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V The Battalion TfiTE Breaking ground w*. JAKE SCHRICKLING/The Battalion Mickey Clatt, an employee of Bayer Electric, breaks up a part of the sidewalk outside of the Pavilion Tuesday afternoon. The sidewalk is being operated on in order to allow access to the new phone system being installed in the Pavilion. Clinton advocates statistical sampling for next censi Clinton HOUSTON (AP) — An ticipating a showdown with congressional Repub licans over the next nation al census. President Clinton today advocated using sta tistical sampling to avoid undercounts of minorities and the rural poor. "It's not about politics, it's about people," he said. The president visited a community center in a heavily populated Latino community in Hous ton to get an idea of how much local govern ments, community programs and even private foundations rely on census data to determine the assistance they dispense. Clinton said severe undercounting of popula tions such as children, minorities and homeless people is now hurting attempts to funnel feder al help to those who need it. He said the experts agree that using statistical sampling, along with "quality checks" that involve head counts in cer tain neighborhoods, can reduce the error rate to 1 /10 of 1 percent. That would mean only about 300,000 Ameri cans may be missed in the next census count, rather than the millions overlooked in the 1990 tally, he said. "It is therefore, I think, quite unfortunate that some in Congress have so vociferously opposed sampling, because improving the Census should not be a partisan issue," Clinton said. "It's not about politics, it's about people. It's about making sure that every American really, literally counts." Afterward, Clinton attended a fund-raising luncheon at the home of attorney Richard Mithoff. The luncheon, which drew 120 guests, raised $800,000 for the Democratic Congres sional Campaign Committee. It was Clinton's first fund-raiser for the DCCC in Texas and all the money is to be spent on congressional races in the state. He was expected to pick up another $500,000 at a fund-raiser in Dallas tonight for the Democ ratic National Committee. Clinton chose to visit the Magnolia Multi-Ser vice Center in Houston to address ways to keep the serious problems with undercounting expe rienced in the 1990 census from happening again. With that tally, an estimated 4 million Ameri cans nationwide were overlooked, with higher rates of undercounting among minorities, said Robert Shapiro, undersecretary for economic af fairs at the Commerce Department. The problem was acute in Texas, where the Census Bureau estimated that 245,286 Hispanics and 83,114 blacks — as well as 226,883 children — were missed by census takers. In Houston alone, nearly 67,000 people were left out in 1990. As a result, the state lost out on $1 billion in federal funding. That alone should lead law makers of any political party to support ways to make the count more accurate, the president said. "In Texas, I would think, every Republican would be just as interested as every Democrat in seeing that every Texan is counted,sj this state does not lose another billiondoi Clinton said. Census results are a factor in estabi boundaries for congressional districts.Th: play a role in determining eligibility fort funds for an array of programs from Media roads and bridges. Acting on a request from then-Pre- Bush, the National Academy of Science ommended after the 1990 census thatsau: be used as a means of ensuring accuracy.: pling is a technique that uses number characteristics of people who are count, census takers to build estimates aboutf who cannot be located. In addition to Clinton, samplingissuppM by congressional Democrats, who stand to* fit if census results show higher counts in* areas, where voters traditionally are Demo: Republicans, however, object to sairrK 1 onstituti Ph quir es thatut- saying the C ers literally' cans there a census too vu Clinton admir Last year, agreeing to cc fore reaching. the count. Three dress rehearsals mento, Calif.; an 11-county' area near ColcB S.C.;and Menominee County; WN, inckr p Menominee American Indian Reservation B t | ral | il tit . how mam s I* uiy, sampling lea -* 01 > manipulation! •rs compromiseP 81 't run of thecen'.lyH ■ ion on howtocclpl. ict)| were planned fora o, Verdict expected Thursday for assault of 3-year old Dallas^: DALLAS (AP) — Two brothers, ages 7 and 8, testified Tuesday that they and a fourth-grade friend sexual ly assaulted and beat a 3-year-old girl at a West Dallas creek. Their testimony came during the trial of the 11-year-old boy, who is charged with three counts of sexual as sault and one count of injuring a child. He faces up to 40 years' imprisonment if convicted. The 8-year-old brother was practi cally mute on the witness stand, giving only simple yes or no answers in a small voice. Lawyers for both sides repeated ly asked him to pull his hand away from his mouth and use a microphone. By contrast, his younger brother was smiling and chatty, spoke loudly and clearly into the microphone, giving yes or no answers in a lilting singsong voice. After admitting that he touched the girl's vagina with his penis, he gave a toothy grin and sang a little song. The brothers can't be charged with the crime because they are younger than age 10. Both boys said they and the 11- year-old on trial engaged in oral sex with the girl and beat her naked body with shoes. There were some inconsis tencies, however. The victim's mother broke into tears when prosecutor Gina Savage showed her photos taken of the girl at the hospital after the April 9 attack. "She was nude, and she just had big eyes, like she was not knowing what was going on," the 24-year-old woman said, her voice quaking. "When 1 saw her, I couldn't bear to see her, so 1 just looked away." "You're going to hear bravado from a 7- and an 8-year-old trying to be big ger than they are," said Garry Cantrell, maintaining his client's innocence and contending admissions to police were coerced. "You're going to hear incon sistent statements." Officer Gregory Dugger of the Dal las Police Department's Child Ex- Fleas!!!! In Your Home? Research sites are needed for a 14 Day In-Home flea control study. We provide Free indoor flea control in exchange for your cooperation. Please call Granovsky Assoc, at 822-3069 SAVE ON LONG DISTANCE (Available in Austin, Beaumont, Bryan/College Station, Conroe, Ft. 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