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Wednesday, OctoberS
In Advance
TEAC to sponsor forum
The Texas Environmental
Action Coalition (TEAC)' will
sponsor a forum on environ
mental issues tonight from 7
p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Rudder
Theater.
The forum will focus on the
presidential candidates and
their stances on the environ
ment. Edward Wylie of the Ag
gie Democrats, Ross Perot sup
porter Lou Zaeske and Republi
can Stanley Kubicek, a profes
sor at Blinn College, will dis
cuss their candidate's environ
mental record.
Each speaker will make an
opening and closing statement
and respond to questions sub
mitted by the audience before
the program.
Dr. Gary Varner, an A&M
assistant philosophy professor,
will act as moderator.
"Basically, what we're trying
to do is educate people in envi
ronmental issues, issues which
they should take into account
when voting next month," said
Michael Gillenwater, a member
of TEAC
TEAC representatives have
fliers, detailing each candi
date's environmental stance,
available at a table set-up out
side the auditorium.
Student dies
in car crash
Henry Stanley Langendorf, Jr.,
an industrial engineering gradu
ate student at Texas A&M Uni
versity, died early Saturday
morning in an automobile acci
dent. Langendorf was 24. The ac
cident happened at the corner of
Highway 6 and Highway 290 in
Hempstead, Texas.
Langendorf's body was taken
to the Dery-Foley Funeral Home
in Dalton, Mass. Services will be
held Friday Oct. 23 at 10:00 a.m.
at St. Martin's Church in Pitts
field, Mass., and he will be laid to
rest in Ashuelot Cemetery in Dal
ton.
There will be a local memorial
service Thursday at 8 p.m. For lo
cation and any other information,
please call 268-1014.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FABENS, Texas — A high school student council
president known to friends as "the Condom Child"
says she was given two-weeks in-school suspension
Tuesday for tossing condoms from a homecoming
parade float.
But a parent who was upset because her 12-year-
old grandson ended up with a condom said the
giveaway has gotten parents involved in community
discussions about providing students with sex
education at Fabens High School.
Arlena Palacios, 16, told radio station KLAQ-FM
the punishment will be reduced to a week if she is
not truant, behaves and does her assignments during
the suspension.
School officials have not confirmed the
punishment.
Three other students also have received
suspensions of varying degrees for participating in
the Oct. 9 giveaway, which school officials said had
not been approved.
The incident has led the district to form a
committee of parents, faculty, and community
leaders to discuss creating sex education courses at
the school.
Serbia
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Crime Stoppers
Police seek suspects, leads in abandonment of baby
Before dawn on Saturday,
Dec. 28 a newborn child was left
on the back porch of a home in
the 1200 block of East 30th
Street in Bryan. It wasn’t until
8:30 a.m. in the morning that the
homeowner opened the back
door and discovered a “gym
bag” near the door. When the
resident looked inside the bag
her first thought was that a
neighbor's child had left her doll
on her porch, however it startled
her when she heard a whine
coming from the bag and she re
alized that it was a live baby.
She carried the baby into the
house and called 911.
The baby, which has been
temporarily named Christina
Marie “Doe,” is described as a
white female with light colored
hair and blue eyes. Medical offi
cials stated the baby was born
without medical assistance ap
proximately seven or eight hours
before she was found. The baby
received treatment for hypother
mia. Police Detectives said that
along with the baby, the bag
contained a brief handwritten
note.
Nine months ago Crime Stop
pers featured the abandonment
of this child as the Crime of the
Week. Since that time investi
gators have exhausted all leads,
leaving no viable suspects. If
you have information that could
be helpful, call Crime Stoppers
at 775-TIPS. When you call,
Crime Stoppers will assign you
a special coded number that will
protect your identity.
If your call leads to an arrest
and grand jury indictment, Crime
Stoppers will pay you up to
$1,000 in cash. Crime Stoppers
also pays cash for information
on any felony crime or the loca
tion of any wanted fugitive.
Feelings of mistrust among the
republics plagued the former Yu
goslavia throughout its existence.
"Bad life. A poor economy.
There was plenty of reasons to
blame someone," said Dusan
Djuric, A&M meteorology profes
sor. "The first impression among
the Croats was to blame the
Serbs."
The Croats equated all Serbs
with Communism, which is com
pletely false, Djuric said. In his
opinion, this was the reason the
Croats sought independence.
They felt they could lead better
lives without the Serbs.
"Croatians seemed to define
themselves in one sense against
Serbs," Jaric said. "It was an inte
gral part of their culture. Serbs are
considered evil.
"That's the first step to them
destroying the people because
once you make them evil they are
not human, and you can do any
thing you want to them," he said.
"I never felt that I gained
something with the Croatians,"
said Zoran Minevski, a chemistry
graduate student with relatives in
Macedonia and Croatia.
Minevski said he believes the
Serbs have received unfair treat
ment, not just at home but around
the world in newspapers, maga
zines and news programs. He
blames the media for reporting
the Bosnian and Croatian side of
the conflict while ignoring the
Serbians.
"It's not that somebody likes
killing," Minevski said. "The
killings are on both sides. What
we see in the news is that killings
are only happening on one side."
All sides must shoulder the re
sponsibility for the atrocities oc
curring, not just the Serbians,
Minevski said. The detention
camps are not limited to the Ser
bians. Croatians and Muslims
have camps for Serbian prisoners,
but the media never shows those
camps.
The media exaggerates the con
ditions of those camps they do
portray, Jaric said. Very few of the
detention camps approach the
levels of barbarity as they appear
to in pictures.
The detention camps are just a
fact of war, Minevski said.
"You cannot be in a war, cap
ture somebody and leave him
alone after that," he said. "You
have to keep him somewhere."
Minevski, Jaric and Djuric
agree that putting an end to this
war will require all sides, Serbian,
Croatian and Muslim, sitting
down at a negotiating table and
establishing new borders for the
republics which reflect ethnicity.
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shown themselves aswi
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community.
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publics under diplomatic
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"One life lost is enoui
Minevski said. "If military
was to be used, you are for
talking about even more lira
I'm sure this country(Ui
States) can solve thep
some other way."
The United Nations'
sanctions have placed pressi
the current Yugoslavian state
Serbia and Montenegro
left the other republics
Minevski said.
"The pressure on Serbia
Yugoslavia is already there,’
said. "You cannot put more
nomic pressure on thembeci
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see pressure on other n
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