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AN AGGIE TRADITION SINCE 1984
SPRING SESSION I
DANCE LESSONS
SIGN-UPS WILL BE
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Begins Monday January 22 thru Thursday January 25
Cost: $ 35 per couple
s 40 per couple for advanced lessons
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT THE AGGIE WRANGLERS ON-LINE AT
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NEWS
THE BATTALION
Thursday, January 25,2001
Pentagon to control Osprey investigation
vda cuTNinTONT r ap'i Thp Marino Cams (TihormlevJ and his staff would conduct a thor- Marines are a part, since the allegations bear on the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps
ceded control of its V-22 Osprey investigation to
the Pentagon’s inspector general, citing the “na
ture and gravity” of allegations that the Osprey
squadron commander asked subordinates to falsi
fy maintenance data.
In a brief statement Wednesday, Gen. James L.
Jones, commandant of the Marine Corps, said De
fense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved his re
quest that the Defense Department’s top investi
gator take control of the inquiry.
The investigation was begun last Thursday by
Brig. Gen. Timothy F. Ghormley, the Marine
Corps inspector general.
He headed a team that flew to the Osprey
squadron’s base at New River, N.C., and began
interviewing all 241 members of the squadron,
including the commander, Lt. Col. Odin Fred
Leberman.
Jones is one of the strongest advocates of the
Osprey, an aircraft that uses unique tilt-rotor tech-
fiology to take off and land like a helicopter and
fly like an airplane. The Osprey is supposed to re
place the Marines’ aging Beet of troop transport
nelicopters.
“While f have comolete confidence that
(Ghormley) and his staff would conduct a thor
ough, complete and unbiased investigation into
these allegations, I am concerned that the nature
and gravity of the allegations may invite unwar
ranted perceptions of command influence or in
stitutional bias,” Jones said.
He also noted that the $40 billion Osprey pro
gram’s future affects other military services, par
ticularly the Air Force.
A Marine Corps spokeswoman. Col. Betsy
Judge, said Jones decided on his own that the cred
ibility of the Osprey investigation would be
strengthened if it were conducted independent of
the Marine Corps. In a letter released Wednesday,
Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-
Mich., took the same view.
“This program will not be able to move forward
unless and until the Defense Department has re
stored confidence in the integrity of the V-22 pro
gram and the people managing it,” Warner and
Levin wrote in a letter to Rumsfeld. Warner is
chairman of the Senate Armed Services Commit
tee that oversees the Pentagon, and Levin is the
committee’s top Democrat
The senators said the investigators should be in-
rlpnendent of the Naw Deoartment. of which the over two years
Marines are a part, since the allegations bear on the
“integrity of information” provided to Congress.
At the time of a December Osprey crash, the
Pentagon was about to decide whether to give the
go-ahead for full-scale production. That decision
has been put off pending a high-level review.
Allegations against Leberman threaten to un
dermine congressional confidence in the Osprey
program, which already is under intense scrutiny
as a result of two crashes last year that killed 23
Marines.
The Marines have said they believe the alleged
doctoring of maintenance records in Leberman's
squadron had no bearing on either of the crashes. The
first, last April in Arizona, killed 19 Marines and was
blamed on pilot error. The second, last December in
North Carolina, killed four and is still under investi
gation. Officials said last week they believe the lat
est crash was caused by a hydraulics failure.
In an anonymous letter to the office of the sec
retary of the Navy on Jan. 12, a person who said
he was an Osprey mechanic wrote, “What we have
been doing is reporting aircraft that are down as in
they can’t fly, as being up, as in full mission capa
ble. This type of deception has been going on for
Mother arrested for
child endangerment
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP)
— The mother of five children
killed in a trailer park fire was ar
rested Tuesday on auto theft
charges as she left their burial.
Hours later, police charged her
with five counts of child endan
germent.
Maria Dulce Martinez, 30, is
accused of stealing a 1990 Subur
ban last Tuesday, the day before a
deadly fire swept the family’s tiny
trailer. Police say they feared Mar
tinez, a Mexican national, might
try to escape across the border af-1
ter her children’s funeral.
“We tried to keep our distance
out of respect for the children,” said
police investigator Orlando Ro
driguez. “But we were also very
aware of the threat of flight.''
Police.later filed the five counts
of child endangerment, one for eaclv
of the children who died.
RHA
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consume alcohol on campus.
“Imposing an alcohol ban bn
halls would negatively affect the
on-campus community,” the res
olution states. The majority of
students over the age of 21 re
ported that alcohol restrictions
would decrease their desire to re
turn in the fall. The loss of older
students would have a grave ef
fect on the “diversity of campus,”
Bennett said.
According to the resolution, it
alcohol is eliminated from campus,
a new problem of alcohol-related
injuries could arise as students will
be forced to travel off campus to
drink and possibly drive back to
campus.
The resolution also said thatsub-
stance-free housing is available in
several halls on campus and will
expand to more halls in the tulure
On-campus students who preferto
live substance-free have housins
options.
The resolution will be placed on
Southerland's desk for consideration
within the next few days, said RHA
President Josh Kaylor.
“We’ve done our part by passios
this [resolution] along," he said.
Ron Sasse, director of Residence
Life, will also draft a recommenda
tion to Southerland.
A decision from President Dr.Ra;
M. Bowen is expected by Feb. 1.
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