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jromise of no more NATO
lirstrikes. 250 peacekeepers
are still detained.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
AP) — The Bosnian Serb military chief
s refusing to free any more of the re
naming hundreds of U.N. hostages
vithout a solemn promise of no more
MATO airstrikes, the United Nations
aid Sunday.
The demand by hardline Gen. Ratko
ladic has created an impasse with the
nternational community over more
han 250 peacekeepers still detained
ince NATO jets bombed rebel weapons
epots on May 25-26.
Britain, whose forces will participate
n a new international rapid reaction
orce, warned the Serbs’ strategy of try-
ng to bargain for further concessions
om the West was a big mistake.
There was no firm word for a third
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^ver Bosnian Serb-held territory near
anja Luka.
Defense Secretary William Perry said
!§Sunday that the Pentagon has found no
vidence that the pilot managed to eject
efore his plane crashed. He said a
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“He may be confused, he may be play
ing some kind of cruel game/’ Perry said
of Mladic as he returned to Washington
from weekend talks with Allies in Paris.
U.N. spokeswoman Maj. Myriam
Sochacki said Mladic told U.N. officials
in a late-night phone conversation Sat
urday that “he wanted a positive an
swer saying that there would be no fur
ther use of NATO airpower. ”
“Otherwise, he said he would not dis
cuss whether the Red Cross can visit
those detained, or any other related is
sue,” she said from Sarajevo.
Bosnian Serbs took several hundred
peacekeepers hostage after NATO jets
attacked Bosnian Serb ammunition
dumps in reaction to repeated rebel
bombings in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo has been the city most un
der siege in the three-year war, which
has left about 200,000 people dead or
missing since Bosnia-Herzegovina se
ceded from Yugoslavia.
Under intense pressure, the Bosnian
Serbs finally released one hundred
twenty one people Friday.
Until Mladic’s statement, there had
been mixed signals about whether more
would be released soon. Some officials
had demanded promises of no airstrikes
and an end to the Bosnian Serbs’ diplo
matic isolation. Serbian President Slo
bodan Milosevic’s office had said more
hostages could be released soon.
□ Renovations will improve
library facilities.
By Javier Hinojosa
The Battaeion
Texas A&M students will have ac
cess to an overall higher-quality li
brary facility, A&M officials said.
Bids for construction of the new Li
brary, Computing and Study Com
plex, the renovation of the Sterling C.
Evans Library, construction of a new
parking garage and remodeling of the
Cushing Library will be
made early next month.
All of the construction
will cost the University $35
million from previously-
saved funds.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, inter
im vice president for fi
nance and administration,
said that the new Study
Complex will add 100
square feet of space for
student use and extended
hours of operation.
“The library has been
short of space for student
use since the 1980s,” Gas
ton said. “The whole plan is
to create sufficient library
space so we could be close
to the nationally-recom
mended formula on how
large a library complex
should be, relative to the
student body size.”
Gaston said that with
the addition of the com
plex, Texas A&M will have the rec
ommended space for student use for
the first time, but will fall short of
creating the appropriate space for
book storage.
Dr. Fred Heath, dean and director
of Evans Library, said the Study
Complex will include a 24-hour
studying facility and will be built on
parking lot 34, which is between the
Pavilion and the Peterson Building.
Heath said that the first floor will
provide areas for reading and re
served texts, and the upper levels
will have a learning center and a
multimedia center.
A parking garage will be built on
the sight of the old creamery, be
tween the Heep Building and the
Pavilion, facing Spence Street. The
creamery will be demolished to allow
space for the garage.
Other library improvements in
clude renovations to the first two
floors of Evans Library, Heath said.
The floors will still hold the journal,
microtext and reference departments,
he said.
Heath said the third through
sixth floors will be equipped with new
safety features, such as sprinklers.
See Library, Page 2
Nick Rodnicki, The Battalion
The above is a model of the projected study complex to be built on parking lot 34, between
the Pavilion and the Peterson Building. Bids for construction will be made early next month.
tudy program joins sociology and political science faculty
□ Participants will research
democracies across the globe.
I By Wes Swift
The Battalion
The Program for Democratization, a
joint effort between the Texas A&M soci
ology and political science faculty, has
Upeen formed to study the complex ques-
I pions of new and old democracies around
the world.
Democracy has been sweeping across
the globe for the last several years, tak-
Jng root in Eastern Europe, Latin
^America and Southeast Asia. Commu
nist and dictatorial regimes, like
( Poland and Romania in Eastern Eu
rope and Nicaragua in Latin America,
have fallen, leaving a political void that
has often been filled by democracy.
Dr. George C. Edwards, director of the
Center for Presidential Studies at Texas
A&M, said the growing number of fledg
ling democracies across the globe has cre
ated a need for answers to democracy’s
complicated questions.
“It’s one of the most important issues
of our day,” Edwards said. “Many coun
tries are in some sort of transition to
democracy, more than at any other
time. It’s one of the most exciting times
in history.”
Dr. James Burk, co-coordinator for
the program, said that scholars need to
know why some democracies succeed
while others fail.
“We need to investigate under what
conditions democracy will flourish,”
Burk said. “Several countries are trying
democracy for the first time. Some will
succeed and others won’t. We need to
find out why.”
Burk pointed to problems that face
established democracies like the Unit
ed States.
“No form of government has persisted
over time,” Burk said. “The old democra-
racy to persist.”
The program will try to discover these
answers through research and pass along
the information in lectures, workshops
and conferences. The faculty will also
start a database and case study archive
"We need to investigate under what conditions democracy
will flourish. Several countries are trying democracy for
the first time. Some will succeed and others won't. We
need to find out why."
— Dr. James Burk
Program for Democratization, co-coordinator
cies in the West are some of the oldest
governments we’ve ever known. The re
newal of democracy is a problem which
we don’t know much about. We don’t
know the conditions needed for a democ-
for social and political information con
cerning democracy.
Burk said the schedule of activities
has not been set, but will begin in the
fall. He said the impact of culture on
democracy, the relationship between
democracy and economic development
and the relations between democratic
and non-democratic nations are probable
discussion topics.
Edwards said that although the re
search will focus on the umbrella of
democracy, it will encompass a wide vari
ety of projects.
“All of the studies will have a common
denominator, but there will be quite a di
versity,” he said.
Burk added that the program will be a
vehicle for research.
“We want to discuss the research we
have done and be able to distribute the
results of that research,” Burk said.
Edwards said he wants the program to
serve as a springboard for research and
discussion for the students and faculty.
“I want this program to promote quali
ty research,” Edwards said.
ollege Station road construction
o widen streets near A&M campus
Internet bookswap eliminates middle
man involved in class textbook trading.
A shuttle system may
be created to reduce
traffic around town.
ly Katherine Arnold
The Battalion
Construction to widen three
najor College Station streets
near campus is scheduled to be
gin in mid-September, Texas De
partment of Transportation offi
cials said.
Denise Fischer, public infor
mation officer for TxDOT, said
contracts for construction on
Texas Avenue, George Bush Dri
ve and Wellborn Road will go
out in July and August.
Texas Avenue, between Uni
versity Drive and Dominik Dri
ve, will be under construction for
about three years, Fischer said.
“Texas Avenue will be
widened to six lanes, with a
landscaped median that has left-
turn access at key locations,”
Fischer said.
George Bush Drive, from Well
born to FM 2818, the area where
the George Bush Presidential Li
brary Center will be located, will
be widened to four lanes, and it
will also have a median.
“We anticipate higher
amounts of traffic from the con
struction of the George Bush
Presidential Library Center,”
Fischer said.
Construction on George Bush
Drive will take approximately
two years. TxDOT will try to fin
ish construction of the road by
the time the library opens, Fis
cher said.
Wellborn Road, between FM
2818 and the town of Wellborn,
will be widened and repaved.
That project will leave Wellborn
Road with two lanes but will add
a paved shoulder to the road.
To identify and examine prob
lems that might be created by
the construction, a traffic-man
agement task force has been cre
ated. The task force is made up
of officials from TxDOT, Bryan,
College Station and Texas A&M.
Elmer Schneider, associate
director of security for the Uni
versity Police Department and
a member of the task force, said
the task force is looking for
ways to modify the flow of traf
fic for special events and day-
to-day traffic.
“We have to try and antici
pate the alternate routes peo
ple will have to take to get to
work and school,” Schneider
said. “We don’t know how the
construction will affect those
alternate routes.”
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□ The program is provided by Stu
dent Government with the assis
tance of CIS.
Jill Saunders
The Battalion
Texas A&M students
can purchase class text
books from the 300 A&M
textbooks available
through Bookswap on
the Internet.
Sam Fleitman, Go
pher administrator
for Computing Infor
mation Services, CIS,
said that using Book-
swap is an easier way
to sell textbooks.
“Bookswap is a way
for students to buy and
sell books by Internet,”
Fleitman said. “It takes
the place of having to go
across campus and post
flyers and then retrieve
all of them.”
Fleitman said that
the program has been a
tremendous success.
“We cannot tell how many books have been
sold so far, but we’ve gotten e-mail and person
al comments about Bookswap,” Fleitman said.
“We’ve gotten lots of positive comments.”
Bookswap is provided by Student Govern
ment with the assistance of CIS.
Fleitman said there is no charge for A&M
students to use Bookswap and that the program
was designed to be easily used.
“Anyone who can access the Internet can use
the bookswap,” he said. “Students can use CIS
labs on campus to access the system. A com
puter with a modem can
also access the Internet.”
Keith Marrocco, Oracle
database administrator
for CIS, said A&M stu
dents should have no trou
ble using Bookswap.
“It is user-friend
ly because it uses
the inherent na
ture of the web,” he
said. “You just point
and click to choose
whatever you wish.
You don’t have to
think too much about
what to do next.”
Marrocco said that
this was the first
time CIS has
worked on this type
of program.
“The program is a
success in that we
managed to put up an ap
plication that uses the Inter
net and databases. That has never been done
before by CIS.”
Fleitman and Marrocco, the main program
mers of Bookswap, said their
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