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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.
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Editorial
Texas A&M should devote more effort
to AIDS research. n -
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— 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.
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MONDAY
August 1, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 182 (6 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893"
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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.
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iysicians award
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%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
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is in the “lonely hearts j
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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.
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?alth & Science
2
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lorts
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hat's Up
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authorizes invasion of Haiti
Resolution gives no timetable, calls
for the deployment of 6,000 troops
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security soon and involuntarily.”
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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