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j ATTENTION ALL DEAD ELEPHANTS CLASS OF 1999! THIS FRIDAY, FEB. 19, by 5:00 RM. IS THE LAST DAY TO HAVE YOUR SENIOR PICTURE TAKEN FOR THE 1999 AGG/EM A/D YEARBOOK. AR PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOWTAKING SENIOR PICTURES FORTHE YEARBOOK. AR PHOTOGRAPHY IS LOCATED INTHE REDMONDTERRACE CENTER BETWEEN JASON'S DELI AND ACADEMY. REGULAR AND EXTENDED SITTINGS ARE AVAILABLE. HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY 9:00 a.m.-noon and 1:30-5:00 p.m.. PLEASE CALL 693-8183 FOR MORE INFORMATION. Page 6 • Monday, February 15, 1999 N ATION In the wake of impeachment e Battalion Lawmakers say Independent Counsel Act’s days STARR WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmak ers from both par ties saw almost no chance Sunday for survival of the Independent Counsel Act, which provided the framework for Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Clinton, when it comes up for renewal this year. “This law needs to terminate. I don’t want it to be amended. I want it to be ended,” Sen. Mitch Mc Connell, R-Ky., said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” The act passed in 1978 as the post-Watergate Congress sought a means to ensure that politics did not interfere when the president, his cabinet and other senior offi cials are investigated for wrongdo ing. It expires June 30 unless Con gress and the president approve its reauthorization. Attorney General Janet Reno, at the urging of Republicans, has sev en times asked for the naming of an independent counsel to investigate administration officials, most no tably Starr who has pursued Presi dent Clinton’s connections to Whitewater, TYavelgate, the FBI files and, finally, his affair with Monica Lewinsky, which led to Clinton’s impeachment. Democrats conteai abused the almost ers the act gives counsel, while joined Democrats amount of money spent more than $40 more than four the president. Another ind Donald Smaltz, $17 million lookinginti charges against formet Secretary Mike Espy Espy was acquitiet charges, and Clinton nocent of impeacl that grew out of Stan 1 tion. New Yorkers, Sharpton motorcade with body High school cam celebrations o of police victim , Jior guard Clift cites potential vi(i ainst the Kans NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of people in everything from trucks, taxis, beat-up cars and shiny Mercedes Benzes gathered Sunday in a sendoff to a West African immigrant whose death at the hands of police has outraged the black community. A motorcade of somber supporters assembled outside the headquarters of the Rev. A1 Sharpton’s National Action Net work in Harlem and accompanied Amadou Diallo’s family to Newark International Airport as they prepared to fly his body home to Guinea for burial. “It was in the midst of all this pain, a beautiful sight to see all these brothers and sisters driving down the highway,” said Sharpton, who was to accompany the family to Africa. “As we go to Guinea we must continue the struggle for jus tice here. ... This cannot be the end, but the beginning.” Four plainclothes police officers fired 41 bullets at Diallo, 22, as he stood in the vestibule of his apartment house in the Bronx on Feb. 3. Many have questioned why so many shots were fired. An attorney for the officers has said that police thought he was armed. At the time, the officers were searching for a rapist, who is still at large. The shooting is being investigated by the Bronx district attorney’s office with the assistance of the FBI. The officers have been placed on administrative non-enforcement duty. I On Sunday, many of the thousands who took part in the rpotorcade said they were trying to prevent another killing. “I am doing this so they don’t shoot any more of our peo ple,” said a taxi driver who identified herself only as Fatima. STA INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP)-A: is scrapping celebrations of Bk Month and Cinco de Mayo, word ethnic celebrations will spari I Inglewood High School, 10iE.r- downtown Los Angeles, has bee: tensions between black and H dents. The campus wa in a season fil day last May after a riot brokeou.:, men s gaskei of police were called in. )rt again Satin A task force found that the fig' decision to B gan, in part, because Hispanics (C0 . constitute about half the school: The Aggies ( felt slighted. Thev were angr.' ii e d by 13 poi was set aside to honor black he ight back to c a day to celebrate Cinco deMayo nt|66-65, will Instead of celebrating Black His: . and Cinco de Mayo, Principal Lowe With \2 secoi has told teachers to follow a “mui ne, sophomc ucation approach” throughout i r pc, who l year. nts, buried a t “Let's talk about all cultures a:, Ags within f tions all the time,” Winston said, ng inbounds has had racial problems that areur : 6-6 Big 12) ' old ways didn’t work.” gie forward ¥ February is marked by mar. Bears grabbe around the country as Black Hist ee-point attei May 5 is a national holiday in M re fouled to S' memorating an 1862 battle inwf A&M coach P defeated French occupation troops®*^ of Mexico City. THE ONLY THING BETTER IS AGGIELAND ITSELF. ou The 1998 AGGIELAND is here The nation's largest college yearbook - 768 pages • 2-1/4 inches thick Weighs more than 10 pounds RICK YOUR COPY UP TODAY! P icking up your 1 998 Aggieland is easy. 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