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Salary Evaluation Seminar At this seminar a basic benefits package will be presented. Participants will be given guidelines for analyzing the total package in an effort to make the best decision about a job offer. Wed. March VL - 5:2 Opw - 30$Rudder Attn: Graduating Seniors Open House UCS has been in the custom software business for thirty years. Headquartered in Houston with over 1600 employees, we are looking for many different majors and backgrounds for entry level positions including sales, customer service, training, recruiting, accounting, consulting, programming and technical support for our Houston, College Station and other regional offices. For more information, please stop by and visit with our department representatives: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 200 Quality Circle College Station, TX This is a come and go event with refreshments provided. Business attire requested. EOF. If you are unable to attend but still wish to apply, please fax or mail your resume to: UCS 200 Quality Circle College Station, TX 77845 979-595-2609 Fax (979) 595-2613 www.universalcomputersys.com UCS hires non-tobacco users only. T/iis Week Thursday: Legendary Guitarist Chris Duarte 10 cover Friday: Houston Marchman w/opener: Bleu Edmondson* $ 6 cover Saturday: The Aggie NeoSwing Fundraising Dance-A-Thon Sat. 8 p.m. - Sun. 8 a.m. $ 8 cover/ $ 5 w/studend ID Lessons between 8:30-9:30 p.m. Where real musicians play! 201 YV. 26th Street, Downtown Bryan 775-7735 WORLD Page 10 THE BATTALION Wednesday, March 22,; 11 cases of fever found in Congo Career Center 209 Koldus 845-5139 http:laggienet.tamu,edulcctr GENEVA (AP) — Eleven new cases of a dead ly hemorrhagic disease known as Marburg fever have been confirmed in a remote, rebel-controlled area of northeastern Congo, the World Health Or ganization said Tuesday. Eight fatal cases of Marburg fever — a type of hemorrhagic illness similar to the feared Ebola virus — were found in the town of Durba, about 400 miles northeast of the eastern city of Kisangani, and are believed to be linked to a gold mine there. Six of those infected in the latest outbreak be ginning in January were gold miners, three were housewives, one was a farmer and one a nurse, WHO said in a statement. Three of the 11 survived the disease; reports that another four people died from hemorrhagic fever have not been confirmed, WHO said. More than 60 people in Durba are believed to have died from Marburg fever in May 1999. Eight more people died in October. “Disease activity is clearly still continuing in the area, and appears to be linked to the gold mine in Durba,” WHO said. Health experts said many of those sickened in the May outbreak were gold miners. The miners spend up to 48 hours at a stretch in caves deep un derground. Water is scarce, and the miners often drink groundwater. “Surveillance is continuing, but the security sit uation in the area and poor communications and transport mean that information is only available intermittently,” the WHO statement said. The area is under the control of rebels fighting the government of President Laurent Kabila. Hemorrhagic fevers, which include Marburg and Ebola, cause high body temperatures and bleeding. The Marburg virus is a close relative of Ebola, but appears to be more treatable, experts say. Doctor accused of Nazi crimes Trial of doctor tii icsday. March to Nazis suspend Heinrich Gross Dr. Heinrich Gross went on trial Tuesday for the third time, accused of the deaths of nine children in a Nazi-run euthanasia clinic. The trial was suspended indefinitely. ►Case was first thrown out in 1950 because of legal technicalities: in the 1980s because the 30-year statute of limitations on manslaughter expired. ►Case stems from the deaths of thousands of handicapped children labeled "unworthy lives" by the Nazis. ►The stifling of Austria's Nazi past until the 1980s permitted Gross, a prominent postwar neurologist and recipient of a high state award, to evade responsibility for alleged crimes during that era. ►Gross went on to achieve prominence in his field and served as an expert witness in hundreds of court cases up to the mid-1980s. ► Basing his research on the preserved brains of children killed by the Nazis, Gross published nearly a dozen articles by 1966. ►Across Europe, 75,000 people, including 5,000 children, were murdered for being mentally or physically handicapped. ►Children were killed by injection, medical experimentation or simply starved. Sources: Compiled from AP wire reports AP VIENNA, Austria (AP)—The tri al of an aging doctor accused in the deaths of nine children in a Nazi-run euthanasia clinic was suspended in definitely Tuesday after a psychiatrist testified the defendant was suffering from increased dementia. Dr. Heinrich Gross, 84, went on tri al Tuesday in a Vienna court for the third time in a ease stemming from the deaths of thousands of children killed by the Nazis because they did not fit Adolf Hitler's vision of a perfect world. About a half hour into the session, the judge, Karlheinz Seewald, sus pended the proceedings indefinitely after a court-appointed psychiatrist. Dr. Heinrich Haller, testified that Gross’ dementia had worsened since two pre vious examinations in 1998. Seewald ordered further tests over the next six months, leaving open the possibility the trial could resume. Based on the psychiatrist’s testimony, however, it appeared unlikely that (iross would ever stand trial. Gross, who attended the session, shook hands with supporters after the proceedings were halted. The defendant was put on trial twice before, but the case was thrown out in 1950 because of legal technical ities and again in the '80s because the 30-year statute of limitations on manslaughter had expired. Prosecutors, however, filed a new set of charges, accusing him of complicity to murder in the cases of nine children who allegedly died as a result of abuse. Gross has pleaded innocent always against euthanasia,’'het weekly magazine News. “I never! up anyone’s death, nor did I anyone to do so.” t iross’ lawyer, Nicolaus Lehna;! his client w as at the war front time the nine children were kil er also has argued that his clients sponsible only for initial examii of children admitted to the clinic. “If a child dies alter being ted to an institution, it is not the of the doctor administering the sion examinations,” Lehnersaid Lehner has called the triala litically motivated “scandal”! time w hen Austria’s Nazi pastisi der intense scrutiny. Austria’sn government includes a far-rights ty whose leader, Joerg Haider.! praised the Hitler era. Prospective witnesses include survivor of the clinic, JohannGn who is not related to the defendants /I senior for ( .. h year of eli not see the defendant kill anyone.; other memories of abuse are vivid “ 1 would crawl on my hands, ging my legs behind me because!! were devoid of sensation,"Grossss recalling injections he said were® by the defendant as punishment try ing to escape the institution. "I would throw up, again and again.' Some infants were leftonh©l\fter the cor tal balconies naked or light ode of March dressed overnight during said Johann Gross. Navy exercises causes whales to beach, die Grand Bahama Island Freeport Abaco Island Eleuthera Island Andros Island s Nasseu G New Providence, US. BAHAMAS Atlantic Oct Andros Island CUBA Great Inagua Island HAITlr FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Eight whales beached and died soon after the U.S. Navy conducted anti-subma rine exercises off'the northern Bahamas, prompting an inves tigation and calls for an end to such exercises. The Navy said Tuesday that there was no evidence to link the whale deaths to last week’s exercise testing sonar detection of submarines. Navy Cmdr. Greg Smith said die sonar tests were sched uled only one day and took place from about 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. March 15 off Abaco Island. Marine biologist Ken Bal- comb of the Earthwatch envi ronmental group said beachings began that same day and with in two days at least 14 whales had grounded themselves on Abaco, Grand Bahama to the north, and Eleuthera to the south. Eight died, prompting in vestigations by Bahamian and U.S. scientists and authorities. “A whale beaching in the Bahamas is a once-in-a-decade occurrence,” said Balcomb, an American who has been study ing whales around Abaco island for nine years. “We will be making recom mendations to the Bahamian government that these sort of ex ercises be terminated,” he said. “The fact that it coincides with the military exercises cannot be just coincidental.” But the Navy spokesperson said there was no evidence link ing the two events and the Navy planned to continue such tests. “There’s no suggestion we have, and no scientific data, that the testing that we are doing was in any way linked to the current, unfortunate demise of great mammals,” Smith said. “My understanding of the actual locations would put the is land between the operations where the ‘sonobuoys’ were lo cated and where the whales eventually beached them selves,” Smith said. Naomi Rose of the Washing ton-based Humane Society of the United States, maintained the signals could still do damage. "These signals, depending on frequency, could travel quite a dis tance and could even wrap aroiuid the island,” said Rose, a marine mammal scientist “One could ar gue that they fled the area where the sonar was being transmitted. ” Another U.S. marine biolo gist here to investigate, Charles Potter of the Smithsonian Insti tute, said the number of w hales beached is “extremely unusual. But he said the postmortems showed the whales had suffered no physical damage, such as bro ken ear drums. Balcomb said the mammals included several deep-water beaked whales, goose beaked whales measuring 16-19 feet, dense beaked whales measuring 10-13 feet, baleen whales mea suring up to 27 feet and some small minke whales. Michael Breynan, director of the Bahamian Fisheries De partment, said he was working BY JAS< The doubt that the mg the premii ege hoop seen 4any of the ti is in the ACC Big East coi ed their dom mament. with U.S. scientists to try t termine the cause. Breynanvl[ owever t | le | his department kept norecx a ) S p 0t |ig ht a , of beached whales but adt “ I am not aware of any silt incident [having occurred) the Bahamas.” He said further tests < dead whales would be cart; out in the United States, hes a fever pii six of the cc 4e the NCAA t hedtop25ranl n comparisor Wed the Big 1 process that could take montlt Smith said theexavisewa&M ing for upgrades of what tire N.^ cal Is the Directional C ommandA rivaled Sonobuoy System. The exercise involved Navy P-3 aircraft dropping t« buoys north of Abaco, one close as 35 miles to the islar* the other 70 to 75 miles from! island. One buoy emitted a so® signal which was received by! other, and a submarine wasntf ing between the two buoys, He said the exercise nothing to do with low frequet cy active sonar, a new and con troversial system that tr sonar pulses so loud tl match the roar of a rocket laws News in Brief NATO: U.S. jets used depleted uranium rods GENEVA (AP) — U.S. jets used 31,000 depleted uranium rounds over many attacks in the Kosovo war, a U.N. task force on Kosovo war damage said Tuesday, citing confirmation by NATO. Some specialists believe the rounds, which have been used as far back as the Persian Gulf War, are environmentally harmful, es pecially when people and animals inhale the dust that forms when the shells disintegrate on impact. In the past, the U.S. Defense Department has robustly de fended the use of depleted ura nium saying the rounds pose no more health risk than conven tional anti-tank weapons. United Nations: Aging populations require action UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With fertility rates low and anti-foreigner sentiment high in Europe, a new U.N. study suggests that significant increas es in migration might be needed to keep populations from decreasing. More foreigners would also help Eu rope compete with the United States, whose baby boomer population is aging but is being supported by a constant flow of working-age laborers coming to America— 1.1 million every year from 1990-96, the report says. The study, released today by the U.N. Population Division, notes that Japan and South Korea face significant population declines over the next 50 years and that migration would offset the economic impact. The report could have serious im plications for governments grappling with the increasingly vocal immigration debate but also realizing they may not be able to support their surging num ber of retirees without an in fusion of workers. Joseph Chamie, director of the U.N. Population Divi sion, cautioned that the report was not making recommen dations or “putting forward a demographic recipe for coun tries to follow.” Rather, he told a news con ference, the United Nations was merely looking at the caus es of population trends and in dicating some future demo graphic trends and options. Replacement migration A U.N. Population Division study suggests that increases in immigration are needed to maintain the ratio of the working-age population (from age 15 to 64) to the retired-age population. For instance, in Europe as a whole, 25.2 million people need to immigrate each year in order to maintain its present size. Here is a look at selected countries. Number of immigrants needed per year (1995-2050) (In millions) m 1.3 France* Germany Italy Japan South Korea Russian Federationt U.K. and Northern Ireland 1 United States mm 3 4 ££2.2 •Number of immigrants needed ir fNumber of immigrants needed ii France is measured from the year 2000 to 2025. 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