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Questions? Call 845-1627
This Week
Wednesday:
Open Mike no cover
Thursday:
Kyle Hutton
$ 8.00 cover
Friday:
Throwaway People
$ 5.00 cover
Sunday:
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Natural Light Pitchers $ 1.50
Bud Ice Pitchers $ 2.50
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775-7735
Don’t miss the Communications
Career Fair.
Friday. March 5. 2000
MSC Flag Room
10:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
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Companies scheduled to attend:
Houston Chronicle
Sunburst Media
Abilene Reporter News
The Victoria Advocate
Bryan-College Station Eagle
Conroe Courier
PR Newswire - Dallas
Hart Publications
Blue Bell Creameries
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Sealy News
Madisonville Meteor
KAMU - TV
Texas Association of
Broadcasters
92.1 KTSR- 1150am WTAW
University of North Texas
Ackerman McQueen
KVUE - TV
Galveston County Daily News
Hartman Newspapers, Inc.
Brenham Banner-Press
Fogarty Klein Public Relations
Brazos Valley Sports Foundation
Killeen Daily Herald
Arlington Morning News
Longview News-Journal
Temple Daily Telegram
Huntsville Item
Yearlook/ Camp TV, Inc.
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Beaumont Enterprise
Taylor Publishing Company
Peace Corps
Publicis
Vollmer Public Relations
San Angelo Standard-Times
Dallas Morning News
Monroe News-Star
Fleishman-Hillard
SEADEV.COM, Inc.
Sponosred. t>y the Texas A&?M University
Department of Journalism.
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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
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chief in Reynosa,
shot to death lasilis
day. Reynosa is
McAllen, Ter;
across the border
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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
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“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.
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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.
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