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The Texas A&M Debate Society
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Resolved: The Republican Vice-Presidential
candidate should he Colin Powell.
Thursday, April 13, 2000
7:00pm Rudder 301
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The topic will he debated hy members of the Texas A&M Debate Society
President and Mrs. Ray M. Bowen '58
and
Vice President for Student Affairs Malon Southerland '65
invite you and your family
to drop by their campus homes
from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 15, 2000
The President's home is located on Throckmorton Street
across from Duncan Drill Field.
The Gilchrist-Southerland residence is located at 100 Throckmorton Street
across from the Sanders Corps of Cadets Center.
Light refreshments will be served at both homes.
NATION
Page 12
THE BATTALION
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Million Mom March tijni
call for gun control actiine
SHORT HILLS, N.J. (AP) — It took
an unforgettable image of young chil
dren escaping a racist gunman to trans
form Donna Dees-Thomases from a
wealthy suburban mother into a grass
roots activist.
The image was from Aug. 10, when
a white supremacist opened lire on a
Jewish Community Center in Granada
Hills, Calif.
Dees-Thomases was flipping chan
nels when she saw the video of children
the same age as her daughters crossing the
street hand-in-hand with police officers.
“These were my kids crossing the
street,” Dees-Thomases said. "My kids
go to a JCC. Anybody could walk in. It
was just crazy.”
One week later, Dees-Thomases reg
istered a Website, and launched the Mil
lion Mom March campaign. Hie grass
roots effort is expected to become the
nation’s largest gun control demonstra
tion to date.
The Mother’s Day rally is expected
to draw 100,000 people to the National
Mall in Washington, D.C. Other demon
strations are scheduled in 20 cities na
tionwide, including Tulsa. Okla.. Los
Angeles, Denver and Portland, Ore.
The group is pressing Congress for
stricter gun control, including measures
to require all handgun owners to be li
censed and registered, require built-in
child safety locks and limit handgun pur
chases to one a month.
“Mothers are certainly an impor
tant voice in this debate, and they are
a voice that has not been very strong
until this point,” said Shannon Frat-
taroli, researcher at the Center for
Gun Policy and Research at Johns
Hopkins University.
“We have yet to see really a grass
roots movement in this area, and maybe
that’s what is needed in order to change
voting behavior.”
National Rifle Association
spokesman Bill Powers said the organi
zation was unconcerned about the appeal
of the May 14 rally.
“It is one of the great freedoms of
America” to express oneself political
ly, he said.
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apolitical. Today,
her cluttered base
ment office in this
wealthy suburban
community is
adorned by bright
pink posters and
T-shirts reading,
“We’re looking
for a few good
moms.”
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News in Brief
Wildfire destroys
13,000 Fla. acres
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A wildfire
that had burned 13,000 acres
stalled today on the edge of Big Cy
press Swamp after destroying three
houses and forcing people to flee
other homes in the area.
Wind was expected to pick up
during the late afternoon and
push the fire toward the south
east and away from populated ar
eas on the edge of Naples, fire of
ficials said.
The RV resort, about 2 1/2
miles from the fire’s edge, sits on
a road that serves as the east
ern boundary of Naples’ devel
oped areas.
Earlier, fire crews had feared
"very aggressive fire behavior," said
state fire spokesman Jim Harrell.
Advancing flames caught three
firefighters' vehicles on Monday, al
though their operators escaped.
An elementary school was
closed for the day today in the area
about 10 miles east of Naples, or
130 miles south of Tampa.
Residents of 50 homes within a
mile of the fire had been urged to
evacuate Tuesday, and 10 busi
nesses were asked to close, said
Deborah Wright, a Collier County
spokesperson.
The fire started Sunday in the
Picayune Strand State Forest, be
tween Naples and the Big Cypress
National Preserve and Everglades
National Park. It was blamed on hu
mans, but the exact cause has not
been determined.
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