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\aggi ^7 \aggi^\!A^jnema/ \AGGI nema/ Congratulations to the new Aggie Cinema Member of the Month . .. Freda Colbert The entire committee thanks you for all your hard work . P. Q. is especially grateful for your contribution of time and good humor! FARMERS MARKET Within walking distance of Texas A&M OPEN DAILY 10:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m. THIS WEEK: SPAGHETTI MADNESS Garlic bread and Medium drink included only $1." plus tax Special Good After 5 p.m. Dine in only University Drive at Northgate 846-6428 expires 2/11/90 Houston Livestock Show & Feb. 17-March 4,1990 1990 PERFORMANCE TIMES: Saturday Matinees - 11 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 25 matinee - 1 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 18, and Sunday, March 4-4 p.m performances only. All evening performances are at 7:45 p.m. PRESENTED BY Bud Light & Channel TWo Clint Black Feb. 18 4 p.m twilight performance Bill Cosby Feb. 26 The Judds Feb. 19 The Oak Ridge Boys Feb. 27 Conway Twitty George Jones Patti LaBelle lames Ingram PRESENTED BY Chevy First Team George Strait Expose Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam March 1 George Strait Feb. 22 Chicago Feb. 23 Nitty Gritty Birt Band Tanya Tucker Rodney Crowell Restless Heart Anne Murray March 3 Matinee Feb. 24 Matinee PRESENTED BY Texas Gulf Coast GMC Truck Team Ricky Van Shelton Feb. 24 Evening PRESENTED BY Miller Lite and Channel 11 Steve Wariner Feb. 25 Matinee The Highwaymen- Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson March 3 Evening Vikki Carr Roberto Pulido y Los Clasicos Emilio S Rio Feb. 25 Evening PRESENTED BY SNICKERS' Bar Alabama March 4 4 p.m. twilight performance METRO Take advantage of three Coors Light Rodeo METRO Express shuttle bus service locations: Meyerland, Northline and Gulfgate malls. Available for all performances, 5 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to midnight Saturday and Sunday. Fare is only $1 per rider, round-trip. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: TICKETRON OUTLETS: Dillard's in the Post Oak Mall and the Texas A&M University MSC Box Office. To order tickets by phone toll-free statewide, call Rainbow Ticketmaster at 1-800-992-8000 or Ticketron at 1-800-284-5780 (outside the 713 area code) toll-free statewide. For tickets by mail, write: Ticket Director, P.O. Box 20070, Houston, Texas 77225-0070. Rodeo ticket prices range from $5 to $12 and include admission to the Livestock Show. ALL NET PROCEEDS BENEFIT YOUTH & SUPPORT EDUCATION 1989-1990 AGGiR/ISOM Texas A&M University's Video Yearbook Texas A&M's video yearbook is more than 60 minutes of the sights and sounds of SQ’-QO'. Order your copy for only $32.25 in room 230 Reed McDonald Questions? Call 845-0048 Page 6 The Battalion Monday, February5,114: Birds require balanced diet, good nutrition DALLAS (AP) — Parakeet and cockatiel owners who feed their pets a regular supply of bird seed are ruffling the feathers of state veterinarians who say that diet is unhealthy. Feeding any bird only seeds “is like feeding a human Twinkles for every meal,” Brazoria veteri narian Kathy Dickerson said. “They are omnivores — they should eat pretty much what peo ple eat, the same four basic food groups.” Dickerson and other animal specialists met Friday in Dallas for the annual Texas Veterinar ian Medical Association confer ence. Dickerson also is a member of the Avian Practice Committee, a subgroup of TVMA. The group also is urging Texas A&M University to hire an avian clinician. Veterinarians are seeing an in crease in the number of birds brought to their clinics either dead or dying because of malnu trition, she said. Vitamin A and calcium deficiencies are most common and eventually result in death. Sherry Vincent of the Animal Kingdom pet store in Dallas said many shops don’t “take the re sponsibility of letting people know what these birds need to grow up healthy.” Vincent said bird owners can feed their pets table scraps, but she recommends fresh fruit and various types of commercial bird food pellets that provide birds with a balanced supply of nutri ents. Mexico gets a break Reforms lead U.S. to agree with debt reductioi MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and its commercial bank creditors signed a debt reduction agreement Sun day that was praised as an example for other indebted nations and the result of the government’s economic re forms. “Mexico stands as a beacon of hope for other debtor nations,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady said at the signing ceremony. Brady laid the groundwork for the agreement a year ago by offering debt forgiveness in exchange for eco nomic reforms in developing countries. Under the agreement, banks could choose i*. three options: reducing the principal amount oft , loans by 35 percent, reducing interest to a fixechi . 6.25 percent, or of fering new loans equal to 25pen® of the debt they already held. Banks opted to reduce principal on $20 billiono: debt, reduce interest on a further $22.5 billionanc tend new loans for $6 billion in existing debt. Previously, banks had managed the debt crisis mainly by lending countries money to cover their interest pay ments, a process that merely increased the total debt burden. “It is very important to have the first transaction completed but we do see it as only the beginning,” Braciy said. Mexico’s agreement will cut the country’s $48.5 bil lion bank debt by a little more than $7 billion and re duce annual interest payments by about $1.6 billion. Mexico estimates the full impact of the agreement will save it more than $4 billion a year. “The renegotiation of the debt is sufficient for Mex ico” and will lead to growth and better living conditions for Mexicans, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari said. Salinas said faster growth is “a social imperative to re spond to the demands of the more than 85 million Mex icans of today and the 10 million more” who are ex pected to swell the nation’s population during the remainder of his six-year term. Treasury Secretary Pedro Aspe said the country’s to tal debt, including loans from governments, will total $93.6 billion after the accord. That is the second high est in the developing world after Brazil’s $114 billion. The banks that chose the first two options will change their debt for Mexican government bo:; backed by U.S. Treasury bonds. Mexico will but; U.S. bonds as collateral with a $7 billion package credits from multilateral agencies and Japan, as wel| the Mexican government’s own f unds. Aspe said the agreement will save Mexico an averJ IVlexico stands as a beacon of hope for other debtor nations. ... It is very important to have the first transaction completed but we do see it as only the beginning.” — Nicholas F.l U.S. treasury secretar. Officials of the 15 banks that negotiated the agreement on behalf of Mexico’s 450 creditor banks signed the accord in the ceremony at the National Pal ace. The other banks will sign in New York. Salinas took of fice Dec. 1, 1988, six years into an eco nomic crisis provoked by overborrowing and plunging prices for crude oil, the country’s main export. In a sweeping program to reform the heavily-pro tected economy, Salinas has opened the country to com petition from imports, encouraged foreign and do mestic investment, begun selling a wide array of state- owned companies to the private sector and started slashing subsidies. $4.1 billion annually in net transf ers abroad in the# four years. The figure includes $1.6 billion in reduced inte: : payments; an average influx of $288 million a yea: new credits, and the deferment of prinicpal paymd of $2.2 billion a year. The country has been paying about $12 billionan in interest and principal. The agreement “will serve as an example for other countries affected by the problem of debt," 5 Michel Camdessus, director of the International Me tary f und, which is lending money to Mexicoaspar the agreement. Other countries in line for Brady plan renegotiati: such as Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil have not®: as drastic reforms as Mexico. Bush’s goal of slashing deficit may be thwarted by interest rates WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration’s ambitious goal of slashing the federal deficit in half next year could well be thwarted by a Federal Reserve intent on keeping inflation under control, many private economists believe. These analysts are predicting the central bank will keep interest rates higher than the administration would like and thus keep overall economic growth well below the assumptions the administration used in pro jecting it could lower next year’s federal deficit to $63.1 billion. The Fed’s main policymaking group, composed of Fed governors and regional Feci bank presidents, was schecluled to hold closed-door discussions Tuesday and Wednesday for the central bank to set monetary strat egy for the rest of the year. The results of those deliberations will not be known until Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testi fies before Congress on Feb. 20, but most analysts be lieved the Fed will be slow to make any further reduc tions in interest rates. “I think the Fed is going to sit on its hands,” said Da vid Wyss, chief financial forecaster for DRI-McGraw Hill. “The employment and inflation numbers are com ing in too high to permit further easing.” Wyss and other forecasters said thev were not looking for interest rates to drop much from current levels, despite calls by the Bush administration for lower rates to keep the country from slipping into a re cession. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady on Friday con ceded that the administration and Fed policymakers don’t always see eye to eye, but he tried to play down re cent reports of a policy rift. Brady said the administration has a bias toward eco nomic growth that is greater than that of the Fed, say ing that “differences of point of view are openly ex pressed” during his weekly meetings with Greenspan. Economic growth slowed to a barely perceptible 0.5 percent rate in the final three months of 1989, the slo west pace in S'/a years. The administration’s 1991 bud get plan, however, forecasts a significant rebound in growth for this year, putting the increase in the gross national product for 1990 at 2.6 percent. 1 hat is almost a full percentage point higher than is being forecast by most private economists. They believe the Fed’s credit policies will constrain growth to around a 1.7 percent annual rate. Analysts said they were not looking for any reduction for several months in banks’ prime lending rate, the benchmark rate for a variety of business and consumer loans, which was cut in January to 10 percent. Space shuttle to send Earhail scarf into space WEST LAFAYETTE, In (AP) — Two generations of ai ation history will be linked Ai 19 when a scarf once wornbylr endary aviator Amelia Earl rockets into- space aboard . space shuttle Discovery, officii at Purdue University said. The scarf was presented Sam: day to NASA astronauts Jem I Ross and Donald E. William both alumni of Purdue, wh Earhart trained for the aronne the-world trip on which shed: appeared in 1937 over the Padi Ocean. Ross and Williams willtakei! scarf to the Johnson Space Cens in Houston and give it to fell astronaut and Purdue alumni Loren Shriver, who vvi mand the shuttle flight. Police accuse couple of murdering son POMPANO BEAGH, Fla. (AP) — Police say Ghristopher Morris plotted with his parents to kill his ex-wife and collect $35,000 in insurance. When they found out the policy had lapsed, au thorities allege, the parents killed him instead — to collect a $70,000 policy. T heron and Leila Mat y Morris, who moved from Detroit, kept a well-tended yard in their mobile home community. I hev were regular churchgoers. Now they're charged with murder, accused of killing their 42-year-old son in a deadly double- cross. Police say the Morrises schemed with their ex convict son to kill his former wife, Sharon, and her 10-year-old daughter for the insurance. But they turned on their son after they learned that the coverage had lapsed, authorities say. The couple and Martin Rector, their son's roommate and one-time prison buddy who is ac cused of being the triggerman, then conned a drifter with drinking and blackout problems into confessing to the crime, police say. The drifter was released from jail after the three others con fessed Wednesday. “I’ve been doing homicide for 12 years,” sher iff's Lt. Tom Gainey said. “It’s the strangest, most cold-blooded murder I’ve ever seen. It seems they were upstanding citizens, never had a brush with the law. They look just like any other grandparents you would find any place in the countrv.” The Morrises’ lawyer, Douglas Lambeth,®! different story will emerge in court —tbail Morrises were afraid of Rector and went a/ out of fear. The alleged murder scheme stunnedresidti of the community, north of Fort Lauderdale ‘ “They were good neighbors,” said John Bit; nan, a retired school administrator from Bil hamton, N.Y. “He was a good church membej I heron Morris, 76, a retired Chrysler (1 engineer, and his wife, 62, who worked] United Air Lines for 23 years, moved to Fk| four years ago. Their son was released from prison late- year after serving time on drug and assl charges. F Er G N In K Hot Presented by MSC Black Awareness Committee and MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society sale sai > m Thursday, February 15 1990 8:00 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium Unforgettable, vibrant, and enthusiastic entertainers...THE BOYS CHOIR OF HARLEM is a major performing arts insti tution of international reputation, featur ing a repertoire which ranges from classical music to contemporary songs and placing emphasis on the works of Black composers, m w > . r 2 Tickets are $13.00, $10.50, and $8.50 for students and $15.00, $12.50, and $10.00for adults. If 10 or more tickets are purchased, a 15% discount will be given. Tickets are available at Ticketron outlets and the MSC Box Office. For more information, call 845-1234. L fu K ' E J e ■n Frt i « s e ®ALESALI