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m/wt Aggie Cinema Movie Information V.221 Hotline: 847-8478 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.. Mar. 2/3 7:30/9:45...$2.00 Midnight A Boy Named Charlie Brown Mar. 3 3:00 PM ....$2.00 Children under 13 - $1.00 Tickets may be purchased at the MSC Box Office. For membership information contact MSC Aggie Cinema at 845-1515, The Battalion WORLD & NATION 14 Thursday, March 1, 1990 Ortega calls halt to Contra attacks Class of'91 & '92 Ball Riverwalk Fiesta Friday, March 2, 1990 At The Ramada Inn $5./person Tickets on sale at the MSC, Duncan St at the door MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — President Daniel Ortega declared a halt to attacks on the Contras Wednesday and called again on the United States to help dismantle the rebel force. President-elect Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who joined Ortega on Tuesday in asking the U.S.-backed Contras to put down their arms, praised his move as a step forward. “The causes of civil war in Nicaragua have dis appeared,” Chamorro said at a news conference. “There is no reason for war.” She said the Contras, most of them based in neighboring Honduras, “must lay down their weapons and come home to work for the recons truction of Nicaragua.” Ortega said in a statement that he ordered all offensive military operations against the Contras to halt. He said the United States should help pay for demobilizing and relocating the rebels. Chamorro upset Ortega in an election on Sun day that he clearly expected to win and agreed to as part of a Central American plan for ending the war. Demobilizing the Contras is the trickiest issue in transition talks that began Tuesday between Chamorro’s 14-party coalition, the United Na tional Opposition and the stunned Sandinistas, who have been in power for more than 10 years. Sandinista officials say they cannot give up control of the armed forces and police as long as the 10,000-man Contra army is intact. Chamorro made it clear she expects Ortega to keep his promise to turn over power and that her government plans to run the army and security forces. “I’m the one who is going to give orders,” said the silver-haired widow, who was chosen to run against Ortega because of her powerful symbolic value. The 1978 death of her husband, oppositi publisher Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, touchedo the revolution that overthrew dictator Anastai Somoza and put the Sandinistas in power. She said the Sandinistas “have to turn overt erything,” including the armed forces —the ditional source of real power in Latin America “The minister of defense will be a civilian," declared. The current minister, Gen. HumbertoOrtet the president’s brother, leads the Sandinistatrai sition team. Chamorro’s son-in-law and paign manager, Antonio Lacayo, heads United National Opposition team. The transition talks are expected to be cot plex and delicate. Ortega laid out tough Sandinista positions Tuesday before thousands of cheering par members. Senate stops anti-abortion bill; author refuses to accept defeat ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A bill that would ban most abortions in Minnesota failed to get past a state Senate committee Wednesday, but the author refused to con cede defeat. AGGIE SPECIAL 12" medium original style pizza with 1 item $5.49 Expires 3/18/90 Tax not included in price. One coupon per pizza. Limited delivery areas ensure safe driving. L— T I I I I I J The bill, which would prohibit abortions for “birth- control reasons,” was drafted as model legislation by the National Right-To-Life Committee in the wake of last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave states more leeway to restrict abortions. “A bill is always alive as long as the session is on,” said Democratic Sen. Gene Waldorf after his bill failed on a tie vote in the 16-member Senate Health and Human Services Committee. “A bill has been resurrected before,” Waldorf said. “Committee defeat is not the end of action on a bill.” The vote followed nearly seven hours of testimony from state and national leaders on both sides of the abortion debate. Although Minnesota was long associated in national politics with the liberalism espoused by former Vice President Walter Mondale, an abortion rights sup porter, it has been a stronghold of anti-abortion senti ment. As the lawmakers debated, nearly 2,000 pro-choice activists chanting “Choice” exchanged taunts outside the Capitol with a small group of abortion foes shouting “Life.” No arrests were made. Proponents say the legislation would be the toughest enforceable anti-abortion measure in the nation, pro hibiting an estimated 93 percent of the abortions per formed in the state. Court upholds state’s death penalty 260-9020 4407 S. Texas 693-2335 1504 Holleman 822-7373 Townshire Shopping Center IT’S TIME FOR DOMINO’S PIZZAT WASHINGTON (AP) — States may make the death penalty the only possible punishment for some mur derers without violating the Consti tution’s ban on mandatory death sentences, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. By a 5-4 vote, the court upheld Pennsylvania’s death penalty system despite “some mandatory aspects.” The decision removed a threat to similar laws in 13 other states: Texas, Arizona, California, Con necticut, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Ore gon, Tennessee and Washington. Most states have death penalty laws, but many of them do not re semble the Pennsylvania scheme. Past Supreme Court rulings have struck down state laws making death the mandatory punishment for spe- )lic cific crimes, such as killing a police officer, or for specific offenders, such as prison inmates already serv ing life sentences when they commit murder. Those decisions said the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and un usual punishment requires that sen tencing judges or juries be allowed to consider aggravating and mitigat ing factors. But Pennsylvania law says, “The verdict must be a sentence of death if the jury unanimously finds at least one aggravating circumstance ... and no mitigating circumstance.” Chief Justice William H. Rehnqu- ist, writing for the court, said the law does not make death mandatory de- mitigating circumstances.” He added, “The constitutionality of a death penalty statute having some mandatory aspects is not a novel issue for this court.” SHOP DILLARD S MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 10-9; SUNDAY 12-6; POST OAK MALL. HARVEY ROAD AT HIGHWAY 6 BYPASS, COLLEGE STATION. MASTERCARD. VISA. DINERS CLUB. CARTE BLANCHE. AMERICAN EXPRESS AND DILLARD’S CHARGE CARDS WELCOME. spite its mandatory-sounding lan guage. He was joined by Justices Byron R. White, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy. “Death is not automatically im posed upon conviction for certain types of murder,” Rehnquist said. “It is imposed only after a determin ation that the aggravating circum stances outweigh the mitigating cir cumstances present in the particular crime committed by a particular de fendant, or that there are no such Atlantis lifts off despite launch delay: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis aloft at last on a secret militar mission after five launch debt orbited the globe Wednesday in public silence that NASAolficia; said meant all was well. Atlantis blasted off with ftt military astronauts and a carfi believed to be a $500 millionsp satellite at 2:51 a.m., its 700-fo( column of fire visible for hut dreds of miles. It was NASA' sixth attempt at launching tht 100-ton spaceship for the 1® sion, one short a record forth! most shuttle postponements. “Thank goodness we can nally stop meeting like thii NASA administrator Richani Truly told the launch team afe Atlantis rocketed into orbit was a tough one to get off, t great job.” Nothing was heard from At lands’ all-military crew, am launch director Bob Sieck said “the crew was pretty quiet an: very patient.” “The fact that we haven heard anything indicates that al is going according to plan added Bruce Buckingham, spokesman for the Nation; Aeronautics and Space Adminit tration. Liftoff, originally set for Feh 15, almost was delayed a time because of bad weathen Kennedy Space Center and a emergency abort sites. ; r- Bill g‘ l)c be sp sai otl tie tat on sut cas pa vat ch; bet sec wit cot agr firs 19i 1 bet of not trat dos day mih 1 den Set E By, OfT Offi cher expl mon A&It EXPERIENCE FOR THE BENCH ■ Prosecutor Ass't County/District Attorney, Brazos County: 1964-67 • County Judge Brazos County Administrative and Judicial Judge: 1967-78 • Board Certified Trial Lawyer Board Certified-Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization: 1981- Private Practicing Attorney: 1979- - State Bar of Texas Member, Board of Directors, State Bar of Texas: 1986-09 Chairman, 8A Grievance Committee 1985-86 Vice Chairman, Rules of Professional Responsibility Committee: 1989-1992 ■ State Government Service Citizen Member, State Depository Boait 1982-85 Member, Finance Commission oftexa: 1985-86 • Community Service President, Bryan-College Station Ctia fS of Commerce: 1988 Chairman, Brazos Valley Developmeil Council: 1976-77 President, Texas Association of Regi^ Councils: 1977-78 Fund Drive Chairman, Bryan United 1967 Organizer and Chairman, Brazos Vallef MFI-MR Board of Trustrees: 1973-77 • Education BA (Economics), Texas A&M University 1961 JD, University of Texas Law School: 1& BILL VANCE FOR JUSTICE 10th COURT of APPEALS Political Ad Paid By Committee to Elect Bill Vance, Karl M. 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