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Sports
Lynn Hickey, A&M woman's athletic
director, says A&M is a national leader in
funding for women's athletics.
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Editorial
The women in the B-CS community need local
access to abortion facilities.
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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
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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?”
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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.
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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
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