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Tuesday, February 1,1994
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World News Briefs
Indian gov't must pay
for tattoo removals
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - The gov
ernment must pay plastic surgeons to re
move the word "pickpocket” tattooed on
the foreheads of four women, a court
ruled Monday.
The women alleged that police
scarred their foreheads because they re
fused to help an officer searching for
Sikh separatists in Punjab. The police say
citizens tattooed them as a warning to
potential victims of pickpockets.
The case comes at a time when Indian
courts are increasingly critical of police
officers for violating human rights while
investigating crimes.
Judges A.P. Chaudhury and G.C.
Garg of the Punjab High Court asked the
women to meet with doctors Thursday
to schedule surgery, their lawyer, H.S.
Grewal, said in an interview.
The judges said a report by three doc
tors indicated the tattoos could be re
moved, Grewal said.
The women were arrested in the Sikh
holy city of Amritsar in December for al
legedly stealing a tourist's purse. They
women say they are innocent.
They claimed that a police officer
used a ballpoint pen to write "pickpock
et" on their foreheads, and a tatooist
then used an electric needle to make the
mark permanent.
North Korea sets
terms for arms deal
TOKYO (AP) — North Korea on Sun
day denounced U.S. plans to bolster
South Korea's missile defenses as a war
like move and said they must be
scrapped if Washington hopes to reach
agreement on inspections of the North's
nuclear program.
Last week, the United States disclosed
plans to send Patriot missile batteries to
South Korea to boost defenses against a
possible North Korean rocket attack.
Tensions already are high over the
North's refusal to accept full internation
al inspections of its nuclear facilities, a
stand that has deepened suspicions that
the country is developing nuclear
weapons.
Arafat holds off on
signing peace accord
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinians
had expected to sign a draft agreement
on implementing the PLO-Israeli accord
during talks in Switzerland but Israel
asked for more time, PLO leader Yasser
Arafat said Monday.
He spoke a day after he and Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres conclud
ed two days of talks on untying some of
the knots blocking the historic accord.
Although no agreement was signed, both
sides reported progress.
On Monday, Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin was studying a draft agreement
drawn up by Peres and Arafat in Davos,
Switzerland.
Peres and Arafat were to meet again
Sunday, and talks between the PLO and
Israel are to reopen Tuesday in Cairo,
Egypt.
Fire destroys historic
theater in Barcelona
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Fire de
stroyed the 146-year-old Gran Teatre del
Liceu on Monday, less than a year before
Spain's leading opera house was to un
dergo a major restoration.
The fire department said the cause of
the blaze on Barcelona's picturesque
Ramblas Boulevard had not been deter
mined. It broke out shortly after 11 a.m.
behind the theater's stage and within an
hour had spread through the building,
causing much of the roof to collapse.
One person was slightly injured by
burns and several were treated for
smoke inhalation.
Jordi Pujol, head of the Cataluyna re
gional government, said the theater
would be rebuilt immediately. The city
and regional government had been plan
ning a $28 million restoration that would
have shut the theater two years.
The Liceu opened in 1847 with a per
formance of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena,"
and its operatic stage was second only in
size to that of La Scala in Milan, Italy. It
evolved from a group of city militiamen
who started giving musical perfor
mances to raise money to buy guns and
uniforms.
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[ender loving care. If roses and tomatoes are the joy of gardening, tool
aintenance, or lack of it, features the shame.
A poet could write an ode to trowel and spade loyally doing their
master's bidding even after having been abandoned for days in the rain
nd mud. Expensive power equipment gets better treatment but hardly
he best, from many of us.
I'm scrupulous about regularly cleaning up my computer files. But
he same degree of prevention just doesn't extend to gardening equip-
ent. Perhaps it's because a beat-up trowel seems to work as well as a
ew one in digging a tomato hole, and the plant's main concerns after
planting will be sun, soil and moisture, not tools.
I Now and then I see a magazine article describing the proper care of
garden tools. I fall so far short that my face reddens just looking at the
Illustrations.
For example, we're told always to keep our hoes and shovels out of
he rain and to clean and oil them after each use. We should take care
- every time, mind you — to get the dirt out of hollow places and
revices where wood meets metal to prevent the build-up of corrosion.
We're also reminded to sand and varnish wooden handles and to
Iceep cutting edges sharp by filing them at carefully prescribed angles.
We should also make sure nuts and bolts on handles are kept tight.
We should regularly lubricate clippers and pruning shears and
ivash them with soap and warm water to remove sticky sap, using tur
pen tine, too, if necessary.
Losing tools in weeds or under mulch happens frequently. But how
nany of us take the precaution of painting handles bright colors so we
an see them better?
Even without care, of course, hand tools often last for years. De
fending on your degree of tidiness and thriftiness, this durability can
50 on for generations. And if a wooden handle wears out or breaks,
pou can replace it without having to buy a completely new tool.
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Ellen Little, a senior recreation and parks major, lives six hours
away from her husband and 13-year-old son in Del Rio.
Sacrifice
Continued from Page 3
Renner's youngest, Michael,
was actually born while Renner
was in the Corps of Cadets in
1986.
"He was the first Corps
baby," she said.
Renner said during her preg
nancy, the people in the Corps
and her professors could not
have been more understanding.
Renner said she still had to
go to all the Corps functions.
But she did manage to get out
of a test or two.
"One of my professors was
so afraid I was going to go into
labor in class he let me skip the
final and just get a course Work
grade," she said. "'Go have
that baby,' he said. I think he
thought I was going to pop."
Although their professors
have been very understanding,
some student parents think
there are a couple of things the
University could do to make
things a little less stressful.
"A child's illness is not a
University excused absence,"
Renner said.. "That makes it
very difficult if your child is so
ill you have to stay home with
him."
"I think if it the illness is so
severe that the physician has
said the parent should stay
with the child, then it ought to
be an excused absence," Little
said.
In addition, many parents
feel it would be a great contri
bution if the University could
possibly donate a room or some
type of facility to donate as a
day care.
"I think it would be wonder
ful if we could get some kind of
room for the parents to run
their own day care," Oliver
said. "I had to get financial aid
to pay for day care which costs
me $130 a week."
Oliver suggested parents ro
tate turns going to classes and
watching the children, or per
haps elementary education ma
jors could volunteer their ser
vices to gain experience with
children.
"The parents could donate
old toys and other necessities,"
Oliver said.
Despite the sacrifices and the
limited time, most student par
ents say it's definitely worth it.
In fact, some cite the fact that
they have families as an advan
tage.
"Our families are really good
motivators," Little said. "With
out them, I know some of us
would give up and go."
"They give me lots of stabili
ty and I've learned time man
agement and to be more re
sponsible because of them,"
Oliver said. "They are a great
advantage to me. After all,
your family is always there for
you."
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