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WEATHER FORECAST High 45 Low 37 World Cloudy and windy Philippines reach political agreement MANILA, Philippines (AP) Inside — The Philippines government Meet the THURSDAY has reached its first major MARCH 12,1998 agreement with Communist "King of the Court." rebels aimed at ending their 28- Texas Christian University year insurgency, President See page 4 95th Year • Number 91 Fidel Ramos said Wednesday. The agreement with the rebel National Democratic Front covers a wide spectrum of human rights issues, Ramos said. Dancing duo It is to be signed Sunday in Rape survivor the Netherlands, where rebel leaders live in exile and where peace talks have been held intermittently since 1992. Ramos urged negotiators to says students "redouble their efforts to end this prolonged fratricidal con- flict" and "bring about a lasting peace." The agreement is the first of must be aware four accords the two sides hope to reach for a political settle- By Kristina Jorgenson She was a virgin, wanting to ment. Negotiations now move STAFF REPORTER wait until marriage before having on to social and economic Perhaps the most startling sex, when the man she equated to reforms. aspect about Katie Koestner. a date "Prince Charming" raped her in The accord on human rights rape survivor and sexual assault her dorm room following a date on was sealed when the two sides prevention educator, is the fact that a Saturday evening that had came to terms on compensating she seemed just like other college seemed so perfect until that inci- victims of abuses under the late women. dent, she said. dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Koestner. Angie Cooper, a sophomore Ramos said. who has social work major, said she could He was referring to a judg- appeared on relate to Koestner's reaction to the ment obtained in a Honolulu the cover of situation. court by 9,539 Filipinos who Time maga- "Everything she says she did were awarded $2 billion from zine and has (that night), I would have done." the Marcos estate. Many of the spoken to Cooper said. "I'm very forgiving I plaintiffs were mistreated for thousands of always think everyone's nice, and belonging to the front or 14 students that no one would hurt me." Marxist groups under the about date Katie Koestner Koestner said she did not tell front's umbrella. rape, told a anyone about the rape until the fol- The communist rebellion packed Student Center Ballroom lowing Monday morning. began in the late 1960s and Wednesday night how. as an 18- When she told the school's dean reached its peak in the mid- year-old freshman at the College of student services. Koestner said 1980s when Filipinos of vary- of William and Mary, she devel- he told her she was "making very ing political persuasion rose up oped a crush on a popular, good- serious charges against another against Marcos, driving him looking man. student: go home and think about it into exile in 1986. He died in After the couple "hung out" in some more." Honolulu three years later. Reagan Duptlaaa SKIFF STAFF her room for a few weeks studying When she told the nurse at the Since then, rebel ranks have chemistry and talking about col- university's health center. Stacey Johnson (left) and Shannon Bessette, both senior ballet majors, practice Tuesday for their thinned because of battle casual- lege subjects. Koestner said the upcoming performances in Italy over Spring Break. ties, surrenders and factionalism. man asked her out on a date. Please see KOESTNER, Page 5 Nation Air Force One disappears from radar NEW YORK (AP) — The Drunken driving a Spring Break concern Federal Aviation By Katy Graham According to the Alcohol and Drug weekends, but many of them report made it illegal for a minor to drive impaired at a .05 level, alter only a Administration is investigating STAFF REPORTER Education Center, college students they get very few calls. Taylor said. while any detectable amount of alco- couple of drinks." Cox said. whether an air traffic tracking Spring break is so close that stu- are the heaviest drinkers In the popu- This kind of behavior occurs in hol is in his or her system. Taylor said the average drunken system went out amid reports dents can almost taste it. lation, with an estimated 75 to 95 per- every state, and the direct conse- Minors are not the only recipients driver has a Mood-alcohol level of that Air Force One vanished But when the week cent of college students drinking reg- quences are evident. In 1996, 17.126 of lawmakers' concern. Members of . 17, just ova ivv ice the proposed legal from radar screens for 24 sec- of fun begins. ularly. people were killed in the United the U.S. Senate have already passed a limit. onds. many students Combining this drinking habit with States in alcohol-related traffic crash- bill that would lower the national "Personallv 1 think the bill is a Broadcast reports said the may also taste driving is a big problem at TCU, said es anfi an estimated one million were blood-alcohol concentration tolerance good idea because of the message it is airplane disappeared from radar Angie Taylor, director of TCU's injured, according to the National level to .08. The national tolerance sending, which is that n's dangerous screens Tuesday morning as Alcohol and Drug Education Center. Highway Traffic Safety level is presently .10, The hill is now to drive, even alter one drink." Taylor President Clinton traveled to "Students go out in Dallas or Fort Administration. headed for debate in the U.S. House said. "You're impaired. Don't do it." Connecticut. WNBC-TV said Worth, then have to drive back," she In Texas, out of 3,741 crashes in of Representatives. For the average person, three controllers never lost radio con- said. "Unfortunately, people don't 1996, 1,991 (or 53.2 percent) were Cynthia Cox, a licensed chemical drinks within one hour will result in a tact with the plane as it flew 10 take advantage of the designated dri- alcohol-related. dependency counselor at the Council .09 level, said Berenice Gonzalez, a miles southeast of New York the powerful effects of alcoholic bev- ver programs that are set up." These kinds of statistics may have on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Fort licensed chemical dependency conn- City's Kennedy International erages, and some may even introduce Every fraternity and sorority on led to Texas' September 1997 adop- Worth, said she is in favor of the bill. Airport. a motor vehicle to the equation. campus has these programs on the tion of the zero tolerance hill, which "It's good because many people arc Please see DRUNK, Page 2 FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac confirmed only that the agency was investigating. She declined further comment. ABC Radio reported that at Crossing global lines least seven other planes disap- Shaping up for spring peared from radar screens in Hungarian journalist looks at U.S. media the New York area Tuesday National Radio, arrived in Fort Worth from morning. By Mandie Kreimborg SKIFF STAFF Budapest more than a week ago and will spend Now is the time when college students Mark DiPalmo of the For the next few months. Hungarian journal- four months in the United States because of a from all parts of the country forget about National Air Traffic Controllers grant she received from the U.S. Information school assignments and think about what to Association told WNBC that ist Anna Lengyel Nagy will travel around the United States to intern at Service in Budapest. wear on the beach. the president's plane disap- media outlets and learn Nagy said she will use ideas she receives Some students, predominantly women, peared at 8:38 a.m. from radar more about the American from her American experience to take back to see this as a time to have their bodies in screens at the FAA regional Hungary, where free press is still a fairly new optimum shape. Many enroll in aerobics control center on New York's style of journalism. But before she lives for concept. classes at the year's beginning, while others Long Island. The plane was fly- several weeks at a time in "They've supported democracy in the media spend time in gyms with .personal trainers. ing at 21,000 feet. cities like San Francisco. in Hungary for the past eight years," she said, TCU's Office of Recreational Sports has "There were no other planes Boston and New York, referring to the collapse of communism provided students with someone who can in the vicinity," DiPalmo said. Nagy is first spending between 1989 and 1990. help with their fitness goals before the onset "The president was not in any time at TCU to examine Nagy is spending about three weeks of her of Spring Break. jeopardy." Anna Nagy different aspects of trip in Fort Worth as a Visiting Fellow in TCU's Tom Von Ruff, the personal trainer on American journalism as well as recover from journalism department. While on campus, Nagy staff at the Rickcl Building, is available State , the culture shock of her first trip to America. Monday through Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. Nagy, a senior producer for Hungarian Please see NAGY, Page 2 Von Ruff, who has been a personal train- Man convicted in er for 13 years and has worked in the Rickcl second wife's death Building for 1 1/2 years, said most people WACO (AP) — For the sec- seek out a personal trainer for expert guid- ond time, an appeals court in Program personalizes TCU ance and to recover from various injuries.