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"716,1996 Vegas has fjagements, ; Academy : uture iame and less siz- ito the new r. Holland's ir greatness, to be stop- y strong on lag and the hello. to be in tip- decessor, . )95 ircle one) Is one value. luesday • January 16,1996 Nation Page 5 • The Battalion First lady denies ordering mass firings 3 Hillary Clinton said aides misinterpreted ler remarks. WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that her conversations nth presidential aides on re ported financial mismanagement it the White House travel office tould have unintentionally prompted the mass firings there. While continuing to main tain that she didn’t order the travel office purge, the first said that aides could have misconstrued her remarks to mean she wanted the seven em ployees dismissed. Clinton’s explanation on the travel office firings follows disclosure of a 1993 memo stating the first lady was the prime mover in the purge and the planned installation of a Little Rock, Ark., travel firm that had worked for the presi dential campaign. Clinton said that in the days before the travel office dis missals, she had conversations about problems in the travel of fice with then-White House chief of staff Mack McLarty and deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, who committed suicide in July 1993, and re ceived one phone call from David Watkins, then- director of ad ministration. It was Watkins’ ex plosive memo on Clinton’s alleged role that the White House says it discovered early this month in Clinton the files of Watkins’ one-time deputy, Patsy Thomasson — sev en months after a House com mittee launched an investigation of the travel office flap. “If you read his (Watkins’) memo, he doesn’t say I directly told him anything,” said Clinton. The memo states that “we knew ... that there would be hell to pay if ... we failed to take swift and decisive action” and fire the em ployees “in conformity with the First Lady’s wishes.” Watkins has been subpoenaed to testify before the House Gov ernment Reform and Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Study says number of brothers may affect sexual orientation StjeJfcUr JJorkShncs Campus subscriptions are available at a special low rate of 400 per day, Monday through Friday. For More Information Contact Buck Roman at (409) 822-7569 ] Scientists cannot determine whether the deciding factor is liological or psychological. NEW YORK (AP) — The more boys a mother has produced, the greater the chance iat the next son will be gay, a study says. The reason might involve the mother’s immune system acting on the developing e fetus, researchers speculated. Or, they , it could be a psychological effect on a toy of growing up with older brothers. Several earlier studies found that gay men tended to have more previously bom siblings than heterosexual men did. The new ly says this effect comes only from broth- not sisters. Previously born brothers are not neces sarily older brothers, because the study also counted brothers who died before study par ticipants were bom. Psychologist Ray Blanchard, head of the clinical sexology program at the Clarke In stitute of Psychiatry in Toronto, reported the work in the January issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry with Anthony Bogaert, who has since left the institute. The study used questionnaires filled out by 302 gay men and 302 heterosexual men. Each gay man was matched by year of birth to a heterosexual man. Both groups were about 39 years old on average. The men were asked to record all siblings born to their mothers. Previously bom brothers did increase a participant’s chance of being gay. While 50 percent of the overall sample was gay, the rate was 45 percent for men with no previously bom brothers, 53 percent for men with one such brother and 64 percent for men with two such brothers. Five of the seven men with four or more such brothers were gay. Blanchard said those rates pertain only to the sample and not the general population. The researchers did not calculate what the corresponding figures would be in the gener al population, he said, but the study shows each previously bom brother would raise the probability of a man’s being gay. Michael Bailey, a Northwestern University psychologist who studies homosexuality, said the finding that gay men have more previous ly bom siblings than heterosexual men has been shown “beyond a shadow of a doubt.” “Right now we have little idea what it means,” Bailey said. “There’s no direct evi dence for any explanation.” Fish Camp *96 or and ROTHER’S BOOKSTORES ALL YOU NEED FOR SPRING IN ONE EASY STOP SAVE MONEY WITH MORE USED BOOKS • STUDY GUIDES, LAB BOOKS, WORKING PAPERS MORE flj USED ” • COMPLETE LINE OF BACKPACKS AND SUPPLIES ■TWO FULL WEEKS FOR BOOK REFUNDS r 340 GEORGE BUSH DR. across moM univ. pouce 696-2111 901 harvey rd. 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