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AUTO
1987 Dodge Dakota pick-up, good stereo+ speakers,
am/fm, cassette, new rails, tires, wheels, seat, etc. Must
seel! $2,850/o.b.o. Call 764-7839.
1992 Pontiac Grand Am, cd, automatic transmission,
cruise, etc. Must Sell!! $5,000 a.s.a.p. 695-9273.
1992-Maroon Eagle Talon, 2.0-liter, fully loaded, excellent
condition, 59,900mi. 693-1455.
‘90 Acura Integra GS- 5-speed, new tires, tint, alarm, spoil
er, cruise, power windows, sun/moon roof, Alpine stereo
w/cd changer, alloy wheels, $8,500/o.b.o. Larry, 823-0971.
Cars for $100111 Seized & Sold locally this month. Trucks,
4x4's, etc. 800-522-2730, Ext.#3782.
Romantic Victorian B&B get-away. Plus gourmet candle
light dining. ‘The Famous Pink House Gourmet B&B". 364-
2868.
COMPUTERS
486DX Tamunet, Windows 95, Microsoft Office, 14.4 mo
dem with monitor, keyboard, mouse $450. Please call 694-
8252.
Macintosh LC475 with color monitor, keyboard and
stylewriter printer. Lots of software. $900. Please call
Christine collect at (281)583-9590.
Pentium computer, 1.2GB-HD, 12XCDROM, 16MB-RAM,
33.6-Modem, sound Sspeakers, 2MB-video, 14''-monitor
TAMUNet setup, Tyear warranty. 133MHz$999. 166MHz
$1,059. 846-7186, upgrading.
DJ MUSIC
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The Party Block Mobile DJ- Peter Block, professional/ ex
perienced. Specializing in Weddings and TAMU functions.
For the best call 693-6294.
http://www.inc.com/users/pblock.html
FOR REMIT
Available now or for August. Pre-leasing 1 bdrm/1 bath, all
bills paid, Northgate area. United Realty. 694-9140.
HELP WANTED
Car wash and detail business looking for 1 -employee from
8a.m.-5p.m., Mon.-Fri. 1-employee weekends only. Apply
at Talent-Tree in Galleria Village.
Available now; December ending sublease. Treehouse I.
1 bdrm/1 bath. $465/mo., negotiable. 694-9251.
College Grads/ Students- Fastest growing company in
America comes to C.Sta. needs quality, motivated people
to help with local expansion. PT/FT. 268-2232.
Bryan duplex. 2824 Forest Bend. 2bdrm/11/2bath, fire
place, green house window, no pets. $550/mo. 731-8951.
Lynntech, Inc. Part-time Receptionist- Secretary for local
R & D firm. AM available only. Good verbal and written
communication skills, Computer experience a must. Send
resume and hours available to: Joy Caldwell, Lynntech,
C.Sta. fourplex. 2408 Blanco. 2bdrm/1 bath, studio style,
on shuttle, no pets. $410/mo. 731-8951.
College Court. Great location, 2/1, shuttle, microwave,
some utilities paid, intrusion alarm, pool. $439/mo. 823-
7039.
Inc. 7610 Eastmark Drive, Suite 105, College Station, Texas
77840. E.O.E. (caldwell@myriad.net).
Cowboy Country. Stalls & Duplexes for rent. 10 min. from
A&M. Lighted arena. (409)778-4600,(409)778-7531.
National firm expanding. 15 openings available. Above av
erage pay. Flexible around summer school. Scholarships
available. 696-7734.
FULL-SIZE WASHER/DRYER! 2bdrm/1bath, shuttle, mi
crowave, intrusion alarm, $459/mo. 589-3779.
National Homebuilders seeks estimator trainee. Send re
sume: 1200 Soldiers Field Drive, Sugarland, Texas, 77479.
In the country, 3bdrm/2bath mobile home w/deck and car-
port. Some utilities furnished. $575/mo or room for 2-hors
es for $650/mo. Enough room for 3 : students. 8-minutes
from campus. Available now. 779-7193.
Northview Baptist Church needs nursery workers. Sunday
mornings, Sunday evenings and Wednesday evenings.
Call 778-0014.
Mobile 3bdrm/2batb, 14x80, private property, fenced, ap
pliances, carpet, nice. Available 8/15. $475/mo. 778-7064.
Select from economy to luxury 1,2 and 3-bedrooms, apart
ments/ fourplexes. Bryan and C.Station. Available now or
pre-lease starting at $315. Some with all bills paid. Unit
ed Realty, 694-9140.
Sonnenblick Apartments. Large 2/1,884 sq. ft., 5-clos-
ets, shuttle, microwave, intrusion alarm, pool, covered park
ing. $459/mo., w/full W/D $479/mo. 691-2062.
FOR SALE
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2Bdrm. duplex, on shuttle, fenced yard. No pets. $435
&bills. 693-8534.
2Bdrm. studio apartment on wooded lot. Approx Sblocks
from campus in Northgate area. Gas &electric. $450.00
+bills. No pets. 693-8534.
3bdrm/2bath, 1,450sq. ft., next to SWValley pool, $875/mo.
Available 6/31/97. 693-0201.
1/2 carat marquise engagement ring. Asking $1,000.
Beautiful! Must see! Call 694-3655.
30 foot RV, set-up for student living, includes: storage shed,
w/d. $4,000. 776-6203.
EXPERIENCED SHEETROCKERS
and
PAINTER HELPERS needed.
Aggressive work ethic necessary.
Will work with school schedule.
775-7126
Drafting table with matching stool and parallel bar $100.
Centurian Grand Lemans 10-speed road bike $85. Call
Mike at 696-5787.
Sealy queen bed $200. Black desk with printer stand $100.
Bookshelve $60.0.B.O. All less than 1 year old. 693-4512.
HELP WANTED
Help needed- TAMU campus. Part-time sales position.
223-1767. No investment, great return.
Heartburn Study
Do you suffer from heartburn
symptoms? Call for details.
Call for information:
J&S Studies, Inc.
846-5933
Fleas!!!!
In Your Home?
Research sites are needed
for a 14 Day In-Home flea
control study. We provide
Free indoor flea control in
exchange for your cooperation.
Please call Granovsky
Assoc, at 822-3069.
VIP Research is seeking individuals 18
years and older with recurrent genital
herpes for a research study of an
investigational oral medication. A
current herpes outbreak is not necessary.
Up to $400 will be paid to qualified
volunteers who enroll and complete
this study.
ihib
VIP Research is seeking individuals 18
years and older with history of recurrent
fever blister/cold sores for a research
study with an investigational oral
medication. Individuals that qualify and
complete the study will receive up to
$400 for their participation. AN
ACTIVE FEVER BLISTER IS NOT
REQUIRED TO QUALIFY FOR THIS
STUDY. PLEASE CALL FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
For more information, call:
VIP Research,Inc.
776-1417
PARKWAY
APARTMENTS
1600 Southwest Parkway, College Station
2bdrm/2bath
Now Available
Special 1/2 OFF deposit & $100 OFF September rent
• Covered Parking • On Shuttle • Ceiling Fans *2 Pools
• Volleyball & Basketball • Mini Blinds • Laundry Facilities
• Water/Sewer/Trash Paid • Club room “Extra Large Closets
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HARDWARE SUPPORT STAFF
College Station Facility
Universal Computer Systems, Inc. seeks individuals
with excellent communication skills to fill entry-level
support staff positions within our field service
department. Our representatives deal with clients
regarding problems and coordinate details leading to
solutions. Basic computer skills are a must.
Available shifts are 8-5 or 10-7, Monday through Friday.
Part-time positions are also available. We offer salary
plus full benefits including full medical, dental and health
insurance, 401k and semi-annual performance/salary
reviews. Non-smokers only. EOE.
To apply, please call:
Universal Computer Systems, Inc.
(409) 846-1213
http://www.ucs-systems.com
NEW!
Local Radio News
from the newsroom of
campus and community news
8:04 a.m.
Monday through Friday
during
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on KAMU-FM 90.9
College Station / Bryan
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Tuesday ‘July!,
Alaskan climbing class fell
from mountain; two dea
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Part-time help wanted, experience preferred, Villa Maria
Chevron, at Villa Maria and E.29th in Bryan 776-1261
Part-time minor maintenance and make ready for apart
ments. 691-2062.
Quality Sales People. We have Full and Part time evening
telemarketing positions available immediately. $7.00 hourly
base pay + bonuses. Flexible schedules. Apply in person
at: IMS, 700 Univ. Dr. E., Ste.104, C.Station (behind Gold
en Corral). 691-8682.
Reading this will bring you an extra $140/month CASH.
In a gentle, easy way. You lie back in a soft chair, get a pin
prick & you're free to read, study, talk or dream. 60-min
utes & you're up and away, cash in hand, smiling. The Plas
ma Center. 4223-Wellborn Rd. 846-8855. 700-University
Dr. E. 268-6050.
Teacher for Montessori Classroom. Full or part-time. Call
696-1674.
MOTORCYCLE
1984 Honda Shadow 700, 20k miles, $1,500 O.B.O. Call
764-1511.
Honda CBR600F3- 3,400 miles, excellent condition, $5,200
O.B.O. Call 693-2135
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PETS
Adopt: Puppies. Kittens, Cats, Dogs. Many pure breeds!
Brazos Animal Shelter-775-5755.
REAL ESTATE
Upscale Condo 2bdrm-1 5bth, new paint, all appliances,
ceiling fans, new a/c, 1050sqft, yard. $48,500. 823-2112.
ROOMMATES
1-or-2 roommates needed. 2bdrm/2bath. 1,00+sq.ft. Call
Travis or Mandy at 694-4439, after 5:00p.m.
Male roommate wanted. 7/4-8/30, $125/mo.+1/2 bills. Call
268-2662.
Roommate needed by 7/1/97. $237.50/mo. +1 futilities.
Own room. Neill, 696-8198.
Roommate needed starting mid-August/ September.
2bdrm/11/2bath fourplex, w/d. $260/mo. +1/2-bills. Call
695-1495.
Roommate wanted for quiet country home between C.Sta.
and Caldwell. Petso.k. (409)272-2235.
Wanted!!! A male roommate to occupy a large 3bdrm/2bath
brand new duplex with w/d- will have own room. $230/mo.
+1/4-utilities, beginning August, 1997. Call Gene for more
details. (409)885-6250(0), (409)992-3257(E).
SERVICES
AAA-Texas Defensive Driving/Driver's Training. Lots-of-
fun, Laugh-a-lotl! Ticket dismissal/insurance discount. M-
T(6pm-9pm), W-Th(6pm-9pm), Fri(6pm-8pm), Sat(10am-
2:30pm), Sat(8am-2:30pm). Inside Nations-Bank.
Walk-ins welcome. $25/cash. Lowest price allowed by law.
111-Univ. Dr., Ste.217. 846-6117. Show-up 30/min. early.
(CP
Carlson Craft wedding invitations and accessories. 20%
discount. The Invitation Lady. 693-6294.
Word Processing- Fast service, 65-70wpm. Reasonable
rates. Ev's Typing Services. 693-6294.
Need 1-graduation ticket for Liberal Arts ceremony in Au
gust. 695-9603.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Members of a moun
tain-climbing class for beginners slipped in the snow,
tumbled into their fellow students and dragged all of
them 1,000 feet down a mountainside strewn with
rocks. Two people were killed and 12 injured.
The accident took place Sunday evening as stu
dents in the Mountaineering I class at the Universi
ty of Alaska-Anchorage made their way down from
the summit of 5,000-foot Ptarmigan (pronounced
TAR-mih-gan) Peak while roped together in groups
of twos and threes for safety.
One team slipped and swept the others down the 60-
degree slope to a field of boulders.
“The top group lost it,” said climber Mona Eben, 43, of
Anchorage. “They kept sliding and eventually they slid
into me and we all got tangled in each other’s ropes.”
She added: “We hit a boulder and kept on sliding and
then we hit another boulder."
Eben suffered a broken leg and bruises.
Those killed were students Mary E. Fogarty, 40, of
Anchorage and Steven M. Brown, 23, who had recent
ly moved to Anchorage from Royal Oak, Mich.
One climber was in serious condition Monday, and
10 more were in fair condition.
The class was for students with little or no climb
ing experience. It had met since June 10 to learn rock
and snow climbing.
The class had spent Saturday practicing techniques for
ascending and descending in snow before starting for the
summit of the rugged mountain Sunday morning. The
peak is 16 miles southeast of downtown Anchorage.
Instructor Debra Greene and her husband, Ben
Greene, led the students. Experienced mountaineers
who worked with Outward Bound before coming to
Alaska last year, both were injured in the fall.
“I can’t imagine why, with all the safety precau
tions we had, why it happened, because our in-
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Ptarmigan Peak attracts climbing classes and no™ ^
climbers because it is easily accessible and is covera
with snow all year. But it is also rugged and steep.
“It’s a dangerous area,” assistant park rangerMaj ®\\|
Esslinger said. “It’s a really gnarly area.
The peak is in the Chugach Mountains (pronoum
CHOO-gotch) on the city’s eastern border. The mom
tains are the city’s playground, drawing hikers
climbers to its wooded trails and craggy peaks.
Cousteau honored in Paris
Hundreds gather to show respects for adventurer
PARIS (AP) — In one of France’s
largest memorial services in
decades, nearly a thousand people
gathered Monday to honor Jacques
Cousteau as a man who led the cu
rious on a voyage of discovery
through the world’s oceans.
President Jacques Chirac
joined Cousteau’s family, govern
ment officials and average citizens
at Notre Dame Cathedral to praise
Cousteau’s underwater exploits.
The entire mass was broadcast
live on French national television.
Since Cousteau’s death last week,
French TV has shown and
reshown his films and documen
taries, and French magazines
have devoted special sections to
his life and work.
Cousteau, who died Wednesday
at age 87, was famous throughout
the world for his popular television
series “The Undersea World of
Jacques Cousteau.”
A misty aqua light cast by the
stained glass
windows
added a deep
melancholy to
the service,
which was at
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about 1,000
people, in
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mer members
of Cousteau’s exploration team.
Several thousand other mourners
lined the square in front of Notre
Dame and nearby streets. Many
tourists who had come to visit the fa
il ions Paris cathedral waited patient
ly until the service was over to enter.
“With his ingenuity and his
know-how, (Cousteau) allowed
the entire world — and that is not
an exaggeration—to discoverthe
vast undersea domain.”
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old center of Paris, lasted a little
more than an hour.
Both Cousteau’s son,/m-
Michel, and his second wife,
Francine Triplet, have pledged
to carry on the undersea ex
plorer’s work, including com
pletion of a new research ves
sel, the Calypso II.
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Albanian president suggests he will step dem
TIRANA, Albania (AP)—Bowing to voters' wishes and
international pressure, President Sali Berisha conceded
Monday that his party had lost the confidence of the Al
banian people and suggested he would step down.
Gunfire broke out as news of Berisha’s televised an
nouncement raced across the country — with some
shots celebrating the opposition Socialist party’s ap
parent victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, and
other shots ringing out in defiance.
Berisha’s resignation has been a long-standing de
mand of the political opposition and the rebels who
control much of Albania’s south.
“I will accept the result, and I will respect all the de
clarations I have made,” Berisha promised in what
seemed an allusion to his pledge to step down if his De
mocratic party lost at the polls.
The former cardiologist, who was initially credited with
leading Albania’s fight for democracy after five decades of
communist dictatorsWp, has been increasingly criticized
for his authoritarianism and for tolerating corruption.
Anger over bankrupted investment schemes
boiled into riots in January, with many people blam
ing Berisha for tolerating the scams. Berisha was
forced to appoint the caretaker government and call
elections to try to quell the unrest.
With Albania split into pro- and anti-Berisha camps,
he had become widely viewed as the greatest obstacle
to political and economic recovery.
No official results were available Monday, but the So
cialists declared themselves the winners of the vote,
which was marred by random violence and one killing.
Berisha’s statesmanlike announcement seemed
intended to head off a violent reaction from his
diehard supporters.
“I invite all the activists, all the Democratic (Party)
sympathizers, to treat with patience the verdict of the
people,” the president declared.
He said the Democratic Party would become'
loyal opposition.”
The Socialists, hoping to quash the violencj]$ca
promised to collect the hundreds of thousands! igtj
weapons taken from government armories. linorii
“The unique problem we have to face are the criniii owevt
gangs, but we have the structures and the intematioi’ Too
help to eliminate them,” Socialist leader Fatos Nano sal latis
In Albania, the president is appointed by pari ears
ment. Nano did not say whether he would sei icism
Berisha’s seat, but did say caretaker Preinfosts
Bashkim Fino would continue in his job.
“Today, no one should feel a loser, not even Berisl|ai
and we should all work together,” he declared.
He ruled out creating a coalition with the Defl^ndo
rats, bitter rivals even before the insurrection.
Albanian police patrolled the capital Monda) ecar
armored personnel carriers, and members of! lisle
7,000-strong multinational force took up posfj late
around foreign missions.
InVlora, the heart of the armed insurrection agal owit
Berisha, people fired in the air for a full half-houri lany
Berisha’s TV appearance. An Italian soldier in the m«i iblis
national force was wounded by a stray bullet.
Catherine Lalumiere, head of the 500 election
servers dispatched by the Organization for Security;
Cooperation in Europe, said Monday that the electic
seemed “adequate and acceptable at this stage.”
“The results of these elections can be the foundati
for a stable, democratic system,” she added.
The elections aim to end the chaos, butthev
lence that has killed more than 1,500 people sin*
January stretched past the voting.
Two policemen were reported killed Mondayl 1
shootout in Vlora and a translator working for aGrt*
television company was shot in the arm during
botched robbery there.
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Clinton stakes out tax-cut for negotiations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Laying
down markers in the tax debate,
President Clinton offered over
tures to Republicans on capital
gains cuts and other key issues on
Monday but vowed to resist GOP
proposals he said provide “too lit
tle relief to the middle class.”
“I don’t want to start talking
about veto now,” Clinton said in an
appearance on the White House
lawn. “I want to craft an agreement
... that can be written into law and
can be passed with a bipartisan ma
jority of both sides” of Congress.
In revising his own tax cut propos
al, Clinton embraced the concept of a
tax-deferred savings account for edu
cation expenses,
agreed to support
greater relief from
estate taxes and
signed off on a re
duction in capital
gains taxes — all
key elements of
the measures
that cleared the
House and Sen
ate last week. Key
differences re
main with Republicans on the details
in all those areas, however.
Clinton also sweetened his own
proposal for a SSOO-per-childc^
it, a proposal that gained pro^
nence in the “Contract WithAin f:
ca” that Republicans rodetopo'|'
in the 1994 elections. Clinton!
embraced the 20-cent-per-,
hike in the cigarette tax contaflK
in the Senate bill.
Final negotiations are expect^
begin in earnest next week as
House and Senate attempt to i® 0
cile their two bills — and theW,
House’s wishes. Republican co4.
sional leaders hope to have the’’;
compromise on Clinton’s deskb#
ly next month for the largest pa$
of tax relief in 16 years.