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s D The Battalion rLorllllir 111 ir Pagi Friday • November 8,1 ► Campus Corps to march in before Waco game The Corps of Cadets will march through Waco Saturday before the Texas A&M vs. Baylor football game. The parade will begin at 11 a.m. at the corner of Franklin and 26th streets. Marching southwest along Franklin, the Corps will turn southeast at 32nd Street and march to the Floyd Casey Stadi um grounds, where the cadets will be dismissed. The Aggie Band will lead the pa rade. The band will stop and play near the reviewing stand in the 3100 block of Franklin as the re mainder of the Corps marches by. Parson’s Mounted Cavalry will ride as the parade’s final unit. The parade will be televised by cable Channel 6 out of Waco. Students to perform Indian folk dance The India Association, Hindu Students Council and the Hindu Society of Brazos Valley will pre sent “Dandiya Nite,” an evening of traditional folk dance, Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Archery Room of the Student Recreation Center. In India, the dance is in celebra tion of the victory of good over evil. The dance is performed in large groups to rhythmic beats provided by a band. Each dancer has one or two sticks, about 1 to 1 1/2 feet long, with which they dance. Admission is $3 for members of the sponsoring organizations, $5 for non-members or $15 for families with up to four members. Dandiya sticks and lessons are provided with admission. ► City KidCare program safeguards children The Brazos Valley Jaycees will host the annual KidCare program at Hollywood 16 movie theaters on the Highway 6 bypass in College Station Saturday from 8:30 a.m to 11 a.m. The Jaycees will be joined by the St. Joseph Foundation and the Brazos Valley Sheriff’s Department to photograph and fingerprint chil dren so parents will have updated records in the event their child is missing. Children will also be measured for height and weight. The service is free. More infor mation may be obtained by calling Matt at 260-9898. ► Nation Army men charged with raping recruits HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — In what could prove to be the Army’s Tail- hook, a captain and two drill sergeants were charged Thursday with raping or sexually harassing more than a dozen women recruits. The alleged incidents took place at the Army Ordnance Center at Ab erdeen Proving Ground, Md. As many as 1,000 women who trained at the center are being interviewed by the Army to determine if there are any additional victims. “We will continue to run down every lead at Aberdeen," Gen. William W. Hartzog said at a news conference at the Fort Monroe, Va., headquarters of the Training and Doctrine Command. “America de serves better than this. Our soldiers deserve better than this and our Army is better than this." The Army said Capt. Derrick Robertson was charged with rape, conduct unbecoming an officer, ob struction of justice, adultery and having an improper relationship with a recruit. Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson was charged with rape, forcible sodomy, adultery and obstruction of justice. Staff Sgt. Nathanael Beach was charged with obstruction of justice, disobeying an officer and having an improper relationship with a female trainee. All three face-courts martial. The rape charges are punishable by life in prison. All three men were married. The victims were 21 on average, and all were re cruits in their second eight weeks of military training. NASA’s surveyor en route to Mars CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor sped toward the Red Planet on Thurs day, the first spacecraft in a series of orbiters, rovers and robots that could answer the question: Was there ever life on Mars? A Delta rocket carrying the un manned Global Surveyor lifted off Bonfire Baby Pat James, The Battalion Fourteen-month-old Ami Nicole Medlock (initials A.N.M.) of College Station, who’s parents hope will be part of the Texas A&M Class of 2017, gets a kiss from a dog at the Bonfire site during the raising of Centerpole. ► This day in history ► Weather on time at noon one dai high wind scuttled the first la attempt — and propelled the: 10-foot spacecraft toward 24,000 mph. “We’re on our way!" NASA; science chief Wesley Huntre: said. “These are the kindoi you kind of live for in spacestt and space exploration." The spacecraft will readil after a journey of 10 montti 435 million miles. Once in the desired 23E| high orbit, in March 1991 Global Surveyor will begin mc| the Martian atmosphere anc> ally the entire surface of et. The survey will last 687: or a full Martian year. It will send images and:] data back to Earth within 20:| minutes. The images will be; ed on the Internet for public* ing within a day or two after''; One of the main objefc other loc£ the $230 million mission ift ■ . , scout tor landing spots for.“ red club landing missions, including s ^ jn |oca| Chris Pate which a spacecraft will bring 11 ian soil and rocks back toS. sometime in the next decade stl uc . lor !. SC1C If evidence of life is found, i e ^ ier for bi could eventually lead to me . . lc P ur P flights to Mars, Huntress saic sicians togetl & He said m. CNN wins Cubani to go about g for Havana bure ATLANTA (AP) — The Cable Network won permission froi Cuban government on Thurso open a bureau in Havana. If approved by U.S. off:; CNN would be the first Amer based news organization* full-time presence in the Cr nist country in 27 years. The Cuban Foreign Minsi nounced the decision in;M statement in Havana. No details of the Hava reau have been set, pending permission, said CNN spokesjp^ David Talley. “We’ve been working on it while,” Talley said. The next step is to win appi from the State Department! said, and "we have no idea long that will be." The development was still assessed in Washington, State Department officio spoke on condition of anc said he believes CNN will ge' government approval. it**- 1 (AP) — Today is Friday, Nov. 8, the 313th day of 1996. There are 53 days left in the year. On this date: In 1793, the Louvre began admitting the public, even though the French museum had been officially open since August. In 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch.” In 1933, President Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed. In 1950, during the Korean War, the first jet-plane battle took place as Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15. In 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. In 1966, Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts be came the first black to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote. Five years ago: The European Community and Cana da imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an at tempt to stop the Balkan civil war. One year ago: Retired Gen. Colin Powell embraced the Republican Party, but said he would not run for pres ident or any other political office in 1996 because it was “a calling that I do not yet hear.” ► Today’s Birthdays Actor Norman Lloyd is 82. Actress June Havoc is 80. Actor-director Gene Saks is 75. CBS newsman Morley Safer is 65. Actor Alain Delon is 61. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 47. TV personality Mary Hart is 45. Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 42. Singer-actor Leif Garrett is 35. Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith is 28. Today Clear skies with light north winds. 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