Book Sale Book Sale Book Sale Book Sale Book Sale
National Library Week jj>
April 19. 1991 |
3 Book Sale
9:00 am until 4:00 pm
South Side
of Sterling C. Evans Library
Sponsored by
Sterling C. Evans Library
andThe Friends of the library
ap!S noog afeg Jjoog arcs ^oog ajvs ^oog ajes ^oog
Rent your tuxedo for
ring dance now!
Basic tux $28.88
2501 S. Texas Ave
College Station
COIOGERrS
FORMAL WEAR & COSTUME RENTALS
693-0709
ROTHER’S
BOOKSTORES
Get your summer Rockin’
Sell your books back for $ and
a spin on our Wheel o f Fortune!
340 GEORGE BUSH DR. 901 HARVEY RD.
Come to the ^ 0 \
Downtown Bryan
° Gemuhtilichkeit, Dancing, Live Entertainment
Authentic German Continental Foods and Desserts
• German Wines, Beers and Schnapps
Fun for the whole family
For Reservation Call 823-8974
HOURS Tuesday-Friday 11:00 a.m. till 11:00 p.m. • Saturday 5:00
p.m. till Midnight
DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL
The Best German Food in Texas is Served in Downtown Bryan
218 N. Bryan • Bryan Texas
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
4 (r
STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS
Sneak a Peek
at the NEW
1992 TAMU
STUDY ABROAD
PROGRAMS
TUESDAY, APRIL 23
MSC MAIN HALLWAY
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Study Abroad Office, 161 Bizzell Hall West, 845-0544-
PARTY DRESSES
$49.95
Other Formals
15% to 50% OFF!
Ladies, now's the time
to save
at
I
LADIES AND LORDS
807 Texas Ave.
(next to Red Lobster)
764'8289
£ jPage 10
orld ^Nation
The BattaHon\^^\
pr
l 'We're not going to pull the plug'
U.S. brings aid to refugee Kurds
SAFWAN, Iraq (AP) — The
U.S. military presence in south
ern Iraq shrank to a narrow buf
fer zone along the Kuwait border
Wednesday.
For the first time, meanwhile,
U.S. soldiers entered northern
Iraq to look for sites that will
serve as camps for Kurdish refu-
P ees. The Pentagon said U.S.,
rench and British troops would
build tent cities and provide food
and medical care for the Kurds.
At the southern buffer zone,
the field commander in charge of
the 18,000 soldiers of the 3rd Ar
mored Division said they would
feed and protect refugees in the
area until relief agencies can take
over the work.
"We're not going to pull the
plug until people can take care of
themselves or until there's some
body else here to take care of
them," said Lt. Col. John Kalb,
who runs a sector of the Kuwait
border zone that includes the
U.S. Army-run refugee camp in
Safwan.
An estimated 40,000 Iraqis are
in the zone, seeking refuge from
civil unrest in southern Iraq,
where Shiite Muslims rebelled
against Saddam Hussein. About
a fourth of them are fed and
treated for medical problems at
the Safwan camp.
The zone, which was created
under the cease-fire imple
mented by the United Nations
Security Council, stretches six
miles into Iraq and three miles
into Kuwait.
Iraqi and Kuwaiti military
units are barred from the zone,
but the Iraqi part of the zone is to
return to the civil control of Sad
dam's government once U.N.
peacekeeping troops are de
ployed. Many refugees who de
serted from the Iraqi army or
supported anti-government
uprisings fear the changeover
will give free reign to Iraqi police
to exact revenge.
Kalb said the refugees would
be safe as long as U.S. troops
were there. "If an Iraqi po
liceman shows up with a gun.
I'm taking the gun," he said.
He said that no regular Iraqi
olice had returned to Safwan,
ut that several secret police
I
agents had been arrested by the
Americans. They were seeking
information on the U.S.
and the names of Iraqis wi
with the Americans, he said,
Kalb said American soldiers
might stay on to mn humanita
rian programs even after the
1,440-member United Nations
peacekeeping force begins pa
trolling the buffer zone. No de
ployment timetable has been set,
and relief agencies have not an
nounced plans to take over the
Army's humanitarian work.
U.S. military strength in the
Persian Gulf theater
under 270,000 men and women
Wednesday, just under half the
peak at the war's end, the U,S,
Central Command in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, said.
One Soviet mine resumes operations;
other industries threaten to join strike
MOSCOW (AP) — The nation's largest
coal mine resumed operations Wednesday
free from Kremlin control — a small crack in
a crippling strike but a victory in the fight by
republics to gain control over Soviet indus
try and natural wealth.
Meanwhile, workers in other industries
threatened to join miners who continued
the 7-week-old strike.
The strike was backed by a veteran dissi
dent who returned to Moscow this week af
ter more than 15 years in exile.
Vladimir Bukovsky urged protests and
said a general walkout "is the only solution"
to force Kremlin reforms and to oust Presi
dent Mikhail Gorbachev. He was in Tokyo
seeking Japanese investment for the crum
bling Soviet economy.
Some hard-liners also have demanded
Gorbachev's resignation, saying he has not
acted firmly enough to end ethnic and labor
strife.
Next week, the party Central Committee
is scheduled to meet in Moscow to review
the work of its leaders, including Gorba
chev.
66 On one hand, it's wonderful that
they have resumed work. On the
other hand, it’s damaging to the workers’
movement. 99
—Vyacheslav Sharipov,
coal basin strike committee
member
The mine strikes have battered the Soviet
economy and posed a strong challenge to
Gorbachev's authority as party chief and
government president. The miners started
the strike on March 1 demanding pay raises,
but Gorbachev's resignation has become
their main goal.
Miners at the Raspadskaya mine in west
ern Siberia returned to work Wednesday af
ter the republic of Russia agreed to take con
trol of the operation from the national
government, said mine officials and
ers.
"The country's largest coal mine is now
flying the (Russian) flag instead of the So
viet one," said the independent Postfactum
news agency. The mine formerly was
by the national Coal Ministry, meaning all
decisions about production and sales were
made in the Kremlin.
Tass quoted the Raspadskaya mine direc
tor, Alexander Yevtushenko, as sayin|
shipments from the mine would resume
Thursday. It said the mine is capable of pro
during 20,000 tons of coal a day.
No figures were immediately available®
how many miners work there or how the)
arrived at the decision to return to work.
Japanese leaders doubt security
of Soviet economy, deny requests
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's elite
toasted and cheered Mikhail S.
Gorbachev on Wednesday but
turned a cold shoulder to the So
viet leader's frank plea for aid
and investment.
Gorbachev, in a speech to Par
liament, urged Japan to join the
"new spirit in Soviet-U.S. rela
tions" that began with the end of
the Cold War and promised that
the Soviet Union would never at
tack Japan.
He also claimed broad Soviet
military reductions in Asia and
said he did not intend to inter
fere with Japan's most important
relationship, its security treaty
with America.
Yet midway through Gorba
chev's historic four-day visit,
deep-seated Japanese doubts
about their giant Soviet neighbor
and its economic stability were
proving more difficult to over
come than Cold War hostility.
Accompanied by his wife.
Raisa, the 60-year-old Soviet
president entered the wood-pan
eled main chamber of the Diet,
or parliament, to a standing
ovation. He received another
when he finished speaking 45
minutes later.
In his most plain-spoken re
quest to date for foreign aid,
Gorbachev warned that "the de
velopment of a new peaceful
world order will largely depend
on the outcome of perestroika.
... We are counting on support
for our efforts, particularly now
as we go through this critical
stage.
"If we let the new social proc
esses get out of hand, the coun
try may really be thrown into the
chaos that gives birth to dictator
ship," he said in a speech inter
rupted seven times by applause.
At a luncheon meeting earlier,
Gorbachev was blunter about
asking for aid. He threw out
most of a prepared text in trying
to persuade 600 business leaders
he was serious about reforming
the crumbling Soviet economy.
"Our Far East and Siberia have
resources, but they lack the in
frastructure to develop them,"
Gorbachev said, adding that the
Soviet Union has much to learn
from Japan's experience of con
verting military industries to
commercial use.
Gorbachev stressed he was
aware of the need for the Soviet
Union to deal with its outstand
ing debts.
"This year has been especially
difficult because our oil exports
have declined due to the Gulf
War," he said. "But we have the
resources to resolve the prob
lem. Your understanding would
be appreciated."
But Japan's hard-nosed busi
ness elders, whose savvy built
this country into the world's No.
2 economic power, said political
and economic problems must be
resolved before they can invest.
U.S. justices
dismiss suit
by passengers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hie
Supreme Court on Wednesday
made it more difficult for some
airline passengers to sue ovei
emotional distress from near
crashes.
The justices unanimously
threw out a lawsuit by passen
gers who said they endured II
minutes of sheer terror whenal
engines temporarily failed on as
Eastern Airlines flight from
ami to the Bahamas in 1983.
The derision said passengers
on international flights may nd
invoke a key 1929 treaty to sue!
they suffered no physical harm
The ruling has no direct bear
ing on psychic injuries incurred
on domestic U.S. flights. Stall
judges increasingly are permit
ting financial recovery for erne
tional distress unaccompanied
by physical harm in a variety oi
personal injury suits.
NSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness
3rd Annual International
Dance Fest
featuring
Tfr
Wazobia
3 Dancers will perform and
teach the audience a
South African Liberation Dance
Thursday, April 18,1991 8:00 p.m.
at the GROUEH! fRain Location 201 MSCJ
REAL MEN DON’T NEED LOGOS!
Our knit shirt is simply the best available on the market,
S'/if/c /<rc/ caffor
wo* C /j/y dr- curf ’
SiyU wdft
Top-fOCckd
fairldp/tcltC
nr side Ct-rd 9«C
f?uirfarced Cipid net
addflto/dtr MAjKt
ftap SmoaCJur ira
Available
in 21
colors.
Compactedm'isti
mieimats skrtirlnpe
datper Cer/f. f Ca/d
dCaifS CncCednr
We invite you to compare our
price with everyone elses $45.00 prices.
HERITAGE
Menswear
Downtown Bryan
n\US Big & Tall
822-6575