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» 41 Wednesday: Jam Night featuring Parker Bradley of Last Free Exit & Greg Tivis $ 3 cover Thursday: Karaoke Night $ 3 cover FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: Big Otis f 12 cover FiiDR Where real musicians play! 201 W. 26tk Street, Downtown Bryan 775-7735 Page 2 STATE Puesday,June 13,3 luesday. Jane 13.2 THE BATTALION Hare Krishnas sued for child abus DALLAS (AP) — More than three dozen former students of Hare Krishna boarding schools have filed a $400 million lawsuit against leaders of the religious community, alleging years of sexual, physical and emotional torture. The 44 plaintiffs in the suit allege child abuse over two decades at boarding schools in the Unit ed States and India. The federal suit, filed Monday morning in Dallas, names the International Society of Krishna Con sciousness (1SKCON) as lead defendant, along with 17 members of the group's governing board of top leaders and the estate of the movement's founder, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Plaintiffs' attorney Windle Turley called the abuse "the most unthinkable abuse and maltreatment of lit tle children we have seen. It includes rape, sexual abuse, physical torture and emotional terror of chil dren as young as three years of age." Anuttama, a Hare Krishna spokesperson, said the organization planned to comment on the law suit Monday. Turley said the abuse started in 19721 ISKCON's first school in Dallas, and continuedij other U.S. schools and two in India. He said he believes more than halfofthechi in the schools were victimized. "We believe the facts, as they are developed,! reveal more than 1,000 child victims, many oh have already taken their own lives or are todaye tionally and socially dysfunctional," said Tinj whose Dallas law firm won millions in a sex a case against the Catholic Church. £c>c>Io<j JSUvv $7.00 per hour! Part-Time Opportunities College Station Want to learn how to build a successful career? UCS knows success! 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Plus with every rental of full price and two of older releases, you get a free rental during any Canadian Holiday AUSTIN (AP) — Two bearing symbols of the Coni eracy were removed from the by of the state Supreme 0 building over the weekend spite calls from Confederati itage groups for a public he; The plaques were repl with new ones that sayi justice is available to all If "regardless of race, ere color," and that the building constructed with moneyt; from a Confederate pisi fund and dedicated tolei who served in the Confedei Confederate heritagegn complained about the “ night" removal and promii legal action. The original plaques tained a quote from Gen.f E. Lee and included symbolsj the Confederate battle f seal of the Confederacy. The Texas chapter of the tional Association for vancement of Colored Pi and others called the plaques offensive to mini and had asked Gov. Bush, the presumptiveRe| can presidential nominee,E have them removed. I The plaques were replaff by the state General See« Commission in consul!# with the governor's office.* Associate Supreme CoS tice Alberto Gonzales. Gonzales told the A American Statesman in I day's edition that Bush'so : consulted with various inf als and officials to choose; wording for the replace'"! plaques. He said they weie 1 viewed by lawyers incaseo 1 gal challenges. A Bush spokespersondii immediately return phone to The Associated Press. Gonzales said the pie were replaced at night toai ^ n disrupting court business*’ J < the day with the noise of* f ^ into granite walls. “The court never ed on this,” Gonzales said, we’re all hopeful we can get issue behind us. Indirectly,; controversy] was viewed as icism of the court.” * * These shows sell out on Broadway... And now they're coming to Rudder Auditorium... 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