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Friday, March 12, 2004
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JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
of Cross Canadian Ragweed held a signing after performing live at
Cody Cross and the members of the band Hastings Thursday.
Relief
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Indian community closer to the rest of
the Aggie community.
“We wanted everyone in the com
munity to come together, especially
for a good cause,” Josan said. “We
want to promote unity among the
Indians and the rest of the community
through our music.”
Often, when students want to aid
the cause of overseas child relief, they
don’t know where to look, Josan said.
“People often want to help out, but
they don’t know how to go about it,”
Josan said. “I also wanted to help out,
so I decided to provide my services to
the event. Even though it is in another
city, I wanted to help the cause.”
Krishna Paliwal, a 2003 graduate of
the University of Houston, donated time
and funds to the event, even though he
said he will be unable to attend it.
“Even though I live in Houston, I
wanted to help out,” Paliwal said. “A
worthy charity event is still worthy
regardless of where it is held.”
Anand said the complete proceeds
of the event will go to the head center
of CRY in Medford, Mass.
“After each event, funds are turned
over to the main branch, and the
money is put into programs beneficial
to underprivileged children, such as
building new schools and hospitals
where they are needed,” Anand said.
Though the organization, formed in
1979, initially focused solely on child
relief in India, Anand said CRY has
expanded its reach to other parts of the
world, including America.
The event is co-sponsored by
Multicultural Services and the
Department of Student Activities.
Tickets are available for $5 in advance
and $7 at the door from the MSC Box
Office or at the event.
Latinos
Break
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Holding the first position on the list is Stanford
University, followed by the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Harvard University.
Two other schools in Texas that joined A&M
on the list were Rice University ranking eighth
on the list with 11 percent of Hispanic students
and University of Texas-Austin, ranking 11th
with 14 percent.
Hispanic President’s Council (HPC) President
Sarah Pena said that although ranking 13th isn’t
great, it “does shed light on our university.”
“Hopefully, more of the Hispanic community
will become aware of the benefits of attending
Texas A&M,” Pena said.
The HPC is composed of 16 Hispanic organiza
tions which include fraternities and sororities, pro
fessional societies and cultural associations.
“It (HPC) seeks to promote awareness of the
existing Hispanic organizations available to the
student body of Texas A&M University, serving
as an ‘umbrella’ support group for these organi
zations,” Pena said. “Although the presence of
Latinos at Texas A&M is (still) small, the stu
dents try their best to share the importance of
their culture.”
Characterizing A&M for the “camaraderie
among Aggies, passionately held traditions and
unsurpassed school pride,” the magazine reported
that these attributes helped “shrink this colossal
campus to a friendly size.”
Department of Residence Life, worries more about what students do
when they are away for break than what goes on at their homes
while they are away.
Lt. Mark Langwell of the College Station Police Department said
he urges students to remain safe wherever they travel over the vaca
tion by staying with their groups during spring break, not leaving
luggage unattended and not drinking and driving.
“We educate kids on the dangers of alcohol and driving,” Sasse
said, “and also just stress the simple measures like letting people
know where you are going and when you will be there.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
Former aide
accused of being a
paid Iraqi agent
NEW YORK (AP) — A former
news reporter and press secre
tary for four members of
Congress was charged
Thursday with being a paid
Iraqi intelligence agent and try
ing to contact her distant cousin
— the White House chief of
staff — to alter U.S. policy.
Susan Lindauer, 41, was
taken into custody in her home
town of Takoma Park, Md., and
made a brief court appearance
in Baltimore, where lawyers
argued over whether she
should be granted bail.
She was charged with con
spiring to act as an unregistered
agent of the Iraqi Intelligence
Service and with engaging in
prohibited financial transactions
with the Iraqi government. The
indictment makes no mention of
her congressional staff work.
She was not directly charged
with espionage.
She could get up to 10
years in prison on the most
serious charge.
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by the shadowy Brigade of Abu
al-Masri, was received at
the newspaper's London offices
and said the brigade’s “death
squad” had penetrated “one of
the pillars of the crusade
face, Spain.”
“This is part of settling old
accounts with Spain, the crusad
er, and America's ally in its war
against Islam,” the claim said.
Spain had backed the U.S.-
kdwaron Iraq despite domestic
opposition, and many al-Qaida-
I terrorists have been cap
tured in Spain or were believed
to have operated from there.
Spain’s government is study
ing the reported al-Qaida claim
but still believes ETA is more
likely responsible, a senior offi
cial in Aznar’s office said.
Spain’s security forces were
not ruling out “any line of inves
tigation,” Interior
Minister Angel
Acebes said.
The United
States believes Al-
sometimes
|falsely claims to be
ing on behalf of
|Qaida. The
«p took credit
for blackouts in the
toted States and
mdon last year.
The purported
Qaida statement
Iso claimed the ter-
T group would soon hit the
toted States with a major attack.
‘The expected strike against
erica is now at its final stage
percent ready,” it said.
Some officials think Spain,
'ong with Germany, was an
iportant staging ground for the
ept. 11 attacks. Since then,
Ipain has arrested more than 40
-Qaida suspects.
If the attack was carried out
lyETA, it could signal a radical
and lethal change of strategy for
he group that has largely target-
id police and politicians in its
decades-long fight for a separate
—-"'IBasque homeland.
But after police found a
_ , j—lolen van with seven detonators
111 and the Arabic-language tape
II| aarked in a suburb near where
Ihe stricken trains originated,
Acebes said: “I have just given
instructions to the security
aiii# forces not to rule out any line of
investigation.”
A top Basque politician,
Arnold Otegi, denied ETA was
diind the blasts and blamed
'Arab resistance,” noting
ton’s support for the Iraq war.
The government said ETA
1 tried a similar attack on
Christmas Eve, placing bombs
on two trains bound for a Madrid
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station that was not hit Thursday.
“ETA had been looking for a
massacre,” said Acebes, the
interior minister.
“Unfortunately, today it
achieved its goal.”
The Interior Ministry said
tests showed the explosives used
in the attacks were a kind of
dynamite normally used by ETA.
The bombers used titadine, a
kind of compressed dynamite
also found in a bomb-laden van
intercepted last month as it
headed for Madrid, a source at
Aznar’s office said, speaking on
condition of anonymity.
Officials blamed ETA then, too.
In a break with past ETA tac
tics, there were multiple attacks
and no advance warning. ETA
has usually gone after one target
at a time and the largest casualty
toll was 21 killed in 1987.
ETA has claimed responsi
bility for more than 800 deaths
since 1968.
Sympathy poured in from
capitals world
wide, led by
Spain’s partners
in the 15-nation
European
Union, and
neighboring
France raised its
terror alert level.
In Athens, secu
rity also was
tightened at train
stations and the
Spanish
Embassy,
although overall plans for the
Aug. 13-29 Olympics will not
change, officials said.
The United States, Britain and
Russia said the attacks demon
strated the need for toughened
resolve against terrorists.
President Bush called Aznar
and Juan Carlos, saying he
expressed “our country’s deep
est sympathies toward those
who lost their life.
“I told them we weep with the
families. We stand strong with
the people of Spain,” he said.
The U.S. Senate unanimously
passed a resolution expressing
outrage and urging Bush to “pro
vide all possible assistance to
Spain” in pursuing the terrorists.
Aznar was a staunch support
er of U.S.-led war that ousted
Saddam Hussein and Spain sent
1,300 troops to Iraq.
Aznar, who himself survived
an ETA car bombing in 1995, will
step down when a new govern
ment is formed after the elections.
Revulsion over the attack
could benefit Aznar’s ruling
conservative Popular Party
because of its hard-line stance
against ETA.
Both the Popular Party and
the opposition Socialists ruled
out talks with ETA during the
campaign.
I told them we
weep with the
families. We stand
strong with the
people of Spain.
— George W. Bush
U.S. president
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