The Battalion fiTION Tuesday • July 21 Clinton promotes tougher school policies to assist teactif, NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Offering America's teachers relief from troubled students. President Clinton promoted wider use of school uniforms, tough cur fews and anti-gun policies designed to restore “order in our children's lives" and discipline in their schools Monday. “We either have discipline in the classroom or we have disorder and, quite often, danger," Clinton said in an address to the na tional convention of the American Fed eration of Teachers. Clinton also announced he would lead a White House conference on Clinton school safety Oct. 15, which he will pro claim “national school safety day." Coming just three weeks before Election Day, the conference will put a focus on an issue Democrats see as a winner among voters. The conference will include educa tors, law enforcement officials and fam ilies touched by school violence. Citing such measures as stricter cur fews and the wider use of school uni forms, Clinton urged the teachers and their school districts to pursue “a new ap proach to restore discipline in our schools and order in our children's lives." “Teachers can't teach if they have to fight for respect or fear for their safety," Clinton said. After his address to the teachers' union, Clinton was attending a fund raising lunch for Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., expected to raise $250,000. Before returning to Washington the president was to headline a Demo cratic National Commit tee fund-raising dinner which, at $10,000 per person, was expected to collect about $200,000, DNC officials said. The speech was de signed as a broad-brush defense of Clinton's ed ucation proposals, some of which are un der attack in Congress, but its focus was on school discipline. “While we've made great advances in reducing crime over all across the country, the president wants to reinforce the message of how crucial it is that schools are safe and that discipline is restored," White House spokesperson Joe Lockhart said aboard Air Force One en route to New Or leans from Clinton's three-day weekend stay in Arkansas. With Washington's powers over educa tion limited, Clinton was promoting suc cessful programs in local communities. He told the AFT convention he was particularly im- pressed with a Mil waukee policy that allows police to stop and question youths on the streets dur ing school hours. tt Teachers can’t teach if they have to fight for respect or fear of their safety.” — Bill Clinton President of the United States Clinton said he has rev, statistics that showed three i students say they havetroubl ruptive classmates and of teachers say undiscipline, take up most of their time. Little that the president was new. But aides said he wantedtt his school discipline pack; from the 1996 campaign, eludes suspending students guns to school. Clinton arrived inNewOr! day after a weekend of golf cal fund raising in his homes: While there, he planned two fundraisers for Louisiai rats. He had dinner Sunday-: Sen. John Breaux, D-La.,and party leaders. GREAT DEALS EVERY TUESDAY IN THE BATTALION C= A CLIPS SAVE r Exclusively Nails Treat Yourself to the Best!! 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Nego tiations have slowed and the United Auto Workers union called a labor summit Monday in Flint, Mich. Talks between the union and the company resumed Monday at one strikebound Flint parts plant, the Delphi Flint East plant, while talks at the Flint Metal Center will be in recess until today. Saturn promotes itself as "a different kind of car company." It uses a team approach in the facto ry and has a reputation for strong management-employee relations. Of the more than 5,000 Saturn workers who cast ballots, 96 per cent voted for strike authoriza tion. A strike technically could be called by the end of the week, though negotiations are sched uled to resume today. The UAW often strikes to put pressuiej agement during negofe) The union has obtain rizations in recent mont strikes at an assemblypk and three parts plants :! Ohio, and Indianapoliskj to order walkouts there Saturn President Dos played down the votes does not indicate a striki nent. He said Saturn will # its operating schedulean: ue turning out cars. "We recognize web:| issues to work through j said in a statement.'Ikj tinue to talk through e#il. them and resoKe i-'-i;!- ‘ 1 always done in the pasy'q spirit of partnership." The vote came fourmii ter dissident employee'! referendum on their utfl tract with GM. WorkJ overwhelminglyT n( "risk-and-reward conbWLj than abandon it for the® all other UAW workershh®. CM has lost moreth®M c }| lion since workers at th ersal plants in Flint walkedoB>re June 5 and 11. MorePBckl CM's North American®Hi have been affected an ||thel workers idled. _ . pke Heat-related death toll enters triple-digit figur DALLAS (AP) —Temperatures climbed toward stiflingloj Ay today across most of the country, with no immediate relief ins 1 :- E|| ec heat wave blamed for at least 113 deaths. haver The temperature in Dallas hit 91 by late morning and vva5 !; x [T ai| top 100 degrees for a 15th straight day. The punishing heat f® I claimed 79 lives in Texas, including 43 illegal immigrant a p ro | crossed the border from Mexico. u g "It looks like this trend should continue another weekTL |al, from what we can see," said Roland Nunez, a meteorologist o j £ tional Weather Service. . I The searing heat has also contributed to at least 22 deaths in ^ nine in Oklahoma — where temperatures also climbed into r fore noon — and one each in California, Arizona and Missouri^ [j j And authorities in Oklahoma, Louisiana and lexas werei ing additional deaths to determine if they were heat-relate • "There are probably many more out there that we hawn yet," said Dr. Louise McFarland, Louisiana's state epid 6 ^ "^, The humid Northeast was expected to be the next hard-hitreg® temperatures expected to rise into the 90s today. Temperatures ‘ | were predicted again for much of the West, where several re J Pe | broken Sunday. Pueblo and Grand Junction, Colo., both rtp ( ['wills highs of 104. ijrig tl Readings also hit 100 Sunday in Altus, Okla.; Jackson™' 6 ' ‘l Te Las Vegas. California's Death Valley reached 124 and Lake ' ; Ve | 0 Ariz., made it to 110. , nt kf ro j e In lexas, it's the worst summer heat wave since 1980, ^ c( iljjrazc] had 42 consecutive days of 100-degree temperatures. 0neU fuj T ny on Sunday added extra crews to keep electricity flownu j C y g ditioners. J ^lie We don t have any choice," said Sandy Smith of lexas weather like this, the luxury of air conditioning becomes sora a matter of life and death." ^ r People without air conditioning got some help in Dalb 5 /^ s Health and Human Spi-v/inoc nnlnar-lod hnx fans and avinl hat rom Oil f 0 rfe or ml r - - r — utivc dll t_UnLULlUUltUS LM.IL t-ivm elect! igh electric bills, the county has created a fund to help- ,ig a h emand for water is so high that water systems are stran ; a water main breaks every day. Dallas had 67 ruptured mains . . 'Oklahoma, where heat-related crop losses could cos ^ 1urn bdUon, churchgoers heeded Gov. Frank Keating's call to P r 0 )d It s so hot the fields are melting," farmer Jack Musgr°v ^ usgrove, 79, said he has seldom seen the lack of rainD in io state this summer. He said there was little he could 0 ty s Health and Human Services unloaded box fans that were donated to the agency. , For people who have air conditioners but don't use t em ■ * 1 . . strain his cornfields j^id my 50 percent by planting the crop," Musgrove God has to do the other 50 percent. saw act fd Dr to 5 md a] ional id 5^* depar