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HEY YOU! AGGIE GRADUATE STUDENTS Get Ready SPRING FLING IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER It’s a Celebration for Graduate Students, Friends and Families March 26, 1994 On campus at the Grove (Shine) or DeWare (Rain) From 12:00 (noon) to 5:00 p.m. Sponsored by Graduate Student Council mmm Page 12 The Battalion Wednesday, March 23 Congress votes to probe Whitewater inciden The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Despite Democratic reluctance, a congressional probe of Whitewater became a virtual certainty Tuesday as the House joined the Senate in calling for hearings. Special counsel Robert Fiske won his first guilty plea in the case bedeviling the Clinton administration. The House vote was 408-15 on legislation calling on Democratic and Republican leaders to work out an “appropriate timetable” for hearings without interfering in Fiske’s work. While dates and ground rules for hearings remain to be set, the legislation marked a retreat for House Speaker Thomas Foley. “While we cannot and should not ignore Whitewater, neither can we allow it to flood the chamber,” Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri said shortly before the vote. House GOP leader Bob Michel pledged hearings ‘‘in a very orderly manner.” He added, ‘T don’t want to see any kind of circus atmosphere. Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Altman became the latest administration official to appear before a grand jury in Washington. The top overseer of the savings and loan cleanup has acknowledged discussing with White House officials procedural details of that cleanup relating to a failed Arkansas thrift and other institutions. The grand jury in the nation’s capital is one of two that Fiske is using to probe a complicated series of transactions that originally covered President and Mrs. Clinton’s investment in an Arkansas land venture, expanded to include Madison Guaranty, thefr Arkansas savings and loan, and finally, the raeetiu Washington. It also touches on the apparent suii Vincent Foster, a friend of the Clintons’whofylol. 93 deputy White House counsel at the time ofhisde In Little Rock, David Hale, a former Art municipal judge who has alleged Clinton was inti in a questionable loan, pleaded guilty to two charges involving the operation of his federally k lending company. Hale admitted conspiring to defraud the Business Administration and admitted to fals information on a February 1986 application too!i federal funds to lend to economically disadva®; businesses. STARTS TODAY! OUR BIGGEST SALE OF THE SEASON SPRING SALE OPENING DAY SPECIALS EXTRA WEDNESDAY SHOPPING HOURS 9 A.M. ’TIL 10 P.M. 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Advertised merchandise may be S '% e de P a ^en.s (excluding Children's Shoes and Mattresses) made through Monday March , ... ... . 28, 1994. You won t be billed for these purchases until your January 1994 statement with NO FINANCE available at these or similar sale prices in upcoming sales this season. CHARGES on these purchase during the Deferred period. Subject to credit approval. Deferred program Interim markdowns may have been tkaen on original prices. may end at any time. Finance charge annual percentage rate is currently 18% in Texas and all other states except Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona; finance charge annual percentage rate is 21% in Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Minimum finance charge 50C. FOLEY'S BUY NOW, NO PAYMENT TIL JULY 1994, 0% FINANCE CHARGE** Federal Reser votes to increas interest rates The Associated Press WASHINGTON —The Fede tary, an By K The- The libited ninistei tateme Villiar hairma The loard c elony < :eal ak( Vick Reserve announced Tuesday boosting interest rates for the sec time this year, a move ceriain drive a variety of businessi: consumer rates higher After a five-hour meeting off policymakers, the central till issued a brief statement sayin; will tighten credit conditic slightly. Financial analysts viewed ] wording of the announcemes:] signalling that the central bank J decided to push its target foil federal funds rate to 3.5 perceffi | from 3.2 5 percent currently. While the Fed’s first quartt] point rate hike on Feb. 4 cause] 96-point drop in the stock marl] the reaction of financial markets*] more subdued this time around. I The Dow Jones industrial aven] was down for the day, but only] 2.30 points, closing at 3,861:1 Bond prices rallied on the Feel announcement driving the yield | 30-year Treasuries, which move] the opposite direction fromt:[ price, down to 6.85 percent. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentse: office said in a statement that!:! administration and the Fed “have j same objectives, sustainal] economic growth and let inflation.” “At this time the economy expanding at a moderate pat Inflation appears to be well uni control. We see no reason why tl should change,” the Treasul statement said. The Fed decided to publ/rl announce the interest rate decir/a immediately after it was ipproin/if the Federal Open Market CotiutK, a panel consisting of membersoSte Fed’s board in Washingtonwi regional bank presidents. The decision was announced ini two-sentence statement from Fedeti Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. the Boa En Railroad Continued from Page 1 trains and cars occur hecaffi motorists are not paying attention. “Fifty-five percent of accidenl occur on beautiful, bright da( when you should be able to set train,” he said. “The bottom line is, these trail on average weigh 6,000 tons.If car weighs 1 1/2 tons. Ifyouhil train it’s over.” Mike Cochran, the conduclt driving the promotional train, sat “You see people run abound if gates every day. They won’t pays attention to flashing lights; dot look to see if there’s a ttt coming.” The train featured cars from 1940s, part of the heyday passenger train travel. Set up in plush cars were television monW focused on the track ahead to sb instances of cars illegally runni around railroad crossing gates. 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