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Brian Cooper, a freshman civil engineering major, paints a house on Holleman Drive Saturday as part of the Big Event.
Big Event lets students give back to community
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The Big Event, Texas A&M's
largest service project, provided
a way for students to give some
thing back to the Bryan-College
Station area as over 3,000 stu
dents spent Saturday working to
improve the community.
Nicole Newbury, assistant di
rector of the Big Event, said the
volunteers and student groups
worked hard to make the project
a success.
"We completed about 165
projects overall, and we had a re
ally good response from every
body," she said. "The central
headquarters was at the Lincoln
Recreation Center, near Holle
man, and that was the target area
where we completed projects for
the city."
Kelly Russell, director of the
Big Event, said the Big Event
Committee collaborated with the
city of College Station on many
of the projects.
"We had about 50 projects in
conjunction with College Sta
tion," Russell said. "A lot of
these were painting projects, and
they seemed to go really well."
Newbury said a large number
of residents called and expressed
a need for help with general
maintenance.
"We had a lot of people call
and want cleanup of yards and
houses," she said. "We also par
ticipated in some apartment
cleanup."
Russell said several groups
painted bleachers and helped
with the general cleanup of vari
ous little league fields in the
community. One group went to
"Camp Howdy," a Girl Scout
camp, and helped clean out and
organize the entire camp.
Cellular One, a sponsor of the
Big Event, donated cellular
phones so committee members
could keep in touch with the
groups at their various work
sites.
"The phones were a big help
because people were able to re
port any problems and keep in
contact with committee mem-
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See Committee/Page 3
Iran attacks
rebel camp
inside Iraq
Air strike sparks violence
against embassies in Europe
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Ira
nian warplanes bombed an Irani
an rebel base near Baghdad on
Sunday, the first air strike by Iran
on Iraqi territory since a 1988
cease-fire halted their eight-year
war.
Iraq claimed its forces shot
down one out of eight Iranian
fighter-bombers and captured the
two-man crew. State-run Baghdad
radio, monitored in Cyprus, called
the raid an act of "blatant and un
justified aggression" and warned
Iran of "grave consequences."
Rebel supporters in Europe re
sponded by attacking Iranian em
bassies in at least six countries.
The air raid marked a sharp de
terioration in relations between
Iran and Iraq, which have not
signed a peace treaty to formally
end their 1980-88 war and have
been waging increasingly strident
propaganda campaigns against
each other.
Tehran said the air strike was in
retaliation for a raid by guerrillas
of Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's
Holy Warriors, on two villages in
western Iran on Saturday. It also
blamed the Mujahedeen for recent
attacks on Iranian diplomats in
Baghdad.
But the raid may have been an
attempt by Iranian President
Hashemi Rafsanjani to shore up
Iranian warplanes strike at
Iranian rebels inside Iraq
Sunday. Iraq claims to have
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support five days before parlia
mentary elections, in which he is
trying to crush opponents of
moves to improve relations with
the West.
The air attack was the most se
rious clash since March 1991 when
units of Iran's Revolutionary
Guards crossed the border during
Kurdish and Shiite Muslim rebel
lions and clashed with Iraqi troops
and their allies.
Mujahedeen Khalq, the largest
exiled Iranian opposition force,
said one of its fighters was killed
and several others wounded when
its base near Khalis, 30 miles in
side Iraq and 40 miles from Bagh
dad, was showered with cluster
bombs on Sunday morning. It de-
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Yeltsin fights for power
Critics protest president's economic policies
MOSCOW (AP) — President
Boris Yeltsin said Sunday he will
fight efforts in Russia's parliament
to trim his powers and will use his
full authority to press ahead with
painful economic reforms.
"Only one way can exist today
- the continuation of radical re
forms," he told a gathering of sup
porters.
His comments came on the eve
of a crucial session of the Congress
of People's Deputies that will de
bate a new constitution to replace
the political system left by the
Communists. Parliament leaders
are demanding that Yeltsin relin
quish some powers and ease the
hardship caused by his market re
forms.
Barely four months after pre
siding over the death of the Soviet
Union, Yeltsin could face a politi
cal firestorm during the session of
the 1,048-member body, which
convenes Monday in the Grand
Kremlin Palace.
But a key Yeltsin aide. State
Secretary Gennady Burbulis, said
pro-reform groups agreed tenta
tively Sunday to form a parlia
mentary bloc to defend the presi
dent. He said the bloc included a
majority of lawmakers, but that
could not be confirmed indepen
dently.
In return, Yeltsin agreed to con
sult with the bloc in making gov-
"All that was possible
to sell has been sold, all
that was possible to betray
has been betrayed."
— A protester at a
demonstration over
Yeltsin's and Gorbachev's
reforms
ernment appointments and for
mulating policy.
That is the closest he has come
to joining a political organization
since quitting the Communist Par
ty in 1990.
Acknowledging criticism from
lawmakers, Yeltsin said he would
continue to shuffle his Cabinet
and to make "partial corrections"
in his reforms, which sent prices
soaring. At the same time, farm
and factory production has fallen.
Opponents from the right and
left are demanding changes in the
reforms and the repeal of the spe
cial powers Congress granted him
to rule by decree.
More than 2,000 Yeltsin critics
demonstrated Sunday in Manezh
Square next to the Kremlin.
One speaker denounced Yeltsin
and former Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev, saying: "All
that was possible to sell has been
sold, all that was possible to be
tray has been betrayed."
Outside the concert hall where
Yeltsin spoke, protesters formed a
"corridor of shame" leading to the
entrance, calling women
"whores" and men "Judases" or
"traitors" as they entered.
A group of young men tried to
block some people from the hall.
At least two fist fights broke out,
but no serious injuries were re
ported. Police sat in buses nearby
and did not interfere in the
demonstration.
March to the Brazos
ROBERT J. REED/The Battalion
Senior Justin Hester, top right, talks to
freshmen about his first March to the Brazos.
A&M Corps of Cadets
does it for Dimes
By Julie Polston
The Battalion
Texas A&M's Corps of Cadets held its annual
March to the Brazos Saturday in an effort to raise
money for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foun
dation.
Organizers said the event is a way for cadets to
show their devotion to A&M and the outside com
munity.
"I love the Corps," committee chairman Rob
Ferris said. "I just want to give the babies in the
United States a fair chance in life."
Ferris said cadets go out into the community
and raise money from door-to-door donations to
Benefit the March of Dimes.
The outfit that raises the most money adds its
name to a trophy especially for the event. Ferris
said individual incentives for fund raising also are
awarded, including round trip tickets and hotel ac
commodations to Orlando, Fla.
March to the Brazos has raised more than
$500,000 for the March of Dimes since 1977.
This year's event is expected to raise more than
See Cadets/Page 4
Sheriff's deputy accuses police officers in brutal beating
HOUSTON (AP) - Police internal af
fairs and the Texas Rangers are investigat
ing an attack on a San Jacinto County
sheriff's deputy and her husband by sev
eral men, including three Houston police
officers, authorities said.
Deputy Edna Kennedy and her hus
band, Dennis, were taken to Huntsville
Memorial Hospital Friday night after the
attack at the Hill Top Icehouse in Point
Blank, about 75 miles north of Houston.
Dennis Kennedy's eyes were swollen
shut and his face was lacerated in the at
tack, while the back of Mrs. Kennedy's
head and her face and lip were split open.
Kennedy's wife said a Houston police
man put a gun in her mouth and told her
"you're fixin' to bite the bullet," then
called her an expletive, as her husband
lay beaten a few feet away in the parking
lot.
"I thought my husband was already
dead," she told the Houston Chronicle in
Sunday's editions. "I started doing my
Hail Mary prayers. I said my children's
names. I just felt like they were fixing to
kill me."
After state police and sheriff's deputies
arrived, the officer, two other Houston
police officers with him and five or six of
their friends — all of whom the Kennedys
say were involved in the assault — were
questioned and released.
Houston Police Department
spokesman Robert Hurst said the internal
affairs division is investigating because a
shot was fired. The names of the officers,
who reportedly were in the area for a fish
ing tournament, were not released.
San Jacinto County Sheriff Lacy Rogers
said he was turning the investigation over
to the Texas Rangers.
"All I want is to be sure justice is done
because they should have gone to jail,"
said Mrs. Kennedy, a 10-year veteran
with the sheriff's department, a certified
officer and secretary to the county sheriff.
"This wasn't a barroom fight," she
said. "My husband was ambushed."
The officers and their friends had come
into the icehouse just before midnight Fri
day, said Lon Watts, the owner's son.
Watts said he saw no fights in the bar, but
Dennis Kennedy said the men exchanged
threatening words with some patrons
while playing pool. Kennedy walked out
with one patron who he said was afraid to
leave alone because of the men.
After the patron drove away, Kennedy
turned to go back toward the bar. He said
the men circled him and attacked.
Kennedy's face was beaten beyond recog
nition, witnesses said.
Mrs. Kennedy came out of the icehouse
five minutes into the fray. She said she
pulled her gun and identification from
her purse and identified herself as a San
Jacinto County sheriff's deputy. The men
moved away from her husband, but she
said she was suddenly struck from be
hind and a hand grabbed her gun, caus
ing it to fire.
As she was forced to the ground, she
said the men said they were Houston po
lice officers but did not show any identifi
cation. The officer pulled her hand behind
her back, holding her face down on the
parking lot, she said. He then turned her
over and stuck the barrel of a gun in her
mouth, splitting her lip.