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The Battalion
Vol. 93 No. 2 (16 pages)
1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993
Tuesday, August 31,1993
Israel approves self-rule plan for Palestinians
The Associated Press
Agreement calls for autonomy in Gaza Strip, Jericho within months
JERUSALEM — Israel's Cabinet ap
proved a self-rule plan for Palestinians in
the occupied territories Monday after
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said "the
time has come" to take a chance for peace.
The approval by the 18-member Cabi
net was the first significant sign of
progress since the peace talks began 22
months ago. Sixteen ministers voted for
the plan and two abstained.
The plan calls for autonomy to begin in
the the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
town of Jericho within months. Months of
detailed negotiations, however, will be
needed to work out details of self-rule in
those areas and elsewhere.
"This is the first agreement that has
been reached between Israel and the
Palestinian people," said Environmental
Protection Minister Yossi Sarid. "All min
isters expressed satisfaction over the fact
that the security of the state of Israel is be
ing assured."
During the five-hour Cabinet meeting,
4,000 Jewish settlers and right-wing ac
tivists hurled eggs, then stones, and
called Rabin a "traitor." Some scuffled
with leftist demonstrators who held signs
saying "give peace a chance."
In Jericho, some 20 right-wing demon
strators, including two members of Par
liament, moved into an old synagogue on
the northern outskirts of the town and
staged a sit-in, Israel radio and television
reported.
The army declared the town, scheduled
to be the seat of the self-rule government, a
closed military area and was trying to get
the squatters to leave voluntarily.
On the Palestinian side, there were also
bitter divisions over the plan.
"I am very enthusiastic that the
process continue. I hope to be able to
work with the (Rabin's) Laborites in Israel
toward peace," Bassam Abu Sharif, a top
aide to PLO leader Yasser Arafat, told
French television.
In the Gaza Strip, Islamic fundamental
ist groups issued leaflets and wrote wall
slogans denouncing the self-rule plan.
Hamas demanded a general strike Tues
day, saying over loudspeakers circulating
in Gaza that it would "cut the throat" of
anyone who dared even use a car.
Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the Demo
cratic Front faction of the PLO opposed to
the plan, said in an interview from Dam
ascus that Arafat should heed the grass
roots opposition to the deal.
"The bureaucratic group in Tunis
should listen to the people's minarets and
sirens of danger. The people are rejecting
this dirty game," he said in a telephone
interview.
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators
were to sit down Tuesday for the start of
a new round of talks expected to finalize
the self-rule plan.
"Every change has its risks, but the
time has come to take a chance for
peace," Rabin said in a speech before the
Cabinet vote. "We stand on the verge of i
great opportunity."
"There is movement along the whole
Arab front in readiness for peace," he
said. "There are obstacles. There are diffi
culties, but I'm convinced the horizons for
peace are open."
In Washington, President Clinton said
before the Cabinet's decision that he was
"very much encouraged" by the apparent
breakthrough in the peace talks, but said
it was too early to say whether it would
lead to renewed dialogue between the
United States and the PLO.
There was a clear difference of inter
pretation between Israeli and Palestinians
on the self-rule plan.
Rabin portrayed it as an agreement
that would exclude Jerusalem from nego
tiations, prevent settlements from being
uprooted and keep security in the hands
of the Israelis.
In Israel's view, the plan to implement
autonomy in Gaza and Jericho was a test
of the Palestinians ability to govern them
selves without posing a threat to Israel.
All-University Night at Kyle Field: Fights mar annual event
By Melinda A. Rich
The Battalion
Despite efforts by Texas A&M University student leaders and the
administrators to control the amount of negative rivalry and fighting
during All-University Nights in the past, Monday's event concluded
with yet another clash between students.
Two females and a male were taken to area hospitals with minor
injuries resulting from an altercation that began after the program
concluded.
The Texas A&M University Police Department could not confirm
who was involved, but bystanders said the argument was between
residents of opposing dormitories.
The horseshoe of Kyle Field was filled to capacity as thousands of
Aggies came together to participate in All-University Night, an annual
event which welcomes students back for another school year and gen
erates support for the fall athletic sports.
School officials and student leaders expected this year's All-Univer
sity Night to return to its original purpose of motivating students to
preserve the Aggie spirit.
Last week Student Body President Brian Walker said student lead
ers from across the campus had been working to find ways to solve
the problems of fighting and profanity.
"To some groups it's good bull, but actually it's bad bull," he said.
"Rivalry can be good, but sometimes it can go too far. Aggie spirit is
about preserving pride and being fired up about A&M. Fighting and
profanity are not parts of that spirit."
Dr. Malon Southerland, interim vice president of Student Services,
said scheduling changes, such as opening the gates early and making
sure the program started on time, were put in place to lessen the
amount of negative rivalry seen in past years.
Walker opened the program by saying that a new year brings new be
ginnings, and students should take advantage of what A&M has to offer.
Walker said all Aggies should remember A&M traditions and
strive to uphold them.
Southerland supported Walker's statements and added that A&M
operates as a family. He said students can build a strong foundation
for their life at A&M and learn to handle change.
Texas A&M Interim President Dr. E. Dean Gage expressed his ex
citement for the upcoming year and said he wants to form a partner
ship with A&M students so that they may apply themselves and take
advantage of what the school has to offer.
Kyle Bumett/THL Battalion
Rennie Rebe, the only senior on the 1993 Lady Aggie Soccer Team, whoops after being introduced at All-University Night on Monday.
Clinton tackles
Bosnia issue,
NAFTA after
11-day vacation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Listing
conditions for sending U.S.
peacekeeping troops to Bosnia,
President Clin
ton said Mon
day he'd have
to be con
vinced that any
war-ending
settlement was
fair, enforce
able and sup
ported by the
beleaguered
Mu s 1 i m -1 e d
government. Clinton
"I'm certain
ly open" to the use of American
forces "but I also want to know
whose responsibility it is to stay
for how long," Clinton said. Esti
mates of the number of U.S.
troops required have hovered
around 20,000.
On his first day back from an
11-day vacation, a tanned and
relaxed Clinton answered ques
tions at a brief news conference
following a meeting with
Caribbean leaders.
The president also began
drafting strategy for winning ap
proval of a controversial free-
trade agreement with Mexico and
Canada despite opposition from
many Democrats in Congress.
"I think in the end my position
will prevail," said Clinton, who's
relying on strong support from
See Clinton/Page 14
Montana teens kill selves
after chase through Texas
The Associated Press
POST, Texas — Two Montana teen-agers fatally shot themselves
early Monday after speeding through four counties in a stolen truck.
The chase ended at 3:19 a.m. when Garza County sheriff's
deputies and state troopers shot out the truck's back tires just inside
the Post city limits.
Officers watched as the passenger, 15-year-old Dustin Newman,
shot himself once in the head. Cory Barley, 17, used the samt .243-
caliber rifle to shoot himself, also once in the head.
"We were about 50 to 60 feet away and tried yelling out loud
speakers: 'Drop the weapons. Put your hands up. Stop what you're
doing,"' said Garza County Sheriff Ken Ratke.
"The driver stuck his hand up in the air and gave us an obscene
gesture and then shot himself," he said.
The teens were neighbors from Roundup, Mont., who had been
missing since Aug. 22. Ratke said no one knows why they were in
Texas or where they had been since they left Roundup.
'A night in hell'
U.N. raid misses target in Somalia
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — For the U.N. military
command in Somalia, the pre-dawn raid on a two-
story villa in southern Mogadishu was "a textbook
example of how these operations should go."
For Larry DeBoice and eight other U.N. employ
ees, it was a night in hell.
Fifty helicopter-borne elite American soldiers
raided the house and an adjoining office under an al
most full moon early Monday, apparently thinking
they were a command and control center for fugitive
warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
They weren't. They were the residence and office
of DeBoice and three other foreign employees of the
U.N. Development Program, one of many U.N. agen
cies operating in Somalia.
In Washington, a Defense Department official
who spoke on condition of anonymity said military
intelligence officers had expected to capture some of
Aidid's lieutenants. But he conceded they were
wrong and the mission missed its target.
"Our information is that they thought it was a com
mand and control center," DeBoice said in Mogadishu.
"We weren't asked. We were told to shut... up."
DeBoice and his colleagues were awakened around
3 a.m. by the roar of helicopters overhead — more
than a dozen of them by the U.N. military's count.
"Then we got some concussion grenades and
shots in the house," DeBoice said. "At that point we
knew something was going on right here."
DeBoice srid some of the raiders landed on the
roof of the villa from ropes suspended from heli
copters, others smashed through doors on the
ground floor.
DeBoice, 45, a Canadian, said he and his col
leagues had their hands bound behind their backs
with plastic cuffs and were told "to keep our heads
down and not look at anybody."
"1 don't think there was any doubt in anybody's
mind that if we said anything, looked at anybody,
moved, we'd be shot," he said. "Those dudes were
serious."
East Coast prepares for hurricane
The Associated Press
HATTERAS, N.C. - Thou
sands of people boarded up win
dows and fled inland Monday as
Hurricane Emily strengthened
and headed toward the sandy,
low-lying Outer Banks island
chain with 95 mph wind.
Hurricane warnings were post
ed from the central North Carolina
coast to Virginia as the storm
threatened to pass over land Tues
day afternoon, and forecasters said
there was a growing threat to the
East Coast farther north.
"I'm taking this seriously after
Hugo and Andrew," said Hatteras
Island native Janice Spake, 43.
Though Emily was unlikely to
approach the ferocity of those hur
ricanes, it was expected to strength
en, with top sustained wind possi
bly exceeding 100 mph. And
coastal areas it threatened were left
vulnerable by two major dune-flat
tening storms last winter.
At 8 p.m., Emily's center was
about 260 miles southeast of Cape
Hatteras, near latitude 32.2 de
grees north and longitude 73.0 de
grees west. Wind and rain from
the hurricane hadn't reached
shore but ocean swells along the
coast had grown to 10 feet, the
National Weather Service said.
The hurricane's maximum sus
tained winds were near 95 mph,
up from 85 mph three hours earli
er, and additional some strength
ening was likely as the storm tra
versed the Gulf Stream.
Emily was moving west-north-
west at near 8 mph and that mo
tion was expected to swing north
Tuesday, said the National Hurri
cane Center in Coral Gables, Fla.
"We'll probably have to put
some warnings on northward to
morrow," said Bob Sheets, the
center's director. "The question
is how soon it's going to turn to
the north."
If it turns northward before or
shortly after hitting the Outer
Banks, Emily would head back
out to sea and would be expected
to stay offshore of the coast, said
hurricane center forecaster Tony
Zaleski. That could cause large
See Hurricane/Page 3
Inside
State & Local
•Texas enacts tougher
drunken driving laws
Page 2
Sports
•A&M football team loses
two players
Pagel1
Opinion
•All Vasquez wants is a
parking spot for his car
Page 15
Weather
•Tuesday: mostly cloudy
with scattered showers,
highs in the 90s
•Forecast for Wednesday:
mostly cloudy with
scattered thunderstorms
•Your Battalion extended
forecast: same old stuff -
scattered rain, not too hot