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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
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Crash
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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.
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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|
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received offers for the
valuable real estate, which Ik|
declined to discuss.
Regents
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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.
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body had given him some I
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bosses. He said Williams haJ|
attended a meeting Tu
morning with other employeet|
some of whom were later shot.
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what set him off.”
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