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Developments in
terrorist attacks
• Attorney General John
Ashcroft warns the “very
serious threat" of new
attacks may increase if the
United States retaliates
against suspected terrorists.
Taliban say they know
location of Osama bin
Laden's Afghanistan hide-out.
• Pakistani president says
even under threat of U.S. mil
itary strikes, hopes “very
dim" bin Laden would be
surrendered.
• Afghanistan opposition
says territory gained and
hundreds of Taliban soldiers
defected during three days
of fighting in northern
mountains.
• Saudi ambassador says
two dozen members of Osama
bin Laden's family evacuated
from the United States follow
ing terrorist attacks; most
were students evacuated
under FBI supervision.
• New York police tally of
missing at World Trade
Center drops to 5,219; con
firmed dead rises to 314.
Death toll at Pentagon
remains 189, Pennsylvania
crash 44.
• Several thousand anti
war demonstrators march in
Washington, D.C., on the sec
ond day of a peace rally.
• Trial resumes in
Afghanistan for eight foreign
aid workers accused by
Taliban of spreading
Christianity. The top judge
assures workers the threat of
U.S. military action would not
affect their case.
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Monies
curtail
125th
events
Risk management a
factor in planning
By Emily Hendrickson
THE BATTALION
It only comes along every 125
years, but celebrations for Texas
A&M's 125th aniversary are on a
tight budget, organizers say.
A student coordinating com
mittee, comprising student lead
ers from many facets of student
life, was given the task of
organizing anniversary events
geared toward students, but
some of the lavish plans were
canceled because of cost and
safety limitations.
“We received less than $30,000
in funds, and decided to sell T-
shirts in hopes it would help fund
What we did not
realize was that all of
the little things add
up. For instance,
cleaning up the drill
field after the event is
costly, so, the fireworks
were pretty much out
of the question,
fu nding- wise.
— Veronica Saenz
Plane forced to
land on FM 2818
By Brady Creel
THE BATTALION
A twin-engine airplane stalled mid
air and made an emergency landing at
the intersection of Harvey Mitchell
Parkway and Raymond Stotzer Parkway
Sunday afternoon.
The 1971-model Queen Air propeller
airplane took off from Easterwood
Airport about 1:50 p.m. When it reached
an altitude of about 60 feet, its starboard
engine stalled.
Pamela Hamm, a passenger aboard
the plane, said there were nine people
on board, all of whom had attended this
weekend's home football game against
Notre Dame and were flying home to
Odessa. No one was injured.
Pilot Maurice Smith said he was
going to attempt to
land the airplane on
FM 2818, but did not
have enough airspeed
to get beyond the over
pass where Raymond
Stotzer Parkway meets
FM 2818. He brought
the plane down along
the exit from FM 2818
instead.
“Unbelievable,”
Hamm said. “He just
was doing.”
Hamm said she saw when the engine
stopped, but there was little time to react.
“Scott just said ‘get your seatbelts
on,'” she said.
As the airplane descended, it
clipped the top of a roadsign, and it
skidded about 200 yards when it struck
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
A twin-engine airplane made an emergency landing on Harvey
Mitchell Parkway and Raymond Stotzer Parkway yesterday after
it stalled shortly after takeoff from Easterwood Airport.
knew what he
the ground. The portside propreller
was still running and tore itself and
part of the wing off.
University Police Director Bob Wiatt
said the airplane landed on University-
owned property, west of Research Park.
The Department of Public Siifety was
handling the investigation until investi
gators from the Federal Aviation
Administration arrived.
125th committee
Walesa: America must
respond cautiously
By Emily Hendrickson Former president of Republic of Poland speaks
TH - E -- B - T -- T - ALIQN about democracy at Rudder Auditorium
chairwoman
projects even more so we would
not have to charge admission to
the 125th events," said Veronica
Saenz, chairwoman of the com
mittee and a junior finance major.
“It's a celebration, students should
just be able to come and enjoy it.”
Plans for a fireworks display
were dropped because a 10-minute
display would have cost $10,000, a
sum the committee could not
afford and still adequately fund
other events, Saenz said.
“What we did not realize was
that all of the little things add up.
For instance, cleaning up the drill
field after the event is costly, so,
the fireworks were pretty much out
of the question, funding-wise,”
Saenz said.
The Oct. 3 festivities also are
restricted by safety concerns,
said Luke Altendorf, a commit
tee advisor and associate direc
tor of the Memorial Student
Center. Fireworks may have dis
turbed city residents, and would
have posed a fire hazard because
several fuel tanks located near
the proposed display site,
Altendorf said.
See 125TH on page 5.
America must respond cau
tiously and prudently to the
recent terrorist attacks to avoid
perpetuating the cycle of vio
lence, said Lech Walesa, the for-
STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
Former President of Poland Lech
Walesa speaks at Rudder.
mer president of the Republic of
Poland who spoke Friday to an
audience that filled Rudder
Auditorium.
“The natural reaction is to
take vengeance and hit back, but
what do you hit? The rocks and
dirt?” Walesa said. “We must be
strong, but we must struggle
peacefully, not by violence or
vengeance.”
Walesa said he would always
be grateful for the support of the
American people during
Poland’s struggle against
Communism and that he would
stay in the United States for the
next two months to demonstrate
Poland’s solidarity with America.
“When times of challenge
come, I want to be with the
American people,” Walesa said.
Walesa, whose speech was
titled “Democracy: The Never
Ending Battle,” rose to interna
tional fame in 1980 when he led
the Lenin Shipyard strike in
Gdansk, Poland, while the nation
was under Communist rule.
At that time, Polish workers
were upset over an increase in
prices set by the government and
were demanding the right to set
up independent trade unions. On
Aug. 14, 1980, the workers were
on the verge of abandoning their
strike when Walesa, an electri
cian active in the underground
labor movement, delivered a stir
ring speech from the top of a-
bulldozer. The workers were
revitalized by his passion and the
See Walesa on page 2.
Dettwyler speaks about breast health awareness
By Christina Hoffman
THE BATTALION
Katherine Dettwyler, a former
associate professor of anthropol
ogy at Texas A&M, specialized
in anthropological studies of
breast feeding and spoke fre
quently about breast health
awareness. She researched
affects of using formulas over
breast-feeding, finding that
women who choose not to breast
feed greatly increase their
chances of breast cancer.
But in Fall 1999, Dettwyler
was diagnosed with breast can
cer. She left her tenured A&M
faculty position to move closer
to her family in Delaware, under
going surgery and chemotherapy
that fall and radiation the next
spring.
“We decided that life was too
short to live so far away from
family,” Dettwyler said. “I really
miss Aggies and Aggieland. But
in Delaware, we are closer to my
family, so that in the event my
cancer recurs and I don’t get to
see my kids grow up, at least they
will be close to extended family.”
Dettwyler’s diagnosis still
affects her and her family
because of the chance of recur
rence. Once she reaches the five-
year mark after her diagnosis in
September 2004 without any fur
ther detection of cancer,
Dettwyler may consider herself
“cured,” she said.
Dettwyler said smoking and
breast surgery, in addition to for
mula-feeding, increases the
chance of breast cancer.
“Expect breast cancer to
affect many people you know
and love, so become educated,”
she said.
One of every eight women in
the United States is expected to
develop breast cancer during her
lifetime, according to figures
released by the American Cancer
Society. Each year, the cancer
society estimates 182,800
women will be diagnosed and
nearly 41,000 will lose their lives
to the disease.
See Cancer on page 2.
Nelson
promotes
Farm Aid
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP)
— Willie Nelson, who brought
a flag-waving crowd to its feet
Saturday with “This Land is
Your Land” at Saturday’s Farm
Aid concert, said keeping fam
ily farms strong will keep
America strong.
“1 think it’s important to
take care of the people who
grow our food,” said Nelson,
who co-founded Farm Aid in
1985 with John Mellencatnp
and Neil Young.
The nonprofit group's 14th
benefit concert in 16 years
highlighted American farm
ers’ role in helping the nation
fight terrorism. Farm Aid per
formers said the concert has
always been about keeping
America strong by helping the
farms that feed the country.
“We’re at a moment when
a lot of people are asking
what is America, what repre
sents America,” said Dave
Matthews, one of the per
formers. “Certainly, 1 think
that the family farm is a main
ingredient of what made
America.”
In light of the Sept. 1 I ter
rorist attacks. Nelson called
for the federal government to
renew support that farmers,
oil and steel producers
received during World War 11
— special subsidies to help
them cover production and
labor costs.
See Farm Aid on page 2.