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hours, 7 days a week and earns
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Women 16 years of age and older
If you are experiencing vaginal
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will receive:
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included, black/yellow $700 O.B.O. 846-7675
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4-piece bedroom set, wood, Includes: 2 night tables,
dresser, A hutch with mirror. Must Sell!! Asking $90
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Volunteers will be compensat
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Call for more information:
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846-5933
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696-6912
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buckles, in good condition. $30 0.8.0. 691-8528
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$425 0.8.0. 696-2094
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Female AAM roommate needed.
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call (202)393-7723
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evening A weekends work. Contact IntelliQuest at 268-
5307 or come by 702 University Dr. Ea. Ste. 102F
College Station.
Need roommate for fall and spring. Own room, partial
ly furnished, has appliances. $250/mo. Call Eric (713)
395-3580
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Aug.
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student worker (preferably a freshman or sophomore)
w/computer related experience. Knowledge in dBase,
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Notes A Quotes is now accepting applications for the
fall semester. Apply in person at 701 W. University.
Page 4 • The Battalion • Monday, July 15, 1996
Car bomb caps week of riot
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ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ire
land (AP) — A car bomb ravaged a
country hotel Sunday soon after it
was evacuated, knocking hotel
guests to the pavement and cap
ping a week of rioting that threat
ens to transform Northern Ire
land’s uneasy peace into a memory.
The Irish Republican Army
denied Sunday that it planted
the bomb that blasted The Killy-
hevlin Hotel, a social hub for
this lakeside town.
The hotel was packed with a
Catholic wedding party, bar guests,
tourists and fishermen when a
caller warned hotel staff there was
a bomb in a car parked outside.
Police said an Isuzu Trooper,
stolen 11 days ago in Dublin, con
tained 1,200 pounds of homemade
explosives. They praised hotel staff
for evacuating 250 guests — some
straight off the dance floor — to a
back parking lot before the bomb
tore apart the building’s front 25
minutes later.
Scores were treated for shock;
only three people were slightly
injured.
“What a terrible way to start
married life,” said the groom’s
cousin, Eamonn Turbett. “The wed
ding itself was excellent and there
was a lovely atmosphere at the re
ception. ...And then this happens.”
The bomb — the first in North
ern Ireland since the Irish Republi
can Army stopped its violent cam
paign against British rule in 1994
— crowned the worst week of riot
ing seen here in a generation.
Violence erupted last Sunday
when police blocked members of
the Orange Order, Northern Ire
land’s dominant Protestant frater
nal group, from marching through
a Catholic part of Portadown, a
town 25 miles southwest of Belfast.
The Orangemen stood their
ground, and militant Protestants
subjected Northern Ireland to four
days of rioting.
Since Thursday, when police
conceded defeat and allowed the
march through the Catholic
area, Catholic fury has spilled
onto the streets.
Police and soldiers spent a third
night Saturday repelling mobs of
Catholics who hurled gasoline
bombs, bricks and rocks at them in
Belfast and Londonderry, the
province’s second-largest and pre
dominantly Catholic town where
Northern Ireland’s “troubles” be
gan with similar scenes in 1969.
Sunday’s hotel bombing rein
forced the fear that Northern Ire
land is sliding back into murder
and grief, a past Enniskillen resi
dents vividly remember. In 1987,
an IRA bomb killed 11 Protestants
as they commemorated the dead
from two world wars.
Despite the IRA’s decision to
end its cease-fire in February by
bombing London, Enniskillen
residents said Sunday they had
n’t been mentally prepared for a
bomb here.
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bomb,” said Darrell Robinson, a
year-old Protestant worker at
Enniskillen Golf Club, a half-
from the devastated hotel.
Gesturing to Catholic
Protestant golfers sitting
Sunday afternoon, he said: “I
ously they’re talking about it,
what can you say really?”
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The Democratic proposal was spearheaded by Sen. Tom Daschle
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic pro
posal to end the Senate impasse on health care
reform went nowhere Sunday, slamming into
the same wall that has effectively brought leg
islative progress in the Senate to a halt.
Bringing to national TV their increasingly
strident differences, Republican leader Sen.
Trent Lott and Democratic leader Sen. Tom
Daschle each accused the other party of block
ing action on health care and other key issues.
Lott accused the Democrats of “planned grid
lock” while Daschle said his colleagues only
want to stop “extreme legislation.”
Daschle, appearing with Lott on NBC’s Meet
the Press, challenged Lott to accept a proposal
where the main goal of the legislation — assur
ing that people can carry insurance from one
job to another and be protected when they have
pre-existing health conditions — be separated
from a controversial bid to set up tax-exempt
medical savings accounts (MSAs).
to millions of employees of small businesses.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has blocked
the appointment of conferees for House-Senate
negotiations on the bill for nearly three months
because of the MSA dispute.
The health insurance fight has epitomized the
election-year partisanship in Congress that has
paralyzed movement on bills both sides want.
Lott, who took over as majority leader from
GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole a month
ago, said that after some successes — notably
passing a minimum wage increase — “to my shock
all of a sudden I found that everything was being
blocked and I saw for the first time it looked to me
like there was a planned gridlock in the Senate."
“We’re not going to apologize for stopping ex
treme legislation,” Daschle responded. “The Re
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ing action on health care and other
key issues. Lott accused the Democ
rats of "planned gridlock" while
Daschle said his colleagues only want
to stop "extreme legislation."
“Let’s get that taken care of,” Daschle said, re
ferring to maintaining insurance from job to job,
“and then let’s bring up this medical savings ac
count issue separately.”
Daschle, D-S.D., also asked the Republicans to
seriously consider another compromise proposal
on MSAs that the Democrats gave Lott last week.
Lott, R-Miss., dismissed Daschle’s offer. “The
Senate has already acted on this issue and the
House has acted, and what we need to do is go to
conference and work out the differences.”
The House version of the bill contains the tax-
exempt accounts. Although the Senate voted
down MSAs, GOP leaders insist they be peirt of
the final legislation — at least as an experiment
that would be gradually expanded.
Democrats, expressing concern that the ac
counts will result in young, healthy people leav
ing traditional plans, say they are willing to ac
cept a small-scale study but reject the GOP pro
posal which would make the accounts available
rats, stopped action on the 1997 Defense spending
hill and other legislation by launching a filibuster
to protest a proposed plan to set up temporary
storage facilities for nuclear waste in their state. L
Since Lott became the GOP leader, he and
Daschle have tried hard to project an imaged
collegiality and cooperation, but Lott reacted in
anger when Daschle suggested that Lott’s sup
port for ending federal funding for the National
Endowment for the Arts was an example of Re
publican extremism.
“I don’t impugn Tom Daschle’s integrity when
he disagrees with me, but when he disagrees
with me he calls it extremism,” Lott said. "I don't
appreciate his response.”
Lott said attacks on Republicans Eire coming
from the “looney left” in Congress who “have
nothing really to say.”
The two did, however, express confidence that
they could pass legislation revamping the wel
fare system that President Clinton could sign.
A deadlock on that issue was broken last week
when Republicans agreed to separate welfare
and Medicaid reform. The Democrats had object
ed to having the two in one package.
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.,
speaking on ABC’s This Week with David
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major affirmative action bill soon, but he said
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All’s well in Roswell: Movie release
bolsters tourism at UFO festival
The success of Independence Day has cast the spotlight on the New Mexico city
AMARILLO(AP) — Some
think aliens visited the east
ern New Mexico city of
Roswell nearly 50 years ago.
This summer, the human in
vasion of Roswell has been in
disputable.
The July 2 release of the
wildly successful alien attack
flick “Independence Day”
happened to coincide with the
city’s annual UFO conven
tion. Not coincidental are the
hundreds of national and in
ternational media that have
flocked there.
In Roswell, the alien busi
ness is no joking matter.
“People here do not laugh
about it; they are easily of
fended by people who don’t
take them seriously,” Deon
Crosby, director of the Inter
national UFO Museum and
Research Museum, told the
Amarillo Globe-News.
Crosby organizes the annual
Roswell UFO Encounters con
vention in a city of 50,000 resi
dents and three museums dedi
cated to the extraterrestrial.
Roswell became the hub of
UFO study in 1947 following a
mysterious crash near the
now-closed Walker Air Base
there. Visitors and media have
brought extra attention to a
place already etched in inter
planetary history.
The “Area 51” crash site at
Roswell is a key to the plot of
“Independence Day” and is
part of the story line of anoth
er summer action release,
“The Rock.”
The president of UFO Cen
tral Home Video recently said
that videos based on extrater
restrial themes have piggy
backed on the success of “In
dependence Day.”
Tim Crawford said that
some, including “Alien Autop
sy,” and “UFOs: The Best Evi
dence,” are related directly to
Roswell.
One of the scores of televi
sion cameras recently fo
cused upon Roswell belonged
to CBS’ “Late Show with
David Letterman.” Movie re
viewer “Manny the hippie’
was dispatched from San
Francisco to Roswell to check
out UFO fever.
“Is this some sort of punish
ment?” a less-than-enthusias-
tic Manny responded to Let-
terman’s travel plans for him.
Everyone from “Late
Show” to ABC’s “Nightline”
has taken a crack at Roswell
this month.
Despite all the hype, many
still treat claims of life outside
our universe as pure fancy, a
view another museum curator
believes inaccurate.
“I just tell them, ‘You know,
it’s a proven fact that your
more educated people believe
we’re not alone in the uni
verse,” said John Price,
founder of the UFO Enigma.
“That usually shuts them up.”
Roswell is about 200 miles
southwest of Amarillo.
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