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TOM CHAPIN & FRIENDS Thurs, Oct 10 at 7:30 PM Rudder Theatre For tickets, call 845-1234! aJ MS( Three Decades of Performing Arts www.MSCOPAS.org Support Provided By: Join over 80 Graduate and Professional school representatives from medical, engineering, law, MBA, liberal arts and science programs across the nation! 2002 GPSD 10am - 3pm MSC Flagroom Sponsors: The Career Center and The Office of Professional School Advising ^—J Texas Career Center Texas A&M University With you every Step of the way http://careercenter.tamu.edu 845-5139 6A Thursday. October 10, 2002 NEi THE BATTALkj Hitchhiking prostitute executed for murder 7A Lursday, Octob Dat STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Aileen Wuomos, a hitchhiking prostitute who killed six men along Florida’s highways more than a decade ago, was executed by injection Wednesday after dropping her appeals and firing her lawyers. Wuornos, 46, became the 10th woman executed in the United States since capital pun ishment resumed in 1977. Oklahoma has put three women to death; Florida and Texas have executed two each. In her final statement, she referred to Jesus and a block buster movie. “I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the Rock and I’ll be back like ‘Independence Day’ with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mother ship and all. I’ll be back,” Wuomos said. The execution had been delayed while experts evaluated her mental health. Gov. Jeb Bush lifted his stay last week after three psychiatrists concluded Wuomos was competent to choose execution. t Wuomos shot to death at least six middle-aged men along Florida highways in 1989 and 1990. Her story has been por trayed in two movies, three books and an opera. She initially said the killings were in self-defense after she was assaulted by customers who picked her up. But she later said the self-defense claim was a lie and she intended to rob and kill the men. At a hearing in July, Wuomos told a judge she was “sick of hearing this ‘she’s crazy’ stuff. I’m competent, sane and I’m telling the truth.” She also told the state Supreme Court she would kill again. Wuomos’ death warrant was for her first victim. Richard Mallory, an electronics shop owner. She later pleaded no con test to five other murders. She spent Tuesday night visit ing with a childhood friend. Dawn Botkins, who said Wuomos was in a good mood, laughing a lot and never crying. “She was looking forward to being home with God and get ting off this Earth,” Botkins said. DEATH PENALTY Female executions The 10th woman to be putto death since 1976 was exec.:; in Florida on Wednesday Females account foronlyasrd fraction of all executionsinfe United States. f 10 fema« 795 males SOURCE' Death Penalty Intofmalcr Center “She prayed that the (souls the) guys she killed are sav and that by her dying they be saved.” Terri Griffith, whose f was killed by Wuomos, s “I’m glad it’s over. Itwasaae® death. It was a littlebittooeas think she should have sufimli little bit more. She was off rocker.” E.R. vis from G The use of £ that is also i drug has riS 1 GHB, organ is a hallucin intoxication Estimated « U.S. emerg toGHB/GB 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 - ° '94 " ' Gamma butyn derivative of GH Head of Islamic charity charged wit using donations to fund bin-Laden CHICAGO (AP) — The leader of an Islamic charity was indicted Wednesday on charges of funneling donations to Osama bin Laden’s terror ist network, with Attorney General John Ashcroft vowing, “We will find the sources of terrorist blood money.” Enaam M. Arnaout, 40, head of the Benevolence International Foundation, has been in federal custody since April. The indictment said a crimi nal enterprise that existed for at least a decade used charitable contributions from innocent Muslims, non-Muslims and cor porations to support bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, Chechen rebels fighting the Russian army and armed violence in Bosnia. “It is sinister to prey on good hearts to fund the works of evil,” Ashcroft said in announcing the charges in Chicago. Neither Ashcroft nor U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald would specify how much money went to terrorists. Ashcroft said documents found in the organi zation’s office in Bosnia have provided “chill ing” evidence tying Arnaout directly to bin Laden and al-Qaida. He said the papers summarize the 1988 meeting at which the terror network was It is sinister to prey on good hearts to fund the works of evil — John Ashcroft Attorney general founded, and include a text of the networksoas of allegiance. Arnaout, who lives in the Chicago suburb Justice, was charged with racketeeringconspiraty conspiracy to provide material support to tera ists, conspiracy to launder money, money laundei ing and wire and mail fraud If convicted, Arnaout coni: be sentenced to 90 years prison without parole. Ashcifl said. _ According to the indictmeui tion. Benevolence International* In a unani Arnaout engaged in a patter jj/t/ed/afeTuesd racketeering to support Islai panel of the 9 wan iors around the world raising funds. The organizaM involved were al-Qaida n SOURCES: Dep Human Services Censi releaj P0RTLANE A federal app< the Censi release its stati count for ever neighborhc try — a deci: affect how bill ment money is Democrats, cians and civi have charged th sus missed 3.2 -most of ther the poor — and munities are changed govei that is distribii Hezb e Islami, a militant grot Census Bureau run by an Afghan warlord, prosecutors said. An FBI affidavit filed the day Arnaout*' arrested said his organization sent $685/ Chechen rebels and financed a trip to Bosnia 1 Mamdouh Salim. Salim is awaiting trial in e York on charges of conspiracy to kill American: the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in K and Tanzania. The foundation, founded 10 years ago not named as a defendant in the racketeer, indictment. Join these school representatives October 10 for the 2002 GPSD fair in the MSC Flag Room from 10am-3pm! TAMU-Engineering Alliant Int. University Angelo State University BASTYR University Baylor College of Dentistry Baylor College of Medicine Baylor University Clemson University Cornell University Dallas Theological Seminary Finch University Georgetown University Georgia State Hardin-Simmons University Harvard University Hawaii Pacific University Iowa State University Johns Hopkins University Kaplan Test Prep Lamar University Midwestern University National College of Naturopathic Medicine New Mexico State Univ. New York College of Podiatric Medicine Northwestern University Parker College of Chiropractic Pepperdine University Princeton Review Savannah College of Art & Design Southern Methodist Univ. SW. College of Naturopathic Medicine St. Mary’s University Southwest Texas TAMU-Bush School TAMU-Entomology TAMU-Biotechnology TAMU-Rangeland Ecology TAMU-Rec, Park, & Tourism TAMU-Education TAMU-CoUege of Medicine TAMU-College of Vet Med TAMU-Plant Pathology TAMU- Rural Public Health TAMU-Hcalth Science Texas Christian University Texas Woman’s University Trinity University Tulane University University of Houston University of Pennsylvania Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign University of Miami University of Notre Dame University of Tennessee University of Tulsa University of North Texas UNT-Health Science Center UT-Austin UT-Southwestern Medical Center UT-Houston UT- Health Science Center San Antonio UT-Medical Branch UT-MD Anderson Washington University Court of Appet lie is entitled open-governme iires, which si people were pn The court Bureau argumt the data wc sitive internal c “chilling ef policy discu: agency. Census Bi declined to referred calls Department, w Charles Miller has been mad< a PPeal to the He would not raiing itself.
