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Inc. j^ r esh rnen ^ ea( ^ e rs In Progress presents: RHA CASINO 2000 April X 4 ’ 2000 “A Night at the Oscars" Sponsored by RHA & Food Services On the marquis for Parent’s Weekend is the famous RHA Casino Night, Friday, April 14th. This year, your Residence Hall Association has teamed up with Food Services to bring you “A Night at the Oscars!” Enjoy a Vegas Style prime rib buffet from 4:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center (MSC) Cafeteria and a night of casino games from 7:00 pm until midnight on the second floor. You can use your meal plan for dinner and your guest meal option for their dinner meal as well. For those students with Aggie Bucks or cash, the prime rib buffet is 17.95. Avoid the off campus hassle and park once in the University Center Garage (located in Koldus Building) for a fun night of dinner, games, tons of prizes and with time, midnight yell practice. You will not want to miss Palm Siimlav lirunili, April 16, in the MSC Cafeteria (temporary home for Sbisa Dining center) and the Commons Dining Complex. Again, meal plans and guest meals (if not already used) are acceptable. ALL YOU CAN EAT Brunch Breakfast $5.95 - 8:00 am to 10:30 am crir to Lunch $6.95 - 10:30 am to 2:00 pm ? 4 m Cynthia A. Zawieja Josh Terkelsen Associate Director RHA Casino Director of Food Services ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY WORLD Page 18 THE BATTALION Thursdav : U.S. to miss News in Brief Fidel Castro comii World’s Fair capitalism to Hole BERLIN (AP) — In the age of the World Wide Web and global telecommunications, does anybody want to go to a world’s fair anymore? U.S. businesses apparently don’t. The United States an nounced Wednesday that it would not have a national pavil ion at the Expo 2000 this sum mer — the first U.S. absence in the world fair’s 149-year history — because it couldn’t find enough private sponsors willing to cover the $40 million cost. Unlike the dozens of other countries that tap government cof fers to build their pavilions, U.S. law doesn’t allow taxpayer mon ey to be spent on such events. “We approached almost all of the Fortune 500’’ companies, said the U.S. Commissioner for Expo 2000, William Rollnick. “Nobody was interested.” Instead, the United States will build a virtual site on the In ternet showcasing American cul ture — including performances throughout Germany by Ameri can artists, writers and intellec tuals during the June 1 to Oct. 31 event — for a lot less money. German officials expressed re gret that their first-ever fair would be die first without a U.S. presence. “I think it’s a great pity,” said President Johannes Rau, visiting the German pavilion in Hanover on Wednesday. “The Expo with out America is certainly not as complete as we’d have wished.” lie said exhibits from more than 50 other nations ;md dozens of organizations w ould help offset die loss of the world’s biggest player. “There are 190 other partici pants,” Expo 2000 spokesperson Angela Karmik said. “I think peo ple will also want to sec them.” IIAVANA (AP) — Cuban Presiderall tro launched a scathing attack on the uni talist system Wednesday, telling as world’s poor nations that the econonrj caused suffering comparable to the Nazil Castro, wearing a suit insteadofhisi itary garb, denounced capitalismbefel 40 heads of state or government at Ikt f 77 summit, and called for the eliminatj International Monetary Fund, accie spreading world poverty. “The images we see of mothers ami j in whole regions of Africa undertkl drought and other catastrophes reminq concentration camps of Nazi Germany,| Referring to war crimes trial: II, the Cuban leader said: “Welackah to judge the economic order imposed j \\ here every three years more men,W! children die of hunger and preventable^ than died in the Second World War.” ( astro’s complaints of inequality t b\ other speakers at the opening of thesi the organization was likely to seek less n lutions than the Cuban leader’s—wli eluded a call for a I percent taxona transactions to finance a global developd I )rafi resolutions called for developed;] to forgive the debts of poorer states, s . poorer nations a grcater$i| of international development funds. Telstra forms alliance wit) Chinese Internet group HONG KONG (AP) — Tycoon Richard Li’s upstart Internet group scored a $3 billion investment from Australian phone giant Telstra Corp. today, boosting his ambitions to create “the world’s largest broadband Internet business.” The alliance between Telstra and Li’s Internet group. Pacific Century CyberWorks, was announced after the Hong Kong and Australian stock mar kets had closed. It will extend Telstra’s reach signifi cantly out of its home turf and into Asia. The alliance also appears to solidify Li’s bid for the top Hong Kong phone company, which was accepted in Febru ary — although the value of the deal has fallen sharply along with the stock price of Pacific Century CyberWorks. Telstra said the partnership will pro ceed only i f Pacific Century Cy her Works closes on its purchase of the phone car rier, Cable & Wireless HKT. Enthusias tic traders pushed Cable & Wireless HKT shares up by 14 percent today as details dribbled out in news reports. Telstra’s chief executive, Ziggy Switkowski, heralded the alliance as the “defining moment for Telstra’s po sition in Asia.” “Telstra is now in a position where they realize there are advantages in try ing to build their business beyond the boundaries of Australia,” said Jamie Spi- teri, a broker with ShawStaJ Ltd. in Sydney. Pacific Century CyberWortl to gain a powerful partner,awe!^ fusion of cash and some a the telecom industry. Telstra will invest Si.5 bill cific Century CyberWorks n«| be converted later into shares. The two companies are alsej a mobile telephone joint vein held 60 percent by Pacific Cel her Works and 40 percent by id Telstra also will give Pacift! (YberWi>rks S1.5 billion in exfi^ assets Li’s company will add:; ' bile phone venture. ft ft is time for at [round of “Pin [Blame on Son He.”This game Write of Washing politicians, and it ain. 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