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^Ufxs df^BCyaLlL cJbfzofl Furniture, Accessories, Antiques, and Many Other Things. 3832 Texas Ave. 846-4363 Quality Consignments Wanted The Battalion WORLD & NATION Wednesday, August 6, 1989 £ STANLEY H. KAPLAN cJ* Take Kaplan Or Take Your Chances Classes begin Aug. 30 Call 696-Prep Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 LONDON $335 PARIS $345 ROME $399 MADRID $349 TOKYO $508 RIO $380 ONE WAY FROM HOUSTON ALSO TEACHER and BUDGET FARES! EURAIL PASSES USSR / Europe Tours Language Learning Centers CouncilTtavel _1-800-777-2874_ Grand jury issues subpoenas to bulk buyers of Wright book $1.00 OFF! Lunch Buffet for $2.99 7 days a week ALL YOU CAN EAT offer expires 8-16-89 The best ptzza in town. 1 268-BEST WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury is in vestigating former House Speaker Jim Wright’s book deal and has subpoenaed documents from at least three groups that bought bulk copies of “Reflections of a Pub lic Man,” for which Wright earned royalties of 55 per cent. The Justice Department refused Tuesday to disclose the nature of its investigation. Attorneys for the two or ganizations said it involved Wright’s book, and a spokesman for a third said it had been subpoenaed for documents related to the former congressional leader. The House ethics committee, after a year’s investiga tion, said it had reason to believe Wright, a Texas Dem ocrat, had tried to evade House limits on outside in come through bulk sales of the book. That investigation ended with Wright’s resignation in June. Attorneys for Southwest Texas State University and the National Association of Realtors said they had re ceived subpoenas from a U.S. District Court grand jury here. A spokesman for Ocean Spray, a cranberry and citrus growers cooperative in Massachusetts, said docu ments from the group also were being sought by the grand jury. Southwest Texas attorney Bill Fly said the university received a subpoena, dated July 14, on Monday, and has until Friday to submit documents surrouding Wright’s speech to the school in the fall of 1984 and the subsequent purchase of $3,000 worth of the book. Laurene Janik, general counsel for the Realtors orga nization, said the group also is responding to a grand jury subpoena relating to Wright’s book. Jack Pettit, managing partner of the Washington of fice of the law firm of Hopkins, Sutter, Hamel and Park, said it had been asked to “supply some documents in connection with the grand jury investigation of Wright and we’re happy to comply.” Pettit, who testified before the ethics committee, said that “as far as I can tell, what they are asking for is pre tty much what was asked for in the ethics committee in vestigation.” Larry Shannon, administrative assistant at Wright’s office in Fort Worth, said that the investigation appears “very routine” and that it resulted from the media at tention focused on Wright during the ethics investiga tion. Justice Department spokesman David Runkel said the agency’s inquiry is continuing. “I can’t comment on any aspect of the investigation, except I will confirm that is ongoing,” he said. Southwest Texas State attorney Fly said the univer sity had agreed to pay Wright $3,000 for a speech. Af ter Wright’s appearance, someone in the speaker’s of fice called the university to say Wright had reached his limit on outside income. Wright’s staff member then asked if the speaker could use the $3,000 to instead purchase copies of his book for the university, Fly said. “We received about 504 copies of that book," Fly said. Under an agreement with the publisher of his lx>ok, Wright was to receive 55 percent royalties. Iran break ring of spi helping C NEW YORK (AP) — 1® broken a network of spies provided the Central Intellii Agency with intimate detais documents about Iranian planning, the New forlj said in fuesday’s editions. Citing unnamed U.S. oil tthe Times said the Iranians delected the network monii l ore it actually collapsed and used the spies to give the false information. But some officials told l imes that before the nets was compromised, it yielded able military intelligence,[k ularly about the Iranian \i operations in the Persianfe a time when American a f orces were confronting the nians. The Times’ sources conlira for the first time Iraniand that spies had been arrested The sources said the In military, many of whose raeia! were trained in the United Si was considered one of thetes ficult groups in the countn which to recruit agents. Has your car's air conditioning LOST ITS COOL? Let our A.S.E. Certified technicians check and recharge your car’s system so you don’t get hot under the collar this summer. Federation files suit to require shrimpers to equip nets with turtle excluder devices 111 Royal, Bryan (Across S. 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The federation said it has learned that Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher has data from National Marine Fisheries Service scientists that demonstrates the mortality rate from a 105-minute tow time is more than four times greater than what the secretary has admitted. “A recent report from the team of scientists charged with managing re covery efforts for the severely en dangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle states unequivocally that the species is physiologically unable to withs tand tow times in lieu of required TED use,” the federation said in a petition filed in U.S. District Court lere. The federation said Department’s merce sea the Corn- turtle ex- CC Mosbacher, Mosbacher, hear our plea, ‘Hostage’ in Sri Lanka denies charges of fraud save the turtles in the sea.’ — Environmentalists Marines WeFe locking for a few good men and women. 1 st LT. 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In an interview, she said she is the “victim of a big conspiracy” and is a “legal hostage” in a Colombo ho tel. She did not elaborate. Her U.S. attorney, A.W. Clem of Paris, said he is concerned for her safety. “I don’t want anything to happen to her,” he said. “If she’s in some danger, I want to know. I haven’t been able to communicate with her.” The police spokesman said Nada rajah previously was arrested for failing to pay a $4,500 bill at a Co lombo hotel and for giving a bank a check that bounced. Nadarajah said she was simply waiting for funds to arrive from the United States. Nadarajah tried to leave Sri Lanka 03604701on Sunday, but she was de tained because of complaints sub mitted by local gem dealers who said checks she had given them for stones purchased in the United States last February had bounced, the police spokesman said. Nadarajah tried to leave Sri Lanka on Sunday, but she was detained be cause of complaints submitted by lo cal gem dealers who said checks she had given them for stones pur chased in the United States last Feb ruary had bounced, said the police spokesman, who by custom is not identified by name. perts have drafted a biological opin ion assessing the secretary’s action on threatened and endangered sea turtles, which “inexplicably, the sec retary has failed to provide to the court tojustify his action.” Commerce spokesman Reed Boa tright said he did not want to com ment on the lawsuit now that the case is back in litigation. Under a rule that took effect at 11:01 a.m. CDT Tuesday, shrimpers were to begin pulling their nets ev ery 105 minutes to check for en tangled sea turtles. About 40 people protattiji rules in front of the Commerc partment Tuesday morning, c mg “Mosbacher, Mosbacher, our plea, save the turtles in dies? and carrying posters with like “Shrimpers are crying hr ties are dying." Jan Johnson, an organizer« Greenpeace protest, said,‘Tk not he the last word from us. that the organization will bees? ing legal options to force shrirc to use TEDs. Mosbacher predicted compj with the limiting of trawlingt would he far better than TEDs that shrimpers loathe conservationists said only TED ! save die Kemp’s Ridley fromesJ tion before the end of thecenlurj U.S. District Court Judge B Hog an, who last week ordered bacner to begin protecting sei ties from drowning in si nets by Monday, was expectfi rule on the Commerce ti j Wednesday. Under the temporary rules ermen who do not use TEDsv be allowed to have their netsii water only at specified times. AIDS (Continued from page 1) Burt said the only way AIDS can be fought is through education and protection. 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