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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — More
than 150 police officers are gearing up for the
traditional Texas A&M University bonfire, ex
pected to draw up to 70,000 people Tuesday
night in advance of the annual Aggies-Long-
horns matchup on Friday.
Officers from the campus, College Station
and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commis
sion will converge near the bonfire site to en
sure students act appropriately.
“A lot of people, not necessarily students,
will try and sneak in booze,” said Bob Wiatt,
director of the A&M police department.
‘There may be some people who are able to
get away with it because of the thousands and
thousands of people at bonfire, but if we catch
them, they’ll be appropriately dealt with.”
Last year, university police issued 59 cita
tions for minors in possession of alcohol and
arrested five people for public intoxication or
disorderly conduct, according to The Bryan-
College Station Eagle.
Additionally, city police responded to 21
traffic accidents and 65 loud party complaints,
said Major Mike Patterson of the College Sta
tion Police Department. Patterson said officers
will patrol the city’s streets before and after
bonfire to prevent such problems.
‘‘People have started to expect a warning
the first time we cbme out, but in most cases
we’re going to issue citations,” he said.
The bonfire is an annual tradition since 1909
to get students fired up for the big game against
rival Texas, referred to derogatorily as t.u. The
only year the bonfire was not lit was 1963, fol
lowing President Kennedy’s assassination.
This year’s bonfire, held at the school's
polo field, will be 55 feet tall and 90 feet wide,
made with some 8,000 post oak logs cut down
by students, said university spokesman
Jonathan Kraatz. The stack will be lit at 8:18
p.m. Tbesday.
The bonfire ceremony features perfor
mances by the Aggie band, school cheers
called “yells,” and pep talks by administra
tors, football players and coaches.
“This is probably one of the better years
for the bonfire because both football teams are
doing fairly well,” Kraatz said. “The student
body is getting ready for it.”
Graveside services!
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his home in Bryan.
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the Corps of Cadets.
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NEW YORK (APJ —
Philip Morris USA, the na
tion’s biggest tobacco com
pany, raised wholesale
prices of Marlboros and its
other cigarette brands by a
record 45 cents a pack on the
day the industry sealed a
mammoth legal settlement
with the states.
No. 2 R.J. Reynolds Tobac
co Co. joined the move Mon
day and others were expected
to follow suit on what one an
alyst called the biggest U.S. cig
arette price hike ever. It could
push the average retail price of
cigarettes to $2.45 a pack, and
the price of premium brands
like Marlboro even higher.
Analysts had widely pre
dicted a price increase of 35
cents to 40 cents a pack to pay
for the tobacco settlement to
resolve states’ claims for re
imbursement for providing
health care to sick smokers.
But the increase Philip
Morris announced Monday to
its wholesale customers was
slightly larger than expected.
David Adelman, tobacco
analyst for Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter, said smokers
may be stuck with an even
bigger price rise of about 50
cents a pack as distributors
and retailers add a nickel to
the wholesale price hike.
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Hutchison wants tougher action against Saddam
“It is also neat to have something to show for our efforts be
yond a model,” she said. “Our designs will actually be built.”
Mann said his students have worked hard with beautiful
results.
“The end product will most likely reflect ideas from all
their designs,” he said.
When completed, the Matagorda County Birding Nature
Center will be a focal point of natural-resource tourism in
Matagorda County.
The center will provide activities, examples, education
and enhancement of natural resources.
AUSTIN (AP) — The
Clinton administration has
n’t taken a hard enough line
with Iraq over the inspection
of suspected weapons sites,
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchi
son charged Monday.
“What we’ve got to do is
show Saddam Hussein that
we mean business. He has
walked up to the line and
walked away, and walked
up to the line and walked
away,
he’s
calling
shots
And I
it’s time that
America
called the
shots,” the
Texas Repub
lican said af-
HUTCHISON
ter a speech to the Execu
tive Women in Texas Gov
ernment Annual Profes
sional Development
Conference.
“I think if he refuses to
let us see a site that the in
spectors believe is being
used to make weapons, that
we should then evacuate,
give notice and take that
site out,” said the senator,
who has been a longtime
critic of the administration’s
foreign policy in Iraq,
Bosnia and elsewhere.
Hutchison has carved out
a niche for herself on military
matters through her role on
the Senate Appropriations
subcommittee that funds the
Defense Department. She is a
former member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
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