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i The Battalion Friday • October4,1) Rachel Redington, The Battalion Animal Farm Dr. Alice Blue-McLendon, a veteri narian at the Wildlife and Exotic Ani mal Center, gives young ostriches some grass and attention. Campus ► State Corps Fall Review to take place Friday M&M’s expanding with 18 new colors The Corps of Cadets annual Fall Review will begin at 5 p.m. Friday at the O.R. Simpson Drill Field. The annual Cain Boot and Sabre Awards will be presented to 14 outstanding junior and se nior cadets. The reviewing officer for the parade will be Brig. Gen. Kenneth W. Hess, Class of '69. Dedication to honor Fort Worth couple A ceremony this weekend will honor a Fort Worth couple for es tablishing an industrial distribution professional development center at Texas A&M. The campus dedication of the Paul and Judy Andrews Industrial Distribution Conference Center will be held Saturday at 12:30 p.m. The center is on the seventh floor of Rudder Tower. NEW YORK (AP) — Blue M&Ms were just the beginning. Get ready for gold, silver, teal and purple. M&M-Mars is expanding its 56- year-old candy line to include 18 new colors that cross the spectrum. The old standards — red, green, yellow, brown, orange and the relatively new blue — now will compete with the likes of white and black, pink and maroon, aqua and light yellow. “Color has been so integral in M&M’s life span and consumers love color,” said Marlene Machut, a spokeswoman for the Hack- ettstown, NJ.-based candy maker. “We felt this was the right time to come out with this." The new colors, however, will be sold only in specialty stores in 26 markets from Denver to the East Coast. The M&M’s, which come in the plain chocolate variety, will not be sold in individual packages, but rather by weight. mates the new fees could generate an extra $847 million in revenue for banks. That estimate, based on 1995 ATM transaction volume, as sumes that 23 of the nation’s ATMs charge a $1 fee to people who don’t have accounts with the owner of the machine. PIRG, a consumer group affiliat ed with activist Ralph Nader, sur veyed the fee policies at 458 ATM machines in 20 states, and found 23 percent of the machines levy the new fees. The group said it ex pects the percentage to rise. Clinton also signed a tion declaring Octoberas'iij Domestic Violence Aw Month, and other I a national FBI database to tai offenders who have been i from prison, authorize $22:- for programs to treat child abuse and help family enforcement officers of duty after May 1, 1992,to^ costs of college for their cfe 3 crime, anti-drug bills signed into law Clarification A Battalion story Wednesday about women’s status at Texas A&M should have credited Jan Rinehart, Women in Engineer ing, Science and Technology di rector, with saying that women are under represented in A&M’s College of Engineering. Women constitute 19.8 percent of the students in the college. The story also should have stated that there were 12 women admitted to A&M in Fall 1963. ► Nation New fees charged by quarter of ATMs WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly one-quarter of automated teller machines charge a transaction fee to customers who do not have ac counts with the bank that owns the machine, according to a con sumer survey released Thursday. The U.S. Public Interest Re search Group survey also esti- WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring a change in attitudes toward crime, President Clinton signed into law Thursday bills to fight illegal drugs, keep track of sex offenders and pro vide college funds for the children of slain police officers. Clinton signed the three bills in a Rose Garden ceremony just before leaving for a New York retreat to pre pare for Sunday’s debate with Re publican nominee Bob Dole, in which crime and drugs are certain to come up. Dole's campaign knocked Clin ton’s record on fighting illegal drugs Thursday, and Dole himself continued to accuse Clinton of us ing executive privilege to hide a 1995 memo “telling him how bad his drug policy was." In the memo, the heads of the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Ad ministration complained about a lack of “any true leadership" in fight ing an influx of heroin and cocaine, according to an August report in Newsweek magazine. Voter Registrar Deadlines Les Cla> the Holy Mi Highbal l Devil Interscopi • Oct. 4 — Deadline (or tering in person to vote Locations: BrazosCoi Tax Office, libraries anil registration drives on camp • Oct. 7 — Postmark(M for voter registrational tion by mail • Oct. 16 to Nov. 1 - son early voting Locations: Brazos Co, thouse, Arena Hall onTal in Bryan, Galilee Bap Church on North Logai Bryan, MSC, CollegeStJ ISD at 1812 Welsh inCd Station Nov. 5 — General Electi# This day in history Weather (AP) — Today is Friday, Oct. 4, the 278th day of 1996. There are 88 days left in the year. On this date: In 1777, George Washington’s troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties. In 1895, the first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. In 1931, the comic strip “Dick Tracy,” created by Chester Gould, made its debut. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader sought Italy’s help in fighting the British. In 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. In 1965, Pope Paul VI became the first reigning pon tiff to visit the Western Hemisphere as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly. In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room. In 1976, agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he’d made about blacks. 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