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An interview with the "voice
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MONDAY
June 27, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 163 (6 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
Briefs Japan searches tor new prime minister
Riverside campus
employee arrested
A Texas Engineering Experiment
Station employee was arrested
Thursday on a third-degree felony
charge of official misconduct.
The University Police Department
arrested John O. Lewis, head of the
telecommunications training division,
at the Texas A&M University-
Riverside campus. Lewis was
eleased from the Brazos County Jail
later that day on $500 bond.
He was charged with "misapplying
nything of value belonging to the
government in his possession,” said a
spokeswoman for the experiment
station.
Lewis was also charged with a
Class A misdemeanor for obtaining
two receipts for less than $1,000 for a
ngle purchase of more than $1,000.
Maintenance blocks
part of
Travel lanes will be reduced from
four lanes to two as railroad
maintenance work begins Tuesday at
the Villa Maria Road crossing in
Bryan.
The Texas Department of
Transportation will remove concrete
pavement from around the railroad
tracks at the crossing between
Pinfeather Road and Wellborn Road.
The construction project is expected
to be completed in three weeks.
Motorists are advised to seek
alternate routes and to drive
cautiously through the intersection.
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Parliament debates over replacement as meetings
with Clinton, other industrialized nations approach
TOKYO (AP) — For the second time this year, Japan
has put major government business on hold as it search
es for a new leader.
Saturday’s resignation of Prime Minister Tsutomu
Hata leaves the country leaderless just two weeks before
a pair of important meetings — the planned July 7 sum
mit with President Clinton and the meeting of the Group
of Seven major industrialized nations.
In April, the hiatus lasted two weeks before the gov
erning coalition agreed to stay together and back Hata.
The coalition had been shaky since taking over in
1993 from the Liberal Democrats, who had ruled for 38
years. The coalition was an awkward alliance of conserv
ative parties and the Socialists, divided by ideology and
united only in a desire to keep the LDP out of power.
The Socialists quit Hata’s government at the start,
angered by what they saw as moves to exclude them
from some major coalition business. Hata was unable to
coax them to return and resigned in the face of certain
defeat in a Parliamentary vote of confidence.
Monday’s schedule called for Parliament to meet to
consider a replacement. But with no agreement in sight.
Parliament appeared likely to extend its current session
beyond its scheduled end on Wednesday.
As in April, the Socialists and other coalition parties
are divided over whether sales taxes should be raised to
pay for rising welfare costs. They also disagree on how
far Japan can go in joining U.N. peacekeeping missions,
and how to deal with neighboring North Korea’s suspect
ed nuclear arms program. The nation’s constitution bans
use of force in international disputes.
Action delayed by the lack of a leader includes re
solving trade disputes with the United States and an
nouncing a package of measures to ease regulations on
business.
Red tape is seen as hurting both U.S. efforts to sell
here and Japan’s own struggle to break out of a 3-year-
old recession.
The Liberal Democrats, who were brought down by a
series of scandals, remain the largest party with 206
seats in the 511-member lower house of Parliament,
which chooses the prime minister.
So far, they have been unable to ally with other par
ties to form a government.
Roe v. Wade plaintiff
writes autobiography
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two
decades after the landmark 1973
Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling
that legalized abortion, plaintiff Norma
McCorvey has stopped dodging the
past by writing an unvarnished
account of her tumultuous, hard-
knocks life and how being Jane Roe
transformed it.
I am a rough woman, born into
pain and anger and raised mostly by
myself,” she writes in the book, “I Am
Roe: My Life, Roe v. Wade, and
Freedom of Choice.”
The Louisiana native chronicles
her difficult childhood and how she
stumbled into the history books after
finding herself, at age 21, divorced
and pregnant for a third time.
The book isn’t a treatise on
abortion or how the court ruling
altered the political landscape. It isn’t
a legal primer either, touching only
lightly on Texas attorneys Sarah
Weddington and Linda Coffee, who
pushed the case to the Supreme
Court.
Instead, it’s the account of one life
and how that life was forever changed
when, in a Dallas restaurant in
February 1970, Ms. McCorvey agreed
to become the plaintiff in a lawsuit
seeking to overturn Texas’ anti
abortion statute.
Dallas, suburbs swap
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DALLAS (AP) — The city of Dallas
and its ’burbs are trading barbs, as
competition has heated up in recent
weeks over proposals to lure the
city's pro sports teams away.
“We’re the 800-pound gorilla, and
the suburbs are the pimples on our
behind,” said Dallas Councilman
Chris Luna.
Mayor Bobby Joe Paper of
suburban Irving retorted: “They’re the
800-pound gorilla pacing around his
cage, not knowing what to do.”
Luna and other Dallas officials are
upset with their smaller neighbors
over discussions about building a new
arena for the Dallas Stars and Dallas
Mavericks.
Even college sports are involved in
the suburban pull as Cotton Bowl
organizers said they may move the
football game to Irving’s Texas
Stadium.
”! don’t see where it’s
advantageous for any suburb to get
into a feud with Dallas,” said Grand
Prairie Mayor Charles England.
‘They’ve got the big bucks.”
Some officials warn that such
sniping between cities, if carried too
far, could turn off prospective
businesses and damage regional
cooperation.
Ugandan president
visits Texas A&M
A&M's agricultural research may
help African country, university
Bart Mitchell/THE Battalion
I've had it up to here!
Claire and Lenny Ganz (Nellwyn Haley and Steve Mise) fight about gossip
concerning their best friend in a rehearsal of Neil Simon’s play “Rumors” on
Wednesday. The Aggie Players production runs Thursday through Saturday at
the Rudder Forum.
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
The president of Uganda met with
Texas A&M officials Sunday to cement a
long-term agricultural relationship be
tween A&M and the African country.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni toured the
University’s agricultural operations, in
cluding the experimental farm, planta
tion farm and meat science laboratory.
President
Museveni,
who also
serves as
chancellor of
Makerere
University,
said he hopes
his visit
strengthens
ties between
A&M and
Uganda, while
also helping Makerere
University.
“I was impressed with Texas
A&M because of its extensive agri
cultural research,” he said. “The
different forms of crops and grasses
could benefit my country and help our
university.
“The climates in Texas and Uganda
are similar in many ways, making the
research from A&M even more benefi
cial,” Museveni said. “Due to civil
strife, Uganda has limited research, so
A&M’s research is needed.”
Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M president, said
the University also hopes the plan link
ing A&M and Uganda will improve on
the present relationship between the two.
“The relationship between A&M and
Uganda is not a new one, actually start
ing in 1988 with many of our faculty
members exploring different areas of re
search and development assistance pro
jects in the country,” he said. “After many
years of delegation, we hope a cemented
relationship will prosper everyone.
“Land grants through the University
will provide special training about many
agricultural problems,” he said. “We feel
this pact will be beneficial, having a
positive impact on the community.”
Currently, there are five Ugandan
students attending A&M and Bowen
said he thinks this will help in the im
plementation of future plans, while also
helping A&M in the process.
“With several Ugandan students
on the A&M campus, we receive an
added benefit
that we
would not
have other-
date
not
set
the
to
wise,
Bowen said.
An offi
cial
has
been
for
plan
start, but many
do not feel this is a problem.
Bowen said because of long-term re
lations between the two, activities are
in progress.
“We have a number of ongoing activi
ties now,” he said. “This has left us
with no real hurdles to leap.”
A presentation was given to Ugandan
officials along with the tour discussing
agriculture concerns.
Accompanying President Museveni
on the tour and presentation, were sev
eral Ugandan officials, including J.S.
Mayanja-Nkangi, minister of finance
and economic planning, R. Kaijuka,
minister of trade and industry, and
S.T.K. Katenta-Apuli, Ugandan ambas
sador to the United States.
Aggies host camp for ‘fixture engineers’
"The girls have a design project every
year. Last year it was kites, the year
before that it was boats and this year
it's roller coasters."
By Christine Johnson
The Battalion
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is encouraging
Texas junior high school students to consider a career in en
gineering.
Fifty junior high girls toured campus last week and expe
rienced what Texas A&M has to offer future engineers.
Heidi Fischer, a senior civil engineering major and chair
woman of the week-long summer camp, said the program
was a great way for girls to understand the importance of
math and science.
“The girls need to realize this W i® W I® ' i ^ 11®
(engineering) is something they
can do and to start taking the
classes they need,” she said.
The camp allowed the partici
pants to learn about several engi
neering fields and included a de
sign project and a trip to Six
Flags - Astro world.
The campers also got a taste
of on-campus life. They stayed in
Aston Hall along with six of the 20 A&M students who volun
teered to be counselors.
Sheri Leahy, a senior civil engineering major and camp
counselor, said the camp was a success.
“This camp is important because by the time they have
reached high school, most girls have already decided what
they want to do, so it is good to be able to talk to them while
they are still in junior high,” Leahy said.
Throughout the week, the girls went on tours of nine engi
neering departments including civil, mechanical and nuclear
engineering.
They also toured the Ocean Drilling Program, the Off-
Shore Technology Research Center, the College of Veterinary
Medicine and KAMU-TV.
During the week, the girls worked on their design projects
in groups of four or five.
The project was to design and build a roller coaster out of
Popsicle sticks. A marble had to be able to roll down the
roller coaster and trigger three other marbles placed at vari
ous positions on the roller coaster.
The projects were judged by the counselors in the cate
gories of Best Overall, Best Paper, Most Scary and Most
Ingenious.
“The girls have a design project every year,” Leahy said.
“Last year it was kites, the year before that it was boats and
this year it’s roller coasters.”
The week ended with a banquet for the counselors,
campers and their parents. The prizes for the design projects
; ' Y'--'-", were presented at the banquet
and a slide presentation which
recapped all of the week’s fun
and activities.
Dr. Karen Watson, assistant
dean of the College of Engineer
ing and SWE faculty adviser,
was the guest speaker at the
. ... . . . banquet. She urged the girls to
Sheri Leahy, senior civil engineering major take more math and science
courses when they attend high
school.
“Whether or not you decide to become an engineer, you
should keep your options open by choosing the harder and
more challenging math and science classes which high school
girls have a tendency not to take,” she said. “It’s very impor
tant that all of you realize that you can achieve anything
that you want and be anything that you want.”
SWE has conducted summer camps for junior high school
girls for the past eight years. It will hold a camp for high
school girls in July.
The girls had to fill out applications and write a paper on
why they wanted to attend the camp. The applications were
reviewed by SWE members and 50 girls were chosen.
Leahy said it is the only summer camp in the College of En
gineering that is completely organized and run by students.
SWE camp is sponsored by various companies, including
the Texas Education Agency, Exxon, Hewlett Packard, Amo
co, Texaco, TU Electric and Dow Chemical.
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claims of a conspiracy, an Israeli commission
found Sunday that a Jewish settler acted alone
when he killed at least 29 Muslims in a Hebron
mosque.
The five-member panel then cleared the gov
ernment and army command of any responsibil
ity for the Feb. 25 blood bath, prompting
charges by Palestinians and liberal Israelis that
the six-week investigation was a whitewash.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin pledged to
carry out the commission’s recommendations,
including improvement of security at the Tomb
of the Patriarchs, which is sacred to Muslims
and Jews.
Jews will he barred from carrying weapons
at the site in the West Bank town, and Jewish
and Muslim worshipers will be separated to
prevent friction.
But Rabin said there were no guarantees
that security forces could stop another mas
sacre by a “Jewish madman who decides to
open fire in one of a thousand mosques where
prayers are held in the West Bank.”
The commission appeared to accept the argu
ment of army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ehud
Barak, who testified the massacre “hit us like
lightning from a clear blue sky.”
In its 338-page report, the panel said the
army could not have predicted an attack by a
Jewish extremist on Palestinians because
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