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Page 2 NEWS Monday.:, THE BATTALION Holiday, July 23 PlPTM flPFS 0M OFLUnfl Casiro Oh i You Continued from Hey Icristia), I U)H^> Do/ODE^' lAJb IF You- Coaie oa;, that's the AIc25T RlbiCULoUS ThiaJC XV£ HE^^b This £°aiia/6 Froai The T/)Ll<lAi6 /^OA/Kfy The pantastico Chronicles BY J. GOLDFLUtE Castro always went beyond what was expected and ad remarkable. “I remember when he came up to me and asked abou: on a garden for the blind — one in which the things you see would bring more pleasure than what you could,” H “That passion was what made him an excellent studentar el for other people to follow. “As I once told him, ‘If all students were like you, profes would be much easier and much harder,’ ” he said. “Easii he always surpassed your expectations. I larder because for knowledge made me learn more. I le was the perfect two-way education — the reason 1 am a professor.” Castro served in the U.S. Air Force from 1990 to 1991 ter the Oklahoma City’ bombing and earned an associate! pharmaceutical technology’. As an undergraduate at A&M elected president of the A&M chapter of the American!* Landscape Architects and was the first undergraduateawan a certificate in health and human services. A scholarship has been enacted in his name in conjuni the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Pi scholarship fund. i \&]Vi IMichael Balhfe Nuclear Protests Continued from Page 1 miles of tall steel-mesh barri cades surrounding Genoa’s medieval center and part of its old port. In street after street along and near the routes taken by marchers, windows of busi nesses were smashed, with . banks and car dealerships fa vored targets. In one part of downtown, it was impossible to find a work ing automatic-teller machine; all had been vandalized. Road signs were torn from their posts, used as shields by the demonstrators. The carcasses of torched cars dotted thor oughfares. “The demonstrators delib erately destroyed the city,” said university professor Antonio Chirico, who lives near the scene of the clashes. “It was a major mistake for Genoa to host this summit, but we all re alized too late.” Police detained 85 people during the two days of clashes and arrested another 93 people on Sunday morning in a predawn raid on a school com- said eyewitness Caroline Terza- ghi, 38, a protest organizer. “1’hey made people lie on the floor; they beat us up; they were throwing computers around; they were hitting everyone. There was blood everywhere.” Sixty-one of those arrested were taken to hospitals. Protest- “ Violence is not the path to reach a fair solution to the current problems. ” i ^ POPE JOHN PAUL II pound used as protest head quarters. “They just went bang into the building — people screamed,” ers said dozens were beaten dur ing the raid, but police said many of those hospitalized had suffered injuries in prior clashes. All those arrested in Sunday’s raid were charged with posses sion of firebombs and with criminal association in order to commit vandalism, police said. Authorities described those arrested in the raid as instiga tors of violence, and displayed sledgehammers, knives, a pick ax and black hoods seized in the raid. Protesters said police also confiscated documents, com puter files and videotapes of the demonstration, but police spokesman Roberto Sgalla de nied that. Pope John Paul II, speaking from his lakeside summer resi dence, said Sunday he felt “pain and sadness for the hos tility that erupted” at the sum mit. “Violence is not the path to reach a fair solution to the current problems,” said the pope, who is meeting Monday with President Bush. Marriage Continued from Page 7 always get those good bargains, you know?” Another wife said: “I don’t like to tell him how much I spend when I go shopping. I’m afraid he’ll cut back on the budget.” It was not just women; the percentage was about the same for husbands. One man concealed the price of one small purchase: “The item wasn’t very big but the price of it was.” The pollsters did not ask if the expendi ture was for a gift. The second most-kept secrets, at about 15 percent, are abotit a failure at work or a child’s behavior. “There are times your kids do things that you know would make the other party ballistic,” one woman said. Only 2 percent of all respondents, equally split among men and women, said they had an extramarital affair that re mained a secret. Fourteen percent kept mum about being attracted to another person. In response to another question, 16 percent of both men and women admit ted th^t, at least once during their mar riage, they wished they could wake up and not be married any more. Some people kept secrets not out of guilt but to avoid hurt feelings. One woman said her husband told her for years that her cocker spaniel had been stolen, to spare her the knowledge that it had been killed by a car. The poll was conducted by Ipsos-NPD, an Illinois-based research group, which surveyed 1,000 husbands and wives by tele phone in March. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. About 40'percent of the wives and 30 percent of the husbands said they wish drey could persuade their spouses to be less messy. About a quarter of each sex said they cannot get their parmers to lose weight. But one woman said she has no such problems. “I could convince him to dye his hair orange if I wanted,” she said. ■Ad Howdy Ags! Volunteer Now for Freshman Welcome Day! Wednesday, August 22 Volunteers are needed in a// campus residence hall areas. Get a free t-shirt to wear on Welcome Day, and paid parking in a University garage. For information, contact Residence Life at 862-3158, or email housing(a)tamu.edu. Freshman Welcome Day is part of Gig’em Week. For information and an application (due Aug. 3), visit: Http://reslife.tamu.edu/housing/welcomeweek FUN! Free IMay Night © O © © © Every Tliesday in July, from 6-8pm, come to die Food Court and play to win $50 Post Oak Mall Gift Certificates. All ages welcome to play! COME EARIY FOR DINNER, STAY FOR BINGO! Food Court Merchants will be offering special deals for Bingo players! For more details see Customer Service. One game card per player. Post Oak Mall Beall’s, Dillard’s, Foley’s, JCPenney, Sears, The Food Court & Over 100 Specialty Stores. postoakmall.com Texas 6 Bypass at Highway 30, College Station • Customer Service 764-0777 CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES. INC. (NYSECBL) Continued from I “The differences in approach on a couple of topics is still there,” Putin said. Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress praised Bush’s action. “This implies, at least to me, ... this administration will not break out of the ABM Treaty in the meantime. And I think that’s very’ good news,” said Sen. Joseph Biden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” With Bush at his side, Putin pointedly declined to repeat his long-standing position that scut tling the ABA1 would trigger an arms race. Instead, the Russian suggested the issue might be come moot. “If, as we understood from each other today, we are ready to look at the issue of offensive and defensive systems togeth er as a set, we might not ever need to look at that option,” he said. U.S. officials traveling with Bush said they believe Putin was referring to the possibility that the United States and Russia could come to terms on a new defense agreement before Bush has to violate or scuttle the ABM treaty to proceed with his anti-missile tests. Though Bush has long sup ported linking offensive and defensive strategy talks, it was Piitin’s idea to announce their intentions Sunday. Bush ad visers scurried to type and copy a three-sentence joint statement announcing the deal, they said. Putin stands to gain from the agreement. He has looked for ways to reduce the immense cost of stockpiling thousands of Cold War weapons and, per haps, could use the arms cuts to shelter him from political fall out if Bush carries out sile shield plans despite objections. Bush, for his pan, to win Russian accept: his anti-missile which have sharply; U.S. allies. The Pi hopes to have a mdk; defense against missi:; soon as 2004. Putin and Bush met close of a three-day si the world’s wealthiest and Russia. The leadi a communique that mention of missile though it was discusse; I Baytown L_ to escape FrL« if the 2002 pent. On Sat: pto their owi The Gand < ibition in tH nent, cappin >ff a furious x iscaping witlr 1 record on to rely on pebreaker to pnship to urn; On Saturd; who has re lue Universit took full adv£ the team to tl ’ames, rolling land Gladewa Baytown c (the 7-on-7 p nite advantag “We’re nr said. “We throv Tate, who 1 in two years stepped up th the semifin; Keller 48-34 onship game u If, as we l stood from tab other today, m ready to lookfci issue of offetv and defensive terns togethera\ set, we might not ever need to at that option.' Du LYTHAM England (AT never doubte tie to win ; , onship. Nov — Vladimir Russian pre: The United States 1®: 7,000 strategic nta weapons, Russia aboud, Under the START II ay ment with Russia, thatmic will fall to between 3 3,500. In 1997, Presidenti ton and President Borisli agreed in principle tl: START III treaty sht numbers to 2,000 to2 National Security Ad Condoleezza Rice is fly Russia this weektoworl; timetable for talks betvvee: defense and fe nation s ministers Armstro in Tour I LUZ-AR Lance An chances for France tide, jersey after THE BATTALK stage. Armstror 14th stage just behind Jeff Kempf, Editor in Chief Jen Bales, Managing Editor Jason Bennyhoff, Radio Product! Jessica Crutcher, Opinion Edirot Ruben DeLuna, Graphia Editoi Bernie Garza, Photo Editor Stuart Hutson, News Editor Mark Passwaters, Sports Editor Brandon Payton, Webmaster Lizette Resendez, Asst. Aggiclifei- Karen Weinberg, Design Direcra THE TVAIc THE BATTALION (ISSN #1055-4726) is f daily, Monday through Friday during the fall ad* semesters and Monday through Thursday ds": summer session (except University holidays aty periods) at Texas A&M University. Periodicals* Paid at College Station,TX 77840. 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