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Thursday, December 8, 1033 Peso 2 Dally Ncbrasken Mission supplies gifts for Lincoln's needy The People's City Mission, 124 S. Ninth St., will have an Open Shopping Time for members of low income families. Family members can pick out gifts from a selection of new and used items. Shopping dates are: Dec. 15 and 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Dec. 19 and 20 from 10 am. to 2 p.m. Those wishing to donate items can contact Karen Magwire or Gerry Ann Ortega at 475-1303. Overwork dismissed as reason For space gripes, NASA heads say HOUSTON, (Reuter) - Astronaut Robert Parker griped to ground control again Wednesday, bunt was dismissed as a manifestation of his personality, not the result of frustration or fatigue. When a ground controller told him to perform an apparently redundant operation, he questioned why. The controller replied he "was just following orders." . "I'll follow instructions OK but I think it is a bunch of crap about a bunch of nothing Parker com plained. That's just Bob Parker," chief mission scientist Richard Chappell explained later when asked if the crew w3 being overworked or was getting tired. Country Kettle Presents L y ..... Tuos.-Thuro. 11 a.m.-Q a.m. .J Quarter lb. Burger 4947 Holdrege 466-1659 narter lb. With Fries 3. (OF Coke or Mr. Pibb ' - ' Clinnt- QTTAit Tlnllc Bottled Beer Offer Good Dec. 8 l I f3 I Hours: M-T-W-Th 6 a.m.-2 a.m Fri.-Sat. 24hrs. o I . 1U 4 J - - " 1; .1 ' ' 4X v m m m m mmammmmrm if m -m. a t s B Vvil To Give An efter d 1 o Keceive Give us a few hours of your time and donate plasma. You'll receive $10 for each donation. SO IF YOU'RE A LITTLE SHORT ON CASH GOING INTO THE HOLIDAYS, COME ON IN AND MAKE SOME EASY CASH. And if you've never donated before, bring this ;ad for in . additional $2 for your first donation. ' ; Cbrrie celebrate the holidays with us! The : more you give the more you'll receive at - University Plasma Center. 1442 O Street . 47S-s, . ' v. m. s i r 1 w V'.mn 1 nrrc nivt nisi m .a 7ttim Wed, SsL .00 an to 6.00 pin. t. 5?4 k j : Ut evsedby the I DA .M h vW v. .111 if yr ' ' St, W V. ! Off The 'Wire National and international news from the Reuter News Report Syria: Air strikes 'acts of aggression' UNITED NATIONS Eyria ssld Wednesday that the U.S. air strikes Sunday sgaijist Syrian positions in Lebanon were not defensive, as Washington has said, but sets of Egression. It Is cause for astonishment and wonder" Syrian U.N. representative Dia Allah El-Fattal said, that the United States delegation inter prets its acts of Egression m ssif-defense." Fattal's accusation, in a letter to council Presi dent Max van dcr Steel of the Netherlands, was an answer to a letter to the council on Monday fcy US. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Kirk patrick's letter said the air stiilces, in which two American planes were shot down, were a response to Syrian missile fire the day before c2inst US. aircraft on a rccenr.raance Eight over Lebanon. In Lebanon, Syrian forces Wednesday handed over the body of Lt. Msrk Lange, a 26-year-old Navy pilot who died when his plane was shot down. Langs was on a bombing raid against Syrian petitions in Lebanon's cen tral mountains. His navigator-bombardier, Lt. ' Robert Goodman, parachuted to the ground and was captured by the Syriar.3. He has not been released. 92 die in airport collision MADRID, Spain Two Spanish airliners col lided in thick fog in Madrid's Barajss Airport, killing 92 people, an official spokesman said. Airport authorities said a Rome-bound Boeing 727 of the national airline Iberia was moving eft the runway at about 200 mph when an Aviaco DC-9 taxied into its path. The DC-9's fuel tanks exploded and fire broke out as the planes collided. A spokesman for emergency services said 44 of the 135 people aboard the two jets survived the crash but one died later in a hospital. There vcjt still some doubt over the final death toll ' because :' some' passengers who escaped un harmed .were believed to have gone home without contacting authorities, he added. The collision came 10 days after a Boeing 747 of the Colombian airline Avmica crashed on its approach to the airport, killing 181 people. " Shultz ready to talk BONN, West Germany Secretary of State George Shultz said Wednesday he would be more than ready to meet Soviet Foreign Minis ter Andrei Grcmyko at an East-West disar mament conference in Stockholm next month. Shultz said at a press conference that the Uni ted States is resify for "any constructive dia logue" with Moscow and expressed regret over the Soviet walk-out last month at Geneva talks on medium-range nuclear missiles. Ling-Ling may be dying WASHINGTON Ling-Lm one of two giant pandas given to former President Nixon by the Chinese government as a mark of improved relations between the countries, rzzy be near death, National 7m authorities siid Wednes day. Zoo spokesman -Eobsrt llstzs said the 14-year-old female panda wo sL'cring from kidney problems and ancrsii and prospects . for her recovery were not good. Gb-nt pandas have a life span of giotst 20 yesra IloaS8 sa Ling-Ling Tuesday was given artiiotics and a blood transfusion from her mste, IIIr-Hsing. The pandas have been a hz.2 drkw at the zoo since they arrived in 1972, and the media have followed closely their attempted mstins. Last July, Ling-Ling delivered a male cub, which , died several hours after birth. . Wazzait Tvill stay on - ' BEOlUT,Lebaacn PredicntAnin Gemayel declined Prime Minister Ciq al-Wazzan's Ifesination Wednesday sad persuaded him to 'stay on.'onckls stld. Xiczzzn siJ after a cabinet meeting that he v;szli continue in office until Gemyel ccrp:tC3 a r.T round of 'ccnsultaticn with the V:::f-zt3 cf Lebanon's warring groups. He hzd ttizi to resign weeks aso, after the Sept 23 ccD-Cre rrjeenent ltween the army and rivd rZ':23, but Gemayel talked him out cf it th:n, tea As the two leaders met, crashed in . East Beirut an cuttrrr:k cf fctisS . n thJ : mountains between the Lctcce army ad Druse Moslem mIto, trcurUy sources ssid.