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LANCASTER (AP) — All six of
■’1 s kittens a family gave away
a parking lot in Lancaster last
jek have tested negative for
Pies, police said Monday.
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Aggie recovering after crash
Senior in fair condition after landing single-engine plane infield
Stuart Hutson
The Battalion
An A&M student who was stranded
for more than five hours Monday after
crash landing a single-engined plane in
an 1,800-acre ranch remains in fair con
dition at Scott & White Hospital in
Temple.
Jefferson Randolph Keith, a senior
agricultural business major, is being
treated for dehydration and other minor
injuries sustained when the plane failed
to restart while Keith was practicing
stalling maneuvers.
A representative of the Federal Avia
tion Administration (FAA) said the
plane, which belongs to the A&M Fly
ing Club, crashed on the G Bar Ranch
approximately 13 miles southwest of
College Station.
Department of Public Safety Troop
er Mark Melson said the plane was trav
eling about 70 miles per hour when it
landed on the ranch at 6:30 a.m. The
force of the impact broke the plane’s
landing gear.
Keith then waited with the plane for
five hours, hoping that the plane’s emer
gency beacon would lead emergency
crews to the crash site. The beacon ap
parently was not operational.
Keith then walked half a mile before
he encountered a railroad worker who
shuttled him to the Somerville train de
pot. Keith was then taken to St. Joseph
Regional Health Center in Bryan and
was later transferred to Scott & White.
Hospital spokespersons declined to
comment on the specifics of Keith’s in
juries or on how long he is expected to
remain under the hospital’s care.
Melson said the plane will stay at the
crash site while the incident remains un
der investigation by the FAA, who took
their first look at the crash site Tuesday
morning.
Melson said that, after the FAA has
completed its investigation, the plane
will most likely be handed over to the
National Traffic Safety Board for an ex
amination of what prevented the plane
from restarting.
Scott & White spokespersons said
Keith has declined to comment and rep
resentatives of the flight club could not
be reached for comment.
Ready, aim ... fire
STUART VILLANUEVA/The Battalion
Amia Esechie (foreground), a- senior biomedical major, and Hannah Grasso, a senior computer science
major, take aim at paper targets before releasing their arrows during a beginning archery class at the Student
Recreation Center Tuesday.
Administrator named to
NASA Advisory Council
Justin Smith
The Battalion
Vice President for Research
at Texas A&M, Dr. Richard E.
Ewing, has recently been an
nounced as a member of the
NASA Advisory Council
(NAC). The NAC is the group
NASA uses to examine its pro
grams and make suggestions to
the NASA administrator about
those programs.
“I look forward to serving on
the council. It is a great honor
to be asked to participate in set
ting the direction for future
space research and explo
ration,” Ewing said.
The NAC was formed in
1977 when NASA combined
the Space Program Advisory
Council with the Research and
Technology Council. It is now
the most senior advising body
for NASA.
Members of the NAC are
selected from a list containing
the names of people who are
in the top of their fields,
which range from science to
medicine.
“The NAC looks for people
with varying degrees of expert
ise in different areas and still
have broad perspectives,” said
Mike Green, staff director of
the NAC.
Ewing was recommended by
the Texas Congressional Dele
gation, specifically Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison.
“Ewing was chosen because
he has a sharp, narrow focus
when it is needed, but can also
see the broad picture,” Green
said.
The 26-member council
meets once every quarter for
two days. During those two
days, NASA displays all of its
current projects and policies
and also the ideas it is consider
ing for future projects.
The council then makes rec
ommendations to the NASA
administrator about what direc
tion the programs should take
and how to make them work at
optimum efficiency.
Prior to being Vice Presi
dent of Research, Ewing was
the dean of the College of Sci
ence and a distinguished pro
fessor of mathematics. At
A&M, he also helped form and
direct the Institute of Scientif
ic Computation and the Acad
emy for Advanced Telecom
munications and Learning
Technologies.
Ewing is a member of the
board of directors for the Na
tional Space Biomedical Re
search Institute. He also holds
the Mobil Technology Compa
ny Endowed Chair in computa
tional science.
Mexico
warning
of border
crossings
MEXICO CITY (AP) —
“Don’t take the risk.” “Think
hard about it.” Those were
among the videotaped warnings
Mexico began running Tuesday
on U.S. border-bound buses,
hoping to stem a growing tide of
migrant deaths.
The advertisements, which
debuted on more than 5,200
buses heading toward the bor
der, focus on the perils of bor
der-crossing, which include
We want to
inundate Mexico
with the message.”
— Juan Hernandez
head of Office for
Mexicans Abroad
treacherous terrain, scorcliing
desert and immigrant smugglers
who sometimes abandon mi
grants to die.
The message in some is blunt:
“Don’t go.”
“We want to inundate Mexi
co with the message,” said Juan
Hernandez, head of President
Vincente Fox’s Office for Mexi
cans Abroad, at a news confer
ence where he unveiled the four
new video advertisements.
Mexico’s government says
491 Mexicans died trying to
cross the border last year. More
than 160 have died so far this
year — including 14 migrants
whose bodies were found in late
May in the Arizona desert.
The advertisements offer
grim warnings of death and ill
ness to discourage illegal immi
gration — while encouraging
those who do make the journey
to send money back home.
“The border today is very
dangerous,” Hernandez says on
one of the spots, which show
scenes of migrants slipping
through a tunnel and border
fences marked with crosses me
morializing those who have died.
See Mexico on Page 2.
Japanese committee demands review
TOKYO (AP) — Angered by U.S.
delays in handing over an American
serviceman suspected of rape, a parlia
mentary committee on Tuesday adopt
ed a resolution demanding a review of
the agreement governing U.S. troops
in Japan.
The resolution, passed by the lower
house foreign affairs committee, criti
cized the U.S. military for failing to pre
vent crimes by troops stationed in Japan
and demanded measures to ensure the
swift handover of U.S. servicemen ac
cused of crimes.
The committee’s decision comes less
than a week after the United States
agreed to relinquish custody of Air Force
Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland to Japan-
Resolution criticizes military for failing
to prevent crimes by troops in Okinawa
ese police on Okinawa. Woodland was
arrested last Friday on suspicion of rap
ing a 20-year-old woman on April 29
outside a bar. He has denied the charges.
Japanese police were allowed to ques
tion Woodland immediately after the al
leged assault. But U.S. officials resisted
giving local police full custody of Wood
land for four days because of concerns
about his legal defense under Japan’s
criminal justice system. In Japan, more
than 95 percent of suspects whose cases
go to trial are convicted.
In its resolution, the committee said
tfte delays kindled animosity and distrust
among Japanese people living in Oki
nawa toward U.S. troops.
“Improvements must be made to the
agreement that would speed the transfer
of custody,” the committee said.
Some 26,000 U.S. troops are sta
tioned on the southern island of Oki
nawa. Residents have long expressed
concerns over crowding, military-relat
ed accidents and crimes committed by
U.S. servicemen.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi has indicated he wants to find
ways to make the existing Status of
Forces Agreement between Japan and
the United States work better, instead of
revising the pact.
He said changing the agreement would
take time and must be part of broader
talks involving U.S. bases elsewhere, in
cluding South Korea and Gennany.
Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka told
the lower house committee Tuesday that
the two countries have discussed the pos
sibility of changes in the past.
“Japan and the U.S. have agreed to
abide by the agreement. Both sides are
doing their best to reduce the burden
of hosting U.S. troops shouldered by
the people of Okinawa,” she said, with
out elaborating.