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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
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' scheduled to end Friday morning.
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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.
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iple. The four men is what most people wonder about but
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Scientists expect the research to im- Gutierrez said.
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- 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
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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
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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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