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The Battalion
Friday, September 20,1991
The Battalion
(CISPS 045 360)
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Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm
A&M plans to honor own Gulf War vets
By K. Lee Davis
The Battalion
Texas A&M's planned cele
bration will honor all students,
faculty, staff and former students
who served on active duty during
Operation Desert Shield/Desert
Storm.
The activities on Sept. 28,
planned in conjunction with the
A&M home football game against
the University of Southwestern
Louisiana, will start early Satur
day morning and last until after
the game.
Among the dignitaries expect
ed to attend the day's activities
are Maj. Gen. John Tilelli Jr., com
mander of the 1st Cavalry Divi
sion from Fort Hood which was
deployed to the Persian Gulf in
October 1990 and Air Force Maj.
Gen. Thomas Olsen, Class of '56,
Commander in Charge of Gulf
Theatre Air Operations during the
conflict.
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Ennis)
and Greg Laughlin are also ex
pected to attend. President
George Bush, Gov. Ann Richards,
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Gen. H.
Norman Schwarzkopf have nei
ther accepted nor declined their
invitations at press time.
A representative from Sen.
Phil Gramm's office said Gramm
will decline his invitation.
Along with the Aggies being
honored, participants in the oper
ation from USL will also be salut
ed during the game.
Included with the group being
honored are ten Aggies selected
as recipients of Mobil Oil Corpo
ration's Desert Shield/Storm
Scholarships and 50 students se
lected to receive Texas A&M's As
sociation of Former Students'
Desert Shield/Storm Scholar
ships.
Game-day activities will begin
at 9 a.m. in the recently completed
Fish Pond Park across from Sbisa
Dining Hall with a dedication cer
emony honoring the three Aggies
who gave their lives during the
conflict.
The classmates of Maj. Richard
M. Price, Class of '74, Lt. Danny
V. Hull, Class of '81, and Capt.
Thomas Clifford Bland, Class of
'86, have donated funds to name
three benches in the park in their
honor. Two other benches in the
park, honoring fallen Aggies from
World War II and the Korean
War, will also be dedicated.
At 10 a.m. a memorial ceremo
ny to add the names of the three
fallen Desert Storm Aggies to the
memorial for those killed in Korea
and Vietnam will take place at the
Corps Arches, near Coke and
Lubbock streets. A U.S. Air Force
fly-over in missing man formation
will punctuate the ceremony.
This ceremony will mark the first
time since Final Review in 1954
that a "fish band" has appeared at
a University function. The fish
band is made up of freshman
members of the Aggie Band.
From 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. the
Army's 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry
Division from Fort Hood will dis
play a variety of military equip
ment at the A&M Polo Fields.
At 1 p.m. soldiers from the
U.S. Army 143rd Infantry, Com
pany G, will make a parachute
jump demonstration from a heli
copter onto the Polo Fields, as
well as a 2 p.m. para-jump
demonstration by the A&M Sport
Parachute Club.
At 3:30 p.m.. President Mob
ley will host a pre-game buffet foi
all Aggies who participated in the
campaign and for all of the visit
ing dignitaries. The Singing
Cadets are expected to perform
around 3:40 p.m., and President
Mobley is expected to speak at4
p.m.
At 5:45 p.m., just before game
time, there will be a special pre
game ceremony honoring all par
ticipants in the operations.
At halftime, special music wil
be presented in line with the rest
of the day's festivities by the Uni
versity of Southwestern Louisiani
Ragin' Cajun Band and the Aggie
Band.
A fireworks display expected
to last at least three minutes will
start within seconds of the endoi
the game.
Man thanks supporters,
dies by lethal injection
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - Con
victed killer James “Sugarman"
Russell was executed early Thurs
day after thanking his supporters,
expressing love to his family and
lashing out at the death penalty.
Russell, 42, was given lethal
injection by prison officials for ab
ducting and fatally shooting
Thomas Stearns, an electronics
store manager who had identified
the two-time robbery convict to
police as the man who held up his
shop.
He was pronounced dead at
12:20 a.m., five minutes after the
lethal drugs began flowing into
his arms.
“Wherever the death penalty
is, there will be no civilization.
There will be no respect for hu
man life," he said at the conclu
sion of a three-minute final state
ment.
He made no reference to his
1974 crime in Fort Bend County
during his last comments.
When told that the execution
had been carried out, Robert
Stearns of Round Rock, father of
the victim, responded, "Good,
good. I guess we go on to the next
stop of our lives now."
The day before Russell was to
go on trial for the robbery of
Thomas Stearns' Radio Shack
store in Houston, Stearns was ab
ducted and taken to a rural area of
Fort Bend County, southwest of
Houston, where he was sexually
abused and shot twice in the head
at point-blank range.
Russell, from Sugar Land, con
tended he was a victim of racism,
since his trial was heard by an all-
white jury. Russell was black. His
victim was white.
Audubon society links population with environmental problems
Group wants to limit births
AUSTIN (AP) — Mention the National
Audubon Society, and most people think birds, not
birth control. But leaders of the environmental
group Thursday said limiting the human popula
tion is vital to preserving the planet.
"Really, this is the ultimate environmental issue.
If you think of any classical environmental problem,
you can't think of a single one that would not be
less severe if population pressures were less," said
Peter Berle, society president.
Berle attended the society's southwest regional
conference, "A Vision for 2020: Population and the
Environment," which ends Sunday.
The conference is meant to help people make the
connection between population growth and such is
sues as wildlife and habitat, as well as food supply
and health care, said Patricia Waak, Audubon's di
rector of population programs.
"Family planning is important to bring about
what our vision is of the future ... Let's save wildlife,
and let's save the planet for humans as well," Ms.
Waak said.
Berle said, "Environment and wildlife is where
we start, but we don't deal with wildlife issues
without dealing with the threats to habitat which
make wildlife possible ... You cannot deal with any
environmental problem in isolation."
He said other environmental groups also are in
volved in the push for population control.
"This is one of the core issues that the whole en
viron mental community ought to be concerned
about," Berle said.
According to a handbook that the National
Audubon Society helped to prepare, it is "just bare
ly" possible to stop short of doubling the worlds
5.4 billion population.
If the share of fertile couples practicing family
planning is increased from about 55 percent now to
about 75 percent in the year 2000, most population
growth would stop by about 2050, it said. World
population would then be about 9 billion.
Increased U.S. foreign aid funding for family
planning is a priority of the National Audubon Soci
ety and other population and environmental
groups, the handbook said. They want to increase it
from the current $300 million to at least $570 million
next year.
Ms. Waak said the National Audubon Society
also is working on public education.
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A&M organization recruits highschool students
By John Lose
The Battalion
A Texas A&M student organization
called High School Public Relations and Re
cruitment (HSPR^) has been reactivated in
earnest this semester under the direction of
sophomore chemistry major Lisa Ro
driguez.
HSPR^ is a group of A&M students who
work with the University's Office of School
Relations and the Student Government by
visiting high schools and explaining what it
is like to be an Aggie.
"We've had a huge response," Ro
driguez said. "Right now, we have about
150 involved, but sign-up is still open. The
more people we have, the better. And
we're really looking for people from out of
state."
Rodriguez said there is no interview in
volved in becoming a member of HSPR .
All an interested student needs to do is
sign up in 221 Pavilion and undergo a short
training session.
"In the training session, we show the re
cruiters the video and explain that they are
not going to have to talk about tuition, SAT
scores and so forth," Rodriguez said.
"Instead, what we will have them do is
discuss things like bonfire, yell practice.
Twelfth Man, what to do and what not to
do, and stuff like that. If the high school
students do ask about admissions, we will
have brochures and information available,
and we can let them know who to call with
their questions."
Rodriguez saidwhile A&M recruiters
usually attend All-University Nights and
college days at high schools, HSPR^ re
cruiters will visit the schools this semester
during Christmas break and talk to the stu
dents at lunchtime on a more informal ba
sis.
'What we'll be doing is more of a stu-
dent-to-student kind of thing," Rodriguez
said.
HSPR- is made up of two subcommit
tees. One is the group of student recruiters
that is open to everyone, and the other is a
group of about twelve operations officers
who will handle the training sessions. Offi
cers for the organization will be appointed
from the operations committee.
"We've been around for a long time,"
Rodriguez said. "But the group's been kind
of inactive.
"Right now we're trying to get it started
up again and so far we've had a great re
sponse."
presents
Why we won the War
featuring
ETC Jimmy Dunham '70
Assistant Professor of Military Science
Monday Sept. 23, 1991
701 Rudder
7:00 pm
Student M Y"
Membership Kick-Off
PICNIC
Food-Games-Fun!
When: September 22
Where: Hensel Park Area 4
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Cost: $3.00
R.S.V.P. by Sept. 20th 5:00 p.m.
For more Info .call: 847-4057
(From the Owners of Cafe Eccell and Deluxe Barger Bar)
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Charbroiled Chicken on a bed of Linguini w/Cilantro Pesto. GrillecI Chicken with Southwestern spices, topped with sliced tomatoes,
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