Caravan, Vol. 71, No. 4

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Volume 71 No.4
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Everything Has Its Price, But No Two People Agree
   By Dina Osman
   The cash register is not very efncieni, said Fikrcya Galal, the head cashier in the bottom floor Jameel Center cafeteria.
   A lot of students have been complaining about the miscalculations made by cashiers while adding up their purchases.
   "They make a lot of mistakes while adding up the prices, especially new cashiers. I end up doing the calculations which isn't very easy especially since 1 don't know the prices for everything. 1 think it would be much more efficient if they use the cash register," said Ahmad Fathi, Political Science sophomore.
   "They are misusing the cash registers. They are supposed to help them in calculating our purchases and prevent them from making all those mistakes. Instead, they end up using them as piggy banks which is not a very efficient system," said Hoda Mahmoud, Journalism and Mass Communication junior.
   "1 bet that out of each pound they take from us, they take at least five percent extra than the actual cost," Fathi added.
   "I bought sandwiches and a coke for 120 piasters and they charged me 145 piasters. It was so
crowded, some people were paying without even standing in line, others could have walked off without even paying. 1 was late for class so 1 Just couldn't go back to correct the cashier," said Hussein Shabana, Political Science senior. "1 also wish that the workers that serve us in the cafeteria would wear gloves or something, 1 think that hygiene should be in the forefront," added Shabana.
    'Tm sure they make a lot of mistakes while adding up our purchases but that is not the only problem. They are also taking it for granted that we do not want our change back if it is under 10 piasters." Mohamad El Dessoki,
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Afire that broke out on Wednesday Oct. 3 in the Television and Broadcasting Building's supply warehouse. Photo by Ay man Hemeida
Newsweek Correspondent Warns of War, Vast Changes in Middle East
   By Iman A1 Rashidy
   "1 think there's going to be a war (in the GulO, said Tony Clifton, a Newsweek                 magazine
correspondent, to a Journalism and Mass Communication class on Wednesday. Clifton, the New York bureau chief of the American
weekly news magazine, said he feels the way he does because "both sides have laid out positions that don't leave any room for maneuver. The Americans have told the Iraqis they have to leave (Kuwait) before we talk, and he (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) has said he won't move until we
Censor Cancels Original Choice Of Play for AUC Fall Production
    By Nevine Khalil
    "Crossing the Water," a play chosen last semester for AUC's fall production, was banned by the Egyptian censors.
    The play did not suit the censors because it included an intellectual Jew, an Egyptian homosexual, and referred to Nasser as the son of a postman, said Kariem Alrawi, the playwright, in an article written for the Guardian this summer.
    The censors objected to the heroic portrayal of the Jewish professor and wanted the character
to feel remorse over being a Zionist.
    Alrawi, a former part-time professor at AUC, thought that this would be unrealistic.
    They also didn't want the young Egyptian poet to be portrayed as a homosexual, but rather as a revolutionary who symbolizes the future of Egypt. Alrawi had wanted to convey the human relationships within a colonial suiicturc where some people have a lot of power and others have very little.
    The censors resented the fact that Nasser was described as the son of
a posunan and the Jew as a scholar. Alrawi argued that Nasser had used this phrase to describe himself.
   "1 think it's a democratic ideal that a son of a posunan can become a president, but that's totally irrelevant," Alrawi said.
   The play was misunderstood and accordingly banned, but there is no criteria by which writers can comply so as not to offend the state or people, Alrawi said in an interview.
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talk."
    Moreover, Clifton said, the Americans are under pressure to act because many people feel that if they permit Hussein to remain in power with his arsenal in tact "there are even worse weapons down the road," a reference to the biological weapons that Iraq is said to be preparing.
    "Nobody wants a war," Clifton said, "but both sides have taken unyielding positions."
    While the Australian-born Clifton is currently based in New York, he has had 20 years experience as a war correspondent for Newsweek, including four years in Beirut in the late 1970s. He also covered the Iraq-lran war of the 1980s.
    Clifton added that "what's happening now will cause an upheaval in this part of the world." In particular, he said, if war comes, "the Saudis, the Egyptians and the Syrians will point out to the Americans that their young men also died, and one of the first questions they'll ask the Americans afterwards is "What are you going to do about Israel and a homeland for the Palestinians?’."
    The fact that the Palestinian leadership currently supports Iraq is unlikely to change this question, he said. "The Gulf war, if it comes," he said, "will end sooner or later, but the Palestinian
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Wars of Roses and Nam To Be Shown Thursday At SU Movie Series
   By Noha Ibrahim
   The Student Union Thursday Night Movies will be a collection of old and new movies aimed at pleasing all types of interests, said Mohamed Younis, activities chairman.
   Tickets were sold last Monday at Ewart Hall for LE 8.50, a 50 piaster increase from last semester due to a rise in rental fees. The first movie, "The Dream Team," starring Michael Keaton, was
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