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Tickets arc available for l.hc N lins Texas A(oM cSdiolar.sliip Pa^canl for &5, S8, & 810 I'c'.hnjciry 9l h Tor more fnlbrrri.'il.ion c’filj 84 : "’a'234. Albert's flair Design is having an introductory offer on a full set of nails. $25 696-3003 Ask for Juli Shenandoah Saturday February 9, 1991 9 p.m. Opening Act: $12 Advance Gen Admission $14 Day of Show Gen Adm. $15 Reserved Seats (Limited) AVAILABLE AT: Courts Western Wear-B/CS SILVER WINGS Texas Unlimited Doors open at 7:30 For more info: (409) 836-4836 R flglg, 2 miles east on Hwy. 105 IJ A L L R O))) O))) M Brenham EFFECTIVE READING CENTERS CONGRATULATES The 406 Fall Students who have REDUCED READING TIME 50-60% and IMPROVED COMPREHENSION 20-30% The following increased even more! Karl Holub Karl Radde Joanna Faulk Brian Thigpen Eric King Connie Stearns Ruben Barrera Jenny Olivero R J. 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The average price for a gallon of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline was $1,225, the American Auto mobile Association said in its regular weekly survey. That was down 2.4 cents from the previous week’s figure, and the low est pump price since the AAA sur vey pegged the average price at $1,201 on Aug. 7. Still, a gallon of gasoline costs Americans 15 cents more than they were paying Aug. 1, the day before the invasion. Oil and gasoline prices were driven skyward after the invasion on worries of supply disruptions, but crude oil prices suddenly sank after U.S.-led forces launched a shooting war Jan. 17 aimed at forcing Iraq out of Kuwait. Gasoline prices lagged crude oil prices on the way up and the way down. Gas prices were propped up by a 5.1-cent per gallon federal tax increase imposed Dec. 1 to help cut the federal budget deficit. A critic of the oil industry agreed that the federal tax threw prices somewhat out of proportion, but he contended oil companies are still charging too much. “Given the fall in crude oil prices we have seen, we still have not seen savings at the pump,” said Edwin S. Rothschild, energy policy director of the Washington-based consumers group Citizen Action. “I think consumers ought to be rightfully outraged as we get contin uing reports of higher fourth-quar ter earnings by the companies and the companies are still failing to fol low through with lower prices at the pumps,” Rothschild said. Most major oil companies have re ported dramatically higher fourth- quarter profits, but they have char acterized them as a one-time in crease based on high crude prices that have since fallen sharply. Crude oil prices plunged a record $10.56 per barrel in one day after the war began. The Battalion Police Beat The following events were re ported to the University Police De partment between Jan. 8 and 23: PUBLIC INTOXICATION: • Police reported a man was seen hugging a lamp post. The suspect then slid down the pole and could not stand up again. He was arrested and taken to the Bra zos County Jail after the officer smelled alcohol and determined the man could not walk by himself. • A student was arrested in a parking lot after an officer ob served he was intoxicated. The suspect was being investigated for a possible car accident. • Officers reported seeing three men on the roof of a build ing. They were determined to be intoxicated and were arrested and taken to the Brazos County Jail. • Two security officers re ported that a man walking unsteadily was slurring his speech and smelled of alcohol. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA: • A student was arrested after police were sent to investigate a strong smell of marijuana coming from a room in Dunn Hall. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE: • St. Joseph Hospital personnel reported treating a woman who in gested 24 tablets of penicillin. The student was upset about a break up with her boyfriend. HARASSMENT: • Three women reported re ceiving annoying telephone calls. MISDEMEANOR THEFT: • A man reported his 1990 Ford Tempo was missing from the parking lot where he left it. • An investigator with the Montgomery County Sheriffs Of fice was notified because the in scription in an Aggie ring did not match the name on the pawn ticket. The ring was reported sto len from a men’s room. • A woman reported $100 was removed from her locked desk. • A table and trash can were re ported stolen from the Medical Sciences Building. • Three students reported sto len bicycles. • Four students reported pur ses stolen. One purse and its con tents were found in a stairwell. • A woman reported $40 stolen from her wallet which was locked in a custodial closet in the Medical Sciences Library. • A wallet was removed from a backpack left unattended in Blocker Building. • A 300-pound lathe and metal cabinet were reported missing from the Eller Building loading dock. • Cash was reported stolen from a filing cabinet in the audio lab in the Academic Building. • A student reported a maroon “TAMU Holiday Bowl” overnight kit and its contents were stolen from a waiting room in Read Building. • Police arrested two men who confessed to the theft of an in structional sign in Mclnnis Hall. • A student reported that someone removed a calculator and other items left unattended in a study carrel at Evans Library. • The rear license plate of a student’s car was stolen. • A man reported his coat was removed from his office. He later found it on the ground outside the building. • A large amount of cash was taken from the Weight Club’s safe in G. Rollie White Coliseum. • A key ring and keys were taken from the top of a pay phone in Zachry Building. • A backpack was removed from a table in Duncan Dining Hall. DRIVING WHILE INTOXI CATED: • A police officer reported a vehicle traveling slowly and failing to stay in one lane. After stopping the vehicle, the officer determined the driver appeared intoxicated. The driver was transported to the Brazos County Jail. • A police officer pulled over the driver of a pickup truck for driving in the wrong lane of traf fic. The suspect was arrested after the officer noticed he smelled of alcohol. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY OF HABITATION: • A student reported someone entered her room in Neeley Hall and pried open the drawers of her filing cabinet. Nothing was taken. BURGLARY OF HABITA TION: • A student reported a silver dollar, a gold bracelet and a gnome removed from her room in Neeley Hall. • Seven students reported their rooms in McFadden Hall were Wednesday, January 30,19S broken into during the Christmas break. A compact disc was stolen from one room. Cash, ranging from $ 1.50 to $25, was stolen from the other rooms. • A student in Neeley Hall re ported that someone took six $1 bills from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bank which was in her locked dorm room. • A student reported six quar ters were taken from her dorm room in Neeley Hall. • Cash and a commemorative Alaskan silver dollar were stolen from a student’s locked dorm room in McFadden Hall. • Two gold necklaces were taken from a room in Haas Hall. An empty metal cash box was pried open. • Several textbooks were re moved from a room in Dunn Hall. BURGLARY OF A BUILD ING: • A hard disc, controller and cable were taken from a room in the Systems Administration Build ing. • A laptop computer with car rying case and external power source and assorted software were taken from a room in the Agricul tural Engineering Building. BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE: • A student reported his park ing permit was stolen. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • A fire extinguisher was taken from the Northside Parking Ga rage and its contents were sprayed across Asbury Street. It was found in the mud near Hobby Hall. • Someone scratched the right door of a blue Chevy Camaro. • A student reported a booting device, placed on vehicles for ex cessive tickets, was on a Ford pickup. The device was found in a parking lot the next day and the truck was gone. CRIMINAL TRESPASS: • Two men were arrested on campus after officers found the suspects had previously been is sued criminal trespass warnings. MINOR IN POSSESSION OF AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE: • A minor was seen with an al coholic beverage. The student was given a citation and released. DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED: • An officer reported a man pulled over for speeding was driv ing with a suspended license. NASA delays Discovery launch to replace defective thruster jets CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s next shuttle launch is be ing delayed nearly a week so workers can replace three thrusters used to steer the ship in orbit, the space agency said Tuesday. The military mission had been targeted for late February but now is scheduled for early March. Two of Discovery’s 44 thrusters are leaking and another has a bad weld, NASA spokeswoman Lisa Ma lone said. Three new ones will be in stalled Thursday, followed by seve ral days of hook-ups and tests. The steering jets are vital for the upcoming mission, which is ded icated to Defense Department work. During the eight-day flight, Dis covery’s astronauts will use the steer ing thrusters to maneuver the shut tle into unusual positions. Then the ship’s re-entry engines will be fired so a satellite temporarily placed in orbit can observe the rocket exhaust plumes. Military experts hope that will give them information that will en able them to better identify the plumes of missiles aimed against the United States or its allies in future wars. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will set an offi cial launch date in mid-February. Also Tuesday, scientists and astro nauts showed off a scientific obser vatory that is scheduled to be carried into orbit by the shuttle Atlantis in early April, the second mission of 1991. The Gamma Ray Observatory, de signed to measure high-energy gamma radiation from quasars, pul sars, black holes and other massive stellar objects, is the second of NA SA’s four so-called Great Observato ries. The first is the Hubble Space Telescope, which was carried aloft by the shuttle Discovery in April and later found to have a defective mir ror that has limited its usefulness. John Hrastar, the Gamma Ray Observatory’s project manager, said he is confident the spacecraft was designed and manufactured prop erly. Each of its four scientific instru ments was tested separately and again together, he said. Unlike Hub ble, it has no mirrors. Additional tests were conducted as a result of problems the Hubble crew encountered while deploying the space telescope, Hrastar said. “We asked the general question of where we’re similar or dissimilar to Hubble,” Hrastar said. “Our instru ments by their very nature are tested separately. They were calibrated separately.” “Wherever we had to ask that question ... we’ve tried to ask it and beef up the places where it might have helped us. So we’ve tried to learn,” he said. Act Now Texas A&M’s Crime Preven tion Unit of the University Police Department wants students to know they can find out about crime on campus by calling a spe cial number. Crime Line can be reached by dialing 845-6500. It is a recorded message about the latest crime on campus and crime prevention in formation. Dial the line and learn how to better protect yourself and your property. Invest a few minutes of time to receive information on current cases under investigation. Neutralize the opportunity of becoming a victim by staying abreast of crime trends on cam pus. Enjoy the feeling of knowing you can make a contribution to the reduction of crime on campus by staying informed and provid ing information that could solves crime. CAPITOLIZE ON SPRING BREAK Accompany MSC Political Forum On Their Annual Washington D.C. Trip March 9-14,1991. 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