LADY AGGIES
hope to extend their five-
game winning streak
tonight against UT.
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"Never before . . . has there been
a better time to live in this country
than right now."
-Brian Boney, opinion editor
The Battalion
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
8 Pages
Monday, January 20, 1992
Injured basketball players, staff
await dismissal from hospital
By Scott Wudel
. The Battalion
Four members of the A&M
basketball team and support staff
are expected to be released today
from a Dallas hospital after re
ceiving treatment for carbon
monoxide poisoning.
Senior forward Anthony
Ware, A&M assistant coaches
Mitch Buonaguro and John Pi-
gatti, and Colin Killian of the
A&M sports information office,
along with other members of the
A&M basketball team, were
overcome by carbon monoxide
fumes Saturday night at Baylor
University's Ferrell Center short
ly before the Aggies' game
against Baylor.
The entire A&M team was
sent to two Waco hospitals for
treatment.
Ware, Buonaguro, Pigatti and
Killian were transported to Dal
las' Humana Hospital early Sun
day morning for further treat
ment. Buonaguro, Pigatti and
Killian were given a full two-
hour session in a hyperbaric
chamber. Ware had sinus trou
ble and could not stand the in
creased pressure and continued
to receive oxygen through a
mask.
Freshman Tony McGinnis and
trainer Mike Ricke were held
overnight in a Waco hospital and
released Sunday afternoon.
The rest of the A&M team and
staff returned to College Station
on Sunday.
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Police arrest, charge
A&M athlete in theft
By Scott Wudel
The Battalion
Texas A&M football player Bri
an Mitchell was arrested and
charged Sunday with theft and
failure to appear in court for a traf
fic warrant. College Station Police
said.
Mitchell, a sophomore, was ar
rested at 4:10 p.m. outside the Ap-
pleTree grocery store at 1725
Texas Ave.
He posted $335 bail and was
released by College Station Police
Sunday evening.
Mitchell, a redshirt freshman
wide receiver
from Dallas, was
A&M's second-
leading receiver
during the 1991
football season.
He played in
all 11 games and
caught 19 passes
for 519 yards
and six touch
downs.
A&M head football coach R. C.
Slocum was not available for com
ment.
AppleTree management also
declined comment on the incident.
Mitchell
Groups
to honor
IMLK
Planners hope
to rekindle flame
By Karen Praslicka
I The Battalion
The birthday of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., will be celebrated
li today and during the week by or
ganizations which want the for
mer civil rights leader and his
! dream of equality among all peo-
pie to be remembered.
The Committee on Multicul-
I tural Awareness will sponsor a
I Martin Luther King, Jr. Day cele-
I bration Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 3
j p.m. in the Commons Lobby.
Joellen Newman, coordinator
: of residence life for the Committee
I on Multicultural Awareness, said
she hopes the program will in
crease awareness of Dr. King.
"I hope it will make people a
■ little more aware of him and what
1 he stood for," she said.
The program will feature stu
dent body president Steven Ruth,
the Voices of Praise gospel choir
and the Fade to Black dance en-
1 semble.
Ruth will speak on civil rights
for blacks, and how these rights
have developed through the years.
The Department of Multicul
tural Services will sponsor a video
tribute to Dr. King entitled, "In Re-
■ nembrance of Martin." The video
; vill be shown today, Jan. 20, at
icon in Room 145 of the Memorial
Student Center.
The video features former
president Jimmy Carter, comedian
Bill Cosby, the Rev. Jesse Jackson
and others speaking about Dr.
King's life. Much of the video is
narrated by Dr. King's wife, Coret-
ta Scott King.
Lorinda Beekmann, student
development specialist, said many
people know who Dr. King was,
but not what he stood for. She
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Head first
Florida State quarterback Casey Weldon dives in Dallas. Weldon's score sealed! a sloppy 10-
for the only touchdown scored in the 56th 2 victory over A&M in a tug-of-war that
Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic on New Year's Day featured a Cotton Bowl record 13 turnovers.
Citizens
protest
prices
Former Soviet republics struggle
to curb economic
MOSCOW (AP) — Demonstra
tors angered by soaring prices
staged more rallies in Russia and
Uzbekistan on Sunday, and news
media said two other former Sovi
et republics reined in economic re
forms to head off unrest.
Thousands of university stu
dents marched peacefully through
Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, to
protest the police shooting of fel
low students during a rampage
Thursday against soaring prices,
news reports said.
In St. Petersburg, supporters of
Communist groups protested the
lifting of price controls in Russia,
which has sent the cost of con
sumer goods spiralling under
President Boris Yeltsin's efforts to
create a market-driven economy.
Tensions are rising less than
three weeks after Yeltsin lunged
away from the centrally planned
economy of communism by lifting
price controls for many goods and
raising state-set costs of necessi-
:ies.
Other republics in the new
Commonwealth of Independent
States also raised prices to avoid
having Russians flood into their
territories to buy cheaper goods.
The government of Belarus
plans to raise some state-regulated
food prices Monday, the indepen
dent news agency Interfax said
Sunday. Bread and dairy prices
will triple and vegetable and fruit
will be five times more costly.
political chaos
However, news reports said
Sunday that Turkmenistan and
Azerbaijan had decided to hold
down or roll back prices in an ef
fort to prevent unrest over eco
nomic changes.
Turkmenistan's president,
Saparmurad Niyazov, issued a de
cree Sunday barring price rises
above wage increases for some
goods, the Russian Information
Agency said. The decree affects
basic consumer goods, including
dairy products, bread, fish, non-al
coholic beverages and children's
goods.
In Azerbaijan, President Ayaz
Mutalibov ordered a 30 percent re
duction in the price of bread Sat
urday, the agency reported. It said
lost revenue would be compensat
ed by higher prices for vodka and
other commodities in high de
mand.
Yeltsin has ordered similar
cuts for necessities in some Rus
sian cities and charged that black
marketeers, bureaucrats and ex-
Communists are using his reforms
to gouge consumers.
The unrest in Tashkent contin
ued for a fourth day with about
3,000 students from the city's
Agriculture College marching to
the city center before being turned
back by police, Interfax said. The
unarmed students returned to
their campus for a protest rally,
and no clashes or injuries were re
ported, it said.
Israeli prime minister
loses critical support
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir lost his
parliamentary majority at a heated
Cabinet meeting Sunday, setting
the stage for early elections ex
pected to be focus on the U.S.-
backed Middle East peace talks.
Shamir's support in the 120-
seat parliament was cut to 59 leg
islators when the far-right Tehiya
and Moledet parties fulfilled
pledges to pull their five seats
from the government in protest of
the Arab-Israeli talks.
The opposition Labor Party
said it would try to topple the
government in a parliamentary
no-confidence vote. The newspa
per Maariv said
the Knesset, or
parliament, was
expected to dis
solve itself this
week and sched
ule national elec
tions for June 9.
Tehiya and
Moledet oppose
the limited self-
rule that the gov
ernment has of
fered to the Palestinians in the oc
cupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,
saying autonomy would lead to
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Shamir
A&M expansion
University Center
nears completion
Alysia Woods
The Battalion
Almost two years and $30
million later, Texas A&M's new
University Center located near
the Memorial Student Center has
eliminated the chain-link fences
and opened its doors for the
spring semester.
Included in the center are stu
dent organization offices, a recre
ation area, art galleries and a
browsing library.
Dennis Busch, assistant man
ager of the University Center,
said although the center has
opened its lobbies to the public,
its staff has not completely
moved into the offices.
"Furniture is being moved in
now," Busch said. "The offices
will probably be occupied by the
middle of February."
The parking garage located
across the center on Joe Routt
Boulevard was the first stage of
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DARRIN HILL/The Bdtaiioit
The University Center, which is now open to the public after two
years of construction, comprises the MSC, Rudder Tower and
the new parking garage complex on Joe Routt Boulevard.