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The Battalion Battalion Classifieds WORLD & NATION 1 c HELP WANTED HEALTHY MALES WANTED AS SEMEN DONORS Help infertile couples confidentaility ensured. Ethnic diversity desirable, ages 18 to 35, excel lent compensation. Contact Fairfax Cryobank, 1121 Briarcrest Suite 101,776-4453 EARN & LEARN Be a part of a student merchandising marketing team for an international computer company! Salary plus Commission, Flexible Hours, Build Resume, Experience, Certification. Fax resume to: 212-675-1732 or mail to: CTI 5 West 19th St., 10th FI., New York, NY 10011 334675/17 SINUS HEADACHE STUDY Patients needed with history of SINUS HEADACHES to be treated with one dose of medication while headache is acuted. Call for information. Eligible volunteers will be compensated. 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NOT WHEN YOU LIVE AT • Efficiency, 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms • All bills paid (except electricity) • No city utility deposit • Shuttle bus route • Volleyball Court • Lighted Tennis Courts • Hot tub • 2 Pools • Basketball Courts “New Carpet-New Carpet” Lease Today For Best Selection Now pre-leasing for summer & fall 693-1110 Hours: M-F 8-6 Sat. 10-5, Sun 1-5 FUNTITION OIKS ...Spirit ...Pride and the new Tradition. 1990-1991 AggieVision Tuesday, July 17,1990 Tue * Administration orders task force to study NASA’s long-term goals C S Non-smoking, 2b, $125, now-fall, near campus 845- 1827, 268-7744 Chen. 171t7/19 WASHINGTON (AP) — After a spate of re cent NASA embarrassments, the Busn adminis tration Monday ordered a review by outside ex perts of the nation’s long-term space goals. “Space continues to be a top priority for the administration,” said a statement released by the office of Vice President Dan Quayle, who heads the National Space Council. “We all want the best ideas on how we can move into the next century maintaining our leadership in space.” The review by an outside task force was not as drastic a measure as the complete restructuring of the space agency, which had been forecast by some news media over the weekend. “Contrary to some published reports, there is no White House investigation of NASA,” the statement said. Quayle met for an hour Monday with NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly, their third meeting in a week. “Adm. Truly and the task force will report their recommendations to the vice president,” the statement said, but it was not clear whether Truly would head the panel or merely appoint it. The space agency’s most recent embarrass ments — the myopic Hubble Space Telescope and a grounded space shutde fleet — have fo cused both public and congressional attention on NASA. Not since the Challenger accident of 1986, which claimed the lives of seven crew members, has the space agency been so under siege. Inves tigations so far have shown that the mistake in grinding the lenses of the $1.5 billion telescope would have been caught with proper testing. After Challenger, NASA appointed an inter nal investigating board. But President Reagan also appointed a 13-member commission of ex perts, headed by former Secretary of State Wil liam P. Rogers, which held hearings and pub lished its voluminous findings. The commission called the Challenger explo sion “an accident rooted in history,” and was highly critical of NASA for lax oversight, poor internal communications and pressures to launch. Nearly all the officials who ran NASA at the time of Challenger are gone from the agency. There were a number of outside investigations by Congress and by a panel of the National Re search Council, which also oversaw the redesign of the shuttles’ faulty booster rockets. Congress has been upset by the Hubble fiasco and by the concurrent hydrogen leaks that caused NASA to halt all shuttle flights. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., chairwoman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that has oversight responsibility for NASA, summoned Truly and former administrator James Beggs to a hearing Wednesday. Beggs had charge of the space agency a decade ago when the telescope was built. The problems come at a particularly bad time 10 successfu missions since the Challenger explosion and: spate of spectacular successes with probes to tht planets. un for NASA, which has had 10 successful shuttle “Their plate is quite full, and it’s a ven stressful time for NASA,” said Rep. BobTraxlei D-Mich., chairman of the House subcommitte that oversees the space and science budget. By Cl OfTh NASA needs congressional support to coni tinue the $32 billion space station scheduled for ; critical design review this year, a planned EaniArkai study called “Mission to Planet Earth,” and tk vo ice president’s announced goal of a permaner:j ur es manned base on the moon and an expedition!:coafe Mars. ■ : ': ; !»sBvn a ■VC Quayle discussed the problems with Truli Vj twice last week, once aboard Air Force Two ask!*' 01 //, returned from the economic summit in Houstoc | , White House Chief of Staf f John Sununu tooi ^ 1< ( part in the airborne talks. Bp j? ftitur Space News, a weekly industry newspaper C° forecast in Monday’s edition that a restructurin; ;Cmph of NASA was in the worksbecause of “concert 211 att that a lack of public support for space and fed'k* 1153 eral budget pressures make it difficult for NASj|^ rest to carry out its missions” and that the Whit: House was concerned the problems are institu; tional, not technical. conce Vick to stn Italian tax agents track down rich where they play Ministry wants Havel Request facsimile treats president as enemy of Czechoslavakia NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Frustrated by the legions of Italian tax evaders, revenue agents have taken a new tack — boarding luxury boats to see if the owners’ income declarations are as high as their lifestyles. Treasury officers checked out 217 yachts anchored in the Bay of Naples over the weekend, RAI state television reported Monday. ”The report didn’t say how many tax evaders were discovered by the visits. But among the yacht owners was a man who had described him self in tax forms as a Naples street vendor with a much smaller income than he actually had, RAI said. The government has declared war on tax evasion in an attempt to cut away at a budget deficit expected to reach $ 125 billion by year’s end. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) — Wanted by the Czech Ministry of Justice: Vaclav Havel. For at least one bureaucrat within the ministry, Havel remains the shady enemy of the state and former convict instead of Czechoslovak president. The daily Mlada Fronta on Mon day carried the facsimile of a request from the Ministry of Justice to the criminal department of Prague po lice on the “whereabouts of a Vaclav Havel, born Oct. 5, 1936.” The suspect “moved without noti fying the authorities,” the daily quoted the request, dated May 2, as saying. Havel was jailed for 4‘/a years by Communists during the 20 years he acted as a human rights activist and dissident under Czechoslovakia’s harsh Communist regime. He was under permanent watch of the secret police until last year’s democratic changes resulted in his election as president. The ministry inquiry appeared not only out of date but based on in accurate information as well. Unlike his predecessors, Havel, who starts serving his second term as president on July 5, still formally lives in his private apartment in downtown Prague, although he spends much of nis time at the presi- clential residence in Lany, near Pra gue, and his country house at Hra- decek in northern Bohemia. White House raises deficit forecast WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House hiked its forecast of next year’s budget deficit to $168.8 billion on Monday — $231.4 billion if savings and loan costs are counted — and warned of devastating cuts in programs without a quick budget compromise with Congress. The new estimate was more than two-thirds higher than the adminis tration’s projection just six months ago. Airport control towers could be closed, student loans canceled, food inspections interrupted and military forces halved by cutting perhaps one million people as the government buckled unaer what could be over $100 billion in automatic cuts this October, said Budget Director Rich ard Darman. It seemed unlikely that Congress would permit cuts on such a huge scale. And White House officials conceded that easing was needed in the nation’s deficit-reduction law, which mandates spending cuts across a broad range of programs if targets for reducing federal red ink are not met. But administration officials in sisted they would support a watering down of the Gramm-Rudman bud- get-balancing law only if coupled with a $50 billion package of spend- ingcuts and new taxes. Two-month-old “budget summit” talks between the administration and congressional leaders on a deficit-re duction package have seemed bogged down despite President Bush’s reversal of his “no new taxes” pledge three weeks ago. House Budget Committee Chair man Leon Panetta, D-Calif., said the consequences of a $100 billion Gramm-Rudman cut would be so se vere that the budget negotiators must somehow work out a deal. “The crisis is real,” Panetta told reporters. “These numbers should hit the White House, Congress and the summit like a fire alarm in the middle of the night.” In fact, Panetta said congressional leaders had urged Darman to re lease details of how the automatic cuts would affect individual pro grams “to convey a sense of crisis ... to show both our colleagues and the country that there is no choice here.” U.S. landrra in New York NEW YORK (AP) — TTS halfway up the Empire Stall! Building on Monday evening «« flames billowing froih shattered windows and chased* touristi from the observation deck and workers from throughout tk building. At feast 38 people were injured, roost from inhaling smoke. Alxnn *150 firefighters battled the blaze, which was largely con fined to four unoccupied offices on the 51st floor, Don Malva, a Fire Department spokesman, said. Heavy smoke poured* through the middle floors of the 102-story building, and the entire tower was cleared of tourists and late-lingering office workers. Josephine Danielson of New York, who was visiting the obser vation deck with five friends from Spain, said they clambered down stairways to the 70th floor, then took an elevator to ground level. “We started smelling snwle and we saw on the east side of tk building dense black smoke ew- ing from below the tower/ T ' ielson, an airline flight at&w said. “Whoever rugs the obser vation deck is tremendously * organized. You would think they would have had some kind of re corded announcement.” The fire was reported at 6‘J p.m., and by 8:45 p.m., the ta was out and die danger:}' Malva said, 'll VlSlO ’ l he fire did heavy on die 51 at Boor, with age on lower floors damage above. The wasn’t k said. ... ■i m. 1501 Harvey Road, C.S. Across from Post Oak Mall =TTV3.~~J Central Park jogger Rape victim testifies NEW YORK (AP) — The woman known as the Central Park jogger climbed unsteadily onto the witness stand Monday and described the lasting effects of a beating she barely survived and does not remember. Speaking in a firm voice, the woman testified she has trouble walking and seeing, cannot smell — and cannot remernber why. She said she remembers breaking a dinner date with a friend on April 19, 1989, because of work, but does not remember entering the park to run around 9:30 p.m., when she was gang-raped and viciously beaten by marauding youths who left her naked and near death in a puddle of mud and blood. “What was your very next mem ory?” asked Assistant District Attor ney Elizabeth Lederer. “I remember waking up in the hospital on a Friday evening, late in May,” she said. “A very good friend of mine was in the room and so was a nurse. It was the Memorial Day weekend.” She said she was in the hospital about six weeks before being trans ferred to a rehabilitation center. During her 10 minutes on the stand, the woman did not appear to look at the three youths cnarged with maiming her; the three looked at their hands, fiddled with pens or stared into space. There were no obvious reactions by the jurors. Defense attorneys asked the wit ness no questions. “Do you suffer any lasting injuries as a result of what happened to you on April 19, 1989?” asked Lederer. “I have problems with balance when I’m walking, and coordina tion,” she said. “At times. I’ll veer off to the right or the left. I have trouble walking down steps. I also lost my sense of smell completely. That has not come back. “I have double vision. When I’m reading, I hold papers over to the left to compensate. It takes a fair amount of concentration to make the image one.” In an attempt to blunt assertions by defense attorneys that a rape may not have occurred, the jogger was questioned about her sexual activity and use of a diaphragm for birth control. Antron McCray, Raymond San tana and Yusef Salaam, all 16, are charged with attempted murder, rape, sexual abuse, assault, robbery and riot in the attack on the woman and two male joggers. They are being tried in an adult court, but if convicted they will be sentenced as juvenile offenders to up to 10 years in prison. Baptist top committee meets to determine fate of church press editors NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Baptists’ right to know will be on the line today when the church’s 77- member executive committee meets, says one of two Baptist Press editors, who has refused to bow to demands that he resign. Fundamentalists who control the nation’s largest Protestant denomi nation began to press for the re moval of Alvin C. Shackleford, 58, and Dan Martin, 51, within hours af ter electing the Rev. Morris Chap man of Wichita Falls, Texas, as pres ident of the Southern Baptist Convention last month in Dallas. The election of Chapman was viewed as the end of a 10-year power struggle between fundamentalists and moderates for control of the SBC. Both Shackleford and Martin re fused to resign. Shackleford said the struggle is as simple, and important, as free speech. “We are basically asking for a right to focus on the real issue, and that is the Baptist right to know,” Shackleford said. Critics say the news service has be come biased in favor of moderates. Both Shackleford and Martin ha« asked for time to be heard at Tuft day’s hearing of the 77-member es ecutive committee. “It (the meeting) will be tooshofl for a broad ranging discussion of lb' role and function of a new service Martin said on Monday. “They (fun damentalists) are saying we are b ased and are not presenting the : viewpoint fairly. “No one has told me what theii criticisms are directly. They hav criticised us on some stories. La: year, we ran 1,298 stories and then was criticism of less than 10 stories. “Our goal always has been to ha'; fair, balanced and accurate storift I’ve spent almost 35 years injouriu lism, from little papers to big papet to this news service, and we needfll move our stories out fast and ha'- them as trustworthy as possible Martin said. T< Fron hirir Tex; heac grea coin threi hapj tent! said pro^ "Thi oftl The Rev. Fred Wolfe, treasurerol the church’s 77-member executi' : committee, said the issue is one® responsible journalism, not politics “It’s not the issue of a free pres ; it’s the issue of a fair press,” Wolf ( ji said. " lean asu 197: