchildren, but our family has grandchildren, too,” Cooksey said afterward. As the jury returned to the court room, the Greslins’ 4-year-old granddaughter, Jennifer, fought back tears. Death of Sea-Arama dolphin second at park in two months GALVESTON (AP) — A dolphin born at Sea-Arama Marineworld less than a month ago has died, the sec ond such death at the popular tour ist attraction in as many months. The dolphin calf born May 18 was found near death Tuesday morning by a park employee, Sea-Arama spokesman Christy Benson said. The dolphin, kept in a tank with its mother, Beta, was lethargic and having difficulty breathing. “We have no evident cause of death at this time,” she said, adding that tissue samples have been sent to another site for testing and results are not expected for several weeks. On April,9, a 3-day-old dolphin also died suddenly and subsequent testing indicated it died from a lack of immunities, Benson said. Dolphin trainers called the park’s veterinarian, who prescribed an in jection of antibiotics. But the animal died before a second injection could be given, Benson said. A dolphin must receive certain nutrients and antibodies from its mother’s milk during the first 24 hours of life, she said. If the antibodies are not present or are in small amounts, the risk of death from bacterial infections in- WHAT’S UP Friday That’s t to call a any day p.m. on ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information coma:' the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. Saturday IVCF: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 201 MSC for a Friendship Party for Internaticr# and American Students. For more information, contact Paul Wyatt at 846-9273 For more sign up: Drop by NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more information con- j tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. MSC Mav Monday c MUSIC PROGRAMS: will hold a “Lyric Art Festival Concert” at 7:30 p.m. at 111* | Rudder Forum. IVCF: will meet at 8 p.m. in 407 Rudder for an International Student Bible study ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contadI the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. 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