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When it comes to domestic terrorism, ‘the best
defense is offense,’ Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison speaks about domestic terrorism
at A&M's National Emergency Response Center Friday.
By Sarah Goldston
Staff Writer
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced the congression
al appropriations committee will target millions of dollars
to train first emergency response units for situations of do
mestic terrorism.
Hutchison made her remarks at a press conference at the
National Emergency Response and Rescure Training Cen
ter at Texas A&M University Friday.
A&M's Texas Engineering Extension Service will receive
$2.5 million to continue research and training for such inci
dents, she said.
"After the Oklahoma City bombing, we have been look
ing for a center to train first responders," she said. "We have
seen attacks at the World Trade Center, Oklahoma, and
we've even seen it happen in a subway in Japan. We'll save
the most lives if we try to contain these tragedies."
Hutchison said 25 percent of terrorist attacks are target
ed against U.S. citizens and property.
"Studies have shown that terrorists go elsewhere if they
know people are prepared to react," she said. "Our first line
of defense is our police, our firemen and our medical units
that arrive on the scene first. In the case of domestic terror
ism, the best defense is offense."
TEEX is a member of a consortium that includes four oth
er counter-terrorism training centers.
Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New
Mexico Tech, The National Center for Bio-Med Research and
Training at Louisiana State University, The Nevada Test Site,
and the National Center for Domestic Preparedness at Ft.
McClellan, Ala. make up the consortium.
By establishing a budget for the entire consortium, the
training schools will receive more funding than they would
if the appropriations committee had lobbied for each indi
vidual school, Hutchison said.
"In the consortium, they will be able to come together
and plan for domestic terrorism acts and be better prepared
to react," she said. "A&M has done a phenomenal job and
is known as the leading training center."
Gary Stinson, president of SO Technologies and repre
sentative of the Nevada Test Site, said all first response units
are trained at the Nevada Test Site.
"Our training center in Nevada is larger than the state of
Rhode Island," he said.
Each member will receive $2.5 million in funding for the
next year, but Ft. McClellan will get a higher share to build
new and updated facilities.
see Hutchison on Page 2.
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By Sarah Goldston
Staff Writer
Dr. Nancy Dickey, a faculty member of the Col-
llege of Medicine and the first female president of
Ithe American Medical Association, was honored
lata reception and dinner at the George Bush Pres-
[idential Library Conference Center Friday.
Dickey, who also is director of the Family
[Practice Residency Foundation of the Brazos
[Valley, said she wants to emphasize ethics,
[health-care reform and the revitalization of pro-
[fessionalism among physicians.
"Medicine is clearly at a crossroads, and at
[such a challenging time, this is an extraordinary
opportunity for leadership," she said.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the first woman
I to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, spoke at
[the reception.
"I am so proud of Nancy," she said. "Having
I a family practitioner as the leader of the medical
community of the nation is ideal."
Hutchison stressed health-care reform issues
[inher speech.
'I still want to make sure the smartest kids in
[the class want to be doctors," she said. "I don't
Photo By Stephanie Corley/The Battalion
Dr. Michael Friedland and Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison were present at the reception honoring
Dr. Nancy Dickey (center), AMA president.
want someone to go into medicine because he or
she wants to work for the government. We don't
want doctors to be federal bureaucrats."
Hutchison said Congress wants to reform the
health-care system to make medical care more
accessible and to give people the ability to make
choices about health care.
Dickey said she too wants to work to reform
the health care system.
"Congress is working on passing a bill of
rights for patients," Dickey said. "There is some
thing wrong if we have to protect patients from
insurance if we have to issue a bill of rights."
Hutchison said she wants to see more money
going to medical research.
She said she is proud of Texas A&M Univer
sity for its program in rural health care and
stressed the importance of bringing quality
health care to rural areas.
Hutchison said Congress is working on re
forming HMOs.
"HMDs are a major part of health-care cover
age," she said. "We are working on a plan to re
form HMOs that will give patients choices. We
also want to make it possible for patients to se
lect doctors outside of the HMO plan to get sec
ond opinions, especially Ob./Gyn. physicians
and pediatricians."
In an Associated Press story published earli
er this year, former AMA president Dr. Lonnie
Bristow said the AMA will benefit greatly from
Dickey's leadership.
"The emphasis of Dickey's career has been on
patient care, but she also has a thorough ground
ing in medical issues, particularly ethics, on a na
tional level," Bristow said. "She will bring her
talent and vision to those who need it most of all:
our patients, the country's physicians and the
Association itself."
see Dickey on Page 2.
Hot pursuit
MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion
Long Ta, a member of the South Side flag-football team, is chased by a
member of the Wrecking Crew flag-football team during the Vietnamese-
American Student Association's flag-football tournament Sunday.
Opinion:
Student organizations
should not be criticized
but recognized as
enhancements
to education.
MONDAY • JULY 37 • 1998
‘Fallen
heroes’
honored
Tuesday
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Two Capitol officers cut down
in a burst of gunfire will be hon
ored Tuesday at a special cere
mony at the historic building
where they worked and died.
Their remains will lie in the Ro
tunda, where the coffins of pres
idents and commanding gener
als have rested.
Capitol Police Chief Gary
Abrecht announced plans to
memorialize the two "fallen he
roes" as the suspect in the shoot
ing, Russell E. Weston Jr., lay in a
hospital bed in serious condition.
Coffins bearing the remains
of officers Jacob J. Chestnut and
John Gibson will be in the Capi
tol Rotunda early Tuesday and
remain there all day.
"Those wishing to pay their
respects may file past the re
mains," Abrecht said, speaking
at a news conference a few
yards from where the gunman
had entered the Capitol 48
hours earlier. An afternoon ser
vice is planned, with members
of Congress, other officers and
families of the slain men in at
tendance, he said.
Abrecht said Gibson, 42,
will be buried Thursday at a lo
cation to be announced. Chest
nut, 58 and an Air Force veter
an, will be interred the
following day at Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
The two Capitol police offi
cers died of the wounds when
the gunman, a loner with a his
tory of mental illness, burst into
the Capitol Friday afternoon
and opened fire with a .38-cal-
iber handgun.
The condition of Weston, 41,
from Rimini, Mont., was up
graded from critical to serious
during the day. "His cardiac
status has improved," D.C.
General Hospital spokesperson
Donna Lewis Johnson said. We
ston was shot in the chest, arms,
thigh and buttocks and brought
down in a furious exchange of
gunfire with Gibson.
Authorities arranged a hear
ing in absentia for Weston on
Monday in federal court, a few
blocks from the Capitol. Papers
filed in court in the District of
Columbia on Saturday charged
him with killing the two offi
cers; the purpose of today's
hearing is to bring the case into
federal court.
While events were set in
motion to honor the fallen —
and bring the suspect to jus
tice — tourists roamed the
Capitol by the hundreds,
some pausing before a pile of
flowers that has grown on the
steps outside in tribute to Gib
son and Chestnut.
see Officers on Page 6.
News Briefs
Renovations to Evans and
Sbisa among Regents' decisions
The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M Uni
versity System held its summer meeting Thursday
and Friday and voted on a variety of measures.
The Board approved renovations for Sterling C.
Evans Library and Sbisa Dining Hall.
Naming of the Cushing Memorial Library Read
ing Room for Mavis and Mary Kelsey of Houston
was approved by the Board.
The Board also approved a master agreement
between the A&M System and the Texas A&M Re
search Foundation.
The Board approved the 1998-99 System Calender.
Two A&M students winners
of 'Social Security Challenge'
A team from Texas A&M University was select
ed as the winner of the "Social Security Challenge"
and will receive $1 00,000 to implement its plan to
from staff and wire reports
make Social Security a topical issue on America's
campuses this fall.
A $10,000 scholarship will be awarded to the
two team members, Nathan Cray, of Lexington,
TX, and Daniel Seyle of Eureka, MO.
The winning plan of the team from Texas A&M
involves using the National Issues Forum as a
mechanism for getting college students to talk
about Social Security.
Sponsored by the Kettering Foundation, the
NIF began college outreach last year through
the National Collegiate Honors Council. Nathan
Cray and Daniel Seyle are both experienced NIF
moderators.
This proposal calls for scheduling forums about
Social Security on 800 or more campuses.
A&M professor of psychology
recipient of first JRP Award
John Fernandez Finch, professor of psychology,
has been selected as a winner of the first JRP Award
for the best article published in the "Journal of Re
search in Personality."
Finched shared the award with Stephen West from
Arizona State University.
Their article, "The Investigation of Personality
Structure: Statistical Models," was published in the
December 1 997 issue of JRP.
"John Finch has done an outstanding job of teach
ing our undergraduate and graduate statistics cours
es," Paul Wellman, professor and head of the De
partment of Psychology, said.
The winners will receive a certificate and cash prize
at the annual American Psychological Association
meeting being held in San Francisco.
Forum allows students
to meet director candidates
Students will have a chance to meet the prospective
candidates for the position of Director of Student Activities.
The Department of Student Activities is hosting a
series of open forums for students, faculty and staff
to meet and speak to the candidates, including:
Monday (July 27) — Steve Ransom, director of stu
dent activities at Miami University of Ohio, 3:45 to 5
p.m., 404 Rudder Tower;
Wednesday (July 29) — Jim Waite, director of stu
dent life at the University of Missouri-Kansas City,
3:45 to 5 p.m., 504 Rudder Tower;
Monday (Aug. 3) — Kevin Jackson, senior associ
ate director of the Memorial Student Center, 3:45 to
5 p.m.;
Tuesday (Aug. 4) — Ben Welch, director of Lowry
Mays College of Business Fellows and Honors Pro
gram, 4 to 5:1 5 p.m.;
Wednesday (Aug. 5) — Jan Paterson, central of
fice manager for the Association for Student Judicial
Affairs, 1:30 to 2:45 p.m.; and
Thursday (Aug. 6) — Tim Sweeney, interim direc
tor of Student Activities, 3:45 to 5 p.m.
The last four candidates are from Texas A&M, and
their forums will be held in 504 Rudder Tower.