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MSC Flagroom, 12:00 p.m. Friday, November 21 Interested in competing against a fellow Aggie and a faculty member for prestige and prizes? Answer the following questions and return them to the Political Forum cube in the Student Programs Office on the second floor of the MSC by 12:00 p.m. on November 20. 1. Who was Jimmy Carter’s vice president? 2. What was the theme of Ross Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign? 3. How many representatives are in the Texas House? 4. Who is the Secretary General of the United Nations? 5. In what year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated? Political Forum i » » ft it » World Tuesday • November 18,19 Tourists killed as gunmen open' fire at famous Egyptian templer LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on tourists outside a 3,400-year-old temple in southern Egypt today, and then battled police in a three-hour firefight. At least 70 people, including 60 foreigners, were killed in the deadliest attack on tourists in Egypt. The assailants, who the govern ment and police say were Islamic militants, burst into the courtyard of the Hatshepsut Temple in a desert outside Luxor and fired a hail of bullets at dozens of tourists who had just gotten off a bus, police said. Local police said as the panic- stricken tourists ran or fell to the ground, police guarding the site re turned fire. Six attackers and two policemen were killed, they said. Authorities later rounded up a large number of suspects. The attackers tried to hijack the bus to flee, but were fired on by police. Among the dead, witness es and police sources said, were three elderly French tourists who stayed on the bus rather than go into the temple. The Interior Ministry, however, said one assailant was killed on the scene and five fled in the bus. Those five were chased by police into nearby hills, and were killed, a statement said. The assailants were carrying six machine guns, two handguns and hand-made explo sives, it said. The Information Ministry put the overall death toll at 70 — 60 for eigners and 10 Egyptians, the latter group including the six assailants, two policemen and two civilians. The updated casualty figures were released followed a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak, members of his Cabinet and security officials. While the government provided no breakdown by nationality, the Interior Ministry earlier said Swiss, German and Japanese tourists were among the dead. Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Franz Egle said 20 Swiss tourists were missing and pre sumed dead in the Luxor attack. The Swiss government set up a tele phone hotline for people worried about their relatives. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said 25 people were wounded, in cluding 16 foreigners. Eight of the injured were in serious condition at a Cairo hospital. Four others were treated and discharged, the ministry said. State-run Cairo TV referred to the attackers as “terrorist ele ments,” a phrase usually reserved for Islamic militants seeking to oust Mubarak’s secular government and replace it with strict Muslim rule. To that end, the militants have target ed the country’s lucrative tourism industry, launching deadly attacks, mainly in southern Egypt. Some 1,100 people have been killed since the insurgency began in 1992. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for today’s violence. Militants who have staged previ ous attacks have sought the impo sition of Islamic law, including a ban on alcohol, the veiling of women and a tax on religious mi norities. The militants consider it their religious duty to fight a gov ernment that does not impose such law, called Sharia. Local police said some assailants may have escaped and could be hiding at a graveyard near the tem ple, 315 miles south of Cairo. But the Interior Ministry maintained all the attackers had been killed. Egypt’s Middle East News Agency said Interior Minister Has- san el-Alfy and Health Minister Is mail Sallam had rushed to Luxor, which is famed for its pharaonic-era temples oniJiJ bank of the Nile. L A curfew was imposed in f '> 3F /1J bill cIm/c/l til rr,>i)lr wen; streets to protest the attack Y possible negative l,ft ' ects R e> l tourism, the city’s lifeblood | 1 Until now, the city has bet: I I >f militant violr f Bicti Id a | 4o| a lively free which has been centered i towns of Minya or Assiut.fc north, with policemen and( Christians frequently targeted The militant violence had tinned unabated. Most recet Sept. 18, nine Germans and: Egyptian driver were killec gunmen opened fire on at front of the Egyptian Musen: Cairo. Two brothers were com: in the assault and were seme to death last month. Theyclai they were defending Islam bit thorities insisted they werenoi! of any organized group. Prior to today’s attack, thedi best assault on foreignmiolj ougtf took place on April 18, 1996,11: leiof men with automatic rifleskilei \&m| Creek tourists and wounded Unfol other people outside theEim dscal Hotel near the pyramids inCaii i5 e( j J Restoration of Windsor brings positive coverage to troubled royal family WINDSOR, England (AP) — Every cloud has a silver lining, they say — perhaps even the clouds of fire and smoke that gutted parts of the castle that gave the British roy al family its name. On Monday, five years and $63 million later, the renovation ofWindsor Castle was declared complete, with the damaged rooms more glittering and gilded than ever. And more of them are being opened to the public than before the blaze. All of this comes just in time for the 50th wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, who have invited royal ty from all over Europe to a golden jubilee dinner Thursday night in the renovated St. George’s Hall at Windsor, the queen’s fa vorite weekend home. “The queen ... said it was marvelous, and that she was absolutely delighted,” said Michael Peat, keeper of the Privy Purse, recounting a party the queen threw Friday for 1,500 people involved in the restoration project. The fire in 1992 — which was started by a curtain resting on a high-intensity spot light —- capped what the queen called her “annus horribilis,” a year that also saw the collapse of the marriages of her sons, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew. But the renovations were completed ahead of schedule and about $5 million un der budget — in part by driving hard bar gains with contractors. “Everyone wanted to be involved in the restoration ofWindsor,” said JohnTiltman, director of property services for the royal family. “I’d be flabbergasted if anyone in volved made a profit.” Moreover, the royal handlers raised 70 percent of the money from fees paid by the public to visit the monarch’s downtown home at Buckingham Palace. The remain ing 30 percent came from government cof fers, said Dickie Arbiter, spokesman for the Royal Collection Trust, which manages the family’s art collection. The doors of Windsor Castle’s refur bished Upper Ward will be opened to the public Dec. 27, about six months earlier than originally planned. Other portions of the sprawling white stone castle, which sits atop a hill above the River Thames 20 miles west of London, were re-opened to tourists shortly after the Nov. 20, 1992, fire. Renovators took advantage of the work to shift the location of the private chapel, where the fire started, and to redesign the 180-foot-long St. George’s Hall. They used freshly cut English oak to heighten the pitch of the 19th-century ceiling and cre ate the illusion of a gothic banquet hall, in the spirit of the 1,000-year-old royal home. “The restored rooms are the jewel in the crown,” said Adam Nicolson, author of "Restoration: the Rebuilding ofWindsor Castle.” Of the 115 rooms damaged in the fire, the nine main rooms that were worst hit re tain their original furniture and art. Most of it had been removed to rewire that section of the palace when the fire broke out, and workers managed to move much of the rest to safety as flames swept through the an cient roof timbers. The rooms gleam with gold gilt, sparkling chandeliers and silk damask wall coverings. Archaeologists picking through the rub ble made several discoveries — the most spectacular being a deep well that appears to date to shortly after William the Con queror built a primitive castle on the site af ter he led the Norman invasion of England in 1066. The British media, which has often been critical of the royal family, gushed over the restoration of the castle, with British TV networks beaming live coverage of Mon day’s preview tour for journalists. Difficulties r continue to plague Mir ^^ come; MOSCOW (AP) —A computer breakdownadp eling heat on the Mir space station againhaifiest ed the stamina of its Russian-U.S. crew, butiOM! ^ildrel overcome both problems, space officialssaidroda Win! Mir’s motion control compuier shut dew^ry al Friday during a test, causing a power shortage-[ions ail a recurring problem earlier this year. When tt hny if computer goes down, so does the gyroscopes? lodies I tern that keeps the station’s solar panels pointi iken o| at the best angle to soak up energy from thesu heir co[ As in previous instances, the resulting poll tormall shortage forced the crew to switch off most sf ipstanJ terns and begin restarting the gyroscopes lepuhll process that usually takes two days. Onca Russians Anatoly Solovyov and PavelVin ision cl gradov, who have become experts in deaft lepublil with the problem, quickly restarted the col Ives. Rif puter and had the gyroscopes back on byeat ectoftl today, said Mission Control spokesman Valfl lapping Lyndin. They are accompanied on the Mill )avis| U.S. astronaut David Wolf. halanc- Lyndin wouldn’t comment on the reason! 1 1'earsenl the latest computer failure, but deputy Misi heoldel Control chief Viktor Blagov told the ITAR-Jf leceasej news agency that human error was to blame | 0U k t N Blagov said the shutdown occurred dumf ort ^ e C J test of one of Mir’s solar panels, which requi 11 of coj turning an adjacent panel away from the sun ^.^1 Ground controllers failed to notice a critic ^ jd drop in the power supply, which led to the col ] puter shutdown. j peen w| As recently as September, the Mir s worP 1 , g ^ computer was failing almost on a weekly basisi 1 v t ^ e | til a U.S. space shuttle delivered a new unit.!! 1 . ^ . replacement has operated faultlessly, Blagovs?' ‘ . : Another familiar Mir problem returned! 11 * c H week, when the temperature inside the static ( J rose to 86 degrees for several days. ' 2 r T ac | Lyndin blamed a combination of the statio 1 Mc ' ni | position in orbit and a minor flaw in the them 1 ' ant > ^ 0 'j control system. At the same time, the cool “row 11 o| system clogged — a routine problem that tot l °tonce, two days to fix, Lyndin said. * mes bef Since Solovyov and Vinogradov arrived in Aug f ^Hart rr conditions on the 11-year-old station have ii’ ir room \ proved steadily. Earlier this month they made s' e ed spacewalks unfolding a new solar panel, wH< brought Mir’s power supply almost to what it" 1 before a cargo ship rammed the station in June. iso tl High Quality Dependable . Brakes All At A Great r Meineke Price! meineke* D is count JVAufflors runt JVluffloe*: • 90 Days Same As Cash • No Annual Fee ATIVI Cards Accepted www.meineke.com Open Mon - Sat 8 am to 6 pm Bryan 408 S. Texas Ave. 775-0188 (Corner of 30th St.) Free Vwulercar Inspection &• Estimate Exhaust • Brakes • Shocks Struts • C.V. 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