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Inesday • Ocotber 18, 1995 Page 5 •The Battalion Hurricane Roxanne kills five NEWS RIJEFS /ice Awareness Day foduces organizations SC Hospitality is hosting Service [eness Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ! MSC. le event will introduce 27 ser- organizations to students and Ity members. Hospitality repre- tives said the event is a chance ^lomote all service organizations, 0,t «;jdiding Hospitality. n a [j isnia force to include A [p to 3,000 reservists brooil ASHINGTON (AP) — The Clin- dministration said Tuesday that S.lpeacekeepers in Bosnia would Babiy include 2,000 to 3,000 re- hen-tvip. They assured uneasy lawmak- lels Is re Americans would be heavily ia , foied to defend themselves and , er f |u d be there no longer than a year. While acknowledging the risk of kualties, the officials said the U.S. Re of some 20,000 troops would be ppped with tanks, backed by ships Hid planes and armed with orders to jmback if attacked. Ithi! expected call-up of 2,000 to ■0 reserves, disclosed by Sha- ja|hvili, reflects the reliance of a ler U.S. armed force on combat irv|ce specialties that today lie only National Guard and Reserves, include all of the Army heavy |i|:opter units, water supply battal- is| ,ind rail battalions. Most of the fy's hospital units and medical psare in the reserves. agrjM rly voting begins today ^■amendment election ea USTIN (AP) — Texans, who elect l|legislators to write laws, take law- ing into their own hands begin- | Wednesday. hat's when early voting begins for (^lov. 7 constitutional amendment ion. The early voting period runs (jgh Nov. 3. ourteen propositions are on the illbt, headlined by Proposition 10. ig Air if’ 5 the amendment that would psh the state treasurer's post and e Treasury functions into the state [ptroller's office. reasurer Martha Whitehead, a locrat elected last year after ising to eliminate a job that has n obsolete, says she has no bt Texans will agree that closing reasury is a cost-efficient reduc- |in bureaucracy. ost of the other amendments be- lecided are bond issues, property xlexemptions and some miscella- fi lew bits of government business — wvBas whether to abolish the office of —liable in three counties, him® gjutfe nteresl) dnce to si ive oil griefs ilusiom mbers strike again, mnd 29 people ruthJ'' i, dTiwi. 18 ivillW tionii 11 bepol> } jowef' □ The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm Tuesday. MEN, Mexico (AP) — Hurri cane Roxanne had passed, and the worst weather the crew of a pipe-laying barge expected was a “Norte,” chill north winds that rake the Gulf of Mexico this time of year. Instead, the hurricane dou bled back and blindsided them 10 miles off shore Sunday night with whipping 80-mph winjds and rolling 40-foot waves that looked big as mountains. As the barge slowly sank, the crew of at least 245 began tossing life rafts overboard and jumped after them into the swirling waters. Heavy-duty tug boats battled the swells to reach them, and crewmen leaned overboard with out stretched hands or cast ropes to drag survivors aboard. Five people died and four others remained missing Tues day, but the rest were rescued. “We just had sweet Jesus on our side,” survivor Kevin Du mont of New Orleans said Tuesday as he and other oil workers, all haggard and some bandaged, returned to Ciudad del Carmen. Roxanne was downgraded to a tropical storm early Tuesday, the second downgrading on its erratic journey in which it has struck Mexico’s Gulf coast twice since last week. On Tuesday, Roxanne barely crawled northwest at 2 mph over the Gulf, its sustained winds down to 50 mph. At 5 p.m. EDT, the center was about 295 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas. The storm still pounded the Mexican coast Tuesday, driving seawater through the streets of Ciudad del Carmen that flood ed homes and forced thousands into emergency shelters. Five people died when the barge sank in the Bay of Campeche, including one Amer ican: James Vines, 47, of Winnsboro, La. Three bodies had been recovered, and rescue workers said they saw two oth ers floating in the water. Rescue tugs on Tuesday pulled in 15 people who clung for more than a day to the A- frame of the barge’s huge crane, which still juts above the water. But four people from the barge remained missing — three Mexicans and one Spaniard, according to U.S. Vice Consul Nathaniel Dean in Merida. Dean said the remain ing 29 Americans and the one Canadian aboard have all been accounted for as survivors. Search for NAACP head continues □ More than a year after Benjamin Chavis was fired, the association is still looking for an executive director. BALTIMORE (AP) — WANTED: Skilled manag er with unquestioned integrity and ability to be na tional spokesman and day-to-day leader of troubled national civil rights group. More than a year after Benjamin Chavis was fired for secretly using NAACP money to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit against him, the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People is still looking for an executive director. The search committee that was supposed to sub mit one name to the board at a three-day meeting that starts Thursday in Baltimore was still inter viewing candidates this week. And it may not come up with a choice in time. “We had an unusually large number of appli cants. It’s just taking a long time,” Julian Bond, a member of the seven-person committee, said Tuesday. But some critics said there’s another reason the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group (86 years old, 500,000 members) is taking so long to pick a leader. “Nobody wants the job,” said Michael Meyers, a former assistant NAACP national director who now heads the New York Civil Rights Coalition. “The NAACP is dead, and everybody knows it.” Even some board members agreed the NAACP has slipped from its leading role in the struggle for civil rights. The NAACP refused to endorse Mon day’s Million Man March in Washington, which Chavis helped organize with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. “We’re a taillight,” said Larry Carter, an Iowa banker who has been on the board for 6 3/2 years. “We’ve got to set the stage. It should be the NAACP putting together the Million Man March.” The NAACP is as much as $4 million in debt and struggling to repair an image damaged first by Chavis’ ouster in August 1994, and then by allega tions of financial improprieties by former Chairman William Gibson. Gibson was replaced in February by Myrlie Evers Williams, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. ARIS (AP) — Mocking the efforts esperate police, the bombers ter- zing France blew up another wded subway car Tuesday, turn- ng it into a mass of mangled steel Thrashing injured. “*he bomb wounded 29 people, wing off the legs and feet of some rs. Authorities described it as a canister filled with explosives hex nuts — the trademark device IMgerian insurgents who have ,ed a terror campaign in the ch capital since midsummer, he site of the attack seemed to jck authorities' efforts to halt the terror for flit Ipaign by Algerian extremists, who {"jjl) ve claimed responsibility for seven i s jj 'pi deadly bombings or attempts. Is- ' " lie militants object to France's finan- al support of the military-installed gov- jnent in Algeria, a former colony. 1 trance's wave of bombings began P roV, : : 125 at the St. Michel station, when a i es v Jilar device killed seven people and nded 84. Tuesday's bombing raised injury toll since then to at least 155. he extremist Armed Islamic Group d in Algeria has claimed responsi- yfor most of the other bombings. The following are the inci dents reported to the University Police Department between 10/09 and 10/13/95: Misdemeanor Theft Moore Hall - A bright green Nishiki Manatoba 23-speed bicy cle was stolen. Veterinary Medical School - A black leather purse containing the victim’s Texas driver’s li cense, sports pass, student iden tification, several credit cards and other assorted personal property was stolen from a sec ond floor room. Wisenbaker Engineering Re search Center - A red Cycle Fhro 18-speed bicycle was stolen. Heldenfels Hall - A dark green 18-speed Trek 800 Ante lope Series bicycle was stolen. Biochemistry/Biophysics Building - A CA 486-33 personal computer was stolen from a first floor room. Memorial Student Center - A Sony, Model SLV-420 video cas sette recorder was stolen from a second floor room. Misdemeanor Theft/Possession of two valid Drivers Licenses Memorial Student Center Bookstore - A subject was detect ed shoplifting from the book store. The suspect was issued two citations and released. Burglary of Vehicle Parking Area 39 - The vic tim’s parking permit was stolen from his 1990 Mazda. Theft of Service/Felony Theft McKenzie Terminal - A sub ject failed to return the 1995 Mercury Mystique he leased on September 3, 1995. The vehicle was to be returned on September 11, 1995. False Report Hughes Hall - The Brazos County Emergency 911 Service notified our agency of an emer gency call from an on-campus number. The subject stated, “Help, someone’s trying to kill me,” before disconnecting the line. Upon arrival to the loca tion, a subject approached the of ficer to apologize for the call. The subject though he discon nected the call prior to making the false statement. Assault Parking Area 70 - A Parking Services Officer was struck by a subject while waiting for autho rization to impound a vehicle for the accumulation of several parking citations. 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Crocker Hall - During checks of campus property, a bathroom window on the north side of the building was damaged. It ap peared some type of object had been thrown against the window pane causing it to shatter. Public Intoxication Parking Area 56 - An intoxi cated subject was arrested and incarcerated in the Brazos Coun ty Jail. 24 25 MSC Hospitality Committee “Service Awareness Day” 9 a.in - 3 p.m. MSC Hallway MSC Film Society of Texas A&M 'Flic Englishman Who Went Uu A Hill and Came Down a Mountain 7 ami 9:30 p.m. Rudder Theater MSC Film Society of Texas A&M Congo 7 anil 9:30 p.m. Rudder Auditorium/Tlieater L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness “International Networking Social” 3:30 p.m. Mark Francis Room of the Veterinary Medicine Administration Building MSC Town Hall Committee “Sponge” 8 p.m. Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater MSC Public Relations Committee | “Pamphlets, Booklets and Other Publications” 5:30 p.m. 401 Rudder MSC Great Issues Committee and the Christian Faculty Fellowship Committee Dr. Thomas Schmidt: Searching for Truth in UfcHlylcK: Homosexuality and Christian Morality” 7:30 p.m. Rudder Auditorium MSC Great Issues Committee Ron Loomis: “The Occult in America” 7 p.m. 601 Rudder MSC Visual Arts Committee Richard Neidhart: “Life or Conseq lienees” MSC Visual Arts Gallery Tired of Thick, Damaging, Fake Nails? 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