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■mhhmmi ■ mmmmm m m mmmam m m We Can Do It All! From Local to Nationwide Moving i Page 6 • Wednesday, December 1, 1999 s TATE Miles Moving ’ ## 1 1 ! U.S. citizens bodies found near bord or 229-0284 I 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 Easily awarded student loans (24 hr. award notice] =Ti Private thru advanced training Aircraft rental Pilot Shop College Station Easterwood Airport 409 260-6322 F.A.A. approved 141 school VA eligible Benefits www, unitedflight.com CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — FBI forensic ex perts joined Mexican soldiers and police yesterday in searching two desert ranches near the border for the bodies of more than 100 Mexican and U.S. citizens, apparent victims of a drug gang. A convoy of 16 vehicles, many with U.S. license plates, rumbled through the iron gates of Rancho de la Campana, 10 miles southwest of Ciudad Juarez, at midmorning — joining scores of Mexican soldiers and police already working around the buildings in the desert. Some vehicles had newspaper taped over the win dows to conceal what, or who, was inside. Attention seemed concentrated around a concrete barn-like structure where workers were using a backhoe. Attorney General Jorge Madrazo said in a televi sion interview that investigators suspect the victims were killed by the Juarez drug cartel, once Mexico’s largest cocaine smuggling outfit. He said more than 100 people could be buried on the ranches just across the border from El Paso with 22 believed to be U.S. citizens. “We believe these people were killed for their knowledge or for being witnesses to drug traffick ing,” Assistant FBI Director Thomas Pickard said in Washington. “Most of the information we have shows these individuals were buried there at least two to three years ago, so it’s not a recent situation.” Authorities were led to the ranches by an infor mant who approached the FBI early this year, a fed eral law enforcement official said in Washington. The informant said there might be as many as 100 bodies there, including people who had been providing in formation to U.S. drug agents, according to the offi cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Eighteen-year-old Rodrigo Falcon said his family had been taking care of one of the ranches for the property owner. Other nearby residents who refused to give their names said they had seen parties at the ranch in the past, but it had seemed abandoned re cently. While there were stables for horses, the only animal visible was a dog. Pickard said digging began late Monday and part of one body had been recovered by midday yester day. Sixty-eight FBI agents and forensic experts and other U.S. personnel were at the ranches, he said. “We’ve been discussing this for a period of time with the Mexicans,” he said. “We’ve been getting outstanding cooperation from Mexico.” Pickard said elaborate preparations were required to decide where to start digging, to secure the sites and to “make sure we thoroughly cover the sites with ground-piercing radar,” using techniques the FBI de veloped in Kosovo. The FBI sent forensic teams to Kosovo twice this year to exhume bodies in a search for evidence of war crimes by Serbs. In Washington, President Clinton said he had not received confirmation that 22 Americans were among the suspected victims but condemned the killings as “a horrible example” of the excesses of Mexico’s drug cartels. • Las Cruces UNITED STATES ion gsl New Mexico Fort Bliss Military Reservation BY AL L The B Rancho de la Campana \ Ciudad • Juarez MEXICO W Grande Ciudad Juarez MEXICO 1th a group insfers ranked it recruitii • Q Paso xas A&M Men k 1'ell be in for "^■in the mean ■the Aggies'c | ■breaking tin After losing it evlously-winlet SiTBaturday at F | University c outlay night in E 5t victory this st vijion I team si Tlie Aggies (0- stlwin of the air st the Step rjlcks (2-2) ai is (not started )66 ! With senior ft ttlvith a fracti Sight eye, the i start four fre: ionday: guards Mexico City© Want to go to ITALY? New York publisher to print Religious Christmas dei recalled Gov. Bush biography removed from public art £53 For the first time EVER, all majors are invited to study abroad during the fall of 2000. Courses offered include: V* Painting ■V> Graphic Arts 'Y*' Visual Notes/Drawing 'V**' Installations/Galleries ^Exhibits’ 'Y*' Photograpy Y* History of Arts & Civilization ° o Applications will be accepted until 10 January 2000. Hurrv! Only IS spaces are available! IP ip ID Ip IP IP © Study Abroad Programs Office - 161 Btexell Hall West - H45-0544 AUSTIN (AP) — A controversial biography of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, which was recalled by its first publisher after questions were raised about the book and its author, will he reprinted by a New York company. Soft Skull Press said this week it plans to print 25,000 pa perback copies of Fortunate Son, in which author J.H. Hatfield cites anonymous “It contains allegations that are libelous and untrue” — Mindy Tucker Bush campaign spokesperson hiring a hit man to bomb his su pervisor’s car in Dallas. Bush, the Republican presiden tial front-runner; his father, the former president; and the Harris County prosecu tor at the time all have denied the hook’s drug ar rest allegation. Soft Skull Press said in a news release that it is reprinting the book to allow voters next year to decide for themselves sources as saying Bush was ar rested on a drug charge in 1972 but had the arrest expunged from his record through family connections. Within days of the book’s ini tial publication, The Dallas Morn ing News reported that Hatfield had been paroled from Texas prison after serving five years for whether Hatfield’s allegations are credible. Mindy Tucker, a spokesperson for the Bush campaign, again chal lenged the book. “I have to question whether or not they’re going to publish it un der the category ‘science fiction,”’ she said. “It contains allegations that are libelous and untrue.” BOERNE (AP) — The image of the baby Jesus made a brief ap pearance in the city’s Main Plaza before it was quickly taken away on the advice of attorneys. A nativity scene featuring the Christ child, Mary, Joseph, the three wise men and assorted ani mals was erected in its tradition al spot on the downtown square Friday by municipal workers. But the employees were un aware that constitutional issues had already convinced their boss es, on the advice of their lawyers, to display the nativity scene on private property this year. “We knew we couldn’t put it up there any more because some body last year mentioned that we had a nativity scene on public property,” Chris Turk, the city’s development director, told the San Antonio Express-News. When word reached Ttirk that, workers had set up the nativity scene in its usual spot, he quick ly sent a crew to remove it. “They had it up and within an hour,” he said. A 1989 U.S. Supreme ruling allows holiday displ: public property if they an mostly secular setting wit® rations such as Santa, reindB Frosty the Snowman, Turtig But the city decided tore, its nativity scene in frontoi vate business. The decorations will be this week with help froitj workers. Jay Jacobson, of the Ami Civil Liberties Union of said the relocation vjis a corned move for religion dom, but it did not aimta! his concerns. “1 would point out thatit appropriate for the city to the religious scene or pui anywhere,” Jacobson said. The civil rights groups would not take any actioip Boerne unless Jacobson re; a complaint. Q A What should I wear today? Clothes that make life easier! Casual Corner and Petite Sophisticate collectibles... wardrobe classics that suit up or go their separate ways. 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