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CLIMB UNDER THE BRIDGE FOR A GLASS OF BUD! (Leave your ladders outside, please) Barney B ibles Under the Ferry St. Bridge 375 E. 7th 484-7085 Got resume on the mind?? For quality typesetting - contact Oregon Daily Emerald Production. EMU Room 300 emerald inter/national British seize peak overlooking Stanley EAST FALKLAND ISLAND British troops captured the high ground overlooking the Falkiands capital of Stanley Tuesday, putting them within artillery range of Argentines dug in for the showdown battle of the undeclared war, British press reports said The Argentine commander on the islands, Brig. Gen. Mario Benjamin Menendez, exhorted his soldiers to fight with “valor and heroism” and beat the Bri tish “in such a way that their defeat is so crushing they will never again dare to invade our land.” Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, said British marines and para troopers captured 1,535-foot Mount Kent. 12 miles west of Stanley, and were battling along Two Sisters, a ridge three miles closer to the port town. London's Independent Radio News exclaimed the British “al most certainly" had won control of the Two Sisters ridge. Argentina's military command indirectly acknowedged the Bri tish had taken Mount Kent but said they had been unable to advance It also claimed a Bri tish Harrier jet was shot down near Stanley. Navy Capt. Enrique de Leon, spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Argentine bombers made a pre-dawn attack and “as a result of the bombing, British forces stayed on Mount Kent. They have not passed Mount Kent " He was Risked about the report of the Two Sis ters fighting and said there was no combat by ground forces MARKET STUDENT SEVERS N alley's Chili 15 oz. R.C. Cola Decaf 16 oz. 8 pak *1 68 Dep Crisco Oil 48 oz $1 88 Old Milwaukie Beer 12 pak 12 oz cans $498 Hi + Dep. Nalley’s Sunbritos Reg. & Nacho 12-13 oz. $1 08 Alpenrose 100% Natural Apple Juice gallon $1 89 Scott Napkins 160 ct. 66 Crater Lake Pears Ws 29 02 Parkay Margarine s 16 oz Ocean Spray Reg & Pjnk Grapefruit Juice QQc Sun Valley Turkey Hindquarters USDA Center Cut Round Steak bone in Except Wild Rice-O-Roni 6V4-8 oz. Fancy California Zucchini Long & Green $188 Tuesday De Leon said British warships shelled the peninsula on which Stanley is located Tuesday morning but were driven off by Argentine shore fire. He also repeated the claim, adamantly denied by the British, that the aircraft carrier Invincible was damaged in an attack Sunday. Britain said there was "an at tempted attack" on the war fleet but "not one of ours ships was hit." British reports later said two of the devastating Exocet missiles'launched by Super Etendard warplanes had been destroyed as they approached the fleet U S. intelligence sources in Washington, who asked not to be named, backed the British claim, asserting that the fleet defenders had shot down one or more of the French-made Ex ocets Press Association's corre spondents, who are regularly briefed at the Defense Ministry in London, said fewer than 10 British soldiers were wounded and pone killed in the fighting for 1,535-foot Mount Kent, 12 miles west of Stanley Some Ar gentines were reported killed That would put part of the estimated 4,000-man British force, reportedly backed by 3,500 infantrymen landed from the liner Queen Elizabeth 2, within nine miles of the defense perimeter established by some 7,000 Argentine troops The British Defense Ministry said a Sea Harrier fighter shot down an Argentine C-130 Hercules transport 50 miles north of the Falklands as it ap parently attempted to ferry sup plies to the beleaguered Argen tine garrison at Stanley Britain’s Defense Ministry said 250 Argentine soldiers were killed in the battle for Dar win-Goose Green, and that 17 British paratroopers died in the fighting This raised the death toll to 674 Argentines and 138 Britons Argentine communiques claim Argentine forces had destroyed 25 British Harrier jets, destroyed or damaged seriously 22 helicopters and sunk or ser iously damaged 19 to 20 "en emy" war vessels, including an aircraft carrier, five destroyers, 10 or 11 frigates, two landing boats and a container ship with planes aboard. CT-.. " I JltMtl tr1) XMipr/i fl^rtrruty c yfadjrfeafyt /&ru CommunUy 0<&ye STUOEMT: S2.M GEMtHAL U K TICKETS ON SALE AT LCC Health & PE. Intramural Office, BACKSTAGE DANCEWEAR mrny Seamier nS-2215
