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TUESDAY
June 7, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 152 (6 pages)
‘Serving Texas AdrM since 1893”
Abortion protestors arrested
Demonstrators hoped to be first
to break new federal legislation
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Six anti-abortion
demonstrators were charged Monday with
blocking access to a women’s clinic in the
first application of a federal law providing
stiff penalties for the offense.
The demonstrators had chained and ce
mented themselves to two cars in front of a
clinic Saturday near downtown Milwaukee.
The clinic was closed for about 90 minutes
before police and firefighters pried the pro
testers loose.
Carl Stern, a Justice Department
spokesman in Washington, said the charges
were the first under legislation signed by
President Clinton on May 26.
The law prohibits protesters from block
ing access to women’s health clinics or
threatening patients and employees. A first
offense carries a maximum penalty of six
months in prison and a fine of up to
$10,000.
“This isn’t just a legal issue,” said U.S.
Attorney Thomas P. Schneider, who an
nounced the charges at a news conference.
“There were real patients who were prevent
ed from getting reproductive health care.
There were real doctors who were prevented
from treating patients.”
Opponents contend the law interferes
with free speech, and some have gone to
court to block it. Members of the group who
blocked access to the Milwaukee clinic said
they wanted to be the first to break it.
Twenty to 25 demonstrators from several
area anti-abortion groups gathered at Affili
ated Medical Services for Saturday’s
protest.
Those arrested used cement and chains to
fasten themselves to two vehicles parked in
front of the clinic entrance. Firefighters cut
and pried the vehicles apart to remove those
inside.
Freshman ( made a difference ’
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Debbie Perez has worked at the Les Appelt
Aggieland Visitor Center for 16 years and had
a Fish Camp named for her in 1993. Perez is
an agricultural development major.
By Traci Travis
The Battalion
Texas A&M freshman Deb
bie Perez made history last year
when she became the first
freshman to have a Fish Camp
named after her.
Perez, an agricultural devel
opment major and staff assis
tant at the Les Appelt Ag
gieland Visitor Center, was
honored in the spring of 1993
by being chosen as one of many
to have her last name screamed
in the rhythmic Fish Camp yell
at the summer orientation pro
gram.
Perez, a full-time A&M staff
member who runs the visitor
center, said her staff was behind
her having a Fish Camp named
after her.
“Several of the students
working for me at the time were
either Fish Camp counselors or
co-chairs,” she said. “The theme
for the year’s Fish Camp was
people who make a difference. I
guess they thought I had made a
difference.”
Yell Leader Trent Ashby, a
senior agricultural economics
major and employee of the visi
tor center, said Perez repre
sents the “ideal” Aggie.
“No matter how stressful or
strenuous things get on cam
pus, she always has an encour
aging word to offer along with a
smile,” he said. “I’ve never
walked out of her office without
feeling better than when I
walked in.”
Perez said she began work
ing at the visitor center in July
1990 after working in several
other offices on campus.
Please see Perez, Page 4
Chinese airliner
crashes, kills 160
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese
airliner crashed shortly after
takeoff Monday in northern Chi
na, killing all 160 people aboard.
Among the dead were two
Americans, an Italian family of
four and two young British male
tourists, their embassies said.
The Soviet-built TU154, oper
ated by China’s Northwest Air
lines, was flying a popular
tourist route from Xian to the
southern city of Canton.
Flight 2303 was in the air
less than 10 minutes when it
crashed at 8:20 a.m., said L.Y.
Wang of the Civil Aviation Ad
ministration of China, which
oversees airline operations.
Wang said the crash site was
a two-hour drive over rural
roads from the airport. Another
CAAC official said an investiga
tive team had been sent.
Authorities said the crash was
under investigation and refused
to comment on possible causes.
The China Daily said experts
were analyzing the “black box”
flight recorder recovered from
the wreckage. It quoted three
witnesses as saying they heard
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and then saw a ball of fire crash
ing to the ground, scattering de
bris over a wide area.
But video tape of the crash
site broadcast on state television
showed little evidence of an ex
plosion.
A man who answered the
telephone at the airline’s head
quarters said the plane crashed
in a rural area about 600 miles
southwest of Beijing.
Chinese officials blame an
alarming increase in the frequen
cy and seriousness of accidents
over the past two years on the
rapid growth in air traffic, which
has overstrained the supply of ex
perienced pilots, air traffic con
trollers and ground crew.
World leaders gather
to honor WWII vets
UTAH BEACH, France (AP) — The nations that allied to crush
Hitler’s Germany returned to the wind-swept, mist-covered cliffs
and beaches that their troops stormed on D-Day 50 years ago today
to pay tribute to those who died for freedom.
Ceremonies marched along a 60-mile strip of coast at some of the
crucial invasion sites seared into the memories of the aging veterans
who returned, many probably for the last time, to relive their roles
in history.
President Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II, French President Francois
Mitterrand and other leaders gathered to honor the veterans as
U.S., French and other troops marched in ceremonial parades.
The heads of state walked past French and U.S. honor guards
standing at attention in front of three grandstands near a monu
ment to dead U.S. soldiers.
Other U.S. Army soldiers stood in knots of three at different posi
tions on the hill coming up from the beach.
Clinton traveled by helicopter to Pointe Du Hoc, where 225 U. L
Rangers had used grappling hooks, ladders and ropes to scale a 120-
foot-high cliff under German fire in one of that day’s bloodiest clashes.
“The most difficult days of your lives bought us 50 years of free
dom,” Clinton told Ranger veterans. “You did your job, now we must
do ours.”
Throughout the region, there was fog, mist and light rain, the
kind of weather that delayed the invasion 50 years ago.
At Utah Beach, veterans huddled against a foggy, drizzly cold in
hats and windbreakers emblazoned with military logos and pins.
Please see D-Day, Page 6
Rwanda:
Northside construction to last all summer
Government counterattacks
encroaching rebel fighters
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The
army has launched a major
counter-attack in southern
Rwanda, the first big offensive
by besieged government forces
since the civil war with rebels
resumed two months ago.
“Obviously they want to
push back the whole of the RPF
(Rwandan Patriotic Front)
forces from the south,” Canadi
an Maj. Jean-Guy Plante, a
military spokesman for the
450-man U.N. force in Rwanda,
said today.
In two months rebels have
swept government and civilian
militia forces from much of the
north and east, and part of the
south, and by late last month
bad captured about half of the
country.
Plante said there also was
heavy fighting about 12 miles
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north of Kigali but had no fur
ther details.
Fighting has been intense
around the city of Gitarama, the
provisional seat of the Hutu-
dominated government. The
Tutsi-led rebels captured the
nearby town of Kabgayi last
week, but rebel forces there are
still coming under shell fire.
Plante said the army’s mortar
attack on a U.N. flight carrying
an Italian delegation Sunday at
Kigali airport may have been
part of the overall plan to boost
the morale of government
troops.
Two shells exploded around
the plane just after it arrived,
and the United Nations issued a
strong protest. The plane was
forced to leave without unload
ing passengers or cargo. There
were no injuries.
Sunday’s attack on the Kigali
airport led to suspension of all
relief flights. The United Na
tions announced that beginning
today it was instituting fuel ra
tioning on U.N. personnel.
Plante said the United Na
tions would begin using Entebbe
airfield in neighboring Uganda
and truck supplies to troops in
Kigali.
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
Texas A&M University faculty and stu
dents will likely have to deal with major con
struction and parking changes on west cam
pus and Northside this summer.
Tom Williams, director of Parking Transit
and Traffic Services, said the construction,
which is currently affecting students who
park near the Northside residence halls, is
scheduled to be completed before the fall se
mester begins.
“This is a very tight-scheduled project,”
Williams said. “Supposedly, it will be com
pleted by the time school starts in the fall.”
He said the changes in the parking lots
are a result of the Physical Plant’s co-gener
ation project on campus.
In trying to accommodate the project,
PTTS has made changes in student and fac
ulty/staff parking, he said.
About 100 student parking spaces have
been changed from student to faculty/staff
spaces in Parking Lot 30, which is located
behind the north area residence halls.
Another 160 student parking spaces were
lost when Lots 2 and 3 were closed.
Williams said PTTS has not received any
major complaints and has had few addition
al parking violations as a result of the con
struction.
“Students have been very cooperative,” he
said. “We really appreciate both the student
and faculty/staff patience with this project.
“They picked the very best time of the
year to do this construction,” Williams said.
“If it runs over into the fall, we’re certainly
going to have some major problems.” PTTS
is trying to alleviate some parking problems
by requesting a shuttle bus to run from re
mote parking areas to the Northside resi
dence halls.
“We have requested that the contractor of
the co-generation project run a shuttle bus
from west campus to those north dorms,”
Williams said. “This will be primarily at
night to ensure people’s safety.”
Doug Williams, manager of Bus Opera
tions, said on May 24 he requested and is
waiting for approval of the bus shuttle pro
ject from Tenneco, the vendor for the co-gen
eration project.
The bus service will begin as soon as he
receives approval.
“They (Tenneco) are expected to fund any
requirement that comes from their part of
the project,” he said. “They’ve already ac
commodated the parking needs.”
“This service is intended for students so
they will have access from remote parking
areas to the Northside residence halls,”
Doug Williams said. “The security is more of
an issue than the parking.”
The service, upon approval, would run
until Aug. 8 from 7 p.m. until midnight,
Sunday through Thursday, and would be
similar to the Dial-A-Ride service.
Parking services will be expanded on west
campus with 500 additional parking spaces
for the Student Recreation Center scheduled
to be open in the spring of 1995. Four hun
dred additional faculty/staff parking spaces
will be available with the opening of the new
College of Business next spring.
Another parking garage will als - bee
available on campus next year by the
ling C. Evans Library.