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Page 10 The Baitalion Friday, October 8,1993 1 Block N. of Townshire Sat. 10-12 am, Sun. 12pm -10 pm Closed Mon., lues., Wed. Thurs. 3 - 10pm, Fri. 3 - 12am V °779-89U Party Reservations Per Ride Bring Coupon (Limit 6 people per coupon) Exp. 10/31/93 MSC Committee for the AWARENESS of Mexican- American Culture and the Hispanic Business Student Association present: MJ/TA eoo’KO'tti FRIDAY October 8, 1993 5:00pm HENSEL PARK AREA 2 stu.c(e,«ti $4 non-staclenti $5 Pes-gons ui/th disahiiitiesplease ccdd845-1515 to infior-m as ofipour special needs, k/e request not/ftieat/on three fd) a/ordinp daps prior to the event to enahde us to assistpou to the test ofi our ahldltp LATE DEADLINE for 1994 AGGIELAND ORGANIZATION CONTRACTS has been extended to October 8th. Please turn in your contract to room 230 RDMC with payment (including late fee of $10) by 5 p.m.,Oct. 8. If you have not yet picked up a contract, they are available in room 012 RDMC. Please 190 NOT wait until the last minute to turn in your contract! 1994 Aggieland Cisneros says he won't run for Senate in 19941 Former S.A. mayor says too much work remains as secretary of HUD The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Henry Cisneros says he doesn't want to run for the U.S. Senate next year because much work remains for him as secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Develop ment. "1 don't want to lead anybody on. I don't want to be coy about this. I don't want to run for the United States Senate in 1994," Cisneros said Wednesday night. "1 can't imagine any scenario under which I would be a candidate next year." The former San Antonio mayor's plans have been the object of speculation and inter est since Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was indicted last month on charges of misusing her position as state treasurer. Democrats saw Hutchison's indictment as a chance to regain the Senate seat, and a number of Democratic leaders view Cisneros as their best bet. "1 would say the door is shut (for a 1994 Sen ate race)," Cisneros said. "Maybe it doesn't have a chain and a lock on it, but I'd say it's shut and it's not something I'm thinking about." One Cisneros associate told the San Anto nio Express-News that the HUD secretary had been approached by several U.S. senators urg ing him to seek the job now held by Hutchi son, who won a special election to complete a term vacated when Lloyd Bentsen resigned to become U.S. Treasury secretary. "There is an extraordinary degree of inter est in him running," said Jose Villarreal, a San Antonio lawyer who served as deputy nation al campaign manager for President Clinton I last year. "1 think there is still a great gulf in how Texas opinion-makers feel on the issue and how Henry feels on the issue," Villarreal said. Cisneros, in San Antonio for three days of appearances at local events, told reporters he would rather remain on the job at HUD than seek election. "1 signed on to do a job, and it's a big job," he said. "It's an agency that requires a lot of time and effort, and the problems in the coun try are immense. "I believe these (housing and urban devel opment) problems are serious, and 1 have said they are serious. I think they are some of the most serious before the country," Cisneros said. "So what would I be saying about my be liefs if at the first time ambition rears its head, I walk away from the job?" Friday, C Toni Morrison first black American to gamer Nobel Prize in literature Mother forces teen daughter into taping sex The Associated Press Programs October 1993 i Town Hall Coffee House-Rumours-8 p.m. 1-3 Visual Arts “Kent UHberg”-Visual Arts & Stark Galleries 1-2 Film Society Like Water for Chocolate-Rudder Comnlex 7 p.m. Sleepless in $eattle-9:30 p.m. & Midnight 1-3 Nova “Novacon IX’VMSC and Rudder 2 Hospitality' 5K Howdy Run-MSC-8 a.m. 5-31 Visual Arts “Lyoshir Ceramics”-Visual Arts Gallery 6 Film Society “Comedy Greats-LRD in Evans Library-7 p.m. 6 Pol. Forum & “Misconceptions of the European Community”- Jordan Inst. 206 MSC-4 p.m. 6 Pol. Forum & “Puerto Rico: Commonwealth, Independence, or P.R. Students Statehood”-Rudder Theater-7 p.m. 7 Hospitality, “45 Minutes That Could Save Your Life: What You Chi Phi, & Don’t Already Know About A.F. Students AIDS/HIV”-301 Rudder 7:30 p.m. 7 M BA/Law “Grad./Professional Schools Day” MSC 10-3 p.m. 7 Film Society Spartacps-Rudder Complex-7 p.m. 8 Film Society Indochine-Rudder Complex-7 & 9:30 p.m. 8 CAMAC “Fall Fajita Cookout” Hensel Park #2 5:30 p.m. 10 Town Hall Mark Chestnutt & Doug Supernaw G. Roilie-7 p.m. 10 Hospitality Fundraising Car Wash-Taco Cabana-1 p.m. 13 Great Issues “World Food Week Panel Discussion”-MSC 7 p.m. 14-16Film Society Strictlv Ballroom-Rudder Complex-7 p.m. 14 Film Society Hot Shots! Part Deux-9:30 p.m. 15-16 Hot Shots! Part Deux-9:30 n.m. & Midnight 15 Great Issues “World Food Teleconference”-Rudder 11-1 p.m. 16 OPAS Andrew Llovd Webber’s Requiem-Rudder-8 p.m. 16 Nova “College Bowl Tournament”-MSC-10-5 p.m. 17 OPAS, Jr. Tom Chapin-Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater- 5:30 p.m. 20 Hospitality “Service Awareness Day”-MSC-9 a.m.-4 p.m. 21-23 Film Society Map of the Human Heart-Rudder Complex-7 p.m. 22 Town Hall Coffee House-Rumours-8 p.m. 22 MBA/Law “Houston Law' School ForunT’-Houston Marriot- 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 27 OPAS Lo$t in Ypnk^rs-Rudder Auditorium-8 p.m. 27 CAMAC “El Dia de Los Muertos” room TBA-7 p.m. 30 Film Society Poetic Justice-Rudder Complex 9:30 & Midnight Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability. PRINCETON, N.J. — Novelist Toni Morrison, the first black American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, said Thursday that her lyrical works such as "Beloved" and ''Jazz" were inspired by "huge silences in literature." "Winning as an American is very special — but winning as a black American is a knockout," Mor rison, 62, said at her office at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1989. In awarding the 1993 prize Thursday, the Swedish Academy called Morrison "a literary artist of the first rank" whose work is "unusually finely wrought and cohesive, yet at the same time rich in variation." Morrison said she was inspired by "huge si lences in literature, things that had never been ar ticulated, printed or imagined and they were the silences about black girls, black women. "It was into that area that I stepped and found it to be enormous," she said. The author of six novels, Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Beloved." Her first work of fiction, "The Bluest Eye," came out in 1970, followed by "Sula" in 1974, "Song of Solomon" in 1977, "Tar Baby" in 1981, "Beloved" in 1987 and "Jazz" in 1992. "I think she's a wonderful stylist and a terrific thinker," said author Jane Smiley, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1991 novel, "A Thousand Acres." Morrison also lectures on black literature, wrote a play, "Dreaming Emmett," and a book of criti cism, "Playing in the Dark — Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." She conceived, edited and contributed to a 1992 collection of essays on Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. Since 1981, she has been a member of the Amer ican Academy of Arts and Letters. Shortly after learning from a colleague of her award, Morrison left for her office. A smiling Morrison said that she screamed and nth her son, Ford Morrison, an architect. laughed wit! upon hearing the news. "Whatever you think about prizes and the irrel evance to one's actual work, there is a very distinct tremor when you win a prize like the Nobel Prize," Morrison said. Morrison said she was glad her mother, Ella Wofford, 87, is alive to share her joy. She also said she had telephoned her sister, Lois Brooks, 64, of Lorain, Ohio. "Personally 1 think this has always been her de sire, to write," Mrs. Brooks said. "It's a desire she had and she's been able to fulfill that desire and say things she wanted to say." Morrison said she was flabbergasted to learn she was the first American-born winner since John Steinbeck in 1962. "If 1 can claim to be representative of a number of regions and groups, it's all to the good," she said. *Tt distributes tne honor in such a way that you feel more blessed." The soft-spoken Morrison was coy on some questions, such as how she would spend the $825,000 prize. Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in the steel mill town of Ixjrain, Ohio, the second of four children of Alabama sharecroppers who had migrated north. She studied humanities at Howard University and earned a master's degree in Ameri can literature from Cornell University in 1955. She is divorced and has two sons. A senior editor at Random House for nearly 20 years, she became a professor at Princeton in 1989. The literature prize was endowed by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who also established prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry and peace, to be awarded next week in Stockholm along with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. That was es tablished by the Swedish Central Bank in 1969. The Associated Press 7o: Harris County girl was forced by her mother to have sex with a man and also to videotape other people having sex, police say. Joseph Howard Williams, 42, was charged Wednesday with sexual assault of a child, indecen cy with a child and sexual perfor mance on a child. He was re leased Wednesday after postinga $15,000 bond. The girl's mother, Amelia Eliz abeth Callihan, 41, was charged with indecency with a child. She was released from the Harris County Jail Wednesday after posting a $5,000 bond. Both were arrested Tuesday af ter the girl told a relative about the episodes, which she said be gan earlier this year. The relative called the Harris County Sheriff's Department and investigators then contacted the girl. Investigators recovered about 50 videotapes at Williams' home in northwest Harris County, said Harris County Detective Mar) Reynolds. Callihan was arrested at ner home. Most of the tapes showed sex ual acts involving consenting adults, Reynolds said. At least one depicted the girl and Williams, and in several, though the girl wasn't shown, the couple was "having conversations with her and directing her how to oo erate the camera/' Reynolds saia. Somalia Continued from Page 1 "Let us finish the work we set out to do," the president said. "Let us demonstrate to the world . . . that when Americans take on a challenge they finish it right." Clinton closed his 10-minute address with a tribute to the troops in Somalia and the families of those killed. "My message to you is: Your country is grateful and so is the world, and so is the vast majority of the Somali peo ple." Senate Republican leader Bob Dole applauded the president for making clear the mission would be directed by U.S. commanders. "It seems to me the president has spoken and he's now outlined the plan." Forces loyal to Aidid are blamed for a weekend street battle in which 13 Americans were killed, 77 wounded and at least one captured. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said such a time frame "is totally unac ceptable to me and I believe total ly unacceptable to Congress." On Capitol Hill, there were scattered demands for the resigna tion of Defense Secretary Les As- pin. The White House said Clin ton was sticking with the Penta gon chief. The president met with law makers in the Roosevelt Room for two hours. "The majority of American ca suallies have been because of on obsession with seizing Aidid o: the part of the U.N.," Sen. Paul Si mon, D-Ill., told reporters later.' think that's been a mistake." Hi said that a political resolutio: should be the goal. House Speaker Thomas Fob said, "I think that there is a sens that the mission became some what distorted and personalizeo and that it needs to be redirected. Croatia Continued from Page 1 Croats have demanded that the land be returned, and are increas ingly frustrated with the U.N.'s inability to disarm the Serbs and organize the return of Croat refugees. A U.N. official in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, released details Thursday of what appeared to be the worst ethnic cleansing by Croats for months in the divided city of Mostar in southwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Bosnia, Serbs, Croats and Muslims have been fighting for 18 months. The U.N. report on Croatia, ap proved by Gen. Jean Cot, the com mander of U.N. forces in former Yugoslavia, was relayed to Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the U.N. human rights investigator for the region. In an open letter to Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Wednsday, Mazowiecki said Croatian forces apparently "arbi trarily executed" several residents of the villages and demanded a full investigation. The Croatian Council for De fense and National Security, an advisory body to President Franjo Tudjman, said Tudjman had or dered an inquiry and charges would be brought against those responsible. It also asked that all crimes committed during Croatia's six- month Serb-Croat war in 1991 be investigated, Croatian radio re ported. The U.N. statement said 18 corpses were recovered by U.N. civilian police and that most were "riddled with multiple bullet wounds, or incinerated." Another 52 bodies were turned over to the Serbs by Croatian au thorities, it said. It charged that "demolition teams" totally destroyed about 500 buildings in three villages the Croatian army seized in the Sept. 9 offensive. Croatian forces withdrew about a week after the offensive under a U.N.-mediated cease-fire. About 500 U.N. soldiers subse quently moved into the region and issued preliminary reports of destruction and death. But Thurs day's report was the most de tailed so far. It said that nearly all houses, barns and other buildings in the villages were completely de stroyed, and nearly all livestock and domestic animals were either killed or carried off. Evidence indicated "the inteiv tional killing of Serb civilians.. regardless of age, sex or status, the release said. The bodies of 11 men - eluding eight soldiers — and sev en women were recovered, of the women appeared to be ovei 60 years old. It quoted witnesses as saying Bosiljka Bjegovic, an 84-year-ol( blind woman, "was sprayed gunfire by at least 10 Croatian sol diers while on the front porch ot her home." Another older woman, found in a field, was shot in the head at close range, and an unidentified witness reported that 10 to 15 Croatian soldiers dragged two wounded Serbs out of a car and threw them into a burning house. 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