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U of H College of Optometry UT-Austin School of Nursing UT-Austin College of Pharmacy UT Dental Branch-Houston UT Medical Branch-Galveston UTMB PA/OT/PT Programs UT Southwestern College of Med UTHSC-San Antonio Dentistry UTHSC-San Antonio Medicine UT-Tyler Med Tech Program Univ. of Osteopathic Medicine Page 4 Candidate’s death shocks officials on Capitol Hill The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill was stunned Thursday about the as sassination of Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio — a man many of them had come to know during his lobbying on behalf of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Lawmakers rushed to dispel con cerns that Mexico’s political or eco nomic stability would waver in the aftermath of Colosio’s slaying Wednesday during a campaign rally in Tijuana. Their comments echoed those of President Clinton, who said that Mexico’s government is “in sound shape.” “We think that the country’s in stitutions are fundamentally strong,” the president said. Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Mission, took to the House floor Thursday to make a speech decrying the death of “His death is, in fact, a loss for all of us. For I feel this young man of 44 years of age was destined to be a world leader of ma jor import.” - Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Mission a man he had known for more than 20 years. “His death is a terrible loss to his family, to his friends and support ers, to the government of Mexico and it is a loss for the people of Mexico,” de la Garza said. “His death is, in fact, a loss for all of us. For I feel this young man of 44 years of age was destined to be a world leader of major import.” To those questioning Mexico’s political stability, de la Garza asked: ‘Do we forget Lincoln, the Kennedy brothers and Dr. King?” Several Texas congressmen whose districts border Mexico said the assassination should bring both countries closer together. They also echoed the administration’s position that the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect Jan. 1, shouldn’t be affected by the turmoil. “This is a significant tragedy,” said Arturo Valenzuela, deputy as sistant secretary of state, who over sees Mexico policy. However, he said, “It’s not something we should think in any way affects the stability of the Mexican political system, the Mexican government or the deepen ing relationship of the United States and Mexico.” The Mexican government, in cluding Colosio, had helped Clinton sell NAFTA to Congress and the American public by portraying their country as a strong, stable neighbor. ‘ T think many citizens of Mexico will be more emboldened to move into becoming a true world trading partner,” said Rep. Ron Coleman, D-El Paso. “Along the border you will see even less of a feeling that we can’t accomplish what we set out to ac complish.” Added Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D- Corpus Christi: “I think we are go ing to strengthen our bonds.” “I don’t think this is going to give Mexico a black eye,” he added. We're Charles' new bank. The Battalion Friday, March 2:1 - A box of treasures Amy Browning/Ni. Mike Mierzwa, a senior civil engineering major from Houston, examines a comic book Thursday found in one of the myriad boxes of treasures that can be found in the dealer's room of AggieCon XXV. The convention will be open through:! day on the second floor of the MSC. The ever! eludes the dealer's room, gaming, trading.arl exhibit, movies and much more. Mexicans pay tribute to slain leader, search for new candidal The Associated Press H MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of ruling party faithful chanted a mournful farewell Thursday to Luis Donaldo Colosio, the man who almost surely would have been Mexico’s next president but for an assassin’s bullets. While Mexicans dealt with the shock of the country's first major political assassination since 1928, party lead ers began considering the loss of Colosio as their presi dential candidate five months before the election. The slaying of Colosio at a campaign rally Wednes day in Tijuana was a stunning blow for Mexico's leader ship, already struggling with a peasant uprising in the south and growing discontent over economic changes brought by the free trade agreement with the United States and Canada. The killing was “an offense against all Mexicans and an affront to the institutions which we have built throughout our history,” said President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. “It has injured the deepest convictions of the people of Mexico, who have always been partisans of the path of harmony, of law and of peace,” Salinas said. Officials of the long-governing Institutional Revolu tionary Party met with Salinas, who is barred by law from seeking a second six-year term and by tradition picks the party’s candidate. The leaders refused to say when they might name a new candidate, who will be the strong favorite to win the Aug. 21 election and be sworn in as president in December. The Institutional Revolutionary Party has not lost a national election since it was founded in 1929. “It is a true tragedy. We still have not begun to think about the future,” Oscar Espinosa, Colosio’s campaign finance director, said as officials filed past the slain candidate’s coffin at the party’s sprawling concrete headquarters in downtown Mexico City. Salinas accompanied Colosio’s body from the air- ort to the headquarters, where it lay in state under a anner adorned with the party’s red, white and green symbol. Party activists applauded as Salinas stood at at tention and chants of “Colosio! Colosio!” rang across the auditorium. Although party leaders declined to discuss new can- “It is a true tragedy. We stillk not begun to think about the ture.” - Oscar Espinosa, Coki campaign finance dim didates, speculation quickly focused on several posi.: ties. The front-runners appeared to be Ernesto Zee who resigned as education secretary to coordinate! 1 sio’s campaign, party chairman Fernando Ortiz k- < and Manuel Camacho Solis, the government’s nego ; ' with the Indian rebels in Chiapas state. On Tuesday, the popular Camacho had given (i sio’s campaign a big boost by announcing he wou/t/n run for president as an inaependent canditte. Ihi might help Camacho while the party considersitw candidate, but many party leaders were infumteibyks long refusal to endorse Colosio. The party’s options for replacing Colosio ate by a constitutional ban on a candidate holding as® government job six months before the election,llii ruled out most of the Cabinet members who werepos ble candidates last year. In Tijuana, Federal Attorney General Diego Valai ■ was overseeing the investigation into Colosio’s murot! Police were questioning Mario Aburto Martiat 23, a self-described pacifist accused of using a.38-0 iber revolver to shoot Colosio in the head and sto; ach while he walked among supporters at a campii stop. There was no indication of a possible motive: Aburto, an industrial mechanic in Tijuana who hast brothers in the United States. “He said thateveni! ■ was tortured, he would not talk,” the attorney gene:: office said in a statement. Police also detained Vicente Mayoral Valenzuela,: Early reports identified him as a suspected accompt but authorities later said he was being held as awiffl to the shooting. Clinton Continued from Page 1 We're also his old bank. Now in College Station. Charles King used to do his banking with Victoria Bank & Trust in Bryan. Even though he lived and worked in College Station. 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