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THURSDAY
June 9, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 154 (6 pages)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More
than $100,000 in Whitewater
Development Co. checks were
written with the company’s account
overdrawn, then were covered with
deposits from firms controlled by
President and Mrs. Clinton’s
business partner, a review of the
d venture’s finances indicates.
The AP identified 18 McDougal
deposits totaling $107,856 over a
21-month period starting in
September 1984.
These deposits are a key to S&L
nvestigators’ allegations that
Whitewater was used as part of a
scheme, known as a check kiting, in
tfhich money was drained from
Madison to McDougal companies
hrough a string of revolving bad
hecks.
Only one check identified by AP —
for $143.65 — went to the Clintons,
in apparent reimbursement for
iroperty taxes.
Senate committee
modifier health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate
ommittee voted yesterday to
equire employers to pay for their
vorkers’ health insurance as a key
tep toward providing medical care
o all Americans. But the panel also
'oted to ease the burden on small
i. businesses.
The Labor and Human Resources
[Committee upheld what has become
Inown as the employer mandate,
voting 10-7 to defeat a Republican
amendment to eliminate the
requirement from a health reform
package the panel is crafting.lt also
passed, 11-6, an amendment
eats of exempting employers with 10 or fewer
(workers from the requirement.
Under the amendment offered by
iSen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.,
employers with five or fewer
employees with average wages of
$24,000 or less, would pay a 1
percent payroll tax, and employers
with six to 10 employees with similar
average wages would pay a 2 percent
payroll tax.
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Half of
America’s adults are not getting
enough calcium, and that’s
contributing to a plague of brittle
bones and fractures that costs the
health care system $10 billion a
year, a federal committee said
Wednesday.
A committee of experts
assembled by the National Institutes
of Health said the current
recommended daily allowance for
calcium is too low, leading to
weakened bones for children, adults
and, especially, for elderly women.
Incumbents prevail
In Calif, primary
Calif. (AP) — Only one
incumbent fell in the major contests
of an eight-state primary day, but
several suffered bruises that
suggest tougher going in November.
The warmups over, California’s
costly campaigns for governor and
Senate quickly turned prickly.
Poll after poll suggests the public
is fed up with politicians, but South
Dakota Gov. Walter Miller was the
only incumbent of note to be ousted
Tuesday. And his loss could hardly
be attributed to incumbency: he was
elevated to the job just a year ago,
and lost to former seven-year Gov.
William Janklow.
Four other governors survived
primaries: California’s Pete Wilson,
New Mexico’s Bruce King, Iowa’s
Terry Branstad and Alabama’s Jim
Folsom. But only Folsom escaped
without a Vvarning.
As voters set the lineups for five
Senate contests and more than 80
House races, there were no big
surprises, and no incumbents
defeated. So far, only two House
incumbents have lost primaries,
compared to 11 at this stage in 1992.
Rockets outslug Knicks
Houston takes Game 1 with 85-78 win
HOUSTON (AP) — All of the Houston
Rockets’ muscle wasn’t Hakeem Olajuwon.
Otis Thorpe banged with the best New
York had to offer and Carl Herrera came
back from a shoulder separation hitting five
of six shots for 10 points as the Rockets beat
the Knicks 85-78 on Wednesday night in
Game 1 of the NBA Final.
“The team is our anchor but those two
guys (Herrera and Thorpe) really came
through for us,” Rockets coach Rudy Tom-
janovich said. “Carl was sensational after
the long layoff.”
Olajuwon scored 28 points and got 10 re
bounds. He had 11 first quarter points that
helped the Rockets off to a fast start. But
when it got down to the brutal fourth quar
ter, Thorpe and Herrera were there to save
the victory.
The Rockets, among the worst offensive
rebounding teams in the NBA, out re
bounded the Knicks 37-32. They lost the of
fensive rebound battle 13-12, but it’s an
improvement over previous games and
Thorpe had six of them.
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Game 1: Yesterday at Houston
Game 2: At Hou., 8 p.m. Fri.
Game 3: At NY, 6 p.m. June 12
Game 4: At NY, 8 p.m. June 15
Game 5: At NY, 8 p.m. June 17
*Game 6: At Hou., 6 p.m. June 19
*Game 7: At Hou., 8 p.m. June 22
* Game 6&7 will be played only if necessary
Hot, hot day
Texas breaks triple digits
(AP) — Just how hot is it?
Air conditioners in South
Texas blasted to an energy-
consumption record Tuesday.
The Edwards Aquifer dropped
almost 2 feet because so much
water was used in one day.
And San Angelo claimed the
nation’s hottest reading: 107
degrees.
The calendar doesn’t make
summer official for two weeks
yet, but triple-digit tempera
tures across the state already
have sent warning signs that
Summer ’94 could be a
scorcher.
“Too soon to tell, but it’s not
a good start,” National Weather
Service meteorologist Matthew
Sena said Wednesday.
Sena said San Angelo’s 107
degrees on Tuesday broke the
record high 104, set in 1963.
The forecast called for 102 de
grees Wednesday.
Normal temperatures for
this time in San Angelo are in
the low 90s, he said.
“If you don’t have to be out in
it, don’t,” Sena warned of the
heat. “Drink plenty of fluids,
rest often, wear light and loose
clothes.”
Fourteen Texas cities —
most of them in the west and
south parts of the state —
broke 100 degrees Tuesday.
Campus issued
‘brown out’
Texas A&M officials issued a
“brown out” emergency alert
Wednesday because of a
campus power shortage and
another one may be issued
today if problems continue.
All administration, staff, faculty
and students were asked to turn
off all unnecessary equipment
and lights and to stop all high
energy use operations until 7
p.m.
Brazos Electric, a company in
Waco that provides some of
A&M’s power, told University
officials a large part of the state
may experience a “brown out” in
the afternoon because of a lack
of generation capacity to meet
electrical needs.'
Mary Jo Powell, associate
director of University Relations,
said the University was
concerned about the possibility
of west campus losing electricity
oecause it is powered entirely
by Brazos Electric.
The Physical Plant tried to
isolate main campus from the
Brazos Electric power grid by
supplying electricity exclusively
from the University’s power
plant. The Physical Plant was
able to separate the power and
avoid any problems.
Bosnian factions
agree to ceasefire
GENEVA (AP) — Bosnia’s
warring factions agreed to a one-
month cease-fire beginning Fri
day in what U.N. mediators
hope is the first step of a com
prehensive pact to end the 2-
year Bosnian war.
Prisoners will be exchanged
between the Bosnian Serbs and
Muslim-led government army as
part of the cease-fire announced
by U.N. envoy Yasushi Akashi.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic down played the signif
icance of the June 10-July 10
cease-fire, calling the agreement
“very modest.”
Karadzic pointed out there
had been numerous previous
cease-fires in the 25-month-long
Bosnian conflict, and “none of
them worked.” He promised the
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Muslim-led government forces are
shelling Brcko, the key point in a narrow
corridor linking Serb holdings in Croatia and
Bosnia with Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
DO Serb tank, mortar and howitzer shells
rained down on Gradacac. There is heavy
shelling along a 35-mile nqrth-to-south line
between Gradacac and j3 Ribnica.
DO Government forces are shelling the
town of Modrica for the fourth time.
Serbs would abide by the latest
accord.
Bosnian Vice President Ejup
Ganic, who had held firm
against U.N. pressure to accept
a longer-term, more comprehen
sive agreement, said anything
longer would have risked allow
ing Serbs to keep territories
gained through ethnic cleansing.
Akashi said hostilities and
distrust remains such that the
two delegations were never in
the same room, and he even had
to carry the accord from one to
the other for signatures.
“We have to rely on the sides
to implement this agreement in
good faith,” said Akashi when
asked what guarantees he had
this agreement would be re
spected anymore than the past
dozens violated by firing from
the Serb and Muslim sides.
Bosnian Serbs originally de
manded a one-year agreement in
But U.N. officials had been
extremely reluctant to consider a
cease-fire period for shorter than
four months, making the point
that the history of the Bosnian
war is littered with broken ac
cords.
Countless cease-fires have
come and gone in the war. The
last nationwide truce was before
Christmas and held for only a
few hours.
Each side pledged to refrain
from “any offensive military op
erations or other provocative ac
tions of any kind” and to work
through the Red Cross to ex
change all prisoners and infor
mation on the thousands of peo
ple who have vanished in the
conflict, said Akashi.
The Geneva talks, which
started Monday after a four-day
delay, have coincided with in
creased fighting in strategic
parts of northern Bosnia.
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Giving it up
Allison Boyce, a junior health major from Baton Rouge, LA, donates blood Wednesday at
Rudder Plaza. Blood drive buses will be on campus until tomorrow.
Students need to actively seek jobs in
todays economy, AdrM official says
By Christine Johnson
The Battalion
Students have to take more
responsibility in the market
place and actively seek jobs in
today’s economy, said officials
with the Texas A&M Universi
ty’s Career Center.
Jay Wheeler, assistant direc
tor of the Career Center, said re
cruiting on campus has dropped
because companies have less
time to seek potential employees
and often have last minute open
ings.
Another reason recruiting has
dropped, he said, is because
small and medium sized firms
can not afford to come on cam
pus, so they do most of their re
cruiting through job listings.
Because of this decrease, stu-
"ln the past, students could come in at the begin
ning of the semester and see a 'snapshot' of com
panies and positions available ... not anymore,"
—Jay Wheeler,
assistant director of the Career Center
dent participation in the center’s
programs has declined, especial
ly during the summer.
The Career Center currently
has 13 companies scheduled for
on-campus recruitment this
summer. A variety of companies
come to campus to recruit stu
dents, including the U.S. Air
Force and State Farm Insurance
Company, he said.
The companies that will visit
campus are primarily looking for
August graduates, Wheeler said.
No final list of companies has
been prepared because the Ca
reer Center is constantly adding
new companies with just a
week’s notice, he said.
“In the past, students could
come in at the beginning pf the
semester and see a ‘snapshot’ of
companies and positions avail-
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