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Sports Competition in the 110 meter junior men's hurdles of the '94 Games of Texas is one of the largest events, attracting 1,972 participants. Page 4 Editorial Texas A&M should devote more effort to AIDS research. n - Page 5 — See related story on page 2 — A nation suffering Rwandans believe they will not be able to recover for several years from the civil war that has ravaged their country. Page 6 MONDAY August 1, 1994 Vol. 93, No. 182 (6 pages) “Serving Texas A&M since 1893" 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — The inton administration gave formal |tice Sunday that it will move to ose trade sanctions on Japan if Japanese government does not ee within 60 days to expand U.S. icess to its government lecommunications and medical lipment markets. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey (ntor announced the decision, jying he was acting because of japan’s failure to address gstanding discrimination against |ited States suppliers.” American telecommunications jnts have long complained that they essentially locked out of the $10 jjjlion telecommunications market ause of discriminatory actions by largely government-owned Nippon ephone and Telegraph. Likewise, American medical tatutes. Bailey arr lipment manufacturers, who control rach’s killing but did at aut 40 percent of the market in lit the crime, Burnsssfurope, say similar barriers have ining to say whether in >rs know who killed her. If convicted on allck hich include numerous junts, Bailey could! rnced to 245 years in prii ted them to less than 20 percent of Japanese market. mtral Park kicks off itional Night Out 5?j Hth annual National Night celebration begins tonight with a -off party at Central Park in ege Station. dmission is free, and games will Available for kids to play. There mvinced Brach to buy In iflated prices, Bums ere not charged in the nce-fraud horse deaths. “He defrauded Brack ig hundreds of thousel 136 a softball game between ollars in horses,” Bur: P res H enta f lves t ° f the . me ?' a and fo silence Helen Bradif 1 " ‘ department beginn,ng at 6 p m to silence fieien Brae*j ationa | Njght 0ut js a nat i onwide inspired, solicited andffU to bring crjme and drug er murder.” ention to the spotlight through a ly celebration. ryan-College Station residents encouraged to meet their hbors on Tuesday night, which is jially National Night Out. M receives Family iysicians award heme to kill showhoJ r the se » %as A&M received the Texas demy of Family Physicians ical School Award. Jfhe award was presented Friday the Academy’s annual awards neheon. It is given to medical :h: ols that achieve at least 25 ireent of its graduates entering Mly practice residencies. |f)r. Don Cauthen, chairman of the yles epartment of Family Practice, Hived the award for the University. Bailey remained a chi le scheme after Brachl urns said. He allegedlyl is in the “lonely hearts j ’ suburban Chicago naj » attract wealthy widc| Test coming last week, Burns said the Bracl d investigators to thef fr Shop iggies! ting at $6. serve you inifer - Mary r - Hector 29 8 - 5 emorial Student Cent sIG ORDER! 3F FORMER STUDENl ^1S, JR. ALUMNI CENT] AUGUST 3, 1994 leauirements: al of 95 credit hours reflected on ent System. (A passed course, wtiif I fit hours.) lurdar trial begins in :e at Texas A&M University. Ifyoudn* | - mversity prior to January 1,1994,)* residence. (This requirement will be s than 60 A&M hours.) &M University, jding no registration or transcript rd checks, etc. uirements: > not have an Aggie ring from a prior ring after you meet the foltowins University Student Information no registration or transaipt rd checks, etc. s prior to July 29,1994, you mail aduate Studies and present it to ft] A Rina: the Ring Office no later than lication for eligibility verification ive your ring on approximately cash, check, money order, Visa 14KY-$421.00 14KY -$203.00 lilable at an extra charge of $!(• /ery is Octobers, 1994. ;n your advertise in TALION KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — A jler man accused of shooting to ath a homosexual who was iducted from a park goes on trial inday in a widely publicized capital irder case. Donald Aldrich, 29, is charged with e murder last Nov. 30 of Nicholus jest, a 23-year-old medical records :rk whose bullet-riddled, half-naked dy was found about 10 miles [tside Tyler. The case was moved to Kerrville ause of extensive publicity in the irarea. do not like homosexuals. I’ve got msin that’s a homosexual and he td me when I was 9 years old. I’ve a friend that had a daughter raped some homosexuals,” Aldrich said interview with investigators. fday's RaTT |assified 4 imics 6 ?alth & Science 2 pinion 5 lorts 3 hat's Up 6 authorizes invasion of Haiti Resolution gives no timetable, calls for the deployment of 6,000 troops UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security soon and involuntarily.” itt 1 nl o a v’or] fVio \xra\r Qnnricixr f nv* a Tvriocilvio vocrdvrH rvrr cV» rkwrorl “ c*\rcs vv r AP photo A boy in a Port-Au-Prince slum washes himself with water from a bro ken pipe. Haiti suffers from a water shortage due to a fuel embargo. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council cleared the way Sunday for a possible U.S.-led invasion of Haiti to oust the military- backed government and restore ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The resolution authorizing the use of force passed by a vote of 12-0. China and Brazil ab stained. The resolution, which gives no timetable for the possible invasion, “authorizes member states to form a multinational force under unified com mand and control and ... to use all necessary means to facilitate the departure from Haiti of the military leadership.” The resolution also calls for the deployment of a 6,000-member U.N. force following any inva sion. U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said the resolution was a warning to Haiti’s military- backed government that “if they are not going to leave soon and voluntarily they are going to leave soon and involuntarily.’ She said the resolution showed “everybody is fed up with what they are doing to the people of Haiti and that it is time to restore democracy.” Several Latin American states said they feared the resolution would set a precedent for interna tional approval of U.S. intervention in the region. “There are not sufficient elements to justify the broad use of force and even less to give across-the-board authorization for the actions of poorly-defined multinational forces,” Mexico’s Ambassador Victor Flores Olea told the Council. Uruguay’s Ambassador, Ramiro Piriz-Ballon, said his country “will not support any military in tervention, whether of a multilateral or unilater al nature.” “Peaceful solutions have not yet been exhaust ed,” he said. Mexico and Uruguay are not members of the Security Council, but their representatives re quested to speak prior to the vote. ood Services to hold rst-ever job fair Texas A&M’s Department of Food Jrvices hopes to hire as many as !5 employees during its first-ever job Vat Sbisa Dining Center. Bhe four day event, which ends idnesday, is being conducted by epartment in cooperation with the as Employment Commission and as A&M’s Human Resources artment. otential employees, who must ady have completed an lication with the TEC, will be able o through the entire employment ess in a single day at Sbisa, said ie Fagan, one of the event’s janizers. Bart Mitchell/THt Battalion Provisional freshmen Brian Ashy, Elizabeth McCulloch and David Turner listened Saturday to senior Paul Castro discuss student life at camp Castro organized. Aggies organize, conduct orientation program for provisional freshmen By Susan Owen The Battalion Two weeks ago senior Paul Castro was talking with a freshman in his dorm, twisting and turning his Aggie ring as he spoke. She commented on how proud he seemed to be of his ring. “Yeah,” Castro said. “But I haven’t even dunked it yet.” She didn’t understand what he meant, and he said, “Well, you’ll learn about that at Fish Camp.” Like many provisional freshmen, however, she wasn’t going to Fish Camp or a similar orientation pro gram. Castro explained to her the in formal A&M tradition of dunking or “christening” senior rings in a pitcher of beer, and he began thinking about all the information and traditions freshmen are taught during orienta tion. With friends’ help, Castro and se nior Matt Fontenot put together an ori entation program for provisional fresh men in two weeks. The five-hour session, held Satur day, featured speakers from Traditions Council, Muster committee, Aggie Bon fire, Student Government and other or ganizations. Explaining A&M traditions and how to become involved in student activities were the primary goals, Castro said. Former yell leader Ronnie McDon ald, Class of ’93, drove from Austin to teach the freshmen yells and talk to them about the family spirit that binds Aggies together. “That’s why I came back for this,” he said. The program was geared toward freshmen on provisional admission — 200 students who are taking nine hours of basic classes and a two-hour study skills class this summer. If they get a 2.0 GPR and do not fail any class es, they will gain full admission for the fall semester. A brief orientation session is provid ed at the start of the summer, and the students can go to any campus orienta tion on their own, but their summer grades must be in before they can ap ply to Fish Camp. Castro said, “A lot of provisional freshmen aren’t able to go to Fish Please see Program, Page 6 FBI investigated abortion shooting suspect Two killed at abortion clinic PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A month be fore he was arrested in the killing of an abortion doctor and bodyguard, a former minister was investigated but not arrested by the FBI for allegedly violating a federal law protecting abortion clinics.Prosecutors weighed the clinic’s rights against Paul Hill’s right of free speech and decided an ar rest wasn’t warranted, FBI spokesman George Wisnovsky said Sunday. See related story, Page 6 “The decision was made based on where he was and what he was doing,” Wisnovsky said from the FBI’s Jacksonville office. “The results of our investigation were forwarded to the U.S. attorney.” The director of the Pensacola clinic had asked that Hill be arrested under the Free dom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Hill was a regular protester who advo cated the killing of abortion doctors as justi fiable homicide. Ladies Center Director Linda Taggart complained that Hill had been screaming through the clinic’s windows. The new law makes it a federal crime to obstruct, inten tionally injure or intimidate anyone trying to obtain an abortion. “They said they didn’t think it was the time to arrest him,” Taggart told the Pen sacola News Journal. “Nobody can seem to do anything until it’s too late.” Hill, 40, is charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the deaths of Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, of Femandina Beach, and retired Air Force Lt. Col. James Herman Barrett, 74, of Pensacola. The men were killed Friday by multiple shotgun blasts as they drove into the clinic’s parking lot. Barrett’s wife, June, 68, a retired public health nurse, was wounded in the arm as she sat in the rear of the car. Eleanor Smeal, founder of the Feminist Majority and former NOW president, called Sunday for federal prote tion for clinics. “The extremists have embarked on a mur der strategy. They have no legal right to threaten to kill us,” Smeal said. “We want fed eral marshals to come in to protect the clinics. There is no reason doctors, nurses, escorts and patients have got to risk their lives.” There was no nationwide order to post marshals at abortion clinics, according to U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Dave Branham. “If we are out there, it’s in response to a re quest for our presence based on the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,” he said. The accused PAUL HILL, 40, director of the militant anti-abortion group Defensive Action, and former Presbyterian minister. He was charged Friday with two counts of murder and one of attempted murder. AP/Terry Kole