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/ ie 13, es World hursday, June 13,1991 Nation The Battalion Page3 Tour of shuttle reveals health research equipment i voiding t noorpJv CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — P n t0 Columbia's astronauts exposed a "sto- brush v | awa y" an< ^ discussed the ins and H outs of space dieting Wednesday as the shuttle zipped around the world for a £- , . . . 6 The biomedical research mission is ' scheduled to end Friday morning. , * "You oughtn't tell NASA, but we u e onte j| earc j a j 0 t 0 f n oise back in this end of iitf tem les. t of safeti has unde bit/ halted f. ibstances. the Spacelab when we first got on or- astronaut-physician M. Rhea Sed- don confided during a recorded tour of the cargo bay laboratory. "Lo and behold, we had a stowa way," Seddon said as she unzipped a garment bag and introduced Resuscita tion Annie, a blond mannequin. "An nie is serving as a patient on this flight to help us better evaluate and operate an examining table that might some day be used on space station." One of the next stops on the tour was a Spacelab freezer. "Unfortunately, when we got up here, we discovered that they forgot to pack our ice cream," Seddon joked as she opened the freezer. It was stocked with blood and urine samples. Pilot Sidney Gutierrez focused on food during his presentation of the middeck, the shuttle's main eating and sleeping area. The tour was videotaped Tuesday, a light workday for the crew, and beamed down to Mission Control on Wednesday. Gutierrez demonstrated how the seven astronauts record everything they eat and drink in orbit, using one of his favorites — freeze-dried aspara- prove their understanding of people's adaptation to space. Such knowledge is vital as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans longer ex cursions, including trips to the moon and Mars. Gutierrez's tour was thorough. "Over in this comer of the middeck iple. The four men is what most people wonder about but n« ask gus — as an examt and three women nave been keeping very few people are willing to track of their diets for months as part of about. It's our WCS — waste con- theexperiments. tainment system or space bathroom," Scientists expect the research to im- Gutierrez said. :aycooll i Last of characters Sunur.: .. g i“* mfronts Roemer n upcoming race ie I a.m. A-P- Ben;, re exhife tay healft will be ft; - Despi in from tit a bill alb n two yea.- il hospte xas medii w. ds allow; aw withe, man Quo Medical! banning; /eto the ti )ers belie* jeopardi: BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - If Hollywood were to make et another movie about Loui- iana politics, it could find no tter cast than the candidates this year's governor's race. There's the incumbent, emocrat-turned-Republican Suddy Roemer, fighting for ds political life. There's the ormer Ku Klux Klansman vith the box office looks; the ajun charmer who was urned out of office four years >efore; and the late entry ifvho's trying to become the |tate's first woman governor. Many of the candidates roping to win at least a runoff ►pot in the Oct. 19 election want to do what Roemer did in 1987 — come from behind nd sweep into office on the trength of fiery rhetoric con- emning the political status uo. ies to tlw run bytl of Mens Louisiana holds an open rimary, with candidates of 11 parties thrown into a single ace. In the event that one etardatio: candidate gets a majority, he 5 and Vf fbr she would become gover- / Rep. Tit nor. Otherwise, the top two to help tli ffinishers go head-to-head in a actor snor Runoff. ij At a recent forum in Baton ister," si Rouge, the newest candidate. ,'ell, a met 'It's imffi xjondod eof uswli eserve » |Kathleen Blanco, called for a nvention of delegates from •ound the state to revamp ouisiana's constitution. :h takes e: physidar. Canada; ntal hosp rout takii; dical latf ency. ns ly to phy? been disc tgns .K N /lartin U y willbt "We need to throw all of government on the table," shouted Blanco, a former state representative and current public service commissioner, he's the unknown quantity in the governor's race right now, having entered it late last month. But her rhetoric is time- honored and similar to that employed by: □ State Rep. David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader still dogged by reports of past neo-Nazi ties. He’s of ten taunted by other candi dates for having employed plastic surgeons to give him his Hollywood good looks. □ Aaron Broussard, mayor of the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, who hopes to use his good relations with parish and municipal leaders throughout the state to build a name for himself. Congress scolded Bush speech blames political maneuvering for inaction on crime, transportation bills WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Bush scolded Congress Wednesday night for failing to move swiftly on crime and trans- E ortation legis- ition. "I'm dis appointed but not surprised," he said. Democrats accused Bush of turning his back on the na tion's domestic problems, which are cer- presidential campaign draws near. "It is hard for the American people to understand why a bill to fight crime cannot be enacted in 100 days or why Congress can't pass a highway bill in 100 days," Bush said, referring to a challenge he set for lawmakers March 6 at the end of the Gulf War. Bush leveled his charges in a speech prepared for delivery at tne White House. Democrats countered with speeches and prepared statements, tain to move center stage as the In his remarks. Bush noted George Bush that he had asked Congress "to tackle the urgent problems on the home front with the same energy we dedicated to tackling the crisis on the battlefront. Bush said the 100-day deadline he proposed for the crime and transportations bills was rea sonable but "it is now clear that neither will be on my desk by Friday. The White House invited more than 1,000 people involved in domestic policy programs across the country to see Bush's speech on the South Lawn. Utility seeks rate increase TU Electric Company wants $442 million Countries negotiate free-trade market TORONTO (AP) — Nego tiations to create a vast, three- way North American market free of tariffs and other trade barriers open here Wednesday. Canadian Trade Min ister Michael Wilson, U.S. Trade Rep resentative Carla Hills, and Mexico's secretary of com merce, Jaime Serra Puche, kick off what is expected to be a long series of negotiations to open up a market containing 360 million people with a combined output of nearly $6 trillion. The Canadian government does not expect the benefits of a Michael Wilson trilateral agreement to be as sig nificant as those obtained in the bilateral deal with the United States that went into effect in January 1989. But it believes it will be a positive element and will position Ottawa for future deals with a growing Mexico. Canadian opponents of a North American free-trade agreement, foremost among them the labor movement, fear it could lead to a loss of jobs to Mexico where wages are lower. Canada's unemployment rate was 10.3 percent in May. "Canada is building a strong North American continental base, not so that we can close out the world but so that we can compete with it across the board," Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said recently. "There will be no fortress America." AUSTIN (AP) — Public Utility Commission ad ministrative law judges recommended Wednes day that Texas Utilities Electric Co. be granted an annual revenue increase of $353.8 million. TU Electric, the state's largest electric utility, is seeking a rate increase of $442 million. The utility's service area stretches from far West Texas to near Louisiana, and from the Oklahoma border south to Central Texas, the PUC said. It has 2.1 million customers. Under the judges' recommendations, resi dential customers using an average of 1,000 ki lowatt-hours of electricity would pay $78 a month in the summer. That is $8.33 more than before August 1990, when TU Electric's proposed rate increase was put into effect under bond. The recommendation would be $2.01 less than the bonded rates. The three-member PUC, which will make a fi nal decision in the case, is scheduled to deliberate the matter July 15. The bonded rates are subject to refund if the PUC finally approves a lower amount. TU Electric's rate increase proposal is meant largely to recover costs associated with operating Unit 1 of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant at Glen Rose, west of Dallas. The 659-j ministrative Brazell and John Renfrew calls for a finding $472.5 million of the Comanche Peak plant invest ment resulted from imprudent management and so should not be charged to customers. A&M economist urges appeals process reform Continued from page 1 by 13.7 percent. The situation in Texas, how ever, was much different, Rey nolds said. While the prison population of Texas increased by 39 percent, the crime rate in creased by 20.7 percent. Reynolds said one way the state could improve its penal system would be to alter its pre sent judicial structure. She said the state could save money by eliminating the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and not paying the court costs of ap peals by death row inmates. She also said Texas has to in crease prison space at least two times and reduce the cost of con struction by allowing the private sector to bid on jobs before the crime situation in Texas will im prove. She added that prisoners could be leased out for work, de creasing the costs of prison the- rapy. University Police officials could not be reached for com ment. FBI investigates recording of Wilder's phone calls RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The FBI and Virginia State Police are investigating allegations that Gov. L. Douglas Wilder's phone calls were illegally recorded, state officials said Wednesday. The federal-state investigation moves a political feud between Wilder and Sen. Charles S. Robb, the state's top Democrats and two men considered poten tial presidential candidates, into the law enforcement arena. Robb on Tuesday suspended three top advisers while he in vestigates his office's conduct in the controversy. The senator, long at odds with Wilder, has saia his office anonymously re ceived a tape recording of a Wilder telephone conversation and held it for 2 1 /2 years before recently destroying it. The senator met with report ers Wednesday and pledged his cooperation with any investiga tion. He also defended his deci sion not to tell Wilder or authori ties about the tape and said that in hindsight he probably should have destroyed it immediately. "It didn't seem to be that im portant," said Robb, a lawyer himself, who likened his deci sion not to tell Wilder or police to a motorist not calling police to report seeing another car speed ing. The senator said he recently was told that someone on his staff obtained a legal opinion that it was not illegal to possess the recording. Robb said he soon would enl ist outside help for an internal investigation, and said a primary goal would be to determine if anyone on his staff violated his order not to make public the con tents of the recording. He re fused to say who destroyed the tape or answer several other spe cific questions about his staff's conduct, citing "possible legal -ramifications." The recording was of an Octo ber 1988 conversation in which Wilder, then lieutenant gover nor, said Robb had been ruined by news reports that while gov ernor he had attended parties at which cocaine was used. At the time of the conversation, Robb was running for the Senate. Robb has said he does not know who made the recording and also has denied any knowl edge of drug use at parties he at tended. 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