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\E BATT Al H VEWS the battalion lion ffo zation, an inc: : 5 million the: e last year of idency. Ke\ agreed on $]!• ;ency. 4ent has ah lV >' the foreign ains the $34 en he did ^ ade a point of: ompanying - gives him ion to deterr e level of fun. Jnited Nat nd.” listration oft; ow likely tod nillion to far nizations mn artment’s Age a I Developme: »m a U.S. gove ding mission / May repone| idence that n directly on I ns forced star' ions in China. MADD Senior journalism major James Andersen hands out a T-shirt to College Station resident April Wilson outside of the Shoe Carnival in College Station. Wilson won the shirt after spin- BRIAN RUFF • THE BATTALION ning a prize wheel set up by the Brazos Valley Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). The organization, along with Loupot's bookstore, provided free drinks and food to shoppers. mise NEWS IN BRIEF ncan; tcies he so ment would hav employees budget. It weal: te of the Coi Patrol. Custom Service, FederJ igement Agent; ;d Transportatiot ration. o the House floor then lo the Fire in Lima night club kills at least 25 LIMA, Peru (AP) — At least 25 people died and TOO were injured Saturday in a blaze start ed by bartenders who were doing tricks with fire at an upscale night club in Lima that was not licensed to operate. Customers fueled the fire by try ing to put out the flames with their drinks. A lion and tiger — part of a show that included live animals in cages — were also killed. The fire, coming just months after a far deadlier blaze that consumed a large part of the city. prompted calls for a crackdown on businesses that disregard safety regulations, a common practice in Peru. As well as not having a permit, the disco violat ed several fire safety regulations. The fire broke out about 3 a.m. in the Utopia, a multilevel night club in a shopping mall in the upscale district of Surco, in south eastern Lima. Witnesses said the club was packed at the time. Six killed in crash LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) - Six people were killed Sunday evening in an Interstate 20 acci dent involving a tractor-trailer rig and two other vehicles, a Department of Public Safety dis patcher said. The accident occurred about 6 p.m. on a stretch of 1-20 near Longview in Gregg County, said John Pittmon, a DPS dispatcher in Tyler. Pittmon said the six killed all were in the same vehicle. No other information was immediately available. Pittmon said officers were still at the scene gathenng details. Traffic in both directions was being routed around the scene of the accident, Pittmon said. At least 32 people have been killed this year in accidents along 1-20, a major east-west artery across Texas. n's p\an. 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Each plan for the 16-acre site includes a memorial to the vic tims of the Sept. 11 attack plus 1 1 million square feet of office space and 600,000 square feet each of retail and hotel space to replace the lost space. Officials from the develop ment corporation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land, had earlier insisted that such inten sive commercial development was dictated by the terms of the Port Authority’s lease with developer Larry Silverstein and his partner, mall operator Westfield America. But Port Authority Executive Director Joseph Seymour said Saturday that the agency would re-examine its agreement. “Larry Silverstein has a leasehold interest on the site that requires him to build what was there,” Seymour said. “We all know that’s impractical for many reasons. It means there has to be a negotiation, but now is not the time to do that.” Robert Yaro, the president of the Regional Plan Association, said, “I think we got a resound ing sense that the Port Authority program has to go. ... I under stand that they’ve got a lease, but we’ve got to work with them to renegotiate that lease.” The development corpora tion and the Port Authority had set a deadline of September for narrowing the six plans to three and a final deadline of December for choosing a single land-use plan. Those dates may now be pushed back. “We have to see if that next phase of the timeline is realistic,” said Louis Tomson, the president and executive director of the development corporation. “We have to make this work, and if it takes a month or two in a differ ent direction, then it takes a month more, or two or three.” Investigators probe link between pipe bomb blast, disappearance DALLAS (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine if there is a link between a pipe bomb blast that injured the son of a Washington, D.C., businessman and the disappear;’nee of the victims stepbrother, a newspaper reported Sunday. The missing stepbrother, Prescott W. “Scott” Sigmund, 34, had been having financial problems and argued with his father over a large credit card bill, The Dallas Morning News reported. Authorities have not declared Sigmund a sus pect in the July 12 blast that critically injured Wright Sigmund, 21, and have theorized the bomb was meant for the victim’s father, insurance broker Donald Sigmund. The bomb detonated in the underground parking garage at Sigmund’s company. Wolf & Cohen Financial Services. Wright Sigmund remained in critical condition Sunday at a Washington, D.C., hospital. Also Sunday, police reported that Scott Sigmund’s black BMW was found at the Vienna, Va., Metro Station. Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents were planning to examine it. Family members in Dallas said he disappeared one day before he was to have taken a police polygraph. But they contend the stepbrothers had a good relationship. Federal agents and local police removed a computer and boxes of documents from Scott Sigmund’s Maryland home Wednesday, looking for letters or e-mails that might yield clues to his whereabouts. 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