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r The Battalion 201 Llva Oak Coiloge Station, TX 77840 MtMLaQuInla 696-3411 WORLD & NATION Thursday, July 20,1989 Courtyard Apartments 600 Univtrsity Oaks 606-3391 •tAI NDRV ROOM •SWIMMINC. ROOt •*« HOCR MAIHTTNANCI •MOT Tt'R •SHtTrLE »f« •CLl'B ROOM •VOLLiVRALX, TENNIS k BASKETBALL COURTS •CPACIOL'S I kt BEDROOM APARTMENTS (Ik, k mMbo) •BPCLIAL MOVE IN RATES •NEAR CORNER OP HARVEY RD k STALL! NOS DR-BEHIND TOST OAR BANK White House outlines limits between U.S., PLO contacts boasuv-o* APARTMENTS • 2 PooN • TsnnMCouftB • HOI Tub • VoBoybsB Court 1.3 and 3 bo^oortM avRBBblR • 2 Eiiarcw Woomo • 0—KMt)R» Court • 2 ShuiB* Bua Slops • Covsrsd Parting Briarwood Apartments 1201 Harvey Rd. (•across from Post Oak Mall) (409) 693-3014 Welcome Aggies I sale ftALf iALl Sale sale sale SALTIale Jali sale sale sale sali saLe sale i Contact Lenses^ £2 i AU ***'198* Only Quality Name Brands 9 \ (Bausch a Lomb, Ciba, Bamea Hlnda-Hydrocurva) |00 S^oo pr *-STD. CLEAR DAILY WEAR SOFT LENSES $9000 sggoo pr*-STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT * LENSES ^ pr.'-STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES DAILY WEAR OR EXTENDED WEAR SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES Call 696-3754 For Appointment ICHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, OtD.. P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY i ‘Eye axam rxM Included t Free care kN with axam and pair of leneee. I 707 South Taxas Ava., Suita 101D Collaga Station, Taxaa 77840 1 block South of Tmm A University Sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale WASHINGTON <AP) — The White House and key senators worked out the outline of a compro mise Wednesday that would restrict U.S contacts with the Palestine Lib eration Orcanization. congressional sources sawl Approval by Sen. Jesse Helms. R- N.C.. and a handful of others was sdll required to seal the deal. Helms has played a leading role in trying to impose restrictions on how far the Bush administration can go in its talks with Yasser Arafat’s organiza tion. John H. Sununu. the White House chief of staff , was dispatched to Helms' office to try to persuade him to accept the arrangement that would limit, but not halt, contacts. President Bush and his two princi pal foreign policy advisers, Secretary of State fames A. Baker III and Na- Soviet paper uncovers dirt on Afghan war MOSCOW (AP) — A newspaper has lifted the lid off the dirty side of the war in Afghanistan with two So viet veterans' accounts of Red Armv soldiers beating innocent prisoners, trading submachine guns for turn coats and barely surviving attacks by their own helicopters. The daring weekly Moscow News carried the war stones by Valery Abramov and Ruslan Umiyev under the headline. “The W’hole Truth has to be Told About this Wat Over the past year, the Soviet press has questioned the leadership's decision to invad* Afghanistan in 1979. but stavco\awav from criticiz ing how the war itself was run. Human rights activist Andrei D. Sakharov came under public and of ficial attack at the Cxmgress of Pe«»- plc's Deputies Iasi month for claim ing that soviet pilots were ordered to kill Soviet soldiers who were likelv to be captured by Afghan guerrillas Abramov (old Moscow News that Sakharov's claim (hat Soviet soldiers killed each other could have been based on a confused firefight he wit nessed in June 1980 in Faizabad “The guerrillas' fire was driving us into tne ground. Suddenly, our helicopters appeared and started to strafe our own battalions.’' Abramov wrote. “It was some kind of hell,“ he said The shooting stopped, he said, after officers apparentrv understood their mistake tional Security Adviser Brenl Scow- croft. have been trying to kill a Helms amend men i barring talks with any PLO official ever linked to the death, injury nr kidnapping of Americans. Bush, who had invited Demo cratic and Republican leaders of Congress to the White House Wednesday for a report on his just- completed trip to Europe, used the occasion to lobbv against the amend ment. Sen. Bob Pack wood, R-Ore., said Bush told the lawmakers that “if you pass this amendment and shut down any negotiations with anvbodv that's ever even breathed on tne PLO . . . that's a step backward, not a step for ward." The Senate had already delaved action on the legislation at the Bush administration's request. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Busn told the lawmak ers “that at this point in the peace process, fragile as it may be. that these kinds of limitations would not be helpful.” The L'ntted States opened talks with the PLO last December after Arafat publicly renounced terrorism and accepted Israel's right to exist. Robert Pelletreau Jr..4he U.S. am bassador to Tunisia. ha| met peri odically in C-arthage with PLO offi cials wihout evidence of headwav toward settling the Arab-Israeli dis pute. After it was disclosed he had held two unannounced meetings with Sa leh Khalaf. the security chief of the PLO and Arafat's principal deputy, supporters of Israel led by Helms and Sen. John F Kerry. D-Mass., de- their veloped contacts legislation to limit the Khalef. also known as Abu Ivad, was the founder and leader of Black September, which carried out a mas sacre of Israeli athletes at the Olym pic Games in Munich in 1972. He was also a suspect in the mur der of Cleo A. Noel Jr., the U.S. am bassador to the Sudan in 1973. Mexican leftist party announces weeklong election fraud protest opi Wei MEXICO CITY (AP) — A leftist (position party announced Wednesday a weeklong campaign of demonstrations and rallies in several cities to protest alleged fraud in Michoacan state legislative elections In paid advertisements in Mexico City newspapers, the Democratic Revolutionary Party said it ''de mands respect for the will of the people and that our victories be rec ognized. which are the victories of the people of Michoacan." A state election board ruled Tues day night that the ruling Institutio nal Revolutionary Party won 12 of the 24 seats in the new Michoacan legislature and the Democrats Rev- ohitkmarv Party six. with the rest going to three other minority groups Supporters of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, claiming it had been cheated out of nine seats, blocked mads in Michoacan to pro test the alleged fraud. Attorney (General Enrique Alvarez del Castillo threatened to take legal action because a man who had suf fered a heart attack was allegedly held up at a Mkhoacan roadblock for three hours on the way to the hospital and died. The roadblocks were lifted Wednesday before the attorney gen eral spoke. Democratic Revolution ary Party officials said, but groups of opposition supporters remained outside the governor's mansion in Morelia, the state capital about 150 miles west of Mexico City, in silent protest. The July 2.elec tions in Mk hoacan and four other states were widely seen as a test of President CLarlos Sa linas de Ciortari’s intentions to clean up Mexico’s fraud-ridden balloting system, which has kept the Institu- tional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. in power for 60 years. Salinas' own election in Julv 1988 was marred by opposition accusa tions of irregularities. The conservative National Action Party carried Baja Californu. with its candidate Ernesto Ruffo becom ing the first to ever defeat the PRI in a governor's race. The PRI won state elections in Chihuahua and in its strongholds of Zacatecas and Campeche ANNUAL SWIMWEAR CLEARANCE Entire stock* of misses and junior swimwear SAVE 25-40% Bill Blass • Catalina • Jantzen* • Ocean Pacific • Barefoot Miss Sassafras • Rose Marie Reid • Sirena • La Blanca • De Weese Choose from every style under the sun! Bikinis, surplices, bandeaus, tanks, and more One and two piece styles Sun-kissed colors in solids, stripes, and prints. Cotton/spandex or sleek spandex/nyton * Excludes 1990 preview and Summer Edition style*. Ortg 34 00-54 oo now 28.50-40.50 Save 25-40% on covenips and rompers for misses Otig 26.00.3600 now 19.50-27.00 Dillard’s Bush makes plans for U.S. on moon, Mars WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Bush will seek to commit the United Suites Thursday- to build ing a manned outpost on the moon and sending astronauts to Mars, an administration official said Wednesday Bush will not outline a specific proposal but will endorse the con cept of a moon-Mars mission, which was recommended bv Vice President Dan Quayle and the National Space Council that Quavlr chairs, the official said The official revealed the presi dent's deciskm on condition of anonymity. Bush's 'announcement will come in a major spare policy speech outlining his goals to revi talize the nation s space program on the 20th anniversary of man’s first visit to the moon. The speech will include no timetables or cost estimates, the official said The moon-Mars recommenda tion originated m the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration, which sent it to the presi dent via Qua vie and the council. Bush's speech Thursday will include a “pretty general two- or three-sentence kind of goal,” White House Press Secretary Marlin Fiuwater said earlier “There's a lot of analysis that needs to be considered, especially in terms of cost" to maintain a hu man outpost on the moon and to mount a Mars mission. Fit/water told reporters “It is a costly venture and those aspects need to be considered." he said. At NASA, Dr. Frank Martin, the head of the exploratkiir of fice. said such a princct would more than double the current NASA budget of Mime $13 billion a year, pushing it above 2 percent of the total federal budget Gongrestional leaders who suoke to reporters at the White House after meeting with Bush on other topics voiced caution about the cost of such a proposal. “We will be . anxious to come together with a program that tan provide continued American in volvement in protects of impor tance and scientific value." said House Speaker I homat S. Foley. “But obviously we also have to consider the problems that we have here at home We have re sources that are run as unlimited as they once were . . . Ortainlv we are under very great budget restraints." STRETCH Your Dollars! WATCHFOK BARGAINS IN the BATTALION!! SHOP DILLARD'S MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 104, SUNDAY 124c POST OAK MALI. HARVEY ROAD AT HIGHWAY** BYPASS, COLLEGE STATION 7*4401L AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD WELCOME