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We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. http://wwwmsc.tamu.edu/MSC/PF Senate passes minimum wagt WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate ap proved a 90-cent increase in the minimum wage Tuesday, raising the prospect of bigger paychecks for more than 10 million Ameri cans. Lawmakers rejected a Republican pro posal to narrow the number eligible, culmi nating months of acrimonious debate. The 74-24 vote to raise the minimum from the current $4.25 an hour to $4.75 initially and to $5.15 by next July was a victory for Democrats who have sought to make it a central election-year issue. “The invisible Americans who have been left out and left behind were recognized to day by the U.S. Senate,” said Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., a leading proponent. The bill was part of a package of tax breaks aimed mainly at business that passed the House by 281-144 in a similar version on May 23. The two chambers still must work out dif ferences in the tax section of the legislation. Sen. Majority Whip Don Nickles, R-Okla., said he might try to block the House-Senate negotiating conference until Democrats give ground on stalled health care legislation. But Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said Republicans would ob struct final passage “at their own peril.” Americans overwhelmingly support the increase and Nickles “would be held respon sible should he decide to pursue that course,” Daschle said. F*resident Clinton urged Congress to send him the bill quickly for his signature. “There is no reason that minimum wage workers should have to wait any longer for their raise. This is not a time to nickel and dime our working families.” Vice President A1 Gore made a rare ap pearance in his capacity as president of the Senate to oversee the final vote and stress its importance. “If you are looking for a straw in the wind” to see how political for tunes are blowing this year, “look no further than this vote,” he said. The Clinton administration has cam paigned vigorously for the wage increase and has chided Bob Dole, President Clin ton’s likely opponent in November, for not speaking out in behalf of it. The minimum wage issue bedeviled Dole’s final days as Senate majority leader, with Kennedy and other Democrats blocking movement of oth er bills because of GOP reluctance to take up the minimum wage. Dole’s campaign, in a statement, said he had made clear his support of a raise in the wage and said Clinton had ignored the issue in his first two years and was now “playing maximum politics with minimum wage.” Clinton, while saying the increase was cru cial in helping millions of working Americans escape poverty, had promised to veto the bill if it contained an amendment, proposed by Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., to exempt newly hired employees and workers in businesses grossing less than $500,000 a year. Bond’s measure would have allowed em ployers to wait six months before meeting the minimum wage. It would also have de layed until Jan. 1 the date for raising the wage to $4.75 and until Jan. 1, 1998 for in stituting the full $5.15, both six months be yond the House-set dates. The House bill allows for a 90-day when teen-agers can be given a "subni mum” or “training” wage of $4.25. Bi would double that period and make it aj to all new workers. His amendment was defeated 52-46,» Five I^epublicans joining all 47 Democrats it posing it. Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt.,i joined GOP Sens. Ben Nighthorse Campbt Colorado, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania fonse D’amato of New York and Mark Half of Oregon in voting against it, voiced cons that businesses would fire workers after months to avoid paying the minimum wage The Senate also rejected by 52-46 amendment by Kennedy that would have duced the training wage time for teen-ad to 30 days and removed House languages ping the hourly wage that must be paid those receiving tips. Supporters of the bill argued that;! minimum wage has not been raised si: 1991 and is nearing a 40-year low inf chasing power. They said the $8,800 an in;] vidual can earn on the minimum wag t slightly more than half the poverty levelj come for a family of four. But Republicans said the raise could for small businesses to make large-scale Jayo: of low-income workers, adding to the welta rolls. "There’s something worse thanli wages and that’s no wages,” said Senate N jority Leader Trent Ixitt, R-Miss. Bond accused Democrats of being man ulated by organized labor and said the4 feat of his amendment "shows me they dor care about small business in America.” Lamm launches presidential campaign DENVER (AP) — With just $6,000 and a “hard-choices” slogan, former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm on Tuesday began a drive for the presidential nomination of Ross Per ot’s fledgling Reform Party. The lifelong Democrat framed his uphill campaign as an outsider’s wake-up call to the nation, declaring, “I begin this cam paign with only one promise, and that’s to present the truth and, in some cases, the hard truth, and to trust you to make the right choices.” His decision was sure to muddy the race between President Clinton and Republican Bob Dole, and it threatened a showdown with Perot himself, who has left his candi dacy for the Reform Party nomination an open question. At a packed news conference on the University of Denver campus where he teaches a course dubbed “Hard Choices,” Lamm said he would campaign on a plat form of restoring fiscal sanity to Wash ington by drastically curbing popular en titlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security “America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford. ... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children,” Lamm said. He faulted Democrats and Republicans alike for what he said were cowardly decisions to paper over the nation’s problem and leave the bills to future generations. With all the hurdles facing this former law professor little known outside of Col orado, the Clinton and Dole camps pro fessed nonchalance about his candidacy. And pollsters could only guess whether Lamm would drain more votes from Clinton or Dole. “If Dick Lamm getting into this race fo cuses the debate on the important issues facing Americans then we welcome it,” said Clinton-Core spokesman Joe Lockhart. He dismissed any suggestion the campaign was worried Lamm would siphon Democratic votes from Clinton. Dole spokesman Nelson Warfield’s taki was that “if two Democrats are in the race, its probably going to help the one Republican." Republican pollster Linda DiVall said it was too early to tell, given Lamm’s minus cule national profile. She predicted that as Lamm gains exposure, his “gruff, candid straightforward approach is one that voter; will embrace.” It’s his message — bent on tipping sacred cows — that could trip him, DiVall said. Lamm called it “a no-B.S. agenda Lamm, who left the Colorado statehouse in 1986 after three terms, wants to grad ually privatize Social Security, raise the retirement age to 70 and reduce annual cost-of-living adjustments. He would deny both Social Security and Medican benefits to wealthy retirees. He would, also scale back veterans’ benefits and military pensions. The country, he said, “just doesn’t need new president. It needs a whole decade reform and renewal.” Bertha heads toward U.S., Bahamas Library NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Swirling out of the Caribbean with four people dead in its wake, Hurricane Bertha whipped up force Tuesday, men aced the Bahamas and headed for the eastern seaboard of the United States. Forecasters expected Bertha to skirt the U.S. coast from Florida to Delaware. By late Wednesday, they should know just how close it will come to land, Chris Landsea with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. “It depends on how close it gets before it makes the turn” due north, Landsea said. “When it’s going to turn is the $64,000 question.” Late Tuesday, the National Weather Service issued hurri cane watches for Georgia and South and North Carolina and a tropical storm warning for Flori da. A watch means the hurri cane could come close to the area within 36 hours. Hurricane warnings were in effect Tuesday for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Ba hamas, 250 miles east of Florida. Bertha became more danger ous early Tuesday, spinning winds up to 115 mph that up graded it to a Category 3 storm capable of extensive damage. Its size alone — 460 miles around — makes it formidable, said Jer ry Jarrell, deputy director of the U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami. “This is a huge storm — it’s more like Hugo in ’89 or Gilbert in ’88,” Jarrell said. Forecasters earlier had thought Bertha would probably stay south of the United States. By 11 p.m. EDT, Bertha was about 70 miles east of San Sal vador, in the center of the 700- island Bahamas archipelago. Its wind speed had decreased slightly to 105 mph as it moved toward the northwest at 21 mph, a motion expected to continue for the next 24 hours. That would bring the eye of the storm near or just east of the central and northwestern Bahamas, be fore it turns north, and then northeast, forecasters said. Bertha brushed by Puerto Rico on Monday, then the Turks and Caicos Tuesday, teasing them with harmless rain show ers and gusty winds. But three people died in storm-related ac cidents in Fkierto Rico and one in the Virgin Islands. Coast Guard officers in Puerto Rico were searching for a crippled boat with as many as 42 people aboard. The boat radioed Monday that it was in the eye of the hurri cane and passengers were jump ing into the water, the Coast Guard said. There was no sign of the boat Tuesday afternoon. Hours earlier than expected, Bertha drenched the southern most of the 700 islands in the Bahamas archipelago Tuesday afternoon. Continued from Page 1 and public leadership. “Everything is good, the acad emic building is ahead of sched ule,” Hermann said. “We areea couraged by the interest and cv operation of other departments Dr. Charles A. Johnson,i professor and head of the Politi cal Science Department, said faculty members and others will be attracted to Texas A&M be cause of the Presidential Li brary Center. “We think the library andtbf center, including the acadentf facilities, are an important stef for the University,” Johnson said. “It’s going to be one of tki (University’s) crown jewels.” Johnson said the library cen ter will be a remarkable re source for students. “The library and museum archives are an important part of the past,” Hermann said. “But the school is the future.” m. 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