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Page 6 • The Battalion • Wednesday, August 7, 1996 by Chuck Johnson Sk®feh L^ELIW& STUff IS X’8 E EEZE! By Quatro Bomb Continued from Page 1 Station Police Department said the police have located bombs on occasion — including some pipe bombs — so no threats are taken lightly. “We perceive the threat is real until we find otherwise,” McCollum said. “Our response is nothing unique. We take every one seriously.” He said the Police Depart ment’s duty is to handle the ini tial response to a bomb threat. If a device is found, explosives technicians from the College Station Fire Department are called to handle the bomb. McCollum said the police also handle the ongoing investigation after the threat. He said this in vestigation depends on whether a bomb was actually found. McCollum said he has not no ticed any effects in College Sta tion because of disasters such as the TWA crash or the bomb at the Olympics. “I haven’t noticed any ramifi cations from current events,” McCollum said. “There have been no indications of fear. Peo ple are probably more aware, but it’s not apparent through their actions.” College Station Fire Mar shal Jon Mies said although bomb threats have been de creasing in number, fire de partment officials are always working to promote awareness. “Bomb-threat activity has de creased since the installation of enhanced 911 and more ad vanced telephone switching de vices which help trace telephone TWA Continued from Page 1 and even an unbroken light from the top of the stairs to the 747’s upper deck. “The light was intact — the globe as well as the bulb in the light was intact,” he said. “You have this mass of wreckage, but in that, things that are relatively the way they were before the accident.” Officials said about a third of the one-ton lump of mangled metal from the cockpit has been unraveled. FBI agent James Kallstrom said it was too soon to say whether the intact light and instruments, and Sunday’s recovery of the pilot still strapped in his seat, were inconsis tent with the bomb theory. Francis said there was no indica tion of mechanical malfunction from cockpit instruments found so far. He said 15 to 20 percent of the aircraft has been recovered by the salvage operation. The cockpit’s sheared-off windshield and dome were among the items brought up Tuesday. A military source who spoke on condition of anonymity said a piece of the plane’s nose cone also was recovered. Two engines and a piece of a third remain under water; the fourth engine has not been located. Wearing weighted-down boots, divers are sent down to the debris fields to retrieve what they can, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bobbie Schol- ley, who took part in a dive from the USS Grapple. She said they have 2 feet to 3 feet of hazy visibility and often get down on their hands and knees to free objects, which are then dragged to a large metal basket to be raised. “You have to get pretty close to distinguish what is solid and what is fabric or what is a piece of air plane structure,” she said. “There’s no way of knowing what the pieces are till you get them to the surface.” So far, 195 of the 230 victims have been recovered. No new bodies were announced Tuesday, but an other source familiar with the in vestigation told The Associated Press that several body parts were being brought up. A temporary morgue set up to handle the bodies was closed Tuesday and any more remains will be taken to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s office. Everyone aboard was killed when the Paris-bound 747 exploded 10 miles off Long Island, 11 1/2 min utes after takeoff. Investigators suspect that a bomb destroyed the plane but they have yet to produce conclusive evi dence. Tests for chemical residue from explosives have so far come up negative. The possibility of a missile hit or a mechanical malfunction has not been ruled out. “We know more because we have more of the plane, but we are not any closer to any particular theory,” Kallstrom said. Redistricting Continued from Page 1 name identification and political ties in areas new to them. “We’re surprised that as many as 13 districts are affected. We are concerned about what will be a l6t of duplicated effort and avoidable expense,” said Keith Ellison, attorney for Green, Lee and U.S. Rep. Ken Bentsen, whose 25th District seat was affected by the ruling. Ellison said he will ask the Supreme Court to block the judges’ order and allow the illegal districts to hold elections as previously planned. The Tuesday order is the result of a lawsuit chal lenge by six Republican voters who claimed the boundaries of two districts in Houston and one in Dallas relied too heavily on race. The Supreme Court agreed, sending back the case to Appeals Court Judge Edith Jones and U.S. Dis trict Judges David Hittner and Melinda Harmon, who had to either bring the parties together with a compromise voting plan or impose one of their own. Because the parties in the suit could not reach a compro mise with state officials and the Texas Legislature passed up an opportunity to resolve the redistricting problem during its 1995 session, the court said it had to step in. Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock described the judges’ decision as fair. “The plan does not smack of politics or needlessly change boundaries that already had been set,” Bul lock said. “I regret that Texans must give more of their time and money to hold new elections in the districts that have been affected.” Edward Blum, one of six plaintiffs whose legal challenge re sulted in Tuesday’s reconfiguration, praised the judges’ decision. “No longer will the citizens of our state be forced to endure a system that is racially unjust and immoral,” he said. “The Legislature will no longer be allowed to classify and segre gate citizens by race to further the electoral ambitions of some self-serving politician.” Gramm Continued from Page 1 in deciding where the money will be spent. Gramm said many legal and illegal immigrants crowd the welfare rolls. “That is not going to happen again,” Gramm said. “Someone who is an illegal alien is not go ing to get into the system.” Gramm said immigrants must be willing to work once in America, but he said he is not anti-immigrant. “I want people to come to America because new Americans are the best Americans,” Gramm said. “When you immigrate to America, you’ve got to come here with your sleeves rolled up, ready to go to work. You cannot come here with your hand held out ready to go on welfare.” When asked whether he would run again for presi dent, Gramm said he has not made any plans. “I’m a firm believer that when you lose, you sit down,” Gramm said. “I want to be supportive of Sen. Dole.” Gramm completed his stay in College Station with a visit to Aggie football practice at Simp son Drill Field. “I think [the practice is] incred ibly organized,” Gramm said. “We have a great coaching staff.” Fortunes Continued from Page 1 The judges’ action injects into the election mix a series of vari ables, including the possibility that: —Incumbents who weren’t challenged in the March pri maries now could find them selves drawing opposition. De mocratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston and Republican Reps. Bill Archer of Houston and Sam Johnson of Dallas had no primary or major-party general election opposition. —Under redrawn lines, some candidates will have to run in communities where they haven’t campaigned before, rushing to build name identification and political ties in unfamiliar areas. —Some outcomes might not be known until Dec. 10 — well after the rest of the country’s elections are decided. Democrats, who have re sisted having elections under new lines this year, com plained that the December runoff will confuse voters and dampen turnout. “Runoff elections two weeks before the holiday sea son would disenfranchise many Texans and could lead to members of Congress be ing selected by an extremely small number of voters,” said Texas Democratic Party Chairman Bill White. ,102, No Amy Prota IE BATTALlOf calls,” Mies said. Pe&gy Marshall, secretary of the crime prevention office of the Bryan Police Department, said bomb threats in Bryan are usu ally deferred to the College Sta tion Police Department. “It depends on the circum stances — where, what and if there is a bomb,” she said. “They (Bryan police) will go check it out and, if it is a bomb, they call College Station police because they have a bomb squad. We can’t do any thing because we don’t have a bomb squad.” Brinkley working for model marriage _Y( sterday, inaid G. Do e admission! ■though t] ■lot chang 11 b e expanc ckground wi See rela NEW YORK (AP) — Christie Brinkley is going for an architect this time around. The supermodel said yes when Peter Cook popped the question over the weekend, her assistant Mimi Jen nings said Tuesday. The mar- ’’C—r' riage will be the fourth for Brinkley, 42, who last year divorced devel oper Richard Taubman after less than a year of marriage. Brinkley ended her nine-year marriage to singer Billy Joel in 1994. The never-married Cook, 37, works in the fashionable Hamptons, on Long Island. The two have been dating several months. - do rega and road in front of the house!«■ no tif 1C ati« been closed, and environmental,^ ;ire „ oiTl ■ planned to protest Core's inaction, are ad the poisoning of gulls that preyr endangered species. "I'm a lifelong Democrat,!: don't want this to get in the wa, my time off," said Evelyn Bettauer Connecticut psychologist whoisslai ing nearby. "I'd be really upset ifi were Dole or Gingrich there." "I came here for some peace quiet, and now I end up next to vice president," said Woody Kaplai Boston, who is renting nearby. *1 better not interrupt my vacation." Bie review Jas work e and pare Douglas sai considered r iBi the revie 1 Hit to other goals in ac ademically ca “■potential a /re concerned Kennedy wins again on the auction block De Niro's top sushi chef shot at work NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro could have used a few goodfel- las at his trendy sushi restaurant. Two gunmen barged into Nobu, the restaurant De Niro co-owns in hip Tribeca, and shot three workers as they were closing up Monday night. Among the victims was Nobu's renowned sushi chef, whose skills fetch up to $80 for a sampling of raw fish. None of the victims were seri ously wounded. The gunmen stole $1,000. Police found one suspect hiding near a trash bin shortly after the crime. The Goodfellas actor was not at the restaurant at the time. Gore vacation not all it's cracked up to be TRURO, Mass. (AP) — Al Gore and family are vacationing in what he probably thought would be friend ly territory. EDGARTOWN, Mass. (API- John F. Kennedy Jr. has proved liiil worth on the auction block. A charity auction on Martha's Vine yard reaped $ 1 2,500 for an eight-mile bicy cle ride around the island's Gay Head communi ty with JFK Jr. "My wife, Carolyn, and I have always ad mired the Kennedys, and she really wanted the bike ride,'said[ the winning bidder, John Comra "We came to buy it. I was prepared[ to get it at any price." Proceeds of the annual celebritd auction went to Martha's Vineyard| Corpmunity Services. Guest auctioneer Carly Simonl sang "Nobody Does It Better" to en-1 courage higher bids for the bike ride, "I don't know if you get to ride on I the same bike, in tandem or behind| John, which is what I would wantlo do, especially on curves," Simon said ■ I- The vice president, wife Tipper and their four chil dren are stay ing in this Cape Cod town that vot ed overwhelm ingly for the Clinton-Gore ticket in 1992. The Gores ar rived Monday for a one-week stay at the home of their friend Martin Peretz, publisher of The New Republic. There will be some inconve niences, though. Part of the beach Princess Diana nice GET [ guest at lover's house Princess Diana ? asuhiro Yosl Fisi LONDON (AP) - was a perfect house guest while car rying on an affair with James Hewilt, his mom says. Shirley Hewitt told the Britisli magazine Hello! that Diana never minded doing the dishes and loved | chocolate cake, but that she was very unhappy. Former Army Maj. Hewitt, 38,1^ had a five-year affair with Diana, 35, while teaching riding to her sons. He sold his story when the relationship became public. H ewitt said her son re 8 u l ar lyIlHpathpr R brought Diana home and after the f first few times she realized they were lovers. eade ntici] e Battalion Some Universi l or even the r destination |n Friday, £ ap sessions, 1 to Palestine, [he thought I Camp leade: luzanna Her ftp and a seni 1 is ready for )Ne have been ily get to see t on level is ret The most re lived and seek dam Landrur or marketing Welcome All Schools &University Students We extend an invitatiion to: Come and Visit Los Nortenos Cafe Home of the $3.25 Mexican Lunch Special (from 11am to 5pm) Breakfast Special for $1.99 (from 7am to 9am) Los Nortenos Cafe 205 S. Main St (Downtown Bryan) BUY ONE ENTREE, CET SECOND ENTREE FREE (Second entree must be of equal or lesser value. 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