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The Battalion flTION Wednesday • June 1?I JAKE SCHKIKUN(;/Th£ Battalion Hugh Jamison, a graduate mechanical engineering major, jump starts his car that died outside the en gineering physics building Tuesday. Clinton signs $25 milliojj police grant program bi l WASHINGTON (AP) — Police officers around the country will get $25 mil lion in help buying bul letproof vests under a grant program be ing signed into law to day by Presi dent Clinton. The legis lation, over whelmingly approved by the House and Sen- Clinton ate last month, sets aside $25 million for a 50 percent matching grant program in the Justice De partment to buy vests with state and local police agencies. In a White House signing cere mony this afternoon, Clinton was also signing the Police Survivors Act authorizing help for families of slain officers, and releasing $27 million to 73 communities to hire 369 new police officers. Ronald Brown Sr., the officer who chased down the student suspect in Monday’s school shooting in Richmond, was in vited to attend the t, ceremony with Clinton President A1 Gore. fiJ hired and stationedinsi strong High Schoolaspj administration’s con policing initiative. 1 he Justice Depanmt| mates that 25 percei and local police are bulletproof vests. Ac the FBI, more than30 the 1,182 officerskilli in the line of dot)' < could have been saved body armor. Senator compares homosexuality to alcohol addicJ WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate should take up the stalled ambas sadorial nomination of a gay philanthropist to clear the air after Senate Majority Leader Tfent Lott likened homosexuality to an addiction, a senator said Tuesday. There should be an “honest discussion” on James Hormel’s nomina tion to be ambassador to Luxembourg, Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., said in a floor speech. "Other wise, I worry about a cli mate that will become in creasingly polarized, increasingly poisoned, and we don’t want that to happen,” he said. President Clinton nominated Hormel to the post last year, but his con firmation has been de layed by a small group of conservatives who say the problem is not his homo sexuality but his active support of gay causes. Supporters of the 64- year-old businessman and Democratic Party contributor say they have 59 votes, one short of the 60 needed to break the conservative hold on the nomination. He would be the country’s first openly gay ambassador. Lott, R-Miss., who con trols the Senate agenda and opposes the Hormel nomination, created a controversy Monday when he told a conserva tive television host that homosexuality should be treated “just like alcohol ... or sex addiction ... or kleptomania.” “There are all kinds of problems, addictions, difficulties, experiences of things that are wrong, but you should try to work with that person to learn to control that problem,” he told “The Armstrong Williams Show” on the America’s Voice television network. Asked about the com ments Tuesday, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, said the Bible considers homosex uality a sm, abide by the I Armey said he a wife had read; sections intheBl morning andlj quarrel withthea tliis subject.” David spokesman oftkl Rights Campaip | tion’s largest gav:] group, said may interpret t differently butitj disagreement never justify! tory public polrj “It seems as| it’s open seasorj people up there,! of the Repute;; Congress. 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