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The Battalion wants your input. Texas A&M students and faculty are invited to apply for The Battalion Reader’s Panel. If you have ideas about the paper and would like to help its focus, stop by 013 Reed McDonald and apply for the Reader’s Panel. It’s your paper. Deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 7 We Are! GRU Every Thursday Starts Tonight! 7:00 pm Zachry 102 Campus Crusade for Christ <U £ Qj ^ 0 O -C N ca ^ < Have you ever thought about what you could buy for ten dollars? You could spend the $ 10 on lottery tickets just to find out you lose again or You could rent three movies and spend 6 sedentary hours as a couch potato OR Take advantage of Aerofit Health Club’s 10th Anniversary Special where $10.00 covers your enrollment fee and your first months dues. Yes! that’s right only $10.00 to join. Aerofit is celebrating 10 years of serving the Brazos Valley and such a special occasion calls for an extra special deal. For just $10.00 you get over 47,000 sq. feet of state of the art facility including an indoor pool, tennis courts, racquetball courts, indoor track, a supervised nursery and much, much more!!! For just $10.00 you can relax in one of Aerofit’s whirlpools or saunas or participate in over 100 aerobics classes weekly taught by the most qualified instructors in town. Or workout in Aerofit’s recently expanded weight room under the supervision of a certified personal trainer. For just $10.00 you get the largest most complete health club in the Brazos Valley. Because you deserve the best in fitness, you deserve Aerofit. Check out what $10.00 gets you from the other clubs then come to Aerofit and get the most for your money. Call today 823-0971 Page 16 • Tut Battalion BHH -m Thursday • September 1, Japan compensates sex slaves ill! TOKYO (AP) — A $1 billion “friendship” fund to help atone for wartime wrongdoing will be established, the government an nounced Wednesday. But women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military want di rect compensation instead. Prime Minister Tomiichi Mu- rayama said in a statement that the money, to be spent over 10 years starting in 1995, would fi nance projects including wom en’s centers, cultural exchanges and historical research on Japan’s role in World War II. “It is imperative for us Japan ese to look squarely to our histo ry with the peoples of neighbor ing Asia,” said the prime minis ter, who returned a day earlier from a tour of several Southeast Asian countries brutalized by Japan during the war. But the Japanese plan does not call for any direct official payments to individual Asian war victims, including forced la borers and women forced to serve in front-line brothels run by the Imperial Army. Japan maintains that com pensation issues were settled in postwar treaties. It has long re sisted any direct reparations, fearing that would open the door to endless legal battles and huge payments. Groups working on behalf of the former sex slaves denounced the plan as inadequate. A lawyer for Filipino sex slaves today said the fund would be unacceptable. “The admission of guilt and apology on the part of the Japan ese policy makers and the Japan ese government carries with it the obligation to honor its commit ments to pay direct compensation to the victims under the Geneva Convention of 1907,” lawyer Romeo Capulong said in Manila. In the statement, which was read by Igarashi, the prime min ister pledged to work for resolu tion of other war-related issues, including the plight of Koreans left behind on Russia’s Sakhalin Island and Taiwanese who were conscripted as unpaid Japanest soldiers. But no specifit timetable was given. One proposal that has been floated in government circles has been the creation of a private fund to make payments to individuals such as former forced laborers ami sex slaves. Contributors would in elude companies that used slave labor during the war. The issue of compensation fe former sex slaves has been ut der study since last summer, when the government admitted for the first time that as man; as 200,000 Asian women, most! Koreans, had been forced to pro vide sex for Japanese soldiers military-run brothels. }ri Dominicans tighten Haiti’s noose New economic sanctions focus on halting of illegal fuel flow MONTE CRISTI, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Clinton administration keeps saying its patience with Haiti’s military rulers is running out, that the time to act has almost arrived. But from here, near the Haiti- Dominican border, the indica tions are that an American de cision to invade is anything but imminent. A new effort is getting under way here to tighten the economic sanctions noose on Haiti by slow ing the flow of fuel products being smuggled across the border. Reporters who flew over a northern sector of the border on Tuesday with U.S. officials saw hundreds of Dominicans hauling gasoline unimpeded across the wriggling Massacre River that separates the two countries. Haitians waved empty gallon jugs at a passing helicopter. Monte Cristi, a small town on the northern coast not far from where the Santa Maria, Christo pher Columbus’ flagship, sank on Christmas Day 1492, is head quarters for the U.S. part of the multinational effort to seal off the border. Signs that a potential Ameri can-led invasion of Haiti may be weeks or months away also were apparent Tuesday when senior Clinton administration officials attended a meeting of Caribbean Community foreign and defense ministers. The meeting at Kingston, Ja maica, produced a pledge by the Caribbean countries to field a contingent of 266 soldiers to act as peacekeepers in the initial stage of a potential American- led invasion of Haiti. On paper, the Caribbean soldiers would be part of the invasion force, but in reality they would not be combatants; they would enter the picture once the invasion took hold. John Deutch, the deputy U.S. secretary of defense, said after the Kingston meeting that it was now inevitable that some form of military intervention would take place in Haiti — either to oust Army chief Raoul Cedras, or, if he left peacefully, to stabilize the country and retrain the civilian police forces. Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Belize committed to joining the coalition, but Guyana, Ba hamas and Antigua indicated they needed more time to make a decision. All seven said they supported prompt action to end the crisis in Haiti The participating Caribbean forces also need time to train encies ve enda FUSION (/> lucts compai three federa escue the aded woodp Jhampion l tied an agre 1 w the govei iage 2,000 a< lerland in Eas )fficials said 0 f jts kind in a few in the >ats se otect t 4rEXCITING NEWS4k TT FALL GRADUATES GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENT ARE NOW ON SALE!!!!!! ORDERS WILL BETAKEN THROUGH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1994 MSC STUDENT ORGANIZATION FINANCE CENTER ROOM 217 8 AM TO 4 PM ORDERS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICKUP APPROXIMATELY THE SECOND WEEK OF NOVEMBER with U.S. forces. Deutch told ft porters that training would be gin almost immediately. U.S. Army Col. William Me Donough, commander of tht multinational “observer group being organized to monitor tin border, told Deutch and that no one could guess ho» much of the illegal trade mighi be stopped. McDonough estimated thail^.,, /p qjQM 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of fuels ^ ALVto day are being carried across tk| Haiti Dominican border, mostlj in the northern sector. The U.S. cost of the missioi is estimated at Sl.l million month. _ The U.S. contingent of l ; l|i e !' ie T 0 ya7 border monitors is scheduledQ a | ve , arrive here next week. Theyar* me | from the 3rd Battalion, 9th IrKjMFS agenl fantry Regiment at Ft. Lewisjf the Turtle Washington. Btalled in tt They are to be joined twroper ang Canadian and Argentine troopiPcuh for any t later in September. BThe fisheri Ws catch to i $18,160.5 lued a citatior ichard prd and fed< :ials have sei imping vess ulations me jed in shrimp |A catch of 3, seized by lot froi | HOCKLEY, ' gubernatori Ish took a s :rime policies jhotgun and tc ves as the st; Welcome to Aggieland! The schedule of services for Rosh Ha’Shanah and Yom Kippur is: Erpv Ito.sli lla'Slianaih Sept. 5 8 p.ni. Ito.sli lla'Shanali Hay I Sept. 6 10 a.in. 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