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a r Octob, ©turned tot ' lere anott, squired tn October 6, 1994 RATION The Battalion • Page 7 - ' . -. jt A \ iu . < KaMPSSfic ouse struggles to pass GATT democratic leadership pushes world trade bill Republicans try to delay Clinton victory rraza in mrder of 73, *on in Haltoi tors saidBi y assaultedtl, le costume ■tes. He nlei WASHINGTON (AP) — ggling to save a huge global agreement, House Speaker 'g Judge Mir nd Judge], : 11 ssented ail ! d - Sami ; a " k Malone, ' Morris 0 V( ri V( ; r3 ®' fho’ ias Foley delayed a critical , Pbell atK Wednesday but pledged to 0 P^tcipal^iflehow get the measure , Bsed this week before Con- arate case, ailg g oe S home. aunty, the a, I bill implementing the ac ‘ ^•nvuction #i! rc j negotiated under the Gen- rrn™ ' Agreement on Tariffs and [de has become caught up an tion-year struggle that has mated the final weeks of the essional session, epublicans anxious to deny dent Clinton a victory before 'ason ofins luNov. 8 midterm elections and ocrats wary of angering in supporters have been push- Jto postpone consideration. ^WlStS 3j»olev. D-Wash., put off by a , 0 I hours a crucial procedural nted Stfll | on approving the rules of de- I on the bill. That was enough - In a easel 1 l usk vote on hill itself rns, a womT 'e Lucas T- voman w luped Lucas® i critical of ll ' claims Lu^J lay insisted •well really 1 n’t get it. lot: always told: st don’t unde to Thursday at the earliest. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said the 123-na tion accord will produce an eco nomic surge in the United States and abroad, creating 300,000 to 700,000 U.S. jobs. The agreement, he said, will force the rest of the world to play by the fair-trading rules Americans believe in. “Like it or not, change is in evitable. ... We can’t stop global ization, we’ve got to make it our friend,” he told the Senate Com merce Committee. The agreement also reduces other barriers to trade and ex tends the rules of world trade to services and intellectual property such as computer programs and drug patentsOpponents, includ ing Sen. Ernest F. Rollings, D- S.C., the chairman of the commit tee, say it will open American markets to a flood of manufac tured goods produced in low-wage countries, destroying jobs at com panies making textiles, aircraft, automobiles and other goods. The Senate already has post poned its GATT decision until Dec. 1 because Rollings is exer cising his right to hold the bill in his committee for 45 days. ‘T don’t want anybody to get any misconceptions. We are not re treating from GATT in any way,” Foley said. “I am firmly and absolutely committed to do ing everything I can to enact GATT this week.” The speaker said the House schedule was adjusted Wednes day to accommodate lawmakers attending the funeral of former Rep. Claude Harris of Alabama and a reception for South African President Nelson Mandela. The No. 2 Republican in the House, Rep. Newt Gingrich, R- Ga., wrote to Foley on Tuesday saying a hearing was needed to clear up confusion about the pro vision granting a discount on federal licensing fees to three communications companies de veloping the next generation of wireless telephone systems. Democrats are hoping the hearing, conducted by House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich., will mol lify enough Republicans to allow GATT to clear the procedural hurdle by a narrow margin. The issue that drew Gin grich’s attention was designed to clarify the Federal Communica tion Commission’s ability to levy a licensing fee on three compa nies: American Personal Com munications, an affiliate of the Washington Post Co.; Cox Enter prises Inc. and Omnipoint Corp. Other companies, beginning in December, will have to bid for these licenses. Dingell said without the pro vision in the GATT bill, the fed eral government risks an ad verse court ruling that would mean the companies would get the license for free. conomy sees ign of strength bory orders increase, give ?st showing in 15 years Lurned ford I’m madatfl stuff makes 11* oday,” hesaii ie start of I composed®YASHINGTON (AP) jFactory orders in- lased more rapidly in [gust than they had in rly two years, a fresh n of economic strength d possible inflation Jat sent Wall Street [ling. Analysts said the econ- y's vigor will lead soon higher interest rates. The Commerce Depart- mt said Wednesday (itfactory orders, which fPmeasure future pro- L action, surged 4.4 per- fcrlri Ini in August, the gest increase since y rose 5.6 percent in cember 1992. Orders 2 percent in July. Shipments, a measure current production, 'even better. They in- ased 4.5 percent for ir best showing in 15 licken, jlackened of mixed :es& • bacon : bread on a bed ed by )s & eggs, j dressing. This is a lot stronger Ian expected. It’s more [idence that manufac turing is strong. We can’t dismiss it as a fluke,” said economist Carl Palash of MCM Money- watch in New York City. “The Federal Reserve is going to have to tighten credit one or two more times this year.” And, he said, “the mar ket reaction is reasonable given the economy’s un derlying strength.” Financial markets plunged after the report was announced,but re covered lost ground later in the day. Bond prices were down sharply as the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond rose to a two-year high of 7.94 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had fallen more than 50 points during the day, closed off nearly 14 points. Losing stocks outnumbered gainers by more than 3 to 1. Court shuts down gas chamber in California ■ of . kh .lAir^'rnrroTT.T. Factory Total new orders in billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted $286.5 $290 ‘ j2,ll natoes, ge topped itons, :on. ickory- jur spicy I with fries, iins, fried & honey V. SONDJ FMAMJ J A "1993 1994 Source: Department of Commerce Judge says act is cruel and unusual SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The door to San Quentin Prison’s gas chamber may have slammed shut for the last time, ending a 56-year history in which 196 of California’s most notorious criminals were put to death by breathing cyanide. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled Tuesday that the acid- green chamber is cruel and unusual punishment that kills by causing an intense “air hunger” similar to stran gulation or drowning. Three other states still use the gas chainb‘eh: ArtZCria, North Cafotirta and Mississippi. Mississippi's applies only to convicts sentenced to death before 1984; those sentenced since then are executed by injection. California’s gas chamber was in stalled at San Quentin in 1938. It was hailed as a big improvement over hanging. Since the U.S. Supreme Court al lowed states to resume using the death penalty in 1976, only two men have been gassed, Robert Alton Har ris in 1992 and David Mason in 1993. Harris shot two teen-agers to death in 1978 so he could use their car in a bank robbery. Mason robbed and killed four elderly people in 1980 and strangled a cellmate in 1982. During an execution, two cheese cloth bags of cyanide pellets are sus pended beneath the condemned man’s chair. When a lever is pulled from the other side of a wall, the bags drop into vats of acid, creating deadly hydrocyanic gas. “Symptoms of air hunger include intense chest pains, such as felt dur ing a heart attack, acute anxiety, and struggling to breathe,” Patel, who was appointed by President Carter in 1980, said in her ruling. She said there may also be other types of pain, including “the exquis itely painful muscle spasms.” In his book “Public Justice, Private Mercy," former Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown recalled how a plumber serving time for robbery was among those drafted to build the chamber. He helped install it and watched test pigs die as the gas was tested. Within a year, he was paroled, com mitted murder, was sentenced to die and met his end in the device he had helped build. There was 32-year-old Barbara Gra ham, dubbed “Babs the Party Girl” by the press. She was executed in 1955, along with two male accomplices, for the murder of an elderly woman. Graham, whose story was recre ated in the 1968 movie “I Want to Live,” had a tattoo over her left khde that read “Sally” and went to the chamber boldly. She insisted on wearing high heels, and when a solicitous guard advised her to breathe deeply be cause it would be “easier that way,” she reportedly snapped, “How the hell do you know?” And there was Caryl Whittier Chessman, a kidnapper and sex of fender who spent more than 12 years on death row, winning delays on eight execution dates. Chessman committed 17 crimes during a 20-day spree in Los Angeles in 1948. Even in those pre-tabloid TV days, he achieved a measure of fame, writing an autobiography in 1954 that sold a half-million copies and making the cover of Time magazine. His ninth reprieve, on May 2, 1960, came too late -—15 seconds af ter the pellets had been dropped. Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan had their sentences commuted to life in prison when the death penalty was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972. Among the more than 300 inmates on Death Row are Ramon Salcido, con victed of killing his family and several others in California’s wine country, and William Bonin, known as the “freeway killer” for a string of 14 mur ders in Southern California. sket S5.« S5.f* I I “ beef or I info crisp quesadilte 3ur cream {3211 with a 3am ce. ode spices l, topped ney sauce. ectto cho'V I The first major work to successfully convey how physicists think/ 7 —SiinsonL. 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