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Indoor Soccer Manager’s Meeting - TODAY at 4:00 pm in
Multipurpose Room #4 located in the SRC.
* Looking for a team? We can help
agent list in the Rec Sports Office.
come and sign-up on the free
Dr. Pepper 4 on 4 Flag Football Tournament - Friday, October 1 5th.
This event is FREE! Entry deadline is Wednesday, October 13th by 5:00pm.
Men’s, Women's and Coed Divisions offered. For more information contact
the Rec Sports office at 346-4113 or drop by 102 Esslinger Hall.
Free T-shirts for all participants plus prizes and giveaways.
Rec Aerobics Program - Purchase a punch card (in 102 Esslinger Hall)
and choose from 1 2 different classes each week. All classes are held in
Multipurpose #1 of the SRC.
Free Fitness Orientation Program - Come and sign up for a free
Fitness Orientation today! The Fitness Orientation program is conducted
in a small group (1-5 people) and includes a tour of the facilities and basic
instruction on the use of cardiovascular & weight training equipment. For
more information call 346-1 364.
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IN BRIEF
Car bombs kill 11;
Rumsfeld visits Iraq
ALASAD AIR BASE, Iraq — The
United States may be able to reduce
its troop levels in Iraq after the Jan
uary elections if security improves
and Iraqi government forces con
tinue to expand and improve, De
fense Secretary Donald H. Rums
feld said Sunday. Meanwhile, car
bombers struck twice in rapid suc
cession in the capital Sunday,
killing at least 11 people including
an American soldier. Rocket-pro
pelled grenade explosions and ma
chine gun fire rocked the insurgent
stronghold of Ramadi, west of
Baghdad, late Sunday. Residents
reached by telephone said insur
gents launched attacks in a half
dozen parts of Ramadi, and that
four huge explosions shook the
center of the city Sunday night.
Somolia is in final
stage of peace plan
NAIROBI, Kenya — Members
of Somalia’s transitional parlia
ment on Sunday elected a former
army colonel as interim president,
the final stage of a peace plan
meant to end 13 years of civil war
in the Horn of Africa nation.
Col. Abdullahi Yusuf won with
189 votes in a third round of voting,
Shariif Hassan Sheikh Aden told
the 275-member transitional parlia
ment and regional foreign affairs
ministers, who observed the vote.
The vote was held in Kenya be
cause of a lack of security in So
malia, where the country is divid
ed into fiefdoms controlled by
warlords. Thousands of people
have been killed in the war.
Heavy rains cause
flooding, 177 deaths
GAUHATI, India — Rescuers
searching through knee-deep wa
ter found 33 more bodies in In
dia’s remote northeastern state of
Assam on Sunday, bringing the
death toll from unseasonably
heavy rains in South Asia to 177.
Four days of devastating rain
storms triggered landslides in some
parts of Assam and battered large
areas of eastern India, Bangladesh
and Nepal, flattening mud houses
and leaving tens of thousands of
people homeless, officials said.
In the hardest-hit district of Goal
para in Assam, receding waters
Sunday revealed the bloated car
casses of thousands of cows, buf
faloes, goats and poultry, said local
administrator Anil Mazumdar. Sol
diers were helping villagers clear
the carcasses to prevent the
spread of disease, he said.
— The Associated Press
Mexico
runners
fight for
ballots
5,000 runners will carry
a torch to New York to
request absentee voting
BY TRACI CARL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Mexican mi
grants launched a two-month relay
Sunday from Mexico’s capital to New
York, calling on lawmakers to grant
them the right to cast absentee bal
lots in the 2006 presidential elections
and organizing undocumented work
ers along the way.
The binational relay is in its third
year, following a 3,800-mile route
through northeast Mexico, then the
southern and eastern United States,
with runners carrying a torch to New
York City in honor of Mexico’s patron
saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Some 5,000 runners will carry the
torch, sometimes passing through
farm towns with only a few people,
and other times — like when the torch
passes through Atlanta, which has a
rapidly growing migrant population —
with thousands cheering them on.
The group is scheduled to arrive
at New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral
on Dec. 12, when Mexicans com
memorate the day in 1531 when, ac
cording to legend, the dark-skinned
virgin appeared to a poor Indian,
Juan Diego, and left her image im
printed on his cloak.
Mexican migrants living in New
York always celebrated Dec. 12 at St.
Patrick’s, leading pilgrimages from
their neighborhoods but wishing they
could travel to Mexico City’s Basilica,
as many Mexicans pilgrims do.
In 2001, at the urging of the Roman
Catholic Church, they decided to try
it, planning a trip that would take
them from the Basilica to St.
Patrick’s. Each year, the march has
grown, kicking off with the group cel
ebrating a Mass in Mexico City and
ending up in New York.
The route is expected to cross the
border at Brownsville, Texas, on Nov.
7, then travel through Louisiana; Mis
sissippi; Alabama; Georgia; South Car
olina; North Carolina; Virginia; Wash
ington, D.C.; Maryland; Delaware;
Pennsylvania; and New Jersey.
Joel Magadan, executive director
of New York’s Tepeyac Association,
which organizes the relay, said the
event has grown into a march for all
migrants’ rights — not just Mexicans
living in New York.
Under current Mexican law, Mexi
cans must return home to vote. Al
though there is a proposal in Congress
that would grant Mexicans the right to
vote while living abroad, it appears to
have little chance at approval because
of controversy over how to avoid fraud.
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