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Jo\.93 No. 95 (8 pages)
1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993
Wednesday, February 16,1994
^Survivors cautiously walk Sarajevo streets
The Associated Press
|m ^SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — After six
iflALdays of peace, Sarajevo's survivors are doing the
^'•unthinkable.
itf Al one of the city's deadliest intersections on
^snow-caked Sniper Alley, three war-maimed men
pushed a legless comrade in a wheelchair.
SpAt any other time in the Bosnian capital's 22-
! month-old siege, they would have been halted by
' l " , Serb snipers in surrounding skyscrapers or gun-
ners perched on Mount Trebevic looming over
vv N southern Sarajevo.
■ §Now, the streets, even the most dangerous, are
full. Instead of running across perilous open
j^jKjFfspaces, people walk.
SMMfoespite heavy snowfall, Sarajevans are out visit-
jing friends they have not seen for months, scouring
M stores for food or merely out for a stroll towing
children on sleds.
recent
Citizens take advantage of U.N. cease-fire;
memories of recent attacks, bloodshed linger
They want to believe peace is at hand but after
countless disappointments they hardly dare.
"I'm walking down this street for the first time
in two years," said Nusret Pleho, as he pushed
Omer Velic in a wheelchair.
Pleho and two friends, all veterans of the war
who were wounded in 1992, walked with the aid of
artificial limbs. They all were on a 3-mile trip for
meager food rations from an organization for
wounded veterans.
"We have been hostages for two years," said
Pleho. "It's difficult to feel safe, we don't feel safe,
we can't feel safe here."
A cease-fire arranged by the U.N. commander in
Bosnia, Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose, took effect
Thursday and has brought six days' peace. But
Sarajevans still depend on scarce food aid to sur
vive. There is little or no heat in their homes, where
plastic sheeting covers most windows.
"The problem is we can't remember what a nor
mal life is," says shop worker Senada Bojanovic.
"We've all gone a bit crazy."
"The streets are full now, but all it would take is
for one shell to fall and they would be empty with
in a second," she said.
Bojanovic works in a store across town in the
ravaged Turkish bazaar quarter. She was working
in the Markale market until it was hit by a mortar
Feb. 5.
A friend was among the 68 killed. Bosnian Serb
TV showed the body lying on the ground and
claimed it was a dummy placed there by the Bosni
ans who staged the attack, she said.
Using the threat of NATO air strikes against
Serbian positions. Rose is trying to get Serb guns
off the surrounding hills or under U.N. control.
The United Nations has started placing peacekeep
ers on sensitive confrontation lines in and around
the city.
Rose wants to quickly restore electricity and wa
ter supplies.
"Once the lights go on, life will be trans
formed" and people will start lobbying their lead
ers for peace, not more war, he said.
These are the cornerstones for making Sarajevo a
U.N. protectorate. If Rose succeeds, his scheme
could be used on other war-weary cities such as
Mostar.
"We all hope, we really hope that Sarajevo will
come under U.N. protection," Pleho said.
"But we all fear that there can be no real talks
with the Serbs up there."
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Fruit
dargaritas
1994 Bonfire date
in question after
UT game change
By Eloise Flint
The Battauon
e date of the 1994 Texas
A&M Bonfire will probably be
moved to Nov. 3 or 4 to coincide
with the tradition of burning Bon-
* " fire before the University of Texas
™ “ game.
I Hit was announced Monday that
A&M-UT game, which is usu
ally played on Thanksgiving Day,
has been tentatively moved to
fPFfl Nov. 5.
1 Hpfhe official date of the 1994
Bonfire will be announced after
ih« Bonfire committee meets Fri-
Jay with Dr. J. Malon Souther-
d, vice president for student af-
s.
outherland said there has
n no formal discussion about
date of the Bonfire, and he
ask for any recommendations
it la meeting Friday.
■ 'T don't think it will affect the
spirit of Bonfire, but there are
.Kfne operative issues that we are
wwustomed to," Southerland said,
na «Hjohn Barr, head stack senior
a7 Red Pot and a junior industrial
“ distribution major, said the main
change will be the limited time
available to build Bonfire.
®"Bonfire will be built as usual
fRore the t.u. game to symbolize
our burning desire to beat the hell
outta t.u.," Barr said.
■The Bonfire committee, which
consists of Red Pots, Brown Pots
Hp climbers, will have to return
i s to school earlier than usual.
■Barr said the committee has al
ready started planning tentative
dates to begin construction.
. rThere are different ways of
doing things, and we'll have to
get the ball rolling sooner," Barr
said.
BBarr said the committee is rely
ing on student involvement.
T"The student body needs to be
at jail events, but we really don't
Uajl^Rect to have a problem with it,"
he said.
■There is always concern in the
bafck of their minds as to how
iffianv people will participate in
- jnp thf building of Bonfire, Barr said.
[^| 1 ^■"Our chain is set up, and the
Yellow Pots have already beep
Wsen," he said. "We will meet
with them this spring to get them
involved and encourage them to
prime their guys."
■Barr said nothing should be
Hferent just because the date has
been changed.
H"Bonfire is built for the fact of
beating the hell outta t.u., not for
l■anksgiving, and we're still
vr,-r Ijying t-u.," Barr said.
Hutchison hopes to put trial behind her
Senator cites lack of U.S.
interest in Bosnian conflict,
criticizes Clinton's budget
By James Bernsen
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was the keynote speaker
at the Lincoln Dinner, a Brazos County Republican Party
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fundraiser. Hutchison was found innocent of ethics
charges on Friday.
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said it is time for Tex
ans to look past her recent trial on ethics charges and
forward to the coming legislative agenda, including a
balanced budget amendment.
Hutchison was the keynote speaker Tuesday night
at the Lincoln Dinner, an annual fund-raiser for the
Brazos County Republican Party.
Hutchison was acquitted Friday after Travis
County District Attorney Ronnie Earle dropped the
case because he feared the judge would rule prosecu
tors had obtained evidence illegally.
Hutchison said Earle has "hounded a lot of good
people out of office," and her victory will put an end
to such politically motivated prosecutions.
"The last eight months of my life have been a
nightmare," she said. "I don't want any other person
who offers themselves for public service to ever go
through what I have been through,' and because we
fought and because we won, they won't have to."
Hutchison said the investigation represents the
worst depths of Texas' political system.
"We knew we should be deciding issues at the bal
lot box, not the jury box," she said.
Elutchison said the success in her trial will make
her stronger in the November senatorial elections,
and she predicted a large margin of victory.
Hutchison said she will now be able to do the
work she was elected to do and can concentrate on
See Hutchison/Page 3
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Barone responds to
Tech fans' lawsuit
Texas A&M head basketball coach Tony
Barone responded to a lawsuit filed by two Texas
Tech basketball fans in his weekly press lun
cheon Wednesday.
The two fans are suing Barone and Aggie bas
ketball players Tony Barone, Jr., Joe Wilbert and
John Jungers for what the fans described as
"wanton, willful, and malicious" attacks during a
post-game brawl Feb. 5 in Lubbock following an
89-88 Aggie victory.
"We didn't go there to do that (get in a fight),"
Barone said. "We thought we were going there to
play a basketball game."
The Tech fans are asking for punitive damages
of $1,375 million and actual damages between
$500 and $100,000.
Barone said he is not going to comment about
the suit until he understands the nature of the
charges.
"This is the first time I've been sued," Barone
said. "I don't know the legal ramifications."
Clinton's appointments opening doors
for working women, A&M professors say
By Angela Neaves
The Battalion
The role that women occupy in President Clinton's ad
ministration has received praise around the nation as well
as the Texas A&M campus.
Dr. Pamela Matthews, director of women's studies at
A&M, said Clinton's appointing women to 31 percent of
the positions in his administration cannot help but make a
difference.
"Children who see these women in high positions grow
up with a better perception of women," Matthews said.
"What you want is a world where people don't even notice
the sex of who is in office."
Bryan Jones, professor of political science, agreed the
appointments are extremely positive.
"Government is more open to women and minorities
than businesses and universities are," he said. "Women
are crashing through the glass ceiling of the federal gov
ernment."
However, Jones also sees a negative effect of the ap
pointments.
"Bill Clinton held up a lot of appointments because he
was so sensitive to women and minorities," Jones said.
"Confirmation was also slow, too slow to run an effective
government."
Jones said the possibility of a woman being elected pres
ident is not out of the question anymore.
"The votes are there should there be a strong female
candidate," Jones said. "A good campaign must be mount
ed."
Matthews said when people criticize the influence of
Hillary Rodham Clinton on the nation, they are drawing
attention to the possibility that a woman could handle the
presidency.
"Turkey and India have women prime ministers,"
Matthews said. "Why is the U.S. so far behind? Women
are now getting the experience they need to make a differ
ence in the presidency."
But Ron Going, a sophomore philosophy major and
member of A&M's Student Senate subcommittee for
women's issues, said he does not foresee a woman in the
See Women/Page 2
jU.S. alpine skiers take Olympic gold in Norway
The Associated Press
^ BRINGEBU, Norway — Diann Roffe-Steinrotter had already waited
aine years. And now she had to wait another 90 minutes.
-"'L Roffe-Steinrotter erased nearly a decade of futility Tuesday by
ginning the women's super-giant slalom at the Olympics. The victo
ry came two days after Tommy Moe's win in the first Alpine event,
■e men's downhill.
■ The score on the mountain now: USA 2, Everybody Else 0.
I "What an inspiration," Roffe-Steinrotter said. "He skied brilliantly,
l and I said, 'I can do that, too.' . .. This is hot, pretty hot."
bly II But when she flew .down the Kvitfjell course in 1 minute, 22.15 sec
onds, the first of 57 racers, she had no w r ay of knowing just how hot her
Ipu' was.
00 H She hadn't won a big race since the giant slalom at the 1985 w r orld
jshampionships. Then, she waS 17. Now, she was 26 and in her final sea-
10 son before retiring.
e I She leaned on her ski poles, her face expressionless as she watched
ithe scoreboard, sometimes alone, sometimes with other Americans.
Finally, the last skier with a chance to beat her finished and Roffe-
Steinrotter had the gold. ^ y
Two teammates lofted her onto Their shoulder^ and paraded her
around the finish area — a 5-foot-4-inch, 132-pound trophy of persis
tence and determination.
"I think this is the best day of my career," she said.
Svetlana Gladisheva of Russia took the silver in 1:22.44, while Isolde
Kostner of Italy won the bronze in 122.45.
Roffe-Steinrotter knew' her time might not hold on the 2,035-meter
Kvitfjell course. Still to come were defending World Cup overall cham
pion Anita Wachter of Austria, defending Olympic super-G champion
Deborah Compagnoni of Italy, German downhill star Katja Seizinger,
and Bibiana Perez, another red-hot Italian.
Wachter's time was 1:23.01. Safe,*so far. Then Came Compagnoni,
skiing fifth. The 23-year-old Italian star was all over the course and had
some trouble with a small jump near the bottom. Her time was 1:23.54.
Pernilla Wiberg of Sweden, battling for this year's World Cup lead,
came down in 122.67. , f . f/jpgr
At the halfway timing spot, Dovzan was .42 seconds ahead of Roffe-
Steinrotter. The crowd roared f6r the young Eastern European.
Inside
Sports
► Men's baseball beats
SE Louisiana, 10-2
► Aggie softball sweeps LA
Tech in doubleheader
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Opinion
► Editorial: U.N. should
uphold airstrike deadline
► Magee: Unfortunately,
the Twiggy look is in again
Page 7