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July ’98 makes history with 28 100-degree days
■ Staff and Wire Report
■ If this summer's heat wave hasn't
feotten you down, the following num-
!bers about the current record-break
ing hot spell will likely do the trick.
■According to figures from the
rOflice of the State Climatologist at
Texas A&M University, the three-
! month period of May-June-July
Was the warmest ever in the Bra
izes Valley, averaging 88.4 degrees,
breaking the previous record of
r 87 9 in 1996.
July will go down as having the
most-ever 100-degree days with
28, breaking the old record of 24
days set in 1980.
On top of that, the year-to-date
number of days of 100-degree heat
has already set a record at 40, top
ping the mark of 34 set in 1925.
If those figures don't have you
reaching for that glass of ice water
yet, consider this: the consecutive
number of 100-degree days in Col
lege Station is now at 26, tying the
record set in 1917.
And if those numbers still don't
have you in a sweat, remember this
sweltering fact: August, historical
ly the hottest month, still awaits.
The current record of 100-de
gree days is 58 set in 1917, and that
record could easily be toppled, ac
cording to graduate student Brian
Belcher, who has compiled the fig
ures for the state office.
"What has been unusual about
this summer is the hot weather so
early," Belcher explains.
see Meat on Page 2.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Republican urged
President Clinton on Sunday to reveal his relationship
with Monica Lewinsky, saying he thought Congress
would forgive the president if his
story turns out to be a matter of
sexual misconduct. Key Democ
rats agreed and said the sooner
the better.
"If he comes forth and tells it
and does it in the right way and
there aren't a lot of other factors
to cause the Congress to say this
man is unfit for the presidency
and should be impeached, then I
think the president would have a
reasonable chance of getting
through this," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
"1 don't know anybody at the top of the system
who really wants to see the president hurt in this mat
ter," said Hatch, who is chairman of the Senate Judi
ciary Committee.
A similar message was coming from Clinton's De
mocratic allies in the wake of revelations last week that
there may be physical evidence of a relationship be
tween the president and Lewinsky, including a stained
dress she has turned over to Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr.
As Clinton returned home from a weekend in New
York, his senior advisers at the White House recog
nized that the growing sentiment for some sort of con
ciliatory statement, even among Starr supporters like
Hatch, presented new opportunities.
"We're cognizant of a number of outside voices,
both Republican and Democrat, urging some sort of
public statement," said one senior adviser, speaking
only on condition of anonymity. The adviser said it was
too early to assess what Clinton's next move might be.
In Milwaukee at a meeting of the nation's gover
nors, there was agreement that Americans, who have
generally been critical of the uproar surrounding the
Lewinsky affair, are starting to pay more attention.
"It's a sideshow, but a serious sideshow," said Col
orado Gov. Roy Romer, co-chairman of the Democrat
ic National Committee. "There's a higher level of in
terest than ever before."
Clinton has denied, both in public statements and
in testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case
against him, having had a sexual relationship with
Lewinsky. He will be asked again on Aug. 17, when he
must testify for Starr.
Lewinsky, 25, also has denied having sex with the
president, but last week received immunity from pros
ecution and reportedly will acknowledge a sexual rela
tionship when she appears before Starr's grand jury.
Former White House senior adviser George
Stephanopoulos said if Clinton had a sexual relation
ship with the former White House intern, it's time to
come clean.
"Democrats believe the best thing for him to do
right now is to go forward and tell the story,"
Stephanopoulos said.
"I would make peace with my wife and I'd stand up
and say, 'Here's the deal,"' Time magazine quoted Sen
ate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Joseph Biden,
D-Del., as saying. "Even though it might make Starr's
case, no Congress would ever impeach him."
Hatch, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press,"
said that if the president had a sexual affair with
Lewinsky, did not commit more serious crimes
such as obstruction of justice or suborning perjury
and tells the truth about it, "it could certainly re
sult in a non-impeachment."
see Clinton on Page 2.
Photos by fake Schrickling
Every weekend for four
weeks, people go out to
stomp grapes, taste the
wines of the world and
enjoy gourmet dinners at
Messina Hof.
Left: Terry Debo, a resident of Grapevine who was down for the
Messina Hof harvest, enjoys his third harvest weekend.
Above: Kriss Hall, a second-year veterinary student, and Paul Axtell,
a fourth-year veterinary student, get their feet messy during grape
stomping on Sunday.