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NATION PHE BATTALION urity ie inspection order, mnd in the inspection, stern has undergone Sept. 11 attacks, in cutters to take over — who now are fed- lore training, cockpit oroof, many more air rcial flights and some is when they fly, ivernment officials es can miss plastic \irport workers who creened, nor is much commercial flights, tigators who recent- ; to sneak weapons [board the Southwest an explosive, while used to demonstrate >us liquid could be rt: Army tigation d and no yes filed >, Ohio (AP) — An American soldiers d killed hundreds of Hagers over seven 1967 during the , and an Army inves- ed with no charges ide reported Sunday, of the Tiger Force ■rny’s 101st Airborne pped grenades into tere villagers — men and children- ot farmers without newspaper reported, r’s 4 I/2-year inves- er before made pub- iated by a soldier the killings. The tantiated 20 war 18 soldiers and ^ntagon and White e it was closed in ade said. Doyle, a formet sergeant, said he ty civilians in 1967 i’t expect to live, here with any brains 'e,” he told the news- vay to live is to kill don’t have to worry / who’s dead.” it-month investiga- ide reviewed thou- sified Army docu- lal Archive records 1$ and interviewed »ers of the unit and ose who died, e, a unit of 45 vol- created to spy on h Vietnam in South itral highlands, e said it is not many Vietnamese killed. ay to live is to iseyou don’t vorry about s dead. — William Doyle |er Force sergeant 5w at least 78 were :d, the newspaper n interviews with soldiers and vilians, it is esti- killed hundreds of e. The Blade said, esman Joe Burlas that only three lembers were on "ing the investiga- heir commanders, idvice of military mined there was vidence for suc- ition. d a lack of physi- md access to the ince a number of ed. He would not ty the military did ; evidence sooner. - took 400 sworn i witnesses, Burlas ported each other icted, he said, o The Blade, the in May 1967. No it set it off. Less after setting up entral highlands, i torturing and •s in violation of ary law and the Conventions, the Sports ■■■■KThk Battalion Page 7 • Monday, October 20, 2003 AP TOP 25 Record FVs 1.011(62) 7-0 1 2. Miami (3) 7-0 2 3. Virginia Tech 60 3 4. Georgia 6-1 4 5. Southern Cai 6-1 5 6. Florida St. 6-1 7 6. Washington St 6-1 6 8. Ohio St 6-1 8 9.LSU 6-1 10 10. Purdue 6-1 13 11. Michigan St. 7-1 15 12. N. Illinois 70 12 13. Michigan 6-2 17 14. Nebraska 6-1 18 15.TCU 70 16 16.lcwa 5-2 9 17. Auburn 5-2 19 18. Okla. State 6-1 23 19,Texas 5-2 20 20. Wisconsin 6-2 14 21.Ari<ansas 4-2 11 22.Tennessee 4-2 21 23. Bowling Gm 6-1 — 24. Utah 6-1 — 25. Florida 5-3 — Fist place votes in panentheses) ESPN COACHES POLL Record FVs 1.0U(57) 70 1 2 Miami (6) 70 2 3. Virginia Tech 60 3 4 USC 6-1 4 5. Georgia 6-1 5 6. Washington St 6-1 6 7. Florida State 6-1 7 8. Ohio State 6-1 8 9.LSU 6-1 10 10. Purdue 6-1 15 H.Nebraska 6-1 14 12. Mich. State 7-1 18 13.TCU 70 13 14 N. Illinois 70 16 15. Michigan 6-2 17 16.lcwa 5-2 9 17.Wisconsin 6-2 12 18.Texas 5-2 20 19. OWa. State 6-1 24 20.Arkansas 4-2 11 21.Aubum 5-2 25 22.Temessee 4-2 22 S.lteh 6-1 — 241raota 6-2 19 25.FM& 5-3 ■ ■ ^\s voted on by 63 Division 1-A coaches.) QUOTABLE “Italmost felt like we were playing with a wet ball out there." - A&M coach Dennis Franchione It might have been our most complete game in terms of what we were able to get done offensively, defensively and on special teams.” - Nebraska coach Frank Solich “(The offensive linemen) got their blocks and I was able to make a couple of cuts and it was daylight.” - Nebraska quarter back Jammal Lord ‘The fact is we didn’t come sutand play. We don’t play Insistent enough to win enough football games. I’m not loingto say (the team’s youth) isan excuse by any means.” - A&M free safety Jaxson Appel Crazy Nebraska cashes in on eight A&M turnovers in 48-12 win By Dallas Shipp THE BATTALION LINCOLN, Neb. — It was like Christmas in Nebraska Saturday. Everyone was wearing red and the gifts just kept on coming for the Cornhuskers, who capitalized on eight Texas A&M turnovers on their way to a 48-12 win at Memorial Stadium. No. 18 Nebraska scored 35 points off Aggie turnovers, including 14 points in the first quarter that seemed to take the life out of an A&M offense that was oth erwise off to a good start. “We turned the ball over too many times today,” said A&M coach Dennis Franchione. “It’s not like this offense to turn the ball over as many times as we did. It was like a snowball effect out there.” A&M quarterback Reggie McNeal had the worst game of his career, leading the turnover parade with three intercep tions — one returned for a touchdown by Nebraska linebacker Barrett Ruud — and two fumbles for the Aggies. “We just didn’t execute today,” McNeal said. “That’s just part of the game, nothing major. It just happens.” Prior to Saturday, McNeal had never thrown more than one interception in a game. But he wasn’t the only Aggie play ing Santa Claus Saturday. Junior quarterback Dustin Long threw two interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown, and A&M run ning back Derek Farmer coughed up a fumble as well. Two of the Aggies’ eight turnovers came inside the red zone, killing two potential scoring opportunities for the Aggies. McNeal fumbled on the Nebraska 21- yard line in the second quarter after a ’five-play, 76-yard drive to tlie Nebraska Ll-yArd line for the Aggies.”7 r <| Farmer fumbled on the Cornhusker 10-yard line late in the third quarter to kill a three-play 40-yard drive. “Everything you can’t do to win a game, we did today,” said A&M senior offensive lineman Alan Reuber. “Offensively we didn’t give our team a chance to win the game.” The turnovers were deadly for an Aggie offense that started the game with an eight-play, 55-yard drive. A&M looked poised to continue the offensive assault that started against Baylor a week ago. But as the turnovers began to pile up, so did the Nebraska side of the score- board. The Huskers didn’t waste any extra opportunities provided by the Aggies. Nebraska quarterback Jammal Lord led the Huskers with 109 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. It was Lord’s third 100-yard rushing performance this season and the eighth of his career. “Jammal has been through a lot in his career and it was great to see him really get some things done in a manner that I think is extremely good,” said Nebraska coach Frank Solich. The Huskers racked up 333 yards on the ground, just four yards shy of their season high 337 yards against Penn State. With the win, Nebraska is 194-7 in the last 30 years when rushing for 300 yards or more in a game, and 13-2 under Solich. Nebraska safety Josh Bullocks picked off his seventh pass of the season Saturday, tying a school record. His seven interceptions is the best in the nation, averaging one pick per game so far this season. The lone bright spot for the Aggie offense was the play of A-back Jason Carter, who was predicted to be a key contributor for the Aggies this year. Until Saturday, Carter had not lived up to his expectations and was removed from punt returner after key fumbles ear lier this season. But as the fourth quarter game was winding down. Carter returned a kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown. It was the first kickoff returned for a touchdown by the Aggies since<,~T997T ’Vfiefl Sjtf" Parker scored on a 78-yarder agaihst lowa State. The Aggie defense held up well against the Huskers despite giving up more than 300 yards rushing. Nebraska scored six of its seven touch downs on drives that began in Aggie terri tory. The other touchdown came on a drive Eights John C. Livas • THE BATTALION Texas A&M quarterback Reggie McNeal juggles the ball during Nebraska's 48-12 win Saturday. McNeal accounted fdrfive of A&M's turnovers: three interidptidns and two fumbles. that started on their own 49-yard line. A&M safety Jaxson Appel refused to make that an excuse for the 48 Husker points. “It doesn’t matter how far they have to go, the result is the same,” Appel said. “They did what we thought we had to stop. We felt prepared coming in, we just didn’t execute well enough.” Appel finished the game with a team- high nine tackles. The Aggies will look to regroup Saturday against No. 18 Oklahoma State at Kyle Field at 2:30 p.m. Aggies still haven't broken through in must-have situations on road John C. Livas • THE BATTALION Nebraska quarterback Jammal Lord races past A&M safety Jaxson Appel on one of his two rushing touchdowns Saturday. Lord finished with 109 yards. L incoln, Neb. - If saying the road has been unfriendly to the Texas A&M football team is an understate ment, then saying the Aggies have given themselves a fair chance to win any of their three road games is an overstatement. It has been early in games on the road, a place where start ing out strong to quiet an unfriendly crowd comes at a premium, that A&M has shown some of its worst qualities. Now 0-3 away from Kyle Field, A&M has started each game by doing exactly what a team can’t do if it expects to win. TRUE BROWN Its latest misery came in the form of spotting the University of Nebraska 14 first- quarter points off of two Reggie McNeal interceptions. The two touchdowns provided the Cornhuskers with a 20-3 cushion that proved far too deep for the Aggies to over come. The interceptions, which came within 3:02 of each other, both happened inside A&M’s 35-yard line and provided the Huskers exactly what they needed to whip the crowd of 77,604 into a frenzy. So far this season, A&M has been outscored 142-59 on the road. A&M offensive tackle Alan Reuber said after the game he didn’t think being on the road played an active part in A&M’s problems. “I don’t think it’s a road sit uation because the noise didn’t really affect us today,” Reuber said. “We communicated well. That had affected us in earlier ballgames at Virginia Tech, but we learned from that game and played well through the noise. This is just an internal thing that we need to fix.” The stats, however, sing a different tune. A&M has not been able to respond in early must-have situations on the road. See Road on page 9 Aggies collapse in second half, Tigers win By Troy Miller THE BATTALION After a good second half performance in its 2-0 'ictory over Iowa State, it was the second half that 'roved to be the demise of the Texas A&M ‘''omen’s soccer team on Sunday. The Aggies suf- cred their first loss in 23 Big 12 regular season lames by falling at Missouri 5-4 in overtime. After taking a 4-1 lead into halftime, the No. 4 \ggies gave up three goals in the second half and 'oe in overtime as the Tigers (7-8-1, 1-4-1 Big 12) won their first Big 12 contest this season. Missouri junior forward Melissa Peabody Cored the game winner 4:26 into overtime. } eabody scored three goals in the match, and the iveTiger goals matched the previous season total Jfgoals allowed by the Aggies (11 -2-2, 4-1 -2). The scoring began in the ninth minute as Aggie junior defender Amanda Burke made good to a penalty kick after junior forward Emma Smith was dragged down inside the penalty area. Just 24 seconds later, Tiger freshman midfield er Elyse Nikonchuck scored the equalizer and erased the Aggies’ chances for a fourth straight shutout. Smith answered in the 21st minute as she Blocked in a header off a serve from freshman ^fender Annie Burnett. Freshman forward Kat Krambeer then scored two consecutive goals in the 28th and 41st minutes of the match. The second half quickly became the Melissa Peabody show as the Missouri junior scored just six minutes into the second half. Peabody’s goal marked the first time the Aggies have given up more than one goal in a match all season. Nikonchuck added her second goal of the match with just 12 minutes remaining to pull the Tigers within a goal, and Peabody tied the score at four. The loss comes on the heels of an impressive 2-0 victory over Iowa State at the Aggie Soccer Complex in which the Aggies kept possession in the Cyclone defensive zone for almost the entire match. “I thought our first 20 minutes (against Iowa State) were some of the best that I’ve seen all year,” said A&M coach G. Guerrieri. “It’s awful hard for them to score when they’re constantly pinned back against their goal line.” The loss leaves the Aggies in third place as they head into a weekend where they face No. 16 Nebraska and No. 12 Colorado, the two teams ahead of them in the Big 12 standings, at the Aggie Soccer Complex. To successfully defend their Big 12 Championship, the Aggies must beat not only both Nebraska and Colorado, but also arch-rival Texas in Austin in the last match of the regular season. Sharon Aeschbach • THE BATTALION Texas A&M's Laura Probst dribbles past Iowa State University's Kelly Burke during the Aggies 2-0 win Friday. SPORTS IN BRIEF Glenn's three TDs helps Cowboys upend Lions DETROIT (AP) — Terry Glenn did more than enough by himself to beat the Detroit Lions. Glenn caught three first-half touchdowns, the first two in spectacular fashion, as the Dallas Cowboys beat Detroit 38-7 and matched their win total from each of the pre vious three seasons. Under new coach Bill Parcells, the Cowboys (5-1) have won five straight games for the first time since 1994 and are off to their best start since winning eight of nine in 1995. Dallas has won three road games this season, one more than the two previous years combined. The Cowboys, the only team to lose twice to Detroit the past two-plus seasons, beat the Lions for the first time since 1992. The Lions (1-5), under first-year coach Steve Mariucci, are not faring much better than they did the past two years with Marty Mornhinweg, who was fired with a 5-27 record. Last year, the Lions won two of the first six games before finishing 3-13. Two decisions Parcells has made in his first season with the Cowboys — acquiring Glenn and naming Quincy Carter his starter — paid off again Sunday.