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BY J. GOLDFLUtE
Castro always went beyond what was expected and ad
remarkable.
“I remember when he came up to me and asked abou:
on a garden for the blind — one in which the things you
see would bring more pleasure than what you could,” H
“That passion was what made him an excellent studentar
el for other people to follow.
“As I once told him, ‘If all students were like you, profes
would be much easier and much harder,’ ” he said. “Easii
he always surpassed your expectations. I larder because
for knowledge made me learn more. I le was the perfect
two-way education — the reason 1 am a professor.”
Castro served in the U.S. Air Force from 1990 to 1991
ter the Oklahoma City’ bombing and earned an associate!
pharmaceutical technology’. As an undergraduate at A&M
elected president of the A&M chapter of the American!*
Landscape Architects and was the first undergraduateawan
a certificate in health and human services.
A scholarship has been enacted in his name in conjuni
the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Pi
scholarship fund.
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Nuclear
Protests
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miles of tall steel-mesh barri
cades surrounding Genoa’s
medieval center and part of its
old port.
In street after street along
and near the routes taken by
marchers, windows of busi
nesses were smashed, with
. banks and car dealerships fa
vored targets.
In one part of downtown, it
was impossible to find a work
ing automatic-teller machine;
all had been vandalized. Road
signs were torn from their
posts, used as shields by the
demonstrators. The carcasses
of torched cars dotted thor
oughfares.
“The demonstrators delib
erately destroyed the city,” said
university professor Antonio
Chirico, who lives near the
scene of the clashes. “It was a
major mistake for Genoa to
host this summit, but we all re
alized too late.”
Police detained 85 people
during the two days of clashes
and arrested another 93 people
on Sunday morning in a
predawn raid on a school com-
said eyewitness Caroline Terza-
ghi, 38, a protest organizer.
“1’hey made people lie on the
floor; they beat us up; they were
throwing computers around;
they were hitting everyone.
There was blood everywhere.”
Sixty-one of those arrested
were taken to hospitals. Protest-
“ Violence is not
the path to
reach a fair solution
to the current
problems. ”
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
pound used as protest head
quarters.
“They just went bang into the
building — people screamed,”
ers said dozens were beaten dur
ing the raid, but police said
many of those hospitalized had
suffered injuries in prior clashes.
All those arrested in Sunday’s
raid were charged with posses
sion of firebombs and with
criminal association in order to
commit vandalism, police said.
Authorities described those
arrested in the raid as instiga
tors of violence, and displayed
sledgehammers, knives, a pick
ax and black hoods seized in
the raid.
Protesters said police also
confiscated documents, com
puter files and videotapes of the
demonstration, but police
spokesman Roberto Sgalla de
nied that.
Pope John Paul II, speaking
from his lakeside summer resi
dence, said Sunday he felt
“pain and sadness for the hos
tility that erupted” at the sum
mit. “Violence is not the path
to reach a fair solution to the
current problems,” said the
pope, who is meeting Monday
with President Bush.
Marriage
Continued from Page 7
always get those good bargains, you know?”
Another wife said: “I don’t like to tell him
how much I spend when I go shopping. I’m
afraid he’ll cut back on the budget.”
It was not just women; the percentage
was about the same for husbands. One man
concealed the price of one small purchase:
“The item wasn’t very big but the price of
it was.”
The pollsters did not ask if the expendi
ture was for a gift.
The second most-kept secrets, at about
15 percent, are abotit a failure at work or
a child’s behavior. “There are times your
kids do things that you know would make
the other party ballistic,” one woman said.
Only 2 percent of all respondents,
equally split among men and women, said
they had an extramarital affair that re
mained a secret. Fourteen percent kept
mum about being attracted to another
person.
In response to another question, 16
percent of both men and women admit
ted th^t, at least once during their mar
riage, they wished they could wake up and
not be married any more.
Some people kept secrets not out of
guilt but to avoid hurt feelings. One
woman said her husband told her for years
that her cocker spaniel had been stolen, to
spare her the knowledge that it had been
killed by a car.
The poll was conducted by Ipsos-NPD,
an Illinois-based research group, which
surveyed 1,000 husbands and wives by tele
phone in March. It has a margin of error of
plus or minus 3 percentage points.
About 40'percent of the wives and 30
percent of the husbands said they wish drey
could persuade their spouses to be less
messy. About a quarter of each sex said they
cannot get their parmers to lose weight.
But one woman said she has no such
problems.
“I could convince him to dye his hair
orange if I wanted,” she said.
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“The differences in approach
on a couple of topics is still
there,” Putin said.
Republican and Democratic
leaders in Congress praised
Bush’s action.
“This implies, at least to
me, ... this administration will
not break out of the ABM
Treaty in the meantime. And I
think that’s very’ good news,”
said Sen. Joseph Biden, the
Democratic chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said on CNN’s
“Late Edition.”
With Bush at his side, Putin
pointedly declined to repeat his
long-standing position that scut
tling the ABA1 would trigger an
arms race. Instead, the Russian
suggested the issue might be
come moot.
“If, as we understood from
each other today, we are ready
to look at the issue of offensive
and defensive systems togeth
er as a set, we might not ever
need to look at that option,”
he said.
U.S. officials traveling
with Bush said they believe
Putin was referring to the
possibility that the United
States and Russia could come
to terms on a new defense
agreement before Bush has to
violate or scuttle the ABM
treaty to proceed with his
anti-missile tests.
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ported linking offensive and
defensive strategy talks, it was
Piitin’s idea to announce their
intentions Sunday. Bush ad
visers scurried to type and
copy a three-sentence joint
statement announcing the
deal, they said.
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agreement. He has looked for
ways to reduce the immense
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