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^NATIONAL E 5: HE BATTALION Monday, April 8, 2002 Colombia bombing ocks provincial capital is what you gei what many fan lyrics that reflec ind’s personalH rculated single was inspired h i Smith had I. lon’t sing abouij know," Benediv] te about things , we experience.' it is happening 3 JILLAVICENCIO, ■mbia (AP) — Two bombs c !, ct saK ** s tk[ploded in a provincial capital s leputationilti^iombia Sunday, killing 12 1011 fas ppie, wounding dozens and md tans to buy. fears that Colombia’s non t twpi war j s becoming one of t said. 'VVe're-discriminate terrorist attacks, ul honest. We Mq one claimed responsibility ^ effects: jusi ir |he blasts in Villavicencio vtss and vocalsHjy after 1 a.m., but police cted the country’s main group, the Revolutionary ;d Forces of Colombia, or JC, was behind it. I small explosive device had off minutes earlier, attract- ople who were in bars and lurants on a warm weekend Then a bomb — located meath a car parked on the blew up, shredding bod- nd causing damage in a four- -wide area. lour people were killed in Default writes ahje first explosion and eight riences, it does r: fed m the second blast, h of its instrmwo mangled bodies nfluenced fromftiined uncovered on the >. SomeofHorasieet hours after the bombing Jimi Hendrix, investigators picked through LedZeppelin. Brie debris. The blast heavily idols of his owt Baged several buildings, of my biggest Aiding the offices of Radio kr, bars and discos. Several [were wrecked. i 1 wasyounger.C Hie rebels have increasingly and Motley Cme 1 listened to mosi inishing its tour ault will join and Nickelback.atRii: nid Reed Arena. A: illege Station Campus Invasion ii' ins to tour with Cre :t has great hopes more distant • that (in the definitely the Ret: 'pers,” Benedict J turned toward civilian targets since peace talks with the FARC collapsed on Feb. 20, attacking power plants, reser voirs and bridges. On Friday, another car bomb exploded in the town of Fuente de Oro, injuring 13 people and damag ing 20 businesses. In Villavicencio on Sunday, Mary Batio sat on a curbside, mourning her 22-year-old daughter, Diana Cristina Beltran, who was killed in the attack while out with friends. “I want my baby back,” Batio wailed. “She didn’t have anything to do with anything. Why did she have to lose her young life?” Leonor Castro, 71, said her nephew saved her life by carry ing her out of her bedroom when the smaller device exploded outside her home. Minutes later the larger bomb went off, destroying her bed room and blowing the door onto her bed. The Colombian and Uruguayan tennis teams were in the city, 45 miles southeast of Bogota, for a Davis cup match, but no players were injured. Colombian team captain Uriel Oquendo said his team was in a hotel in another part of the city. Coiombia car bomb An explosion in the entertainment district of a provincial capital Sunday, killed at feast 10 people and wounded more than 60. Caribbean Sea fXNAMA - 4 1 'x. < COLOMBIA VENEZUELA n A PaeifiQ o Ocean Bogota Villavicencio V < At least ten people were killed in a car bomb explosion r 3 PERU BRAZIL SOURCE: Associated Press; ESRI AP “Thank God, we were relax ing far from the place of the attack,” Oquendo said in a tele phone interview. The final matches began as scheduled later Sunday. Residents said they were afraid the two car bombings, both in Meta province, might herald a new offensive targeting civilians. The 38-year-old civil war already claims some 3,500 lives every year. .N. conference grapples vith problems of the elderly MADRID, Spain (AP) — The predictions are nostcataclysmic: In 50 years, if trends contin- , , one of every three people will be older than 'fr 13 W j'j, l'^ 1086 2 billion seniors would outnumber the ood livens uedidT rld , syouths _ edict Mi • “I Even before that, gains in longevity could bring allot 1 , is a time e economic crisis, experts warn. With ause vie^\»l Wftepopu\^i on ’ s proportion of taxpaying workers y aboutnational budgets could be overwhelmed ^ ' tying to provide retirement and Mi benefits for the elderly. “Bythe mid-2020s, virtually the developed world will be one Aigentina unless some serious ®s are made,” said Paul Hewitt die Center for Strategic and National Studies in Washington, Mng to the economic woes the M American country has suf- din recent months. Monday, On representatives 160 countries and intema- 1 organizations begin a five- United Nations conference in Madrid to Pple with the challenges posed by the graying "imanity. pie United Nations says older populations significantly change patterns of “savings, ; stment and consumption, labor markets, pen 's- taxation, health care, family composition living arrangements, housing and migration.” to the developing world, the pace of aging is faster than in developed countries, giving the poorest societies less time to cope.The ramifica tions could be serious as the elderly become an additional burden to the traditional scourges of poverty and disease. Delegates at the Second World Assembly on Aging, the first was 20 years ago in Vienna, Austria, will try to agree on an action plan for addressing a host of aging-related issues: retire ment age flexibility; living with dependency; elderly benefits; technology and the aging process; death matters such as euthanasia. The meeting’s chairman, Spanish Labor and Social Affairs Minister Juan Carlos Aparicio, said Wednesday that “60 to 70 percent” of the plan had already been agreed on in preparatory negotiations. Nevertheless, hundreds of non-governmental organiza tions, from the American Association of Retired Persons to the Red Cross of Mongolia, are hold ing their own meetings over the weekend to push for firm commitments. “We want to ensure there will be clear and comprehensive solutions, not just a magnificent closing ceremony and pledges that two or three years later everybody has forgotten,” said Hector Maravall of the Spanish trade union CCOO. u We want to ensure there will he clear and comprehensive solutions. — Hector Maravall Spanish trade union CCOO NEWS IN BRIEF [Venezuelan oil executives dismissed by President ■CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo l avez announced the dismissal Sunday of seven •ecutives who have led month-long strikes and f r °tests against government-appointed leadership toe state-owned oil monopoly, tywelve other executives have been sent into early etlr ement, Chavez added. He warned that any other torkers who continue leading protests will be fired, decision is likely to exacerbate a conflict that has affected production at South America’s largest oil company. The country’s largest workers’ union warned they might prolong a one-day nationwide, general strike set for Tuesday in protest of the firings. Fedecamaras, the country's largest business association, said its members would join the strike. It will be the second time in Chavez's three- year-old presidency that union workers and busi ness leaders joined to paralyze the country. “Our patience in this conflict has been obvious,” Chavez said in his weekly radio show. “We have been soft. That has been our error.” jCianllssistaiitllllOll April 10, 2002 April 16, 2002 @ 10:30 am @ 4:00 pm Please attend one of these workshops if you are interested in admission to PA school for Fall 2003. To ™ 8 is«eI ,ht oAce Advising a. 847-8938 or s.op by 205 Academic Building. NEW SHIPMENT OF LOOSE DIAMONDS! 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