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Page 2 • Monday, June 14, 1999 News The I Bi Mixing it up BRADLEY ATCHISON/Thk Battalion Kyle Ogden of the Texas A&M athletic field staff mixes paint Saturday evening in preparation to paint sidelines for a soccer camp to be held at Olsen Field. NUTZ BY R. DEL Psst /^Teu- HER Th/VT HEK Tml LOOKS AA)D Pull. Today sorry , That i Always work for Ale... Bush meets with family Texas governor discusses presidential campaign BUSH Murder victim’s car found in Del Rio HOUSTON (AP) — The murderous path of a sus pected railway-hopping seri al killer has stopped cold at Mexico’s border, where the car of one of six victims linked to the 39-year-old drifter was found abandoned in a Del Rio parking lot. The car’s recovery is the latest clue in a string of murders spanning two years and two states. Authorities believe Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, originally of Puebla, Mexi co, killed 26-year-old Noe- mi Dominguez of Houston, then headed west in her 1993 Honda Civic. The white, four-door ve hicle, located in the City Taxi parking lot near the In ternational Bridge, was re ported to police after it re mained in the lot for more than a week, Andy Jimenez Jr. told The Associated Press on Sunday. About four days after the car was abandoned, at least one lot employee no ticed a red pickup truck approach the car, Jimenez said. The truck’s four oc cupants, two women and two men, got out, opened the Civic and removed the car’s contents. KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — With a promise to “stay out of his way,” former President George Bush said Sunday that his son is prepared to follow his foot steps to the White House. “My contribution will be letting him find his own way,” the former president said in a picture-taking ses sion promoting George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign. The Bush men were joined by their wives: Barbara Bush and daughter-in-law Laura. Rounding a corner at her family’s summer estate and spying 150 jour nalists, the former first lady quipped, “Where were you in ’92?” The reminder of her husband’s failed 1992 reelection campaign broke the ice. It was all smiles and giggles and warm hellos after that. “It seems like old times,” the ex president said as he walked up to a microphone set in front of a breathtaking view of the Atlantic Ocean. He nodded and waved to familiar faces in the press corps. His son, the twice-elected Texas governor and front running GOP presidential candidate, kidded the father for jumping out of an airplane last week to celebrate his 75th birthday. “Happy birthday. Sky King,” he said. And his mother made her endorsement official. “I think we did right with this boy,” she said. The younger Bush visited his parents between cam paigns stops in Iowa and New Hampshire. The Family Bush is an American political dynasty. The former president’s father, Prescott Bush, was a U.S. senator. Two of his sons — Jeb of Florida and George W. of Texas — are Republican governors. A few feet from the Bushes, a Texas flag whipped in the wind beneath the Stars and Stripes. When Jeb visits, the Florida flag also waves. “I don’t like dynasty-type stuff,” said the former president, wearing a blue jacket from the Camp David presidential retreat. “We never felt we were entitled to anything, and dynasty connotes a kind of expectation.” Now Hiring Part-Time Our new facility is open in the College Station Business Center! Current openings offer full time summer hours if desired, part-time during school. • Customer Service • PC Support • Building Maintenance • Hardware Repair & Support Other full time positions available as well. We offer flexible hours between 6 a.m. - 10 p.m., and real world work experience with opportunity for full time after graduation. All majors are encouraged to apply and training is provided. E.O.E. 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Thompson,Texas A&M Uni versity System Chancellor, said the fi nal state appropriations bill which awaits the governor’s signature in cludes the single greatest funding in crease in absolute dollars for higher education in the history of Texas. “We in the A&M System are en couraged to see higher education funding take a front seat in the overall state funding arena," Thompson said. Texas legislators have increased appropriations 11.3 percent from the 1998-99 fiscal year to $7.7 billion in general revenue for Texas public col leges and universities for the 2000-01 budget cycle. Of this amount, the A&M System re ceived $1.2 billion in general revenue appropriations for 2000-2001. The Legislature has also appropri ated a 3 percent pool of funds to be awarded on a merit basis for faculty in 2001, which is dependent upon the comptroller certifying that the funds are available. NEWS IN BRIEF NAFTA sparks Carlson named as anthropology head David L. Carlson, an associate pro fessor of anthropology, will become the department head effective Sep. 1. Carlson will succeed Vaughn Bryant, who is returning to his faculty position. Bryant came to A&M in 1981 to direct the Cultural Resources Man agement Laboratory. During his time as director, the Cul tural Resources Management Labora tory grew from a budget of less than $15,000 to over $500,000 a year. Carlson also drafted a proposal which led to the creation of the Center for Ecological Archaeology. He teaches undergraduate courses in genera anthropology, North Ameri can pre-history and cultural ecology and graduate courses in archaeologi cal methods and computer applica tions in archeology. 911 Ambulance Service g Excellent Experience H Enhance Your Resume Si _ _ __ . _ T _ _ A.P. Beutel Health Center No Experience Needed Training Available Individuals interested in a challenging volunteer experience, contact EMS at 845-1525 or come by Room 020-Health Center. El'vfEFRCSEir'JCIY rs/IEZDIGA.!— SERVICES WE DOrvTT IVIISS A BEAT"' L K A Accredited by Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care^ Inc. business cer Beginning Fall 1999 1 Mays College and Gradual Business will offer a Cerl American Business to dents for jobs in companies! business in Mexico, South a America. Kelly Murphrey, assoc?) of the college’s Centerfort al Business Studies, said^ American Free Trade Agre? lead companies to interat- these countries. “The opportunities are- . . think the correspondence:® place has expanded trer I? Murphrey said in a pressicJOM/ “If anything. I thinkNAFEarord- vinced companies of the nesBseki! south for their future bushBt mu: tunities." edl it in Semino UPD searching!I', 1 ,? indecency susf ei f Desi The Texas A&M Uni\e down tl Department is still searr not get unidentified male whoa; ! |“h v posed himself in Neely £ A& M lx teenage girls attending'though camp. This w, Bob Wiatt, director of has out ty Police Departments we cert porting the incident car^Wn On a day morning. all time “The male, who was:: Jelf Grai 20 years old, enteredtfo| e r Case 1 locked door, sat on theId. Fc bed, exposed himselfatrabatters. ed,” Wiatt said. @“1 Wc He said the suspectc: ni y pitc either of the girls whowere^ell-dis years old. swingin Wiatt said that if caugfi v F re d° pect will be charged withr str ikes. ’ with a child, which is a feta 1 fhe ; He said UPD has incra: w i'^ nes and vehicle patrol, eventh^s he w, basketball camp hasar 3 ^ 1 ' 3 'c eluded. if " ie top of tl hitter Gi - —■ i. 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