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Results of Republican primaries
make voters wary of predictions
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Pastor apologizes for
proposed slave sale
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A tele
vangelist's newsletter ad for a “slave
sale" to raise money for church high
school students has angered black
community leaders and others.
They demanded the Rev. John
Hagee of Cornerstone Church apol-
ogize.On Monday, after a weekend
of criticism, he did.
Hagee said the Cornerstone High
School “slave sale," a concept he
contends has been used in school
fund-raisers for generations, will be
renamed a "student auction."
It was Hagee's message in the
church bulletin "the Cluster" that gen
erated controversy over the weekend.
"Slavery in America is returning
to Cornerstone Sunday night, March
31st with the Senior High School
Slave Sale," Hagee wrote.
Tennessee tackles
evolution question
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The
state where John Scopes was tried
and convicted in 1925 for teaching
evolution again wants to restrict
what students can be told about the
origins of man.
Legislation to fire any teacher
who presents evolution as fact was
on the Tennessee Senate agenda
Monday. It was expected to pass de
spite an attorney general's opinion it
violates the constitutional separation
of church and state.
Already this year, Tennessee sena
tors have gone on record in favor of
displaying the Ten Commandments
in churches, schools, businesses and
homes for 10 days in May, and
against same-sex marriages.
Burks' bill doesn't ban the teach
ing of evolution as theory or promote
the teaching of Biblical theories.
□ An A&M professor says it is
unusual for four candidates to have
stayed in the race this long.
By Marissa Alanis
The Battalion
Two Texas A&M political science professors
and a member of the College Republicans agree
that it is too early to predict a winner in the
1996 Republican presidential primary.
To date, four Republican candidates plan to
continue heavy campaigning until this summer’s
nominating convention, which decides who will
run for president against Bill Clinton.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a Republi
can primary candidate, came away from the
March 2 primary in South Carolina with a clear
victory over Pat Buchanan, publisher Steve
Forbes and former Tennessee Gov. Lamar
Alexander.
Dole is leading the Republican primary race,
but by U.S. law he can spend no more than $8 mil
lion for the rest of his primary campaign.
George Edwards, director of A&M’s Center for
Presidential Studies and a distinguished political
science professor, said that even though candi
dates need a certain amount of money to be suc
cessful, money alone does not guarantee votes in
the complicated system.
“It’s not a simple equation where money
equals voters,” Edwards said. “If that was the
case, Phil Gramm would have had a tremendous
number of voters.”
Gramm dropped out of the primary race Feb. 14.
Dr. Gary Halter, an A&M political science pro
fessor, said it is unusual for four candidates to
have stayed in the primary race this long and he
expects Alexander will no longer be a factor after
his fourth-plage finish in South Carolina.
“I think all three guys — Dole, Forbes and
Buchanan — will be in the race to the end,” Ed
wards said. “It’ll be a very divisive campaign.”
Troy Martin, a junior political science major and
member of the College Republicans, said that since
a Republican is not currently in office, Republic!
primary candidates will face a tough battle to se|
themselves apart and prove their qualifications.
“If anybody is running against Clinton,
(Clinton) has to say is, T’m president and this is
what I’ve done,”’ Martin said. “He’s already estabi
lished himself as a separate identity.”
Martin said that along with protecting the fam
ily and cutting taxes, another main issue for thej
primary campaigns is the balanced budget.
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money equals voters. If that was the
case, Phil Gramm would have had a
tremendous number of voters."
— George Edwards
director ofAdrM’s Center for Presidential Studies
get,
Martin said it is a remarkable difference
the past few elections that all of the candidates
agree on an issue.
“We’ve agreed to get a balanced budget,”
tin said. “We’re talking about different methods to
get a balanced budget as opposed to should we
a balanced budget.”
Martin said it will be a close call as to who wil
secure the Republican nomination since there ii
nothing to indicate a clear winner at this point.
Edwards said though he can not predict who
will receive the Republican nomination, he e
Buchanan, because of his committed followers, to,
stay in through the whole primary race as he
in 1992 when he ran against former President
George, though he lost every primary.
The New England primary will be held today
and the New York primary Thursday, March?.
Texas contractors benefit from budget
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Pentagon’s focus on air power in
its 1997 budget bodes well for
North Texas-based defense con
tractors that manufacture fight
er jets, helicopters and a hybrid
tilt-rotor.
The fiscal 1997 budget re
leased Monday includes billions
of dollars for procurement of the
V-22 tilt-rotor and F-16 fighter,
development of the F-22 ad
vanced tactical fighter, and sev
eral high-tech missile systems.
The budget “has a stronger
emphasis on air power than
we’ve seen in the last couple of
budgets — and in North Texas,
that’s what we do,” said Rep.
Pete Geren, D-Fort Worth.
Geren and Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison were particularly
pleased by the Defense Depart
ment’s inclusion of $253 million
to purchase four new F-16s and
upgrade some older copies.
In its 1995 and 1996 budgets,
the Clinton administration did
n’t request any funds for new F-
16s, assembled at Lockheed
Martin’s Fort Worth plant. Last
year, Hutchison, Geren and oth
ers in Congress had to insert
funding to buy six F-16s.
The administration’s about-
face in the 1997 budget is in
part due to the Air Force’s as
sessment that it requires 120
new F-16s between now and
2001 to avoid a shortfall.
“It’s the first time we’ve had
(administration officials) ac
knowledge that there is going to
be a shortfall and that they need
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up,” said Hutchison, who is a* ! P * n t° the
member of the Senate Armedf irs > ze d head of
Services Committee.
Texas’ good news comes amid 1 ^ through its cor
a 3.6 percent drop in defense eyes,
spending from the current bud
get to the proposed 1997 budget
of $242.6 billion.
Hutchison and Geren predict
ed that the GOP-led Congress
would pump that total up.
The budget includes $1.1 bil
lion for the purchase of the first
four V-22 tilt-rotors developed
for the Marine Corps B&JBelJ He
licopters in Fort Worth and Boe
ing’s helicopter division in Penn
sylvania, along with further
testing and development money.
Lockheed Martin will get a
share of the $2 billion ear
marked for several defense con;
tractors for the continued devel
opment of the Air F'orce’s newF
22 advanced tactical fighter
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