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V- You LOST it, We FOUND it, ctjofi Come buy it back at the ' Tuesday, October 26 MSC Flagroom llam-2pm Accepting cash and checks only Items to be auctioned include Sponsored by MSC Hospitality Questions call 845-1515 gift certificates from local establishments, sporting goods, we r^uest notmcat-on tm^worung „ dothing, jewelry, and much more! days prior to the event to enable us to as- ^vY*' sist you to the best of our abilities. Persons with disabilities please call 845- 1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working ATTENTION: AGGIE STUDENTS FREE COOKOUT! FREE CONCERT! Featuring: Justin Todd Herod At The: Dick Freeman Arena Tuesday October 26, 1999 7:00pm Everyone Invited! Sponsored by: Frontiers of Faith Fellowship for Info contact 224-5546/ 776-7129 iation OF FORMER STUDENTS AGGIE RING ORDERS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: OCTOBER 27, 1999 Undergraduate Student Requirements: You must be a degree seeking student and have completed all of the following require ments to order an Aggie ring: 1. 25 cumulative undergraduate credit hours reflected on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System degree audit. (A course passed with a grade letter of D or better, which is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours unless the catalog states the course may be repeated for credit. The lowest grade is the repeated course.) 2. 60 undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you attended prior to 1994 and do not qualify under the sue cessful semester requirement defined in the following paragraph. The 60 credit hour requirement will be waived if your degree is conferred with less than 60 A&M credit hours. The waiver will not be granted until after your degree is post ed to screens #123 & #136 of the Student Information Management System. 30 undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that prior to Tanuary 1, 1994, you were enrolled at Texas A&M University and successfully completed either a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing (A full-time student is defined in the university catalog as one dtat completes 12 credit hours with a 2.0 GPR mh in a spring or fall semester; or 4 credit hours with a 2.0 GPR in a 10 week session.) Please remember that you will lose resident credits if you pass a course at A&M with a D or better and retake it at another institution and make a higher grade The lowest grade is always deducted by the university as a repeated class. 3. 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 4. Be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. Graduate Student Requirements: If you are a December 1999 degree candidate and do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements: 1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System; and 2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or tran script blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. However, if you have completed all of your course work prior to this semester and have been cleared by the thesis clerk, you may request a “letter of completion” from the Office of Graduate Studies (providing it is not past their deadline). The original letter of completion, with the seal, may be presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted. Procedure to order a ring: If you meet all of the above requirements and you wish to receive your ring on December 9, 1999, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednesday, October 27, 1999 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. to complete the application for eligibility verification. It is recommended that you do not wait until October 27 to apply for your ring audit. Should there be a problem with your academic record, or ii you are blocked, you may not have sufficient time to resolve these matters before the order closes out on October 29. Return no later than October 29, 1999 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. to check on the status of your audit and if qualified, pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Discover, Visa or MasterCard (with your name imprinted). Men’s 10K- Women’s 10K - 1316.00 1198.00 14K - $416.00 14K - $219.00 Add $8.00 for Class of‘98 or before and $15.00 if ring needs to be shipped out-of-town. The ring delivery date is December 9. 1999. Page 10 • Tuesday, October 26, 1999 w ORLD Battalion Israel faces turmoil in light of new re Christians detain TS Land link offers access between West Bank, Gaza Strip CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) — Is rael today opened a land link be tween the Palestinian-controlled West Bank and Gaza Strip — a long- anticipated move that takes Pales tinians a step closer to statehood and boosts confidence in the peace process. Israel’s territory separates the two autonomous areas in which Pales tinians hope to establish an inde pendent state. Since 1993, only Palestinians with work permits have been al lowed to enter Israel from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and they were not allowed to leave one Palestinian- controlled territory and cross Israel to enter the other. Now, the so-called safe passage will allow Palestinians to travel be tween the two areas. The 28-mile route, which uses ex isting roads in Israel, also enables residents of poverty-stricken, crowd ed Gaza to seek jobs in the more prosperous West Bank. Early today, hundreds of Pales tinians, mostly young men, waited in line at the Erez Crossing to travel through Israel to the West Bank. Travelers carried duffle bags or backpacks. “Today, we can smell the wind of freedom,” Rashed Eloyan, 19, who was born in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis and has never left the coastal strip, said. Eloyan said his destination was the bustling West Bank town of Ra- mallah. He said he did not know anyone there and simply wanted to take in some different sites. After a brief opening ceremony, the first Palestinian car drove up to the inspection ramp. Israeli security officials opened the hood and checked the car’s underside. They wore white gloves, the type Current status -fl Israeli control ’ ] Palestinian/ Isiaeli control 13 Palestinian control Mediterranean Sea Jenin 4 -Tulkarem near Mount ofd Tel Aviv Nablus West Bank JERUSALEM (AP)-!® terday detained 21 foreiji tians, including 13 Amencji have settled in recentyeaisg Mount of Olives inantiq Christ’s return. Palestinian access road Ramallah, |e detainees. fol»s ; *;| 18 al 1 , 0 h f" House of Pi» ■ Erez Crossing O Jericho, Bethlefiem Jerusalem groups nuusc u. ™ sex . T hey Solomon s Temple, wereo;;- T, ev ported on suspicion theypkj Rj nil ^| e harm public safety, polices; Hebron Tarkoumiya ragging One of the 21 waslaten$^ n ti ie mnT she had a ISRAEL EGYPT that can detect explosives. After 10 minutes, the driver, a Palestinian Authority official, was given permission to drive into Israel. hey range from home- top- 750 Pa/esf/mfl/is marched to enclave, vendor shot, killed, three wounded BETHLEHEM, West Bank (APJ — An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian souvenir vendor today af ter the man allegedly tried to stab him outside a Jew ish shrine in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. The Palestinian was identified by relatives as Mousa Abu Hilail, in his 20s. The shooting took place near Rachel’s Tomb, an Is raeli enclave in Bethlehem. The soldier was not hurt. The army said it was in vestigating the incident. Some 150 Palestinians marched to the enclave and threw stones at Israeli troops who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Three Palestinians were wounded by rubber bul lets and five from inhalation of tear gas, witnesses said. because sne naci a vaiiQ[* 0 | t i ie na . and a return plane ticket. 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T /hile there ar Inants of this : |ity campuses [ed by note-ta | the Internet) Jents learned | and practice, i from “idiob Bus accident in India, kills 27 AMRITSAR, India (AP) — A bus swerved to avoid hitting a cow and skidded off a mountain road and into a deep gorge yesterday, killing 27 pilgrims and injuring 47 on the way home from a temple in northern India, police said. In another accident, a bus fell down a 150-foot gorge on the East Khasi Hills, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, killing 33 pas sengers and wounding 22 others, United News of India news agency reported. The bus was going from Nog- war to the state capital Shillong when the accident occurred. The bus driver was among those killed, UNI said. The cause of the accident, 950 miles southeast of New Delhi, was not clear. The accident involving the pil grims took place in Punjab state’s Hoshiarpur district. Police in Hoshiarpur said the dri ver lost control of the bus when he tried to avoid hitting a cow which was crossing the road. The bus hur tled down the mountainside and got entangled in trees about 80 feet below, but the victims crashed through the broken windshield and fell 600 feet into the gorge. Russia bombs Grozny suburb, southern Cheer GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Russian tanks pushed nearer to the capital of breakaway Chechnya yesterday, while federal jets and artillery pounded suspected rebel bases around the republic. Russian troops and tanks hold ing the Terek Ridge, six miles north of Grozny, could be seen moving southeast toward a major road that runs past the airport and into the city. The rumble of artillery shelling echoed around the Chechen capital. There was no indication that the Russians were planning an attack on Grozny. Russia has been vague about its plans, with some leaders said the city will be taken, and others said it will be surrounded. President Boris Yeltsin praised his prime minister for Russia’s campaign, in his first public en dorsement of the month-old Russ ian operation. “I fully support the results of this work,” the president said. Yeltsin, who was hospitalized for three days in early October with the flu, had largely left it up to Putin to handle the campaign. With the war popular among most Russians, Putin’s rating has jumped dramatically. In Chechnya, Russian aircraft and artillery also kept up a heavy barrage against suspected militant outposts in the south and east. Russian troops began advancing on the town of Gudermes, 19 miles east of Grozny, according to Chechen military commanders. The Russian military claimed to have destroyed an anti-aircraft gun and two vehicles full of militants in strikes overnight, the ITAR-Tass news agency said yesterday. There was no immediate word on casualties from Chechen officials. Chechen government leaders have called repeatedly for peace talks, demanding they be held on neutral territory with international mediation. An Islamic leader who is inde pendent from the Chechen govern ment, Shamil Basayev, said negotia tions were not possible yet. He said the Chechen side would only consider negotiations if they are held in accordance with Islamic law, but did not elaborate. Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov has little or no control over Basayev and other well-armed warlords. Russia considers Basayev a terrorist, and is unlikely to hold negotiations as long as he is still fighting. Russia sent troops into Chechnya at the end of September, saying it wants to liquidate Basayev and oth er militants who invaded neighbor- \be Lincoln e leading, yes, tlessly practic rued and by .isu-’oeapw [to teach him «2 iydefinition, 3ooks do not nt of writing m is to prese nged, for all lowever, lear students learr they see the learn chang topic is disco nching out in tting a consta ing Dagestan this summer arj blamed for a series of apanq plosions in Russia that kil people. With Russian troops oo Chechnya’s northern third ami j ing gradually toward Groz|| the north, east and west,! sive increasingly appeared aim restoring Russian control i Chechnya. ITAR-Tass reported fighters met with the R hand over the black box from they shot down, as wellasthel of a soldier they said was t pilot. 1 DENTIST DISPENSED TOOTH WHITENING FOR SI 00’S LESS Dispensed by an ADA member dentist. 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