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WORK ■!» TRAVEL ABROAD Dominican Republic England Germany iMSC JL/T. Jordan Institute for InternationaC Jlzoareness Come to an Informational! October 8 October 13 October 20 October 22 6:00pm Rudder 502 8:30pm MSC231 1:00pm MSC230 7:00pm MSC 229 & r Ui&it 'll6- OnlUteJ Uttfx: l {JltfoAdUuutcuft*c.eJUc For more information or to Inform ua of your apacial need*, plaaae call tha Jordan Offlca at 846-8770 or coma viati ua in MSC 223*1. Page 10 • Wednesday, October 21, 1998 s rate Jurors view videotape in weapons trial South Texans begin flood clean Batt; Rising waters across the state claim at least 18 lives sincem J01 / _ Theatei* Arts Program. Presents THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize Winning October 15-17 & 21-24 Ruddier Forum 8:00 p.m. Tickets available at the MSC Box Office (409) 845-1234 www.tamu.edu/theater/ Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jurors in the trial of three men who allegedly plotted to use bio logical weapons against govern ment officials saw videotape Tues day of two of the accused men instructing a government infor mant where threatening e-mail should be sent. Jack Abbott Grebe Jr., Johnie Wise and Oliver Dean Emigh are charged with conspiring in a bizarre plot to use a weapon of mass destruction. The men al legedly plotted to use modified Bic lighters designed to propel cactus thorns coated with biolog ical toxins such as anthrax. Targets allegedly included Pres ident Clinton and his family, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and other federal, state and local offi cials and their families. The men are accused of sending threatening e-mails to the targets. On the videotape made at the in formant’s home office. Wise and Grebe are shown calling out gov ernment agency names off a list to the informant, John Cain. Cain is seen typing in the addresses, in serting names of officials and send ing the e-mail messages. In a tape-recorded conversation also played for jurors Tuesday, Cain and Wise on June 12 discussed a “Declaration of War” message. Cain tells Wise that the “Declara tion of War” e-mail had just been sent to government officials. SEGUIN, Texas (AP) — As flood- waters roared down the Guadalupe River into Victoria on Tuesday, river residents upstream in New Braunfels and Seguin cleaned up what was left of their homes. Many compared the flood to the one that struck Seguin and New Braunfels in 1972, when 18 people were killed in the area and residents suffered $17.5 million in damage. Water began rising Saturday as storms started to dump up to 20 inches of rain on parts of San Anto nio and surrounding areas. Now 60 counties are affected by flooding and at least 18 people have died . The damage is reminiscent of the 1972 flood, said Seguin police Lt. Reno Reiley, who had joined the force a few months before that tragedy. “It was bad then,” Reiley said. “This one is worse — consider ably worse.” “It was bad then (during 1972 floods). This one is worse — considerably worse.’ — Lt. Reno Reiley Seguin police officer The Guadalupe River at Seguin rose 32.5 feet above normal in 1972. Last weekend it rose to a record 36.5 feet above normal. As water rushed down the Guadalupe through a series of lakes between New Braunfels and Seguin, which are about 15 miles apart, boats were washed along, too. Some houses along the river were washed off their foundations. Some lost walls or roofs. Other; major damage but couldb River docks werettej number of inner-tubeoui nesses along the Guad New Braunfels werewipejj National Guard ofi trolled damaged areast keeping onlookers and Ion and permitting only resida 7:30 p.m. curfew wasissut severely flooded areas. There was nototalda; mate availableyet.saidlic gan, emergency managa ordinator for the rityofSfl The town had beenni ter service since theweete was restored to most para by TUesday. Still, rityoiS vised residents to boil ta least three minutes befe and a number of restaua not offering fountain bet? |h Texas HMO faces first malpractices DALLAS (AP) — The family of a man who committed suicide by drinking antifreeze has filed what appears to be the first malpractice lawsuit against an HMO in Texas, claiming that NYLCare wrongly ordered him released from a psy chiatric ward. Joseph W. Plocica, 68, drank the antifreeze the night he was re leased from All Saints Hospital in Fort Worth, according to a suit filed Monday in Tarrant County. He died nine days later, on July 17, 1998. The suit alleges that a doctor working for NYLCare, Plocica’s health maintenance organiza tion, persuaded the hospital to discharge him “even though he was not yet medically stable, was still severely depressed and could not make a decisis on living.” Fort Worth attorney Parker Young said Plocicf chiatrist wanted him to the hospital up to twi weeks, but that a doctor! Care's contractor, Merit ioral Care Corp., indi HMO would not pay tional hospitalization. to:; s th dim mm e the < 'he be: youn [mental luld be [lie cun iools. Yi I, in tui (filiation help t lareness lost p< the p ially oy (ents an Idren tl planet |r hand |dany c ftance c ature, ty real m Childre |o partic come. 1 for a gr hicipate |und th t listen enviro lot onl ion in p [dents v\ ?xperiei iting a f life ir Today, i lirectioi PM Beta lambda , preserrts tattle of the Band* Crobnog Last Free Exit jigerous Jnething jved in f SMASH YOUR WAY ONTO LATE TELEVISION! Hey, you in the band. ^£\t er th© 15th Annuli Conan O’Brien College Band Search and you can win a trip to New York. How to win: Make a five-minute VHS video (no longer!). Send the tape to Conan O’Brien Band Search, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Room 4880E, New York, NY 10112. All videos must be received by November 30, 1998. Tapes will be judged on creativity, performance and eligibility (and can’t be returned). Entrants must be 18 or older to enter; 3/4 of members must be enrolled in college (or college- equivalent) by September 30, 1998. Runner-ups will receive a Late Night with Conan O’Brien sweatshirt or “Live From 6A” CD. Not in the band? You can be a winner, too! One winner (and guest or guardian) will win a trip to New York to see the winning band live on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Runners-ups will receive a gift certificate to The Gap, “Live From 6A” CD or an AT&T World Net CD-ROM. 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