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You must have: • Strong communication skills • Excellent customer service skills • GPA 2.5 or higher Starting wage $5.25 per hour Please apply at the Student Computing Center • Wylbur or any Open Access Lab. • VMS Call 845-8306 for more information • Working knowledge of one or more of these: • MS Office application • Windows NT and/or Mac 8.1 • Unix December Graduates Official Texas A&M Graduation Announcements on sale August 31 - October 9, 1998 For Information and to place your order access the Web at: http://graduation.tamu.edu All orders must be placed over the Web All payments must be received by October 9 MSC Box Office 845-1234 Mon-Fri 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Page 6 • Friday, September 4, 1998 1^ ews talion No survivors reported in Airswissc 137 Americans among229passengers believed killed when jet went down ink,£k NEW YORK (AP) — Minute by agonizing ■ ■ — , Crash close-up minute, the scene played itself out as the un thinkable happened again: A jetliner carrying more than 200 people crashed after taking off from Kennedy International Airport. While rescuers searched the cold waters off Nova Scotia through the night for survivors of Geneva-bound Swissair Flight 111, friends and family began arriving at the airport in early morning blackness to begin a desperate vigil, hoping against hope to hear that their loved ones were alive. Swissair said there were no survivors. The jetliner with 229 people aboard crashed off the coast of the southeastern Canadian province late Wednesday, about an hour into the flight. The pilot had reported smoke in the cockpit and attempted an emergency landing at Halifax International Airport. Rabbi Edgar Gluck, a Port Authority police chaplain, said six or seven families gathered at an airport hotel. “Right now they’re still in denial because that’s the normal reaction,” he said. He described them as in subdued shock, trying to make sense of what happened. Michelle Auster, a spokesperson for the Red Cross, similarly described the fami lies: “They’re in a state of shock.” The rabbi said he counseled relatives to “hold themselves together.” When they first arrived at the airport early this morning, friends and relatives of those on board watched news of the crash trickle in on televisions Delta Air Lines set up for them in its first-class lounge. Delta, which sold some tick ets on the flight under an agreement with Swis sair, also sent crisis counselors. “There appears to be a tragedy unfolding off the coast of Nova Scotia,” Manuel Sager, deputy consul general for the Swiss Consulate in New York, said as he arrived at the airport today. NOVA SCOTIA Swissair Right 111 bound for Geneva crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia late Wednesday. The pilot reported smoke in the cockpit and attempted an emergency landing at Halifax International Airport. A glance at the details. 'y\ Blandlord TPoggys .Cove 9 Agg, BY ABBY LITTLE The Battalion Halit ax Swissair crash site McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Revealed at 1985 Paris Air Show Medium/tong-range airliner or freighter Wingspan: 169 ft. 6 in. Height: 57 ft. 9 in Length: 200 ft 10 in. Seating capacity: 226 to 410 -vJ IIJdM H,irbur Departs from New York': JFK Interr | at 8:17 p.m. la senior Danielle needs 18 goals to ?cord for goals in .• senior Emily El n on the Texas / m when the Ag Source: Jane’s Ah the World's Aircraft. AP research Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told reporters that he met with three people who lost loved ones in the crash, including a friend of his whose brother was on Flight 111. “He’s very distraught, obviously," Giuliani said from a command center set up at a Rama da Inn hotel near the airport. The scene at Kennedy was reminiscent of an other summer night two years ago. Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic min utes after takeoff from Kennedy on July 17, 199( Ail 230 people aboard. Government officials we manifest with airline official? ilies early today, said Inspect: of the Port Authority Police names were released. The New York and New Jersey op Red Cross workers also w help families that were gath lounge. The city Departmen: and Delta also sent counseio topoulos, and it sure Fotopoulos 'hat total, played against he ying for the Aggi teams,” Elias s makes me play n Gators have 10 st from their 1' Champii team. C eight w on th when t in 1996. Fotop All-Ame USA Team mi out las nee injury, soccer coach G. > Florida lineup and speed mat. tougli for the h. ida comes in wit Danielle Fotopo >t, 11-inches, a IIERI Northwest ordered to resume 17 flights MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As two commuter carriers for Northwest Air lines were ordered to resume flights to 17 isolated communities, the air line and its striking pilots agreed to meet for “exploratory” talks. The news came Wednesday as Northwest laid off more than half its work force — 27,500 employees — and canceled all domestic flights through Labor Day and inbound flights from Europe and Asia through Tliesday. “This is a sad day for Northwest Airlines,” said Dewayne Tlicker, Northwest vice president for hu man resources. Those laid off included flight attendants, mechanics, customer service employees and other ground workers. Because of the layoffs, it will take the airline eight to 10 days to resume a full flight schedule when the strike ends, spokesman Jon Austin said. Thursday was the sixth day of the strike. Both sides have agreed to meet for “exploratory” talks in Chicago on Saturday at the request of fed eral mediators. The National Medi ation Board was careful not to de scribe the talks as negotiations. Northwest has about 50,000 em ployees, including the 6,100 pilots who walked out Friday night. The two sides are separated on issues of compensation and job security. North Dakota’s congressional delegation has asked President Clin ton to halt the strike by ordering a 60-day cooling-off period. North Dakota’s Republican governor, Ed Schafer, has made three separate ap peals to Clinton to intervene, saying business deals were being damp ened by the strike. Today, Minneso ta Gov. Arne Carlson, also a Repub lican, asked Clinton to intervene. The White House has said Clin ton is concerned about the eco nomic impact of the strike on parts of the country but hopes, the dis pute will be settled without federal intervention. Rep. Jim Oberstar said he spoke with White House officials today who remained firm in opposition to intervention. Oberstar, the senior Democrat on the House Trans portation Committee, said the sides Earl downgra to tropical sti following lani ch, who was Hi; f the Year this iso 5-foot, H-ir lus, they have i the back and . alkeeper. They . e top three athl )untry. ” ators also addec art, who transfi ty of Michigan. "Get serious about negotiating. No one is going to come in and rescue you.” — Rep. Jim Oberstar House Transportation Committee in the strike could resolve their dif ferences in one day once they set aside their animosity. To the airline, Oberstar said: “Get serious about negotiating. No one is going to come in and rescue you.” Northwest is the nation’s sixth- largest airline in terms of passen gers carried annually and the fourth-largest in revenue. It carries nearly 150,000 passengers a day and 2.9 million pounds of cargo on 1,700 flights in North America, Eu rope, Asia and India. John Collins '97 invites you to... 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Along the Gulf Coast, the hurri cane swamped homes with its 11- foot storm surge, flattened trees and utility poles, lifted roofs off and knocked out power to tens of thou sands of people in Florida and Al abama. Panama City got 23 inches of rain. “A couple of times I was pretty scared,” said Ttacey Packard, a TV meteorologist from Jacksonville. “It was intense.” Packard rode out the storm with about 150 people on Florida’s St. George Island who ignored an evacuation order and were cut off Wednesday night when water washed over the only bridge to the mainland. The bridge reopened around noon Thursday. A tornado ahead of the storm killed one person and left another missing on St. Helena Island in South Carolina. The storm also spun off twisters in Florida, Geor gia and North Carolina. On the water, two fishing boats, the Can-Too and the Me-Too, flipped three miles off Panama City, tossing all six fishermen into 16- foot seas. Two of the men were found clinging to an overturned boat, one was rescued hanging onto debris and a fourth was found in a life raft. The two other men were listed by the Coast Guard as missing, but a body that washed ashore in Pana ma City Beach was believed to be that of one of them. Two other men whose sailboat capsized near Shell Island swam about three-quarters of a mile to Tyndall Air Foret cue boat was fort: py water and h$j By early eveni: storm was center? South Carolinalir* power outages ar: 200 miles ALA. GA. Panama City X-Msc:' ’h Gulf of Mexico Position: 32.1^ Moving: NEaf^' Sustained wiixii 1 Wind gusts:55r : As of: Thur.jT 1 85*Q Source: AccuWeathet reported. The rein? pected to drift into- way of North Caro this weekend. Flash flood waif feet in North Cartf “If we can getrf few days, it will ‘ beans,” said Jim soybeans, wheats corn is gone, andpf beans are falling or The hurricane W of 100 mph Wedne? perated forecaster?' tainty, first heading Louisiana before^ Florida. 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