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Vol. 91 No. 141
College Station, Texas
‘Serving Texcis A&M since 1893'
8 Pages
Wednesday, April 29, 1992
ilitary plane crashes; 9 die
LILESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A
ilitary transport plane on a train
ing mission crashed into a lake in
south-central North Carolina on
luesday night, killing all nine
eople aboard. Air Force officials
laid.
Witnesses said the C-130 plane
ircled Blewett Falls Lake about 15
minutes before rolling over and
lunging into the water sideways,
Anson County Sheriff Tom-
ny Allen. Weather conditions at
time were cloudy but ether
ise calm.
All nine crew members were
illed, said Tech. St. Edward Dro-
han, a spokesman at Pope Air
Force Base near Fayetteville,
where the plane was based. The
base is about 40 miles east of the
crash site.
There was no immediate indi
cation of what caused the crash,
Drohan said.
Victims' bodies were not imme
diately retrieved. Allen said the
crashed plane leaked fuel into the
lake, which delayed efforts to send
divers in.
It wasn't known how much fuel
leaked, but Joe Myers of the state
Division of Emergency Manage
ment, said the plane's tanks were
believed to be holding about 1,000
gallons.
Allen said the crash occurred
about two miles above the Blewett
Falls Dam. The dam forms the
lake along the Pee Dee River,
about 50 miles southeast of Char
lotte.
The plane went down near
Snake Island, said a dispatcher for
the Wadesboro Police Department
who did not give his name.
"The only thing that's above
the water is the tail, he said.
The C-130 is a large, mid-range
aircraft often used to ferry troops
or large, heavy equipment.
Texas officials report
first case of cholera
STEPHEN TREXLER/The Battalion
BROWNSVILLE (AP) - The
first known case of cholera in
Texas has been reported in
Brownsville, state health officials
said Tuesday.
The victim apparently caught
the disease in Tampico, Mexico,
and was stricken with symptoms
on her way north.
Silvestra Figueroa, 49, of
Brownsville, has been treated at
Valley Regional Medical Center
since Thursday.
"I think it's the first case of
cholera here," said Dr. Lorenzo
Pelly, who treated Figueroa. "It
took me by surprise. The last
thing I thought of when I was
making her diagnosis was
cholera."
Kimberly Ray, a nurse-epi
demiologist with the Texas De
partment of Health in Austin,
said, "So far we are considering
See Cholera/Page 4
ottery
ill start
n May 29
I AUSTIN (AP) — Texas lottery
Officials Tuesday announced that
the state's new game will start
May 29 and offer prizes of $2 to $1
million.
I "Our first game will give away
more cash this summer than any
mother state start up," State
jComptroller John Sharp said. "We
ivill create a new Texas millionaire
"every week this summer."
I The $1 million winners, picked
through special drawings for 12
straight weeks, will receive a
icashier's check for the amount
lather than monthly payments for
[years, he said.
I "That's something no other lot
tery has been able to offer in its
first game," Sharp said. "We are
|oing to have nurses and doctors
m hand."
Officials also are gambling that
e new lottery will take off in a
big way with 300 million instant-
I'inner, scratch-card tickets ready
for the first game that is expected
to last four to six weeks.
That is almost 18 tickets per
'exan, although the game is not
ixclusively for Texans.
"It's going to be crazy out
here," said Lottery Director Nora
r '> n ares. "People are very excited
w k° ut the game starting." She said
nany of the 14,710 retailers selling
ickets may have buyers ready at
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Officials say about 17 million
did with coupon 4 ickets will be sold on opening
j a y y wo m jijj on 0 f those tickets
vill be winners providing $7.1
nillion in prizes, Linares said.
Texas is the largest state in the
lation without a lottery, and offi-
ials are expecting the game to
Jump $461 million into state cof-
ers for the current two-year bud-
jet cycle. The more sophisticated,
omputerized lottery games are
rfieduled to start this fall.
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Alicia Egeberg, a senior psychology major, flamenco for a Spanish class. Born in Rota,
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Clinton,
Bush win
in primary
Polls show 61% of Democratic voters
consider Arkansas governor honest
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -
Democratic front-runner Bill
Clinton routed Jerry Brown
Tuesday in a desultory Pen
nsylvania primary that masked
the intensity building toward a
three-way fall campaign for the
White House.
Clinton's victory was
sweetened by evidence of
increased voter trust. Sixty-one
percent of Democrats interviewed
at their polling places said they
believe the Arkansas governor has
the honesty and integrity to serve
as president — a sharp increase
over polls in earlier states.
President Bush cruised to his
22nd straight primary victory over
conservative challenger Patrick
Buchanan. Bush said he was "over
the top" in amassing the delegates
needed to assure his
renomination, but the White
House conceded it was relying on
22 delegates not yet chosen.
With 90 percent of the precincts
reporting, Clinton was leading
Brown, 56 percent to 26 percent.
Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul
Tsongas, who quit the race last
month, was gaining 13 percent.
With 93 percent of the Republican
vote in. Bush was gaining 77
percent of the vote in the
Republican primary, to 23 percent
Clinton
Brown
for Buchanan.
The hottest political property in
the land — Texas billionaire Ross
Perot — was not on either primary
ballot. He looked increasingly like
an independent candidate for the
White House, and 25 percent of
the voters told primary-day
pollsters they would vote for him
in the fall.
Bush exulted in his success at a
Republican fund-raising dinner.
He said his administration has
repeatedly submitted good
legislation, only to see the bills
"killed by the Democratic
majorities up there on Heartbreak
Hill."
Clinton had a brief reaction to
the higher percentage of voters
who think he is honest.
"That's good," he said.
NTSB officials cite
worn parts for crash
The plane
crash that killed
former Sen.
John Tower a
year ago was
caused by a
worn propeller
control unit,
NTSB officials
announced
Tuesday/
Page 8 Tower
Communists fall; Afghan rebels install Islamic government
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A
rebel coalition triumphantly de
clared an Islamic government
Tuesday, then unleashed a hail of
machine-gun bullets and rockets
in a renewed effort to crush a radi
cal rival's troops.
Explosions shook the capital
minutes after officials of the de
posed Communist government
stood one by one at a ceremony at
the Foreign Ministry to pledge al
legiance to Sibghatullah Mojaddi-
di, president of the interim gov
erning council.
The new rebel council ap
peared determined to deny funda
mentalist leader Gulbuddin Hek-
matyar a role in governing the
country after 14 years of war
against a succession of
Soviet-backed governments.
As the coalition's fighters, led
by Ahmed Shah Masood, fired
glowing tracer bullets and flares
into the night sky in celebration.
their comrades fought to wipe out
the last pockets held by Hekmat-
yar's troops.
The heaviest fighting was
around the Interior Ministry com
pound, but Hekmatyar's men
tenaciously held onto the impor
tant position in central Kabul after
repelling assaults by Masood loy
alists. At least one building was
burning in the compound.
"This would have been a very
happy day for us to see the trans
fer of power to the Islamic govern
ment," Mojaddidi said.
"But unfortunately, our happi
ness has turned to sorrow. . . . We
hope that our brothers who have
turned to violence will stop and
help our people," said the presi
dent, who wore a white turban
and flowing blue robe on his re
turn from 20 years' exile.
Mojaddidi and other members
of the governing council arrived
earlier in the day in a convoy of
hundreds of dusty cars and trucks
that made a 27-hour trek over
twisting mountain roads from
Pakistan.
Hundreds of guerrillas in the
convoy joyously fired their guns
in their air and cheered "Allah
Akhbar!" or "God is Great!" Some
rebels danced on the bed of de
posed President Najibullah in the
presidential palace.
See Afghan/Page 8
Campus organizations to honor Holocaust victims
By Michael Q. Sullivan
The Battalion
The Holocaust happened once and it
can happen again, students and religious
group leaders warn.
Joel Ehrlich, treasurer of the Hillel
Foundation, a Jewish student group at
Texas A&M, wants students to remember
the Holocaust. During World War II,
Nazis murdered six million people, main
ly Jews.
"It happened 50 years ago in a civi
lized, modern country," said Ehrlich, a ju
nior biochemistry major. "Remembering
the Holocaust is not a pleasant experi
ence, but we have to so it doesn't happen
again."
Beginning at sundown tonight and
lasting through sundown Thursday, the
Hillel Foundation and other student
groups will mark the observance of Yam
Ha'shoah, or the day of the Holocaust.
The period, a day on the Hebrew cal
endar, is recognized by the United States
Congress as a day of remembrance of
those killed during the Holocaust.
Paul "Max" Mertz, president of the
Campus Ministers Association (CMA),
said his organization is pleased to take
part in the observance. The event will be
marked by a memorial service Wednes
day night and a reading of the names of
the victims.
The CMA is composed of the leaders of
religious groups on campus, regardless of
faith or organizational ties.
"It's neat that we can work on some
thing like this together," Mertz said. "It's
hard to get cooperation from religious
groups on campus, but all of humanity
grieves in this.
"Wednesday night at 8:30 we're hav
ing a service at All Faith's Chapel that we
(CMA) wrote over the past several years.
We've also got a man who was in the lib
eration of Dachau at the end of World
War II," he said.
On Thursday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
at the Rudder fountain, students from
many groups will read names of those
killed in the Nazi concentration camps,
Ehrlich said.
"The list is only the French people who
were sent to Germany and killed," he
said. "If someone was to listen to the
names every year during their college ca
reer, they wouldn't hear the same name
twice. And again, this is list is nothing,
compared to the numbers killed; it's stag
gering."
Ehrlich is pleased with the numbers of
See Ceremonies/Page 4