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The style and features you want. No-hassle dealer experience. A payment that's easy on your wallet and lifestyle. Senior wildlife and fisheries sciences major Mike Fry speaks witli senior architecture student Nick Sirianni at the Texas A&M Off- Road club display at Rudder Fountain Tuesday afternoon. The dull members were out to promote membership and emphasize thatitis not necessary to have an off-road vehicle to join. Seven hostages released 18 are still held captive By Alexandra Zavis THE ASSOCIATED PRESS y iM 111 ^ ^KEE» It's how you get there! Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captiv ity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked cam paign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra. It was unclear what prompted the two separate groups of kid nappers to release the Italians, three Egyptians and two Iraqis, and whether any ransom had been paid. It was the second day in a row that foreigners were freed. The Italian women were wear ing full black veils that revealed only their eyes as they were re ceived by the Italian Red Cross in a Baghdad neighborhood, ac cording to video broadcast by the Arab news station Al-Jazeera. Looking dazed but smiling, Simona Torretta lifted her veil and repeated, “Thank you,” in Arabic. Simona Pari hesitated before also lifting her veil. Later Tuesday, the two women were flown home aboard a Falcon 20 plane, amiving at a military airport in Rome shortly after p.m. The two, now in long.wf dresses, emerged smiling andki hands as they walked on then mac, their relatives by their side Asked by reporters how si felt. Pari just said, “Good.” Pari and Torretta were afxkt Sept. 7 in a bold raid on the Bag dad office of their aid agency! Ponte Per ...” (“A Bridge To..' Two Iraqis, Raad Ali Aziz at Mahnaz Bassam, were also seize they too were released Tuesday News of the release came after, Muslim leader from Italy meU’ an influential Muslim associate in Baghdad on Tuesday to pres for their freedom, though it wass immediately known if there was connection. The two women, boi 29, had been working on seta and water projects in Iraq. The Kuwaiti newspaper AIT al-Aam had reported Tuesday lit they could be released by Friday return for a $1 million ransom. £ Al-Arabiya TV, citing unidentifk sources involved in the negt tions, said no ransom was paid. Pope John Paul II, whoreceJ ly urged that all hostages field! Iraq be freed, expressed “gre joy” over the release of the Itali aid workers, the Vatican said. Students co socialize. / making its ’ Co do; Tf Same Day Appointments! 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