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Page 5 WEDNESDAY October 12, 1994 Vol. 101, No. 33 (8 pages) “Serving Texas A&M since 1893" >. troops take Haiti’s tional Palace -AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — reds of U.S. troops took over the nal Palace on Tuesday, sweeping lay the last vestiges of Haiti’s litary-backed administration before ident Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s sdav mi !e 4.56 9.12 13.68 ler ministries, escorting out of the government set up by ilitary leaders who overthrew jidein 1991. This to facilitate an orderly iition of power. No members of the | government will be allowed back I rmy Lt. Col. Ed Sullivan said. ristide’s Cabinet ministers fired all fployees hired under a civilian irehead government installed in May f military leader Raoul Cedras, who ned Monday. rims in implant case grease 60 percent OUSTON (AP) — The number of en registering for a $4.2 billion jobal settlement of breast implant wsjits has shot up about 60 percent ■ six-week period, an administrator ■e claims said Tuesday, latest figures available show that by l-September, 145,000 women have egistered for the their right to jrticipate in the fund, approved Sept. I6y a federal judge in Alabama. fThat’s up considerably from six ks earlier on Aug. 1, when 90,000 Jnen had registered to keep their iition alive in the settlement fund ptiated between women’s lawyers implant manufacturers. Former Houston judge Ann bran, who leads the the claims- inistration office process, attributed ncrease to a flurry of registration in mid-September. “'Negot a real deluge of mail about the 13lh of September through the 20th Ms. Cochran said. ‘‘A massive Wlume of mail." Nobel committee split over Peace Prize OSLO, Norway (AP) — The itional secrecy around the Nobel ce Prize seemed torn Tuesday, just s before the award announcement, » »l)en a newspaper reported a bitter lispute over the choice of Yasser fefat as co-winner. 1 |The Oslo newspaper Aftenposten, tits top front-page story, reported that fiePLO chairman and Israeli Prime linister Yitzhak Rabin would be [ lounced as winners Friday. And the newspaper said a nmittee member, Kare Kristiansen, |o has labeled Arafat a terrorist, resign if the Palestinian leader ares the $933,000 prize. There was little surprise about the tries of Rabin and Arafat, who have en mentioned for months as likely nners for the historic treaty they ned last year, granting Palestinians f-rule. >-0861 rice 7'94 agellan space probe rashes into Venus I ■PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — fegellan hurtled to its demise ftiesday in the gaseous atmosphere •I Venus, ending its four-year . , topping mission with one last e offering ||periment: a study of the spacecraft’s rodynamics as it descends. Since there was no way to return gellan to Earth, scientists ordered e craft into a slow dive to gather I formation that will be used in other fissions. The researchers at NASA’s Jet opulsion Laboratory began firing agellan’s thrusters at 7:21 a.m., w location'I toding it through miles of Venus' Srbon dioxide and sulfuric acid {NckuoL 1 ' ' I foods. . Magellan was expected to lose lower and contact with Earth ending ie $900 mission. Exactly hat happens to the craft may never >e known. It may get toasted and flutter own. It won’t go in like a meteorite,” roject manager Douglas G. Griffith rid. "It will heat up. Maybe things will art to burn into cinders, but we don’t ally know for sure.” yith :nt.. ble ; h8846 E x with ^ r/a r price. Students angered C • 5 racist Minorities demand apology from r ^ ^publicans; VP for publicity stands by action° o to resign ' 'or^ fliers By Amanda Fowle The Battalion More than 200 minority students de manded a public apology at a College Re publicans meeting Tuesday for the orga nization’s distribution of fliers they say See Editorial / Page 7 portray racist stereotypes. The fliers, which have been posted on campus during the past few weeks, de nounce reverse discrimination, while stating the College Republicans support minority students at Texas A&M. The minority students are also ask ing for the resignation of Bo Armstrong, College Republicans’ vice president for publicity who was responsible for the distribution of the fliers, which have been taken down. Armstrong was forced to resio-r, late Tuesday night because of ^ the unauthorized distribu tion of the fliers, ac cording to a news release ceived by The Bat talion today. At the meeting, Armstrong said the meanings of the fliers were misunderstood. “I’m afraid that too many students did not read the hot tom of the fliers,” he said. “The fliers have a theme. We Eire all Ameri cans. We are all equal. It were very patriotic theme. iS a Many of the minority students attending the meeting said they *«****£'* e '»o fend ed by one of the fliers that states, You’re black, you’re female, you have a 2.0, you have a job. You’re white, you’re male, you have a 4.0, your point. College Republicans support equal employment opportunity.” The fliers were made and distributed by a committee of four members of Col lege Republicans and were not approved by the officers of the organization. Chad Walter, president of the College Republicans, apologized to the students at the meeting. “Even though the organization as a whole had nothing to do with these fliers, we would like to apologize,” he said. “In the future, we will be more careful where our name is used. Armstrong said he would not apologize for what the fliers said, but apologized for offending some students. He told the minority groups that he believes that all students are equal and that no one needs affirmative action. “We are all equal,” he said. “There is no race. We are all Americans.” The leaders of the minority groups who attended the meeting want personal apologies from the College Republicans to their organizations and a printed apol ogy in The Battalion. David Washington, president of Alpha See Fliers/Page 2 Awareness of danger key to safety, officials say By Stephanie Dube The Battalion Awareness is the key to safety, which has become an increasingly important issue among college students following a rash of re cent murders. Officer Janice Kemp, crime prevention officer for the College Station Police Department, said students need to be aware of their surroundings. “People need to watch what is go ing on,” Kemp said. “Most crimes oc cur because people made themselves available to be a victim. Being aware is most important.” Sgt. Choya Walling, crime pre vention specialist for the Bryan Po lice Department, said people can re act faster to a dangerous situation if they are aware. “The first indication of trouble for most is when it has already started,” Walling said. “By being cautious and checking out your surroundings, you can deter an at tack in the first place.” Lt. Bert Kretzschmar, crime pre vention specialist for the University Police Department, said people need to be aware at all times. “You need to hold your head up, make eye contact and know who is in front of and behind you,” Kret zschmar said. “You need to make yourself a tougher target.” Kemp said people can make them selves less aware of their surround ings by digging in their purse while walking or overburdening them selves with packages,. “You need to walk and act like you know where you’re going,” she said. When parking, people need to park in a well-lit area, close to the entrance. They also need to scan the parking lot before they return to their car later, Kemp said. “If something seems susnicious. call and have a police officer check it out,” she said. “Do not go ahead and walk in the parking lot.” Students need to trust their in stincts, Kretzschmar said. “If you see something suspicious or out of place, you should try to get out of the situation as soon as possi ble,” Kretzschmar said. Often, people buy weapons to try to increase their safety. Many weapons, including stun guns, hand guns, whistles, Mace, clubs and knives, are available for consumers, Walling said. When purchasing a weapon, consumers need to consider if they will use the weapon without hesitation, Walling said. In addi tion, they need to consider the weapon’s effectiveness. Kemp said people who buy weapons need to know they can be used against them. “Get the proper training if you use a weapon,” Kemp said. “It can be a false sense of security if it does not work.” When a person uses Mace dur ing a struggle, for example, the spray can hit the victim also and cause a reaction, making the vic tim less capable of fighting the as sailant, Kemp said. Pepper spray usually works better than Mace for defense, Kretzschmar said. Mace is an irritant, and may See Safety/Page 2 Breaking away Nick Rodnicki/THE Battalion Members of the Texas A&M Cycling Team embark on a training ride Tuesday afternoon. Cyclists meet in front of the Academic Building at 3:30 p.m. before riding. Freshman Run-off Election Results McKinney (75 percent) Social Secretary - Laura (53 percent) Vice President - Chad Beth Vogt (57 percent) [Numbers in parentheses are Jones (68 percent) Treasurer - Will Jenkins percentage of vote won.] Vi . -w- Today s I 3 a r r Classified 6 Opinion 7 Sports 5 Weather 3 What's Up 4 The Gulf Crisis U.S. officials skeptical about Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwaiti border KUWAIT (AP) — The United States and its allies aren’t ready to declare the showdown with Saddam Hussein over as Iraqi troops withdrew from positions near the Kuwaiti border. Washington is pursuing a huge military buildup, assembling its biggest force since the 1991 Gulf War, all the while keeping a skeptical eye on Iraqi troop movements. The Pentagon said some Iraqi, forces had shifted away from their combat positions Tuesday, five days after the crisis began. “There’s fairly broad movement” among the 80,000 Iraqis assembled at the Kuwaiti border, said Gen. John Shalikashvili. But “considerable (Iraqi) units” remain in the area, he Christopher said. “I’m not at all prepared to say the crisis is over in any way.” Secretary of State Warren Christopher was meeting with the foreign ministers of Britain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman today to discuss the Iraqi moves. “We have to make sure that the threat Sad dam Hussein has mounted is removed, and then we have to see how it can be prevented in the fu ture,” Douglas Hurd, the British foreign minis ter, said as he arrived for the meeting today. “The first thing is to make sure that threat is averted,” he added. Baghdad claimed only two brigades, about 8,000 men, remained near the border. The offi cial Iraqi News Agency, monitored in Cyprus, quoted Foreign Minister Mohammed Said al- Sahhaf as saying the pullback was largely com pleted Tuesday, and that the remaining troops will withdraw soon. Journalists on the road to Basra said troops and military equipment were moving in both directions Tuesday, with heavy artillery head ing south. Baghdad had claimed the buildup was a rou tine rotation and training exercise. But the mo bilization was alarmingly similar to the one that See Movements/Page 2 Pacific Rim is emerging economy, officials say By Amy Lee The Battalion Asian countries are emerg ing as economic leaders in the world trade market, MSC Wi ley Lecture Series guest lectur ers said Tuesday. The Wiley Lecture Series com mittee sponsored the symposium, “Goldmine or a Minefield: U.S. business opportunities in Asia and the Far East.” Dr. Julian Gaspar, director of Texas A&M’s Center for Interna tional Business Studies and mod erator of the discussion, said that the United States needs to know more about Asia. Gaspar said that in the year 2000, the combined gross nation al products (GNPs) of Asian coun tries will be $13 billion and the growth of Asia in 2000 will be 7.6 percent, almost twice as large as the a developed nation’s. He said Asia will control the largest world-wide economy. “The twenty-first century will be the year of the Pacific Rim,” Gaspar said. Brett Lippencott, Asian affairs anailyst for the Heritage Founda tion, said that China is going to be the world’s biggest superpower in the year 2020. “They will overtake the U.S. not in exports that will take longer, but their GNP will be higher,” he said. Lippencott said if 90-year-old Deng Xiaopeng, China’s leader, dies, economic reform will contin ue because of concern from the Chinese people. “For the past three years their economic reform, corrup tion and internationalism has topped the list of concern for the people,” he said. Lippencott said that China’s growth will impact Hong Kong. “Before China swallows Hong Kong, it will have to chew it up,” Lippencott said. “China realizes they need to keep Hong Kong as a financial center. They will keep it on a leash, and a short one.” See Asia/Page 3
