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lUNSELING TIPS: Learning to deal with anger pe first step to achieving a healthy lifestyle. Page 2 Opinion THE AJA HENDERSON: Think about how stress enters our lives on a daily basis ... the sleepless nights ... the late nights cramming at IHOP ... the harrowing hours of designing a degree plan. Rage 5 : ... Sports Lady Aggies basketball team squeak by Uralmash team, 76 - 73 Page 3 WEDNESDAY November 23, 1994 Vol. 101, No. 63 (6 pages) “Serving Texas AdrM since 1893 ” > t news Serbs set villages ablaze day after NATO raid incess Anne visits luth Africa, Mandela JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ') — Princess Anne was greeted singing schoolchildren Tuesday ing the first official visit to South ca by a British royal in 47 years. The princess later met with isident Nelson Mandela at his dence. Describing her as a person d was "doing a remarkable job lughout the world," Mandela said y discussed the plight of South can children. “We have the problem of the se ed street children, abused children I disabled children and the lack of lilies for them,” Mandela said. Princess Anne, only daughter of een Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, lier went to the black township of xandra where she was welcomed ■ children singing "Mokoti ke di Iko,” a traditional wedding song feed to welcome visitors and Ivlyweds. elms making ene- ies on Capitol Hill WASHINGTON (AP) — In 22 nbatively conservative years in the nate, Jesse Helms has perfected art of making political foes xmfortable. Now, just as he’s about to assume ! chairmanship of a major ranittee, he’s got fellow Republican lators squirming over a comment it President Clinton is so unpopular military bases that “he’d better ve a bodyguard” if he travels to rth Carolina. Helms made the remark Monday fean interview with the Raleigh News Id Observer. By mid-day Tuesday, I had issued a statement declaring Etwith his words, he had “made a nfetete... which I shall not repeat.” gl Clinton called Helms’ remarks w and inappropriate.” slice use thumb print )find murder suspect [key WEST, Fla. (AP) — The mb of Manuel Alvarez Solano inted police to suspects in his ying, 18 years after his body was covered. The sheriff’s office Monday said (people have been arrested and a d person is being sought in the itgun slaying of the Cuban-born g dealer. Initially, police had been unable identify the body and held onto > thumb in hopes it would initially yield clues. A state crime injected some chemicals to raise ridges on the thumb, and Solano s identified when his prints were nd on file at the Immigration and turalization Service. “Back in ’76, they didn’t have a lot technology we have now,” sheriffs tective Jay Glover said. Solano had been part of a gang it imported marijuana into Florida d had quarreled with some of his sociates, Glover said. fendy’s worried hot ocoa may be too hot IDUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Wendy’s ernational is halting hot chocolate les at its restaurants because it ay be too hot for children. The fast-food chain said today at it has started notifying its 4,000 S. restaurants to temporarily stop 'les. Wendy’s has about 4,300 staurants worldwide. Benny Lynch, a spokesman for the pin based in suburban Columbus, 'id the company hopes to resume fes in 30 days or so, after it finds a ay to brew and serve the drink at a Ner temperature. Wendy’s serves hot chocolate at I0 degrees. “We don’t know that it’s too hot,” 'nch said. “But at 180 degrees swing temperature, it would be too 'tifit was spilled.” The decision follows a ruling in a aw Mexico lawsuit that accused a ^Donald’s restaurant of serving its '(fee too hot. A woman who was Sided by the coffee was awarded ifiO.OOO. iifi i j |'| " I | ^ |~; 1^, i;| lassified 4 pinion 5 ports 3 pons 6 feather 6 that's Up" 4 Blockade of United Nations convoys causes over 1 80,000 civilians to depend on humanitarian aid SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze- govina (AP) — Serb fighters set villages ablaze and sent civilians fleeing for their lives Tuesday in northwest Bosnia, their response to a retaliatory airstrike by NATO warplanes. Surface-to-air missiles were fired at two NATO jets flying over Serb-held Banja Luka. The British jets were not hit. Senior officials of Croatia, site of Monday’s NATO attack on a Serb-run airport used to stage bombing runs on a U.N. safe haven in Bosnia’s Bihac area, said the alliance had asked for and received permission to fly again into Croatian airspace. NATO had no comment on the request, which could signal an other bombing raid on the Serb- held Krajina region of Croatia. About 50 allied warplanes and supporting aircraft bombed the Udbina airstrip in Croatia, just across the border with Bosnia, in NATO’s biggest attack ever. The airfield had been used three times the past two weeks by planes at tacking the Bihac area, where there are a cluster of government- held towns. The message of allied force appeared lost on besiegers of the Bihac pocket about 90 miles northwest of Sarajevo. A U.N. spokesman, Lt. Col. Jan-Dirk von Merveldt, spoke Tuesday afternoon of a “large in crease” in artillery, machine-gun and small arms fire in areas around Bihac still held by Bosn ian government forces. The town of Bhiac itself was cut off on all sides except to the north, said U.N. officials. Serb fighters rolled over sev eral villages in the western part of the Bihac enclave, near the Croatian border, leaving them ablaze and their residents flee ing toward the town Tuesday. Alarmed aid officials warned of an impending humanitarian crisis. Peter Kessler, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said about 8,000 civilians had fled villages under attack the past few days. He said the area was running out of food, and in some places, potable water. Kessler blamed Serbs in Croa tia for obstructing UNHCR aid convoys: Only 12 convoys have reached the Bihac pocket since May, the last on Oct. 1. “The situation is critical,” Kessler said. About 180,000 peo ple in the region depend on hu manitarian aid. Both Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Bosnian Serbs, and their army commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, said the United Nations could expect severe re taliation for the airstrike, the first by NATO outside Bosnian territory but the seventh against Serb military targets this year. The self-styled Bosnian Serb assembly was scheduled to meet in the Serb headquarters of Pale, just outside Sarajevo, on Wednes day to discuss the latest develop ments and surge in fighting. Bosnian government officials blasted the United Nations and NATO for allowing artillery and soldiers in Serb-held Croatia to join in the fight. Bosnia’s Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic questioned the value of bombing the airfield at Udbina, but leaving intact ar tillery batteries that have caused the most death and destruction in Bihac area. He also said it was “absurd” that forces inside one of Croatia’s four U.N. protected areas should be allowed to attack Bihac, one of Bosnia’s six U.N. safe havens. Stew Milne/THE Battalion Letting off a little hot air Chuck Hochhalter, the keeper of the blimp in G. kept the helium filled zeppelin grounded during last Rollje White Coliseum, tries to repair a leak that night’s Lady Aggies basketball game. Miami PD releases file confirming Kennedy’s assassination plot (AP) The Secret Service was told of a possible plot to shoot President Kennedy from an office building with a ri fle at least a week before his assassination, files released by the Miami Police Department confirm. The right-wing organizer who revealed the alleged plot also told a police informant the day after the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination that Lee Harvey Oswald would never talk about it. The day after that interview, Nov. 24, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas po lice department. The Miami police files confirm and add to an account by a retired police intelligence officer, Lt. Everett Kay, who said three years ago that he learned of an assassination plot from informant William Somersett. The FBI and Se cret Service would not comment at the time. A newly released Nov. 15, 1963, memo from Miami de tective S.J. Hebert shows the Secret Service was aware of the alleged plot before the assassination. “Agent Jamison of the Secret Service called to state that he had been requested to contact a William Somersett with reference to information given to the FBI by Somer sett, and relayed to the Secret Service,” the memo says. Three days later, Kennedy visited Miami — where his motorcade was canceled — before flying on to Texas. He was shot in Dallas 31 years ago today, and authorities ac cused Oswald of firing a high-powered rifle from the Texas Book Depository. Secret Service spokesman Jaime Cagigas in Washing ton said Monday that he would check on the Miami report, but was not familiar with the case. “But if we hear that someone is going to go up on a building and take a shot at the president, I guarantee we would check it out,” he said. Somersett, who reported on the activities of white su premacy groups, secretly taped a conversation with Joseph See JFK/Page 6 Ticket scalpers at A&M can face criminal trespassing charges UPD warns people about breaking the law while reselling tickets By Stephanie Dube The Battalion Potential ticket scalpers should be aware that regulations for ticket reselling vary in different cities, and penalties can be stiff, A&M officials said. Sgt. Betty LeMay, crime prevention specialist for the University Police Depart ment (UPD), said that although a specific rule against scalping does not exist at A&M, a person can be arrested for crimi nal trespassing. “There is a rule that people cannot sell tickets within so many feet of G. Rollie White,” LeMay said. “We can tell them to go across the street and sell the tickets. If they come back, we can arrest them for criminal trespassing.” Criminal trespassing is a Class B mis demeanor, she said. Bob Wiatt, director of UPD, said that if officials detect someone scalping tickets near the coliseum, they can ask the scalpers to move across the street. “If they refuse to move, we can also charge them with criminal trespassing,” Wiatt said. “This can result in up to six months in jail and a $2000 fine.” LeMay said that the exact punishment for criminal trespassing depends on the in dividual situation. “Here they would probably get a fine, but it could also depend on their criminal history,” she said. Since UPD began enforcing the crimi nal trespassing law, officials have only ar rested two people, Wiatt said. “About three years ago, the same two people kept coming back game after game, so we arrested them,” he said. LeMay said enforcing the rules can be frustrating because officials cannot take stricter action. Wiatt said several cities in Texas have city ordinances which differ from the rules at A&M. A recent letter from David Rochelle, Class of ’57j said that he and several other alumni were punished for selling tickets in front of the Alamodome in San Antonio without a peddler’s permit. Officer Jannine Smith, public informa tion officer for the San Antonio Police De partment, said San Antonio has a city or dinance covering peddler’s permits. “People must have a peddler’s license to sell tickets at the Alamodome,” Smith said. Different cities may have different city ordinances, making the rules for reselling tickets different in separate locations, LeMay said. However, a city ordinance for Bryan or College Station would not apply to A&M because the University is a state institu tion, Wiatt said. Any scalping law which could apply to A&M would have to be a state law, Wiatt said. Anti-scalping laws have been intro duced into the Texas legislature in the past, but have never been passed, he said. “People are selling tickets above the ticket price, but it is their right if they have a buyer who wants to buy the ticket,” Wiatt said. “That is the legislature’s prob lem: if a person wants to buy the ticket, it is his right.” Jim Kotch, athletic ticket manager, said a person cannot resell tickets on the grounds adjoining the stadium. “Security will move them across the street because they are usually reselling the tickets I have sold and taking away my business,” Kotch said. “They do the best they can, but it is difficult with the crowd.” Scalpers often lie to potential customers in order to get more business, Kotch said. “They may say we do not have anymore tickets when we still do,” Kotch said. “They may also sell a student* ticket to someone who does not have a student ID.” When a person buys a student ticket and does not have an ID, the ticket is use less, he said. “When^you buy a ticket from a scalper, you run the risk of getting conned by lo cation, price, or how to use the ticket,” Kotch said. Congress urged to release information on radiation By Katherine Arnold The Battalion The nature of human radia tion experiments conducted from 1945 to 1975 should be re leased to the public, a former president of the Health Physics Society said. Dr. Kenneth Mossman recom mended in testimony to the En ergy and Power Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representa tives that the benefits and radio logical risks of such experiments be disclosed. “Full disclosure is necessary in order for the public to begin to un derstand why these experiments were conducted, what the objec tives were, what health risks were involved and the benefits de rived,” Mossman testified. Human radiation experiments performed from 1945 to 1975 have been a topic for debate in Congressional subcommittee. During those years, more than 600 funded human radiation ex periments were conducted. The information regarding the out come of the experiments has not been released to the public. In a speech to the Texas A&M chapter of the Health Physics Society, Mossman said that the experiments taught the medical profession a great deal about human reaction to radiation treatments. “We learned that human radi ation experiments can be con ducted with minimal radiological risk, and communication of radi ation risks must be put in lan guage the public can under stand,” Mossman said. During the 1940s, the United States was developing nuclear weapons. Participants in the Manhattan Project were ex posed to radiation, and the ef fects were unknown. To find out what the effects of radiation would be, 18 pa tients with life expectancies of less than 10 years were injected with a small amount of plutoni um. The data gathered from the study is invaluable, Moss man said. “Thousands of workers were exposed to radiation, and animal studies were not sufficient,” experiments Mossman said. “No one knew how (radiation) would behave in humans. We needed to under stand that.” The ethical aspects of past ra diation experiments has been de bated, but the main argument is that radiation experts can learn from the studies and learn how to protect current radiation workers, Mossman said. Dr. Wesley Bolch, associate professor of nuclear engineering and adviser for the Health See Radiation/Page 6