Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1999)
i £ A m ejrfa "Free Activation i I 1 QH W 'Accessories • "Calling Cards i J pager airtime PrimeCo phones sold here J RELOCATING TO DALLAS? NEED TO FIND A PLACE TO LIVE? • Apartments • Condos • Townhouses • Duplexes • Houses FREE SERVICE! We find them for you! 1-800-537-5014 214-502-5341 Ask for Katie THE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING •EASY -AFFORDABLE •EFFECTIVE CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION 845-0569 LSAT^GIVIAf^GRE^JVICAT It’s not like we’ll give you the answers. Well.-yes it is. Standardized test are predictable. Understanding them is what Kaplan is all about. Classes begin in Aggieland: GRE July 14 LSAT July 26 & Aug. 15 DAT/OAT July 8 & Aug. 29 KAPLAN 1 -800-KAP-TEST www.kaplan.com The world leader in test prep LEARN TO FLY NOW At United Flight Systems THE EXPERIENCED FLIGHT SCHOOL Learn to fly with the Cessna Pilot Center Exclusive Integrated Flight Training System Cessna Our New Location: College Station Easterwood Airport 409 260-6322 www.unitedflight.com ■ Easily awarded student loans (24 hr. award notice) ■ Private thru advanced training ■ Aircraft rental ■ Pilot Shop ■ F.A.A. approved 141 school ■ VA eligible Benefits 013 Reed McDonald Building • Telephone (409) 845-3313 • FAX (409) 845-2647 Staff Application Fall '99 Name: Number of hours you will take in the Fall: Phone Number(s): Expected Graduation Date; Major: Do you have another job? Classification: Where and hours per week? E-mail; Will vou keep it if hired? Please check the position(s) for which you are interested in applying. If yon are interested in more than one position, number them in order of preference with 1 being your top choice. City Desk Campus and Community Nevus Reporter Aggielife Desk Lifestyles and Entertainment Feature Writer Page Designer Radio Anchor Reporter Opinion Desk Columnist Web Desk Web Designer Photo Desk Photographer Sports Desk Sports Writer Page Designer Visual Arts Desk Graphic Artist Cartoonist Night News Desk Front and inside page design Page Designer Copy Desk Copy Editor • Applications due Wed., August 4 • Please type your responses on a separate piece of paper 1) Why do you want to work at The Battalion, and what do you hope to accomplish? 2) What experience do you have that relates to the position you are applying for? (include classes, seminars) 3) What do you believe is the role of The Battalion on campus? 4) What changes do you feel would improve the quality of The Battalion! (give special attention to the section you’re applying for) Please attach a resume and samples of your work [stories yon have written for publications or classes, pages yon have designed, photos, drawings or other creative samples). Tam applications in to Room 013 of Reed McDonald by 5p.m. Page 6 • Monday. July 26. Subjects mourn deal of Morocco's Hass; RABAT, Morocco (AP) — World leaders walked solemnly through screaming crowds in this ancient North African capital yesterday to honor Hassan II, the 38-year king of a poor, placid nation committed to peace in a tumultuous region. Hundreds of thousands of Mo roccans, wailing and chanting in the July sun, watched the royal cortege and its escort of Western, European, Middle Eastern, African and Asian heads of state, including President Clinton. Hassan, who died Friday at 70, was seen as a persuasive broker of compromise, an Arab moderate who calmed waters much in the way of King Hussein of Jordan, who died less than six months earlier. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Ezer Weizman joined Arab leaders at the funeral, signaling confidence that Hassan’s 35-year-old son, now King Mohamed VI, would follow his lead as peacemaker. Hassan’s coffin rolled slowly atop an army truck, under a rich green cloth embroidered in gold with vers es from the Koran. Four white hors es drew a symbolic empty carriage in front, flanked by the black-clad Royal Guard. Family members, heads of state and guests walked slowly behind along the two-and-half-mile route from the Royal Palace to the mau soleum where Hassan’s remains were laid to rest by those of his fa ther, Mohamed V. The new king, in flowing white robes and a red fez, moved imper turbably forward despite the con stant press of near-hysterical Clinton pays respect to h RABAT, Morocco (AP) — With a slight bow before a draped cas ket, President Clinton paid final re spects yesterday to King Hassan II, for two generations a partner with the United States in Middle East peace efforts. Later, under a hot sun, Clinton joined in a three-mile funeral pro cession, his silver-haired presence easily visible among the throngs of white-robed, fez-wearing Moroc cans around him. Moroccan television estimated the crowd at 2 million. Many faint ed from the intense heat. Clinton was among more than a score of foreign dignitaries paying tribute to the monarch, whose death Friday ended a 38-year reign. Before viewing the casket, Clin ton joined other foreigny a room off the palace’s spj marble courtyard. He end informal conversation will | President Jacques Chirac;! dullah of Jordan; Israelip Ezar Weizman and primen Ehud Barak; the crownp Kuwait; and President Diouf of Senegal. At another point, Cl similar encounters with P Hosni Mubarak of Egypt,fi fan leader Yasser Britain’s Prince Charles. As he chatted, an un Israeli woman approached!] and asked how the peacejj is going. “I’m very opl Clinton said. "Wejusthavei it more time.” m mourners who surged against po lice lines. Clinton walked next to him along the route. As the cortege passed, crowds chanted, “This is the hour of God.” Human tides had blocked the roads into Rabat, as mourners walked through the night from out lying cities and distant villages. Po lice estimated that more than a mil lion people headed toward the capital in buses or on foot. From the high-rise port of Casablanca to the old, walled cities of Fez and Marrakesh, to oases half lost in the Sahara Desert, Moroccans chanted their grief, waving portraits of Hassan and their new king. In Rabat, volunteer team bled to collect faintingvict comt' In emotion andlfl “It is worse than losingij Hafid MatToushe,23,sa]dc ing under a palm tree by :\ palace with three fnenc shared his thoughts. As with most of Morocco-I lion inhabitants, their saiq tinged with anxiety over thee the hands of an untried sui The king died with the I East and North Africa headtcl promising new paths, tered Moroccan economyfat^ pressures, with debt, drotj crippling underemploymepl I fete levels of as Officials say tl Shuttle fuel leak suspecta A irv Photographs suggest possible hydrogen loss at laim'J vJ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Co lumbia may have been leaking hydrogen fuel all the way to orbit last week from one of its main engines, NASA said yesterday. If it proves to be a leak as photographs suggest, the engine could have shut down abruptly if more fuel had seeped out, resulting in a never-before-attempted emergency landing within minutes of launch, either in Florida or West Africa. As it turned out, Columbia made it safely to orbit Friday under the control of Air Force Col. Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. spaceship. The shuttle, carrying five astronauts and the world’s biggest and most pow erful X-ray telescope, fell seven miles short of its intended orbit. A fuel leak could explain why the engines shut down one second or so early. NASA’s mission operations repre sentative, Wayne Hale, stressed there is no proof that one or two cooling tubes in the nozzle of the right engine were cracked and leaking hydrogen. Until the shuttle returns to Earth tomorrow night "You want them [the engines] to operate exactly down the middle of the pike because bad things might happen." — Wayne Hale BY STl Th and the engine is examined, no one will know for sure, he said. “Obviously, when you’re dealing with main en gines, and they have a lot of energy flowing through that system, you want them to operate exactly down the middle of the pike because bad things might hap pen” Hale said. “We don’t think this is a case that evenoaP es that.” Hydrogen has leaked from cracked tubesB; nozzles during a couple other shuttle launcte rhe director t a smaller rate than appears to have happens sfortheTexa time. Hale said. ■ tment will tak During a news conference, Hale showedi (ate director! frame of Co/umhta 10toISs [Grant, an as: after liftoff. A bright strei jq University clearly visible on the inside; mt College Pn right engine nozzle. Thetwn Ralph Raybur engine nozzles were spotless jt or) said h e v The cooling tubes, if split 5 | outside the! have begun leaking one ort« ling to suppo onds before liftoff and co® |ms. leaking throughout the81/2® I'My first obje climb to orbit, Hale said, r is to establi; Each engine nozzle has | a s Sea Grant: than 1,000 of these slende lovernmentci tubes through which hydrogen Rayburn will, to cool the bell-shaped nozzB Texas Sea G also to preheat the super-ttBvice (MAS) t drogen fuel to improve engiririne agents st ciency. The circulating hy® and seven n; comes from the giant extett«hese agentss tank strapped to the shuttle and flows directlyiWter marine re engine combustion chamber. |ns between i» NASA mission operations representative The problem — whatever it was — was uowjavid Prior, i to the short circuit that occurred five secondsitpience at A&M, lumbia’s flight. The prime controllers on twoeriences d ea | three main engines were knocked out bytheteP ond short, and the backup controllers kickedit| Poll indicates Bush top choii ‘rogra ichool disl ire requite Voters support GOP candidate despite being unclear on stu of the tl DALLAS (AP) — Although most Americans have no idea what Gov. George W. Bush thinks about gun control, education or any other political issue, the Texas Republican is the most popular choice for president, a new na tional poll indicates. The governor would beat either of his Democratic opponents. Vice President A1 Gore or former Sen. Bill Bradley, if the nation cast its votes today, according to The Dal las Morning News/Bdo Poll. Nationally, voters give Bush a 47 percent to 32 percent lead over Gore, and a 46 to 30 percent edge over Bradley, according to the poll released in the newspaper’s Sun day editions. The telephone survey, conduct ed July 12-14 by Blum & Weprin Associates Inc. of New York, ques tioned 501 registered voters in Texas and 502 registered voters across the United States. Both sam ples have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, meaning the results can vary that much in either direction. Only 17 percent of those ques tioned nationally believe they knew Bush’s position on most is sues. Seventy-five percent of those who answered the poll said they didn’t know what Bush stands for. But voters believe Bush, rather than Gore, can better handle the “During the course of this campaign, there is going to be ample time to flesh out positions on the issues.” GEORGE W. BUSH economy, foreign affairs and de fense — even though the vice president has more experience in those areas. When Bush supporters were questioned about the most impor tant reason for backing him, 22 percent said he has the moral char acter to be president, 20 percent said he gives the GOP its best chance at winning the presidency and 15 percent said they do not want to vote for Gore. Fo percent said they agree wi on most issues, 10 percent! has been a good governor; percent said they liked" 1 former President George Bit Gore spokesperson Roger- said he is unconcerned. “This election is going to termined by the American! 15 based on who they feel date is who has the best visitf the best ideas to lead this®' into the 21st century,” Ire “Those are the types of thin? will decide this election, noif Bush called the findings’' start.” “During the course of# paign, there is going to be' time to flesh out positions^ issues,” he said. “And by tit* the campaign is over, know where I stand.” Even in Texas, only 1 spondents said they knew8 stance on hate crimes, guntf education and abortion. And who professed familiaritf their governor’s politics"' 15 ' fact, wrong. Literacy a Senior ci Children Integrate! service, i program Summeii program recreatii Nutrition Expand*! serve coi Telecomi educatici of all ages Parentinj Support i care proii Employr and placet Services! school pi secondaij age of sul Services! disabilitie