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Three IRS workers suffer
from suspicious illness
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HOUSTON (AP) — One Inter
nal Revenue Service worker is
dead and two others ill after the
three suffered symptoms similar
to Legionnaires’ disease, officials
said Monday.
The Harris County Health De
partment and the federal Occupa
tional Safety and Health Adminis
tration have taken water samples
from the building where all three
worked, authorities said.
“Once the second case was con
firmed, we immediately got OSHA
involved,” said Steve Yost, an IRS
spokesperson. “We won’t know any
thing for about seven or so. There’s
no way of speeding it up.”
The three affected employees
worked at the agency’s Alliance Build
ing that houses 600 other workers.
The building, on Houston’s
southwest side, was open Monday
for business as usual.
“The presence of some illness
is enough to open an investiga
tion, but it’s not conclusive
enough to rule it a health threat,”
Yost said.
Yost confirmed Geraldine Web
ster, a revenue officer, died earlier
this month after suffering symp
toms similar to Legionnaires’ dis
ease. He did not know the official
cause of her death.
Two other employees reported
illness last week, one of them re
porting Legionnaire-like symp
toms. The other employee had
symptoms of a similar and less se
vere illness known as Pontiac fever.
^ ^ Once the
second case was
confirmed, we
immediately got
OSHA involved.”
Steve Yost
IRS Spokesperson
Meanwhile, IRS employees
have been told to notify superiors
when experiencing any flu-like
symptoms.
The IRS district office in Houston
employs 1,500, spread out in four
different buildings.
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Photograph: Tim Moog
Chris Harkey, a fifth grader, Spencer Greene, a ninth grader, and Bradley Martin,
Standmq Out a fifth grader, sell lemonade for the third day from their stand at the corner of
^ Tanglewood and Briar Cliff. The children have earned $80 each day.
Goldman auditions as talk show host
First broadcast brings mixed reactions from listeners
TAMU Waterski Team: There will be
a general meeting at 8:30 p.m. at
Fitzwilly’s. For more information call
Mike Coyle at 268-2076.
Aggie Roadrunners: There will be a
daily run of 2-3 miles beginning at 7
p.m. in front of G. Rollie White. Run
ners of all levels are encouraged to
attend. For more information call
Hank Bullinger at 821-6339.
Wednesday
Aggie Roadrunners: There will be a
daily run of 2-3 miles beginning at 7
p.m. in front of G. Rollie White. Run
ners of all levels are encouraged to
attend. For more information call
Hank Bullinger at 821-6339.
Texas A&M Women’s Rugby: There
will be practice from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
at the TAMU Rugby Field. No experi
ence is necessary. For more infor
mation contact Wendy at 696-9012.
Texas Aggie Brew Club: There will be
a meeting about beer and brewing at
Carney’s Pub at 7 p.m. For more in
formation contact Abel at 845-5236
or abelmann@iname.com.
Thursday
Aggie Roadrunners: There will be a
daily run of 2-3 miles beginning at 7
p.m. in front of G. Rollie White. Run
ners of all levels are encourep
attend. For more informatte
Hank Bullinger at 821-6339.
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at the TAMU Rugby Field. Nof
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mation contact Wendy at 696-9
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Fred Goldman began a
weeklong audition Monday as a radio talk show host,
and almost immediately began berating the criminal
justice system for not punishing the man he main
tains killed his son.
^ ^ The criminal
justice system didn’t
seem to be
working.”
Fred Goldman
Spokesperson for Safe Streets
“Ron was murdered in excess of three years ago by a
man that walks the streets today a free man,” Goldman
said seconds into his two-hour tryout.
“That criminal trial and the civil trial that followed
it frightened me, disturbed me, frustrated me, and my
family for that matter, deeply. The criminal justice sys
tem didn’t seem to be working,” he said.
Ronald Goldman was killed in 1994 with Nicole
Brown Simpson. OJ. Simpson was acquitted of murder
in their deaths but was ordered to pay the families $33.5
million in a civil judgment.
Goldman, who has been a spokesperson for the
crime-fighting group Safe Streets since last year, is one
of several people trying out for the talk show spot on
WOAI. He will be the host through Friday.
“I’m not sure I’m ready for this, but I guess I’m go
ing to find out very quickly,” Goldman said as he
launched his show.
Some listeners called in to praise Goldman for
speaking out on victims’ rights. Others took him to task
for his verbal attacks on Simpson.
“How can you or anybody say he’s guilty? He was
found not guilty in the criminal trial,” said one woman.
“He can be held responsible and he was held re
sponsible in the civil trial,” Goldman said. “There
wasn’t one single piece of evidence pointing to any
one but him.”
The woman continued by asking Goldman if he
wanted to take Simpson’s Heisman trophy, awarded in
1968 to college football’s best player and confiscated by
authorities in June.
“What I’d like to do with his trophy is take a sledge
hammer and bash it into a pancake,” Goldman replied.
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