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HIS, USAS, GMAC.AA\K2,apdRincttaoUniversity arenotaffiliated wi(hThe Rinceton Review Page 6 JL Tuesday • June 14,1994 Library Tubularman By Boomer Cardinale Continued from Page 1 ble so years from now people can go into the museum and know what the people were like,” he said. “The museum will be former President Bush’s historical legacy. “He looks upon it as some thing that will be here long af ter he is gone,” Alsobrook said. He also said Bush is enthusi astic about the library and mu seum and has contributed his ideas to the design of the library and museum. “We have received a lot of ev idence directly from President Bush that it will be a prime fo cus in his life.” Shirley Joiner, assistant ex ecutive director of the library and museum, said once the li brary is open and operating. Bush will spend a couple of days a week here. Former President Bush and his wife Barbara have expressed interest in lecturing to classes and meeting with A&M stu dents. Bush also plans to use the library’s documents to write his memoirs. He is already us ing the resources to write a book on foreign policy. Alsobrook said a lot of hard work is going into the library and museum. “It is something we don’t take for granted when you have former president and first Heather so t Are. you a srvt>&vr at a**? YU>ftMAjO/i/OoyOV CONS /VfXVT UJy Bkothezs ? sjsrers? / tfATE TV USASTE 77SSE /V //STROWCtTCW', srous LETt 6-0 Post A usAUc AfSD C-eTTDkm THE EiTAl you HOEOS COPE ! TMOCs/rire us Mir APE OSJS, FEARS? ^ PiFFEREAjr FA po you £/✓/ 'jPOFTS? VS/SA CS .* ARE yots S!\ REALLY port PRTtJK ox TAki 1 US HAT EOXFOF /s yook FAH/ty Convid execut< HUNTSVI Convicted kill jrief words ex amily, was ex he abduction ■louston supe i robbery 10 y' "To my farr jive my love ‘'i lefore the lett ato his arms. The high o ippeal, rejectii Our There By JD lours before C exas death liven lethal inj< Crank b< lady this enthusiastic and per sonally involved,” he said. Among all the artifacts, Birchfield said, there are pieces of recent history from several different countries. An emir from Kuwait gave President Bush a door from his palace called the “Gate of Kuwait.” It has gold plates along the sides, with the names of all the American soldiers killed in Operation Desert Storm. The German government gave Bush a piece of the Berlin Wall after it was tom down dur ing his administration. Bush gave the piece to A&M on May 3, 1991, when he announced Texas A&M would be the site for his presidential library. When presidents of the Unit ed States meets with other country leaders, they usually exchange gifts that say some thing about their culture. Some of these cultural exchange gifts will be displayed as well. Other gifts in the museum given to Bush from world lead ers are a silver jewelry box from Thailand, a music box from the queen of England and a model of a fortress in existence in Sau di Arabia, made from gold. Joiner said an opening date is not set for the library and museum as of now, but it is said to be sometime in 1997. A public groundbreaking is scheduled for November 30, 1994. The library will be the 10th public presidential library, not including the privately-run Richard Nixon Library. It will be 317,000-square-feet, located on 90 acres of land at the inter section of George Bush Drive and FM 2818. ,oo/< ©^•y'lp/xiE— ^C/iAPTERTWo 0NC£ ARE CREATED, THEy A^£-r> 8ai5VERS To 1~IVEk>. £UT T/XIE E.ouLt> f/a/d No orlE wHo 6ELIEVEJ> IN HER... BErAuSE A??ARENTL']... PEOPLE //JD FrtMD Stranger th/iIos jV 3ELl5\l5 IN. m \ it time liilP* W f vST V' For (d- posh lUA-ml 'ipjr J/ to WLbiiu //CoHTlM esumed the loth figures ation and th lird of all ex itates since 976 allowed esume. Jury ml Mobley Continued from Page 1 Mobley said A&M’s recent controversies are nothing un usual. “People who know A&M know it is a strong institution,” he said. “Like any organization, A&M has its problems.” Dr. David Schmidly, campus dean of Texas A&M at Galve ston, said Mobley’s leaving will be a loss for the higher educa tion system. “Bill Mobley was an outstand ing president and chancellor,” he said. “He was an excellent representative for higher educa tion, and this will be a loss for all of higher education.” Dr. Robert R. Furgason, pres ident of Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi, said the system schools will be working in an un certain period for the next few months, but Mobley’s resigna tion will not upset the process too much. “It leaves a hole in the leader ship of the A&M System,” he said. “The system office has been important to us.” TAMU-Corpus Christi is cur rently undergoing a change from a two year upper-level school into a four-year institu tion. “This fall we’re starting our first freshman class, and we’re building and setting up testing centers,” he said. “Bill Mobley knows the history of who we are and where we are going. “He has been a very good sup porter of this campus and the developments here,” Furgason said. “The new chancellor will have to gain all that knowledge and it will take him time to get up to speed.” Schmidly said he also under stands Mobley’s reasoning in re signing. “Most of us that got into ad ministration after being in edu cation and our first love is teach ing,” he said. “I can definitely understand him wanting to get back into the classroom.” Ryan Shopp, a student work er in the Office of the Chancel lor, College of Engineering Stu dent Senator and member of the Student Senate Executive Coun cil said students will miss Mob ley’s leadership. “He is a very charismatic and influential leader,” he said. “I anchor; leral jury h ictims of the ...... $11 'amages fre kipper Jose hat their re< iation’s worst The more Alaska native /ho are suinc /as drunk thi have a deep admiration for him.” Shopp said Mobley will be a valuable faculty member over in the College of Business. “I hate to say that we lost two administrators, because we justT^ Exxon t gained two very valuable facult!|<j rm kj n g f or members (Mobley and E. Deanfcommand any Gage),” he said. I The jury de West said the Board has no;; four days befc yet begun to look at new candi-B necessary dates for the position. [° cc “It will be very soon indeed,- 6 , she said, because Mobley willpggg j U p be leaving at the end of August' Hazelwood ac The Board of Regents will ap point an interim chancellor prior to Mobley’s departure while a search is underway for a perma nent replacement. Bowen said a new chancellor is never easy to find, but the Board of Regents will find a qualified candidate. “There’s not a long list of peo ple who are qualified,” he said, “My guess is they will select someone with a good system background.” The chancellor oversees oper ation of all 15 institutions with in the A&M system. Bowen said he has enjoyed working with Mobley and will continue to seek his advice in the future. “He’s a good advisor and a good friend,” he said. The plain illion in punit 1.5 billior lamages. ’Exxon sti aw,” said Bri; awyer. "Yc substantial bit /ou can chant N. Kore watchd Terrorist Continued from Page 1 interrogated Shaaban before charging him in the Jan. 29 assassination of Jordanian diplomat Naeb Imran Maaytah, denied the suspect ever mentioned the Lockerbie bombing before. “It’s a mere lie. Had Youssef Shaaban confessed to such a case that still preoccu pies the world, I would have given it ut most priority and investigated promptly,” Mirza told The Associated Press. “I believe this confession is for the pur pose of deception and aims at misleading the investigation, nothing more,” he said. He said he was ready to interrogate Shaaban “and see what information he has on the Pan Am bombing.” A bomb ripped apart the Pan Am Boeing 747 over Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988, as it flew from London toward New York. All 259 people aboard and 11 people on the ground died. “It’s a very convenient confession that so far seems to have absolutely no validity,” said Peter Lowenstein of Morristown, N.J., whose 21-year-old son, Alexander, was killed on the plane. Robert Hunt of Webster, N.Y., whose daughter, Karen, was another victim, said he was skeptical because Shaaban did not offer any corroboration. “Maybe he is trying to divert attention from Libya,” he said. Jim Swire, a spokesman for British rela tives of Lockerbie victims, said Shaaban’s claim “should be regarded with grave sus- picion. Swire’s daughter Flora died in the bombing. Lebanese court sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, speculated Shaa ban might have been instructed by Abu Nidal to make the claim to help Libya, chief backer of Nidal’s terrorist group. Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, both suspected Libyan intel ligence agents, have been charged in Britain and the United States in the bombing. In Washington, U.S. Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern said, “We have no evidence to substantiate the assertion that Shaaban makes.” In London, a Foreign Office statement said that “as we have said many times in the past, we believe there is a case to be answered in a court in Scotland or the United States by the two Libyans.” SEOUL, Voicing dism plan to quit th group, the Ur South Korea f ahead with Communist st; South meanwhile, sc scaling back [ defense drill playing down North Korea. Korean stock | North Kore International would make i check wheth provisions of pact it signed i Although tl says its nuclee peaceful pui permit full U.h suspicions tl tying to build ; Tep’ vitamin case taken to federal court to stop sales AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Department of Health has de cided to pursue action in federal court instead of administrative ly against Alliance USA, the maker of a popular pep pill called Formula One, the state’s health commissioner said Mon day. The health department banned Nation’s Nutrition For mula One in early May after re ports of illness from people who said they experienced a “speed like high” from the product.But administrative orders against the product have been blocked in Austin district courts. Meanwhile, the Texas Attor ney General’s Office filed a law suit May 12 against Alliance USA in federal district court in Dallas. Dr. David Smith, the Texas commissioner of health, said health officials were disappoint ed that they couldn’t stop the sale of the product using admin istrative orders. But he said he will be issuing a public health warning Tues day about Formula One and be lieves that working through the federal court will accomplish the same goal. “We’re going to have a one-front pursuit here,” he said. Alliance USA officials claimed victory Monday, saying the Richardson-based company now is free to ship Formula One to its nearly 100,000 distribu tors throughout the company. Formula One is one of the most popular diet supplements containing ephedrine, a stimu lant. “We are pleased that the TDH has made this decision” to drop the administrative orders against the product, Larry Cantrell, Alliance USA vice president for corporate rela tions, said in a prepared state ment. “Formula One is a nutritional supplement that is perfectly safe for people to use, when tak en as directed. We feel vindicat ed by the state’s decision ... to withdraw.” Alliance USA officials also are “confident in our position” in the pending lawsuit. “We have felt that the emer gency orders were improvident- ly issued by the TDH and we are pleased thqt the TDH has dismissed all its claims,” said Doug Adkins, an attorney repre senting Alliance USA. Smith said the civil lawsuit accuses Alliance USA of misla beling its product so that the consumer does not know that it contains ephedrine and caffeine. 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