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Tuesday • May 2, 1995 The Battalion • Page 5 Concealed handgun bill expects tough time in House debate □ Representatives plan to increase restrictions on legal carriers. AUSTIN (AP) — Republican lawmakers today endorsed a bill that would allow Texans to carry concealed handguns as the House prepared to debate the measure. The bill, which already has passed the Senate, was expected to win House approval. Gov. George W. Bush has said he would sign it into law. The House Republican Cau cus pledged to fight any efforts to change the measure. “We are going to work very hard to keep any amendments off the bill today that’ll weaken Texans’ right to protect them selves and their families,” said Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, GOP chairman. The measure would allow eli gible Texans to obtain licenses to carry concealed guns. Applb cants would have to be legal Texas residents; at least 21 years old; never ★ Wm have been convicted of a felony; have not been delinquent in making a child support pay ment; and not be chemically de pendent or of unsound mind. They also would have to un dergo 10 to 15 hours of training and pass a proficiency exam. A four-year permit would cost $140. “There are some people who just still don’t understand why law-abiding citizens should be able, with proper training, with proper background checks, to be able to get a license to protect themselves and their families from the criminal predators on our streets today,” said Rep. Bill Carter, R-Fort Worth, House sponsor of the bill. The House version differs slightly from the Senate bill. For example, the House bill adds hospitals and restaurant bars to a list of places where carrying guns would be prohibited. Several Democratic represen tatives have said they plan to try to increase training hours and ex pand the list of places where li censees could not carry guns. Others plan to seek to make the bill a referendum, allowing Tex ans to vote on the issue. Supporters of the bill have said it would allow law-abiding citi zens to protect themselves, but opponents say the measure would make the streets more dangerous. Hey Houston Bound Aggies! Dive into these credit transferable classes this summer at Tomball College. Accounting, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Drama, Economics, English, Geography, Geology, History, Math, Physicial Education, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish, Speech Four month cease-fire ends in Bosnia □ Neither side appears prepared to extend the peace, U.N. envoys say. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Mor tar shells slammed into Sarajevo and gunfire crackled down “Sniper Alley” Monday as Bosnia’s combatants watched a widely ignored truce expire and geared up for more war. Special U.N. envoy Yasushi Akashi was forced to admit that two days of talks failed to convince either the Bosnian government or rebel Serbs to renew a four-month cease-fire. The sides “are, at this point, not prepared to ex tend it,” Akashi admitted before heading to Zagreb to deal with heavy fighting in Croatia. The Bosnia truce, brokered in December by former U.S. presi dent Jimmy Carter, expired Monday. Several mortar shells slammed into a residen tial area of Sarajevo Monday evening and gunfire was intense along “Sniper Alley," the perilous road that is the capital’s main east-west route. Bosnian Serbs entered a weapons collection site in the western suburb of Ilidza and prepared tanks for battle, said U.N. spokeswoman Maj. Myriam Sochacki. About 30 Ukrainian peacekeep ers were blocked inside because Serbs laid mines just outside the site. It was the second time in two days that Serbs entered weapons collection sites. U.N. peacekeepers guard various points in and around Sarajevo where the Serbs deposited their heavy guns to comply with a weapons-free zone declared around the city in February 1994 and en forced by threat of NATO airstrikes. But the Serbs can enter the sites virtually at will, and often have removed guns or simply fired them from the sites. For months, U.N. officials and diplomats have been warning of the specter of widespread war in the Balkans if international efforts to secure a peace failed. Underscoring such fdars, neighboring Croatia woke up Monday to the worst fighting seen since its 1991 war of secession from Yugoslavia. Croatian government troops launched offen sives on three fronts against rebel Serbs who hold one-third of Croatian territory. 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