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Study Abroad VIETNA ★ December 27, 2001 - January 12,2002 ★ 4 Hours of Course Credit • AGRO 489 - Vietnamese Human & Natural Resources, and Ag Policies (3 Cr) • AGRO 485 - Tropical Ag & Food Production in Vietnam (I Cr) ★ Scholarships Available ★ Travel Vietnam - Hanoi, Hue, Can Tho, Ho , Chi Minh City Visit Our Website: http://intlag.tamu.edu/vietnam I -cleboski@tamu.edu 845-4164 NEWS Wednesday, JuneU THE BATTALION Delicate restoration STUART VILLANUEVA/Tw B*TVm Peter Fix, a nautical archaeology graduate student, attaches a beam to the side of La Belle at the Conservation Research Lab on the Texas A&M Riverside campus. La Belle, which Sieur de La Salle sailed, sank in 1686 and was found in Matagorda Bay in 1995. It was disassembled and brought to the Riverside campus where it is being reassembled. The wreckage must be kept submerged to prevent the timbers from decomposing further. jxas A&N notified c ndividuah ti. I interna Ir fees anc ll. The in m to be afl lersity, ma; re from > hile we are of this ;h Pakistan, id< student I of the ■nne Droh B:tor of Ini Its for Stui Iroleskey s< lie i or poi ^1 student Internatioi Parents admit to torturin! Bs Office tamu.edt lindividual liated with their 8-year-old daughtef St an senl nimal cr SAN ANTC LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) — An East Texas couple who admitted torturing their eldest daughter have pleaded guilty to en dangering her safety. Jerrold Loyde Rathbun, 33,' and 29- year-old Eva Grace Rathbun entered the pleas Monday to first-degree felony child endangefment. The move came as prose cutors were picking a jury for Jerrold Rath- bun’s trial. Investigators say the Longview couple handcuffed the then-8-year-old girl to a door with thumbtacks attached to it, poked the girl’s feet with needles and made the child eat cat feces on Sept. 10. Court records show that Child Protective Services, alerted by school officials about possible abuse, removed the girl from the home Sept. 12, then took her younger sister three days later after hearing the older child’s allegations. The couple, indicted on Oct. 5, surren dered to authorities the next day when they posted $20,000 bond each. Their pleas have avoided trial on the charges and they will be sentenced on July 6 by State District Judge David Brabham. Prosecutors have urged a 15-year sen tence for jerrold Rathbun and a 13-year sentence for his wife, according to court records. Also, prosecutors want the couple to give up parental rights to both of their children, including the 9-year-old victim and her 4- year-old half-sister. Both children have been placed in foster homes and have been visiting families who want to adopt them. The abused girl, according: scond man records, told a CPS caseworker on In 9 a cat on that her parents had been handcuffi . eai speni for about a week as punishment for I 3 '' anc ! P a lems at school. ase a judge < The child said her parents wWJi ^ Tj^spic. 1 ^fumshmen cuff her to a door, with thumbtack lr T , ,, lit -'CameTuest the adjacent wall to scratch her wL 10 v j s jb| e r not remain standing. , Uc ige Wayne Police investigators said thee his sentence bruising, red marks and bUsters- A six-memi wrists. Later, the girl told a doctor lay convicted parents jabbed the tops of her fee: lisdemeanor needle while she was handcuffed. ' to animals. The parents denied mistreating:: a V a 54,000 but said they had to discipline her,k®t a cat on CPS case workers that she was ili>T" ,rver an ^ ent, a habitual liar and a problemchilfW' 'Tno'etl cording to court records. 0 ous Imable liqi ■ animal v Jury finds man guilty of espionagE™ Retired colonel could receive life in prison for selling secrets to Russi^r boy Prosecutors said Frofimoff Bolshevik Revolution and' ruck by TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A re tired Army colonel was found guilty Tuesday of selling Cold War military secrets to Moscow over two decades, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. officer to he convicted of espionage. George Trofimoff, 74, could get up to life in prison. 'The retired colonel in the Army Reserves oversaw an in telligence center in Germany from the 1960s to 1990s. He was working as a grocery store bagger last year when he was arrested in an FBI sting trying to collect money he thought was coming from the Russians. Trofimoff stood erect and showed no emotion when the verdict was announced. He shrugged slightly at his wife, who wept. Sentencing was set for Sept. 27. “What this case should do is send a message to those we en trust our nation’s secrets to diat if you sell those secrets, if you spy against the United States, we’ll pull out all the stops to catch you, to bring you to justice and to convict you,” federal prosecutor Laura Ingersoll said. Defense attorney Daniel Hernandez said he will appeal. U If you spy against the United States, well pull out all the stops to catch you, to bring you to justice and to convict you.” — Laura Ingersoll federal prosecutor From 1968 to 1994, Trofi moff was the civilian chief of an Army interrogation center in Nuremberg, Germany, where refugees and defectors from the Soviet bloc were questioned. The center also housed volumes of secret documents detailing what the United States knew about its Soviet adversaries and other Warsaw Pact nations. collected $300,000 for photo graphing U.S. intelligence doc uments and giving them to the KGB through a go-between, boyhood friend Igor Vladimirovich Susemihl, a Russian Orthodox priest. Among the information pros ecutors said Trofimoff smuggled to the Soviets were CIA docu ments and details of what the United States knew about Sovi et military preparedness. A former KGB general, Oleg Kalugin, testified that Trofimoff was one of the Soviet Union’s top spies during the 1970s, so valuable that his code name was the top of a list of KGB at sources given to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. He said' Trofi moff was even brought to a re sort for Soviet military officials as a reward. 4 Trofimoff, born in Germany to Russian emigres, wept on the stand as he described grow ing up hating communists be cause some of his family mem bers were unable to escape the killed. Houston 1 le insisted diat he nevi of a boy str a spy, but pretended tobeorlile playing cause he needed money.B-ff course, al rors laughed at Trofimoff ■’fd not hav he testified it was a coinci." course in.‘ that he was able to namespH-t' 01 " 1 equ Soviet spies when shown mm 1 n d ro s ( an undercover FBI agentp| ln o • j- i . l rs a( Jo ar as a Russian diplomat. llir Jury foreman MarkJ ce said only one vote wasnt/ ere Jurors agreed Trofimo:i n Tavormi guilty after viewing a vid </yer. of him describing his > Christoph* activities. DeliberationsrSuffered a just two hours. brain ii “Justto thinksomeone s hit by I do that stuff,” King saidff'V'ng golf c ing the verdict. “He clain /0rm ' na sa be an American, that he the country for the pastel ... To think someone would betray the country ' I trofimoff became a D| izen in 1951, joined the/ 1953 and was honorabl'l charged three years latel was hired as a civilian inf intelligence in 1959. News in Brief Niki Taylor released from hospital ATLANTA (AP) — Model Niki Taylor left a hospi tal for a private rehabilitation center Tuesday, eight weeks after an Atlanta car crash left her with severe liver damage. Taylor, 26, was riding in a car that crashed into a telephone pole on April 30 after the driver lost control. The name of the Atlanta rehabilitation center was not released. Taylor was upgraded from critical to good condition Thursday at Grady Memorial Hospital. She was in the passenger seat of a friend's 1993 Nissan Maxima when the driver ran off the road and struck a utility pole. Draft Continued from Page 3 has its share of names that invoke a reader to ask either “Who is he?” or “Why is he leaving early?” Rashid Hardwick, Draper Hous- ley, Jamario Moon and Clifton Ter ry would fit into the first tier. NBA teams might actually draft them without ever having heard of them or seeing them play. The same cannot be said for the players of the second tier who have exhibited their talents for Division I programs. Maurice Evans of "Texas expects the NBA to ovsj look his deficiencies in ballhai dling and long range shootin|:| while Gerald Wallace of Ala and Alton Ford of Houston the scouts ignored their fres year’s in college entirely. If you’re lost in the flurry of names, take solace. The only stant of the NBA Draft is that an unpredictable science, tea® never be sure if they have a stes bust. 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