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Parkway) AEROBICS ^ Registration Begins on June 4th ^ University PLUS Craft Center Basement Of MSC Low - Impact Aerobic Exercise A T/Th, 6-7pm, June 12 - July 10 Intermediate Aerobic Exercise C M/W. 6-7pm, June 11 - July 11 Beginning Aerobic Exercise M/W, 5-6pm, June 11 - July 11 M/W, 7-8pm, June 11 - July 11 T/Th, 5-6pm, June 12 - July 10 K T/Th, 7-8pm, June 12 - July 10 $20/Sfu<]ent $22/Nonstudenf I 845; 1631 PLUS Faculty/Staff may order AggieVision by making checks of $32.25 payable to Student Publications, 230 Reed McDonald, Mail Drop 4111. WORLD & NATION Wednesday, June 6,1990 Rebels seize headquarters of mbber plantation Liberian president tries for peaceD MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Rebels seized the headquarters of the world’s largest rubber plantation on Tuesday, then gathered for action at the adjoining gates of Liberia’s international airport, plantation sources said. President Samuel Doe pursued a last-stand at tempt at peaceful negotiations to end a six- month insurgency that has evolved into a tribal war. He met with Christian church officials and Moslem leaders who have offered to act as inter mediaries. In Akron, Ohio, a spokesman for the Bridges- tone-Firestone Inc. company that runs the 120,000-acre plantation referred to the rebels as “freedom Fighters” and said the company wants to keep the plantation operating — even with re bels. Americans and other foreigners. State Depart ment spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said Monday in Washington that about 70 U.S. offi cials and 1,200 private American citizens re mained in Liberia. Most of the rebels belong to Liberia’s Gio and Mano tribes and entered Liberia from neighbor ing Ivory Coast in late December. Doe belongs to ig in the marketplace, welcoming the1 fighters” distinguished by their red band} Insurgents now control every major industrial concern in this West African country of 2.5 mil lion residents, except possibly the Bong iron ore mine, cut off for days from Monrovia and be lieved behind rebel lines. Plantation residents said rebels Fired mortars and automatic weapons Tuesday as dozens crossed the Farmington River — the last natural barrier before Monrovia — and moved onto the plantation. One shell fell into the garden of an expatriate plantation employee, but no one was hurt, the sources said. Robertsfield International Airport, 25 miles from Monrovia, was built to serve the plantation. It was effectively closed on Monday. Off Monrovia, four U.S. warships carrying 2,000 Marines remained ready to evacuate ■ lantation residents said rebels fired mortars and automatic weapons Tuesday as dozens crossed the Farmington River — the last natural barrier before Monrovia — and moved onto the plantation.One shell fell into the garden of an expatriate plantation employee, but no one was hurt. A receptionist at Robertsfield Hotel, a thro 1 ® minute walk from the airport, said he saw pa I haps 15 soldiers in all guarding the airport. Hi ^. A said sounds of mortars and gunfire in themort; ing died down by afternoon. B ,, Diplomatic sources in this capital city of ak 400,000 people said they had no reports of 1 ualties in fighting Tuesday. They said about 1® U1I . S or 20 soldiers on the plantation briefly return. f K ' 1 ^ rebel fire, then fled toward the capital. ur i |l! Government forces now are believed tonur * 2 ' !< ' her about the same as the rebels — between3, and 4,000. ■ 1 he Monrovia residents were fleeing in fear arJP: 111 v some soldiers abandoned key posts before that ■ bel advance. Doe has asked the United States ^1 help end the civil war convulsing Liberia. !f! nce " 1 Washington has accused Charles Taylo! 11111111 ngt . . . leader of the rebel National Patriotic Front ofl; “Th the Krahn tribe, which is loyal to him, as is the Mandingo tribe. The rebels accuse Doe’s administration of cor ruption, economic mismanagement and human rights abuses. Plantation sources said they were told troop reinforcements were en route to the plantation to try to recapture it. None of the people interviewed by telephone in the Firestone company town of Harbel would agree to have their names published. A Harbel resident said many people were cele- beria, of getting support from Libya, butitals J e sta has said Marines will not move to support Doe m£ government. l tlon: Bridgestone-Firestone spokesman Trevcffi (ne ^ Hoskins said in Akron that Americans managir; _I R the plantation did not plan to evacuate despitl the rebel advance. The plantation turns out about 100 milliol pounds of rubber a year. Descendants of freed U.S. slaves foundedL beria in 1822. In 1847 it became black Afro:F r ^ ( ^ first independent country. || m ^' Ethicists question suicide device, call invention ‘immoral, illegal’ •tent DETROIT (AP) — An Alzheimer’s patient com- minutes, mitted suicide by triggering a device that released a le- He said she was unconscious in 25 seconds, and died thal dose of chemicals, the doctor who assembled the in five or six minutes. apparatus and watched the woman die said. “It simulates exactly the judicial executions that we Some medical ethicists called the doctor’s actions im- do now with legal executions, except with this device moral and perhaps illegal. A prosecutor said he would the person does it himself by pushing a button,” Kevor- wait for the autopsy results before deciding whether to kian told the Detroit News on Monday, charge Dr. Jack Kevorkian, and will seek an injunction “The last thing Janet Adkins said was, ‘You just make to prevent the doctor from using the device again. my case known,’ ” Kevorkian, a retired pathologist and “Physicians should not be killers, even in cases where an outspoken advocate of what he calls doctor-assisted the patient requests it and there is a compassionate rea- suicide, said. son behind the act,” Susan Wolf of the Hastings Center Kevorkian said jn March that he expected to be pros- device. that he for bio-medical research in Briarcliff, N.Y. said. “They ecuted after the first use of the drug-injecting take an oath to do no harm, and taking a life is doing He also said he would not charge patients and harm.” might use it to take his own life some day. Kervorkian said Janet Adkins of Portland, Ore., trav- Kevorkian could not be reached by the Associated eled to Michigan during the weekend to use his suicide Press. The phone at his suburban Detroit office was re- — peatedly busy. Physicians should not be killers, even in cases where the patient requests it and there is a compassionate reason behind the act.” —Susan Wolf, spokeswoman After Adkins died, Kevorkian notified police. Kevorkian said Adkins came to Michigan with her husband, Ron, and a friend but they left before she died. In Oregon, providing the means to commit sui cide is a felony, but Michigan has no law against suicide assisted by a physican. According to the American Medical Association, passive euthanasia is ethical, Reinhard Priester of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota said. device. He drove the 54-year-old woman in his van to a park in northern Oakland County on Monday af ternoon. According to Kevorkian, he and one of his relatives attached Adkins to a heart monitor, then put an intra venous tube in her arm. The tube first delivered a saline solution. Kevorkian said Adkins then pressed a button that injected thio pental, a coma-inducing drug, followed moments later Kevorkian said the Adkinses contacted him in Octo ber after learning about his device, and he recom mended treatment with an experimental drug at a Seattle hospital. He said it failed and that Adkins told him she planned to commit suicide by overdosing on pills. 'The device itself — an aluminum frame with three suspended bottles and a small electric motor — is not il legal, Gerald Poisson, assistant Oakland County pros ecutor, said. Coca-Cola gets boycotted in France in Nat Tht Klerk’ remar anth “ sed tion Dui arg< BORDEAUX, France (AP)- Hundreds of cafe and restauradT oie owners in Bordeaux are waging;It*’ 111 boycott against Coca-Cola to pro test what they view as unfair com petition from vending machines Christian Sauvage, presiden. of the main hotel and restauran: owners’ association in the region said Tuesday the soft drink com pany had flooded Bordeaux witi, about 850 vending machines as part of a test marketing program Sauvage said his associatio: had accepted Coca-Cola’s prop y Kt *Th 1ICXVJ. t.^ \_4 sal to place the vending machines tk’ 0 n inside business premises but ok jected when machines also were|x\ V0O | placed in the streets. p n, “In the machines, a bottle cosj cli.uu five francs (90 cents),” said Sauklo-Vi vage. “At our places, taking intoa pq account expenses, we sell it at lOgfiliate to 15 francs. The young people ihicf aren’t crazy —they rush overio CBSi the machines.” §: Ho The boycott began two montlis |l ace ago in Bordeaux, France’ s fifttijboih largest city, and now involves tions. about 500 establishments, Sau- ; A n vage said. || A spokesman for Coca-Cola, timati who declined to be identified,IIj n g said the company hoped tonegoj H e tiate a resolution to the dispute KHT The spokesman contended that! same the vending machines catered to-Bh ani ward a different clientele thari the regular patrons of cafes. y potassium chloride, which stops the heart within Gorbachev returns from US to ethnic bloodshed MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned from the United States on Tuesday tri umphantly bearing trade and arms deals but facing ethnic bloodshed in Central Asia, an impasse with the Baltic republics and trouble in the Kremlin. sis Boris N. Yeltsin was elected presi dent of Russia, the largest Soviet re public. Yeltsin immediately called for the resignation of the Soviet Cab inet and a new constitution that would vastly reduce the powers of the central government. In Gorbachev’s absence, his neme- In the distant reaches of Soviet Central Asia, two Turkic groups clashed Tuesday for the second day along the border between Uzbekis tan and Kirghizia. Authorities de clared a state of emergency and said 11 people were killed. , Along the Baltic coast, Prime Min ister Kazimiera Prunskiene of the se cessionist republic of Lithuania reas- sured her compatriots that American sympathizers would try to block Congress from endorsing U.S.-Soviet trade deal signed ati summit. And within the ancient red bni walls of the Kremlin, the Supreis Soviet legislature unexpectedly pos poned consideration of the emign tion law that President Bush set as ^ precondition for implementing ill trade pact. DWI (Continued from page 1) there have been at least 77 arrests in College Station alone since New Year’s Day. One of the many organizations trying to put a stop to DWI in the lo cal area is Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Anita Friedman, administrative assistant of MADD’s Brazos County Chapter, said the chapter is not against alcohol — they are against drinking and driving. “Going to jail for a month or two or even a year will not solve the problem,” Friedman said. “The problem repeats itself and we’re af ter the rehabilitation. We feel that is a better way to do it.” Another supporter of the alcohol rehabilitation process is Dr. Maurice Dennis, safety education coordina tor at Texas A&M. “When you combine lack of expe rience as a drinker and the party risk-taking atmosphere, DWI is higher among college-age people,” Dennis said. “In the state of Texas if you want to avoid losing your license and going to jail, you must success fully complete an alcohol-education program as one part of probation.” He said the statistics for 1989 indi cate that in Texas alone there were 103,008 arrests and 33,061 alcohol- related deaths. _Dr^ Dennis Reardon^ coordinator of A&M’s Center for Drug Preven tion and Education said DWI of fenders most often are men, but women are not immune to the prob lem. He said alcohol abuse is the main reason for the DWI problem. Rear don sees about 400 students a year and five to six students a week re garding alcohol problems. In Brazos County a first-time DWI offense includes fines of $100 to $2,000, plus 72 hours to two years in jail. A second-time offender gets a fine of $300 to $2,000, plus additio nal costs and up to two years in jail. A third DWI offense is a felony, punishable with a $500 to $2,000 fine, 30 days to two years in jail or 60 days to five years in prison. The! fender’s drivers license can bet pended for one year and ifheorst: j,. is placed on probation^ $40:* month must be paid, plus comtt nity service. These are only court costs a* fines. Car insurance of DWI offetf. ers most likely will more than doui for five years depending on cartj and offender’s age. Also, the offet; er’s car is towed immediately af: his or her arrest. 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