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NORTHSIDE RESIDENCE HALLS: Donations drive (belongings and food) benefitting interna
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KANM 99.0 CABLE FM: Dr. Garland Cannon, a linguistics professor who has lived and
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researched in Kuwait, will discuss pre-war Kuwait and Iraq at 6:00 p.m.
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Social activities are not needed
to attract students to the halls
like they are at A&M, she said.
Mexican culture also heavily
influences students' academic
concerns during their college ca
reers.
Flores said students involved
with the program will have a
chance to see how their system
differs from the one in Mexico
and why both programs are im
portant.
"Students will have a chance
to practice their English and ex
hibit some freedom while getting
to know what opportunities,
both academically and socially
A&M has to offer," she said.
Tom Murray, associate direc
tor of Student Affairs, is in
charge of the Mexican visitors'
life. Murray said the Mexican
students will have many oppor
tunities at A&M.
'The first
is a cultural
purpose
exchange where students have
?portunity to learn about
ilture, and the second pur-
an opt
our cul
pose is to allow the students to
compare residence hall s
terns," Murray said. "Weg-
chance to show off Aggie ct
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Osterbuhr said cultural da
ences can be challenging. ',
covering how people are sc:
times locked in their perspectK
how they use words and the
portance they give to certain!;
ics can also be Fun, he said.
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Evangelist's wife testifies to 'great sexual life' in defamation suit against Swaggart
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The
wife of the Rev. Marvin Gorman
testified Monday that they en
joyed “a great sexual life" and
she forgave him for his indiscre
tions.
Virginia Gorman took the
stand after sitting in the audi
ence for nearly a month listening
to testimony that included alle
gations her husband had ong
oing affairs by 1987 with more
than 100 women.
Gorman came to trial with a
$90 million defamation suit
against rival television evangelist
Jimmy Swaggart.
Swaggart has been accused of
spreading false accusations
about Gorman's sex life to get rid
of a rival who was a big compet
itor in the television ratings war.
Mrs. Gorman, 56, testified that
on July 15, 1986, her husband
confessed that he had been;
volved in an affair with a chuj
worker, Linda Savage, wilt'
another Assembly of God t
ister.
"I was very shocked, very!
appointed but yet I knew I;
loved him," she said.
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(AP) — Angry passengers said
Monday that some officers and
crew members grabbed the first
available lifeboat and abandoned
hundreds of people on a Greek
cruise liner that later sank in
stormy seas.
All of the more than 570 pas
sengers and crew were con
firmed safe, said Ian Hunter,
managing director of TEC Tours
of Johannesburg, which leased
the Oceanos liner.
Those aboard the ship were
rescued in a dramatic operation
Sunday that was completed only
90 minutes before the ship sank
a mile from the country's Indian
Ocean coast near the village of
Coffee Bay.
Passengers praised rescue ef
forts by the South African mili
tary and tour company officials
aboard the ship, but said they
were outraged with the behavior
of the crew.
They claimed crew members
took the ship's only two moto
rized lifeboats, leaving tourists
to try to launch regular lifeboats.
Also, many complained that no
announcements were made dur
ing the 12-hour ordeal.
"They left us in the lurch.
They knew ... the ship was
going to sink and didn't say a
thing," passenger Kevin Ell
tning," passenger Kevin Ellis
said of the crew. "All the crew
who knew how to operate life
boats had gone."
Capt. Yiannis Avranas was
not among the first to leave, but
passengers said he left while
there were still many tourists on
board. Avranas defended his ac
tion, saying he had to direct the
rescue effort from shore.
"I don't care what these peo
ple say about me. I am separated
from my family, who were res
cued by one of the other ships,
and I lost my own ship, he told
reporters late Sunday night.
"When I order abandon ship.
it doesn't matter what
leave," Avranas said in a!
rate interview with ABC‘
"Abandon is for everybody'
some people like to stay,
can stay."
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The 7,554-ton Oceanos
carrying mostly South
passengers. It had left Eastl
don on Saturday for Durbar
Democrats
investigate
1980 hostage
dealings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Democratic leaders of Congress
formally launched an investiga
tion Monday into whether the
1980 Reagan-
Bush cam
paign secretly
conspired
with Iran to
delay release
of 52 Ameri
can hostages
until after the
presidential
election.
President Bush
Senate agrees to give $50 million in aid
for suffering hospital trauma centers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate has authorized $50 mil
lion in aid for the nation's
trauma centers, which are suf
fering staggering financial
losses as they treat the victims
of gang violence and drug
wars, says Sen. Lloyd Bentsen.
The Senate agreed late Fri
day to a bill sponsored by Bent-
sen, D-Texas, that would au
thorize $50 million in direct
grants to hospital trauma cen
ters whose existence is threat
ened by escalating violence.
Funding for the measure
would also have to be provided
by Congress.
"Many of our cities have be
come war zones," says Sen. A1
Gore, D-Tenn., a cosponsor of
the Trauma Center Revitaliza
tion Act. "Residents are get
ting caught in the cross fire and
are being injured and in many
cases killed. Yet, in these same
areas, trauma centers are clos
ing because they lack the funds
to stay open."
Bentsen said the centers
most at risk are generally in
larger cities where battles be
tween gangs and drug traffick
ers have become a way of life.
"Each night the wounded
are transported to these spe
cialized emergency rooms," he
told the Senate. But trauma
centers are losing millions of
dollars because patients fre
quently can't or don't pay for
their treatment.
The legislation, approved on
a voice vote as an amendment
to another bill, focuses largely
on the unpaid care trauma cen
ters given to victims of drug-re
lated, penetrating trauma.
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House Republican leader Rob
ert Michel quickly labeled the
cal. The
move political. The speaker of
the House, Rep. Thomas Foley,
D-Wash., and Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell, D-
Maine, issued a joint statement
calling the allegations "per
sistent and disturbing."
"They have led us to con
clude, along with former presi
dents Carter and Reagan, and
President Bush, that these alle
gations should be laid to rest
once and for all," the two leaders
said.
Atlantis’ astronauts experiment with futuristic space equipment
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis' as
tronauts logged their fourth day in orbit Monday
ie rut
by testing futuristic spaceship technology and
conducting a real eye-opening experiment — in
serting eyedrops in space.
James Adamson squirted eyedrops into his
right eye, then left. A mid deck camera zoomed in
on each wet eye.
"It turns out it's pretty easy," Adamson said,
blinking and wiping away tears. "You get a little
bit around somewhere, but... it works OK."
"Anything for science, right?" Mission Con
trol's Jan Davis asked.
"Anything at all," Adamson replied.
Liquid forms into little floating beads in weight
lessness. A NASA optometrist wanted to see how
would work and asked the crew to tape
on video.
In addition to magnified pictures of Adamson's
eyes, the crew of four men and one woman
beamed back video images of an even bigger eye,
that of Hurricane Fefa, located over the Pacific
Ocean east of Hawaii.
LONDON (AP) — The red
double-decker bus, on which
dogs ride free and tourists ride
on top, could soon be rolling off
into the English sunset.
As part of a program to im
prove Britain's wobbly public
services. Prime Minister John
Major has pledged to deregulate
London's buses and sell the sys
tem to private owners.
"Every company will choose
it's own livery to run under, so
the red bus is probably already
gone," said David Hales, a press
officer for London Regional
Transport.
"It's a great shame I think.
We've already lost the red phone
boxes; next we'll be losing the
royal guardsmen."
Among passengers and crew
interviewed on London's oldest
existing bus route, the No. 9, the
plan is extremely unpopular.
"The buses are going to be
painted any color you like," said
driver Alf Basauri. "The com
pany will say. Til have mine
pink, with black spots.' Who will
stop them?"
"Red London buses are part of
our heritage!" said passenger
Penny Bevan-Jones. "You see a
postcard of a red bus and'
know what city you're in. Itli
that's awfully sad."
Transportation departal
spokesman Duncan Strouds
London's fleet of 5,000
would simply have new own!
under privatization. "There's:;
solutely no reason at all totl|
that deregulation would
the end of the red buses,' 1
said.
The London Tourist Board;
agrees.
"Already around the couij
where buses are deregtM
the red bus is gone," saidKa:
Chellew, a tourist bo;
spokeswoman. "The red bus
symbol of London, just 1“
Ben or the Houses of Parliam
It's part of the tourist experie
to get a picture of one, and
ride in one."
Meanwhile, the Europe
Community is considerine c
form headroom standards
newly manufactured bus
Such a rule, according to f
phen Morris, editor of
monthly magazine Buses, "i
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spell the end of double-dej’
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