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2 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 THE BATTALIOI Full Moan by R.DeLuna WTC /ARVlL, 1 FoRGoT /'IV KIEV t CA/o 'You oPi.ru TME Boor ? Ua)T il SA'/ IT.V X Do/OT Have /W orritR HlylPF A<0D T'tE Voo(2. Continued from page 1 #22 "String Theory - When String Floats By Madness Ensues” By ifiom OK, STAR NINJA AS YOU KNOW, THAT PASTARPL/ REVEILLE VIII IS IN THE SEWERS RISHT NOW. THERE ANP ELIMINATE HER IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE/ PREFERABLY THE MOST HORRIBLE WAY/ MEEAAAR HAR MAR MAR/ ANP I WONT LET ANYTHING SET IN MY WAY/ NOT PEATH OR THE LAW OR CAT NIP OR FANCY FEAST OR MICE OR THOSE STUPfP POOPINO BIRPS OR... even though she had been badly injured when the first tower fell. “For someone who was very disappointed in mankind as the towers fell, 1 was very impressed by the response of the people 1 worked with in New York,” Wiersema said, During those two weeks, Wiersema said he was the first person to come in contact with the remains extracted from Ground Zero when they reached the medical examiner’s office. Wiersema said he deter mined the minimum number of individuals in each body bag and sorted the remains accord ing to sex, age and ancestry by using his knowledge of the human skeleton. Bartelink and Wiersema worked in New York City from May to August of 2002, and Bartelink has returned to help this summer, while Wiersema took a job working in Guatemala. The two other anthropology graduate students, Cassady Yoder and Andrew Scherer, were involved in the next stage of the process, which required working with the medical examiner. After anthropological verifi cation, Yoder and Scherer said they helped prepare the remains for long-term curation at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner until they could be identified by DNA and returned to the families, Wiersema said. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner started the Anthropology Verification Project on May 28, 2002, Wiersema said. NEWS IN BRIEF Texadelphia relocate to The Woodlands Poultry Continued from page 1 Crash Continued from page 1 by either the airline or the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to the crash site, said Liz Verdier, a spokeswoman for the company. The plane, a 737-200C, was delivered to the airline in September 1975, and the condition of the plane would depend on how well it was main tained, Verdier said. About 10 minutes after takeoff, the pilot radioed the control tower about a problem in one engine, the Red Sea State governor told the Sudan News Agency. The pilot announced he was returning for an emergency landing, but the plane went down a few miles outside the airport, the governor said. A local journalist described the scene after the crash. “Bodies were scattered everywhere, burned and charred and could be seen all over the place,” Muhammad Osman Babikir of El-Sahafa daily said by phone. “There was no way of performing the Muslim ritual of washing the bodies. It was horrible.” Foreign Affairs Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail blamed U.S. sanctions imposed against Sudan in 1997, saying they had led to shortages of vital aircraft parts. “This is a sad incident,” he said, during a visit to Mozambique. “We simply cannot get the parts to maintain our airplanes.” He called on President Bush, who is on a tour of Africa, to drop the sanctions. The United States imposed sanctions claiming Sudan sponsored ter rorism, allowed human rights abuses and destabi lized neighboring countries. In Washington, State Department spokesman Philip T. Reeker offered condolences and said no American casualties were reported. He also said there was no ban on equipment needed for avia tion safety. Sudan has suffered few passenger-plane acci dents in recent years, but several crashes of mili tary aircraft during a 20-year-old civil war. Two years ago, a military-plane crash in the south killed the country’s deputy defense minister and 13 other high-ranking officers. In 1996, a Sudanese passenger jet crashed dur ing a sandstorm while trying to make an emer gency landing outside Khartoum, killing 50 peo ple. A decade before that, the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army shot down a Sudan Airways air craft shortly after it took off, killing all 70 people on board. POLICE BLOTTER CSPD 7/7/03 4:52 a.m. Public intoxi cation, 301 Church. One arrest. 7/7/03 5:29 a.m. Burglary of a vehicle, 309 Regensburg. Taken: speakers. 7/7/03 7:39 a.m. Burglary of a vehicle, 1412 Bermuda. Taken: stereo, amplifier, speakers. 7/7/03 8:50 a.m. Deceased person, 1903 Amber Ridge. 7/7/03 8:54 a.m. Burglary of a vehicle, 710 Inlow. Taken: stereo face plate. 7/7/03 9:07 a.m. Warrant arrest, 2611 Texas. Driving while license suspended. 7/7/03 11:01 a.m. Burglary of a building, 404 Sapphire. Taken: unknown. 7/7/03 2:54 p.m. Warrant arrest, 2611 Texas. Making alco hol available. 7/7/03 5:05 p.m. Traffic arrest, Spring Loop/Autumn. No dri ver's license. 7/7/03 6:19 p.m. Warrant arrest, 2205 Colgate. 7/7/03 9:11 p.m. Burglary of a vehicle, 2301 Texas. Taken: SWR meter, CB radio, two duffle bags containing 10 sets of clothing. 7/7/03 10:14 p.m. Possession of marijuana, 2101 Harvey Mitchell. One arrest. 7/8/03 2:49 a.m. Warrant arrest, 1128 Harvey. 7/8/03 3:21 a.m. Warrant arrest, Raymond Stotzer/Harvey Mitchell. UPD 7/1/03 2:23 a.m. Driving while intoxicated, George Bush Dr. One arrest. 7/1/03 8:30 p.m. Theft, Southside Garage. Taken: two bicycles. 7/2/03 9:52 a.m. Theft, Room 310 Wisenbaker. Taken: Pentium II computer. 7/2/03 10:55 a.m. Handicapped placard violation. Parking Area 54. Placard seized and citation issued. 7/3/03 2:58 a.m. Public intox ication, 1504 Texas. One arrest. 7/3/03 11:49 p.m. Public intoxication, Parking Area 77. One arrest. 7/4/03 1:37 a.m. Minor in pos session of alcohol. Wellborn Road. 7/4/03 3:17 a.m. Criminal mis chief, O&M Building. Fire extin guisher was discharged. 7/6/03 2:23 a.m. Assault/fam ily violence/failure to ID/inter ference with emergency call, University Apartments. One arrest. 7/6/03 7:25 a.m. Weapon vio lation, McKenzie Terminal. Knife confiscated. 7/6/03 6:32 p.m. Warrant arrest, Easterwood Airport. 7/7/03 7:44 p.m. Animal bite, Hensel Drive. Subject bitten by cat. 7/7/03 9:26 p.m. Theft, Student Recreation Center. Taken: backpack and contents. 7/8/03 2:06 a.m. Fictitious inspection certificate. One arrest. cockfighting. “I think it’s inappropriate to be using taxpayer dollars to be pay ing for cockfighting birds or to be supporting the cockfighting industry in any way,” said Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., who is a vet erinarian. Cockfighting is illegal in California and all states except Louisiana and parts of New Mexico. In Oklahoma, voters approved a ban last year, but lawsuits by gamefowl breeders have suspended enforcement of the new law in about 30 of the state’s 77 counties. The Oklahoma Supreme Court has been asked to decide the consti tutionality of the ban. Federal law bans breeders from shipping fighting cocks even to states where cockfighting is legal. Violation is a misdemeanor. Agriculture officials said they had no qualms about compensat ing people who probably owned banned fighting birds, saying their sole mission was to eradicate the disease. “The whole idea of paying compensation is to give people incen tive to participate in the program,” Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said. By some estimates, there are 50,000 illegal cock- fighting locations in California alone. And while California outlaws cockfighting, owning game cocks is legal, said Steve Lyle, a spokesman for the California Department of Food and Agriculture. “By law, we’re required to pay any individual who owns a bird that is taken ... irrespective of what the bird is used for,” Lyle said. Francine Bradley, a poultry expert at the University of California, Davis, said owners should get credit for contacting authorities when they saw outbreaks of Newcastle in their flocks. “If they wanted to, they could have moved these birds in the dark of night in the backs of vans outside the quarantine area,” Bradley said. Just how the latest outbreak of Newcastle began last fall remains a mystery, but officials said one theory is that fighting cocks were responsible. “The fighting-bird theory is a real one because that activity involves the movement of birds and because it’s such a contagious disease” said Leticia Rico, spokeswoman for the state-federal task force created to fight the Newcastle outbreak. The disease is caused by a virus found in the droppings, breath and eggs of birds. Containing the disease is especially hard in California because many people keep birds in their back yards. The outbreak appears to be on the wane. The most recent case was found in a back yard in Los Angeles County on May 31, Rico said. When it was at its peak in late fall and again last winter, inspec tors asked few questions and did not coordinate with law enforce ment. “It does put us in an awkward position. I’ll admit that,” said Larry Hawkins, a USDA spokesman in California. “We’re accused of somehow supporting cockfighting. We don’t.” Wayne Pacelle, vice president of the Humane Society, said pay ing owners market value instead of prosecuting them tacitly encour ages cockfighting. “The breeding and fighting are inseparable because you have to demonstrate your bird is a good fighter to get good value for it,” Pacelle said. The handful of Californians who advertise in cockfighting publi cations were unwilling to talk to the AP. The government withheld the names of all but commercial bird owners. Bill Mattos, executive director of the California Poultry Federation, said he is not complaining about the discrepancy in compensation for commercial poultry and backyard birds. Texadelphia sandwiches: its doors unexpectedly Mondaisj stiff competition from si ing Northgate establishi*! coincided with lucrative offeislal the restaurant's prime locale,ai| owner Willie Madden. Madden will use the Col Station eatery's supplies to e^l a new Texadelphia store in Woodlands. Madden alr< operates three Texadelpfe ij the Houston area. Madden expressed regrettolis| customers for closing th ness, which was just shyofi<| third anniversary on July 31. "But it makes more senselt| the allocation of resources f we're closer to home," he x| referring to his Houston base? operations. Competition from recentv opened Northgate sandwir shops such as Quizno's and Ne«| York Sub helped i Texadelphia's profits. But sdl established area businesses akj began offering phillycheesestei'j sandwiches, Texadelphia's name| sake, at a lower price Madden could offer, worseirj the situation for the shop, hesait| At the same time, M received offers for the valuable real estate, which Ik| declined to discuss. Regents Continued from page! He succeeds Dr. G. Ken Bennett, who was named’ chancellor for engineering,d of the Dwight Look College oil Engineering and director of 4i| Texas Engineering Experimeif Station in September. No other items were sir for the telephone meel Tuesday. The Board of Regents i meet next at its regular meet on July 24 at Texas Ai Commerce. Gunman Continued from pagel expected Williams to h someone someday. “She said he made a th against black people,” a fraught McCall said. “Obvioi he was a sick guy. I wish somfj body had given him some I before he done destroyed my lilt| and my kids’ life.” The sheriff said he h information on whether theg»J man had been in trouble with hit [ bosses. He said Williams haJ| attended a meeting Tu morning with other employeet| some of whom were later shot. “We are not sure if to killed were friend orfoe,”lh( sheriff said. Austin Clark, who cal sick Tuesday, said Wil made accusations when he wii| angry. “He’s had problems' white people, too,” said Cl who is white. “I have no idfi| what set him off.” the Best Deal Under the Sun What’s Included? Totally furnished Free Cable, II BO, & Ethernet Free Video library lighted Volleyball Courts, Basket hall, & Tennis Courts Mierowave, Dishwasher, Disposal, Iceniaker, Washer & Dryer Prices — 2Bdr 2 Ba£h-$415 L™ 2 Bclr 1.5 Batli-$41(M 4Brii* 2 Bath-$35<> Rates are per person. 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