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j RE-OPENING Putt-Putt® Golf & Games Saturday March 6 th , 1993 New - enlarged Gameroom and Concession Area! Construction continues on Batting Cages and Bumper Boats for late spring opening. Forthefunofiti ™ 1705 VALLEY VIEW DR. PH. 693-2445 Q18B3PPGCA AIRighf n»»wyd. Prinwd H USA [ tSUBUIRV* NOW DELIVERING (Main campus only) M-F 4 - close Sat - Sun \ 10 - close 696-1654 $5.00 Minimum order. Cash only. Treasons to attend 1 20th Century Insights An Owning' coitk Aforporet T'katc/ter She can spell potato. She didn't inhale. She's never thrown up on Japanese dignitaries. She looks good In tweed. Your date will think you're smart, t.u. doesn't have her. What else In going on at 8:00 p.m. On Friday March 26, 1993 ? Her son Is a Texan. Neat accent. She's pro-bonflre. She's got Aggie in her name. She's the "Iron Lady." She pays more taxes than the Royals. It's one of the best programs to come to TAMU. She's never been on David Letterman. You could get extra credit. It'll be exciting. She's a tough lady for tough times. It's in Rudder Auditorium. It's better than cow tipping. She's a chemist. It'll be informative. It's good bull! She rolled back Communism. She's better looking than John Maior. You'll learn about the world. It'll be over by 10:00 p.m. Tickets are still available at Rudder Box Office 84S-1234. She's not friends with Clinton. H's the Bigger Event. She is flying 2000 miles to see you. It's the tenth anniversary program of the Wiley Lecture Series. She likes sumo wrestling. She knows her acids and bases. You can tell your children you saw her. Maggie wants you to. She's the right person at the left time. That great British humor. Your mom & dad will be proud. Saturday Night Live didn't do her Justice. She's Dennis Thatcher's wife. She's conservative. She's having a good hair day. Student tickets cost $12,814, and $22. So you don't have to read about it in The Batt on Monday. She's Ronnie's best friend. It's the next best thing to being in London. When's the last time you saw a Right Honorable Baroness? Adult tickets cost $25, $35, and, $50. You'll witness history. She can bring home the bacon and fry It up in a pan. She is the 12th man. She's the Winston Churchill of our time. Stiff British upper lip. She hasn't grade The Enquirer. ♦MSC WUey Lecture Series <10 'A Put a Spring/- in your step... ...And some green in your pocket! A spring in your step, a smile on your face, and some green in your pocket - that’s what you’ll get at Wolfe Nursery, the area’s leading gar den retailer and a subsidiary of national leader Sunbelt Nursery Group. We are gearing up for the busy spring season and have excellent part-time opportunities at all of our locations. ^ C If you are energetic, articulate and dependable, with a professional appearance and a positive attitude, you may be selected to join our team as a part-time Sales Associate or Cashier. Interviews will be conducted 10am-6pm on Monday, March 1st, and 9am-5pm, Tuesday- Thursday, March 9th-llth, at the following loca tions: College Station Conference Center 1300 George Bush Drive College Station Cypress Station, Wolfe Nursery 17002 N. Freeway, Houston Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V Sunbelt Nursery Group Page 8 The Battalion Friday, March 5,1993 Cult standoff continues THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WACO — Three teams of ne gotiators are talking "almost con stantly" with the leader of an armed religious cult in discus sions that include scripture and religion, the FBI said Thursday. Although negotiators are "very positive" about the relationship that have built with cult leader David Koresh, he still has been told to wait by God, said FBI Agent Jeffrey Jamar. * During the talks, "there's long discussions regarding religion, long readings of the scripture," Jamar said. Koresh reneged on an earlier promise to peacefully sur render because he was awaiting further instruction from God, Ja mar said Wednesday. Also Thursday, authorities in two Bradley armored fighting ve hicles recovered a body they had spotted Wednesday about 350 yards from the compound during a helicopter search. "It was the first time I've ever had to put on a bulletproof vest to do an inquest," David Pareya, McLennan County Justice of the Peace. The body, an unidentified white male, was taken to a foren sic lab in Fort Worth, Pareya said. Jamar said the recovery was "not negotiated," and that the Bradleys were used to protect the crime scene investigators. Neither Jamar nor ATF deputy associate director Dan Conroy would say Thursday whether the man had been killed in Sunday's raid on the Mount Carmel com pound. "He was the victim of gunshot wounds, basically that's all I can say," Conroy said. Also Thursday, two or three Davidians were seen carrying an object among them which was left in a truck. No details on the object were immediately available. The Davidians returned peaceably to the compound. Earlier Thursday, Jamar con firmed the release of two addi tional children. Two boys, ages 11 and 12, had been released Wednesday afternoon and Thurs day morning, he said. Some feel situation needs 'mother's love' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WACO — Balenda Ganem be lieves a very important ingredi ent is lacking in negotiations to end the standoff between federal agents and members of a heavily armed cult led by a doomsday prophet: a mother's love. Ganem, of Bangor, Maine, flew to Waco on Wednesday to try to contact her 24-year-old son, David Thibodeau, in the fortified compound where followers of David Koresh have been holed up since Sunday's bloody gun- battle that ended with the deaths of four federal agents and, ac cording to a federal source, at least 10 cult members. She wanted to enlist the sup port of other mothers of cult members in a support group that could pressure the FBI into let ting them talk to their children. She has been successful in nei ther effort. Negotiators won't let anybody else speak with Koresh and his followers, and Ms. Ganem hasn't found the large gathering of worried relatives she expected. AGGIE WRANGLER Sign-ups March 8, 1993 at 8:00 a.m. MSC Flag Room $30 per couple One person can sign up only one couple Day Sunday Sunday ^Monday Monday Class Jitterbug Advanced Adv. Jitterbug Jitterbug Wednesday Basic Thursday Jitterbug Starting time 6:00-7:30 8:00-9:30 6:00-7:30 8:00-9:30 8:00-9:30 8:00-9:30 Place Pavillion 255 G.R.W. PavIUion 255G.R.W. 255G.R.W. 255GR.W. *ATTENTION: New Dance Class. Advanced Jitterbug. Learn more moves and bigger stunts. Featuring a different teacher each week to teach you their speciality. Aggie Wranglers will be holding try-outs May 1st. For more information come to the Mandatory Meeting in Rudder Rm. 308 April 19th or 20th at 5:45 - 6:45 Come join the Wranglers and dance across Texas! Whoop! A?. State Briefs Leaders oppose funding plan AUSTIN (AP) - A Repub lican-led group of business and political leaders launched a campaign Thursday against a share-the-wealth school funding plan to go before vot ers May 1. The group, calling itself Texans Against Robin Hood Taxes and headed by Rep. John Culberson, plans to spend half a million dollars on the effort, which will include radio and television ads and bumper stickers reading, "Vote No!" The proposed constitution al amendment would allow the state to shift some local property tax money from wealthier to poorer school dis tricts. Gov. Ann Richards and other supporter of the plan have said it must pass if the state is to avoid a June 1 court- ordered cutoff of state public education money. They have warned that would mean clos ing schools. Fraternity faces hazing charges AUSTIN (AP) — Fourteen members of a University of Texas fraternity are facing dis ciplinary action for an alleged hazing incident that included paddling pledges and forcing them to eat cat food, a newspa per reported Thursday. According to Glenn Mal oney, associate dean of stu dents at UT, the active mem bers Friday night drove the pledges to an isolated road south of Austin, where they were paddled. They then drove to San An tonio, where the pledges were told to purchase several items, including Vaseline and Ben- Gay, in two hours or they would be left. The pledges were taken back to the road and paddled again, forced to eat cat food mixed with chips and rub Vaseline and Ben-Gay on their genitals, Maloney said. He said the pledges were then allowed to paddle the ac tive members. Injuries, deaths cost state billions HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas economy loses at least $3.8 billion annually due to on- the-job deaths and injuries, with motor vehicle accidents and homicides accounting for 40 percent of all work-related deaths in the state, a University of Houston study found. "The tragic aspect of these data is that the majority of these injuries and illnesses are preventable," the study, re leased Thursday by the school's Health Law and Policy Institute, concluded. "There fore, these adverse events must not be considered an acceptable risk to our Texas work force." The study estimates more than 500 workers are killed and 500,000 others are injured at work each year, and that about 4,000 people die from and more than 20,000 others suffer from work-related injuries. Federal agents raid porn ring MIAMI (AP) - Federal agents raided 40 locations around the country Thursday in the first crackdown on a worldwide computerized child porn ring, the U.S. Customs said. The raids in 15 states from Florida to Washington may also lead to discovery of do mestic pornographic "bulletin boards," said William Rosen blatt, chief of the U.S. Customs Service in Miami. "It's not only the largest op eration in U.S. history, I want you to know it's the first," he said. "It involves the high-tech exchange of child pornography -— basically what we have here is a bunch of computer per verts." Groups limit aquifer usage AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas Department of Agriculture Thursday filed a notice of ap peal over a federal judge's rul ing to limit pumping from the Edwards Aquifer. Also joining in the appeal are the Texas Farm Bureau, the city of San Antonio and a coalition of industrial water users. The appeal will be filed with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton in February ruled that unrestricted pumping from the aquifer leads to declining levels of the aquifer-fed Co mal Springs in New Braunfels and San Marcos Springs in San Marcos. Bunton found that endam Investigators link explosions, leaks BIG SPRING (AP) - Investi gators think a gas leak possibly caused the series of explosions and fire that engulfed the Fina Refinery's reformer unit, a company official said Thurs day. About 200 people were in side the refinery when the ex plosions occurred at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, said Fina adminis trative manager Paul Hinton. A firefighter suffered heat stress and a contract worker who inhaled gas fumes re mained hospitalized in good condition Thursday, Hinton said. Four Favorite Entrees. For $599 Or Less. Chicken Fried Steak Mom’s Meat Loaf Chicken Fried Chicken Vegetable Plate Plus Selected Daily Specials 3£he Rlack-eyed peat RESTAURANT Home cooking worth going out for 5 201 E. University (at Texas) College Station, 260-1092 —— Here’s What Makes Our Piace Everyone’s Favorite. We’re up at the crack of dawn snapping green beans, preparing hot and delicious soups, crisp salads, and tasty homemade entrees. Making it fresli every day is hard work, but it’s worth the trouble. In fact, we go to the trouble of making a wide variety of delicious meals to please all kinds of tastes. And all of our entrees come Black-eyed Pea style — with generous servings of our freshly prepared vegeta bles and baskets full of hot- from-the-oven wheat rolls and cornbread. At The Black-eyed Pea, we make you feel right at home, for a price that you’ll also find satisfying. Come on in and see for your self. Grab a bite today. FBI Continued from Page I City, said Paul Mascitelli, owner of a car dealership that shares an office with the Ryder agent. The man wanted his $400 cash deposit back but was told he would need a police report of the theft, Mascitelli said. He said the suspect returned Monday with out the police report and again was turned away. On Thursday morning, the man called the Ryder office - and spoke with an FBI agent pos ing as a Ryder official, said Patrick Galasso, the truck rental agent. w "He didn't have a clue as to what was going on," Galasso said. "He thought he was talking to a Ryder rep." The man returned to the rental office, was given $200 back, and was arrested by eight to 10 agents as he left the office, Galasso said. "He didn't want to give up that $400. He just wanted that money," Galasso added. The man was accompanied by another man when he rented the truck, but was alone on subse quent visits, Galasso said. He said he didn't remember what the second man looked like. Both Mascitelli and Galasso said the suspect didn't behave nervously in any way. Mascitelli described him as short and frail with a beard and a thick accent. The suspect was affiliated with the El Salam Mosque in Jer sey City, N.J. 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