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Upon completing the application, you may request a mail order form if you will not be in the Bryan-College Station area to place your order in person between May 25 and June 13,1995. FLOPPY XOE’5 soft” w >- e ft© COMPUTER SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, BOOKS AND ACCESSORIES Come by to pick up your frequent member discount card! 1 705 Texas Ave. • Culpepper Plaza • 693-1 706 Page 4 • The Battalion Thursday • May4,1 Foster gains GOP vote as surgeon gener; Q The former medical school dean explains his views on abortion counseling. WASHINGTON (AP) — Bene fiting from his high-stakes hear ings, Henry Foster gained ground Wednesday in a struggle for confirmation as surgeon gen eral. Democrats warned of retal iation if Republicans block a vote by the full Senate. Sen. James Jeffords of Ver mont became the first Republi can on the Labor and Human Resources Committee to de clare his support for Foster, saying the 61-year-old obstetri cian had done a “superb job in taking care of the lingering, critical issues” in his two days in the witness chair. An advocate of sexual absti nence for teen-agers, Foster of fered a glimpse of his physician’s style when asked how he would counsel a young, unmarried woman who came to his office with an unwanted pregnancy. “I say you have a dilemma by your own definition. ... I say, there are only three rational things that you can do: You can have the baby and keep it, you can have the baby and put it up for adoption, or you can have an abortion,” said. “But which of those you choose has to be based on your own un derpinnings, your moral values, your support system, your minis ter. They have to make you — help you make this very difficult choice,” he said, adding he would refer the woman for counseling with a social worker. A former medical school dean, Foster renewed the central points of Tuesday’s testimony. He reaf firmed that he had performed 39 abortions in four decades as a doctor; that he heeded ethics standards of the time when he performed sterilization operations on four retarded women; that he didn’t know about a federal pro gram that left men untreated for syphilis in Tuskegee, Ala., until it became public knowledge in 1972. That last issue, raised by Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., provoked a heated response. “Under oath, incorrect, wrong, wrong, wrong, sir,” Foster said of such allega tions, his voice rising for empha sis as he denied any prior knowl edge. To underscore his point, he lifted his right hand as if in court, swearing to tell the truth. Jeffords’ announcement left supporters searching for one more vote to guarantee commit tee approval on a panel with nine Republicans and seven Democrats. Uncommitted Republican Bill Frist, showed sympathy for Fos ter in both days of hearings. A physician and fellow Tennessean, Frist stepped in supportingly when Foster was fielding ques tions relating to abortion. Democrats courted Frist; port. Sen. Barbara Mikuls Md., leaned across the comr dais at one point and complic ed the Tennessee lawmak; think it was an excellent 1 questioning,” she said. Foster’s nomination is job with an office that sp roughly $1 million a year pittance compared with: others in the government- has little formal role excep: spokesman on health matte But given the contro over abortion and other sut it’s become caught up in pol: Texas Republican Sen Gramm has threatened a buster. Sen. Bob Dole, c: questions about Foster’s! bility, has said he may no: the nomination up foravo the Senate if it clears coit tee. Gramm and Dole arer for the 1996 GOP preside: nomination. Bombing investigation hits connections, dead ent Q The search by the FBI for an swers continues despite setbacks. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two weeks af ter a bomb shattered downtown Oklahoma City, the investigation has yielded one steely suspect who’s keeping his mouth shut, a cast of odd characters, several dead ends and plenty of questions. With thousands of tips still to be followed up on, a federal grand jury has begun sorting through evidence in the secret confines of Tin ker Air Force Base outside Oklahoma City. While there have been frustrations in the past few days, those knowledgeable about major investigations say the public shouldn’t conclude the case has bogged down. “The time that has passed since this inci dent is merely days. There’s no reason the government shouldn’t take another couple of weeks to gather all the evidence before mak ing a final charging decision,” said a former federal prosecutor who insisted on anonymi ty because of current involvement in a gov ernment case. There have been initial successes: the ar rest of Timothy McVeigh, a rich harvest of evidence linking him to the bombing, and connections to James and Terry Nichols, two Michigan brothers now in custody who shared his penchant for bomb-making and anti-government rhetoric. There have also been high-profile failures. Most notable: the dramatic arrest and subse quent midnight release of Gary Alan Land and Robert Jacks, two drifters whose travels seemed to connect them to McVeigh. Despite the release of the pair, the FBI is still checking their movements. On Wednes day, two agents interviewed the manager of Gene’s Motel in Marshall, Mo., where Land "Anybody connected with this bombing, [the FBI] is question ing them, they're checking them out." — Robert Jacks, former suspect and Jacks reportedly stayed last month. “Their names came up,” said the motel manager, Louise Henricks. “I’m not com menting on what they asked about.” Federal officials say such interviews are part of the process of sorting through 14,000 tips received on a special hot line since the government posted a $2 million reward. “Sometimes they turn out to be hot, some times they turn out to be cold, and that was the problem yesterday,” White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said Wednesday on CBS. “But, frankly, the investigation cc: ues at an aggressive pace and we’rec dent that ultimately we’ll catch the culp' Even Jacks approves. “The FBI is doing their job the way should,” he said. “Anybody connected this bombing, they’re questioningti they’re checking them out.” The zeal to find those responsible, p: ularly the suspect known as “John De has caused temporary frights for at k dozen men from California to Canada resemble the FBI sketch of the swar square-faced man. 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