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\ Debriefing Page Thursday • September 12,19S ► Campus DAB reduces drunk driving in B-CS Designate a Bus Transit offi cials have announced boarding procedures for using the night time shuttle service. Patrons must stand on the roadside and flag a bus down in order to board. The busses run Thursday through Saturday from 8 p.m. until 3 a.m. Nighttime hot spots, apartment complexes and neighborhoods are serviced by the busses. Students are encouraged to use DAB Transit busses to cut down on the number of DWI’s given, relieve parking problems and make Bryan- College Station streets safer. The cost of riding the bus one way is 50 cents. ► Nation New Jersey sues tobacco industry TRENTON, NJ. (AP) — New Jersey became the 15th state to sue the tobacco industry for illnesses that cost the state more than a billion dol lars in health care. The suit filed Tuesday charges the tobacco industry violated con sumer protection laws with decep tive and misleading advertise ments. The state estimates it spends $1.1 billion annually to treat tobacco-related illnesses. Eight class-action suits are pend ing in Alabama, California, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, filed by smok ers who claim they became hooked while the industry concealed the addictive nature of its product. Fourteen other lawsuits have been filed by states seeking to recover money spent treating illnesses. The suit seeks unspecified dam ages and an order directing ciga rette manufacturers to turn over its New Jersey profits to the state and to fund anti-smoking programs. Peggy Carter, spokeswoman for tobacco giant RJ. Reynolds, said New Jersey’s 40-cent-a-pack ciga rette tax more than pays for “any alleged cost of tobacco.” Man faces imper sonation charges ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Joseph Sterner III got lost 10 years ago and was declared legal ly dead. Then he was found again, living with the identity of a boy who died at the age of 3. Sterner, whose age has been listed as 72 or 73, appeared in court today and was given until Oct. 9 to prepare his defense against a charge of criminal impersonation. His son and daughter-in-law found him last week living in Henrietta, near Nashville, after dis covering that Sterner had tried to obtain medical benefits for himself under his old name and using his old address in Pennsylvania. “He’s been through some extreme hell,” his son, Joseph W. Sterner, told The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa. “He said he’s been pronounced dead three times, so he said he got six more lives.” Menendez brothers in separate prisons DELANO, Calif. (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez will serve life terms for murdering their parents in prisons hundreds of miles apart, despite their wish to be together. Lyle, 28, was transferred on Tuesday to the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi, and Erik, 25, to California State Prison in Folsom, said Tip Kindel, a state corrections spokesman. The two had been held at North Kern State Prison since July 3 while corrections officials determined which of the state’s 32 prisons should house them. The brothers had hoped to be imprisoned together, but some law enforcement officials had argued that they might plot to escape. “We developed information during ... the two months they were at Delano that indicated from our securi ty standpoint that we really should house them in separate institutions,” Kindel said. The brothers were sentenced to life terms without the possibility of parole for the 1989 murders of their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills mansion. Erik and Lyle claimed they were subjected to years of abuse; prosecutors argued they killed for the family’s $14 million estate. ► State Water supply will continue to deplete SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A judge’s order restricting the pumping of water from the Edwards Aquifer won’t go into effect until an appeal by the city of San Antonio is considered, a fed eral appeals court has ruled. The stay was issued Tuesday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton III had ordered the pumping restric tions, effective Oct. 1, for the 175- mile-long underground water supply. Bunton’s action came Aug. 23 in response to a Sierra Club lawsuit that sought to protect endangered species living in aquifer-fed springs in New Braunfels and San Marcos. Drought conditions and resulting increases in pumping have led to reduced spring flow. Rony Angkriwan, The Baitau® P| .4- David Cearley. a second-year med student,runs ^ Ldy I U l on a treadmill at the Rec Center Wednesday. This day in history Weather (AP) — Today is Thursday, Sept. 12th, the 256th day of 1996. There are 110 days left in the year. On this date: In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name. In 1938, in a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. In 1953, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy mar ried Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.l. In 1966, The Monkees debuted on NBC-TV. In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert slammed into Jamaica with torrential rains and winds of 145 mph, killing 45 people and causing damage estimated at up to $1 billion. Ten years ago: Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptrol ler at the American University in Beirut, was kidnapped; he was released in December 1991. The United States released Soviet physicist Gennadiy Zakharov and the Soviet Union released American journalist Nicholas Daniloff to the custody of their respective countries’ embassies, pending their espionage trials. Five years ago: Saying Middle East peace negotia tions might be in jeopardy, President Bush told reporters he would use his veto authority, if necessary, to delay action on Israel’s call for $10 billion in housing loan guarantees. One year ago: The Belarussian military shot down a hydrogen balloon during an international race, killing its two American pilots. ► Today’s birthdays Today’s Birthdays: Country singer George Jones is 65. Actress Linda Gray is 56. Singer Maria Muldaur is 53. Singer Barry White is 52. Singer-musician Gerry Beckley is 44. Actor Peter Scolari is 42. Actress Rachel Ward is 39. Rock musician Larry LaLonde (Primus) is 28. Today Tonight Tomorrow £ I eg- Partly cloudy with light northeast winds. Clear with light winds. Partly cloudy with light winds. 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