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I Vol. 93 No. 26 (12 pages)
1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993
Monday, October 4,1993
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rap-up
Indian relief army
tries to stop looting
KILLARI, India — The Indian
army cracked down on looting in
the country's earthquake-stricken
southwest on Sunday, taking con
trol of police and civilian authori
ties and blocking outsiders from
shattered villages.
Tremors continued to shudder
through Maharashtra state, where
as many as 30,000 people died in
Thursday's earthquake.
In the days following the disas
ter, looters have slipped into vil
lages in the guise of volunteers,
stripping corpses of jewelry and
wrecked homes of any valuables
that could be carried away, relief
workers said.
'T'm not allowing anyone to
day to work in the villages unless
they are cleared by the army,"
said Col. S.K. Joshi, head of the
relief effort for Killari and four
surrounding villages.
Dalton says Navy
chief should resign
WASHINGTON - Navy Sec
retary John Dalton has accused
the Navy's top admiral of a "lack
of leadership" and said he should
resign over the 1991 Tailhook sex
ual harassment scandal, a senior
Pentagon source said Friday.
Dalton recommended to De
fense Secretary Les Aspin that Ad
miral Frank Kelso II, the chief of
naval operations, step down from
his post, said the source, who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
"Aspin has not yet made a deci
sion," said the source, who added
that Kelso was faulted for a "lack of
leadership" in connection with the
scandal over sexual assaults at a
1991 convention of Navy aviators.
In a report Friday, CBS News
said Dalton also recommended
Aspin discipline a dozen other ad
mirals for their handling of the
Tailhook scandal.
Koresh planned
on attacking Waco
WASHINGTON - David Ko
resh planned for his heavily
armed cult to attack and kill citi
zens in nearby Waco, Texas, ac
cording to the government report
on the failed raid by Treasury
agents on the sect's compound.
"You can't die for God if you
can't kill for God," Koresh told
his followers, said the Treasury
Department's review of the
botched raid on Feb. 28.
Koresh later canceled the ac
tion, telling his followers that it
had been a test of their loyalty to
him, the report said.
Koresh made the announce
ment before the Bureau of Alco
hol, Tobacco and Firearms tried to
raid the Branch Davidian sect's
compound, an operation that left
four agents and six cult members
dead in a shootout.
Giusburg takes her
seat as court justice
WASHINGTON - Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bader Gins-
burg took her seat at the bench
Friday in a ceremony marking
the first time two women sat to
gether on the nation's highest
court.
With President Clinton and
more than 300 friends, family and
guests looking on, Ginsburg again
swore to "do equal right to the
poor and to the rich."
She took the same oath Aug.
10, when she became the 107th
Supreme Court justice.
Ginsburg's new colleagues
shook hands warmly with her as
she approached Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist for the
oath.
She took her place down the
bench from Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor in an historic moment.
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Crisis in Russia
Yeltsin backers attack parliament
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Government tanks and troops attacked
government hardliners who have been holed up in par
liament since Monday, retaliating for the previous day's
riots by opponents of President Boris Yeltsin.
The Cable News Network reported that during the
fighting, a round struck the United States Embassy,
wounding a U.S. Marine.
Defenders of the Russian White House threw fire
bombs and fired back from the barricaded building, as
artillery and heavy weapons rang out in the center of
Moscow.
Yeltsin
See Editorial Page 11
The attack caught motorists by surprise as men wav
ing pistols kept pedestrians and journalists off a bridge
leading out he parliament, known as the White House.
Several of the defenders were wounded as a plume of
white smoke rose from the burning barricade.
The assault began when a column of armored person
nel carriers approached the building from two directions
at about 7 a.m. Moscow time.
Tanks and trucks carrying infantrymen followed.
Yeltsin offered the hardliners a way out, saying if
they left by a certain exit waving
white flags the fighting would stop.
The attack followed a day of vio-
lence in which screaming hard-line
m ■ protesters hurling rocks and firing
guns broke the government siege of
parliament and seized other key in
stallations.
Protesters overwhelmed riot po
lice in vicious street fighting and
smashed their way into the head
quarters of the Moscow city govern
ment and the headquarters of ITAR-
Tass, the Russian news agency.
They attacked the country's main television complex
with rocket-propelled grenades as government comman
dos and paratroopers fought back. Three TV channels
went off the air. At least six people were killed, includ
ing four soldiers, city officials said.
Dozens were injured, some when they were run over
by trucks driven by protesters to break through lines of
riot police.
The Interfax news agency reported eight people were
killed in fighting at the TV complex, but there was no
immediate confirmation.
They called for Yeltsin's overthrow and the "liquida
tion" of his government.
It was the worst political violence in the Russian capi
tal since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, possibly setting
the scene for a bloody struggle for power that could
spread to other parts of the country.
The show of force by the hard-liners caught the capi
tal by surprise and it was difficult to gauge their
strength or possible support.
There was little sign of popular support for the pro
testers as they fought their way through the city center
to the parliament.
Onlookers watched of fled despite calls from the pro
testers to join them.
In an ominous sign for the government, scores of po
lice defected to the parliament side. It was not clear if
they were supporting the protesters or just trying to save
their lives.
Protesters also took dozens of riot police prisoner as
they stormed through the streets.
The protesters were an odd mixture of communists,
fascists and extreme nationalists united by their opposi
tion to Yeltsin and his democratic political and free mar
ket reforms.
See Russia/Page 10
Saw Varsity's horns off ...
The Texas A&M women's soccer team and head coach G.
Gurreri sing the fight song after their 4-2 double overtime
Mike Steele/7he Battalion
victory over Central Florida Sunday. See story Page 8.
ATF officials resign after cult raid report
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Two senior government
officials who were accused in a report of
lying and misleading the public after the
botched Branch Davidian raid have re
signed.
Dan Hartnett, associate director of the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, and Dan Conroy, deputy asso
ciate director, told Treasury Department
officials Saturday they were leaving the
agency immediately.
In their first public comment since the
release of the Treasury Department's re
view of the Feb. 28 raid, Hartnett and
Conroy said they were unfairly accused
of intentionally misleading the public
and their superiors during the siege near
Waco.
"We are resigning because we do not
agree with the findings of the Waco ad
ministrative review. The report does not
reflect the facts of what occurred in the
aftermath of the Waco tragedy," Hartnett
and Conroy said in a prepared statement.
The two men were the agency's the
two highest-ranking law enforcement of
ficials until being placed on administra
tive leave last week in the wake of the
treasury report. Three other ATF officials
also were suspended with pay pending
further review by the Treasury Depart
ment, which oversees the ATF.
The treasury report said Hartnett and
Conroy, along with some others in Wash
ington, did not take into account inexpe
rience of raid commanders in planning
See ATF/Page 10
Health program
full of problems,
professionals say
By Stephanie Pattillo
The Battalion
How to halt rising medical costs and
at the same time provide health care cov
erage for all Americans is a key question
surrounding President Clinton's health
care proposal.
If passed by Congress in its original
form, the president's plan will provide
health security for all Americans, control
costs, maintain quality, simplify the sys
tem and make everyone responsible for
contributing to the system.
But economists and medical profes
sionals say some of the most fundamen
tal problems with America's health care
system are not addressed by the presi
dent's proposal.
Dr. Thomas Saving, director of the
Free Enterprise Research Center, said the
' fundamental problem with the health
care system depends on what people see
the problem as.
"If you think that every person in
America needs insurance, then the plan
will work," he said. "Biit, if you are talk
ing about the cost of medical care, then
the plan will only exacerbate the prob
lem."
Saving said the problem with the cur
rent health care system is that no one
who has insurance cares what it costs.
"They don't price shop," he said.
"Medical costs will skyrocket unless we
ration."
But Ron Gay, regional director of the
southwest health plan at Scott & White
Clinic, said he doesn't see anything in the
plan that guarantees rationing.
"Consumers, medical providers, and
insurers will have to become more cau
tious with the type of medical care they
give out," he said. "But I don't see the
problems that Canada has had with peo
ple dying before they get the care they
need."
Gay said the real concern most Ameri
cans have about health care is that they
don't feel secure about their coverage.
"People are worried about having
their health care canceled because either
they use their health care too much, be
cause they may lose their jobs, or because
they change jobs," he said.
While Clinton's health care proposal is
aimed at providing all Americans with
coverage, many say the fundamental
problem with the spiraling cost of med
ical technology is not addressed and
will interfere with the costs of insurance
coverage.
See Health Care/Page 2
Fraternity kicks off Kappa Week
for increased social awareness
By Cheryl Heller
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Texas A&M's Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity
kicked off Kappa Week '93, a week of entertain
ment and social awareness, with a Kappa social
on Sunday in the MSC.
Kappa Week includes events, which are open
to the public, that are designed to spotlight Kap
pa Alpha Psi, address social issues, and allow
students to get to know fraternity members. Kap
pa Alpha Psi President Julius Cox said.
"We want to give Texas A&M students a
chance to see the fraternity members outside of
class and the library," he said. "We don't have
many chances to get to see each other without
the pressures of school, so I think this week will
be beneficial to a lot of people."
Kappa Week continues Monday with a service
project from 4-7 p.m. that will offer tutorial and
counseling services to Bryan-College Station
youth.
Tuesday night Kappa Alpha Psi will sponsor a
"Can't We all Just Get Along?" forum at 8:30
p.m. in Room 111 of the Student Services Build
ing. The forum will focus on the tension between
athletes and Greeks, and a panel of student ath
letes and Greek representatives will answer ques
tions and offer possible solutions.
An informational meeting to discuss Kappa
Alpha Psi membership intake will be held
Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Room 292B of the
See Kappa Week/Page 10
Inside
Campus
• Media leaders discuss future
technology
Page 2
Sports
•A&M blasts Tech 31-6
Page 7
Opinion
•Editorial: United States must
support Yeltsin
Page 11
Weather
• Monday: partly cloudy,
highs in 80s, lows in 50s
•Tuesday: still partly
cloudy, highs in 80s
- Texas Lotto
•Saturday's winning
Texas Lotto numbers:
3, 8, 29, 34, 48, 49