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Vice President for Student Affairs
FEBRUARY 19
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ML M The Battalion
Nation
Thursday • Februaryl?
Albright travels to OSU to promote attai
WASHINGTON (AP) — While Congress with
holds a vote of confidence, President Clinton is
trying to persuade the American people that a
sustained bombardment of Iraq may be the only
option for containing President Saddam Hus
sein’s weapons arsenal.
Clinton sent his three top foreign policy ad
visers into the American heartland today to
make a case for a U.S.-led attack if diplomacy
fails to pry open hundreds of Iraqi sites where
dangerous arms may be hidden.
America’s military is ready, Clinton said Tues
day, while raising the prospect of U.S. casualties.
“The American people have to be ready, as well.”
So, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, De
fense Secretary William Cohen, and Sandy Berg
er, the White House national security adviser,
were dispatched to Ohio State University to try
to drum up support.
Why Ohio?
“It’s one of those places, when you want to go
out and touch the American people, it comes to
the top of the list,” said Bill Hall, OSU’s assistant
vice president of student affairs.
Albright will continue on from there, speak
ing Thursday at Tennessee State University in
Interruption slows
Clinton investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential adviser Bruce
Lindsey’s testimony in the Monica Lewinsky inves
tigation was interrupted yesterday amid an appar
ent conflict over questions Clinton’s longtime con
fidant was being asked.
At mid-afternoon, Lindsey and his attorneys went
to the judge supervising the grand jury, who is re
sponsible for resolving any disputes over ques
tioning of witnesses by prosecutors before a fed
eral grand jury.
There was no immediate word whether any of the
concerns involved presidential executive privilege.
Lindsey returned to the grand jury area a 45-
minute hearing before U.S. District Judge Norma
Holloway Johnson. While Lindsey was in the judge's
courtroom, the federal panel heard testimony from
another witness, Charles Duncan, who served as
a liaison between the White House and the De
fense Department, where Lewinsky went to work
after she left the White House.
Duncan’s attorney, Joseph Sellers, declined to
comment as he left the courthouse with his client.
Lindsey’s appearance came as new information
surfaced about what may have led a colleague of
Lewinsky to turn over to prosecutors secret tapes
suggesting a presidential affair and cover-up.
Asked if he knew Lewinsky, Duncan replied that he
knew her, but “not well."
Nashville and the University of South Carolina
at Columbia.
“She will make clear the stakes involved in this
crisis, the threat posed, the diplomatic efforts
we’ve sought to resolve this without the use of
force, and the reasons why the use of force may
be necessary,” James R Rubin, the State Depart
ment spokesman, said.
A last-ditch diplomatic mission by U.N. Sec
retary-General Kofi Annan to Baghdad could de
lay a presidential decision. Top administration
officials remain skeptical that diplomacy will
turn Saddam around. Russia, France and the
Arab League all have tried.
Bill Richardson, the U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, said today that while United States
supports Annan’s mission, “We want to make it
very clear we have the right to oppose a potential
deal that would harm our national interest.”
“We wish Annan well; He is a very good diplo
mat,” Richardson said on ABC’s “Good Morning
America.” “This may be the last diplomatic effort
to end this crisis.”
With international support limited, Iraqi con
cessions could have an appeal to many nations
already reluctant to take up arms against Iraq.
Judging by Congress’ reluctances
resolut ion approving bombing Iraqasa|
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faced a tough tash:
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Clinton’s
Albright opponent in the®
tion, former Senate
ty Leader Bob Dole, said Tuesday thepra
should seek authorization fromCongis
fore launching a military strike.
“When President Bush decidedtogi
offensive instead of the defensive,)!
Congress for authorization,” Dole si
Nashville. “1 think President Clintonslii
the same thing.”
HMOs place advertisements
offset hostile public perceptioi
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ads are popping
up around the country that remind people
why they hate HMOs: doctors with their
hands tied, bean counters making medical
decisions, patients having difficulty seeing
a specialist.
But the ads are not the
product of fed-up doctors
or some outside critic.
They are produced by
HMOs themselves —
trying to appeal to an in
creasingly hostile public.
The strategy is to tackle
consumer fears head-on
by explaining how the
advertising HMO differs
from others. |
“It’s a diagnosis, not a business deci
sion,” proclaim advertisements for the
George Washington University Health Plan
in Washington that feature doctors examin
ing a little boy or examining an X-ray.
In smaller print, they say, “We don’t put
unreasonable restrictions on our doctors.
We don’t tell them they can’t send you to
a specialist.”
“We don’t put
unreasonable
restrictions on
our doctors.”
George Washington
University Health Plan ad
In Chicago, HMO Illinois
promised: “We want to be yourl
plan, not your doctor.”
And in Baltimore, the Preferredli
Network explained, “At youraveragel
plan, cost controls are
la ted by administrator
PI IN, doctors are respi
for controlling costs."
The approach isn’t
prising given the bad
ity managed care
recent years, said Dot!
Johnson, editor of
Care Advertising Revii
www. I lealthCareNeii
er.com.
“It’s the beginning
trend,” Johnson said. “You’re going
more of this as the health plans figi
they have a real problem.”
Indeed, managed care has takenaH
ing from all quarters, although ithaslj
ceeded in stemming rising
costs and dominating the market,coi
85 percent of people who get insutij
from an employer.
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The MSC Film Society of Texas A&M Presents
The Fifth Annual
Texas Film Festival
February 18-22,1998
Wednesday. February 18
7:00 Night of Shorts
- Man’s Best Friend
- Dust and Other Particles of Attraction
- Operation
- Americana: Forever a Rebel
- Italian Lessons
- My Body
10:00 Feature: Coventry
With additional short film:
Flying with the Angels
Thursday. February 19
7:00 Feature: First to Go
With additional short films:
- Cosmic Strings
- Anna in the Sky
10:00 Featured Film: Sweet Jane
With additional short film:
Tumbling After
Friday. February 20
4:00 Workshop: “Music in Film”
7:00 Night of Shorts II
- Lunch with Louie
- The List
- Moving Prime
- The Little Things
- Pu Ro Mi Su {The Promise)
- Secrets
Schedule of Events
Friday. February 20 fcont’d)
10:00 Feature: Made Men
With additional short films:
- The Puzzle
- Fast Food
Saturday. February 21
1:00 Workshop: “Ethnicity in Film”
2:00 Children’s Screening Room
- Happy New Year
- Partners in Crime
- Big Bucks for Buddha
3:00 Workshop: “The Work of Tarantino”
7:00 Feature: Just Friends
With additional short films:
- Ah L’Amour
- Lily and Jim
10:00 Feature: Nude with Oranges
With additional short film:
El Artista
Sunday. February 22
2:00 Feature: The New Gods
With additional short film:
Six Months of Darkness,Six Months of Light
Ticket Information
Individual Tickets
$3.00
Festival Pass
$20.00
provides access to all screenings, special receptions,
workshops & hospitality room
Student Festival Pass
$17.50
Same access as festival pass.
Available to anyone with valid student I.D.
Tickets can be purchased at theMSC Box Office
(409)845-1234
Aggie Bucks Accepted
Persorts with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform
us of your special needs. We request notification ttyree^W*
working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you "
to the best of our ability.
Made Possible In Part by the Texas
Commission on the Arts and the Brazos Valley
Arts Council.
Movie Poster Sale!!!!
MSC Hallway
Monday-Friday, February 16-20, 1998
9 a.m.-5p.m.
Benefitting the MSC Film Society
and the 1998 Texas Film Festival