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legislation, the SGA still sup
ports efforts for increasing
diversity on campus.
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spirit,” Oliver said. “How mans
will actually get out there and
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Josefy said with everyone
helping each other, the University
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“This will be one of those
times we gather together,” he said.
Sonia Moghe contributed to
this story.
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work field before you graduate from school
sets up a really good path because you
know what you’re getting into and if you
want to continue on pursuing that major.”
The program is a win-win situation for
A&M and ConocoPhillips, Evans said.
The SPIRIT Scholars Program will allow
ConocoPhillips to identify students who will
be significant players in the integrated ener
gy industry and correspondingly allow stu
dents to benefit from the scholarships and
experience the corporation provides.
Zalenski aspires to be one of the few
students selected amongst the engineering
majors for the program.
“I know that I’ll make a lot of good
connections, and the money would really
help if I would get a scholarship from
that,” she said. “I really need financial aid
right now.”
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — By the time an Amber Alert was issued for 11-year-old Carlie
Brucia, a full day had passed since the moment she was led away by a dark-haired
stranger in an abduction that was videotaped by a security camera.
The alert on Feb. 2 caught the public’s attention and is being credited with helping lead
detectives to a suspect, Joseph P. Smith. But Carlie’s body was found several days later,
and now the alert system is under scrutiny for the ways it is used and the timing of its
implementation.
The new attention to the 7-year-old system comes at a time when a national Amber
Alert system is in the works and more police agencies are turning to alerts to find
missing children.
While it is credited with helping rescue more than 120 children from kidnappers since
1996 — including Wednesday’s kidnapping of month-old Jesse Peaster, who was found
safe just hours he was taken from his home near Lincoln, Mo. — records show the use
of the alert system has been haphazard.
Some police departments have been quick to issue alerts when a child isn’t in danger,
while other agencies such as Sarasota have been more conservative in their approach
and not issued alerts quickly, even when a child’s life was at stake.
The Justice Department says time is of the essence in abductions, citing statistics that
show three-quarters of the children killed by their kidnappers are slain within the
three hours of their disappearance.
India, Pakistan begin peace talks to settle disputes
By Ashok Sharma
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Nuclear-
armed rivals India and Pakistan began his
toric meetings Monday aimed at preparing
the way for a sustained peace dialogue on
Kashmir and other disputes that have kept
the neighbors at loggerheads for decades.
Pakistan is eager to show quick progress
during the three days of talks, which also are
likely to cover confidence-building meas
ures in the nuclear field to avoid an accident
— especially considering admissions of
leaks of nuclear technology by the father of
Pakistan’s nuclear program.
India and Pakistan last held formal peace
talks in July 2001 in Agra, India.
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf
and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee agreed to launch the new dialogue
when they met on the sidelines of a South
Asian summit in January.
Jalil Abbas Jilani, a director-general in
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, and Arun
Kumar Singh, a joint secretary in India’s
External Affairs Ministry, shook hands and
smiled before the start of the meeting. The
sides met for nearly two hours in the morn
ing before breaking for lunch.
Singh is leading a four-member Indian
team at the talks, the first real test of the two
sides’ willingness to show flexibility on
long-entrenched positions, such as the dis
puted Kashmir region — the cause of two of
the countries’ three wars since their 1947
independence.
A “line of control” divides Kashmir
between India and Pakistan, but both claim
the Himalayan territory in its entirety. More
than 65,000 people have been killed in an
insurgency that has raged in India-con-
trolled portions of the territory since 1989.
In the latest violence, suspected sepa
ratist rebels shot and killed a local politician
Monday as he stood on a roadside in
Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s
Jammu-Kashmir state, police said.
Two police officers nearby raced to the
scene and opened fire on the assailants. One
officer was killed and the other wounded as the
attackers retaliated, and the attackers escaped.
Meanwhile, in Muzaffarabad, capital of
Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, more than 500
people Monday from a political group seek
ing Kashmir’s independence blocked a main
street for nearly two hours to protest the
Pakistan-India talks.
“These negotiations are being held to
end the Kashmiris’ struggle,” said Ghulam
Nabi War, a Jammu Kashmir Liberation
Front leader. “The two countries are
interested in people of Kashmir. Theyd
respect their wishes.”
After coming close to fighting a fc
war in 2002, India and Pakistan have moved
to restore transport links and diplomatic ties,
Soldiers in November halted cross-bordet
firing in Kashmir.
India is also set to embark on its first crick
et tour of Pakistan since 1989 — a break
through for the two cricket-crazy nations.
“Pakistan is approaching these talks sit
cerely and earnestly. We hope that Indi
would demonstrate matching reciprocity,
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesmai
Masood Khan said Sunday.
The two sides are likely to set up expert
groups to discuss a dispute over the flow of
water to Pakistan from the Wullar barrageii
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the world’s highest battleground in Siacheii
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April, no major decisions are expected bf
Vajpayee’s government during this roti
of talks. However, the prime minister
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peace process.
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