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Weather
Wednesday and Thursday, partly cloudy with chance of
showers, storms later in the day. Lows in the 70s, highs
near 100. — National Weather Service
Opinion
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Chris S. Cobb: "Most people who can read
have no idea of the immensity of the literacy
problem and how it really affects us."
Page 5
DNA identification
Methods allow investigators to
pinpoint suspects from samples
of hair and blood
Page 2
TUESDAY
luly 12, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 171 (6 pages)
‘Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
Haitian army halts human rights intervention
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) —
Haiti’s army-installed government
abruptly ordered the expulsion of inter-
jational human rights observers Mon-
’, declaring them undesirable aliens
and accusing them of disrupting state
security.
U.N. officials said in New York that
no decision had been made about with
drawing the personnel and whether to
apitulate to the expulsion demand.
The Security Council was to meet for
mally Tuesday to issue a statement con
demning Haiti’s action.
The decree outraged U.N. diplomats
and officials and widened the void be
tween Haiti’s coup leaders and other
nations.
“By its irregular presence on nation
al soil, the mission is troubling internal
public order and threatens state securi-
"The mission is troubling internal public order and threat
ens state security."
—Decree released Monday by Haitian government
"They kill, they murder and rape people and they do not
want any witnesses."
-Dante Caputo, U.N. envoy for Haiti
ty,” read the decree, signed by de facto
foreign minister Charles David.
The 104 U.N. and Organization of
American States human rights ob
servers and administrative workers
were given 48 hours to leave. Law en
forcement officials were notified to en
force the order, the government said.
At sunset Monday, U.N. officials
were shredding documents and moving
files from an office in suburban
Petionville, attempting to protect Hait
ian sources of information on rights
abuses before their expected departure.
“They kill, they murder and rape
people and they do not want any wit
nesses,” the U.N. envoy for Haiti, Dante
Caputo, said from U.N. headquarters in
New York.
Caputo called it a “very, very delicate
situation as far as security is con
cerned” for the monitors.
Secretary of State Warren Christo
pher said, “It’s really part of the pattern
of increasing repression by the Haitian
regime.”
Shocked U.N. observers said they ex
pected Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali to comply. Confidential
documents were transferred to the
team’s main office, they said.
Other U.N. operations in Haiti will
not be affected.
At the United Nations, U.S. Ambas
sador Madeleine K. Albright read a
statement outside Security Council
chambers on behalf of the United
States, Argentina, Canada, France and
Venezuela, known as “the five friends”
of Haiti.
“We strongly condemn the decision
by the illegal, de facto regime to expel
the ... mission. During months of turbu
lence and ever increasing human rights
abuses, ... (it) has been the internation
al community’s eyes in Haiti.”
Albright declined to say if the United
States was pushed closer to invasion,
but repeated that it hasn’t excluded any
option.
The incident comes as the United
States is positioning new warships and
2,000 Marines off Haiti. Eight war
ships and 15 Coast Guard cutters are
already near Haiti to enforce a world
trade embargo against the Caribbean
nation and to deal with a surge of
Please see Haiti, Page 6
rdinale
A.&M ranks sixth
among students
High school Who’s Who places
4&M nationally above UT, Yale
By Tracy Smith
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Texas A&M is ranked sixth in
iis year’s list of institutions of
liigher education. This ranking
is decided by students recog-
lized as Who’s Who Among
High School Students. These
itudents, honored for their acad-
mic and extracurricular excel-
tace, indicate their preferred
i or university. Their pref-
trences are then compiled to
km this nationwide ranking.
Paul Krouse, publisher of the
iimual book that recognizes
Sese outstanding students, said
lie ranking lists the top 10
icliools of 1,800 four-year col-
[es and universities.
“The list was decided by over
[00,000 students who use our
leferral system,” Krouse said.
'So being ranked high on the list
iquite an honor.”
Harvard University, Duke
Jniversity, Stanford University,
|lie University of California at
Angeles and the University
(North Carolina took the top
ive spots. Texas A&M, the Uni-
wsity of Michigan, the Univer-
iity of Texas, Yale University
aid Florida State University
illed the remaining five posi-
ions respectively.
Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M presi
dent, only recently learned of
the current ranking and said he
was excited by the results.
“It is a very prestigious honor
to be linked with such well-
known universities,” he said. “I
feel it is an accurate reflection
on the Texas A&M student body
and the University as a whole.”
Dr. J. Malon Southerland,
vice president for student af
fairs, said the high school stu
dents in the Who’s Who program
are the ‘cream of the crop’, mak
ing them ideal students for
Texas A&M.
“A&M targets specific stu
dents with academic honors who
have excelled in high school,” he
said. “We feel students success
ful in high school will continue
to succeed at the college level.”
While many Texas A&M offi
cials agree the Who’s Who rank
ing shows that A&M has ex
celled, many believe it is just
one of the many achievements
accredited to Texas A&M.
“The general environment at
A&M leaves visiting students
with a good impression,” he said.
“It is this good impression that
keeps A&M at the top of enroll
ment lists.”
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(AP) — Groups hoping to pass anti-homosex-
' initiatives in 10 states this year have fallen
short of their goals, gathering enough signatures
to get measures on ballots in only two states.
Several days of reckoning came last week in
what has become a battle between gays and the
conservatives who are backing initiatives to deny
"'hat they call “special rights” for homosexuals.
Supporters of such measures failed to file
signed petitions in Missouri and Washington
state on Friday, but did submit enough signa
tures to qualify for the ballots in Idaho and Ore
gon.
More than 250,000 petition signatures were
Hue Monday in Michigan, the last of the 10
states where ballot language has been filed. But
George Matousek of the Michigan Family Values
Committee, which started the petition drive, said
Monday the effort had been put on hold because
the wording was identical to a Colorado law that
was declared unconstitutional by that state’s
Supreme Court.
“There’s no point in our circulating an identi
cal petition and then have it ruled unconstitu-
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Georgia residents return home as receding waters reveal damage
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■ains were drawn in empty homes Mon
day, and residents abandoned the streets
^ police patrols as the Flint River flowed
“Ut of its banks, edging ominously into
is southwest Georgia town.
More than a third of Bainbridge’s
'0,000 residents fled the advancing flood
Raters, which claimed at least 28 lives in
Georgia. The flooding wasn’t expected to
?eak at Bainbridge until Thursday, when
torecasters predict the river will crest at a
tocord 20 feet above flood stage.
tional,” said Matousek, who added that the
group will suspend its efforts until a ruling is is
sued on an appeal in the Colorado case.
David Smith of the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force expressed relief that few of the mea
sures had garnered enough support.
Arthur Kropp, president of People for the
American Way, a liberal group, noted that simi
lar measures are showing up in state legisla
tures and before town councils and library
boards.
Tom Minnery, a spokesman for Focus on the
Family, a conservative Christian group that as
sisted initiative supporters in Washington state,
said he thought the ballot measures had shown a
successful grass-roots movement.
Organizers in Missouri failed to submit the
required 121,000 signatures Friday.
The Oregon Citizens Alliance, led by Lon
Mabon, submitted 120,000 signatures Friday,
about 30,000 more than needed to get its mea
sure on the ballot.
Please see Anti-gay, Page 6
MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir
Zhirinovsky’s star soared in De
cember on the imaginations of
millions of
Russian voters.
Seven months
later, it has
crashed to
earth.
The pugna
cious national
ist has not
found the go
ing as easy in
office as at the
polls, where
his Liberal De
mocratic Party achieved a stun
ning success that alarmed re
formers and the West.
“A lot of people saw a nation
al catastrophe coming, but it
Zhirinovsky
hasn’t happened that way,” said
Mikhail Berger, a columnist for
the newspaper Izvestia.
Zhirinovsky remains popular
with a significant portion of the
angriest have-nots — disgrun
tled workers and pensioners en
thralled by his calls for Russia
to become a mighty empire
again.
His election to the Duma, the
lower house of Parliament,
helped push President Boris
Yeltsin’s reform-minded govern
ment to the center and several
“young Turk” reformers out of
the Cabinet.
But there is no sign he will
ever have the support, or clout,
to turn his more radical propos
als into law.
“Zhirinovsky’s influence has
fallen, and his image has faded
during recent months when peo
ple saw he was unable to fulfill
his promises or achieve results
in the Duma,” historian Roy
Medvedev said.
A survey of 50 political ex
perts published by the newspa
per Nezavisimaya Gazeta this
month rated Zhirinovsky only
19th in influence among Russian
politicians.
It is too early to count him
out, of course. Economic col
lapse, a continued rise in crime,
military unrest or heightened
tension with other former Soviet
republics could refill his well of
support.
Even in his own electoral
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Upriver in the Albany area, 50 miles
northeast of Bainbridge, the Flint finally
began to recede early Monday and some
of the 30,000 people in the area who fled
last week returned to their waterlogged
homes.
And just off the Florida Panhandle,
oyster harvests were suspended Monday
in one of the nation’s major beds because
of floodwater-borne bacteria pouring into
Apalachicola Bay.
In Bainbridge, state troopers patrolled
neighborhoods and military police set up
barricades near the river, hoping to pre
vent more deaths from the flooding
spawned by Tropical Storm Alberto a
week ago.
“No one passes. If you do, you’re liable
to get a knot in your head. They’re not
playing around,” Assistant Fire Chief
Dennis Mock said.
South of town. National Guard troops
helped build a 10-foot earthen dike to
shield a fertilizer plant with 9 million
pounds of ammonia, which reacts violent
ly with water and can be poisonous if in
haled.
Assistant Fire Chief Doyle Welch said
the chemical was a concern, but company
officials believed the precautions were
enough to prevent a catastrophe at the
200-foot-tall ammonia tank. When the
river crests, water at the plant is expect
ed to be 5 feet deep, he said.
“We can’t be 100 percent certain be
cause nobody has ever encountered this
before,” said David Prichard, a
spokesman for Vigoro Industries, which
owns the plant.
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