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Eight seconds
STUART VILLANUEVA/The Battalion
Lucas Beck, a 19-year-old rodeo cow- Friday evening. Buck, who graduated
boy of Allen, Texas, wraps his arm in from high school in May, was one of
preparation for his ride at the 30th the youngest competitors in this
annual Lions PRCA Rodeo in Bryan year's rodeo.
A&M grad
killed in
car wreck
Stuart Hutson
The Battalion
Robert Castro Jr. always dreamed of traveling the world. This
fall, his trip will begin in Italy as his girlfriend, senior landscape ar
chitecture major Lisa Vestal, spreads his ash
es over a city he will never see.
Castro, a 29-year-old landscape archi
tecture major who graduated in May, was
killed July 15 when his Nissan Frontier
flipped over after being forced off the road
by another truck. Vestal, who was driving
her car in front of Castro’s truck, said they
were returning to College Station after vis
iting her parents in Dallas.
“A nurse and fireman were on the scene,”
she said. “They had a pulse for five minutes
and then he was gone. I’m sure he didn’t feel
any pain, he had to have been knocked un
conscious — the cab of the truck was com
pletely smashed in.
“The driver who forced him off the road
just rode off, so there won’t be any satisfac
tion in finding him. But that doesn’t matter
anymore anyway.”
Funeral services were held last Friday
in Shiner, Texas, where Castro’s parents
and grandparents live. In accordance with
Castro’s wishes, he was cremated so his
ashes could be spread, and eventually trav
el the world.
Vestal said she acknowledges the romanti
cism behind Castro’s final wish, but said that
it exemplified the way Castro lead his life.
“He had just this loving and giving spirit that you could see in
everything he did,” she said. “He had a particular focus on design
ing healing gardens for those who were sick.”
Architecture Professor Chang-Shan Huang, who was Castro’s
professor for three years and who worked with' him on designing a
healing garden for an Alzheimer’s ward of an Austin hospital, said
See Castro on Page 2.
CASTRO
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He had
just this
loving and
giving spirit
that you
could see in
everything
he did. ”
— Lisa Vestal
Castro's girlfriend
Summit protesters leave
city littered, 500 injured
GENOA, Italy (AP) — Broken glass,
spent tear gas canisters and smashed yel
low cobblestones littered this seaside city
Sunday, the streets finally tranquil after
two days of anti-globalization protests
that left one dead and nearly 500 injured.
Almost 180 people, including at least
three U.S. citizens, were arrested in po
lice sweeps that continued into the early
hours of Sunday. Some face serious crim
inal charges that could be leveled even as
they lie in hospital beds, injured in street
battles that raged outside the summit of
industrial powers.
In nearly two years of such clashes on
the sidelines of world gatherings, these
were by far the most intense, and the first
to result in a fatality — a 2 3-year-old
marcher shot dead by paramilitary police
during Friday’s fighting.
As many as 100,000 marchers took to
the streets to press environmental, social
and economic causes mainly linked to
global trade and its fallout; The hard core
of young anarchists who confronted po
lice with rocks and firebombs constituted
perhaps a few thousand.
Demonstrators blamed police heavy-
I think II Duce
(Mussolini) would have
handled it better.”
— Marco Saladinitria
28-year-old Italian protester
handedness for the mayhem. “I think II
Duce (Mussolini) would have handled it
better,” said 28-year-old Italian protester
Marco Saladinitria as he boarded a train
out of Genoa.
Tens of thousands of protesters em
barked on a mass exodus even before the
summit ended, on specially chartered
trains or by car and bus.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi had hoped
the Group of Eight summit would show
case this proud onetime city-state, but he
spent Sunday touring neighborhoods bat
tered by rioting.
When he visited City Hell to hear pleas
from Mayor Guiseppe Pericu for recon
struction aid, some neighbors stuck their
heads out of apartments to yell at him,
“Shame, shame, shame!”
Italy’s Cabinet was to weigh an emer
gency $45 million reconstruction package
Monday.
A soccer stadium that had served as a
tent dormitory for protesters was pad
locked and deserted on Sunday. Outside
were heaps of makeshift body armor, fash
ioned from cardboard, foam padding and
mineral-water bottles.
A few hours after the summit leaders
left town, workers began dismantling
See Protests on Page 2.
Married
with
secrets
Survey says couples
often hide spending
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP)
— About 40 percent of mar
ried Americans admit keeping
a secret from their spouses, but
most have nothing to do with
an affair or fantasy, a new poll
has found. 1 'he most common
secret is how much they spend.
Of those with a secret, 48
percent said they had not told
their spouses about the real
price of something they
bought, according to the poll,
being published Monday in the
August issue of Reader’s Digest.
“I don’t think there’s a mar
riage where that didn’t hap
pen,” said one respondent, a
woman married 26 years. “You
See Marriage on Page 2.
Bush, Putin hail weapon plans
GENOA, Italy (AP) —
Seeking a post-Cold War for
mula for arms control, Presi
dent Bush and Russian Presi
dent Vladimir Putin pledged
Sunday to pursue deep cuts in
their nuclear arsenals and link
the offensive weapons talks to
tougher negotiations over
Bush’s missile defense plans.
Their differences still deep,
both leaders hailed the surprise
annourfeement in this medieval
Mediterranean port city as a
step toward forging a stronger
U.S.-Russia relationship.
Bush has ambitious but
untested plans for a defense sys
tem that could protect the Link
ed States and its allies from mis-
Leaders pledge to strengthen
the U.S.-Russian relationship
siles launched by Iraq, North
Korea or other rogue nations.
He has sought
to link offen
sive and de
fense weapons
strategies
since early in
his presiden
tial campaign.
“The two
go hand-in-hand in order to set
up a new strategic framework
for peace,” Bush said at a news
conference following their sec
ond one-on-one meeting. “I
believe that we will come up
with an accord.”
Soon after he became presi
dent, Bush directed the Penta
gon to consider further cuts in
nuclear weapons, while Putin has
suggested reductions to 1,500
warheads each — about one-fifth
of the current U.S. stockpile.
Though skeptical of Bush’s
missile shield dreams, the Russ
ian president said nuclear cuts
would make the world a safer
place. “There has to be ab
solutely no doubt that this is go
ing to happen,” Putin said.
But there is still significant
doubt about how Putin will re
spond if an agreement is not
reached before the United States
begins anti-missile tests prohib
ited by the 29-year-old Anti-Bal
listic Missile Treaty (ABM). The
Pentagon says those tests are just
months away and will proceed
over Russia’s objections.
In addition, Bush and Putin
did not agree on the size of nu
clear cuts, a timetable or what
weapons would be involved.
And there was no evidence
that Bush made headway in
convincing Putin that a U.S.
missile defense system is not a
strategic threat to Russia.
See Nuclear on Page 6.
Marriage secrets
| A poll to be published in this
I month’s Reader’s Digest reports
| that about 40 percent of married
| Americans admit keeping a secret
from their spouses. Here is what
|the poll, which surveyed 1,000
| husbands and wives, found.
Those who had kept a
secret from a spouse ...
; Women
No
64%
Men
No
56.3%
SOURCE: Ipsos-NPD via
Reader’s Digest
Other
2%
Yes
41.7%
AP