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Irvin, of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
said he would probably arrive in
Baltimore on Tuesday and travel
to Chestertown to meet with
Dotson.
Baylor head coach Dave Bliss
did not immediately return tele
phone calls Monday night. The
school’s athletic department did
not immediately have comment.
Last Thursday, Dotson volun
tarily went to the Dorchester
County sheriff’s office near
Hurlock to make a statement
about Dennehy’s disappearance.
He was never in custody and was
not arrested, leaving the office
with his high school basketball
coach.
Waco police declined to dis
cuss what Dotson told authorities
last week, saying only that it did
not change the course of their
investigation.
Dennehy’s Chevrolet Tahoe
was found June 25 in a
parking lot in Virginia Beadi.|
Authorities said R
were trying to determine i[|
9mm handgun found Thursdai
a Waco apartment compl
Baylor was related to Dei
disappearance.
According to an earlierse*
warrant affidavit, an ur
informant reported to Defer
authorities that Dotson
cousin he shot Dennehy
two argued while shooting I;
guns in the Waco area.
Some of Dennehy’s
say he told them that
Dotson were being threaier:
and that they obtained gi
Dennehy’s family claimedfc.
foot-10, 230-pound center
coaches he feared for his I
Bliss has repeatedly said
and his staff were not awaii
any threats.
Dotson lost his b
scholarship this spring
not expected to play at Efe
next season.
Tuition
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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Gates said training will be provided by
Right Management of Houston, a firm that spe
cializes in assistance for those in career transi
tion. Human Resources will also provide indi
vidual job-search assistance and training on
how to use the Human Resources Employment
Office’s online application system.
Overall support and services. Gates said, are
accessible to laid-off employees through the
Employee Relations Office and the Employee
Assistance Program.
Gates said he realizes the loss is not limited
to those directly affected.
“Many of them have families who must also
share in these regrettable personal setbacks,”
he said. “In a very real sense, we are all dimin
ished by any loss to the Aggie family.”
Bush requests
help with Iraq
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP)
— President George W.
Bush said Monday he is
working to persuade more
nations to help in Iraq,
where Saddam Hussein
loyalists are killing coali
tion forces in a war that
persists alongside rebuild
ing efforts.
Speaking at his Texas
ranch with the leader of
one supportive country,
Premier Silvio Berlusconi
of Italy, Bush said, "The
more people involved in
Iraq, the better off we will
be."
At the same time, he
accused the governments
of Syria and Iran of harbor
ing terrorists and said ter
rorism was the greatest
obstacle to peace in the
region.
The mention of Syria and
Iran by Bush were a way
to keep reminding those
countries of the need to
take strong action against
terrorists, Bush
spokesman Scott
McClellan said on Air Force
One during the flight back
to Washington.
universities in Texas.
The University tried to show
the value it places in graduate stu
dents by increasing the funding to
their health care premiums by $3
million. Gates said.
Gates said he did not think the
education obtained through
involvement in campus organiza
tions, would be affected by the
tuition increase.
Mike Friedman, a graduate
psychology research assistant,
said he came to the presentation
because there has been a lot of
uncertainty in the graduate stu
dent community about tuition and
fees. He said there has been a 50
percent increase since he applied
to graduate school, in 2001.
L
Debbie Perkins, motlii
Chris Perkins, a sophomore
puter engineer major, said
came to see how muchthei*
will increase.
“When it hits the pockeLji
ents get concerned,” she said
Lova Randrianarivotj,
graduate teaching assistaii
the math department,
came to find out h(
more she will have to pay so
can calculate what she has
for food expenses.
“I think the cuts have nolle
done fairly,” she said. "Tlierc
things that could have heeiui
that haven’t been.”
She said the money f
cooling the buildings on cif.
could be cut and the m*
spent on the new Webpagei
the library could havebeenkj
for other purposes.
Retention
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U.S. Embassy hit in heavy shelling in Liben
“It was a great experience
for everyone,” Porchia said.
Porchia said everyone in
the Department of Honors
Programs and Academic
Scholarships was glad all the
work they did paid off.
“We have worked very
hard on this program and we
are glad to see it become suc
cessful and recognized,” she
said.
The award was established
in 1989 to reward universities
in the United States and
Canada that create innovative
programs and services to aid
the school in student retention
and encourage students to be
successful on and off campus,
according to the Noel-Levitz
Web site.
Nominees are judged by a
panel of higher education
administrators and consultants
who base their decision on
effectiveness, originality, cre
ativity, use of resources and
adaptability to other institu
tions, according to the Web
site.
A&M was one of nine uni
versities honored.
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MONROVIA, Liberia — A
thunderous barrage of mortars
shook Liberia’s capital Monday,
hitting residential neighborhoods
along with two U.S. Embassy
compounds, and killing more
than 90 people as government
and rebel forces fought over
President Charles Taylor’s last
stronghold.
Wailing Liberians lined up
bloodied, mangled bodies outside
the U.S. Embassy, demanding to
know why Washington has not
sent troops to end more than a
decade of strife in the West
African nation founded by freed
American slaves.
With more than 360 people
injured — some hauled to the
hospital in wheelbarrows, others
screaming in pain — Monday
appeared to be the bloodiest day
of fighting in three rebel attempts
to take Monrovia in the past two
months.
Before the shelling began,
American HH-60 Pave Hawk
helicopters landed in the U.S.
Embassy compound in a driving
rain, dropping off about half of a
41-member Marine security
team. Dressed in green camou
flage, body armor and helmets,
they jumped out and ran up a hill.
About 23 foreign humanitari
an workers and journalists clutch
ing bags and backpacks ran to the
spinning aircraft as Marines and
embassy officials shouted: “Go!
Go!” Among them were the
United Nations’ last seven for
eign staffers, who had returned to
Monrovia just two weeks earlier
during a lull in fighting.
The State Department criti
cized the rebel group Liberians
United for Reconciliation and
Democracy for “reckless and
indiscriminate shooting” and
appealed to neighboring African
countries to guard against
weapons going to Liberia.
Shifting the target of U.S.
rhetoric from Taylor to the rebels,
spokesman Philip T. Reeker said,
“If we’re to trust them in the
future to participate in the demo
cratic governance of Liberia, we
need to be able to see them keep
their commitments now.”
U.S. officials also announced
that 4,500 more American sailors
and Marines have been ordered to
position themselves closer to
Liberia, if needed for an evacua
tion of Americans, peacekeeping
or some other mission.
“We’re concerned about our
people,” President Bush told
reporters in Crawford, Texas. He
indicated he had not yet decided
the size of a U.S. force that might
be sent to help a promised West
African peacekeeping mission in
Liberia.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan once again urged
Washington and West African
states to commit troops.
“I think we can really salvage
the situation if troops were to be
deployed urgently and promptly,”
he said.
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tained mortar fire, a shell
slammed into a U.S. Embassy
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residential compound where
some 10,000 terrified Liberians
had taken refuge, killing 25 peo
ple, aid workers said. Many more
were wounded, including two
Liberian embassy guards.
Across the street, in the
sprawling embassy complex
overlooking the Atlantic, a shell
hit the commissary building.
There were no reports of injuries.
After the blasts, enraged
Liberians dragged bodies from
In a densely
dential neighborhood,
house, killing 18
strike, emergency workerssiU
the scene.
At least 47 Liberians#
killed in other strikes Mon
officials at John F. Kenn
Hospital and aid groups said
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with pain lay on mattresses i*
the floor.
“We really don’t know In*
we are going to cope withM
uation,” said Mohammed SI
the hospital’s medical
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receiving, and receiving,
receiving.”
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at the hospital in
police cars and wheelbarrows,
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at a Red Cross trauma cent
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