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For more information call Susan Vavra at 845-4427 ext. 133 or visit our web site at www.scs.tamu.edu/volunteer/ STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — Ttying to chip away opposition to a withdrawal from the Golan Heights, Prime Minister Ehud Barak promised yesterday Is rael would enjoy unprecedented peace and secu rity once he signs peace deals with Syria and Lebanon, both possible within a few months. With his speech to a Labor Party conference, Barak launched a campaign to sell Israelis on the price for peace after the surprise announcement long-suspended negotiations with Syria will re sume next week. Barak has pledged to present a peace deal with Syria to a national referendum — and he could lose amid strong opposition against re turning the Golan to Syria. Golan settlers, who presumably would face removal if the strategic plateau were handed over, said they would rally public opinion to block a withdrawal. “Governments come and go, prime ministers- come and go,” Uri Heitner, spokesperson of the Golan Settlers Council, said. “We won’t budge from here.” Still, Barak said he was sure of a “sweeping” ref erendum victory once Israelis see top military com manders back land concessions and the public’s security concerns are soothed. , The optimism in Israel came after President Clinton announced Wednesday the Israeli-Syrian peace talks would resume in Washington follow ing a bitter three-year hiatus. In Damascus, state-run newspapers said yes terday Syrian President Hafez Assad was as de termined as ever to regain all of the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981. Commentaries warned against too much opti mism. The Al-Baath newspaper said Syria had done its part, and now everything depended on Barak’s acceptance of assurances made by a pre vious Israeli government. Syria said the late Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin promised to withdraw to the pre-1967 war frontier between the two countries, a claim Israel denies. Israeli officials said Assad dropped his demand that Barak renew the alleged pledge and that talks would resume without conditions. But they have admitted a handover of most of the Golan is nec essary for a deal and say negotiations will focus on only a small area Israel seeks to retain. Pollster Rafi Smith said a majority of Israelis are against giving up all of the Golan Heights in exchange for peace, but noted the opposition has been shrinking. The Palestinians, meanwhile, refused yester day to resume comprehensive peace talks with Is rael, despite their growing concern Clinton, eager to secure a place in history as Mideast peace maker, will become preoccupied with the promis ing Israeli-Syrian track. Wars and border disputes have blurred the Irontier in this region lor nearly a century. -'T- 't® laaot Sticuty 2una ?> Source I " of the Jordan |h-rank< in Ale GOLAN HEIGHTS Negotiations are likely to locus on the ditterence between an old international border and the pre- 1967 cease-lire line The latter would give Syria more territory, including a foothold on the shore ol the Sea of Galilee. 13th-ranl Team (8- te d lo play m ^Jaino Bowl I Jjth-ranked ■ions (9-3). jjjkoff is set d and the g; J nationally ■ ielwill mark A lance in the eing a 22 tan in the 1 coach cted Millennium bug nipping at heels of tardy Pakistil A department in the Division of Student Affairs ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — In Pakistan it is not so much a question of whether anything will go wrong at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31 — it is how much will go wrong. With the millennium around the corner, the people whose are preparing key services, like air traf fic control, power supply and hos pitals, are worried. The Y2K glitch, the result of computer programming that ex press years with two digits, means uncorrected computers could in terpret “2000” as “1900” and crash or garble data. In Pakistan, the correction process is way behind schedule. Lack of money has hurt Pak istan’s efforts to upgrade its com puters, national Y2K coordinator Ijaz Khawaja said. The Oct. 12 military coup, which overthrew an elected government, also has added to Pak istan’s woes. In a worst-case scenario, airports could shut down, hospitals could be left trying to get their patients on manually operated life-support sys tems and Karachi could be left com pletely in the dark. All that is unlikely to happen, Khawaja said. With time running Your college degree is already paying off. out, systems untested i equipment only partially! ried, no one knows for sue With few exceptions, tiii cal staff in most Pakistani! are underqualified, and tk who use the equipment It. technical know-how, Khaw A lot of hospital eqm was purchased fromeas ropean countries and! have long since lost theta manuals, he said. In the country’s mostpt Punj nee, where(BTro . cent of Pakistan’s 140ml; I ’ .. ’ ' pie live, doctors aredoinj I.. than that. They have Jr"!" 7 , urgeryfra | an ° 30 until Ian. i. 1^ Soutl Khawaja said aviation! I anc ^ 1^91 gravest concern. Cfiampi The Civil AviationAnthoi Reason, th h ■as A&M acti Ray Dorr 1 as one of tv J1999 Br tiie\ement Aw (e award is t coaches Scant cont Collegiate c per recipii ;e defensi e Gilbert. I' Broyles A\ feubmitted t lected by < feluding torn ach Grant ly of Geor, |y,former U loach Dam University Don Jame missed every Y2K cotii| deadline so far, but saidys that by mid-December it radar systems will becoui and ready for testing. That leaves just two test, considered too lilt! most experts. Khawaja said the dustry in this fledglingi weapons state claims to! compliant but has not p any documentation. Another worry for Kha» the southern port cityoffc which he said is having pit with embedded chips in on big electric plants. Officials at the Karachi!! Company said they haven ternate arrangements for power to the city’s 14 million including tapping into then power grid and buying pow: private companies. For the Dec. 31 rollover,K! is trying to organize a milieu monitoring desk with linksto< jor industries and utilities,Mi er countries already haves! command centers in place. Sylvania !8 in San jrr started kAkron Un News in Brief Requires appropriate weight-rated hitch. 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