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iber 16,199; nenl tion i not allowing Magowan $; ^liere the Giati Braves, yers have said ft liave veto powi 3 not being ons. Some teait inn baseball her legal 1AGOWAN , OWNER at the resolufti aary, which cree nent committe ovision in the^ it protects a tea; its territoi ve to the NL, probably woii ig baseball neei mess,” Magow The Battalion iiesday • September 16, 1997 ON Plane losses precede Air Force anniversary Military crash WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air force, celebrating its 50th anniver- iary, was bruised by the spectacular oss of an F-l 17A stealth fighter at a Maryland air show and the mysteri- ius disappearance of one of its long- aulC-141 transports. The crash of a Navy jet in the ’ersian Gulf brought to 10 the lumber of servicemen presumed ost in U.S. military air accidents in two-day span. Aviation experts noted say there ras no apparent connection be- ween the three weekend incidents iven the disparate type of aircraft nd geographic separation. But the coincidence of timing ame as the Air Force sought to lerald its successes in the kickoff if its 50th anniversary celebration /londay. Defense Secretary William Cohen iaid tribute to the pilot of the F-l 17 ut did not mention the other inci- lents as he addressed the Air Force ssociation, a booster club. He said Maj. Bryan Knight dis- layed “courage and competence” nd “helped divert a much larger dis- ster" Sunday by steering his fighter t away from heavily populated ar- as outside Baltimore, Md. The secretary said video replays low Knight waited “until the final loment” to eject, something Cohen ailed “a compliment to the kind of ourage and dedication that is ex isted day in and day out by men nd women in the Air Force adl over le world.” lot immediali ne call, alignment deb; y, when the 19j 5 were assigned pa Bay to the he NL. a was a natural t, putting Tain: ast required stii plan was to mi :he East to : isas City from est, but the Roy: ; they didn't w Coast games a n late televisi tck home, lignment, Tam reed to play in anuary’s meet 3 with 15 lean interleague ga r . Plans to have igue and 14 im have gained su I GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — During his two weeks lost in the * Ravens^y™ National Forest, 50-year- |d mathematician David Vetter- o-minute gani|in had plenty of time to think the past.” >out how he might have done m s gave up b ings differently. He should have taken the CB ra- o his father offered. He should ve packed a lighter or fresh atches that wouldn’t fizzle out. should have brought a better ap and food that wouldn’t spoil. Soaked from a night of rain, ngry and without the strength even lift his hiking stick, Vetter- iiker is bund after wo weeks n forest kle kick return that can’t I e slower pace f returns to yards in kickoi turns to tin r announced ver necessary ims. That mean 1 rotate start;:, inie Marts, Jot arron Worthac rverage team j n j ust j ce p t walking, eventually ns iding a logging road. Oilers had Job Q n Sunday afternoon, he spied noring their spt ie pickup truck of Dan Speelman, he earned a tri] ^ was a uncertain of where lor his work. , was himself after a morning of he Raiders, are )w hunting for deer with his 10- ped up to fill® l ar . old S on. “He was walking along the road ie staiteis I ^ saw m ve hicle and started ngei players i l av j n g ^ arms ” Speelman said [onday. “He’s a real tall slender Ity and he looked pretty bedrag- Jed. When I stopped, he just said, , . ©h, thank God, thank God.”’ i s mi mg I „ ave me sandwiches and m img Sl| b Lt coffee, exactly what I needed,” an/'^said Martl” erlein said -J 1 was sufferinghy- teran who brof? 16 ^ at that point. cia j teams f 0 | Speelman drove Vetterlein to a n undrafted frei n g er station, where he ate a big pwl of soup, called his parents, nt into their lb M was checked out by emer- y The most sen Jnc y medical technicians, who > Pro Bowl safef renounced him fit. who has a frac j Vetterlein said he lost the trail rm on the second day of what was shop’s availabil jFPPOsed to be a three-day hike will depend o#d depended solely on his com be feels and lii:P : ‘ss until he found a logging road, iplint. |r s way was blocked by deep r Derek Russell >rges, steep slopes and impene- collarbone Julf able brush. d play. | Beans that he had stored in - lastic bags spoiled. He ate huck- pp berries and some other food that yOII SpOi ie had brought along, been to the po l [ “The things that saved me were lose dozen cornmeal muffins I lade before the trip and my father 3ceived ovatiot aying me some salmon jerky,” it Camden Yaii stterlein said. “It was too salty to eammates. Wilt at the beginning but saved me plate in the fir 1 the end.” Hood and cheerf About five days into his ordeal, is the song, “Yo helicopter flew over at treetop ion” played ov< !ve l to pick up a searcher who had ss system. kn injured, but Vetterlein could- mdout by Ma bget the pilot’s attention through Armando Benin le trees. He tied his red shirt to his md ahead in it diking stick and waved it at three immonds hit If bnes that flew overhead, but no ie bottom haifo f n e seemed to notice. During his ordeal, he thought of worked the nini P w he would never be able to tell is professor he had solved the roblem he had been working on, nd how he would go to church ivery Sunday if he ever got home. | "Towards the end there, it was just pray, pray, pray,” Vetterlein said. ssive years The 53 remaining F-l 17 stealth fighters were grounded as officials investigated the mishap. Meanwhile, the Pentagon was probing the mys terious Saturday disappearance — and possible midair collision—of an Air Force C-141 cargo plane with a German air force plane off the coast of Africa. Nine Americans and 24 Germans were feared dead. In the third incident, a Navy F-A- 18 fighter crashed Sunday in Oman, killing the pilot. The F-l 17 garnered fame with its night-time bombing runs on Bagh dad during the Persian GulfWar. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said Monday that he was introducing leg islation that would prohibit the use of F-l 17 fighters and B-2 bombers at air shows. Cohen responded that it would be best to await the formal outcome of the Air Force investigation. “I don’t think we should ever rule out any aircraft participating in shows. It could happen to any other type of aircraft that we have as well. Let’s wait and see what the facts show,” Cohen said. Pentagon officials argue that tax payers are the beneficiaries of such shows, because they allow the mili tary to display how the defense dol lar is being spent. As well, the shows are major recruiting tools for the all volunteer force. Warner, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the cost is just too high, assert ing the taxpayer pays $100 million a No survivors were found at the Ute where U.S. and German military planes are believed to have collided and plummeted into the ocean. Tupolev TU-154 Wingspan Length Height 123 feet, 2 1/2 inches (37.55 m) 157 feet, 1 3/4 inches (47.90 m) 37 feet, 4 3/4 inches (11.40 m) C-141 Starlifter Hi si JT • ! * 160 feet (48.5 m) 168 feet, 4 inches (51 m) 39 feet, 3 inches (11.9 m) Source: Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, United States Airforce Wingspan Length Height Sign your first book deal. Contracts for the 1998 Aggieland available now in 004 Reed McDonald. Don’t let your organization be left out! are copy for the F-l 17. “We only have 53 left and they are needed for special missions in the national security interests of this country, and I just do not be lieve that type of asset can be put at this type of risk,” the senator said on the Senate floor. The B-2, which was built to use nuclear wapons and evade the radar of the former Soviet Union, cost $2 billion a plane, making it the most expensive aircraft ever built. It recently has been outfitted to conduct long-range conven tional bombing runs. “I feel it is a matter of principle that this nation cannot subject that costly an aircraft, one that is essential to the performance of a very special ized mission, in this type of circum stance,” Warner said. Military seals off jet crash site MIDDLE RIVER, Md. (AP) — Citing national securi ty, military police kept nine families from returning to their homes Monday, seized photographers’ film and cordoned off the site of a stealth fighter crash as they searched for pieces of an aircraft whose very existence was once a state secret. The clamp down in this quiet waterfront neighbor hood began almost immediately after the F-117A jet went down during an air show performance Sunday, crashing into a house and causing six minor injuries on the ground. “There was military everywhere. This road was full, the sky was loaded. I tell you it was something,” said Paul Canatella, standing in his driveway less than a 100 yards from the mangled canopy, which was watched by two armed military guards. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Canatella said. “You name it they were here.” Three blocks of the Baltimore suburb were quickly evacuated and military troops moved in to scour the area for pieces of the $45 million, black, bat-winged plane. "It is a secret aircraft, obviously we want to protect it the best way we can,” said Capt. Drew Sullins, a Mary land National Guard spokesman. Film was confiscated from members of the media, including Associated Press photographer Roberto Borea, who had chartered a boat to take him to the neighborhood. “As soon as we stepped on shore, the military was there and that was it,” Borea said. “Had I chosen not to surrender my equipment, I would have been tak en into custody.” Sullins said pool photographers were later allowed on the scene for a few minutes Monday under tight mil itary supervision. The boomerang-shaped F-117A Nighthawk uses special design and materials to avoid enemy radar. Dur ing much of the 1980s, it was so secret the military did n’t acknowledge its existence. It was used in the GulfWar against heavily defended Iraqi targets because of its strange shape, tight con struction and special surface paint, to evade radar and radar-guided missiles. Amateur video of Sunday’s crash showed a piece of the aircraft, apparently from the tail or a wing, flying off before the wedge-shaped jet went down in a slow spin as the pilot ejected safely. Retired bomber pilot Norman Mack said he called the military to come retrieve the first two pieces he saw fall off the plane; they landed in shallow water behind his house. Mack said several boats showed up and offi cials called his daughter later asking permission to re trieve a smaller piece of debris from her boat. Emma Wetzelberger, a clerk at Wilson Point Liquors near the airport, said dozens of diners at the restaurant she was in Sunday night couldn’t return in the boats they had used to get there because the military had closed down the Middle River. AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 17, 1997 Undergraduate Student Requirements: 1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 undergraduate credit hours reflect ed on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.) 2. 30 undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that prior to January 1,1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully completed a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing (as defined in the University catalog). 60 undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify under the successful semester requirement. Should your degree be con ferred with less than 60 undergraduate resident credits, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student Information Management System. 3. You must have a 2J) cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. Graduate Student Requirements If you are a December 1997 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements: 1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System; and 2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. If you have completed all of your degree requirements and can obtain a “Letter of Completion" from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion, with the seal, may be presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted. Procedure To Order A Rina: 1. If you meet all of the above requirements and you wish to receive your ring on November 13,1997, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednesday. September 17,1997 to complete the appli cation for eligibility verification. 2. If your application is approved, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Discover, Visa or Mastercard (with your name imprinted) no later than Friday, September 19,1997. Men’s 10K-$294.00 Women’s 10K - $171.00 14K - $399.00 14K - $197.00 Add $8.00 for Class of '96 or before. 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