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9/3 Sat. South of the Border Party
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FIJI HOUSE 1414 S. COLLEGE 822-3493
KEITH SMITH 822-3008
FRED SEALE 764-0569
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With Coupon
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and family gatherings, to little league parties and those special congratulations.
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favorite ice cream. Delivery on campus.
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OFFICIAL NOTICE TO TEXAS A&M
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
In the past, certain information has been made public by Texas
A&M University as a service to students, families, and other interested
individuals.
Under the “Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974”, the
following directory information may be made public unless the student
desires to withhold any or all of this information.
Student’s name, address (local and permanent), telephone listing,
date and place of birth, sex, nationality, race, major, classification, dates
of attendance, class schedule, degrees awarded,awards or honors,
class standing, previous institution or educational agency attended by
the student, parent’s name and address, sports participation, weight
and height of athletic team members, parking permit information, and
photograph.
Any student wishing to withhold any or all of this information should
fill out, in person, the appropriate form, available to all students at the
Registrar’s Office, Room 112, Records Section, no later than 5:00 p.m.,
Friday September 16, 1988
Donald D. Carter
Registrar
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Page 8/The BattalionThursday, September 1, 1988
World and Nation
Delta Flight 1141 crashes,
covers field with wreckage
GRAPEVINE (AP) — Delta Flight 1141 slid to
a halt in a field of waist-high prairie grass dotted
with sunflowers near the end of a runway at Dal-
las-Fort Worth International Airport.
The smell of jet fuel spilled from the 727 hung
heavy in the air as a small army of rescue workers
swarmed around the charred wreckage.
There was a din of hovering helicopters and
the roar of fire engine pumps as water was
sprayed inside the fuselage.
The field had been transformed into a grim
parking lot with emergency vehicles. Earth
movers had scraped roads around the scene, just
short of the runway.
Along the airport’s chain-link perimeter fence,
yellow plastic ribbons were strung about, keeping
the curious away from areas where officials were
examining the wreckage and rescuers were re
moving bodies.
Telephone cabled snaked across the field as
General Telephone of the Southwest set up
emergency phones for the horde of reporters
that gathered at the site.
Reporters from across Texas and the nation
questioned airport spokesman Joe Dealey Jr.,
who told the same story over and over again.
Survivors were hustled away quickly.
Two hours after the crash, the first corpse was
covered near a gaping hole in the plane’s side.
There were other remains inside.
After the remains were sorted, they were
taken by tractor trailer to the Tarrant County
Medical Examiners Office in nearby Fort Worth.
Reporters and photographers were led from a
command post to within 40 yards of the plane for
a survey. The plane’s charred fuselage was
upright, a 25-foot hole in its rear section.
The wings were sheared off and lying useless
on the ground.
The tail section was dangling by threads of
greenish twisted metal. The Delta logo on the tail
was unrecognizable.
Perhaps 60 yards from the fuselage was one of
the plane’s three engines. It was standing erect
like a piece of abstract sculpture.
The exterior of the front section was relatively
undamaged. The word “Delta and the Ai
can flag from that section were visible.
What could be seen through die ga
of the interior was absolute destruction.]
were burns on each side of the hole for
and the plane’s windows in that section
melted.
Nothing remained of the seats, it appe
where passengers sat. I he plane’s framew
that section was twisted and burned.
The ground near the plane was littered
bandage wrappers, syringes and other mt
supplies.
From the passengers’ baggage, a red
shirt and jeans, along with a womans
blouse, were strewn in the grass.
Airplanes on the other side ofthehugeaj
continued to take off and land. About apn
mile away, golfers played at an airportresiw
T he songs of the birds hovering in the
mimicked the tragedy and loss marked b
terrible explosion of the Delta aircraft.
Crash survivors,
burned plane hull
left after disaster
GRAPEVINE (AP) — It must
have been a miracle to escape from
the inferno left after the huge plane
exploded.
The burned-out hull of Delta
1141 rested in a grassy field dotted
by sunflowers. The four-foot prairie
grass smouldered long after rescuers
put out the flames of the jetliner,
which crashed on takeoff at the
south end of Dallas-Fort Worth In
ternational Airport Wednesday.
Acrid smells of jet fuel and
charred plastic lingered in the
breeze at the field.
There were many more survivors,
officials said, than fatalities, which
seemed a miracle when looking at
the charred remains of the aircraft.
cal Examiners Office in nearby Fort
Worth.
Reporters and photographers
were led from a command post to
within 40 yards of the plane for a
survey. The plane’s charred fuselage
was upright, a gaping 25-hole in its
rear section.
The wings were sheared off and
lying useless on the ground.
They carried away the survivors
quickly. At about 11 a.m. two hours
after the crash, they covered the first
corpse near a gaping hole in the
plane's side. There were other re
mains inside.
After the remains were sorted,
plans were to take them by tractor
trailer to the Tarrant County Medi-
The tail section was dangling by
threads of greenish twisted metal.
The logo on the tail was unrecogni
zable.
Perhaps 60 yards from the fuse
lage was one of the plane’s three en
gines. It was standing erect like a
piece of abstract sculpture.
The exterior of the front section
was relatively undamaged. The
word “Delta” and the American flag
from that section were visible.
What could be seen through the
gaping hole of the interior was shear
destruction. There were burns on
each side of the hole for 15 feet and
the plane’s windows in that section
were melted.
Researchers: Gene
could cause cancer
BOSTON (AP) — A gene inher
ited by a third of all white Americans
may be responsible for most cancer
of the colon and rectum, and
search is on to pinpoint this inborn
cancer trigger, researchers say.
The study, to be published today,
suggests one gene — or perhaps sev
eral — that are present at birth put
some people at high risk of devel
oping adenomatous polyps. Colon
and rectal cancers develop from
these growths.
Researchers who conducted the
work at the University of Utah say
they believe the still-unidentified ge
netic factor accounts for 50 percent
to 100 percent of all cancer of the
colon and rectum, which strikes an
estimated 147,UU0 Americans an
nually.
“This paper is of particular im
portance, because it points to the
fact that a single gene may underlie
a significant portion of all cases of
colon cancer,” Dr. Michael Swift of
the University of North Carolina
said. “It gives, in principle, a way of
getting to that gene and identifying
it.”
Dr. Randall W. Burt, a co-author
of the Utah study, said that locating
the gene is one of his team’s goals.
“We think we have a fairly good
chance of one day finding the gene
or genes,” he said.
Until now, many experts believed
that inheritance played only a minor
role in colon cancer.
Welcome Back Aggies
Show Your Student or Staff I.D.
$1 00 off One Gourmet Dinner Entree
50C off Lunch & Dinner Buffet (11-1,
Reg. $4 25 w/ Ice Tea; (5-8, Reg. $4 45 w/Ice Tea)
All you can eat, 20 items featuring:
•General Tso’s Chicken (Tue. & Fri.)
•Chinese Beef Fajita’s (Mon. & Thur)
•Chicken Egg Foo Yong (Wed. & Sun.)
•Shrimp Egg Foo Yong (Sat.)
Dine In Only
Not Valid w/other offer
Expires 09-04-88
Pacific Garden Chinese Restaurant
701 E. University Between Chimney Hill Bowl & the Hilton
846-0828
Witnesses shocked as plane crashes
GRAPEVINE (AP) — A mo
torist driving along the interstate
said he couldn’t believe what he
saw when he witnessed a Delta
727 crash with 105 people
aboard.
“I was coming over the bridge
on 1-30 in Arlington, and 1 saw a
big ball of fire going into the air,”
Greg Isaacs of Dallas told KR1.D
radio. “I started driving over
there and it looked like it was
over near D-FW, and 1 thought,
‘No way could it be an airplane
accident.
Eyewitnesses said the
burst into flames and plowed
the dirt of a north-south runk,
David Hooker, 28, of Ctb
was at a gas station south oh
airport when the planecrashed
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airplane taking off,” he slid
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Stock exchange remains sluggish
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market posted some scattered
losses in another sluggish session
Wednesday after an early ad
vance failed to stand up.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials, up more than 10
points soon after the opening,
finished with a 6.58 loss at
2,031.65.
Analysts said hopes were in
creasing on Wall Street that Fri
day’s report on the employment
situation for August would show
a moderation in job growth,
which would presumably ease
pressure for credit-tightening by
the Federal Reserve.
Brokers said the market i
still suffering from the apt
and caution that has pred-
nated in recent sessions.
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lation. revved up several otbti
sues, including Kenr*McCee,'j:
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shares climbed 1% to W/\ini
usually heavy activity.
As measured by WilshireAi
ciates’ index of more than 5
actively traded stocks, themari
lost $3.92 billion, or 0.15 perce
in value.
U.S. poverty level, family income rise
WASHINGTON (AP) —
American family income rose by
1 percent last year but the num
ber of people living in poverty
also edged upward slightly, the
Census Bureau reported
Wednesday.
“The economic recovery is
leaving many poor Americans be
hind,” Robert Greenstein of the
Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, private research group,
said.
He said the most disturbing
figures dealt with black Ameri
cans, who suffered a significant
increase in poverty. The govern
ment defined the poverty income
level as $11,611 for a family of
four in 1987, up from $11,203
the previous year.
William P. Butz, the Census
Bureau’s associate director for
demographic programs, said:
nation’s economic performait
in terms of income and pover
has been mixed as usual.
The number of Americans
ing in poverty last year total
32.5 million, slightly highertli
the 32.4 million reported
1986. The poverty rate was I!
percent, down from 13.(i perce
Butz said neither change
considered statistically signinc
because they are within them
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port, which was liaised onasat
pie of about 60,000 househol
across the country.
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