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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
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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.”
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