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Wed. April 1. 8. 15. 22. 29
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Wed. April 8. 15. 22. 29. May 6
7:30-8:45pm
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ARTS &
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Drawing II
Tues. March 24 - April 28
6-8pm
$20/student $25 /nonstudent
Etched Glass
Tues. March 24
6-9pm
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Leaded Glass
Wed. March 25 - April 22
6-9pm
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Jewelry
Sat & Sun April 4 & 5
9am-12 & l-4pm
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Hand Building
Mon. March 23 - April 27
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Mon. March 30 April 6. 13, 20. 27
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Craft Sampler Class
Thurs. March 26 April 2. 9
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COMPUTERS
Intro to DOS/IBM PC
T/W/Th, March 24. 25. 26
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Sat. March 28. April 4
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WordPerfect 5.1
TWTh. March 31. April 1. 2, 7. 8. 9
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Sat. April 25. May 2
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M/W. March 30 - May 6
6:30-8pm
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Wine Appreciation II
Wed. March 25. April 1.8. 15
7-8:30pm
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Matting & Framing
Thurs. March 26, April 2, 9
6-8pm
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Electronics
Thurs. March 26 April 2, 9, 16
6:30-9:30pm
$26/student $31/nonstudent
Cake Decorating
Mon. April 6. 13. 20. 27
6-8pm
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Plan a Wedding
Tues. March 24, 31 April 7. 14
6-8pm
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Potpourri
Tues. April 7
6-8pm
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Assertiveness
Thurs. April 2. 9. 16, 23
7:30-9pm
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B&W Darkroom
Tues. March 31. April 7. 14
6- 9pm
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Bike Maintenance
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Video Recorder &
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The Texas A<SlM University Student Publications Board
is accepting applications for
Editor, The Battalion
Summer 1992
The summer editor will serve from May 25, 1992, through August 7, 1992.
Editor, The Battalion
Fall 1992
The fell editor will serve from August 17, 1992, through December 11, 1992.
• Qualifications for editor of The Battalion are:
Be a student at Texas A&.M with a minimum 2.0 GPR at the time of appointment and during the term of
office;
At least one year experience in a responsible editorial position on The Battalion or comparable student
newspaper,
OR
At least one year editorial experience on a commercial newspaper,
OR
At least 12 hours journalism, including JOUR 203 and 303 (Media Writing I and II) or equivalent. The 12
hours must include completion of or enrollment in JOUR 301 (Mass Comm Law) or equivalent.
Editor, Aggieland
1993
The Aggieland editor is responsible for staffing, producing and promoting A&M's 1993
yearbook. Aggieland is the nation's largest yearbook, both in the number of pages and
number of copies sold each year.
• Qualifications for editor of Aggieland are: v
Be a student at Texas A&.M with a minimum 2.0 GPR at the time of appointment and during the term of
office. At least one year of experience in a responsible position on the Aggieland or comparable college
yearbook is preferred.
Application forms should be picked up and returned to the Student Publications
Manager's office, room 230 Reed McDonald Building. Deadline for submitting ap
plication: 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, 1992. Applicants will be interviewed during
the Student Publications Board Meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday, March 27,
1992, in room 214 Reed McDonald.
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The Battalion
Tuesday, March 24,1
Trade talks show progress
Negotiators hope to approach Congress with pact before 1993
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nego
tiators could achieve a break
through in the North American
Free Trade Agreement talks, mak
ing it possible to present the pact
to Congress this year, a
spokesman for the U.S. Trade
Representative's office said Mon
day.
"There's still a chance for an
agreement this year and for one to
be presented (to Congress) this
year," said Timothy O'Leary, a
spokesman for Trade Representa
tive Carla Hills.
But senior Bush administration
officials last week told The New
York Times and The Washington
Post that the White House almost
certainly would not seek congres
sional ratification of the pact this
year.
Although President Bush re
mains firmly committed to a trade
agreement — and several confi
dants feel it could be an election-
year political bonus in several key
states — the complexity of the
talks make a deal unlikely this
year, the unidentified officials
said.
The chief negotiators for the
United States, Mexico and Canada
began a week-long series of talks
Monday in Washington.
Many of the 19 working groups
examining individual trade issues
also were in town and meeting
separately.
The Washington talks mark the
first time the chief negotiators
have met face-to-face since the
Dallas round last month.
None of the 19 working groups
has reached agreement. Talksi
St
problem areas such as energy atj
automobiles remain "in theccc-
cept stages," Ms. Hills saidlas;
week.
The free trade agreement-
which would link the Unite;
States, Canada and Mexico in
market of 360 million consumen
with an annual output of $6tri
lion — has become a hotly-con
tested issue in the presidenti;
campaign season.
Former California Gov. Jem
Brown campaigned hard agains
the free trade pact in the Midwe?.
where fear is high that Industrie
jobs could be lost to low-pai;
Mexican workers.
H. Ross Perot has come on
against a free trade agreement.
Lottery ticket sales to start
early, beat July deadline
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The
first tickets for the Texas Lot
tery could go on sale as early as
late May, State Comptroller
John Sharp said Monday.
Sharp, whose office oversees
the gambling game, said he ex
pects to beat the July 1 deadline
for starting the instant-win
games and the Jan. 1, 1993,
deadline for computerized "lot
to" games.
The lottery already is issuing
licenses to retail outlets that will
sell instant scratch-off tickets,
he said.
"It (start-up) may be moved
now to as early as June 1,"
Sharp said. "It may even be
possible to begin around
Memorial Day — the last week
of May — something like that."
Sharp's comments came in a
speech to the Texas Daily
Newspaper Association's annu
al meeting. The comptroller
said the computerized games
could be ready by Sept. 1, al
though lottery officials likely
would wait until a week or two
after the Labor Day holiday.
"Everything's on track. It's
well ahead of schedule," he
said.
? ‘ Each day the lottery iterates
means about $1 million in rev
enue for state government.
Sharp noted. An earlier start-up
means that much more revenue,
he said. "One million dollars a
day starts getting into some real
money."
Sharp also said lottery offi
cials are pushing Texas mer
chants to apply for lottery-sell
ing licenses by the March 31
deadline to help meet the earli
er start-up date.
"We're trying to get the
whole 15,000 signed up by the
end of this month," he said.
On other state issues. Sharp
told the newspaper group that
he continues studying possible
changes in the tax structure that
would end public schools' de
pendence on property taxes.
Lawmakers are under court or
der to devise a more equitable
funding system.
Sharp said he wasn't yet
ready to endorse a "value-
added tax" but is looking for
something that could roll back
property taxes on homeowners
and provide a fairer business
tax structure.
"The only reason we use
school property taxes to funde-
ducation is because when that
System started, that's the only-
wealth there was," he said.
Physicians
join forces
in radiatio
study
HOUSTON (AP) - Physicia
at Methodist Hospital on Mondi
joined colleagues at the Hadassa
Medical Organization
Jerusalem to study children
posed to radiation in the 151
Chernobvl nuclear plant acciden
The Texas Hadassah Medic
Research Foundation is establis
ing a registry of radiation-e
posed children who have (If
their former Soviet Union hom
for Israel. The project will invok
physicians who hope to develi
preventive medical care forrai
tion exposure.
"The idea was to collaborate
this between Texas Medical 0
ter and the Hadassah Found
tion," Dr. Samuel Penchas, dire
tor of Jerusalem's Hadassah Me; five-year
ical Organization, said. Hesai gave him
Methodist Hospital and Tex;
Children's Hospital along wi
two hospitals in Jerusalem w'i 1990 bece
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unusual opportunity," Pew andthro\
said, noting that as many as The Ia<
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DALLAS (AP) — There were other persons work
ing with the Presidio County sheriff in a $50 million
cocaine smuggling attempt, according to the sheriff's
plea agreement which was released Monday in
Pecos.
The plea bargain, which kept Rick Thompson
from going to trial, was unsealed Monday after The
Dallas Morning News sued to have the document
opened. The case was sealed last month when
Thompson pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy
to import a load of cocaine that was found in a horse
trailer at the Presidio.County fairgrounds.
Prosecutors had said they didn't want the pact
made public because authorities still are investigat
ing the drug smuggling case. Thompson also wanted
the agreement to remain secret.
The plea agreement shows that Thompson said he
became involved in the smuggling case with co-de
fendant, Glyn Robert Chambers, and "with other
persons to the grand jury unknown."
The bargain says that Thompson will cooperate
with the government in the future
Three of four charges against Thompson^
dropped in the deal. The charges followeda2,f
pound cocaine seizure in Marfa last year.
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gesting a 10-year prison sentence with no fine.Ss I first multi
tencing is set for May 8.
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mains free on $5,000 bond.
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moved the drugs from the Rio Grande to Marfa
part of a one-man reverse drug sting he was<
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