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ay July 7, 1994 ardinale Weather Tuesday will be mostly sunny, hot afternoons and fair nights. Lows in the 70s, highs near 100. — National Weather Service R -TT T T7 JL Jt1 Jtl/ Sports Lynn Hickey, A&M woman's athletic director, says A&M is a national leader in funding for women's athletics. Page 3 Editorial The women in the B-CS community need local access to abortion facilities. Page 5 BATTALION MONDAY July 11, 1994 Vol. 93, No. 170 (6 pages) “Serving Texas A&M since 1893“ Watching, waiting for N. Korea’s next move Iransition of power uncertain, White House readies for military action By JD >C? THEY NAPLES, Italy (AP) — The United States will exercise vigilance and main- lain military readiness as North Korea undergoes an uncertain transition of power following the sudden death of President Kim II Sung, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said Sunday. Christopher said it was not clear that the little-known Kim Jong II will succeed liis father as president, or that North Ko- a would go ahead with its planned July 25 summit with South Korea. The older Kim’s death of an apparent keart attack caught leaders of the lorld’s seven industrial democracies by surprise at their annual economic sum mit and raised new questions about the nuclear inspections standoff with the isolated Communist regime. President Clinton urged North Ko rea to continue high-level talks with ilie United States about its nuclear program after a pause to observe Kim’s passing. While there may be an infor mal meeting later Sunday, it is “only natural there be a hiatus while (North Korea) leaders at tend the funeral,” Christopher told a group of American radio correspondents. Kang Sok Ju, the head of the North Korean delegation to the Geneva nuclear inspection talks, is a senior official and is in the fu- neral delegation, Christopher said. Christopher said it was uncertain that the fallen president’s son would succeed him although he heads the com mittee preparing the funeral. Nor, Christopher said, has North Ko rea confirmed it would go ahead with its summit with South Korea. There was only one report Saturday that it would "Fortunately, there is no indication that there has been any unusual or threatening buildup." — Warren Christopher, U.S. secretary of state proceed, and more than 24 hours later “it stands in splendid isolation; there has been no word.” Christopher talked again Sunday by telephone with South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-joo and also with Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gal- lucci, who heads the U.S. delegation to the Geneva negotiations. Gallucci, speaking on ABC’s “This Week With David Brink- ley,” said the North Koreans had “asked us to postpone the talks a bit.” He said members of his dele gation had been in contact with their Korean counterparts, and “we fully expect our talks to re sume. I can’t say exactly when.” Christopher, speaking earlier on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said that with the course of North Korea uncertain, “the present watchword ought to be vigi lance.” He pledged that the administration will “make sure we are in a very strong military position” while the transition in the North takes place. U.S. officials said Saturday that there were no plans to put the 37,000 American troops in South Korea into a heightened state of alert following the death of Kim, North Korea’s hard-line ruler for more than four decades. “Fortunately, there is no indication that there has been any unusual or threatening buildup,” Christopher said. But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has advocated surgical air strikes against North Korean nuclear facili ties, faulted the administration for not strengthening U.S. counter-battery ca pability against North Korea’s “10,000 artillery tubes and rocket launchers that would hit Seoul” if war broke out. The safety of 37,000 American troops and 80,000 dependents must be given first priority, McCain said on NBC. “Should we rely on the goodwill of a per son who ordered the placement of a bomb blowing up the Korean airliner, tried to destroy and was able to destroy half the South Korean government?” s will be taught is. 11 arrive on the will be raised in Oct. 19. ig time to light Barr recalled as used in the bonfire would Bray ton Fire- )ol firefighters only sprayed the tirst two stacks of the bonfire. The torch es, he said, were thrown above the sec ond stack, so the fire did iken to ensure rn better this are going to ,” he said. ie Tondaway twelve miles Student indicted for manslaughter 1C CLUB 5795 By James Bernsen Ihe Battalion A Brazos County grand jury indicted a 21-year-old Texas A&M student Thursday on the tharge of voluntary manslaugh ter in the death of an infant girl discovered dead in a garbage chute on the A&M campus. Stephanie Moore, a sopho more general studies major, will stand trial on charges of killing and disposing of her newborn in a garbage bag in Mosher Hall on March 25. An autopsy has determined the infant was born alive and fed of asphyxia, or suffocation. Jim James, Moore’s attorney, refused to comment on the specifics of the case, but said riven the circumstances, the in dictment could have been worse. T think the grand jury deter mines probable cause and basis a trial,” he said. “They could have indicted her for murder.” James would not comment on »hat the focus of the defense rouldbe in the trial. “We’re not trying for publici ty,” he said. “We try our cases in court.” Margaret Lalk, assistant dis trict attorney for Brazos County, said no trial date has been set for the case. “The district clerk assigns the case to the court,” she said. “They set a docket, or list of cases. “How crowded this docket is will set how soon a trial could be had,” she said. Lalk said cases generally take two to six months, and some times up to a year before they go to trial. Under the Texas Penal Code, any voluntary manslaughter is a second-degree felony. “In any second-degree felony, the sentence can be two years to 20 years and a fine of up to $20,000,” she said. Lalk said if the sentence is 10 years or less, Moore may be placed on probation rather than serve prison time. Bob Wiatt, director of the University Police Department, said in a previous interview with The Battalion that the child ap parently was bom before 2 a.m. A Mosher Hall resident called Emergency Medical Personnel, who found Moore in her room with blood on the floor. Stew Milne/ The Battamon The sunset hour Albritton Bell Tower stands on a clear, dusky Sunday. Through And each day, every quarter of an hour, the tower reminds people its arches visitors can see the dome of the Academic building, of the time by ringing a little jingle. Victims of Alberto New station troubles KAMU students The deluge in Georgia Doppler radar estimates of what Alberto dumped on the state from the beginning of the rains until Thursday morning: ^© DOUGLAS “I*"- 0 Att) ROCKDALE --CLAYTON CARROLL FULTON '' II'vT NEWTON HENRY COWETA f A Y ETTE ■j More than 14 inches 11 111° 14 inches 6 to 10 inches 0 to 5 inches heard ' JASPER PUTNAM SPALDING BUTTS X ;X: 0 PIKE V BALDWIN TROUP MERIWETHER JONES ion sing HARRIS v Oolumbus MUSCOGEE TALBOT ' ' ’ MONROE © UPSON StI' *Macon 1 ^ CRAWFORD BIBB TWIGGS ir p MARION PEACH HOUSTON CHATTAHOOCHEE STEWART WEBSTJ BLECKLEY PULASKI CLAY •• TERRELL * [i] LEE ^ RANDOLPH ~ N 20 miles Source: National Weather Service Reuben Stem / Atlanta Journal & Constitution via AP Death toll rises to 27, more flooding expected to occur BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) — Brown waters swamped up scale riverside homes Sunday as this southwest Georgia city got slapped by the first wave of flooding that has swept much of the state. The death toll statewide rose to 26 since Tuesday, the day af ter Tropical Storm Alberto brought heavy downpours. The latest bodies discovered were a woman in an Americus creek and an unidentified man on a flooded street in Albany. The Flint River was more than 7 feet above flood stage at Bainbridge and was expected to crest Wednesday at 45 feet, 20 feet above flood stage. That is nearly 5 feet higher than the record set in the 1925 flood that devastated the city that calls it self “Georgia’s First Inland Port.” More than 2,000 people in low-lying West Bainbridge were told to evacuate by Saturday evening, and most others in the city of 10,000 were gone or pack ing up Sunday. “My grand-daddy used to tell me about the Flood of ’25, when you could go anywhere by boat. Well, this looks like it could be worse than that,” said Mack Brock, a homebuilder who had a pole tracking the flood’s rise up the back deck of his own home. Besides the Flint, the city is along a series of lakes, creeks Please see Flood, Page 6 By Craig Lewis The Battalion A new radio station, which originated from Texas A&M student radio, has students working for A&M’s cable broad casting station concerned. Jesse Bell, engineering and production manager at KANM and a junior at A&M, said KEOS-FM took what could have been a broadcasting license from the student radio station. “KEOS came about from KANM,” he said. “The licensing of KEOS was originally an ef fort to get an air frequency for KANM’s student radio.” KEOS, a non-profit station, has been approved to broadcast on a frequency of 89.1 beginning Nov. 1. Bell said the licensing effort was carried out privately by students, so as not to incur jurisdic tion over the station by the A&M System Board of Regents. “Basically, some internal conflicts happened in the group, and the faction that wanted the li cense for student radio was kicked out,” he said. Bell said the remaining group took the license and established KEOS. & “Eventually, the leash got let out too much, and they ran with it,” he said. “Probably, our biggest problem is that they used a lot of A&M money to es tablish something not affiliated with the University.” Eric Truax, president and founder of the station, said the station will attempt to offer something that current Brazos Valley listeners don’t already have. “What we’re trying to do is reach out to these people that have been marginalized by the local conservative culture and bring them in,” he said. “We want to build bridges to these people.” Heidi Halstead, director of KEOS’s volunteer, development, said local support for the new sta- ' tion is booming. “Being a community (and therefore non-profit) radio station, we’ve received a lot of donations to help support us,” Halstead said. Truax said much of the programming will Please see KEOS, Page 6 > GTE plans to change area codes By Christine Johnson The Battalion Current long-distance dialing patterns will change next year as part of an expansion plan, which will affect the Bryan-Col- lege Station community, tele phone company officials said. Bellcore, an administrative company of the North American Numbering Plan since 1984, is creating new area codes which will be operational in January 1995 and GTE is converting to 11-digit dialing for long distance calls within the same area code. Ken Branson, manager of cor porate communications for Bell core, said the area code changes are necessary because of the large number of lines being occupied. “Fax machines, pagers, cellu lar phones, modems, the list goes on and on,” he said. “They all create a huge demand.” Please see Codes, Page 6 Classified Comics 6 Opinion 5 Sports 3 State & Local 2 What's Up 6 World Cup 3 Page 3 us' ox ‘ . le and yor of to i mu ill’s emi-