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Senate votes 63-36,
passes Brady bill
WASHINGTON - After a day
of tense, private negotiations, the
Senate passed legislation Saturday
night to impose a five-day waiting
period on handgun purchases.
The 63-36 came on a measure —
the so-called Brady bill — that vir
tually had been pronounced dead
for the year Friday before a delicate
compromise finally was ham
mered out by senators huddling on
the floor.
The House has approved simi
lar legislation, and differences will
have to be ironed out — either in
the next few days or next year.
"There is no doubt now that it
will become law," Majority Leader
George Mitchell told a news con
ference.
The compromise language that
broke a Republican filibuster
would end the waiting period after
four years unless the attorney gen
eral adds a fifth year.
Packwood says
he might resign
WASHINGTON - Sen. Bob
Packwood, said by administration
officials to be facing a criminal
probe, told a colleague this week
he might resign because 'Tm at
the end of my rope" from fighting
sexual misconduct accusations.
Administration sources con
firmed on Friday that Packwood
faced a Justice Department crimi
nal investigation. The Senate
Ethics Committee is separately in
vestigating accusations that the
veteran Oregon Republican made
unwanted sexual advances to
more than two dozen women.
The administration sources
said the criminal investigation fo
cuses on whether Packwood's de
fense of Mitsubishi Electric Co. in
the Senate against unfair trade
practice charges in 1989 was
linked to a job offer to his wife
from a company lobbyist.
Women slain in
gang related crime
FORT WORTH - Two men
police described as known gang
members were in the Tarrant
County Jail on Friday, accused
with killing two female college
students in a murder-for-hire
scheme.
Bond was set at $500,000 each
for Melvin James "Boot" White,
19, and Darron DeShone Curl, 22,
on charges of capital murder.
The two men are suspected in
the slayings of Channing Freelove,
19, and Melanie Golchert, 18. The
bodies of the women, who were
shot to death, were found early
Saturday in a vacant field in south
east Fort Worth near Interstate 20.
Police said they think two
women hired White and Curl to
kill Miss Freelove and said Miss
Golchert apparently was killed be
cause she was with Miss Freelove.
UT police seize
student's weapons
AUSTIN — University of Texas
police seized an AK-47 semiauto
matic assault rifle and 240 rounds
of ammunition from a freshman's
dormitory room.
Also recovered from David
Matthew Larsen's room were two
daggers, a switchblade, an 18-inch
sword, two canisters of gunpow
der, a cannon fuse, and a copy of
"The Anarchist Cookbook," which
details how to make explosives,
UT police Capt. Silas Griggs said.
"It's typical of what you find for
someone who's making a pipe
bomb," Griggs said of the gun
powder and fuse.
Larsen, 18, of Dallas was
charged Friday with unlawfully
carrying a weapon on a prohibited
premise, police said. He was re
leased from Travis County Central
Booking Facility Saturday morning
on a personahrecognizance bond.
-The Associated Press
American refuses mediation
Airline to provide
$100 flight credit to
displaced travelers
The Associated Press
FORT WORTH — American Airlines
on Sunday said it would not support a
call from flight attendants for a presiden
tial mediation board and offered a $100
credit to displaced Thanksgiving travel
ers on top of refunds.
Speaking on the fourth day of the
planned 11-day strike by the Association
of Professional Flight Attendants, Ameri
can chairman Robert L. Crandall said as
few as a third of the airline's flights
would be available for passengers this
week.
Crandall acknowledged that American
fell short in efforts to notify passengers
whether their flights would be canceled,
but said it has been impossible to know
which flight attendants would show up
for work and thus which flights would be
affected.
The airline plans to concentrate on
serving flights at its main hubs at Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport, Miami
and San Juan. The airline will also focus
on flying passengers from New York's
See Strike/Page 3
Run-away in Fort Worth
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Texas A&M freshman running back Iceland McElroy (34) run in the fourth quarter against Texas Christian. The Aggies
throws it into high gear on his way to a 35-yard touchdown bombed the Frogs, 59-3. See related stories on page 5.
Seniors 'die' during Elephant Walk
Injuries, pollution in
past means tradition
could be terminated
By Jacqueline Mason
The Battalion
Being bombarded with mud, syrup
and mustard has become an integral
part of Elephant Walk in the past few
years, but stu
dent leaders
say if the
mud-slinging
continues, the
Elephant
Walk tradi-
tion may not.
Chad King,
president of
the Class of
'94, said ad
ministrators
could elimi
nate Elephant
Walk because of problems with juniors
and seniors throwing things.
"There has been significant injuries
associated with Elephant Walk," he said.
Two years ago, students made the
mistake of throwing eggs at cars, some
of which belonged to members of the
Board of Regents, he said.
To assure that the tradition is pre
served, student leaders have met with
administrators to determine the specifics
of this year's event.
Class of '94 Vice President Michael
Crain said his class wants to let adminis
trators know that they are trying to do
something to bring back the solemnness
of the occasion.
"We've tried to clean it up," he said.
"We hope to carry that on and bring Ele
phant Walk back to what it used to be."
The purpose of Elephant Walk is for
seniors to travel around campus visiting
the traditional campus sites like the Aca
demic Building.
"Elephant Walk was initiated as a
solemn tradi
tion," said Tra
ditions Coun
cil Chairman
Melissa Megli-
ola said.
Crain said it
has just been
in the past 10
years or so
that the juniors
have tried to
aggravate the
William Harrison/THE Battalion seniors.
But, Meglio-
la said, injury
is not the only reason to stop students
from throwing mud and food.
When students throw trash on cam
pus during Elephant Walk, the campus
looks bad to visitors who come to Texas
A&M for Bonfire and the A&M-Univer-
sity of Texas game, she said.
"The Traditions Council has worked
with the Class of '94 and Class of '95 to
See E-Walk/Page 2
Juniors promote
class unity through
planned activities
By Heather Winch
The Battalion
The Class of '95 is working to keep
Tuesday's Elephant Walk clean and
safe for all participants by asking ju
niors to stay out of the way.
Junior class officers are asking
their class to stay away from the se
niors during their romp through cam
pus and to let them "die in peace" the
way Elephant Walk did when it be
gan in 1924.
See Editorial Page 7
Junior Class President Jeb Jones
said the main reasons for the changes
in this year's Elephant Walk stem
from the nearly 50-100 injuries and
the thousands of dollars of damage to
the campus that occur during the
event each year.
The junior class council is planning
activities for its class that will hope
fully deter any run-ins between the
two groups.
"Our goal for the Class of '95 is to
go out to Bonfire while the seniors
are on the field," Jones said.
"When the seniors leave Kyle
See Juniors/Page 2
Drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis
increase; scientists test new vaccines
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
Recent concerns have arisen in the medical
community over the growing number of drug-
resistant strains of tuberculosis being discovered
throughout the world.
The World Health Organization announced
last week that the disease could kill four million
people a year within a decade unless a solution
is found.
Dr. David McMurray, immunologist and pro
fessor in Texas A&M's College of Medicine, said
the United States has the kind of healthcare sys
tem that can keep the lid on the spread of tuber
culosis.
"We ought to be able to get a handle on this
thing within a few years," he said.
McMurray said three keys are important in
the control of TB: earlier detection, better thera
py and selected use of a vaccine.
He is currently testing new vaccines to help
control the spread of TB.
BCG, a tuberculosis vaccine, is used widely
throughout the world, but has never been used
in the United States. McMurray said the BCG
vaccine has proven effective in the industrialized
world.
"It is time that the U.S. consider the use of
BCG or some vaccine," he said. "The vaccine
would be a very good way of buying some time
against drug-resistant strains."
The major problem with tuberculosis is com
pliance, McMurray said. Many patients do not
See TB/Page 4
Inside
n ffirirl;
The Battalion's '93-94 A&M Bas
ketball Preview looks at the Aggie
men and women's teams as they
prepare for their regular season
openers this weekend.
— See Special Section B
Americans recall
past president on
JFK assassination
30th anniversary
By Lisa Elliott
The Battalion
History abruptly changed 30 years ago
today when President John F. Kennedy
was gunned down in front of hundreds
of spectators in the most famous assassi
nation of all time.
Americans are still fascinated by the
events surrounding that day in Dallas
and the mystery it created.
Kenneth Mladenka, A&M political sci
ence professor, said the fascination with
See Related Story ...... Page 8
Kennedy isn't because he was such a
popular president but because of the
enormity of the crime.
"It's the most exciting crime of the
20th century," he said. "It's a murder
mystery, and people love murder mys
teries."
Terry Anderson, associate professor of
history, said the interest surrounding the
assassination of Kennedy is overblown.
"The only people that are interested in
that are journalists and people who want
to make money selling books," he said.
However, Mladenka said that kind of
reaction is ridiculous.
"The Kennedy assassination is extra
ordinarily fascinating and intellectually
challenging because it demonstrates how
difficult it is to know the truth about any
thing of significance," he said.
Mladenka said he believes Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone,
however people who
believe in conspiracy
theories have good ar
guments.
"Just because
there's no credible evi
dence doesn't mean a
conspiracy wasn't in
volved," he said.
A recent Gallup poll
shows that nine out of
10 Americans believe
there was a conspira
cy, however, recent theories have been
developed that say Oswald acted alone.
Mladenka said much of the attention
of the assassination has nothing to do
with the popularity of Kennedy. If
Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, he
said, he would have been remembered as
an ineffective president that had good in
tentions but was unsuccessful.
"He's a lot more popular with
younger people than with people who
were older at the time," Mladenka said.
"He was a greater man in death than he
was in life."
He said many of Kennedy's policies
were passed after he died as a memorial
to him rather than because of their im
portance.
Much of the popularity of John
Kennedy also has do with the image of
the Kennedy family, Mladenka said.
"I was fascinated with John Kennedy
because he made politics worthwhile,"
he said. "He was so glamorous."
See JFK/Page 8
Kennedy
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