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Page 2 NEWS Tuesday, M; THE BATTALION Dii?tu Arps pm p.DPLunn , 5c? f/ou) C/ja) U)b Tbll iP this 6i£l aio/ukey lhcbs y° 0 Sack:... EASY. L°°*' 'AY HEZ tail. (U^ ^IA)D op JHou) EMoTIoaJS \THRoooH them Take Do6s??)^ **10E Huwaa)$ HA^E 1 To AriGOisH OVER f(6UR\A)b °0T U)c?A1 Ea) AaT) Too Moaikevs Get A 5ure Telu/oG SI&a) luce a Little Tail !>> {a)bil, That's Fiaje. r dish Yoo the & B ^T ^ nr—-7r-rr<\ HECTOR Y PEDRO Adrian THAT'S IT! I AM TIRED OF THIS PLACE. I AM HEADING BACK TO THE GOOD OLD MEXICO. THOSE GRINGOS DON'T FIND US FUNNY AND ARE ONLY CONCERNED^ I WITH THEMSELVES. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY THINK TACO BELL IS \EXICAN FOOD. fl AM SORRY I WASN'T^P (jr I AAA FINALLY l PAYING ATTENTION \ { GOING TO MEXICO A V. WHAT YOU WERE ) \ WHERE I WILL GET THE j SAYING? J \ATTENTION I DESERVE/ / ^NEVERMIND \ l PEDRO. j ^ NEVERMIND ) f Wy/U L <*. > Road Plane Continued from Page 7 Continued from Page 7 “It should spur additional de velopment and renovations from merchants,” Mosely said. Mosely said a traffic control plan has been made to minimize the construction’s input on traffic. “Construction on Church Street is going to disrupt park ing and traffic,” Mosely said. “Especially because there are so many construction workers parking in the the Northgate area — there is a tremendous shortage of parking.” Mosely said that when the Northgate parking garage is completed, the parking problem will be less of an issue. Solar probably not friends either,” Cheney said in a telephone in terview with WHAM, an all news radio station in Rochester, N.Y. He said the two countries share common interests, includ ing maintaining peace in Asia. “Occasionally our interests come into conflict as they did earlier this year when we had the accident involving our sur veillance aircraft, the EP3, and that led to a confrontation but we were able to get it worked out,” he said. “So, the jury’s out. But over time, if we keep working at it, hopefully we can build the kind of relationship that’s founded on trust and we’re not adversaries.” The crated spy plane will be flown from Kadena to Lockheed Martin’s aircraft plant in Mari etta, Ga., this week, officials said. The Navy has said it hopes to have the EP-3E put back to gether and returned to service. The United States original ly wanted to repair the EP-3E at the Lingshui military airfield on Hainan Island, where it had stood since the April emer gency landing, but China re fused to permit that. As an al ternative, the United States sent Lockheed Martin techni cians to' the island to remove the plane’s wings, all four en gines, its landing gear, radome, tail section and other parts. The Lockheed Martin team arrived on Hainan Island on June 15 to begin the dismantling project. Gibson, the Pacific Com mand spokesman, said he did not immediately have full de tails on the schedule for the fi nal flight carrying the EP-3E’s fuselage from Hainan Island. He said Sunday’s flight carried some plane parts to Kadena aboard a chartered Antonov- 124 cargo plane. The flight was not announced. The Antonov-124 was re turning to Hainan to pick up the fuselage, Gibson said. The propeller-driven EP-3E landed on Hainan on April 1 after colliding in flight with a Chinese fighter jet while on a surveillance mission over the South China Sea. China blamed the crash on the U.S. plane and detained its 24- member crew on Hainan for 11 days. The Chinese pilot was killed. ' Continued from Page 7 R. J. Lynn, a senior mechani cal engineering technology ma jor, said his favorite part of the ;project is that the students build everything themselves. “Some teams buy a lot of their ;stuff or have a lot of it built for them,” Lynn said. “We, howev er, build everything that goes on our car.” Lynn is the chief mechanical engineer for the project, a role ’ that he said causes him to spend up to 3 0 hours per week in the lab. “We’ll have some weeks where we’ll put 80 hours a week into it,” he said. Next week, Lynn expects that the team will be dedicating an I “obscene” amount of their time ^to prepare for the race. Texas Continued from Page 7 valuable here. People come from all over,” Garcia said. “It would just devastate that area of the county,” Commis sioner Leonard May told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times after the meeting. “I’m 100 percent for our mil itary,” May said. “But there are places where there would be a lot less impact than in Kenedy County.” The commissioners agreed to send the letter of objection to the Navy, White House and area legislators. The letter lists 12 objec tions, including environmental damage, the influence on fish ing in the Laguna Madre and hunting on ranchland, the noise from fighter planes and jets, the possibility of stray bombs exploding and the dis ruption of oil and gas opera tions, from which the county derives most of its tax base. Also on Monday, 10 Texas environmental and conservation groups sent England a similar letter. “The stretch of coastline un der consideration by the Navy is one of the most environmental ly significant areas in Texas and one of the most biologically di verse in the United States,” said Melinda Taylor, an attorney for Environmental Defense. iday, July 3, Utah banke facing severa drug charge “The impacts of bombing and training maneuvers on rare species, as well as on the fishing and recreational industries in the area, would be irreversible and devastating,” she said. The groups, which included the Sierra Club and the Na tional Wildlife Federation, said the area is important ground for several endangered species, including the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Jeff Judson, president of the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, told the Caller-Times that the environmental impact may not be as bad as some groups indicate. He said scien tific facts are important. SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— Each weekday morning, Dale Gibbons put on a dark suit, got into his white sport utility vehi cle and drove from his millio n- dollar suburban home to his job as chief financial officer at Uta h’s oldest bank.. But on Saturday nights, C iib- bons donned leather pants, hopped into his silver Jaguar and cruised downtown Salt Lake City’s hottest dance clubs. When the bars shut down, he often in vited the young crowd back to his house for all-night raves that investigators say were fueled by illegal drugs — Ecstasy, GHB and methamphetamine. Gibbons, 41, is charged with methamphetamine possession, child endangerment andl dealing in material harmful to a minor. Last week he resigned from Zions Bancorp., founded in the 19th century by Mormon leader Brigham Young. “Here he was, living in this conservative neighborhood and working a conservative job at Utah’s most conservative bank, and he was living this kind of life on the side,” said sheriffs Sgt. Darren Carr. “It’s hard to imagine.” In stepping down from his bank job, Gibbons said in a statement: “I cannot effective ly execute my obligations and duties to the company with criminal charges pending. As an innocent man, my focus must be on the court proceed ings ahead.” The balancing act came crashing down in late June when Gibbons, who is di vorced, called 911 in a panic early one morning. A young woman who had been raped had tried to kill herself by over dosing on drugs, he said. Paramedics and police found Gibbons’ 19-year-old girlfriend, whose friends worried about her increasingly erratic behavior, naked and unconscious in Gib bons’ bed. His 15-year-old daughter — who neighbors say was often Jtocked out of the house during the day — was found passed out in her pajamas. Both were rushed to the hos pital for treatment of drug and alcohol overdoses. In a search after Gibbons’ ar rest, depufi es found nearly a gram of metham phetamine in a night- stand in d ic master bedroom. “We are all stunned and sad dened by these allegations,” Zions chief executive Llarris Simmons said in a statement. :T :V 'THIS®* Get plugged in at UNIVERSITY COMMONS, where every apartment will soon have accessf to Wireless T1 Fiber Optic Lines . Wireless Internet Service is up to 7 times faster than DSL, and up to 10 timjps faster than cable modem. 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H Mon dering street where GJ Interso lived in the Salt Lakesuti I lolladay. truly or “We knew what to Mrer-filled s on,” said neighbor SusiBiies Baz L “I’m glad something fin. nus ical on ; pened. 1 just didn’t waiM n and Ew; neighborhood to be tab fieir vocals t by a drug house.” Beks and ar Police first started M oists such Gibbons nearly a year a. leek and L Bale and other neighbo wer-played plained about parties ret ake of “] banker’s house, which ^ may be the < the end of a long, gated dr songs of 200 Neighbors said diet the best trac normally dead quietdirJlMcGregG ■iging talei ii . , , actors can re Here hew.l A .. Your f living in this Kidman in conservative borhood and\ ing a conserva job ... and bn living this life on the side,' — Sgt. Darren 0 Salt Lake Citystaffsofft week — so quiet lieved no one lived La C i ibbons often spec :: at trendy clubs, whereto ly arrived with beautiful* 1 on his arm. Then,somep ter the 2 a.m. closing®! would often come screto down Wander Lane. 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