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The Battalion ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Our Bryan/College Station office seeks an assistant, full or part-time, for word processing, office coordination and other support duties. Previous clerical experience helpful. Full-time position offers salary and full benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k and semi-annual performance/salary reviews. E.O.E. To apply, please call our main headquarters: UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. 1-800-883-3031 http ://www. ucs-syste ms. com O R L D Tuesday • September 2,1997 Thailand seeks additional $25 million from World Bank BANGKOK, ThaUand (AP) —Thai land said Monday it will seek an ad ditional $25 million from the World Bank to bail out its economy, ex panding an internationally spon sored aid package to $17.5 billion. Government spokesperson Varathep Ratanakom said Thai lead ers will meet World Bank officials Sept. 11 to discuss the borrowing plan. The need for further loans — in addition to the bailout package orga nized by the International Monetary Fund last month — illustrated that confidence in the economy has yet to return, despite the efforts of Thai land, its neighbors and international financial leaders. The Stock Exchange of Thailand index closed 9.29 points lower Mon day at 493.84, while the Thai curren cy, the baht, hit a record low — the latest of several in recent weeks — against the dollar. The U.S. currency rose to 34.55 baht in Thai domestic trading, up from 34.33 Friday. The World Bank already has con tributed $1.5 billion to the IMF-bro kered package, the second-largest ever assembled after the $50 billion CITIBANK® iOUL CITIBANK® '1128 0012 3ASb I'Q ' 4128 VALID FROM EXPIRATION DATE 0 2/96 0 1; / 3,1 /9 9 V l%k PARKS VISA wmm i ■ THINK AHEAD. APPLY TODAY. SM CALL (•SOO^CITIBANK ©. 1997 Citibank (South Dakota), N.A. mustered lor Mexico after the 1994 peso crisis. 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