’zKa.kbeiii
Your
2 Engagement Ring
Custom Jewe fry Headquarters
2205 Longmire Suite F • 695-1328
Financing Available
The Battalion
Classified Advertising
• Easy* Affordable • Effective
For information, call
845-0569
Fall/Spring Internships
WITH
Northwestern
Mutual Life®
The Quite Company
htt|):/www. NorthwesternMutu.il.c
■ Fortune’s "Most Admired” Company
• “America’s Top Internships” - one of
I997’s top ten intership programs
> “Jobs 96” -Insurance sales compensation
averaged $50,000 per year, increasing to
$70,000 after 10 years. In fact, 20% of all
insurance sales agents earned over
$100,000 in 1996
Full-Time Positions for ‘97 graduates
Austin/College Station (512) 327-3868
San Antonio (210) 490-3133
Houston (281) 583-4330
The Battalion
Thursday - July 24,
JHelp£in
Student
Counseling
friimmnutmtr
Weekdays 4 pm to 8 am Q A JZ 0”7fin
Weekends 24 Hours a Day Ot"0"^-/UU
© I'm upset. We just broke up & I need to talk to someone. 0 I think I hate my major. How can I
find the right one for me? 0 I'm stressed out,' What can I do? 0 I'm on scho pro-worried about
Student Counseling Service have a group for someone like me? © I'm lonely.
kSCall the Helpfitte at 845-2700®
improvisational comedy
We’re back.
Friday, July 25
10 p.m. Dixie Theatre
(doors open at 8)
Tickets are $6 available in advance at Rother’s
Bookstores and Marooned Records.
http://http.tamu.edu: 8000/~fslip
Body
Continued from Page 1
Police said the body bore a self-in
flicted gunshot wound. Local televi
sion reports said a .40-caliber hand
gun, the same type of weapon
Cunanan was believed to have used
in a cross-country killing spree, was
found near the body.
More than 100 police and FBI
agents descended on the large blue,
two-story houseboat after a caretak
er told officers he heard a gunshot in
side the residence. Police set up a
perimeter around the houseboat,
which sits on a branch of the Intra
coastal Waterway called Indian
Creek, and closed off Miami Beach’s
busy Collins Avenue for several
blocks.
At one point during the four-hour
standoff, officers in black flak jackets
fired volleys of tear gas and shouted
“Come out! Come out!”
Minutes later, at least six SWAT
team members carrying rifles and a
shield walked slowly in a line into the
house. After nearly an hour inside,
police announced their search had
come up empty. But after a more in
tensive, room-by-room search, they
found the body.
A source told the AP that the
body was found on the second floor
of the houseboat, where bedrooms
are located. The source said investi
gators believe the shot that the care
taker heard may have been the one
that killed the man.
Cunanan, a 27-year-old de
scribed by his mother as a gay
gigolo, was the prime suspect in
Versace’s killing and four other
slayings. He had managed to es
cape capture even though his pic
ture has been plastered on televi
sion, newspapers, the Internet and
posters proclaiming him one of
the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives.
David Todini, who lives near the
houseboat, said he saw a map who fit
Cunanan’s description, wearing a
bandana and carrying a backpack
the night before Versace was killed.
“It looked out of place because
there was no sun, there was no rea
son for him to have a bandana on
his head,” Todini said. “I said to my
self, ‘This guy’s trying to disguise
himself.’”
The owner of the houseboat is
Torsten Reineck who runs a health
spa catering to gays a few blocks east
of the Las Vegas Strip. Reineck is not
listed in Las Vegas phone directories
and could not located for comment.
According to an FBI agent who
asked not to be identified, there is
no sign that Cunanan ever knew
Reineck.
Attention, Orientation Leaders!!
If you are interested In an
Executive committee position,
applications for the 97-98 Director Staff
will be available in 314 ymca
July 23rd through July 31st from
Sam to 5pm. Program Coordinator
applications will be available in September.
For more information call the aolp office @ 862-2746
or student Life orientation @ 845-5826
Congratulations to Brian Anglin, 97-98 AOLP Director!!
PART-TIME POSITIONS
Universal Computer Systems, Inc. is looking for candidates for the following positions at
our College Station office. Operating hours of the facility are 6 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday
through Friday and 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday. Candidates must be able to work at least
15 hours Monday-Friday & every other Saturday and have completed at least one
semester of college.
Data Entry - We handle computer repair for all our clients nation-wide, with over 60,000 pieces of
equipment per year. Our data entry positions are responsible for maintaining info on more than
2,000 parts shipped to & from the facility.
Cleaning and Reclamation - This group must maintain upkeep of all equipment received and
shipped from the facility. Involves disassembly of equipment, cleaning and reassembly
Technician Trainee - Technicians will learn to use an oscilloscope and multi-meter to
trouble-shoot and repair malfunctioning hardware. Each individual will be trained thoroughly in
the repair of one particular piece of equipment including CRT’s, terminals, keyboards, PC’s,
mainframes, controllers, modems, and others.
Parts Inventory - Responsible for maintaining inventory of more than 2,000 parts that the facility
may handle at any one time.
Support Staff - Deal with clients and techs via telephone to provide problem solving and clerical
support. Full time positions also available.
To apply, please call our Recruiting Department. E.O.E.
Universal Computer Systems, Inc.
(409) 846-1213
http://www.ucs-systems.com
DCS hires non-tobacco users only.
Perry
Continued from Page 1
Perry recently announced his
Republican candidacy for lieu
tenant governor of Texas in 1998.
Sharp also announced he would
run as the Democratic candidate
for lieutenant governor.
Perry said he competed with
Sharp several times before in run
ning for student offices.
“Each year I ran for office with
John,” Perry said.
“I don’t remember what exact
ly our titles were. We were class of
ficers our freshman and sopho
more years.”
Perry graduated from Texas
A&M, where he was a yell leader
his junior and senior year, in
1972.
Perry said he has fond memo
ries of his years at A&M.
“The four years I spent at
Texas A&M ... will always be four
of the most extraordinary years,
most satisfying years and most
stimulating years that I will ever
spend in my life,” he said.
Perry was a pilot in the U.S. Air
Force from 1972 to 1977 and was
discharged with the rank of cap
tain.
That same year, Perry returned
to his home in Haskell, Texas to be
come a partner with his father on
the family ranch.
Sharp returned to the area
when then-Gov. Bill Clements
appointed him to the Texas Real
Estate Research Centers Adviso
ry Board in 1980.
In 1984, Perry was elected to
the Texas House of Representa
tives.
Shortly after his second term
in the Texas Legislature, Perry
was elected to the Appropria
tions Committee.
“That got me more closely en
twined with Texas A&M’s busi
ness,” Perry said.
Perry was elected agriculture
commissioner in 1990.
Sharp
Continued from Page 1
“I have never had a political
race as hard and demanding as
student body president at A&M,"
he said. “You’ve got the Coips, the
fraternities, the non-regs and
everyone else on campus to think
about.”
^ ^ I have never
had a political race
as hard and
demanding as
student body
president at A&M.”
John Sharp
State comptroller
After graduation, he was com
missioned as second lieutenant
in the United States Army Re
serves. Four years later, Sharp re
ceived a master’s degree in pub
lic administration from
Southwest Texas State University
while working for the Legislative
Budget Board in Austin.
Sharp was elected to the Texas
House of Representatives from
Victoria in 1978, and he served as
a state senator in 1982. He also
was elected Texas railroad com
missioner in 1986.
After serving in the Texas Leg
islature, Sharp was elected state
comptroller in 1990 and was re
elected in 1994.
Ross Ramsey, campaign man
ager for Sharp, said it would be an
honor for Texas to have Sharp as a
lieutenant governor, because
Sharp has a strong background in
government.
Sharp said his political science
degree from A&M taught him
lot about government opci
tions. He said the political s
ence classes he took influent!
his decision to go into politics.
Cary Halter, faculty adviser
the Aggie Democrats and a pi
lessor of political science,
Sharp lias been very successful]
his career.
“ He’s a former student of i
I lalter said, “and he’s donean
cellent job as comptroller,
greatly improved the agency.’
Halter said Sharp always r )
strong campaigns in the pash
that will show in this election.
Sharp said being an Ag
makes him proud. Hesaidei
ployers hire Aggies because
qualities that they develop at A8J
“When kids come fromAsW 16
they come with savvy and int
live,” Sharp said. “And with to
good qualities, they also havegot
leadership skills. leadership to
ing at A&M is far better than a. 5
other place.”
Sharp said his office hiresali 1
01
of Aggies as interns each yearly
cause of their potential andedi
cation background.
During his term in offi
Sharp created the Texas Torn
row Fund, which is a pre-ptiw
college tuition plan that alio*! Irttl
families to lock in future colleg
tuition costs at about what to
would pay today. Sharp ak 110
helped start the Lone Starcardi ! ' sl
switch from paper food stamj
coupons to computerized bad It.
type cards that reduce fraud an”
abuse in the federal program.
Sharp is proposing a $485nii
lion-a-year program to paylo
college tuition, fees and booksfo to
students in Texas who maintai md
an "average” grade point averagf
Under this program, anystudeu
who is accepted to apublicorpri
vale Texas college, universityoi
junior college would beeligibleti
receive a tuition grant.
Sharp, 46, is married to Char-|we|
lotte Han and has a son, Spencei
and a ciaughter, Victoria.
I
or
Swiss banks publish lists
of Nazi-era accotmt holdeu
LONDON (AP) — Fiona Goetz was astounded
Wednesday to find her late husband’s name was on a
list of Nazi-era Swiss bank account holders. In New
York, Greta Beer burst into tears when she discovered
her father’s was not.
Around the globe, people pored over the list of about
2,000 names of World War Il-era depositors published
Wednesday in newspapers from New York to London
to Moscow.
The unprecedented step was taken by the Swiss
banks — under international pressure — in an effort to
finally reunite Holocaust victims or their heirs with lost
fortunes. But it also elicited memories of lost families
and friends — and raised as many questions as an
swers.
Beer, now in her 70s and living in Queens, N.Y., said
she has been trying for decades to obtain money she
says her father, Seigfrid Deligdisch, a Jewish textile mill
owner in what is now Ukraine, deposited in a Swiss
bank in the 1930s.
“They have expunged it. They have done away with
it. They have crossed it out,” she said, her eyes welling
with tears after failing to find his name on the list. “I
don’t believe it.”
In a trembling voice, Beer recounted how her father,
who did business around Europe and Egypt, would
come home to his family afterward. “Invariably, he
would tell us he had deposited the money in Switzer
land,” she said.
Her father died of natural causes in 1941. His fami
ly fled Europe and the war soon afterward, after all its
property was confiscated.
In country after country, the list generated surprise,
confusion — and anger that the banks had not done
more sooner to find the depositors.
Among those on the list were Andre Moulierac and
his widow, Madeleine, 86, who has lived at the same ad
dress in Nice, France, since 1936 — and whose family-
owned pharmacy has been in the same location for a
half-century.
Nazi gold claimants
Swiss banks published the names of World War Il-era depositors, and said tlwl»*
found $15 million more that may have belonged to Holocaust victims.
m
France
30%
Germany
16%
Austria
7%
Switzerland
6%
MM* ,0 M
w wlsl
Misctliinw id fq
(mostly East#
European counts
as the
it ad
0 rod
?rivl
To
Poll'
'associated with 1,756 separate accounts
(including joint accounts)
Italy
5%
"victims and nonvictims of teMo®
Some facts about the
list...
mm
**! The total current value of these accounts is 60.2 million Swiss Francs
(approximately 42 million U.S. dollars).
■ Approximately 10% of the accounts comprise 90% of the total value. TmlMs^
accounts have a value of 5,000 Swiss Francs (approximately 3,500 U.S. dolK 1
less.
indi
tusl
iJdth
about the list...
to How do you prove that yon arc a rightful owner of a dormant accomlot
you have any information on locating a rightful owner?
Fill out the Claim Form'" and return it no later than January 23, 1998. Sendtf
of any supporting evidence that is available. For verification, include a copfdr
passport, identification card or similar form of official photo-identification.
How much is the money worth now?
A national body will be set up to figure out how much the money has apprsdsl* 1
how much interest has been earned.
'"Claim forms can be obtained through the website at http://www.dormantact
or through Dormant Acounts Companies in the claimants country of residence.
Source: The Swiss Bankers Association
“What’s shocking is that the pharmacy has beet
the same place for 51 years. The name hasn’t chan?
Couldn’t they have sent a letter sooner?” asked#
son, Henri Moulierac.
“It’s scandalous... I am ready to make a fuss.
write to the bank,” said Moulierac, whose fatherdfle
15 years ago.
LIVE MUSIC - $4 A HEAD
(Free admission if you’re headless.)
Harvest Concert # 1
at Messina Hof
Saturday Night at 8
It’s outside. It’s fim. It’s cheap.
7/26: Superband Wasteband.
(covers from the 60s, 70s & 80s)
No reservations needed, just show up.
Bring your head, not your cooler.
Call (409) 778-9463 for more info.
etn
nsl
Jewell sues
paper for libe
NEWYORK (AP) — Richard)? 1
ell sued the New York Post for'
million Wednesday, saying he' 1
libeled and defamed by the ne' 1 fll
paper’s “fictionalized” coverage q
him while he was a suspecting
Olympic Park bombing.
The federal lawsuit citesasei*
of articles, headlines, photogra]
and editorial cartoons that?
peared in the newspaper in
days after The Atlanta Journal-C
stitution broke the story that Je"’
was a suspect.
“In essence, the NewYorkPo? ,,
literally created an individual,t) 'T 1
fictionalized a person and caD i
him Richard Jewell,” his lawyer) ^
Wood, said Wednesday.
A spokesman for the Post, * V
Smith, declined to comment,sal-
no one at the paper had seenit) 1