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LETHAL WEAPON 4 1X1
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1:30 4:05 7:05 9:55
ARMAGEDDON ITT
(PG13)
1:00 4:00 7:00 10:00
DR. DOLITTLE tE
(PG13) 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:15 9:35
SMALL SOLDIERS EC]
(PG13)
1:40 4:20 7:10 9:40
THERES SOMETHING ,o\
ABOUT MARY (R)
1:35 4:15 7:20 9:45
THE MASK OF ZORRO JUJ
(PG13)
1:05 4:05 7:05 9:50
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See people you know get hypnotized, see hypnotized volunteers sing like their favorite star.
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sexy male exotic dancers. Better yet.... Volunteer to get hypnotized, " It's a Blast."
Women will be treated as ladies. Guys, you'll be on your own.
Thursday, July 23rd
2 shows: 9:00 & 11:00 p.m.
The Battalion
fiTION
Wednesday
Plant inspection
STI rHAMECORLU
Heriberto Torres, a graduate student in plant pathology, inspects sorghum plants inoculated
Tliesday afternoon at the greenhouse.
Clinton seeks improvement
in nation’s nursing homes,
criminal background checks
Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) — On
Tuesday, President Clinton an
nounced a series of steps to crack
down on
nursing
homes that
fail to give
high-quali
ty care to
their pa
tients.
Clinton
said he
would ask
Congress
to pass
legislation that would require
nursing homes to conduct a
criminal background check
on workers and would set up
a national registry of nursing
home employees convicted of
abusing residents.
The legislation also would
allow more employees to re
ceive training in preventing
malnutrition and dehydration
and reauthorize the nursing
home ombudsman program
under the Administration on
Aging. The ombudsman pro
vides consumers with infor
mation such as records of
abuse and neglect at poorly-
run nursing homes.
The Clinton administration
said it would reject Congress'
suggestion that state inspectors
can be replaced by inspectors
from private, accredited agencies.
After experimenting with
that idea, administration of
ficials have found it would
not work.
“They miss too much,"
Donna Shalala, the secretary
of health and human services,
said. “They actually put nurs
ing home residents in jeop
ardy. We are concluding,
based on that experience, that
we should continue with
well-trained state inspectors."
The Clinton administration
also was taking several steps on
its own, such as directing state
enforcement agencies to impose
immediate penalties on nursing
homes that repeat serious vio
lations. Currently, enforcers al
low numerous opportunities
for such nursing homes to come
into compliance.
The Health Care Financing
Administration put new nurs
ing home regulations in place
three years ago. Since that time,
quality of care has improved.
The Department of Health
and Human Services was
submitting a 900-page report
to Congress outlining its
findings during that three-
year period and making rec
ommendations on how nurs
ing home care can be further
improved.
HCFA announced a num
ber of actions it would take to
bolster state inspections, in
cluding requiring that they
be done annually in a less
predictable manner.
“They inspect every year,
but they tend not to vary the
time and the date," Shalala
said. “We've said ... 'you've got
to have a more random system
so that people are surprised.'"
Other steps taken by the
administration include:
—Targeting nursing home
chains with a poor record of
meeting state standards, so
that they will be inspected
more frequently.
—Referring the most seri
ous violations to the Justice
Department for criminal or
civil prosecution.
—Cutting off inspection
funds to states that continu
ally have a poor record of cit
ing nursing homes for sub
standard care.
—Increasing federal over
sight of state inspections, and
provide extra training and as
sistance to state officials.
—Publishing the results of
annual nursing home surveys
on the Internet.
—Collecting information
on patient care in a national
automated data system, so
that federal and state offi
cials can identify problem
facilities earlier.
Strike disp
CM, United Auto Wort
ordered into arbitrdii
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Ait
judge on Tuesday formally®
the United Auto Workers and
al Motors Corp. into arbitration^
the automaker's claim thatthc -
lengthy strikes are illegal.
District Judge Paul V. Gad'
warned that any attempts to del
prolong the arbitration may lit
with a contempt-of-courtcitation!
tines. He said his jurisdictional
tends to enforcing any decisio
award of the arbitrator.
UAW lawyer Michael Nieto
argued that the order was uM
sar y and beyond the court's"
diction. After Gadola lastwei
monished the two sides toseh
with independent arbit' 1
I homas Roberts, the automat
its biggest union set the first be) 1
for today.
As a result, Gadola's ordered
a surprise. Lawyers for both sides!
thought they could brief thejud|
telephone, but he told themtooj
into court. L
If CM were to win its case,id®
would ask for a back-to-worU® r ey/|
from the court and seek financial
ages that could cripple the ®
Most legal experts say they doid'K
automaker will win, butGMla"
Frank jaworski was upbeat. „
"We're very pleased toda)
the court has basically grant®
what we asked for last week
worski said.
Nicholson declined to comm®
ter the hearing.
At issue is GM's contentiont
strikes involve disputes of a nab-Jonal
scope over which the union ma'Bates
strike under the UAW-GM M th j
contract. The union says thestrikM
primarily over local issues,such*’ftech
leged plant health and safety" 1
hons and production rules.
Negotiations at the two _
Mich., plants where 9,200 w ) 0 .WJ' | tte
walked off their jobs JuneSan Phrou
sumed Tuesday, but no P r0 8 rtl5 j.«,.
expected as both sides prepam 11 itnisi
today's hearing. ttlPa<
CM so far has lost more tha’’
hi 11 ion worth of production be
of the strikes, which have fe
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Flmornil
shutdown of 25 assem
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