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oreme Court nominee David H.
souter firmly refused to discuss his
dews on abortion Thursday as the
senate Judiciary Committee opened
onfirmation hearings. Democrats
promised to continue to press for his
dews on that and other controversial
issues.
He told the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee it would be inappropriate for
him to discuss such a hotly contested
onstitutional matter as abortion,
though he said he accepted the con
stitutional right of privacy on which
the Supreme Court based its abor
tion-legalizing 1973 decision, Roe vs.
Wade.
Souter, the New Hampshire judge
who is President Bush’s first choice
for the nation’s highest court, spoke
slowly and somberly in the crowded
Senate hearing room of what he
called “the greatest responsibility
that any judge in our republic can
undertake.”
The court has been deeply di
vided in recent years with 5-4 rulings
on such contentious issues such as
abortion and civil rights, and conser
vatives are hoping that Souter will
help anchor the court firmly on the
right.
“If the Senate of the United States
believes it is right to confirm my
nomination, then I will accept those
responsibilities as obligations to all of
the people of the United States
whose lives will be affected by my
stewardship of the Constitution,”
Souter said.
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den, D-Del., then began the long
f irocess in which Souter would con-
ront questions from all 14 commit
tee members.
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logue about the right of privacy,
which although not specifically men
tioned in the Constitution has been
recognized by the Supreme Court
since a 1965 decision called Griswold
vs. Connecticut.
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Supreme Court service as a responsi
bility “to make the promises of the
Constitution a reality for our time
and to preserve that Constitution for
the generations that will follow us.”
He began his testimony after sit
ting quietly for two hours while sen
ators made opening statements.
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ocrats advised him to “open for us
the window into your mind” while
Republicans told him to keep his
own counsel in facing sensitive ques-
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Presentation of message scoreboard,
new bugles to take place before game
By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
Presentations will be made Satur
day before A&M’s football game for
Kyle Field’s new message scoreboard
and for the Aggie Band’s bugle
rank, who received 16 neW bugles
from former band members.
David South, assistant athletic di
rector in charge of marketing and
promotion sales, will present the
scoreboard with John David Crow,
A&M athletic director.
The board was paid for by Coca-
Cola, GTE, NCNB and Dairy-
Queen.
“The new message board is the
largest four-color message board of
its kind in the United States,” South
said. “It is neat because it has all
types of animation abilities on it.”
Crow said the scoreboard’s fea
tures include making announce
ments, animations and playbacks of
the game. He said it is similar to but
much larger than the scoreboard in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Before A&M received the
scoreboard, the athletic administra
tion talked about the idea of a new
board during last year’s football sea
son, Crow said. By the spring, offi
cials were putting together propo
sals.
“We sold advertising for the new
message hoard for more than it cost,
and it turned out to be profitable,”
Crow said.
Crow said the scoreboard is an
added attraction to Kyle Field.
The other presentation during
the pre-game ceremonies Saturday
will be former band members donat
ing 16 new bugles to the bugle rank
of the Aggie Band. Twelve of the 16
bugles are used for each game, Maj.
Jay O. Brewer, associate band direc
tor, said.
“We were in dire need of new bu
gles because the last brasses pur
chased were in 1980, and before that
in 1950,” he said.
Brewer said he and another for
mer band member coordinated the
project. They began to contact old
band members this summer about
donations so they could get 16 new
bugles made, he said.
Brewer said they found a com
pany in California able to make the
instruments by having the old bugles
sent as models, he said.
He said he thought this was a
worthwhile project because it got
other people interested in donating
to and supporting the band.
The bugles were donated by for
mer band members, the San Anto
nio A&M Club and the San Antonio
A&M Mother’s Club.
“I think the presentation to the
bugle rank is showing the loyalty and
support the former band members
have for the Aggie Band,” he said.
Former band
members to
relive past
About 500 members of the Texas
Aggie Band Association will be in
town for Saturday’s Texas A&M and
University of Southwestern Loui
siana football game to attend reun
ion activities.
More than 100 members of the
Texas Aggie Band Association, the
alumni and support organization of
the Aggie Band, will relive their
roles as musicians in the Former Stu
dent Band.
The band is scheduled to rehearse
in the Adams Band Hall and on the
Haney Practice Field Saturday af
ternoon, then march into Kyle Field
and sit on the student side of the sta
dium.
The two bands will alternate play
ing traditional football songs.
The primary reunion activity will
be a Saturday luncheon for 800 —
nearly 300 former band members,
290 present members and more
than 200 family members of the pre
sent musicians, who are affiliated
with the alumni group as associate
members.
This year’s band has 290 musi
cians, including 11 women.
Iraq warns U.S. of terrorist
attacks for 6 crimes,’ 4 insults’
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iraq warned the United
States today of possible terrorist attacks against Ameri
can targets in retaliation for what it called “crimes” and
“insults” against the Arab and Islamic nations.
The warning came in a memorandum handed to the
U.S. charge d’affaires in Baghdad, the official Iraqi
News Agency reported.
The agency, monitored in Nicosia, said the Iraqi
memorandum was in response to a message given to the
Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad on Wednesday. The
report said the message was from the U.S. government
and was delivered by the U.S. charge d’affaires.
The U.S. message “claimed that certain terrorist
groups which have bases in Iraq and are supported by
Iraq are preparing for attacks against targets of the
United States and its friends,” INA said.
According to the news agency, the U.S. message
warned: “In the event of an attack of that sort, Presi
dent Saddam Hussein should know that the United
States will hold him personally responsible.”
The memorandum given to the U.S. diplomat today
said: “The Iraqi government categorically denies the
American claims,” contained in the Washington mes
sage, according to the news agency.
“The American government and President Bush
should expect that the crimes the United States of
America is committing against the Arab nation and the
insult it is directing to the Islamic shrines by occupying
holy lands will undoubtedly produce a natural reaction
from the Arab and Islamic masses,” the Iraqi memoran
dum said.
It was delivered by Nizar Hamdoun, undersecretary
of the Foreign Ministry, the news agency said.
The United States has massed troops in Saudi Arabia
along that country’s borders with Iraq and Kuwait in re
sponse to Baghdad’s Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
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Student organizations execute post-game tidy up
of Kyle Field; time, effort pay off for everyone
By JOE FERGUSON
Of The Battalion Staff
More than 70,000 screaming,
towel-waving football fans can leave
quite a mess.
Trash collected from Texas
A&M’s Kyle Field usually fills eight
large dumpsters — twice — accord
ing to Associate Athletic Director
Wally Groff.
So who has the honor of cleaning
up after 72,000 A&M fans? A&M’s
water polo team.
The athletic department and the
water polo team have an annual con
tract, but the water polo team sub
contracts out if it needs help, Groff
said.
The 1990 contract defines the sal
ary for each game according to at
tendance figures.
Groff said the department pays
$1,500 when attendance is less than
50,000; $1,650 when attendance is
between 50,000 and 59,999; $1,800
when attendance is between 60,000
and 69,999; and $2,000 when atten
dance is more than 70,000.
Water polo team president Jimmy
Linehan said the team cleans the
third decks of Kyle Field and it con
tracts out the lower two decks to two
other student organizations.
The other organizations can earn
between $200 and $500 depending
on attendance.
Linehan said first-deck workers
usually earn more because of the
deck’s size and the extra work re
quired to clean it. Larger groups,
like the Corps of Cadets, are pre
ferred for the first-deck cleanup for
the same reason.
Many organizations are hired to
work during a season, but about two-
thirds of the cleanup crews are from
the Corps, Linehan said.
With all the necessary equipment
provided by the athletic department,
Linehan said the cleanup takes
about four hours.
He said they get started at 8 a.m.
Sunday and are done by noon, un
less it rains.
Linehan is reminded of a cleanup
after the 1988 A&M and University
of Texas game. A&M was headed
for the Cotton Bowl, and the fans
were throwing cotton balls into the
air, which made for a particularly
messy football stadium, he said.
The next day it rained, delaying
cleanup for a while. Cleanup was
made even more difficult because of
all the soggy cotton balls sticking to
everything.
“We don’t mind cleaning it up if
we have a reason,” Linehan said.
“We didn’t have to find any cotton
last year.”
Other than soggy cotton balls, Le-
nihan said groups have found
money, umbrellas, beer and “mil
lions of liquor bottles.”
The water polo team, however,
has sought and found something not
likely to be discovered in the gar
bage: funding.
Linehan said about 75 percent of
the team’s funds come from the
cleanup. He said the funds are used
for traveling to tournaments in and
out of the state.
Not all the money, however, is
saved. Much of the day’s pay goes to
feeding 15 to 20 team members after
the cleanup.
Linehan said assignments for this
season already have been made and
there is a lengthy waiting list, but or
ganizations wanting to help clean
Kyle Field should apply in April.
For more information, ask for
Paula Opal in the Recreation Sports
Office, 159 Read Building or call
845-7826.
Mexican Americans to honor social leader
By SEAN FRERKING
Of The Battalion Staff
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Remembering the 180th anniversary of the
people’s march on Mexico City, many Mexican
Americans will honor Mexico’s first social leader
and the revolution he inspired, Sunday on Mexi
co’s day of independence.
On Sept. 16, 1810, or el dieciseis de sep-
tiembre, a peasant uprising led by Father Miguel
Hidalgo marched on the Mexican capital rallying
behind the battle cry, “Independence and Death
to Spaniards.”
Within 10 months, however, Spanish forces
captured Hidalgo and executed the leader of
Mexico’s first major social revolt against Spain.
Dr. Henry Schmidt, an A&M associate profes
sor of Latin-American history, said many Mexi
cans still revere Hildago, a parish priest from Do
lores, as the father of Mexican independence
even though his revolt did not lead directly to
Mexican freedom.
“Although Hidalgo was not a very good orga
nizer and a worse soldier, his ideals proved to be
the foundation for future revolutionary leaders,”
Schmidt said.
Another social revolt led by Jos£ Maria More
los gave more direction to the independence
movement in 1813, Schmidt said.
In 1814, Schmidt said, Morelos tried to draft a
new constitution for Mexico but failed.
After two years of trying to form a provisional
government, Morelos was captured by Spanish
forces and executed.
Five years after Morelos’ death, Schmidt said a
“Mexico remembers and
honors what Hidalgo did for
them and their country.”
— Dr. Henry Schmidt,
associate prof., Latin-
American history
liberal revolution in Spain in 1820 caused the
conservative faction in Mexico led by Augustin
de Iturbide, to join with the liberal heirs of Hi
dalgo and Morelos to achieve Mexico’s indepen
dence on Sept. 27, 1821, more than 11 years af
ter Hidalgo first attacked the Spanish in Mexico
City.
“However, Sept. 16 is celebrated as Mexico’s
independence day because the implicit social rev
olutions started by Hidalgo and Morelos mean
much more to the common people of Mexico,”
Schmidt said.
After independence was achieved, Schmidt
said the conservative element of the revolution
took control of the government. He said because
Iturbide came to power, only nominal change oc
curred.
He said it would be another 100 years until ac
tual social change would affect Mexico during
the revolution of 1910.
“Ironically, the revolution of 1910 reached
back to some of the same ideals and beliefs of Hi
dalgo and Morelos,” Schmidt said.
Hidalgo once again became a prominent social
figure in Mexico because the liberal 1910 revolu
tion redefined the Mexican government, he said.
“Mexico goes as its social revolutions go and
when the liberal constitution of 1910 was
adopted, many of Hidalgo’s social reforms were
reintroduced to the Mexican people,” Schmidt
said. “Because of this, Mexico remembers and
honors what Hidalgo did for them and their
country.”
Police to enforce no-parking
zones; football fans affected
University News Service
Parking will be an even scarcer
commodity when College Station po
lice begin to enforce no-parking
zones on city streets around Texas
A&M, particularly during football
games.
Sgt. Greg Lewis of the College
Station Police Department said as
many as 800 to 1,000 spaces zoned
no parking, which have been used by
fans during past football games, will
be off limits this fall.
Lewis said his department is en
forcing the no-parking zones be
cause of hazards when automobiles
park in the areas.
Targeted areas include George
Bush Drive (formerly Jersey Street),
Wellborn Road and the secondary
streets that intersect George Bush
Drive between Wellborn Road and
Timber Street.
The areas contingent to Kyle
Field also will be patrolled for park
ing violators.
Lewis said the majority of no
parking zones have been designated
as tow-away zones and violators will
have their automobiles towed at
their expense, plus a $15 fine for the
parking violation.
Because so many people are ac
customed to parking in these areas,
Lewis said during the first two home
games, Saturday and Sept. 22, offi
cers will give warnings instead of
towing autos.
Brazos beautiful
Local groups to pick up
trash, plant wildflowers
By JULIE HEDDERMAN
Of The Battalion Staff
Sixteen Brazos County Adopt-a-
Highway groups will participate in
Saturday’s Great Texas Cleanup-
Greenup.
Nelda Riley of the State Depart
ment of Highways and Public Trans
portation’s district engineer office in
Bryan said local groups and 1,384
Texas Adopt-a-Highway groups will
pick up trash and plant wildflower
seeds on Texas highways.
A highway department press re
lease said wildflower seeds are pro
vided by Anheuser-Busch Inc. as
part of its corporate sponsorship of
the department’s “Don’t Mess with
Texas” campaign.
The campaign is credited by the
highway department for a 60 per
cent reduction in highway litter after
five years.
The highway department, which
developed and sponsors the Texas
Adopt-a-Highway program, said the
Great Texas Cleanup-Greenup will
involve more than 25,000 volunteers
cleaning 2,800 miles of Texas roads.
The plantings should yield about
2,000 square feet of wildflowers, the
department said.
Only members of Adopt-a-High
way groups may participate in the
cleanup, although anyone who
wants to help may join a group, she
said.
The Adopt-a-Highway program,
which began in the Tyler area, was
introduced statewide in March 1987.
More than 3,600 groups have since
joined the program.
The program involves civic and
business groups which “adopt” two-
mile stretches of highway and are re
sponsible for keeping them clean.
The Texas Adopt-a-Highway pro
gram is the first of its kind in the na
tion.