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Page 6 The Battalion 1 ’AGGIE’ Private Party Want Ads Business Hours $10 for 20 words running 5 days. If your merchan- dise Is priced $ 1000 or less (price must appear In mm ad). This rate applies only to non-commercial 6 t advertisers ottering personal possesions for sale. Guaranteed results or you get an additional 5 Uj days at no charge. If Item doesn't sell, advertiser must call before 11 a.m. on the day the ad Is £1^ scheduled to end to quality for the 5 additional m Insertions at no charge. No refunds will be made If your ad Is cancelled early. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday accepted Tuesday, September 29,151; Safety Continued From Page 2 "I always tell students, 'A&M is not an Alice- in -Wonderland world/" Wiatt said. "It is a microcosm of society. And although most Ag gies do not lie, cheat or steal, some do. And then some do worse." Wiatt said A&M has always been very se curity conscious. He said the act didn't affect any of A&M's safety or security policies, but it did guide them in gathering all of their data into one publication. "Before, it might have been confusing to collect all the information you might have wanted," he said. "Now, everything you need to know is in one pamphlet." Eighty-five thousand copies of Texas A&M's campus security pamphlet, A Commit ment to Your Safety, were printed this month. Copies of the pamphlet were mailed to 41,000 students and placed with 11,200 employee paychecks. Wiatt said he has had total financial sup port from A&M administration and has been able to invest in the students' safety. A&M has 42 commissioned peace officers, 42 non-commissioned security officers and two full-time Crime Prevention Specialists. The Crime Prevention Specialists talk to students and groups about personal safety and proper security, warning them to be alert and aware of their surroundings. "Students must realize that their safety is their own responsibility and they could bo victim if they walk around without beint aware of the situations and conditions arounl them," Wiatt said. "Some students havethej heads in the cloud and don't anticipate anj problems on campus except finding a parking space. You can give students all of the info mation in the world, but until they decideb consciously act on it, you cannot protect them." Texas Tech University and the Universityof Texas at Austin also publish pamphlets con taining their campus security policies. University of Texas reports indicate less re ported crimes than either Texas Tech or Texas A&M. For Sale TENSION HEADACHE STUDY Subjects with a history of tension headaches needed to participate in a short research study with a single dose of a marketed medication. NO BLOOD WORK. Eligible volunteers will be compensated. G & S Studies, Inc. (close to campus) 846-5933 PREMENSTRUAL SYMPTOMS STUDY The TAMU Psychology Department is studying ways of helping women cope with premenstrual symptoms. If you suffer from moderate to sever premenstrual symptoms and are interested in participating, contact the Psychology Clinic at: 845-8017 between 1 and 5 p.m. DIAMONDS FOR AGGIE RINGS Highest quality, lowest prices 776-3069 For personal appointment U2 tickets for sale. Floor seats. Great price. Call 693- 6150. 88 Mazda 323 loaded, runs great, 50K miles. Call 693- 6150. 1987 Honda Elite 50 Scooter. 45 mph. $450; includes helmet. Call Staci at 847-0431. Negotiable. Selling wooden paddles for sororities and fraternities with deslgns/pattems of your choice. Call Rose Betty at (409) 825-7869. Womens senior boots size 8, excellent condition $300 696-2216. Ask for Pat. 1989 Raider (Montero), 2 dr, 6 cyl., low mileage, black, excellent condition 764-9586 $8,850 Jake. Two tickets for U2 Oct. 14th Astrodome $40 each. Call 268-6849. 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Pick up your '91-92 AggieVision in room 230 Reed McDonald 8:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. Monday - Friday Pakistani jet crash kills 167, rescue team reports THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KATMANDU, Nepal— A Pakistani jet filled with Europeans plowed into a pine-cov ered hillside Monday, and rescuers searching the burning wreckage reported no survivors among the 167 aboard. Officials said one American was also on board the Pakistani International Airlines Air bus A300 when it crashed on a landing ap proach, the second air disaster near the capital in as many months. The pilot had given no indication anything was wrong before contact was lost with the plane, and the weather was normal, officials said. Airline sources in Pakistan said the plane may have been flying too low as it approached this city ringed by Himalayan mountains thousands of feet high. The sources, speaking on condition anonymity, said the plane was flying at 7,500 feet when it should have been at 9,000. A Thai Airbus crashed into a snowy peak near the capital in July, killing all 113 people aboard. The Pakistani jet, on a flight from Karachi, Pakistan, crashed 14 miles south of Katman du's airport, said Nagendra Prasad Ghimire, deputy chief of Katmandu airport. Rescue crews that reached the site by helicopter said the plane was on fire. An airman lowered him self on a rope for a closer view, but found no evidence of survivors, Ghimire said. Army and police personnel cordoned off all approaches to the crash site. The state-owned Nepal Radio announced that the bodies of victims found by rescue teams would be handed over to relativesal Katmandu airport on Tuesday. Monday's accident occurred at thestartof Nepal's tourist season, when dozens of moun tain climbing teams fly into this picturesque land to climb the world's highest peaks. Air line officials said at least 89 of the 155 passen gers were Europeans and that thejethada crew of 12. Thirty-five Britons, including a missionary family with three children, were among the passengers, the Pakistani airline reported in London. Most of the other Britons were headed for climbing vacations in the Himalayas, the air line said. The missionaries were identified by thecol- lege where they trained as Andrew Wilkins, 38, and his pregnant wife, Helen, 36. S. Africa releases white supremacist from jail Attempts to revive talks on apartheid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The government Mon day released from prison a white supremacist who slaughtered sev en people and an ANC member who killed three white women with a car bomb. They were among the first pris oners freed under a government- ANC agreement to release hun dreds of prisoners in an effort to restart South Africa's political talks on ending apartheid. Barend Strydom, nicknamed “white wolf," was sentenced for a sidewalk shooting spree in down town Pretoria. He avoided reporters after he was set free. Robert McBride, convicted in the car bombing, was greeted by cheering African National Con gress supporters as he walked out of Durban Prison. He punched the air with a clenched fist and yelled “Amandla (Power)'' and “Viva, ANC.” Under the agreement, about 150 political prisoners are being released immediately and another 300 could be freed by Nov. 15. Strydom and McBride were sen tenced to death, but the sentences were changed to life in prison. Walter Sisulu, deputy president of the ANC, called the prisoner release the most important ANC demand for negotiating with the white government. “We're all celebrating today," he said. Government leaders, mean while, tried to mend ties with the country's second most powerful Lab test detects sickle cell anemia in babies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN- A DNA test the Texas Department of Health has been using for about a year is providing quicker verifica tion and treatment of suspected cases of sickle cell anemia in newborns. Brad Therrell directs the lab that does blood testing on the approximately 320,000 babies bom in Texas each year. Law requires the testing for five blood-borne diseases, in cluding sickle cell anemia. Ther- rell's Austin lab started ship ping blood specimens to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston last year to gain confirmation of the incurable blood disease. “It definitely is working," Therrell said. Houston geneticist Edward McCabe said he hopes his test will be adopted nationally. McCabe, a professor of mole cular genetics at Baylor, said Texas infants with the sickle cell anemia formerly were diag nosed with a more time-con suming and less accurate pro tein test. The average age of di agnosis, he said, was about 4.5 months. Now the average age of diagnosis has been reduced to about 1.7 months. Penicillin treatments must start by 4 months of age for an infant to survive the disease's initial infections. “This means the vast majori ty of the 'Kids now’ are on the penicillin treatment by 4 months of age," McCabe said. In the past year, the DNA test has confirmed sickle cell ane mia in about 65 percent of 378 Texas infants. Strip mining threatens national forests THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON- The Interior Department is close to approving rules that could open national forests to strip mining unless the government buys the mineral rights. Interior spokesman Steven Goldstein insisted Monday that there are no plans to allow strip mining in national parks because in each of those cases the govern ment would buy up mineral rights or arrange for a land ex change. Goldstein said the policy change involves “fundamentally a constitutional issue" over the right of those holding mineral rights to be compensated. “The rule change makes it very clear there will be no mining in the parks," added Goldstein. “This could be the most disas trous action taken by any admin istration in the 76-year history of the National Park Service," Paul Pritchard, president of the Nation al Parks and Conservation Associ ation, a private advocacy group on park issues, said in a state ment. An association spokes woman, Kathy Westra, said the is sue of compensation should not be dealt with administratively, but left to the courts, and that the proposed Interior policy change could strain the department's fund for handling compensatory claims. Strip mining has been prohibit ed on federal protected lands for 15 years, ever since Congress en acted broad-reaching strip mine legislation in 1977. The law exempted those min ing interests that held “valid exist ing rights" to coal deposits prior to enactment of the law. How to deal with those who hold such rights has been the sub ject of controversy between envi ronmentalists and mining inter ests for years, leading to a number of court cases as well as debate within the Interior Department. The department informally has defined those with “valid existing rights" as anyone who had made “good faith efforts" to mine the coal prior to Aug. 3, 1977, when the strip-mining law went into ef fect. KAPLAN The answer to the test question. 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