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NEWS IN BRIEF
Extension Service
to welcome task
force with cards
Texas Task Force-1, the fed
eral search and rescue team
headquartered at Texas
A&M, has been in New York
for more than one week sift
ing through the rubble of the
World Trade Center.
While the task force’s return
date is unknown, the Texas
Engineering Extension
Service is preparing to wel
come them home.
The extension is encouraging
schools, along with the rest of
the community, to make “Thank
You" cards and gifts for the
group as a sign of appreciation
for their efforts in New York.
Items should be dropped off
the Bryan-College Station
Convention and Visitor’s
Bureau by Thursday, Sept. 27.
Texas passes
exotic animal law
The state of Texas has
passed a new law making
ownership of exotic animals
more difficult.
The law, effective Sept. 1,
requires owners to obtain a
permit for each of their
exotic pets.
Among the animals includ
ed in the new law are lions,
tigers, bears, hyenas, chim
panzees and gorillas.
The law hopes to curb the
high number of exotic pets
in the state.
Texas currently ranks sec
ond only to the entire nation
of (ndfa in tiger population.
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As season closes,
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Military
may use
satellites
High-tech tools
could be used to
fight terrorism
NEW YORK (AP) — The mili
tary's campaign against terrorism
could include such high-tech tools
as spy satellites, drones, motion
sensors and smart bombs.
The shadowy National Security
Agency is already believed to be
directing spy satellites to monitor
camps, while the agency’s super
computers search for clues to mili
tants' identities and whereabouts.
The Air Force may send
unmanned “drone” aircraft to
record images and sounds
using sophisticated radar and
imaging tools.
U.S. ground troops could scout
for hostile forces using hidden sen
sors buried in the ground or
dropped from the air — and air
borne reconnaissance vehicles the
size of birds.
But even with these high-tech
devices, experts say. it will be dif
ficult to root out warrior clans that
may not wear uniforms and whose
beliefs and actions may be all that
distinguish them from civilians.
“We're like the best hardware
store in town,” said John Hillen. a
former defense analyst and Bush
campaign adviser. “We have all the
latest power tools. They were use
ful when the problems in the neigh
borhood required that stuff. Now
the neighborhood has an infesta
tion of fruit flies. And all we’ve got
is a store full of power tools.”
In recent conflicts, U.S. mili
tary technology sometimes fell
short. In 1999, U.S. aircraft
destroyed just two dozen Serbian
tanks in a 78-day air campaign. In
1993, U.S. special forces failed to
capture Somali warlord Mohamed
Farah Aidid. And, during the Gulf
War, Saddam Hussein survived
several bombings.
The capture of Osama bin
Laden, whom U.S. officials have
called the main suspect in the ter
rorist attacks, is also expected to
be difficult. Bin Laden survived a
fusillade of U.S. cruise missiles
in 1998.
“It’s the hardest problem you
can imagine,” said Glenn Buchan,
a Rand Corp. military surveillance
expert. “The places he hides —
like caves — are hard to attack.”
Locating military targets is the
first task-, analysts say.
The Defense Department plans
to ask Congress to fund several
weapons and surveillance systems,
including sensors that monitor
telecommunications while buried
in the ground, said Mike Vickers of
the Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments, a military
think tank in Washington.
U.S. intelligence agencies want
to focus all available spy satellite
resources on suspected terrorist
targets in Afghanistan and else
where, Vickers said.
The Defense Department would
not publicly discuss what tools it
may use.
“It is our longstanding policy at
the Department of Defense not to
comment on intelligence matters,”
Pentagon spokesman Bryan
Whitman said Sunday.
Analysts say Washington prob
ably has shifted satellites that
intercept radio and mobile phone
traffic to focus on Afghanistan.
“That’s a classic first step,”
said William C. Martel, a professor
at the U.S. Naval War College.
But many terrorists have
learned to monitor satellite fly-by
schedules so they will know when
to duck, Buchan said.
Airplanes are tougher to avoid.
The U.S. military has two types
of drones, or unmanned aerial
vehicles, that could see action: The
See TOOLS on page 2.
True colors
STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
Patty Baley of Magnolia and Laura George of Houston show their patriotic spirit in response to the terrorist
attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. Thousands of fans at Kyle Field participated in the Red, White
and Blue Out by wearing the colors of the American flag during the game against Oklahoma State Saturday.
RWB Out a success
By Rolando Garcia
THE BATTALION
Hundreds of Aggie fans
were up before the sun
Saturday, standing in line at
three locations on campus at
7 a.m. to buy a T-shirt.
Within four hours, 30,000
red, white and blue T-shirts
had been sold.
Red, White and Blue
(RWB) Out volunteers are
still counting money, but esti
mate that in five days they
sold a total of 70,000 shirts
and raised more than
$150,000 to benefit the fami
lies of policemen and fire
fighters killed in the Sept. 1 1
terrorist attacks.
“It’s really a testament to
the patriotism and the spirit of
this school and proves that
Aggies can pull off anything,”
said Jared Pittman, a RWB
Out organizer and junior
political science major.
However, the frenzy of T-
shirt sales Saturday morning
that helped create the sea of
red, white and blue at Kyle
Field would not have hap
pened without a last-minute
influx of helpful volunteers,
said Eric Bethea, a RWB
Out organizer and junior
finance major.
C.C. Creations, the appar
el manufacturer that had been
working 16-hour shifts all
week to meet the burgeoning
T-shirt demand informed
RWB Out organizers
Thursday that its workers
were exhausted and could not
print another batch of shirts
for Saturday, Bethea said.
“We started calling around
and put the word out on
(TexAgs.com) and a guy in
Dallas contacted us and said
they had 10,000 shirts, so we
just needed somebody to rent a
U-Haul on Friday morning to
bring them back,” Bethea said.
A supplier in Houston
provided another 10,000
shirts, and RWB organizers
acquired the use of printing
facilities at Collegiate
Illustrations and Screened
See Game on page 2.
Rescuers
find more
airplane
wreckage
NEW YORK (AP) — The
number of people believed miss
ing in the rubble of the World
Trade Center increased to 6,453
on Sunday as rescue workers con
tinued sifting through still smol
dering debris and uncovered a 10-
foot piece of jetliner fuselage.
The flight recorders, or black
boxes, of the two hijacked airlin
ers have not been found by the
hundreds of firefighters, police
and construction workers comb
ing the wreckage. Pictures have
been posted throughout the site
so rescuers can recognize them.
The piece of fuselage was
loaded onto a golf cart Sunday
and taken away by federal
crime-scene investigators.
Hydraulic cranes and other
heavy machinery pulled out 50-
foot sections of twisted steel
beams and loaded them onto
flatbed trucks.
Elsewhere, search and rescue
teams scaled 20-story-high ruins
to search by hand.
Rescue workers have not
found a survivor since the day
after the Sept. 1 1 terrorist
attacks. Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani explained the increase
in the missing, up from 6,333
on Saturday, as a result of list
revisions.
“The number went up a little
bit after they went through the
lists, removed some of the dupli
cations and then added some
names,” he said.
In lower Manhattan, more
weary residents were allowed to
return home Sunday and relief
agencies encouraged them to ask
for government help. More than
8,000 people have applied for
aid, according to Mike Byrne of
the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
“I would encourage anyone
who’s suffered ... to get regis
tered in the system,” Byrne said.
Many of those returning
found neighborhoods filled with
tourists seeking terrorist attack
souvenirs. A parade of sightseers
with cameras filled Broadway in
lower Manhattan, snapping
images of rescue workers, debris
and broken lives.
“It’s sort of sick seeing these
people standing there. I don’t
think much of them,” said
Brendan Heneghan, 27, whose
apartment escaped damage and
who was on the 79th floor of
See Wreckage on page 2.
Perry emphasizes importance of education
By Elizabeth Raines
THE BATTALION
Friday, Gov. Rick Perry placed empha
sis on the important role that Texans have
in responding to the Sept. 1 1 terrorist
STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
Gov. Rick Perry emphasizes importance of
higher education Friday at Rudder Auditorium.
attacks in Washington, D.C., and New
York City.
His speech at Rudder Auditorium
addressed the importance of higher education.
Citizens in the United States that are cur
rently getting a higher education^ said Perry,
are just as important as those who are join
ing the military to help maintain the free
dom that the United States currently enjoys.
“What we do in Texas, education-wise, is
the equivalent with what the federal govern
ment must do with our national defense, in
keeping this country free,” said Perry.
Currently, Perry said, only one out of five
citizens in the State of Texas has a degree
past high school.
Perry added that one of the issues that
the Texas Legislature is working on now is
how to increase the number of students
and citizens in the state who have a degree
beyond high school.
On average, Perry said, someone who
obtains a degree beyond the high school level
will make a lifetime earning of $1.2 million.
See Perry on page 6.
Governor recounts
days in Aggie Corps
By Maureen Kane
THE BATTALION
Gov. Rick Perry, former yell leader and
Class of 1972, encouraged freshmen in the
Corps of Cadets to “stick with the Corps,”
and told them “the best is yet to come.”
Perry was on hand for the celebration
of the Corps of Cadets’ 125th Anniversary
Reunion this weekend and spoke to a
crowd at Reed Arena Friday night.
Calling the Corps the “current keepers
of the spirit,” he said that the Corps teach
es the values of leadership, honor and
character better than any other institution.
He said Texas A&M had created its own
legacy through service, duty and honor
and would continue to defend that legacy.
See CORPS on page 6.