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► 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.
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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.
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