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Vol. 92 No. 8 (14 pages)
‘Serving Texas ASM Since 1893’
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WASHINGTON - President
5ush asked Congress on Tuesday
lo provide more than $7.6 billion
lo help Florida and Louisiana re-
lover from Hurricane Andrew's
ievastation. It would be the
liggest federal relief package ever
bra natural disaster.
"We're going to move it as fast
is possible/' said Senate Majority
.eader George Mitchell, D-Maine.
Pending before the expected
Dctober adjournment are major
amily-leave and tax bills, which
ioth face veto threats from Bush.
Congress still has to finish 12 of
ts 13 annual spending bills; Bush
nas threatened to reject any that
;xceed his budget proposals.
On the storm-relief bill. Con
gress positioned itself to begin
moving quick-
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man of the
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Jamie Whitten,
D-Miss., pre
pared to intro
duce his own
version of the
bill Wednes
day and the Senate Appropria
tions Committee planned to con
sider its own measure on Thurs
day. Senate floor debate was pos
sible next week.
It was possible that the con
gressional bills would contain
changes opposed by Bush. One of
ficial who spoke on the condition
of anonymity said Whitten's bill
would probably cost more than
Bush's.
Bush momentarily abandoned
his campaign-trail attacks against
the "gridlock Congress" and pre
dicted that majority Democrats
would cooperate on the measure.
"We're together on this one,"
he said.
The most expensive natural
disaster in the nation's history,
Andrew caused an estimated $20
billion in damage in Florida and
$1.5 billion in Louisiana.
Fifty-two deaths have been
linked to the storm, which also
destroyed or damaged 97,000
homes in Florida and 14,000 in
Louisiana. About 250,000 people
were left homeless; 118,000 Flori
da homes and businesses are still
without electricity.
The president's request for
hurricane assistance would pro
vide disaster payments, loans and
social services to farmers, home-
owners, renters, businesses and
families. It would also help the
federal and local governments re
pair buildings, schools, roads, wa
terways and sanitation projects.
Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles, a
Democrat and former senator,
lobbied his one-time colleagues,
saying his state would need $6 bil
lion to $9 billion. And Sen. L. Ben
nett Johnston, D-La., said he be
lieved Bush's measure has "some
gaps in it we will fill in."
The biggest federal packages
for natural disaster aid have pro
vided nearly $2.9 billion to help
victims of the Loma Prieta earth
quake in California, and $1.1 bil
lion in aid for victims of Hurri
cane Hugo. Both measures were
approved in 1990.
Bush
Among the measure’s major components are:
•$1.5 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency
grants for individuals, businesses and governments in Florida.
Louisiana would get $150 million in such aid and Guam would
get $100 million.
•Money to back $1.6 billion in Federal Housing Authority
loans, enough to insure 65,000 mortgages and loans for re
building of homes and health-care facilities.
•Allowing the Small Business Administration to make up to
$1.2 billion worth of low-interest loans. Individuals could bor
row up to $100,000 apiece for home repairs; businesses could
borrow up to $500,000 for repairs and purchases.
•$480.6 million to rebuild Homestead Air Force Base in
Florida, which the storm demolished. Included in the proposal
is $503.3 million for the Pentagon’s costs of coping with the
damage caused by Andrew and by Typhoon Omar, which
slammed into the Pacific island of Guam just days after An
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Mandela seeks to oust
National Party leaders
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BISHO, South Africa — An angry Nelson Man
dela called Tuesday for the removal of the black
homeland ruler whose troops killed 24 ANC
marchers and wounded 196.
The killings Monday sparked a major confronta
tion between black and white leaders in South Africa
and dealt a severe blow to efforts to resume power
sharing talks.
South Africa controls most affairs in the home
lands — established under the apartheid system as
separate nations for blacks — and the African Na
tional Congress and other black groups consider
most homelands puppet states of Pretoria.
Religious leaders, including Anglican Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, urged the ruler of the Ciskei home
land to hold a referendum on returning the territory
to South Africa. They said the ruler. Brig. Gen. Oupa
Gqozo (pronounced OO-pah KOR-sah), refused.
Earlier, Tutu and other church leaders went to the
field where the killings took place, kneeling and
praying between police armored vehicles. Hundreds
of ANC members huddled around campfires in an
overnight vigil at the site.
The normally' quiet South Africa-Ciskei border
was sealed with barbed wire and guarded by
Ciskean and South African troops. It was reopened
after dusk.
The killings on Monday deepened South Africa's
political crisis, making it unlikely Mandela's African
National Congress will return soon to stalled talks
on giving blacks the vote and ending apartheid.
ANC leaders said President F.W. de Klerk's govern
ment bore direct responsibility for the killings.
The ruling National Party lashed out at the ANC
in one of the harshest attacks in recent months, say
ing the opposition group was hying to seize power.
The National Party called ANC leaders "hard-lin
ers hooked on the Communist shortcut of trying to
force the country to its knees and seizing power by
force."
The talks collapsed in June after 39 blacks were
massacred in Boipatong township. The ANC has ac
cused the white minority government of encourag
ing fighting between black factions. De Klerk denies
that.
ANC leaders in Johannesburg called for the re
moval of two other homeland rulers who are major
foes of the ANC — President Lucas Mangope of Bo-
phuthatswana and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief
minister of KwaZulu. Buthelezi heads the Zulu-dom
inated Inkatha Freedom Party.
See S. Africa/Page 12
A&M College Republicans welcome Fields
By MELODY DUNNE
Assistant City Editor of THE BATTALION
The College Republicans
came out in full force Tuesday
evening to welcome Congress
man Jack Fields to Texas A&M
and organize Republican cam
paigning in the Bryan-College
Station area.
Fields emphasized that Texas
A&M students could make the
difference between President
Bush winning Texas and the
election in November.
"Students have to make the
difference at the polls," he said.
"Eighteen to 20-year-olds make
the difference between whether
Bush wins in
'92"
Fields said
the presiden
tial election
might be ex
tremely close,
and the Aggie
campaign
could deter
mine Bush
Fields winning the
state of Texas.
"And if George Bush does not
win Texas, he will not win the
presidency," he said.
In order to make all of this
happen. Fields encouraged the
College Republicans to get in
volved and make the sacrifices
that are necessary for changes to
occur.
"One person with courage
makes a majority," he said.
"One person really can make a
difference."
Fields said that when decid
ing between the candidates vot
ers should look at what each
candidate can do for them dur
ing the next four years.
"I don't agree with every
thing the president has done, but
I look at the composite," he said.
The College Republicans have
distributed over 5,000 voter reg
istration cards around Bryan-
College Station since June. Be
fore the election they hope to
register over 20,000 voters.
Trade debate in Senate
Lawmakers upset about Bush's use of pact in campaign
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators sig
naled Tuesday to U.S. Trade Representative Carla
Hills their anger over the Bush administration's use
of the proposed North American
Free Trade Agreement on the
campaign trail.
"What I've seen over the last
two weeks isn't responsible —
it's pure politics and the adminis
tration knows it," Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen, D-Texas, told Hills dur
ing an appearance before the Sen
ate Finance Committee.
"Politicizing this agreement
Mil not help its prospects in Con
gress," cautioned Bentsen, who
chairs the committee.
Congressional Democrats have been irked by
President Bush's repeated free trade-related attacks
on Democratic rival Bill Clinton. Bush has stepped
up his claims in recent weeks that the Arkansas gov
ernor is straddling the fence on the trade pact.
Clinton has said he favors the concept of free
trade with Mexico, but wants to make sure environ
mental and labor standards are addressed before en
dorsing an agreement.
Bentsen noted that a conclusion to the treaty,
which was made public Tuesday, was only reached
Aug. 12. The 2,000-page text underwent revision un
til recently, he added.
"No responsible person should make a decision
that quickly on an agreement of this complexity and
this magnitude — and no one should responsibly ex
pect it," Bentsen said.
Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus also de
fended Clinton.
"For President Bush to suggest that Gov. Clinton
or any of us in this Congress should endorse a treaty
which we have not had the opportunity to review
would be the height of irresponsibility," said Bau
cus, who chairs the international trade subcommit
tee.
Hills' recent appearances in Texas and other
states on behalf of the Bush-Quayle campaign also
have been viewed with disfavor.
None of the committee Republicans defended
Bush by name. Only Sen. John Danforth addressed
the Democrats' ire.
"It should be debated in connection with an elec
tion year," said Danforth, R-Mo., citing the treaty's
impact both nationally and in the world economy.
"I have absolutely no qualms on that score at all."
Baucus also contended that American negotiators
rushed conclusion of the pact to coincide with the
Republican National Convention, which began five
days after a deal was announced.
But Hills rejected that claim. "There was no rush
See Trade/Page 12
Bentsen
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Shelly Jones, a sophomore finance major looks at the names posted for Silver Taps Tuesday. The
monument is a new addition for displaying the names of those to be honored on the day of the
ceremony.
Gore answers questions in El Paso
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EL PASO — Students in a barrio school told A1
Gore Tuesday that drugs and gangs were their big
concerns and asked him his views on U.S. immigra
tion policy and what he'll do about welfare recipi
ents who lose benefits when they get jobs.
Gore, running mate to presidential candidate Bill
Clinton, toured Roosevelt School in downtown El
Paso and endured a blazing sun to address a crowd
of about 1,000, including several schoolchildren
brought in from area schools.
The Tennessee senator encouraged the children to
get involved in politics.
"You can make a tremendous difference in the
campaign, even if you are not old enough to vote,"
he said.
He also told the school, which has an all Hispanic
student body and some children of recent immi
grants, that immigration policies should be compas
sionate and leave families in tact.
"We should place that in a
much higher priority in looking
at the immigration policies and
enforcement," he said.
The tiny elementary school
had been decorated in red, white
and blue paper chains, and its
hallways were plastered with
campaign slogans and letters to
Gore written by students. One
Gore girl, Lupita Rodriguez, had said
she hoped to meet Gore someday.
Gore obliged and brought her up to the stage, but
Lupita was too shy to answer any of his questions.
Ruben Ontiveros showed Gore a computer lan
guage skills game in which he won points for un
scrambling words:
See Gore/Page 12
Dallas judge vies for seat
on Texas Supreme Court
By GARY P. CARROLL
City mtorofTHE BATTALION
For Republican Judge Craig
Enoch, integrity, fairness and a
solid commitment to judicial re
straint comprise the cornerstone
of his bid for a seat on the Texas
Supreme Court.
Enoch will be battling democ
rat Oscar Mauzy for his seat on
the court this November.
Currently, Enoch serves in
Dallas as the Chief Justice of the
Fifth District Court of Appeals.
He began in Dallas as a judge
nearly eleven years ago.
Enoch said he wants to re
store judicial restraint to the
court while removing Mauzy,
one of the court's leading judi
cial activists.
"People will realize that some
judges try to make laws — and
Oscar Mauzy is one of those
judges," Enoch said.
Our judicial system is set up
to balance the executive and leg
islative branches of our govern
ment and to do so the judge
Enoch
must be free from political ideol
ogy while ruling on cases, he
said.
"A good judge is not neces
sarily a judge without prejudice
and bias," Enoch said. "A good
judge is one who is able to set
them aside."
"And a bad judge is not nec
essarily a judge with prejudice
and bias/' he said. A bad judge
doesn't know when to set these
"I believe I fit the
people's definition of
what a judge is. I'm a
referee, an umpire..."
-Judge Craig Enoch
beliefs aside and decide a case
based on its merits.
Enoch said a true judge won't
let people know how they
would vote.
"It's like saying 'vote for me
and I'll rule this way on a case'
— and that's not right," Enoch
said.
You give me the case and I
can tell you how he (Mauzy)
would rule, Enoch said.
"Some judges wield the pow-
See Enoch/Page 12