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Permanent, co-op, and internship interviews held October 13 and 14. Page 4 • The Battalion Hoechst Celanese Hoechst SB STATE Wednesday • September7, Wednesday • S< Attacks on Border Patrol agents increa EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents have in creasingly been enduring rock attacks and encountering booby traps in a border area frequently plagued by criminal gangs, agency officials said Tuesday. In recent weeks, an agent has been injured after driving into a pit dug in a dirt road commonly used by patrol vehi cles, officers have been stoned by unknown assailants and steel spikes have been scat tered on patrol routes. Border Patrol officials believe gangs from Mexico are responsi ble. “I think they’d like to see us leave that area,” Assistant Chief Stephen Williams told a new conference. The area in question is a sec tion of the U.S.-Mexico border near Sunland Park, N.M., which in recent years has apparently been used as a staging area by thieves who hop passing freight trains and break into merchan dise containers. The thieves, who take things ranging from electronics to clothing, throw the goods off the trains to waiting accomplices, said Southern Pacific railroad police Lt. Dale Bray, who noted the company’s tracks are located Whii nedi some 50 feet from the bordei “And of course it’s a fool into Mexico” from there, Bray, whose officers ha encountered booby traps. Williams speculatedth have turned to violence ai tage as their criminal efforts been frustrated by an im Border Patrol presence. The agency has boostejti ral obstacles trols in the area in respwflain why. the growing numbers of immigrants who are beirj verted to the Mexico-New co border by a Border blockade along the Rio Gi| in PR Paso. CHICAGO (? than womer am medical s ensed doctor: Women also mpetitively a: In a study of ants, white mi st than all w r differences i on and in scon White men i Stolen Art Continued from Page 3 U.S. forces occupied Germany. The collection, which was crafted from the eighth to 16th centuries during the reigns of Charlemagne and Otto I, is made of gold, silver and ivory and includes illuminated manu scripts, crucifixes and ancient coins. It had been stored for centuries in the Lutheran Church of Quedlinburg but was moved to a mine shaft during the war. Meador, a lieutenant in the Army, apparent ly took several pieces of the collection when he was guarding the mine shaft in Quedlinburg, located about 120 miles southwest of Berlin. After the war, he brought them home to Whitewright, about 60 miles north of Dallas. The presence of the artwork in Texas came to light when a German agency dedicated to restoring art lost during the war came across a ninth century manuscript. Representatives of the agency, the Cultural Foundation of Berlin, recognized it as part of the Quedlinburg collec tion and traced it back to Whitewright. Jack Meador and Jane Meador Cook then made a deal with the agency, reportedly ac cepting $2.7 million for the return of nine pieces from the collection. ■ 'T ' T 1 j.' ^ ri The heirs also agreed to help recover ; li was believed to be about half of the miiM renct , n< collection. Much of the collection still 111,1 " been recovered. German investigator Willi A. Korte saidl book about the case that two pieces ofthetf sure still are in the United States in /ednesday’s American Med The finding flawed in sor sure sun are in uie united niaies in ine» session of someone other than the Meadors!' 1 ^ ^ , " u,)s Ul Mathis said he isn’t aware of any such mation but that his clients have nothing with the missing art. “1 don’t know a great deal of detail aboi remaining portion ... although I am toldj there are a number of pieces that have been found,” he said. “The family does not have those,” M said. “Given that he has been dead for so Resul years, we don’t have the information nece« are genetic di WASHING jorenzo’s oil, t amous by a m medical br ratients when oms appearec to find out.” Mathis also said he doubts whether of the art are still floating around Nftthers, a studj Texas. ' f I “This is the “I would have thought that if the balam the treasure was here in Dallas, that whi had it would have come forward years said. “It was very obvious that the repres tives for the German church were tryitt conclude the entire matter on a friendly, cable basis.” Branch Davidians Continued from Page 3 “I think the surviving leaders of the church believe that the land belongs to the church,” he said. If it turns out she is on the land, he said, the church leaders would try to work it out before resorting to litigation. Ms. Roden has been joined at the site by a couple from Missis sippi, Don and Victoria Fuller, who said God sent them to help. She has been in direct contact with only a few former Branch Davidians who she says are helping organize next month’s meeting. But Tuesday, Sheila Martin, a follower of Koresh who lost four children in the fire, said the peo ple who lived and suffered there have a right to live on the com pound site. Difficult as it is to go back, many are poor widows who need a place to go, she said. “We want to show them this is our place. A family died here,” she said. Ms. Martin said followers of Koresh are waiting for him to re turn. They believe only God can choose the group’s leader and are trying to decide whether they should attend the October meet ing, she said. “... But we’re not going to give up without a fight, if necessary. Were not going to just let them come along and take it,” Ms. Martin said. Ms. Roden said she lived at the compound for only two months in 1987. She returned last year and now lives in a shack at its entrance. She says she and Roden were married by contract in 1987, but she has since been married to and left another man. Roden also may have been married at the time they were involved. The couple have a daughter together. A power struggle between Ro den and Koresh led to a 1987 gun battle at the compound that resulted in attempted murder charges against Koresh and sev en others. The seven others were acquitted, and a mistrial was de clared in Koresh’s case. Charges against him were later dis missed. George Roden is confined in a state mental hospital after being found innocent by reason of in sanity in the murder in 1989. Residents oppose to waste dull! AUSTIN (AP)—Anal cy group and Panhandlff dents have opposedtlf partment of Energy's ation of the Panteiwi weapons facility nearlm as a permanent storages!!] highly toxic waste. The DOE was schedule hold a public hearingteds Amarillo as part of iUsele process for a long-term sl( site for tons of plutonium dismantled nuclear weap* “This hearing is a was call for Texans, especial Gov. (Ann) Richards am other elected representata tell the DOE that werefi be their dumping ground, Les Breeding, a spokes® Public Citizen. Carl King, president!! Texas Corn Growers Ass tion and a resident of Di® said waste storage at would threaten cropsii Panhandle. he statistics \ it does help,” s f the Kenned n Baltimore, tudy of 50 yoi French res year ago tl as worthies eady had de f the disea [had no contr that it canno finitive evid ment’s effecti The oil wi about half of ceived it. Tw the treatmen of others deg ported. The treats Get A Mug! if I t’s that time again, Ags! So hurry on out and get your picture in the 1995 Aggieland! For only $1.00, you can beat the rush and be a part of the nation’s largest yearbook. From September 5-16, students from EVERY CLASS will be able to get their picture taken at AR Photography, Monday- Friday, 9 to 5. If you didn’t pay during registration, bring $1.00 to 230 Reed McDonald. Don’t miss out on your chance to be like these glamorous Aggies. Come on down and get a mug for the 1995 Aggieland! The c P/e a
