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The Battalion
Page 7
U.S. congressman
meets, thanks lung
donor’s mother
I'he Associated Press
TYLER — A U.S. congressman who
eceived a lifesaving lung transplant was
neeting Sunday with the mother of his
lonor, an 18-year-old boy who died in
motorcycle accident.
Rep. Floyd Davidson Spence, R-South
Carolina, said he wantea to meet with
Laura Saxon to personally “unite with
the mother of the young man from
whom I received my lungs.’
Spence received a successful double
lung transplant in 1988 after a lengthy
battle with emphysema. Spence and his
wife, Debbie, have been advocates of or
gan and tissue donor awareness ever since.
He was to meet Ms. Saxon at a Sun
day afternoon ceremony in Tyler, kick-
ng off National Organ and Tissue
Donor Awareness week, April 17-23.
Spence said he has become close
friends after she wrote to him following
the death of her son in a motorcycle
wreck in Palestine.
Tyler resident Dot McKinley, who re
ceived a kidney transplant from Mrs.
Saxon’s son, also planned tea join what
lias been called an unusual reunion.
‘In most cases, the donor and recipi
ent families do not meet personally,”
said Judy Milstead of the Life Organ
Bank of East Texas.
“However, in this situation, these
families have nurtured a special relation-
hip, and it is their desire to help others
see how important it is to give the gift
of life.”
Giving such a gift only takes filling
out a small cjuestionnaire while renew
ing a driver s license or filling out a
donor card, but officials say they’re still
having trouble attracting donors.
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team, tags out Mike Killian, a junior on the game. IFC won the game, 10-2.
European economic bloc to expand
Union would extend power of members, compete with U.S.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union
plans to take in four prosperous new members,
extending the reach of the powerful economic
bloc into the heart of central Europe and north
to Russia’s Arctic frontiers.
If Austria, Sweden, Norway and Finland join
as planned on Jan. 1, they will enlarge the
union to 16 nations, 375 million people and
an economy worth $7 trillion a year. The North
/American Free Trade Agreement of the United
SUtesv'Onada dn'd Mexico has 360 million
people in a $6 thrillion economy.
Such expansion warms the hearts of those
who dream of building a European superpower
to rival the United States. But some Europeans
believe increasing the membership will only
delay progress toward united foreign and de
fense policies.
“A common foreign policy comes from com
mon interests, not from a declaration in a treaty,”
said Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal
United Services Institute in London. He said larg
er membership will make it “even more diffi
cult” to define those common interests.
Supporters of ever-closer ties among Euro
pean nations fear the newcomers will join
Britain in defending national sovereignty
against visions of a “United States of Europe.”.
Also, the NATO-aligned majority will have
to accommodate the neutrality of Sweden, Aus
tria and Finland.
Nor did negotiations with the four candi
dates boost confidence in Europe’s ability to
unite. Before they were completed a month af
ter the March 30 deadline, foreign ministers
spent weeks quarreling about how to adapt vot
ing procedures and share out Norway s fish
stocks.
While they wrangled, others took the lead in
Bosnia and the Middle East, two areas where
the European Union had once hoped for diplo
matic success.
U.S. and Russian diplomats pressed for peace
in former Yugoslavia with some success, and
the United States became the broker in Israeli-
Arab talks.
“It demonstrates what American leadership
can provide,” Stuart E. Eizenstat, U.S. ambas
sador to the European Union, told The Associ
ated Press.
“Europe is beginning to come together. But
even with that, they still need the entrance of
the world’s only superpower to make things
fully happen.”
In January, the bloc appeared to recognize
this when its foreign ministers appealed for
American help to end the killing in Bosnia.
That was a far cry from a declaration in 1991
by Foreign Minister Jacques Poos of Lqxeyn
bourg, then the EU chairman, that European
diplomacy would end the war quickly.
“This is the hour of Europe, not America,”
Poos said on his way to the first of many EU
peace missions. All of them failed.
The Treaty on European Union, which took
effect last November, created stronger links
among the 1 2 members and gave the EU exec
utive more power to forge a united foreign pol
icy. But squabbling among governments and
complicated rules for making decisions have
got in the way.
Wisconsin university holds 54-hour, phone trivia marathon
The Associated Press
STEVENS POINT, Wis. —
Question: What is the number of
the Boy Scout troop to which Opie
Taylor belonged on “The. Andy
Griffith Show? ’
Answer: 44.
Q: How many calories are in an
11-ounce box of S’Mores Pop Tarts?
A: 1,200.
Q: Where is the world’s largest
trivia contest?
A: Stevens Point, Wis.
Q: Where?
Teams from around the country
gathered in the central Wisconsin
city this weekend to field eight
trivial questions an hour for 54
hours during the annual marathon
competition.
The contest is coordinated by
WWSP, the student radio station at
the University of Wisconsin-
Stevens Point.
WWSP and the American Trivia
Association call it the world’s
largest trivia contest. It registered
535 teams and 1 1,836 players this
year, said Jim Oliva, one of the
question editors.
“It’s a lot of laughs,” said Bob
Helgert of Amherst, a player since
the event was established 25 years
ago. “When you’re that tired, you
tend to laugh until you cry. Even
the silliest things lead to laughter.”
From Friday evening until mid
night Sunday, the station broadcast
eight questions each hour. Teams
scattered around the area listened
to the radio and phoned in their
answers. More than 100 people
staffed 1 8 telephone lines at the
station to record the replies.
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Students who are currently enrolled and in good standing
are eligible to enroll. Please contact Dr. Mary Jo
Richardson, Associate Dean, College of Geosciences
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Admissions and Records at TAMU (409) 740-4415.
Accounting
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Mathematics
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English
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Physics
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Political Science
POLS-206
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History
HIST-106
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For more information about
programs at Texas A&M
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contact (409) 740-4428 or
come by our table in the
MSC on April 20 and 21.
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