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Free Faji-tas 4 Drinks Cool Prizes 4 Live Music E-y: Kyle Hutton'92 Performed at Bonfire Benefit concert with Lyle Lovett and Robert Keen For further information contact: Campus Programs (979) 845-7514 www.aggienetwork.com The Association' OF FORMER STUDENTS WORLD Page 16 THE BATTALION Friday, May 5, ^ggie Protesters cleared Arabs arrested je nettei pponents, sjCAA Char from training site VIEQUES, Puerto Rico (AP) —The Navy^wasted no time in announcing new bombing exercises at its prized Atlantic training ground Thursday, after federal agents ousted 213 protesters to end their defiant yearlong occupation. Backed by helicopters and ships, 200 FBI agents and 100 U.S. Marshals swept across Puerto Rico’s Vieques Island at dawn, detaining the activists, several lawmakers, a bishop and nuns. Pentagon officials said the Navy in tends to resume training within two weeks using dummy bombs, as President Clin ton and Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Rossel- lo agreed in January. Vieques residents, meanwhile, will vote on whether the Navy should leave the island in 2003. A date for the referendum has not been set. The resumption of training is a pre requisite for the transfer of $40 million in economic aid for Vieques called for by the January agreement. In Washington, Attorney General Janet Reno said all 12 protest sites were cleared and that there would be no charges against the demonstrators unless they assaulted federal officers or returned to range. “All indications are that the protest ers have handled themselves in a peace ful and dignified manner,” Reno said. Some protesters tried to run away when agents arrived, but “that was a short-lived exercise,” said FBI agent Dave Miller. Justice Department spokesperson My ron Marlin said that 213 people had been removed from the base, including 64 from the main gate area and the remainder from 12 camps inside. They w ere taken to Rm>- sevelt Roads Naval Station, which ad ministers the nearby Vieques range, for processing and release. Marlin said there were no injuries to federal agents. for spyin; . Men's U i Soldier admits to killing hundreds PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A former special forces officer on Thursday described killing hundreds of black prisoners and tossing their corpses from an airplane, shedding light on one of the worst horrors committed by apartheid South Africa. Johan Theron’s testi mony for the lirst time crystallized the events of two decades ago. Sketchy reports had surfaced earli er of the murders of some 200 members of a guerril la group that fought South Africa’s occupation of neighboring Namibia, known as South West Africa until it won inde pendence in 1990. The killings began with crude and gruesome stranglings, but evolved into more sophisticated poisonings with the evi dence disposed of in the frigid waters of the At lantic, Theron told tiie Pretoria I ligh Court. Adjusting his gold- rimmed glasses while leaning forward in the wit ness stand, Theron told of flinging his victims’ corpses from a plane 12,000 feet above the At lantic and watching the bodies plummet to the sea. “The people had to be dead before I threw them into the sea,” the former lieutenant colonel ex plained, to eliminate any chance of their surviving the fall and returning to implicate him. Most had been killed by an overdose of muscle re- laxants, supplied by Dr. Wouter Basson, who ran apartheid South Africa’s chemical and biological weapons program, Theron said. Theron was testifying Thursday as a prosecution witness in Basson’s murder, conspiracy and fraud trial. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) An Arab arrested in Afghanistans the United States recruited him tor to find alleged terrorist Osama Laden, and his Taliban captors said! and another prisoner “were spying! America and Israel.” A television reporter interview the two prisoners at a secret locati in southern Afghanistan. The As ated Press viewed the taped intenit Wednesday in Islamabad. “We have arrested two Arabs, Syrian and an Iraqi, who werespyi for America and Israel,” Taliban Ft eign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mi tawakil told the AP on Wednesdi “We found six documents on themlt shows they were spying.” Muttawakil refused, however, confirm or deny the statement of® prisoner that tire Taliban were; holding an American as an alleged On camera, the Syrian said, “hr told by the Taliban that they have rested an American.” In Washington. State Departme officials said they were aware ofn mors that an American had been rested but had been unable to confir the reports independently. The U Embassy in Islamabad and the cos sulatc in Peshawar are investigatiii the officials said. Students stay i rea will be force ponsible travel I Caring Aggies I ivill be out of con "Because C7 tage, volunteer ible to functior ’OOL adviser A Since its servi he group has p IS area. Winkler said dde students wi ^uestions-askec The reporter and his camerama interviewed hy the AP upon theirr; turn to Islamabad this week, work(J United Arab Emirates Television,AF Dhabi Channel, in the UAE’scapit They interviewed theTaliban’st* acknowledged prisoners the nights | April 25. The Syrian, Abdul Janko, 22, fidgeted in his chair as? answered questions. “During my interrogation, I to!:| them how I was recruited, whatT wanted me to do and who I was to®| tact with my information,” he said. iPai Stua Can I take a byte out of j college cradits? The One month a f ho confessed t< dering her son, I a speedy end to 1 ■viIT determine tl Lockwood. 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