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register to win a share
of nearly $4,500 in prizes!
The excitement at Dillard’s
begins Saturday at 10:00
Come to Dillard’s this Saturday and discover what’s new
and what’s now. You will find things for the bathroom,
bedroom and kitchen, plus a sensational collection of all
the newest campus fashions. While you’re here, register
to win one of more than 50 prizes. Registration begins
at 10:00 and continues until 5:00. No purchase is neces
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• $368.00 in junior apparel from Girbaud,
Ignite and Scarlett
• $200.00 in fashion accessories by Trifari,
Napier and Riviera
• $700.00 in men’s fashions from Girbaud,
Levi’s® Dockers® Generra, Union Bay,
Tommy Hilfiger and more.
• $733.00 in housewares and home fashions
by Oneida, Presto, Royal Velvet, J.P. Stevens,
Croscill, Wamsutta and others.
• $1,573.00 in women’s and men’s fragrances and
cosmetics by Estee Lauder, Clinique, Lancome-Paris,
Elizabeth Arden, First, Bill Blass, Obsession for Men,
Grey Flannel and other famous makers.
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Aggie football
Photo by Huy Ngup
Francine Sweet stacks boxes of game programs on a cart for
distribution around Kyle Field before the football game. This
weekend’s game will be against the University of North Texas
on Saturday at 6 p.m. A win against the Eagles would give A&IU
a 3-0 record on the season. About 6,000 programs, packed in
136 boxes, were printed.
Deficit-reduction plan
targets beer, cigarettes
WASHINGTON (AP) — In their
search for ways to tame the deficit,
federal officials are intent on taxing
some of life’s little pleasures: beer,
cigarettes, jewelry — even your ex
pensive new VCR.
Although any deficit-reduction
plan agreed to by Congress and
President Bush is likely to rely
chiefly on spending reductions and
less sweeping tax changes, it almost
certainly would include several tax
increases on consumers.
Top White House officials and
congressional leaders already have
reached a tentative agreement on
several tax increases that would
bring in $59 billion over the next
five years. Two-thirds of that would
be paid directly by consumers
through higher prices for alcohol,
cigarettes, airline tickets and a vari
ety of higher-priced “luxury” items.
Negotiators have been struggling
since May to devise a package of
spending cuts and tax increases that
would reduce the budget deficit by
$50 billion during the next 12
months and $450 billion more in the
following four years. Although the
biggest obstacle to agreement has
been President Bush’s insistence on
cutting capital-gains taxes, other dif
ferences remain.
“We’ve made a great deal ofp
gress but obviously not enoujl
Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, D-Maine, said beforene;
tiations resumed Thursday.
Unless agreement is reached-
the law is changed — by Oct. 1,1!
billion of arbitrary cuts in mostft
eral programs will be triggeredas
matically.
In the meantime, the leader-
agreed tentatively to tax increase!
alcohol, cigarettes and luxury iterr
Beer and wine taxes remainl
1951 levels, although the tax ol
quor was raised in 1951 andaja
1985. While negotiators have
said exactly how it will be done,
have agreed to tax drinkers ana
$ 13.6 billion over the next five ye
The plan is expected to inert
taxes somewhat less than an eaii
proposal, which, for example,w;
have raised the $1.96 taxonaf:
of 80-proof vodka to $2.54; the
cent tax on a six-pack of beer
cents; and the 3-cent levy ona"
milliliter bottle of table wine to
cents.
The tax on a pack of cigar::
would rise by 4 cents to 20 cents!!
year and by an additional 4 cent
1993.
Gulf crisis hinders
Soviet peace moves
MOSCOW (AP) — Convening
an international conference to re
solve the various conflicts in the
Middle East would clear the way
for restoring diplomatic ties be
tween the Soviet Union and Is
rael, a top Kremlin official told
the Associated Press on Thurs
day.
“I think that if there is a con
ference on the Middle East, we
shall establish diplomatic rela
tions with Israel,” Yevgeni Prima
kov, a senior foreign policy ad
viser to Soviet President Mikhail
S. Gorbachev, said.
Primakov, in a Kremlin inter
view with the Associated Press
board of directors and executives,
also said his country was willing to
help normalize relations between
the United States and Cuba, a So
viet client state.
Primakov’s remarks on the
Middle East went beyond what
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadze said two weeks ago
w hen proposing a peace confer
ence to discuss the Aug. 2 Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait, the Arab-Is-
raeli dispute and the Lebanese
civil war.
Shevardnadze said at the time
that Moscow would reconsider re
lations with Israel if it partici
pated in such a conference.
Israel and the U.S. govern
ment have been cool to the pro
posed peace conference, and Pri
makov appeared to be holding
out the carrot of normal Soviet-
Israel ties to make the idea more
attractive.
“The question of restoration is
linked to the process of political
settlement in the Middle East,” he
said in a wide-ranging interview
Relations between Israel anti
the Soviet Union, broken aftet
the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, ban
warmed since Gorbachev came®
power in 1985.
Primakov, a member of Gorba
chev’s newly created presidential
council, also warned of a war®
response in the Arab world ts
Iraqi leader Saddam Husseins
demand that Israeli troops will'
draw from occupied lands and
Syrian troops withdraw fro®
Lebanon before Iraq leaves K®
wait.
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ing does not satisfy us,” he said
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governments are opposed totbf
invasion ... the people at largs
support that propaganda of Sad
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rious support for himself. If no*
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gress on the Middle East confer
ence and link this to the withdrt
wal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait
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matic “corner,” Primakov said,
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unlikely to accept a request frof-
Saudi Arabia to send troops *
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possible Iraqi invasion.
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chev administration wanted ;
help ease tension between tlx
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