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TONIGHT IS KTSR FAMILY NIGHT AGGIE OWNED & OPERATED SINCE 1926 SCHULMAN SIX 2000 E. 29th Street 775-2463 Jurassic Park *PG 13 $5.00/$3.00 1:45 4:20 7:00 9:40 Sleepless in Seattle *PG $5.00/$3.00 2:00 4:35 7:15 9:50 Snow White -G $5.50/$3.50 2:20 4:50 Free Willy -PG $5.00/$3.00 2:10 4:40 7:10 9:30 In the Line of Fire *R $5.00/$3.00 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:45 Another Stakeout *PG 13 $5.50/$3.50 2:05 4:35 7:15 9:50 MANOR EAST 3 MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 Coneheads $5.00/$3.00 •PG 13 2:10 4:30 7:00 9:30 Rookie of the Year *PG $5.00/$3.00 2:00 4:35 7:10 9:40 Son in Law $5.50/$3.50 •PG 13 2:20 4:40 7:20 9:50 — mmmmmmmm cut f-jgpg — — -a*-"-— — —« — DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS August 3 & 4 (6-10 p.m. & 6-10 p.m.) STATE APPROVED DRIVING SAFETY COURSE Register at University Plus (MSC Basement) Call 845-1631 for more information on these or other classes D&M EDUCATION ENTERPRISES ,cut here ■■ hh mh ■■■ ■■■ ■■■ aJI Study/\biv,ldPmtlMms 161 Pi/zetl / lull West 845-0544 j ma E ,| » e ...yourself in Italy for a semester, basking in the center of a culture suffused with masterful works of art and architecture from all periods of recorded time...then imagine getting A&M. credit for this Spring adventure ••• For more info: 251 Bizzell Hall West Thurs. July 29 2:00-3:15 ARTS 350 Art History LBAR331 Renaissance Italy u . t HIST 489 'My in American Literature ENGL 394 History 0 f th e Modem Song | G HT Grants for r Ci i* <1 it *i t r Sttid^nts aiicl / Ci f ;i <1 ti t i ii Sonlors If you're a U.S. citizen, you can perform research abroad in the country of your choice. To find out more, come to our Informational Meeting (listed below), or come by or call the Study Abroad Program Office at 161 Bizzell Hall West (845-0544). Wed. July 28, from 2:00-3:00 251 Bizzell Hall West rofessional Computing 505 Church Street College Station, TX 77802 (409)846-5332 (One Block Behind Kinko’s Copy) Featuring a complete line of Hewlett-Packard Scientific and Business calculators HP 48GX Expandable Calculator HP 48G Programmable Calculator * 128-KB RAM standard in HP 48GX * 32-KB RAM standard in HP 48G * Combined I/O ports for data transfer to and from a PC *GX features Expansion Ports for plug-in Applications Pacs and RAM cards HP 17BII Financial Calculator * Choose between Algebraic or RPN Logic * Menus and Softkeys for easy access to solutions * Over 250 functions for real estate and finance Business Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00-5:30 Sat. 10:00-3:00 HP 19BII Business Consultant * Algebraic of RPN Logic * Graphics for Cash Flow and Statistical Analysis * Menus and Softkeys Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, July 27,1993 Yeltsin faces political war after rubles become void THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin scrambled Monday to ease the Central Bank's voiding of billions of old rubles, which had angered Russians and inten sified the power struggle with the hard-line legislature. Yeltsin ordered banks to give citizens an extra three weeks to trade in their old rubles for new banknotes and substantially in creased the amount of new rubles they could obtain imme diately in cash. The uproar came as Yeltsin faced a new battle with hard-line lawmakers, who waged a bruis ing offensive last week against the president's economic and po litical reforms while he vaca tioned outside Moscow. The developments could un dermine the image of stability and control that Yeltsin success fully conveyed to leaders of the world's richest nations at the Tokyo summit of the Group of Seven countries less than three weeks ago. The Central Bank's decree Sat urday gave people two weeks to change old bills for new ones, with amounts over 35,000 rubles ($35) to be credited as six-month savings deposits at an interest rate well be low inflation. Rubles printed be fore 1993 were declared invalid for purchases as of Monday. The bank said the move was intended to sop up cash in the economy to cool inflation that is running at 20 percent a month. Jubes-THE LOST YEAR VJHPfT Vs/AS TueuA^mAlY T>OI*0, IN |q<U? HE WAS Accepted to s^ekheRo TfeAiwi/vCi School - The top oon rop. CPiPEP CRuSADEgS. Superhero [ SUPERHCKO IgPiiMG School-pat : welcome STvd&nts and mutant^ Youve All Been selected as the Best of the best. Two OF Y&u WILL GO ON To the Comic Books And A few of By Boomer Cordinole O.K.,THOSE OF You WHO CAN FuT, MEET OUTSIDE AT 1300 hours, the Rest will Begiu bodybuilding, bis missed. WHAT'S THAT smell? HEY- l. VoMIT-MAN Clean UP AETR —ry-s Yourself!! THE SF R i F _.L_..| v , sj Pttycftttup By Paul Stroud Aggie Man By Sergio Rosas ...Bv the - LtAx, rnr characters anp ^ /NCIP£NTS PORTRATIED TOCMY , S STRIP ARET FLCTICIOUS , AMY SIMILARITY TO ANY NAPYC .AND iNFIDENT IS. PWULlY [ - ACCIDENTAL AMD UNINTENTIONAL U.N. commanders give OK to retaliate Serb attack on peacekeepers increases intensity during humanitarian mission THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — U.N. commanders Monday brought peacekeepers closer to battle in Bosnia's war, warning Serbs who attacked a U.N. base that they face imme diate retaliation if they do it again. "I cannot allow the lives of my soldiers to be put in danger," said the U.N. commander for Bosnia, Lt. Gen. Francis Briquemont of Belgium. "I am angry at this betrayal," Briquemont said. "I have told my commanders they must reply immediately, within the next few sec onds" if attacked again. French Gen. Jean Cot, commander for all U.N. forces in the former Yugoslavia, said peacekeepers would have fired back Sunday had they been equipped to retaliate. The two generals bitterly dismissed a Serb claim that Sunday's attack on French U.N. peacekeepers in Sarajevo was the work of provocateurs in the Muslim-led Bosnian army. No soldiers were hurt, but four vehicles were wrecked and six others damaged. The 9,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia have rarely used orders to use "all available means" to fulfill their mission of getting humanitarian aid to some 2 million in need. U.N. troops in central Bosnia have fired back at snipers, and in April killed two Bosnian Croats who attacked a Muslim-led aid convoy. But U.N. forces in and around Sarajevo haven't dueled with the Serbs, making the peacekeepers a butt of derision among Sarajevans. The Serb chief-of-staff, Gen. Manojlo Milo- vanovic, expressed "deep sorrow and condo lences" to the United Nations over Sunday's attack. His letter offered Serb participation in in vestigating the attack, even though it blamed Muslims. The attack and other Serb assaults on Sara jevo in recent days underline the confidence of Bosnia's Serbs — who control 70 percent of Bosnia after 16 months of war — as new peace talks open Tuesday in Geneva. It also coincided with the supposed start of an agreement among Bosnia's warring factions to halt offensives. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic had in sisted attacks on Sarajevo cease before going to Geneva. But with his people outmaneuvered in battle and at the negotiating table, he can't dictate terms. Thought control The ultimate user-friendly computer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YOKOSUKA, Japan — Forget keyboards and "mice." Someday, computers and other machines may be controlled directly by human thoughts. While other researchers struggle to develop computers that can un derstand human speech, scientists here are trying to go a step further — computers that can read your mind. "Computers today are very difficult to use," says Norio Fujimaki, a researcher for Fujitsu Corp. "First you have to be able to type. It would be very nice if you could just think about something, and have the com puter automatically do it." No amount of deep thinking by the scientists makes this an immi nent achievement, however. Researcher Akira Hiraiwa says the goal will probably take years be cause of the difficulty of deciphering the brain's weak and complex waves. He works at a laboratory here at the telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. Hiraiwa and Fujimaki are studying electrical signals associated with thoughts and body motions. They hope to develop ways of using those signals to control machines — computers or otherwise. Hiraiwa has created a computer-assisted robot hand that can mimic motions of a human hand by analyzing the tiny nerve pulses sent by the brain to the finger muscles. The signals are picked up by coin-sized sensors attached to the in side of a watchband and then sent to the computer, which divides them into the messages intended for each finger and instructs the robotic fin gers accordingly. "It's difficult because the signals are so weak and are hard to detect and differentiate," Hiraiwa says. In a recent demonstration, Hiraiwa grasped a ball in his fingers — the watchband strapped to his wrist — and the robotic hand clenched another ball, copying each finger's motion. It initially took a supercomputer three hours to learn a person's nerve signal patterns, Hiraiwa says. Now, a much smaller computer with special processors needs only a few minutes. Scuba Classes Start: July 30th Aug. 13th Aug. 27th In NorthGate 846-93% Israel Continued from Page 1 appeared at either of the normally busy harbors. The Israelis also struck coastal bases of Syrian-backed Palestinian fighters. Israeli Foreign Minister Shi mon Peres said the raids had two aims: "One, to directly hurt those trying to attack us and the second, to get the attention of residents and governments involved so they will put pressure to stop Hezbollah." Israel has accused Syria of al lowing the guerrillas to operate in Lebanese areas patrolled by 40,000 Syrian soldiers. Lebanese police 'said six Syrian soldiers were killed in Israeli attacks Sunday. Syria's Foreign Ministry said Monday that the Israeli attacks "cannot be considered as an ag gression on Lebanon, Syria and the Arabs alone, but an aggression on the entire world community." In the eastern town of Baal bek, Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said, "What is happening is not going to stop us from continuing and escalat ing our confrontation to drive the Israeli enemy out of Lebanon by force of arms." A naval training base for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command was leveled, killing 10 people and wounding 30. Israeli gunboats and fighter- bombers also attacked the Bad- dawi refugee camp, where 12,000 Palestinians live near the northern port of Tripoli, and the Mieh Mieh shantytown on Sidon's outskirts, also occupied by Palestinians. The Palestine Liberation Organi zation said from its headquarters in Tunisia that "many Palestinians were killed" and dozens wounded, including women and children. ^ Whatfs Up Tuesday The Career Center: is welcoming all to a Job Search Strategies informational meeting at 3:30pm in 106 Blocker. For details call the Career Center at 845-5139. Aggie Lutherans: is welcoming all to a meeting with food and fellowship at the Peace Lutheran Church (FM 2818 and Rio Grande) at 6:30pm. For more information call James E. Kramer at 764-2841. What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. 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