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2000/2001 Texas A&M Campus Directory Listings of departments, administrators, faculty, staff, students, and other information about A&M, plus yellow pages. S TUDENTS: If you ordered a 2000/2001 Campus Directory, stop by the basement of Reed McDonald from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday to pick up your copy. (Please bring Student ID.) If you did not order a Campus Directory as a fee option when you registered for Fall '00 classes, you may purchase a copy for $3 plus tax in room 015 Reed McDonald Building (by cash, check or credit card). Page 4B NATION Wednesday, October 1 Wednesday, Oc THE BATTALION Missouri governor killed in plane crash GOLDMAN, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mel Carnahan, the Democratic can didate in one of the most hotly con tested U.S. Senate races in the coun try, was killed when the plane shuttling him to a campaign rally crashed in rainy, foggy weather. The Cessna 335, also carrying Carnahan’s 44-year-old son, Roger, who was piloting the plane, and cam paign adviser Chris Sifford, 37, went down Monday night 25 miles south of St. Louis. They were en route to a rally for Carnahan, 66, who was run ning against Republican Sen. John Ashcroft. There were no survivors, said Jerry Nachtigal, the governor’s spokesman. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were .sent to the scene. “We found wreckage in very small pieces spread over a large area,” Jefferson County Sheriff’s Capt. Ed Kemp said. “We have found some remains we cannot identify at this point.” Ashcroft’s campaign immediately suspended all advertising and other operations. “Obviously this is not a time for politics,” Ashcroft said. “This is a time for the state to come together.” The race, seen as one of the key races in the Democrats’ effort to retake control of the Senate, had been a dead heat for months. A Zogby poll taken for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the first week of September gave Ashcroft 45 percent and Carnahan 43 percent, within the 4-point margin of error. Carnahan’s name will stay on the Nov. 7 ballot because the deadline for changing it was Oct. 13, Secretary of State Bekki Cook said. Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson will serve out the remainder of Carnahan’s term, until Jan. 8. If more voters cast bal lots for Car nahan than Ashcroft on Nov. 7, the seat would become vacant when Ashcroft’s current term ends Jan. 3, Cook said. Wilson, a Democrat, would have constitutional authority to appoint a senator to fill the vacan cy through the November 2002 gen eral election, when the seat would be up for election, Cook said. The deaths prompted discussion of whether Tuesday night’s debate in St. Louis between Vice President A1 Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush should be postponed. Tuesday morning, though, the debate’s spon sors said the it would go forward, and Carnahan’s wife, Jean, said she sup ported the decision. “Because my husband cherished our democracy and its expression, he would very much want the debate scheduled for tonight to go on,” she said in a statement. It will begin with a moment of si lence and brief remarks about Car nahan. In a statement. Bush praised his fellow governor as “a thought ful, distinguished man who was dedicated to quality education and excellence in public service.” Gore said he was “deeply saddened” and hailed Carnahan’s work on educa tion and other issues. The NTSB said the twin-engine plane, a six-seater, was registered to a law firm where Roger Carnahan was a partner. The governor had been expect ed at the rally at 8 p.m. in New Madrid, about 125 miles south of the crash site, described as a hilly, wooded area. State Sen. Jerry Howard, who was at the rally, said Roy Temple, executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party, got a page around 8 p.m. from Sifford. Sifford told Temple the governor’s plane had encountered lightning and was going to return to St. Louis or Jef ferson City, Howard said. Tom Hunter, who lives near the crash site, said he heard the plane Hy ing overhead. Mel Carnahan Missouri’s governor died Monday in a plane crash on his way to a campaign rally. Carnahan, a Democrat, was running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Ashcroft in one of the most bitterly contested races this year. Ita as Gov. Melvin Eugene Carnahan Age: 66 Born: Birch Tree, Mo Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration from George Washington University; law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia Professional: Agent in the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations during the Korean War; municipal judge, 1960: state representative, 1962-66; majority floor leader, Missouri House, 1964-66; state treasurer, 1980- 84; lieutenant governor, 1988- 92; Missouri governor, 1992-2000 Personal: Married; four children; two grandchildren PIACEN hurried moi from the pa Tuesday as fl death in Alp the medieval northern Ital The dea Switzerland t caked bodie; boy and a w< mother amot A total of 21 tries were mi On Tues( evacuated v paths of the 1 and the Ticit from the Alp “Even the to leave theii ly,eventuall> the Rev. Piet Missouri’s governor dies in plane crash MISSOURI A twin-engine Cessna 335 carrying Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan crashed Monday in rainy, foggy weather. 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