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Last Chance For \bur Best Chance. GRE Prep Course 2 STANLEY H. KAPLAN c£i Take Kaplan Or Take Your Chances Classes Forming Now Call 696-PREP BATTALION CIRCULATION The Battalion has immediate part time openings in the circu lation department. Students in terested in applying should call 845-2697 and leave their names and telephone num bers. WORLD & NATION Wednesday, August 2,1989 LONDON $335 PARIS $345 ROME $399 MADRID $349 TOKYO $508 RIO $330 ONE WAY FROM HOUSTON ALSO TEACHER and BUDGET FARES! EURAIL PASSES USSR / Europe Tours Language Learning Centers CouncilUravel 1-800-777-2874_ Senate endorses Bush’s MX plan Missiles to be installed on railroad cars at cost of $1.1 billion 1.8 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tues day endorsed President Bush’s $1.1 billion re quest for making MX missiles mobile, heeding the warning of the Armed Services Committee chairman against “unraveling” Bush’s defense plans. Wary of following the stringent steps taken by the House, the Senate voted 62-38 to turn aside an amendment slashing $502 million from the billion-plus budget for placing the existing 50 MX missiles on railroad cars. The House had taken that budget-cutting step last week, trimming the same amount from the MX rail-garrison system and then eliminating all $100 million earmarked for the single-warhead Midgetman missile. “If we have that kind of unraveling over here, we go to conference with a totally illogical, un sound program . . . and I believe that will be det rimental to both our national security and our If we have that kind of unraveling over here, we go to conference with a totally illogical, unsound program .. . and I believe that will be detrimental to both our national security and our arms control.” — Sen. Sam Nunn, D.-Ga. BEIR' ficial a arms control,” Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said prior to the vote. The House and Senate meet in conference in early September to complete a final version of the two $295 billion defense blueprints the two chambers have crafted. mco ummm CABANA BUCKS TM Free Medium Drink Energy Department unveils plan to correct pollution hazards at atomic weapon plants In voting to table the MX measure,the also accepted arguments that cuts in thepi would undermine the verbal agreement by the White House and congressionalb proceeding with two mobile missiles Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., said approval MX amendment would “blow apart the crafted compromise” reached by theadmi tion and Congress. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., sponsoroftlj| amendment, had proposed using the}5l lion savings for the F-14D Tomcat jet fight Navy’s carrier aircraft that Bush has slatrldav to ii elimination; the Army’s Apache helicopieB Higgi cleanup of nuclear waste sites. B>ducte< In other action, the Senate approved,‘■ fhe \ non-binding resolution warning the adri dent Bu tion that “it is not presently prudent orpsBave tlr to commit to the procurement of an openflBlnited h force” of B-2 stealth bombers. Pro-Ii |olonel Ion Frii .fligg' 118 South L< “ A vid aan, a{ lows. N' ay of I eports w/Food Purchase 701 Texas Ave. South (at University Dr.) Limit 1 Per Customer • Expires 8-31 -89 693-1904 Courtyard Apartments 600 University Oaks 696-3391 • SWIMMING POOL •HOT TUB •CLUB ROOM •LAUNDRY ROOM •24 HOUR MAINTENANCE •SHUTTLE BUS •VOLLEYBALL, TENNIS & BASKETBALL COURTS •SPACIOUS 1 & 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS (flat & studio) •SPECIAL MOVE IN RATES NEAR CORNER OF HARVEY RD & STALLINGS DR-BEHIND POST OAK BANK EXPRESS MAGNIFICENT CHINESE BUFFETS Over 20 Selections of Salads & Entrees, Iced Tea, Desserts ALL YOU CAN EAT $6.49 For Only w/coupon 606 Tarrow 764-8960 <53 Dine-ln Only Reg. $3.89 & $4.19 11:00-2:30,4:30-8:30 Mon-Fri. 11:30a.m.-8:30p.m. Sat. & Sun. One coupon per person per visit. Valid August 2-August 9,1989 Not good with any other offer. WASHINGTON (AP) — The En ergy Department unveiled on Tues day a five-year program costing $19.5 billion to correct environmen tal and health problems at the na tion’s atomic weapons plants — the first part of a cleanup that officials predict will take 30 years and cost many billions more. Energy Secretary James D. Wat kins provided a blueprint for the ini tial phase of the cleanup and restor ation plan, acknowledging “the cost will be high” and even an optimistic timetable “passes much of the bur den to the next generation.” After a top-level review of the shortcomings in environmental and health protection measures at the government nuclear facilities, the department said it proposes to spend $2.4 billion next fiscal year m correcting the shortcomings. After that the annual bill is ex pected to steadily increase, peaking at more than $4 billion in both fiscal 1994 and 1995. Over the span of the cleanup effort, which will stretch well into the next century, costs have been estimated anywhere from $90 billion to $150 billion. The money, which still must be approved by Congress, would be used to clean up pollution where federal and state safety laws are vio lated, repair faulty equipment and develop new procedures and tech nology for future waste disposal, the department said. and assessing the extent of yet un known hazards. The deparment also said it would release health records of workers at weapons facilities for scientific evaluation to determine the extent of risk. subject of investigations by both the Environmental Protection Agency and the FBI. Some facilities have had operations shut down because of safety and environmental prob lems. A series of disclosures this year has revealed widespread neglect of safety and environmental safe guards at the weapons production plants. A number of facilities, in cluding major weapons plants in Colorado and Ohio, have been the Watkins also promised more openness on the part of the depart ment and plant managers with state and federal authorities, and “an open dialogue ‘an open dialogue on environmental, health and safety concerns” to ease public concern about the operation of the fat Watkins, in remarks to tin tional Press Club, reiterated tl® department’s efforts over the to protect public health andthei ronment at the federal nuclear ties has been shoddy and in cases virtually nonexistent. Penta ai “If we graded for qualitycoi we wouldn’t pass,” Watkins The answer, he said, is tocorrecl operation of the facilities and lish safe procedures for the fa ‘Little Boy Blue’s’ father sentenced g° v < spirited,’ eorge est son, That < lay, whe ; tender j to 40 years for murder of roommatt i The plan commits the department to develop a cleanup priority list, containing known contamination AUSTIN (AP) — The man whose son’s body was dis covered on a Nebraska road and became known nation ally as the “Little Boy Blue” case, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 1985 murder of his roommate. State District Judge Jon Wisser on Monday sentenced Eli Stutzman, 38, who had been found guilty in the April 1985 shooting death of Glen Albert Pritchett, 24. Stutzman faced a sentence of five years’ probation to life in prison and a $ 10,000 fine. He must serve one-fourth of his sentence, or 10 years, before becoming eligible for parole, because ju rors found that a deadly weapon was used in the slay ing, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Connie Moore of Houston, Stutzman’s attorney, told Wisser that the charge in connection with the slaying of his roommate was “based on a very weak circumstantial cases,” and asked that Stutzman be placed on proba tion. “We are still convinced that this man is being con victed for a crime he did not commit," Moore said said Stutzman plans to appeal. But Assistant District Attorney Carla Garcia! Stutzman deserved a life sentence. She said Stutti showed no remorse for his actions and lied toaqu ances about Pritchett’s whereabouts. “This was a cold-blooded murder,” she said. Houston Mattoi date for Itudy in sains sail “Your ars to ati 1st law i tstice oi Pritchett worked for Stutzman’s remodelingbusiiit ^ an a and roomed with Stutzman and his 9-year-old a Danny, in Austin. Pritchett’s body was discovered May 12, 1985, is culvert outside Austin. He had been shot once in head. Stutzman and Danny left Austin after depi questioned him about Pritchett’s death. Danny’s body had been found in a ditch near bron, Neb., in December 1985. He was known onl “Little Boy Blue” by townspeople because of theSi pajamas he wore. The cause of his death was never 1 termined. Ho fed rJ Firefighters able to advance on blazes in Idaho APARTMENTS • 2 Pools • 2 Exercise Rooms • Tennis Courts • Basketball Court • Hot Tub • 2 Shuttle Bus Stops • Volleyball Court • Covered Parking 1,2 and 3 bedrooms available Cooler weather allowed firefight ers to advance Tuesday on forest blazes threatening three tiny Idaho towns, and soldiers in Washington state began hasty training to join the battle against wildfires in four West ern states. 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Economic policies bring soaring prices to Poles ,15 v*' O' SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE Contact Lenses^ Ends m Altg, 25 loo ^ Only Quality Name Brands 89 * (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) 59 00 S M oo pr.*-STD. CLEAR DAILY WEAR SOFT LENSES $ $ 99 00 99 00 pr*-STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles expressed shock Tuesday at soaring food prices, including the highest meat price increases in recent memory, and Solidarity lawmakers heaped criticism on the outgoing adminis tration’s economic policies. Also on Tuesday, Lech Walesa urged his Solidarity followers in Parliament to vote against Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, the proposed communist successor to Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, and members of the communist coalition reported divisions in their ranks over the candidacy. Rakowski, who was elected first secretary of the Pol ish United Workers (Communist) Party only four days “marketization” program put together by Rakowski’s government. Across Poland, there were scenes of empty shelves and bewildered shoppers. “Where is the meat? Where is the meat?” cried out an old man in a totally bare meat store near the capital’s Old Town section. “I am going to America,” a woman shopper said in despair. Authorities say the price increases are needed to prompt farmers to deliver to market and stabilize the level of s Hundreds of reinforcemcnis eluding National Guard troops crews from out of state, werefer to help crews on the most critical lines in the Payette and Boist tional forests. Attacks were concentrated ot the small mining town of Wan 1 120 miles north of Boise, whicl threatened by a 1,000-acre Win doodle Fire, and around Idaho! a small town 25 miles northeast Boise. Yellow Pine, a hamlet of peii two dozen permanent residents* Warren, was cut off by fires butt across both roads into town, bet settlement wasn’t in immediate ger, authorities said. Losses in Lowman, a townoi residents largely leveled over weekend, were estimated bythe Disaster Services Bureau Tuesdf $10.3 million. unds,’ aid in a 1 WASH House o ibortion irst cony Court ru new limit On a s hoots of ( tight to that wou abortions The vc when the •ng on th first time governmi The d< mg bill f< Washing! Robert E Sei SD state subsidies to the food industry. Referring to Deputy Prime Minister Ireneusz Seku- la’s claim that the “ship of the Polish economy is on the WASH Senate oi $295 billi Helicopters crisscrossed theHt Resident Canyon area near the Idaho-CbT pr. "-STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES DAILY WEAR OR EXTENDED WEAR SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES Call 696-3754 For Appointment S5CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY *Eye exam not included. 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Kids reappear 20 years after disappearing in Africi Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — It is an of ten-repeated tale in Addis Ababa: Two white children were kidnapped or abandoned 20 years ago, when the boy was about 5 years old and the girl but an infant, and raised in a tribal family. The years have provided different variations on the story, and though many here know some version, there are no records to substantiate it. Now, however, a brother and sister have stepped forward, claiming to be those lost chil dren. They say they want to find their parents: On June 23, a cable arrived at the State De partment in Washington from the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia’s capitol. It began: “On June 14, two Oromigna-speaking Cauca sians visited (consular officer) Conoff claiming to be the long-rumored kidnapped Americans of 20 years ago.” “After I sent the cable, I called Washington to assure them I wasn’t making this up on a slow day in Addis,” Carol L. Rose, who retired this week as the U.S. consul in Ethiopia, said. “I was afraid the desk officer wouldn’t believe it. It’s all just too fantastic.” Rose’s 2-and-a-half page cable told the story of Haile Mariam Gadessa and Tegest Gadessa as they recounted it through an embassy inter- it to the Associated preter and later repeated Press. Haile Mariam, now 24 or 25, and Tegest, about 20, speak haltingly and nervously about their story in the presence of what to them are strange, white foreigners. What little they know was told them by the na tive couple who raised them. Haile Mariam has only the vaguest memory of those days, Tegest none at all. They tell of being left by their parents in the care of a housekeeper, a man of the Oromo tribe who took them to live with his relatives in a house of mud with a thatched roof. Haile Mariam said he was was raised as a herdsboy, keeping the family’s cattle, sheep and goats, while Tegest was given to another family as a maid. His eyes downcast and haunted, Haile Mariam tells of frequent beatings by a foster father who never wanted them, of being taunted and abused by villagers who saw him and his sister as freaks. His gnarled hands speak of a lifetime of hard work. He has never spent a day in a classroom. His sister has completed eight years of school. They said they are not sure why they were left with the housekeeper, but Haile Mariam thinks such a n aircraf “The b w ere met, yirginia, Senate A prior to : tation. Hy a vc Proved its filorizatio ginning ( Pears no r lat ion tha president terns. .The Se lc tent’s their father became ill and was flown o# Ethiopia for treatment, accompanied by mother. “Under those circumstances, in this si the woman most certainly would have tried place the children with relatives,” Worke “The stigma of raising them alone would been too great.” While Rose admits that scenario is possible - eluding doesn’t believe it. Her cable to the State ^ ‘ I - ment said consular officials were convinced two “are telling the truth as they know it Their skin is scarred from sunburn and thej ring has caused some distortion of their ' - features. They both have light brown eyes curly light brown-dark blond hair.” f °r the IV | Million fo With no record of their birth or nation^ * there is little that Rose and the U.S. govern# can do for Haile Mariam and Tegest. As the search continues for their parents,i live together in a mud hut in the village of beta, about 25 miles from Addis Ababa. There, Tegest cares for her 3-year-old son toy, born out of wedlock, while Haile Man supports them with odd jobs, earning aboui hiopiai Ethiopian birr a month, the equivalent of $8 The let es l cut of! Co Tony; " was ttattalion survivors ^soiid, m.Th error.