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City Desk Campus and Community News Night News Desk Reporter Aggielife Desk Lifestyles and Entertainment Feature Writer Page Designer Front and inside page Design Page Designer Web Desk Web designer Sports Desk Sports Writer Page Designer Radio Radio reporter Opinion Desk Columnist Editorial Writer Visual Arts Desk Graphic Artist Cartoonist Office Staff Office Clerk (see application in Room 013 Reed McDonald) Photo Desk Photographer Copy Desk Copy Editor Please answer these questions on a separate piece of paper. Please type your answers. 1) Why do you want to work at The Battalion, and what do you hope to accomplish? 2) What experience do you have that you feel qualifies you for the position? 3) What are some things about the section for which you are applying that you like and dislike? Please explain. 4) What classes have you taken that you feel will help you in your job at The Battalion? 5) Please attach samples of your work (stories you have written for other publications or classes, pages you have designed, or other art you have created) INFORMAITONAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4 AT 8:30 P.M. IN ROOM 003 REED MCDONALD IN E w s Thursday • December; Bomb linked to Islamic militan PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of soldiers and police patrolled the streets of Paris today after a deadly bombing on a crowded commuter train, a newspa per said investigators suspect Islamic militants. Almost 1,000 officers were on duty at train sta tions, airports and other public places in Paris in a return of anti-terrorism measures imposed after a wave of bombings by Algerian militants in the French capital last year. Two people were killed and 35 seriously wound ed, seven of them critically, when a bomb exploded on a commuter train as it was pulling into a station near the famed Latin Quarter on Tuesday night. No one has claimed responsibility, but Le Monde said investigators consider Islamic militants prime suspects. Prime Minister Alain Juppe told the National As sembly that there were “great similarities” between the bombing and last year’s attacks. But Foreign Ministry spokesman Jacques Rummelhardt said “Al geria is just a hypothesis. Everything is possible.” A chemical analysis showed the explosive pow der used in the latest bomb was identical to that in the 1995 bombs, said a Justice Ministry source. Le Monde quoted “an official source” as saying there had been numerous alerts of an attack in re cent months. An internal document written by France’s coun terespionage agency said an Algerian radical living in Afghanistan was preparing to “commit an attack against French interests,” Le Monde quoted the document as saying. Algerian Islamic militants consider France’s tacit support of Algeria’s army-backed government a major obstacle to their fight to establish an Islamic state in die former French colony in northern Africa. Subway bomb An explosion from a bomb placed under a seat tore apart a packed Paris subway car at rush hour Tuesday. Saint-Michel state- 1 Montparnasse station "Everyone had the impression these kindso were over,” computer consultant David Couloi bus stop in Paris, not far from the site of them: blast. “It’s anguishing because wherever we® no place to hide." The bomb was in a 28-pound gas canister, Minister Jean-Louis Debre said today thatnr black powder were found at die site. “The government and I are determined: against terrorism in all its forms,” President! 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The aim is to provide cheap, temporary housing to people try ing to get back on their feet. But some HUD offices have done such a poor job of monitor ing fhe groups that many have abused the program, letting friends\relatives or others live in the houses, according to internal HUD investigative documents and audits obtained by The Asso ciated Press. “It’s just too easy to cheat,’’ said D. Michael Beard, inspector general for HUD’s Southwestern district. “We believe the program should be eliminated.” The agency is not ready to scrap the program yet. But un der pressure from Congress, it said last month that no new leases would be issued as of Jan. 1. More than 300 o:j:' tions — mainly privately , ed homeless coalitior,! community service grot; hold leases on l,289 oi homes around the countn HUD acquired theproj* through foreclosures ofgis, ment-guaranteed home f The program receives no: funding, although thedt; ment absorbs thecostoi I ing the homes, which# otherwise be sold. 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