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Jason's Deli Page 10 1 1 Monday, October!: 1 764-2929 PROFITABLE NUMBER! 845-0569 THE BATTALION Ulle deliver everyday until 9 pm. The Battalion CLASSIFIEDS $10 minimum Al d • 4 4 1 TAMU Career Center Employer Workshop Series r fall 2000 Resume Waiting lues., Oct. 3, 2000 3:30 p.m. Rudder 302 -J-eatuted Company: Price Waterhouse Coopers %ehaviota(? interviewing Tues., Oct. 3, 2000 5 p.m. Rudder 302 Jeatuted Company: Ernst & Young out sorop -Entry Fee $40 Per Team -Divisions include Men's, Women's and CoRec -Highly, Average and Moderately Skilled, and Novice Classes Available’ -USVBA rules apply with Intramural exceptions -Captain's Meeting, October 5th, at 6 p.m. in 281 Rec t Priest drives car into building, vandalizes witlu ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A Catholic priest smashed his car into an abortion clinic Saturday morning, then chopped at the building with an ax until the own er fired two shotgun blasts to stop him, police said. The clinic was not open and no body was injured in the attack, which came just two days after federal approval of the abortion pill RU-486. The man drove through a door at the Abortion Access Northern Illinois Women’s Center around 8:15 a.m. He was swinging an ax when the clinic’s owner fired a 12- gauge shotgun twice. Neither man was injured. The Rev. John Earl, 32, was ar rested and charged with burglary and felony criminal damage to prop erty, said Deputy Police Chief Do minic lasparro. Earl was released later Saturday on $10,000 bond. lasparro would not comment on statements Earl made to police about a possible motive. The building owner, Gerald W. “Wayne” Webster, 56, has rented space to the clinic for 15 years. He sometimes sleeps in the building for security. No one else was inside Saturday morning. Police said Webster's weapon was legal and no charges will be filed against him. “He came at me with an ax over his head,” Webster told reporters. “He would have chopped my head off if I wouldn’t have been armed with a 12-gauge shotgun.” “I thank God and my shotgun that I’m alive” he said. Earl is the pastor at St. Patrick’s .1 It # 2 Jrm “He would have chopped my head off if I wouldn't have been armed with a 12-gauge shotgun” la\ — Gerald W. "Wayne" Webster Building owner Cathaolic Church in Rochelle. Parishioners gathering for Mass on Saturday evening said Earl took over about a year ago and was re spected by the congregation. The Diocese of Rockford issued a written statement saying Earl’s ac tivities have been restricted wil reviews the matter. “While it is the policy of this cese not to comment on the spec of legal matters, it has never nor is it the policy or practiceof Roman Catholic Church tocoi approve or promote violence form to achieve a desired end," statement said. Bill Cipolla, a parishioner, Earl sometimes spoke aboutahj-h tion but he would not have cot ered him a radical. “You don’t look for prieststo that type of thing,” he said. Abortion providers usual!) on alert for violence followingah tion-related events in the news, as this week's approval of RIM by the U.S. Food and Drug Adi istration, said Vicki Saporta.exei live director of the NationalAh tion Federation. “We haven’t received any spec ic threats, but anytime abortionis the headlines we issue an alert too clinics to take precautions becat there is the potential for increas violence,” she said. The Rockford clinic is not one the NAF’s 360 member facilitii but “it’s just kind of common sen that clinics would be on alert."s! said. tnd News in Brief- Ammonia causes town evacuation BONITA, La. (AP) — Resi- dents began returning to this rural farming town Sunday, about 13 hours after a noxious ammonia cloud released from a fertilizer tank forced an overnight evacuation. Authorities went door-to- door, urging the town’s more than 260 people, particularly those in a one mile radius on the tank, to leave town after the leak was discovered on a cotton farm Saturday night. State troopers in hazardous materials suits were able to close the fertilizer tank’s valve early Sunday, and the cloud had dissipated by midday. The 30,000-gallon tank held anhydrous ammonia, a caustic alkali that can damage the lungs. No serious injuries were re ported, though four people were given oxygen after inhal ing fumes, said state police spokesman Cam Douglas. Former ‘Cheers’ stars file lawsuit LOS ANGELES (AP) — In one of the most popular TV series ew “Cheers” was the neighborhood bar where everybody knew ydurni And audiences knew the characters by name, guys like Norm the accon tant and Cliff the postman. But what about the actors who portrayed them? Did George and John Ratzenberger become so closely identified with their fictio: al alter egos that they should be able to control any commercial use( the characters? The Supreme Court could decide as early as Monday whether it willbe: an eight-year-old lawsuit by the two actors that asks that question. lUv\s& the case, it could set the stage for a landmark ruling on copyright kiw. The court battle evolved from Paramount Pictures’ decision to licej- S tudent forme tural a tnical Col exas, hear i our dear s it peril. Peril, I sa; the sun 1 tut of its-ceh throws it ake us Iron But each i )p before. T een such sat maize heart Today’s A Strangeness a do dec la Josterous go ■elieved w he are banished Today, my »ou often ha the rantin' areacher-mei With word beapen my 11 They speak oi such fiery and believe them i They seen religiosity, bt students tit A long as I stan The preac filled words; ies, should r viding for the eek to conde Aggies. My superi department k Free Speech suffer throug bv Host International to open bars with the “Cheers” name at airports aci the country. The bars reproduced the “Cheers” ambiance and even featij3tud6nl robots that resembled Norm and Cliff. Wendt and Ratzenberger objected to their likenesses being used or IH 0ff“C3 robots and sued. The studio went ahead with the idea, changing thecli / n response acter names to Bob and Hank. The actors sued for damages under California's right of publicity which protects celebrities from unwanted commercial exploitation. Tbelaj hen neither d< specifies that no one has a right to sell a product by using another person nost lively.” name, signature, photograph or likeness. Stars including Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler, singer Tom Waitsa* 'anizations, s game show hostess Vanna White have won damages and prevented uses their voices or images in ads under this law. 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