Page 6 • The Battalion • Tuesday, August 6, 1996
Hutchison, Gramm tout welfare overhaul
DALLAS (AP) — A week be
fore Republicans step into the
national spotlight at the party’s
convention in San Diego, the
OOP’s two U.S. senators from
Texas barnstormed the state
touting landmark welfare reform
legislation passed last week.
Kay Bailey Hutchison and
Phil Gramm on Monday visited
a sweltering industrial laundry
in Dallas. Sweat trickled from
their foreheads as they took
turns praising the bill to work
ers making around $7 an hour to
wash and iron sheets and towels.
“It is fair for everyone to help
pull in some way,” Mrs. Hutchi
son said over the hisses and
clangs of machinery at the 34-
year-old National Linen Service
plant. “This is a bill that will
work because it is fair, and be
cause every American will see
that it is fair.”
A bill passed
by Congress last
week sets a life
time limit of five
years of welfare
per family. It
also requires
able-bodied
adults to work
after two years
with certain ex
emptions. GRAMM
States can
set many of the rules, such as ter
minating benefits sooner than five
years. President Clinton has said
he’ll sign the bill.
Mrs. Hutchison and other Sun
belt senators successfully waged
the fight to gain additional dollars
pegged to popu
lation growth.
Gramm said
the bill would
help “people to
get their foot on
the bottom rung
of the economic
ladder and start
climbing.”
The legisla
tors’ comments
HUTCHISON followed those
by Gregory
Woodard and Douglas Brown, new
employees described by plant offi
cials as successful examples of the
welfare-to-work transition.
Brown, 40, who makes about
Si,600 per month as a tumbler
operator, said he believes almost
anyone can find a job.
“If people really want to work,
there are jobs out there,” he said.
Another worker, 49-year-old
Beatrice Mackey of Dallas, said
that the welfare bill “will help
some and hurt some.”
“I know some need to get off
and some need to stay on,” said
Ms. Mackey, who started work
ing at the plant in 1966 making
70 cents an hour and now earns
S6.65. “I’m used to making my
money. I just cannot sit down
and wait on the check.”
The Hutchison-Gramm team
planned similar stops in Hous
ton, San Antonio and Austin.
Cadets
Continued from Page 1
Cadets are graded on their performance
in each area on a 1,000-point system. This
system was recently changed from a two-to-
five scale, five being the best.
King said 95 percent of the Aggie cadets
received a four or five on their performances
last year.
Future Marine Corps Officers attend Offi
cer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico,
Virginia to learn “the intellectual, physical
and moral quality to be an officer in the Ma
rine Corps.”
Captain Russell McGee, a Marine officer
instructor, said the cadets are evaluated in a
simulated infantry environment.
“We put them under great amounts of
stress to see how they perform and react
when things aren’t going very well,” McGee
said. “It’s very much like boot camp.”
Jim Lively, a senior psychology major,
graduated fourth out of 160 cadets from OCS
this summer. He said the A&M experience
gave him an advantage in camp.
“Being in the Corps helps out because you
know how to deal with the pressure and you
know how to play the game,” Lively said. “It
is a rewarding experience that you learn so
much from.”
Air Force cadets from A&M are typically
sent to Lackland Air Force Base in San An
tonio for field training, although some are
assigned to camps in Florida or Delaware.
Capt. Mark Tate, a former field training
instructor, said cadets learn skills including
professional values, Air Force values, safety
and quality.
Mark Andrews, a senior management
major, went to a special training camp this
summer. In England he flew an F-15 fighter
with an Air Force officer.
“I had been waiting 21 years for this op
portunity,” Andrews said. “It was everything
I dreamed of and more.”
Love
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“Then we walked around
campus and we ended up under
The Century Tree. The roses and
card were already there and she
turned around and I was on my
knee.”
Many students said they have
found it challenging to plan for
their weddings while still at
tending class at A&M.
Married students offer some
hope to their engaged counter
parts.
Carri Wellborn, an elemen
tary education graduate student,
was married last spring, and
said she found being engaged
more stressful than being mar
ried.
“If you’re engaged, it’s harder
.than being married,” Wellborn
said. “You have to go home on
the weekends and there are so
many showers, and you have to
find a dress and more.”
Taboada said she has run into
difficulties while planning her
wedding.
“It’s been crazy,” Taboada
said. “It’s hard to plan for a wed
ding in San Antonio when I’m
here in College Station. The only
day we had open to get married,
was the only day the church was
closed. There’s only one bridal
store in College Station, so it
was hard to find a dress, but I fi
nally found one.”
Schaeffer said his fiancee is
handling the majority of the
wedding plans. He said he is
surprised at the amount of work
involved in planning for a wed
ding.
“I never realized all the de
tails it takes to plan a wedding,”
Schaeffer said. “It’s insane!”
While some students are
waiting until after graduation to
marry, others have married and
are still attending classes.
Suzanne Giles, a veterinary
graduate student, said married
life has not altered her student
life, but it has made it difficult
to coordinate her schedule with
her husband’s.
“We still have our own clubs
and we do our own thing,” Giles
said. “But it’s been hard to coor
dinate our schedules, like who’s
going to be home. It can be frus
trating. I always want to make
dinner, but he (her husband)
works every night.”
However, Giles said being
married and going to school has
many benefits.
Dole
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The launching of the economic
package came at a critical time for
Dole, who trails Clinton by as
much as 20 percent in some na
tional polls. He was close to nam
ing a running mate and was
preparing to be formally nominat
ed at next week’s Republican Na
tional Convention in San Diego.
For Dole, who has a history of
preferring deficit reduction to
huge tax cuts, proposing such a
large tax cut was a difficult one.
Dole provided only vague de
tails on how he would pay for
the six-year plan — suggesting
that 27 percent of it, or $147 bil
lion — would come from “income
growth effect.”
Such supply-side economics —
suggesting tax cuts can partly
pay for themselves — have been
disdained by many economists
and in the past by Dole himself.
“I think the supply-siders
have taken over the Dole cam
paign,” said Sung Won Sohn,
chief economist at Norwest
Corp. in Minneapolis. “This cer
tainly sounds like the Reagan
program all over again.”
Anticipating such criticism.
Dole said, “Deficit reduction is in
my blood and a balanced budget
will be my legacy to America.”
“I want to return to tax cuts
— this time balancing the bud
get with a Republican Con
gress and finish the job
Ronald Reagan started so bril
liantly, but could not complete
because the Democrats refused
as usual to reduce spending,”
Dole added.
Financial markets took little
notice of Dole’s program on Mon
day and some analysts said the
plan was more credible than Rea
gan’s 1980 program, which cou
pled a huge tax cut with a huge
defense buildup and the promise
of a balanced budget by 1984. The
Reagan tax package also resulted
in the longest peacetime economic
expansion in U.S. history.
“Dole’s plan as it is written is
highly optimistic, but not silly,”
said David Wyss, an economist
at DRI-McGraw Hill Inc. “Eco
nomically, there is no reason
you couldn’t do it.”
In a blistering attack on the
Internal Revenue Service, Dole
called his economic plan “the
opening salvo to repeal the cur
rent tax code and to end the IRS
as we know it.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Home Alone
star Macaulay Culkin is willing to dip
into his fortune to save his parents
from the financial ruin brought about
by a long-running custody battle.
The 1 5-year-old actor, whose
worth is estimated at $17 million,
also has no interest in acting until his
parents' squabbling ends, said his
lawyer Kenneth Weinrib.
The actor's never-married parents,
Christopher "Kit" Culkin, 51, and Pa
tricia Brentrup, 40, have spent so
much on their legal fight that thqy are
near bankruptcy, the Daily News re
ported Monday.
Macaulay is unable to focus on
his career because of the custody bat
tle involving him and his six siblings,
Weinrib said. To help smooth things
out, his lawyer and accountant have
asked a judge to approve a bailout
plan for the parents.
The legal papers also ask the
court to remove Macaulay's parents
as his legal guardians because their
fights have made the arrangement
unworkable.
On the other hand, Diana was
conspicuously absent from a recent
birthday party for the Queen Mother
Elizabeth. Charles and the couple's
two sons were there.
Silverstone longs for
the good life
Prince Andrew cordial
to Fergie after divorce
LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew
and the Duchess of York seem to take
to divorce a little better than Charles
and Di do.
Acting like gay divorcees, Andrew
and Sarah Ferguson appeared togeth
er Monday at a fund-raising golf tour
nament, laughing and chatting it up.
Joint appearances by Princess Di
ana and Charles are unlikely. In the
last weeks of her 15-year marriage to
Prince Charles, Diana appeared
alone at public visits.
Andrew turned up for a golf tour
nament in support of the Motor Neu
rone Disease Association, of which
Fergie is president. The couple di
vorced in May after nearly 10 years
of marriage.
The prince drove his daughters,
Beatrice and Eugenie, around in a
golf cart, and joked and talked with
his ex-wife as the whole family posed
for pictures.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Silver
stone longs for the good life, notiie
glamorous one.
"I really love what I'm doing on
this movie, but, at the same time, Id
rather be married and have beautiful
babies and millions of animals and
eat delicious food and get as fatasl
want. Live! You know?" she said in
the September issue of Vanity Fair.
The 19-year-old Clueless stin
producing a movie tentatively titled
Excess Baggage, but she's not a big
fan of the business.
She called Hollywood "very cold
and very dry and very dark. But the
people, they always have a smile on
their face, though I always wonder,
how deep in that smile is the knife?'
She said Hollywood is not the
kind of place where people reach out
and say, "I know you can do it." For
that reason, "I never hang out with
people in the industry."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Members
of Jack Mack and the Heart Attack al
most had one when the Atlanta bomb
went off.
"It came close to knocking me of
my stool," said John Paruolo, key
boardist for the band playing at
Olympic Centennial Park at the time.
"It was 200 feet away from us, but
fortunately the stage was 30 feet
above ground. I stood up and real
ized immediately it was a bomb,'
Paruolo said in Sunday's Los Angeles
Daily News.
The seven-member band was into
its second set July 27 when the pipe
bomb exploded, killing one person
and injuring more than 100.
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