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iMPANGENI, South Africa — Nationalist
Zulus brandishing spears, clubs and sticks
defied a state of emergency to march Tues
day in this Natal province city.
Bolice said Tuesday that 88 people had
been killed in political violence in the Zulu-
dominated province since Thursday, when
the state ol emergency was declared. The
death toll could climb as casualty reports
from far-flung rural settlements reach re
gional police.
Despite earlier vows to disarm marchers,
police and troops did nothing as die Zulus
arrived in buses Tuesday to support their
king’s demand for a sovereign Zulu state.
The emergency regulations give troops
broad powers to detain troublemakers and
keep weapons off the streets.
‘You couldn’t disarm them ... without a
lot of bloodshed,” police Maj. Margaret
Kruger said after 10,000 people swarmed
through Empangeni, about 90 miles north
of Durban. ‘ They would go for the police ...
and the police would open fire.”
She said the . province-wide state of emer
gency had “clearly been contravened” by
the weapon-wielding marchers and police
planned to press charges.
Zulu tribal chiefs called for the show of
force at Empangeni to protest the deaths of
Zulus in political violence in the area and to
commemorate those killed last week after a
Zulu march in Johannesburg.
An all-Zulu army battalion was able to
take stronger action at a smaller commemo
ration near Wembenzi, a black township
100 miles southwest of Empangeni. About
100 Zulu soldiers set up a roadblock to
search 400 Zulus entering the rally site, and
confiscated spears and clubs, as well as a few
firearms.
Zulus say the traditional weapons they
carry at rallies and other public gatherings
are an essential part of their culture, and any
attempts to seize them insults Zulu tradition.
The ANC has pressed for the weapons to be
banned, saying their display intimidates ri
vals and increases tensions.
Among the 88 people killed since the
emergency was imposed were 1 0 people
shot Sunday in Ndwedwe, north of Durban.
•Police had few details, and Tuesday’s report
was the first word of the killings.
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■ERICHO, Occupied West Bank — The first exiled
leaders of the Palestinian uprising allowed to return
home got a tumultuous hero’s welcome Tuesday in the
occ tpied territories.
he returning exiles will help build an autonomous
the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and try to
dispel perceptions among Palestini
ans that the historic Israel-PLO
peace accord has failed to bring
change.
“People are seeing some changes
with their own eyes now. This has
had more impact on the people
than months of negotiations,” said
Saeb Erekat, a senior PLO figure in
the occupied territories.
At the crossing from Egypt to the,
Gaza Strip at Rafah, hunareds of
youths waving the black, red, white
and green Palestinian flag carried
23 returnees on their shoulders to
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wa ting cars. Gunmen from the PLO’s Fatah Hawks
fired into the air.
■Crowds lined the road to Gaza, waving black and
white checked kafiyyahs, the Palestinians trademark
headdress.
■Palestinian officials said 26 other exiles crossed into
the West Bank over the Allenby Bridge from Jordan.
■PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, in Amman, Jordan, to
h|ld talks with King Hussein, described Israel’s deci
sion to let the deportees return as “another positive
signal.’’
■ in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the
returnees were “pioneers in the implementation of this
alw rapprochement between The Palestinians and our-
sel'es.”
■ The returnees face a local PLO leadership fractured
by infighting, and will have to deal with attempts by
the armed underground to continue attacks on Israel,
.demands for jobs, and general disillusionment with the
place accords.
■ Most of the deportees were university students and
pjjofessors expelled by Israel for organizing the Pales-
taian uprising, or intefadah, which started in Decem
ber 1987. They are the first of those exiles allowed to
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Preserving the past, seeing the future
Corps Center Guard bridges gap
between public and Texas A&M
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The gap between old and new
is being bridged at Texas A&M
University’s Sam Houston Sanders
Corps of Cadets Center by the
Corps Center Guard.
David Carey, Corps Center
Guard Commander and a senior in
Company E-1, said guard mem
bers act as liaisons between the
public and the Corps Center.
“Old Ags get to see the past
through the Corps Center and the
present and future through the
Corps Guard,”
“The members of the
guard are the living
part of the center.”
-Joe Fenton, curator of the
Corps Center and
adviser for the guard
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Leland Tieh, a sophomore history major, helps arrange a display commemorating
the 50th anniversary of the activation Of the cadets of the Class of '44 for active
duty in World War II.
Carey said.
Guard
members take
care of the
center and its
artifacts, give
tours of the
center, and
work at special
events.
“The Corps
Center is the first impression that
an old Ag gets of the Corps now,”
Carey said.
Joe Fenton, curator of the Corps
Center and adviser for the guard,
said many former students visit the
center because it is where they feel
most comfortable.
“A lot of them would give any
thing to have these kids give them
a tour,” Fenton said. “The mem
bers of the guard are the living
part of the center.”
Fenton said the main purpose
of the guard is to meet the public,
welcome former students, and act
as historians for the campus and
the Corps.
He said the guard, which has
27 male members and '5 female
members, offers the cadets
tremendous experience.
“The program fills in the gap
for students who might not fit
anywhere else,” Fenton said. “Its
an opportunity for them to find
out what they are made of.”
Members of the Corps Center
Guard recently received new uni
forms that Fenton said bring back
the old style of the Corps.
“The main purpose for the dis
tinct uniform is to set them apart,”
he said.
Carey said the new uniforms
are similar to the style worn by
cadets in the 1940s.
“The uniforms set them apart
from the regular C.T.,” Carey said.
“They will be a distinctive pres
ence in the Corps Center.”
Senior and junior guard mem
bers wear a full
dress uniform,
and sopho
more mem
bers wear olive
drab pants and
a khaki shirt.
He said these
uniforms
bring back the
old style of the
1940 Uni
forms.
The Corps Center Guard is cho
sen in the spring by an interview
process.
“Cadets are screened mainly on
their desire to work,” Fenton said.
“This is a lot like an honor guard.
Members are chosen for being
charismatic, outgoing, and a desire
to promote the Corps and the cen
ter, Fenton said.
“The group fills the need for
students who love Texas A&M,
want to learn the history, greet the
public, and have a desire to do a
little extra,” Fenton said. “The
kids make wonderful contacts and
have an opportunity to represent
the school and the Corps Center as
well as protect it.”
He said recruiting is a big part
of being in the guard.
“The center generates interest
in the Corps,’ Fenton said.
“We’re trying to preserve the
past, protect the present, and
promote the future.”
^A&M examines possibility
—'Of Central Texas university
Bl.Ian Higginbotham
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I Texas A&M University officials are working with individuals from the
Fori: Hood and Killeen area to decide if another institution of higher ed-
Ication is needed in Central Texas.
I David Sanchez, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Texas A&M is
acting as an interested, but neutral, party in determining the needs of
that part of the state.
1 “We’re trying to find out exactly what the educational needs of the
area are,” he said. “There is a whole series of questions that need to be
■answered.”
I Sanchez, who is head of the Central Texas Task Force on Education,
said many pressures, including a number of civic boosters and econom
ic influences, are pushing for the establishment of a university in Killeen.
I “They’ve got this idea that they have been neglected and they want
|>is attention,” Sanchez said.
I The task force is currently trying to determine how much support a
lew school would receive in the area.
I “We need to find out if there are enough people to support it,”
Jnchez said. “Are there enough bright-eyed, bushy-tailed kids up there
terested in a school there? The junior college up there (Tarleton State
niversity) is doing a good job, and we don’t want to dismantle it.”
Sanchez said the group is also running into a problem with the mili-
|ry.
“The Army wants this delivered, and they want it cheap,” he said.
The educational needs of the Temple and Killeen area also are still in
Jtestion.
Sanchez said adults in the area have shown an interest in programs in
usiness, computing, teacher preparation and nursing.
“But you can’t form a four-year college based on those four pro-
fons,” Sanchez said.
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ibrary to remain open until 2 a.m.
I Sterling C. Evans Library will
Row be open until 2 a.m. after
lumerous complaints from stu
dents who wanted the library to
remain open longer.
The library had been closing at
fief
12 a.m., but will remain open to
accommodate student’s needs.
If enough students utilize the
library’s new hours, the library
will continue offering extended
hours.
With a passion for the presses
Summer, fall Battalion
editors work together
to improve newspaper
By Melissa Jacobs
The Battalion
Texas A&M students may be seeing a few
changes when they pick up a copy of The Battal
ion this summer and fall.
Editors have been chosen for the summer and
fall semesters. Mark Evans, a senior biology and
journalism major, will be the summer editor,
and Belinda Blancarte, a senior journalism major,
will be the fall editor.
Blancarte and Evans are working together to
make some changes to The Battalion.
Blancarte said she and Evans have worked well
together in the past and that will help them with
their plans for The Battalion.
“I m restructuring the job descriptions, so
the editorial board will be different,’ she said.
“Tm trying to make it a little more uniform so
people will work together more instead of at
their own desks.”
Evans said that with the high turnover at The
Battalion every semester, changes made by edi
tors often don’t stick.
“There are some changes that I want to
make,” he said. “Belinda and I have been
bouncing ideas off of each other. If we can get
stuff to stay for two semesters, it will probably
be around for a while.”
Evans applied for the editor s position because
he has seen so many editors come and go that he
wanted to try his hand at it.
Blancarte said she had considered applying
for the managing editor’s position, but she is
now glad she changed her mind.
“There weren’t mat many people applying for
editor,” she said. “It’s a good opportunity, so I
gave it a shot.”
The interview to select an editor was some
what of an ordeal for Blancarte. Five minutes
before her interview, Robert Wegener, manager
of student pubhcations, asked if she was apply
ing for the position.
“I told him I was, and he said they didn’t
have my application,” she said. “I was ail
dressed up, and I had to run back to my dorm
in heels and print out my resume and run
back.”
Evans said he was happy when he found out
he had gotten the position, but it hasn’t really
hit him yet.
“There were four of us applying for the two
editors’ positions,” he said. . “I consider the
other three to be friends of mine. It’s tough
when you go up against friends. I felt sorry
for the two that didn’t get a position.”
-Both editors said their jobs will be demand
ing, but Evans said the summers are a lot less
demanding than the fall or spring semesters.
“Usually, the summer is a Tot more laid
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back,” he said. “There isn’t a lot of controver
sy, so I want to focus a lot more on the staff,
the paper and training during the summer.”
Evans has worked for three years at The Bat
talion in the positions of reporter, assistant
opinion editor, assistant city editor, managing
editor, city editor and copy editor.
Blancarte has worked for The Battalion for a
year and a half. During that time, she has held
the positions of copy editor, assistant night
news editor and night news editor.
Blancarte will work for the San Antonio Ex
press-News this summer as a general assign
ment reporter.
Evans, who graduates in December, plans to
study environmental studies in graduate school
and pursue a career in science journalism.
Blancarte, who also graduates in December,
would like to be a religion writer.