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Sponosred. t>y the Texas A&?M University Department of Journalism. -so- WORLD Page 12 THE BATTALION Wednesday, March 1J Friendly greetings KIMBER HUFFTm Battalion Sixth grade students at Jane Long Middle School in Bryan play with Reveille VI. Reveille and Patrick Freshwater (not shown) were among the Texas A&M representatives present at Long Middle School to receive a quilt made by the sixth graders in memory of the 1999 Aggie Bonfire Collapse. Mexico mourns slain police chielCc TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Thou sands of police officers from across northwestern Mexico packed into a fu neral home early Tuesday to mourn and honor the popular Tijuana police chief who died in a barrage of bullets tired by assailants believed linked to organized crime. Alfredo de la Torre, outfitted in his police dress blacks, lay in a wooden coffin surrounded by large flower wreaths, his folded hands holding a laminated picture of Jesus. Relatives wept and ran their hands over the Plexiglas screen shielding his body, while col leagues vowed to avenge his death. “We’re going to get them. You’ll see,” said Omar Fierro Villanueva, a former personal bodyguard of de la “We're going to look under every rock. If the rocks can talk, we'll make them talk! him, officials said. The vehiclecrasls into a palm tree on the side of therm No one has been arrested andi motive of the killing is unknown.^ enty witnesses and potential suspe^di were interviewed Sunday, butpoli have no suspects, said state Attorn General Juan Manuel Salazar. De la Torre is the second Tiji police chief killed in six years,ani second police chief in a border® be killed in a wed. — Omar Fierro Villanueva former personal bodyguard of de la Torre Juan Angel C era Leal, the pr chief in Reynosa, shot to death lasilis day. Reynosa is McAllen, Ter; across the border Enrique Tellaed spokesperson for Baja California s attorney general’s! lice, said the kilfi was “obviously | to organized crime but said itwastooes The invest fire collapse ' Iditional $ 1 jther month t< A letter se mission on th juj ihe Texas A& ' ’ Preside anilines the n< extension. The comir ase its repo March 31. Tht Torre who paused several times to hold back his tears. “We’re going to look under every rock. If the rocks can talk, we’ll make them talk.” De la Torre was driving to his office on Sunday, unaccompanied by his nor mal contingent of bodyguards, when gunmen using Kalashnikov rifles and 9-mm pistols pulled up alongside his black Suburban and fired 99 rounds al ly to tell whether it was connected the Tijuana-based drug organiaiu led by the Arreilano-Felix brotk which is notorious for its gamb style hits. The U.S. Drug Enforcement ministration considers the organize one of the most powerful and viola drug trafficking groups. One of brothers, Ramon Eduardo, is on EBl’s 10 most-wanted list. Nigerian leaders stop enforcing Islamic to ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The government of President Olusegun Obasanjo and leaders from the heavily Muslim north agreed Tuesday to back away from calls for Islamic law, trying to end the blood shed that has wracked Nigeria for the past week. The informal agreement, reached after hours of discussion in the capital, Abuja, said states that al ready had Islamic law or “sharia” would stop enforc ing it.. States seeking to put it into affect would not adopt it for the time being, Vice President Atiku Abubakar said. “To restore normalcy and create confidence in the troubled polity, it was agreed that as far as the sharia issue is concerned, everyone wdll revert” to the time before sharia went into affect, Abubakar said. Leaders from northern Nigeria, where sharia is a highly popular political issue, could not immediate ly be reached for comment. The meeting came a day after at least 30 people were killed in the city of Aba, 370 miles east of La gos. Two more deaths occurred in the nearby town of Owerri were also killed, the Lagos-based Punch newspaper said. The attacks in Aba were in revenge for bloody clashes last week between Christians and Muslims that killed more than 300 people in the northern city of Kaduna. A large deployment of soldiers brought the violence in Aba under control Monday night. Residents said by telephone that the city’s atmosphere remained tense. The trouble began w hen the corpses of local people web of ethnic disputes and to the waning power oft ont he servia provide,” salt Minyard, spe the Student and senior bic “To restore normalcy and create confidence in the troubled polity...as far as the sharia issue is concerned, everyone will revert." North since democratic rule was instituted last year Southern Nigeria is predominantly Christiap’it most of the people of both Aba and Owerri frerffi Ibo ethnic group Northern Nigeria is overwhelmingly MuslWfry and pr Northerners dominate Nigeria’s military and wie science major ed immense power during the 15 years of army which ended last year. Last month, sharia officially went into affeci and a senior E Zamfara State in far northern Nigeria. The fighting in Kaduna, which began durin Christian protest against sharia, left large swathe the city in ruin, with hundreds of buildings bus with a num j and thousands of people fleeing in fear. Muslim law prohibits such things as drinking cohol, and calls for separate schools and public W paying a high — Atiku Abubakar Vice President of Nigeria portation for men and women. For years Islamic courts have settled civile® such as divorces and inheritances, among Musi® al sports, were shipped home from Kaduna. Local residents in Aba, furious over the deaths, attacked Muslim Hausas who live in the town and burned the local mosque. While the latest spate of fighting was triggered by more widespread calls for sharia, it was also linked to Nigeria’s The new sharia law creates courts with thepo* to try criminal cases involving Muslims and meM ingin deficit. Student Se punishments accordingly. Sharia supporters said the laws would onlyapfl tional Educati to Muslims, but the calls for sharia have angered® creases the Int frightened Nigeria’s Christians. CT^iick*s Pizza I BRIDAL CO. pizz:A - STROM BOH HOAGIES - Set stu BY J The Studer legislation Wi erendum for The Recreatic Bill supf fee, making ii eluded in the would ter fee. 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