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Off Campus Aggies is now taking applications for the following positions: Haunted House Director Fundraising Directors (2) Applications are due by Wednesday, Dec. 1 In the Koldus Building Room 130 For more info., call the OCA office at 845-0688 International Page 8 The Battalion Tuesday, November 30,] Kidnapped U.S. diplomat released The Associated Press JUNIORS Join The Tradition.. Junior make up pictures FOR THE 1994 AGGIELAND YEARBOOK WILL BE FROM MONDAY, NOV. 15 through Friday, Dec. 3. The make up schedule is as follows: Juniors: Nov. 15-Dec. 3 Sophomores: Dec. 6-14 Pictures are being taken at A R Photography, located at 707 Texas Ave. S., near Taco Cabana, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, call 693-8183 If you did not purchase your picture in the Aggieland during teleregistration, it can be purchased in 230 RDMC for $1. 1994 yearbooks can be purchased in 015 RDMC for $25. A. 1994 GGIELAND SAN'A, Yemen — Kidnapped U.S. diplomat Haynes Mahoney III was released late Monday by Yemeni tribesmen who had held him hostage at their desert strong hold, Interior Minister Yehya al- Mutawakil said. The minister told The Associ ated Press that Mahoney was re leased at 10:30 p.m (2:30 p.m. EST). He was kidnapped Thurs day on his way to a Thanksgiv ing dinner. "We have met all the demands of the kidnappers. We pledge to carry them out," the minister said in a telephone interview. He said Mahoney already had been re turned to the capital, SaiYa. The demands included pay ment to the tribe for an oil-pump ing station used by the U.S Yemen Hunt Oil Co., back salaries for 150 tribesmen who were discharged Yemeni tribesmen free hostage after Thanksgiving abduction from the presidential guard, back salaries for a number of similarly discharged officers and an eco nomic development plan for the tribe's region, said Saleh al-Tam, a provincial official of the Yemen Socialist Party, one of the coun try's main political groups. Five gunmen abducted Ma honey, the head of the U.S. Infor mation Service office, Thursday in San'a after he left a reception at the Taj Sheba hotel and head ed to a friend's house for Thanksgiving dinner. Al-Mutawakil and some influ ential tribal chiefs had negotiated with the tribe holding Mahoney in the desert stronghold at Gahm, 45 miles northeast of San'a. The Saudi Arabian daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported Mon day that authorities had seized "a number of relatives" of the tribal leader. Sheik Mubarak Saleh al- Sa'idi, in an effort to speed the American's release. Tribal sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the detained relatives included the sheik's son. Government officials would not confirm or deny the reports. Yemen is in the throes of a se vere political crisis because of differences between President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh over the pace of reforms, includ ing the failure to rein in an un ruly security situation in a nation of armed tribesmen. Mahoney, a widely traveled diplomat in his 40s whose father. retired diplomat Haynes Mahon? II lives in Boston, had sentliii wife and Ambassador Arthm Hughes a stream of handwrillt- notes saying his kidnappersaii treating him well. The elder Mahoney was drivitj on Cape Cod when he heardfc news of the release on the car radio. His reaction was "completeeli tion," he said. "I blew the horn.'' Mahoney is the first foreigi diplomat among 200 other for eigners that local press reports said had been kidnapped over past 18 months. The news accounts said mostof the kidnapped foreigners werero leased after a few days and their abductors demands include employment for their men, ther? lease of imprisoned relatives improved living conditions their regions. The same tribe had seized23 Western tourists last month for couple of days. Tuesday, JULI PHI DAVE Tt BELINDA MACK H Germany denies entry to family of Columbian drug lord, plans to deport them Three children kill homeless The Associated Press Come check out.. J.U "TT MSC Hospitality’s 1993 SNOWFLAKE FESTIVAL CRAFT FAIR December 2nd & 3rd 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. MSC Hallway FRANKFURT, Germany — Four members of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's family ar rived in Germany on Sunday but were refused entry, border police said. Discussions were under way on how to send the four Colombians out of the country, the po lice said in a statement. The statement said the Interior Ministry had rejected an application from the family to enter Germany as tourists. The four were believed to be Escobar's wife, son, daughter, and a woman who may be a sis ter of the fugitive drug chief or the son's girl friend. The family's departure from Colombia had been seen as an indication that Escobar, who escaped from prison in 1992, was planning to surrender and wanted to make sure his family was safe first. But Colombian Attorney General Gustavo de Greiff denied that in an interview published Sunday in El Espectador of Bogota. "This trip does not imply the imminent sur render of the fugitive," de Grieff said. Escobar is leader of the Medillin cocaine cartel and one of the world's most bunted men. He has reportedly said he would surren der if his family could be safely relocated to another country. On Saturday, at least 100 security agents es corted Escobar's wife Victoria and their two children, Juan Pablo and Manuela, from their apartment in Medillin to the airport. The family flew to Bogota, where they caught a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt via Caracas, Venezuela. Colombian authorities have tightened the search for Escobar, who surrendered in June 1991, then escaped in July 1992 while being moved to a more secure prison. man after fight in vacant lot French officials kept tragedy secret for a month The Associated Press VITRY-SUR-SEINE, France - A shop ping cart, broken chairs and a fire-scarred shelter stand as eerie witnesses to a friend ship that led to the killing of a homeless man, allegedly by three young children. Cloaked in secrecy for a month because of the nature of the killing, the tragedy is only starting to reverberate in this work ing-class community outside Paris. The children, aged between 8 and 10, apparently still don't realize that death is irrevocable. When the Vitry children were brought in for questioning, "they didn't know what was happening," said a police officer involved in the case, speaking on condition of anonymi ty. "It was like they fell off the moon." The killing of Pierre Boura, 45, occurred Oct. 29 as two British boys went to trial for the kidnapping and murder of two-year- old James Bulger. They were convicted and given indefinite prison sentences Nov. 24. French authorities are clearly avoiding comparisons to the horrifying case across the Channel, and have admitted that they tried to keep it under wraps to protect the children. The children, on school holidays, had befriended two homeless men who set up residence in a shrub-filled vacant lot. The youngsters brought food and supplies and helped arrange their lean-to. Police sources say all was well until "Pierrot," as Pierre Boura was called, tried to join the group. He was rejected and set fire to the abode in revenge. A fight broke out and Pierrot fell, hitting bis bead on a stone. One of the other home less men then told the children to go atte him, according to police. The children al legedly kicked and struck him with fist 1 and clubs, stripped him and dumped his body in a hole. The children, whose names have not bee: released, were charged with inflicting "vol untary injuries that caused death, withouiirr tent to kill," judicial sources said. They were released to the custody ol their parents. Children in France are no! considered responsible before the ageoflo One of the homeless men was charged will the same crime and jailed. One of the children, the 10-year-old,die not appear to grasp the enormity of the crime. In an interview with weekly new paper Le Journal du Dimanche, hewa- asked if he had the impression that he ha: done something bad. "Yes," he answered with a slight smile "1 told myself this isn't good, nn doir: something stupid." 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