Page 6 • The Battalion • Wednesday, July 1 7, 1996 ADVERTISERS: Want to reach more than 40,000 returning A&M students? Place your ads in our Back-to-School issues Friday, Aug. 30, and Monday, Sept. 2 For information, call 845-2696 The Battalion 103 Years at Texas A&M University Swastikas smeared on Army barrack FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Eight doors in an Army barracks housing Special Forces soldiers were smeared with red swastikas early Tuesday. Black soldiers lived in six of the van dalized rooms. About 350 soldiers were tem porarily restricted to their two- building compound while mili tary authorities investigated. Soldiers were only allowed to leave the barracks area after they spoke with investigators. “The chain of command is very serious about this,” said base spokesman Walter Sokals- ki. “Something like this will not be tolerated.” Three white Fort Bragg-based soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Di vision were charged last Decem ber in the racially motivated mur ders of a black man and woman in nearby Fayetteville. Two were said to have ties with neo-Nazi skinheads. The slayings touched off an Army-wide investigation of extremist activity. Asked about hate crimes at Fort Bragg, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said: “There is no room for it in the U.S. military, any place, any time.” Special Forces commander Brig. Gen. Kenneth Bowra, saying he wanted to re-em phasize the Army’s “zero tol erance of racism,” met Tues day with the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group — the 950-man unit containing the restricted soldiers. Most of the soldiers housed in the two L-shaped buildings are younger men assigned to the Special Forces in a support role. Most are in training to reach the rank of sergeant, a process that takes at least three years. The 80-room barracks are similar to a college dormitory, with each room housing a single soldier. Officials said six of the rooms smeared with the two- foot-square swastikas were occu pied by black soldiers and the other two rooms were empty at the time of the incident, which happened around 5 a.m. Special Forces spokesmb Capt. Cabot Gatlin said inves: gators were uncertain whetlii someone outside the unit cot have entered the building. Although the barracks a: supposed to be locked, peopleai peared to come and go free! Tuesday afternoon, including pizza delivery man. Fort Bragg officers refused Vol. 102 allow reporters to interview a: of the troops housed inf three-story, brick barracks. Some black soldiers on til base said they had not he about the incident, while otk| denied the Army had a probk with racism. The Special Forces, known ”1 the Vietnam era as the Gre« Berets, are specially tr conduct secret missions enemy lines and to liaise foreign military forces. Fort Bragg also heL_^... ters the U.S. Army Special Op erations Command and tin 82nd Airborne, which is con posed of paratroopers Study: Fitness helps compensate for smoking CHICAGO (AP) — Being physically fit is such a powerful force for health that even smokers with high blood pressure and high cholesterol who are in good aerobic shape tend to live longer than non smoking couch potatoes who are otherwise healthy, a study found. “Low fitness, which of course is caused primari ly by a sedentary way of life, is really a very im portant risk factor” for early death, said lead au thor Steven N. Blair, director of research for the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas. His team studied 25,341 men and 7,080 women who received physicals at the clinic between 1970 and 1989. After an average of 8 1/2 years of follow up, 601 men and 89 women had died. The one-fifth of men who were least fit, as mea sured in a treadmill test, were found to be 52 per cent more likely to die over the study period than the two-fifths of men who were most fit, the re searchers found. i lerences such tatistici in othc is age That figure was derived analysis that controlled for d traits that affect death risk weight, researchers said. Men who were most fit and who smoked, ha high blood pressure and high cholesterol still ha: a 15 percent survival advantage over the least £ who didn’t smoke or have high blood pressure high cholesterol, Blair said. Similar trends were found among the women Subjects in the study who were most fit got mor: exercise than the minimum recommended by the sir geon general — 30 minutes of accumulated modera: activity daily. 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