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Grover ite student Yeltsin crushes rebels; hard-liners surrender Parliament leaders give up after attack on White House The Associated Press MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin won a bloody victory in the bat- for Russia's future Monday, his tanks and paratroopers flush ing his hard-line opponents from a flaming Russian parliament building. Scores died as Yeltsin crushed the strongest power bid yet by remnants of the old Com munist regime. tion of the White House were tak en from parliament to the high-se curity Lefortovo Prison. Escalating their defiance of Yeltsin's dissolution of parliament on Sept. 21, armed hard-liners captured the Moscow mayor's of fices and tried to take Russia's main television center Sunday. Parliament leaders urged support ers to topple Yeltsin. Yeltsin spent the day closeted with his closest aides in the Krem lin, where he had remained overnight since rushing there by helicopter during Sunday's street fighting. Late Monday, he re turned to his country dacha. See Russia/Page 5 See Related Story .... Page 5 845-0731 845-2621 845-26% 845-96% 845-4511 845-7826 RS The mass surrender of law makers and their armed support ers seemed likely to allow Yeltsin to move ahead with plans to elect a new parliament in December, and pursue long-frustrated eco nomic reforms. He still faced daunting challenges in his effort to transform Russia's economy and society. Parliament leaders gave up after 1,000 soldiers raked the white mar ble parliament relentlessly with fire from T-72 tank cannons and heavy machine guns, but at least some holdouts remained at large. After nightfall, red and green tracer bullets streaked across the sky as flames shot up the sides of the parliament, known as the White House. Armored vehicles and heavy trucks rumbled through the city, and Muscovites rushed home to beat a new mili-. tary curfew. Early Tuesday, firefighters be gan trying to douse the flames, braving sniper fire from within I the White House and nearby buildings. Sniper fire was reported in a wide area of Moscow early Tues day. ITAR-Tass news agency re ported that its offices came under heavy fire, but there were no in juries. It said 200 to 300 armed hard liners remained in central Moscow. The storming of the White House broke hard-line opposi tion in parliament. The attack also could make martyrs of his opponents. President Clinton and other Western leaders were quick to support Yeltsin. Parliament speaker Ruslan ^ Khasbulatov, Vice President ■ Alexander Rutskoi and other 11 leaders of the two-week occupa- MUVA * you ed? ahotogra- cture at a If so, you »y in the [59 Read- '>5 4 ivailable days af- iken aud veeks to order i® E0 ball? ,| ,oth basket 3 ■ne is k—-' .i e 30 yards ' vl jotball toW^ en attamp Cycling maintenance Wayne Bryan from Aggieland Cycling and Fitness shows Sunder Sager, an industrial engineering graduate student from Spring, how to adjust Mary Macmanus/THE Battalion brakes on a bicycle Monday night in Rudder at the Bicycling Club's meeting. Bryan conducts a workshop on maintenance once a semester. Multiculturalism proposal on the move Academic Affairs votes for cultural diversity By Lisa Elliott The Battalion Texas A&M University may have come one step closer to multiculturalism Monday. After three hours of discussion to fine tune the proposal, the Academic Affairs Commit tee of the Texas A&M Faculty Senate voted 12-4 in favor of requiring students to com plete coursework in classes emphasizing cul tural diversity. The proposal will now be written up and formally proposed to the executive committee of the Faculty Senate before it goes to vote at next month's Senate meeting. Doug Slack, chairman of the committee, said he was impressed with the amount of discus sion and debate that occurred among members of the committee, faculty and student body. "We may disagree on what we vote, but this discussion has been very impressive," he said. Slack said if the proposal passes in the Senate, the administration should make it clear to the students that this will not be a political agenda. He said it will be important to make com plaint procedures easy for students who feel their professors are forcing a political agenda on them. This concern arose after Karen Kubena, as sociate professor of animal science and a member of the committee, said she changed her mind about the proposal after researching faculty opinions and talking to students on campuses similar to A&M that have a multi cultural requirement. She said she received a 14-page letter from a student at such a university who said since multiculturalism hit his campus, he has been exposed to a political agenda in most of his classes. She said the student wrote about classes in which only an extremely liberal view of that discipline was expressed and where any stu dent voicing a different opinion was chastised. "Tailoring of core curriculum to include multiculturalism is wrong," she said. "It be comes indoctrination not education." Kubena said in the last two weeks she has changed her mind and is now passionately against the proposal. "I was very naive two weeks ago," she said. "Now I am very concerned about this issue. We all know changes will occur based on the individual professors, for us to think the requirements will be carried out the way we hope is naive." See Cultural/Page 4 ■mHRRRKS Palestinian suicide bomber injures 30 Israelis in attack The Associated Press JERUSALEM — A Palestinian suicide car bomber injured 30 Is raelis when he rammed into a bus Monday. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Israel will act against such attempts to disrupt the peace process. "It is always an expression of religious fanatacism and political extremism joined together," Rabin said, noting that car bombing ap peared to be a new tactic. Four such attacks have occurred in the last few months. Rabin said the army would target Muslim extremist groups — in cluding Hamas and Islamic Holy War — and other organizations that resort to violence. "Their activity and the focus of their politics is directed at making the agreement with the Palestinians fail and to disrupt chances of im plementing it," Rabin told reporters. Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak, the army's chief of staff, said similar attempts were expected and called on Israelis to remain alert for them. See Suicide/Page 4 Inside International •Local response to Russia's government crisis Page 5 Sports •Soccer player Csizmadia enjoying success at A&M Page 7 Opinion •Editorial: U.S. needs to clean up mess in Somalia Page 11 Weather • Tuesday: partly cloudy, highs in the 80s & 90s, lows in the 60s •Forecast for Wednesday: same as Tuesday, not too hot, no rain •Your Battalion extended forecast: partly cloudy, isolated showers/ storms Officials urge students to maintain insurance Expense of medical treatment necessitates health coverage, authorities say By Geneen Pipher The Battalion Insurance authorities are warning students against high medical costs they may incur if they do not maintain their health insurance or are dropped from their parents' policies. "Most students don't think about health insurance, but it is very important for students to have some form of insurance be cause medical treatment is so ex pensive," said Terry Harkins, vice president of marketing for Associ ated Insurance Plans Internation al, Inc. "One day, even one hour. could cost you a thousand dollars or more." Allan Dunlap, servicing agent for Allan Dunlap and Associates, said it is not difficult for students and young people to get insurance, but it is often more expensive. "A person could be denied coverage because of a problem with their health or driving record, but it varies from policy to policy," he said. Harkins said most colleges and universities, including Texas A&M University, have poli&ies that are specifically designed for students. "Most parent's insurance plans will drop the dependents at a cer tain age, usually 21 or 22," she said. "After they are dropped, it is important for students to realize they still need insurance. You never know when you might get sick or have an accident." The need for student health in surance came about after a num ber of students were forced to leave school because of exorbitant medical expenses, she said. "They didn't want students to have to drop out of school and get a job in order to have to pay their medical bills, so they designed the Student Accident and Sickness In surance Plan for the students of Texas A&M," Harkins said. In a letter to A&M students and their parents, John Koldus, for mer vice president for student ser vices, said many insurance plans do not cover students after a cer tain age. "Although many families have some form of health insur ance, these plans often do not cover the college students after age 18," Koldus said. "There fore, the costly medical bills can impose tremendous hardship, and often necessitate withdrawal from school." See Health/Page 4