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WORLD
THE BATTALION
Neo-Nazis charged in killing
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Five
neo-Nazis have been detained in con
nection with the weekend stabbing
death of a black teen-ager, which
prompted a rally Sunday denouncing
what was seen as a racially motivat
ed slaying.
Hundreds of people rallied Sun
day at the site where 15-year old
Benjamin Hermansen was killed late
Friday in the multiracial suburb of
Holmlia as he was swapping cell
phone covers with a friend.
Police detained three men in
their 20s and two 17-year-old girls
on Saturday, saying the suspects
were active in the neo-Nazi group
known as Bootboys, which has
about 200 followers.
All five were charged with mur
der, which carries a sentence of up to
21 years. They were caught in an
Oslo apartment filled with Nazi para
phernalia, police said. Police confis
cated books by Rudolf Hess, Adolf
Hitler’s deputy, and posters for
‘white power’ concerts, as well as a
pitbull and a snake.
I never thought this
could happen in Nor
way”
— Finn Abrahamsen
Norwegian police inspector
Police said all five had criminal
records, ranging from attempted
murder to robbery and vandalism.
Two of the men and one of the girls
had been arrested in a stabbing inci
dent in December but were released
pending the trial.
Police inspector Finn Abrahamsen
said he was shocked by the crime.
“I have served in Lebanon and
Yugoslavia. There people were
killed because of their race. I never
thought this could happen in Nor
way,” Abrahamsen was quoted as
saying by the daily Dagbladet.
Hermansen, whose deceased fa
ther was from Ghana and whose
mother is Norwegian, was a popular
figure in his neighborhood, where he
was active in fighting against racism.
Last summer, he appeared on Nor
wegian television to talk about being
assaulted by neo-Nazi youths during
a soccer tournament in Denmark.
The stabbing took place shortly
before midnight Friday. Norwegian
newspapers reported that Her
mansen tried to escape when he was
attacked by the gang, but he slid on
the ice and was stabbed several
times in the stomach and chest. His
Norwegian friend was not hurt.
“I wanted to be like him,” one of
Hermansen’s friends, Victor Lopez,
said at the rally. “Benjamin cared
about fairness. I think he’s in par
adise now.”
Last Italian Queen dies at 94 in exile
GENEVA (AP) — Maria Jose of Savoy, the widow
of Italy’s last king, Umberto II, died Saturday at her
family’s home in exile in Switzerland, relatives said.
She was 94.
Maria Jose had battled lung problems at a Geneva clin
ic for some time, but a family spokeswoman who con
firmed her death did not say what caused it.
Umberto was king for a month in 1946, until a June
referendum in which Italians voted to scrap the monar
chy and make the country a republic. In the wake of
Italy’s war defeat, many blamed the country’s plight on
the royal family’s earlier support for the Fascist regime
of Benito Mussolini.
Two years later, the republic’s new constitution
barred Umberto and his male descendants from Italy.
The ban remains in force despite protests and legal
challenges from the exiled crown prince Victor Em
manuel.
Royalists in Italy mourned the last queen’s death
“News of the death of Queen Maria Jose of Savoy
profoundly saddens not only all the monarchists but in
numerable Italians who recall her regality and her love
of liberty, of the culture, and the people,” Sergio
Boschiero, national head of an Italian royalty associa
tion, said in Rome.
Victor Emmanuel’s wife, Marina Doria, appeared
briefly on Italy’s TG2 television to say only one thing:
The late queen will not be buried in Italian soil.
Instead, she will be buried next week at Hautecombe
Abbey, in France.
Italian royalists planned memorial services in the
coming days at Rome’s Pantheon, where other mem
bers of the former ruling family are entombed,
Boschiero said.
Royalists are “hoping that one day all the bodies of the
other Italian sovereigns now buried in foreign soil will be
laid to rest here at this temple, together,” he said.
A constitutional amendment that would allow the
Savoys to return was approved by the lower house Italy’s
parliament in 1998, but has since been bogged down in a
Senate committee.
Last year, the European Parliament voted down a pro
posal for a demand that Italy end the 54-year exile as “a
cruel and unusual punishment with no place in a modern
Europe.”
Maria Jose was bom in 1906 in Belgium, the daugh
ter of King Albert I and Elizabeth. She married Umberto
in 1930, and they had four children.
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(Formerly known as the CEO Career Fair)
Tomorrow, Jan. 30th (10 am - 6pm)
STUDENT ENGINEERS’ COUNCIL
Hosted by SEC and the Department
of Cooperative Education
2nd Floor MSC
Bus rides to MSC from Zachry and back!!
List of companies hiring for jobs, interns, and co-ops:
3M
ABB Inc.
Actema
Adams Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Alcatel
Alcoa
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
Andersen Consulting
Applied Materials
Applied Research Laboratories/UT Austin
Arthur Andersen LLP
Austin Energy
Avanade
Bibb Associates Inc.
Black & Veatch
The Boeing Company
Bury + Partners
Cadence Design Systems
CFX, Inc.
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
CIA
Cirrus Logic
Cisco Systems Inc
Citgo Petroleum
City of Fort worth
City of San Antonio Public Works Dept.
Compaq Computer Corporation
Conexant Systems, Inc.
Dallas Semiconductor
DELL
e2i, Inc
Eastman Chemical Company
El Paso Energy Corporation
Electro Scientific Industries, Inc.
EMCON/OWT
Enron
Equiva Services
Ericsson
Ethicon, Inc. (A Johnson and Johnson Company)
EXE Technologies
Fisher-Rosemount Systems
Fluor Corporation
Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Frito-Lay
Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.
General Cable
Grainger
Granite Construction
Halff Associates, Inc.
Halliburton Company
Harris Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
IMC GLOBAL OPERATIONS INC.
Informatica Corp.
Intel Corporation
InterVoice-Brite
KLA-Tencor Corp.
KPMG LLP
Kurt Salmon Associates
Lockheed Martin
Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc.
Lone Star Steel Company
LSI Logic
Lynntech, Inc.
Lyondell / Equistar
Marlow Industries, Inc.
McLeodUSA
Micro Systems Engineering, Inc.
Micron Technology, Inc.
Microsoft
Montgomery Watson
Motive
Motorola
Mustang Engineering
NASA Johnson Space Center
NATCO GROUP
National Instruments
National Semiconductor
NetlQ
Nokia Mobile Phones
Nortel Networks
North Star Steel
Occidental Petroleum Corporation/Oil & Gas Company
Pervasive Software
Price W aterhouseCoopers
Raytheon
Reptron Electronics, Inc.
Saint-Gobain Vetrotex America, Inc
Sanmina
SBC Communications Inc.
SCHLUMBERGER
Scient Corporation
Seagate
Siemens Building Technologies
SOUTHDOWN
Southwest Research Institute
STMicroelectronics
TAMU Co-op Education
Temple Inland Forest Products Corporation
Ten X Technology, Inc.
Teradyne, Inc.
TestChip Technologies
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Titan-Lincom Corporation
Tivoli Systems
Turner Collie & Braden, Inc.
TXI Chaparral Steel
TXU
Tyco Flow Control
United Space Alliance
United States Navy Engineering Programs
USG CORPORATION
Vignette Corporation
VMS, Inc.
Williams
Wylc Life Sciences
Zachry Construction Coiporation
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