"fUuy q)00l The Battalio Vol. 93 No. 21 (8 pages) 1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993 Monday, September 27,1993 w eekend rap-up Three U.S. soldiers killed in Somalia NAIROBI, Kenya — Three American soldiers were killed Saturday in Somalia when militia men fired a rocket-propelled grenade that brought down their helicopter. Jubilant crowds surrounded the downed craft, holding up pieces of the wreckage. Re porters who went to the scene several hours after the crash said some Somalis displayed what they said were pieces of flesh from the dead crew. It was the first time a heli copter was downed during the 10-month U.N. operation in Mo gadishu and the worst loss of U.S. life since four American sol diers were killed Aug. 8 by a land mine. The deaths Saturday bring to 11 the number of U.S. servicemen killed in action in Somalia. Evidence sparse on Amtrak wreck MOBILE, Ala. — Investigators retrieved a data recorder that could pinpoint the time of Amtrak's worst disaster, but they had no luck trying to interview the crew of a towboat whose runaway barge struck a railroad bridge. Another locomotive was re moved from the bayou below the wrecked bridge Saturday morning. Authorities expect to have three re maining cars cleared by Sunday, said CSX Transportation spokes woman Donna Rohrer in Jack sonville, Fla. CSX owns the track. One thing the National Trans- ortation Safety Board wants to ow is who was steering the tow boat that lost the barge, NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said Saturday. But investigators were referred to the crew members' at torneys when they tried to ask questions Friday. poi knc VMI to establish women's program RICHMOND, Va. - The all male Virginia Military Institute said Saturday it would create a program for women at a private college to comply with a federal court order. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the state-sup ported college last October to ei ther admit women, go private or establish a program for women elsewhere. The program approved by the VMI Board of Visitors would be established by the VMI Founda tion at a cost of $6.9 million. The state would subsidize a portion of the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, but details have not been worked out. Sixth Street: open containers banned AUSTIN — Sixth Street, once compared to Bourbon Street in New Orleans for partying between the curbs, has been forced to move its revelry indoors. As recently as May, partyers on the capital's most famous night club strip could stroll up and down the neon-lit, music-filled side walks, grabbing a beer from a curbside vendor. Those days, however, are over. Open containers no longer are permitted on Sixth Street. A city ordinance prohibiting the outdoor consumption of alcohol in downtown Austin went into effect this summer after being ruled con stitutional by a federal judge. The ordinance was an effort by city officials to reduce violence, panhandling and loitering on Sixth Street. -The Associated Press Yeltsin enjoying mass public support The Associated Press MOSCOW — Thousands of Russians cheered Boris Yeltsin at a concert on Red Square on Sunday and at least 10,000 peo ple marched in the biggest demonstration of support for the president since he dis banded parliament five days ago. Across town, hard-liners who have de fied Yeltsin by refusing to leave the par liament building dug in their heels. "If need be, we will stay here for a year," said parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov, leader of about 100 law makers who remain holed up in the building, known as the White House. Yeltsin, accompanied by Defense Min ister Pavel Grachev and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, waded into surging crowds on Red Square for a free concert by the Washington-based National Sym phony Orchestra and its conductor, for mer dissident Mstislav Rostropovich. The president waved and smiled, then Boris Yeltsin has disbanded the Russian parliament and set new parlia mentary elections for December. took his place at the front of the crowd. He cracked a smile again when earblast ing cannons went off during Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." An announcer urged "faith in the pres ident and in Russia's future," and the crowd responded "Hurrah! Hurrah! ' A longtime backer of Yeltsin, Ros tropovich has said he wanted the concert to give Russians hope and confidence during the transition to a post-Soviet democracy. "Yeltsin is one of us and he must suc- Alexander Rutskoi, the Russian vice president, has condemned Yeltsin and declared himself president. ceed," said Nina Shtanina, a 69-year-old pensioner who arrived on Red Square at 8 a.m., four hours early, to get a good view of Rostropovich. Temperatures were near freezing. "I took part in the Second World War, and if we won that fight, we can win this one," she said. Later, pro-Yeltsin demonstrators chanting "Yeltsin! Yeltsin!" linked arms and marched down broad Tverskaya Street — Gorky Street in Soviet times. A small band headed the procession. Marchers carried Russian flags, pic tures of the president and placards with slogans such as "Shame on the White House," "Boris, You're Right Again" and "Elections are the Will of the People." Yeltsin has set new parliamentary elections for December and says presi dential elections could be held in June. The hard-line Congress wants simulta neous parliamentary and presidential elections in March. Khasbulatov's parliament, elected in So viet times, opposed the president's free- market reforms, saying they were causing undue hardship. Lawmakers also whittled away at Yeltsin's presidential powers. Outside the White House, Yeltsin's re bellious vice president, Alexander Rutskoi, urged 3,0Q0 to 4,000 anti-Yeltsin demon strators "to stand till the end." Rutskoi has condemned Yeltsin's actions as unconstitu tional and declared himself president. The demonstrators are a mix of Com munists and extreme nationalists, and are mostly older than Yeltsin's supporters. Circulat'd Dully r Jjf jjfTjl) __ 0 jt __ J* __ ruMMird By pc ousti co »-