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CT^uck*s Pizza. PIZZA - STROiVIBOLI * HOAGIES STATE Medium One Topping Pizza *3.50 * Order 3 for free delivery 4091 693-BUCK Page 8 THE BATTALION cdncsday, iao^j Advocates say crash records should be open Bush credits spiritual awakeniFc for putting end to drinking ha[- ^tudy w^tbroad in ?Mliexico <^ity See the wan^ faae» erf wftlie talcing cCn»e*T ^r. Douglas ^tarr and “^r. i«ynne W/alters invite you to join them for H or 'frQ weeks in ^Hexico C*ity studying ^rnternational Public delations m mer «Jour 273 *Jour 484: «Jour 406 internship ^52 For more information: Study Abroad Programs Dr. Douglas Starr 161 Bizzcll Hall West 221 Reed McDonald 845-0544 845-4611 OAlhyf^MudyiabrtMd lAmu.edu <!-k1arr<f$i«mu ettu Relax, it’s only your future we’re talking about. Classes starting soon in College Station! GRE January 26 & February 22 MCAT January 29 & February 5 DAT/OAT January 29 GMAT February 12 TOEFL January 31 Call to enroll! 1 -800-KAP-TEST kaptest.com AOL keyword: kaplan Kaplan gets you in. t 2 <£ VTs a\\ yoo neeJ To V*nov/ LOCATION: KINKO’S University Drive 10 Minutes Free Computer Time FREEBIE: with valid student ID TIME: 2 This Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm 2 .com AUSTIN (AP) — A state law limiting access to traf fic crash records violates time-honored public informa tion traditions in Texas and should remain on hold in- I definitely, newspaper and freedom of information j advocates said yesterday. The Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas Press Association asked Travis County District Judge Paul Davis to extend an injunction against the law ! passed by the Legislature in 1997. Davis granted the orig- I inal injunction in the fall of that year. Under the law, anyone seeking information about a j traffic wreck must know the name of at least one person [ involved and either the location or date of the wreck. The law also limits public access to motor vehicle records that contain personal information about Texans and I would make it illegal for such information to be posted on the Internet without permission from the person involved. “The restrictions would severely limit the ability of newspapers and television stations to report the news,” Dolph Tillotson. president and publisher of The Galve ston County Daily News, said. “Public records in Texas are not only for the media. They are for the public in general,” he said. “The law was passed to protect personal information that people might want to keep private, such as address es and driving records,” Assistant Attorney General Heather Horton said. Lawmakers hoped to prevent ambulance chasing by attorneys and other groups, such as chiropractors w ho might use random accident information to solicit clients. “There is a tension between the right to know and the right to privacy. That’s what this case is about” I lorton said. News organizations are concerned the Internet provi sions would prohibit them from putting some stories in their online editions. Under the law, information legally obtained and print ed in the newspaper could be prohibited from distribu tion on the Internet and perhaps even by news services, such as The Associated Press, according to lawyers for the news groups. News organizations also worry the law could prevent them from making their archives available to the public. Some archived stories would likely include information falling under the law’s restrictions. “If allowed to proceed, the law could force newspa pers to censor or pull their archives from their Websites altogether,” Tony Pederson, managing editor and a vice president of the Houston Chronicle, said. Any interest of privacy in accident information would be limited and any event that happens in a public thor oughfare in plain view should be regarded as public in formation, the news groups said. WASHINGTON (AP) His footsteps slowed b\ a nagging hangover, George W. Hush paid little heed to the majestic Rockies rising nearby as he made his daily three-mile run. He was feeling worse than usual alter a boisterous night of drinking with friends. The night before. Hush, his wife and a half- dozen close friends from Midland. Te.\a>. had en joyed a festive dinner at the elegant Hroadmoo 1 - resort in Colorado Springs, Colo., ordering five or six bottles of a pricey Cabernet Sau\ ignon as the> raised their glasses in successive toasts. They were there that July 1986 weekend to cel ebrate the 40th birthdays of Hush and a pal, Mid land oilman Don Evans. The evening, which came after 18 holes of golf and a visit to the Air Force Academy’s chapel, was “nothing crazy,” Evans recalled, just a group of friends, fueled by wine, taking sentimental stock of their lives. Hut the aftereffects dogged Hush's footsteps next day. “This run was dift'erent," he recalled i: recent autobiography. About halfway through, he made a decision: would quit drinking. When he told his w ife Laura, she was skeptu “I’m not sure she believed me. at first.” said Hu who w as know n for being the life of the party si his days as a frat boy at Vale. A spiritual awakening that had begun a year ear lier “helped me quit drinking.” Bush, 53. said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. So did a grow ing realization that drinking could jeopardize his relationships, his health and his career. Bush’s Texas oil business was going through tough times as well, w ith severely depressed oil prices bringing an uncomfortable level of debt. Friends have suggested that Hush’s decision to quit drinking was driven partly by concern that he not do anything to embarrass his father. George Bush, the vice president who was gearing up for a run for the White House. The younger Hush, now in the midst of his own campaign, offers a different explanation. “I am a person who enjoys life, and for years. I enjoyed having a few drinks,” the Texas governor wrote in his hook. “Hut gradually, drinking began to compete with my energy. I'd be a step slower get ting up. My daily runs seemed harder after a few too many drinks the night before.” Bush, w ho had a fondness for bourbon and beer, also had some awkward run-ins while drinking. In one episode. The H'all Street Journal's then- Washiogton bureau chief, Al Hunt, recalled being accosted by a “clearly lubricated” Hush in a Dallas restaurant in 1986, and sworn at for some perceived slight against Bush's father. Hush called Hunt to iRi i:i led les sk the .ipolocize .liter the anecdote surfaced ina mlisted c< ■ >er.ipli\. / f o Si>n published in 1999. 1 Hush credits his w ife, who had been® *|* e him to quit drinking, w ith helping him. B; 01 Hush s.tv s he is solelv responsible. , * u ... . ■season I \ciaone units even.thing b\ them*, f . , . , , L . r wdicrnK said in an inters lew. So he did thai. uco^gn || 1I CC disciplined ■ffor4 d on S; 1\ Sill d. 'I knc\ ch wa- ight ub 1\ and ' Slier ■dierm; quickl; "Gnuiiuilly drinking began to compete with ttiy energy. I'd be a step slower getting up." the The d CCIS ion, wh lich Hush Jcwnbcs n his point in I IIS tl IC, CilfT te during an unusui speenve| pern Hi He Thcp rev ii inis sun nmer of 1985, a fm about rcli IgKM 1 to ith t he Rev. Billy (irata Hush fair illy i ctrcat i n kenncNmkport,! sh % launched Hus h CH) A ! spiritual quest that ncc sharpcnc* J ha intere? >t in public service. “In I — Pr< abi MI A' remember - have been the power ol hi'example, thevoungert AI Gore a Bush had long attended church, taugi -awav frorr school and served on church commineei s bo\ \\ Bui it to as not until the m icctinc hail their c that he be gan to deepen his f aith in vvhl ■■ 1 he 1 study c las *ma tc, I X»n Jones, called 3 wfi . Oftsidcnti. up a sic “Cf i hill dat “1 ft k (icorjjj! c sensed th iat (here Rocker’s < void in hi: v |)( (C iid Jones, j t Midland« iiraft remar ural ua* > Cl >nmjm executive. ”1 think a k< JBcicncis. who are C tins! i or prochu im to he Or and gu Iv and (ml Bush. 1% ha to ho dcsi 7 been con :ribes Graf ix cried, tarn ashistd TR’iul.n . jlKvranc di ■ "1 don' mentor. iid tli ic f a mous evan igclist "plain to kr seed in no • heart tr tat grew o\ er time.” ^■-mer N! In at i ii ilcrv icw at his Aus tin campatp *^Bc thing: quarters | tush saic 1: ”1 was a married mas. an org; kids, pn ior to fi arty. I’d been a > Sunday sdx espied to th teacher. r< J bc< ;n a Little Leaf iuc coach, ra J| •Whci business i. i had a lil fc that was a responxibk ny jobs v there w j tomt rthing missing. pi; > er that “My ccpt anci : of Christ has proxidec quite und sense of CC mifo rt at id strength . a renewed p wi rds ... 1 that I hadn’t had in my life prior to tfut" Hush, who has been faulted bv soox/for^ ing religion into politics by stating teteaiC was the most influential thinker in ht$!ife.ret the criticism. Second death row inmate executed in Texas by lethal injection thisjt HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Twenty-three hours into his last parole violation and foot sore from a long walk with no destination, Spencer Corey Goodman saw in a red Cadil lac a clean break from his past. It was July 2, 1991, and Goodman, a twice-convicted felon, by then was al most a full day overdue at the Houston halfway house where he was supposed to report after his release from a San Anto nio parole center. Goodman had walked west on Interstate 10, spent a restless night by the train tracks and walked all the next day until he came upon Cecile Ham’s Cadillac parked at a phannacy in west Houston. “I was going to get out of Houston and say, ‘I’m starting over,’ just get away from Houston,” Goodman said recently. “Like a dummy, I didn’t think about re porting again.” The choice Goodman made more than eight years ago led him to the death chamber, where he was scheduled to re ceive a lethal injec tion yesterday for killing Ham, 48, the w ife of ZZ top man ager Bill Ham. When she re turned to her car and stepped into the dri ver’s seat, Goodman slammed his fist into her neck, knocked her unconscious and pushed her limp body to the floor. After driving a few miles, Goodman later told investiga- credit cards in his wallet, Goodman took off for a month before police captured him in agle County. Colo "He broke a woman's neck with his bare hands because he didn't feel like walking ” — Fred Felcman Assistant district attorney tors, he “then used martial arts and broke the lady’s neck.” His victim’s body in the trunk and her on Aug. 7, 1991, and solved w hat had until then been “ Ham’s disappearance. Goodman, 31. would he the second Texas death row in mate executed this year and the 20Lst since capital punish ment resumed in the state in 1982. The execution is also the second of seven scheduled for January, the busiest c month since May and June 1997, when eight inmates each were killed. Goodman’s appeal and a request to stay the execution are pending befots Supreme Court. A Ft>rt Bend County jury coovij and sentenced him to death on Jur While testifying at his tnalfa admitted knocking out Ham, Iff breaking her neck or planning tok£ “I ic broke a woman’s ncckuts hands because he didn’t feel liked Fred Felcman. an assistant district I who helped prosecute (nxxlmaas "And then he stuffs her intoft and drives away and visits Iriens away the presents that she had hot# day, uses her credit cards." “People make mistakes, and bad one. I don’t blame nobody,"Gn 2§ said recently. Texas leads all states in execuba* the U.S. Supreme Court effectivelys ed the death penalty in 1976. Vira® ond with 72. ■■■ ■ . ATTENTION FAI L 2000 STUDENT TRACKERS except HLKN and AGED WHAT: MANDATORY Informational Meeting WHEN: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 TIME: 8:00 P.M. 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