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Dave House, The Battalion
Registration Rush
Mary Saladino, a part-time employee of A&M for 1 7 years, hands out Spring 1997 course schedules
in front of Heaton Hall Thursday. The schedules are also available at the Pavilion.
► Campus
Students receive
chance to see A&M
Texas high school students and
their families will visit Texas A&M
Saturday for “Aggieland Saturday.”
The program offers prospective
students a chance to learn more
about life at A&M. Information will
be presented on topics such as
admissions, financial aid, scholar
ships and student services.
Activities are scheduled from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m.
► State
State aims to stop
frivolous lawsuits
AUSTIN (AP) — A convicted bur
glar and a man locked up for invol
untary manslaughter are the first
inmates to lose good-time credit
under a Texas law aimed at curb
ing frivolous lawsuits by prisoners.
Each inmate filed six lawsuits
that were thrown out by a federal
court within the last year, the
Texas Department of Criminal Jus
tice said Thursday.
The lawsuits included complaints
about mail service, the quality of
meals and denial of dessert.
The loss of good-time credit —
which is earned through various
duties and allows inmates to be
released early — “sends a strong
message to all other prisoners
that the courts no longer toleratf
lawsuit abuse," said Wayne Scot
executive director of the crimini:
justice agency.
The law requires the agency!:
dock an inmate for six months ti
good-time credit if the prisone
files four or more lawsuits within;
year that are declared by a com
to be without merit.
UT football players
declared ineligible
AUSTIN (AP) — The University?
Texas on Thursday declared fourste
football players ineligible after lea?’
ing that an agent paid for their luncf
during a weekend meeting.
Texas officials initially conclude!
that receiver Mike Adams, come;
back Bryant Westbrook and safefe
Tre Thomas and Chris Carter did
nothing wrong when they met#
agent Mike George at a lunc!
arranged by former Longhorns line
backer Winfred Tubbs.
But school officials receivei
records from the luxury hote!
where the meeting took place ind-
eating that while Tubbs signed fe
the meal to be charged to his he
tel room, George paid for Tubbs
room, said John Bianco, assistar:
sports information director at UT.
"The players were completel)
unaware that the agent was pay
ing for the meal. Winfred tolo
them that he signed the bill. The)
knew they couldn't accept any
thing from him,” he said.
► Nation
Documents to be
made public again
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 200
government documents about Iraqi
chemical weapons that were re
moved from a Defense Department
Internet site earlier this year are ex
pected to be made public again, the
New York Times reported.
Publisher Bruce Kletz, of Washing
ton-based Insignia Publishing, told
the newspaper he would defy the
Pentagon and the CIA and make the
documents available on his Internet
site starting Friday.
The 226 documents detail the
possible release of Iraqi chemical
and biological weapons near Ameri
can troops during the 1991 Persian
Gulf war, the Times said in a story in
Thursday’s editions.
► This day in history
The documents were available
earlier this year on a Defense De
partment Internet site known as
Gulflink, but were removed at the
CIA’s request.
Kletz declined to tell the Times
how he obtained the documents.
He said he decided to publish
them on the Internet because he
was convinced government lead
ers are “trying to hide the docu
ments only to avoid political and
personal embarrassment.”
Kletz also plans to publish a book
by a former CIA analyst, Patrick Ed
dington, who has accused the CIA of
sitting on classified documents that
showed American troops were ex
posed to Iraqi chemical weapons dur
ing the war.
CIA spokesman Rick Aborn said
he did not know whether the agency
would consider legal action to block
the documents’ release.
Kevorkian charged
with three suicides
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Dr. Jack
Kevorkian was charged Thursday
with assisting three suicides since
June — a departing prosecutor’s
last-ditch effort to put the retired
pathologist in prison.
Kevorkian planned to surrender
for a court appearance late Thursday
afternoon, Oakland County Prosecu
tor Richard Thompson and Kevorkian
attorney Geoffrey Fieger said.
Three previous attempts to
prosecute Kevorkian have failed.
Thompson prosecuted him once
under a law enacted specifically to
stop him, and then under unwritten
common law, losing both times.
Kevorkian also was acquitted in
1994 in Wayne County.
Thompson apparently will not be
able to see the latest prosecution
(AP) — Today is Friday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 1996.
There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints’ Day.
On this date:
In 1604, William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello
was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
In 1765, the Stamp Act went into effect, prompt
ing stiff resistance from American colonists.
In 1861, Gen. George B. McClellan was made
general-in-chief of the Union armies.
In 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau made its first
meteorological observations, using reports gath
ered by telegraph from 24 locations.
In 1936, in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini
described the alliance between his country and Nazi Ger
many as an “axis” running between Rome and Berlin.
In 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to
force their way into Blair House in Washington,
D.C., to assassinate President Truman. The attempt
failed, and one was killed.
In 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen
bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
In 1954, the western African nation of Algeria be
gan its rebellion against French rule.
In 1973, in the wake of the “Saturday night mas
sacre,” Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork ap
pointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate
special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
► Today’s birthdays
Newspaper columnist James J. Kilpatrick is 76. Ac
tress Marcia Wallace is 54. Rhythm-and-blues musician
Ronald Bell (Kool and the Gang) is 45. Country singer
Lyle Lovett is 39. Baseball pitcher Fernando Valenzuela is
36. Rock singer Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is
34. Rock musician Rick Allen (Def Leppard) is 33.
through to its conclusion, since his
term ends Dec. 31. He was defeated
in the Aug. 6 Republican primary by a
candidate who accused him of wast
ing tax dollars to pursue Kevorkian.
In the latest case, Kevorkian is
charged with assisting in the sui
cides of Bette Lou Hamilton, 67, of
Columbus, Ohio; Shirley Kline, 63, of
Oceanside, Calif.; and Rebecca Bad
ger, 39, of Goleta, Calif. Assisting a
suicide is a common law felony in
Michigan punishable by up to five
years in prison.
Clarification:
In the Weekend Preview on Page
3 Thursday, the time and place of an
event were cut off. SPICMACY is pre
senting Shobha Subramian, an Indi
an classical dance, Sunday in Rud
der Theatre at 6:30 p.m.
► Weather
► People in the news
Warrior Princess
recovers from fall
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — No
horse for the Warrior Princess:
This time, she was carried to Jay
Leno’s stage by two musclemen
in loincloths.
The last time
Lucy Lawless,
star of TV's Xena:
Warrior Princess
showed up for
The Tonight Show
With Jay Leno, her
horse lost its
footing and fell
as she was tap
ing a skit Oct. 8.
She was hospitalized for a week with
a broken pelvis.
“I fractured some bones, but
I’m on the mend, well and truly,'
she told Leno on Wednesday.
Murphy accused of
stealing screenplay
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Was
the screenplay for Eddie Mur
phy’s The Nutty Professor a bi(
fat ripoff?
Brothers Steven and Williair
Patrick of New York claim Murphi
and Universal Studios stole a
screenplay, Brand New Me, tha!
was rejected five years ago.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday »
federal court seeks $15 million ir
damages and any profits Murphy
his production company and thf
studio made from the film.
Universal had no comment be
cause it had not yet reviewet
the lawsuit, attorney Mari
Wooster said.
Leno
Highs & Lows
Today’s Expected Higli
78°F
Tonight’s Expected Lot
53°F
Tomorrow’s
Expected High
70°F
Sandy, a
cockapoo, :
hind a c
Mostly cloudy with a 40 Cloudy with a 30
percent chance of rain. percent chance of rain.
Partly cloudy with north
winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow Night’s
Expected Low
48°F
Information courtesy of TAMSCAI
YOU
Can Help
AO
Make a difference by donating your teddy bears
and other stuffed animals at Alpha Phi’s
Teddy Bear Drive
WHY? Alpha Phi is collecting teddy bears from the community
to give to the boys and girls in pediatrics at St. Joseph’s Hospital
WHEN? The week of the Baylor game—-November 5, 6, and 7
(Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE? Bring your bears by the AO table in the MSC or
drop them in the designated box at Randall's on University Dr.
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