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enlighten • entertain • inspire Experience The Big Easy ...and All That Jazz! House of Blues The Highway 61 Tour rr Starring Booker T. Jones John Hammond The Blind Boys of Alabama plus additional artists No need to go to The Big Easy for the hottest rhythm & blues, gospel and jazz going down! Hear the New Orleans sounds of blues guitarist superstar John Hammond and Billy Boy Arnold, rhythm and blues great Booker I Jones plus gospel giants The Blind Boys of Alabama - “The Highway 61 Tour” has it all! STARTS OCT. 16 AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU. Page 10 • Thursday, October 15, 1998 N ation The long goodbye Bai Democrats liking look of prolonged Congress adjouriiimH WASHINGTON (AP) — After a year of sputtering, the Republi can-controlled Congress is stum bling toward adjournment under pressure from a resilient Presi dent Clinton and congressional Democrats eager to turn election- year talk to edu cation and other popular issues. Since muscling an open-ended im peachment inquiry through the House last week on a largely party-line vote. Republicans have been forced into a prolonged series of closed-door negotiations with the White House on other matters. A year’s work hangs in the bal ance — from legislation on nation al issues such as education and contraceptives to the individual projects that many lawmakers crave — and the daily script has CUNTON been predictable. Chief of staff Er- skine Bowles spends hours in pri vate talks with GOP leaders inside the Capitol, and the president roughs up Republicans in brief, once-a-day public appearances be fore the television cameras. “I wish I had time to win the philosophical debate with our friends on the other side, who somehow see helping more teach ers teach and providing more school buildings as an intrusion into local affairs. It is not," Clinton said this week at a campaign-style appearance at an overcrowded Maryland school a few miles from the White House. Republicans counter that the De mocrats are merely defenders of a large bureaucracy. "The president has disagreed with us all year," House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas said. “He vetoed our education agen da to put the dollars in the hands of teachers and parents instead of the Washington bureaucracy." The polls say that dm mains an issue thatwoite advantage of Democrats gains Republicans havei the past two years inanat reposition themselves. Whatever their mon® timism. Democrats speal vately concede there time for Republicans toast trol over the election cat The GOP will have spend on advertising,tba remain highly motivatec the polls and the 1 pear well-positioned to© ly for a number of seat: mocrats are retiring. Still, the polls indicati mocrats have been able gize their own core vote derscoring their oppositt:: GOP plans for a no peach ment inquiry, and are pressing forelectioi phies on issues thatappei voting blocs, as well Nuclear secrets nearly release^ along with Cold-War material Jmvei WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department and Penta gon discovered sensitive nuclear weapons information in boxes of Cold War-era materials that were about to be publicly released at President Clinton’s orders. The discoveries sparked a hasty scramble by Congress to block the release of information that energy officials warned would advance the capabilities of emerging nuclear states such as Pakistan and India. The congres sional solution, which critics con tend will slow the release of Cold War documents to a crawl, is part of the 1999 defense authorization bill awaiting Clinton’s signature. White House officials were alert ed to the problem this summer in a letter from Kenneth Baker, a senior official in the Eneigy Department’s Office of Nonproliferation and Na tional Security. The letter con cerned the discovery of pages market! “Restricted Data” or “For merly Restricted Data,” in boxes of 25-year-old classified documents slated for release without review. Clinton’s executive order, which requires automatic declassification by the year 2000 of documents more than 25 years old, includes an exception for restricted data. But the order contains no provi sion to search every document in every box — a task involving bil lions of pages and as man) different 'agencies — loofcl the sensitive material. “This problem poses a national security risk" involves the potentialrel ‘“the nation’s most sens® crets,” Baker wrote. “Somei compromised information!! in these file series involve! sign information of special to proliferants seeking weaponize their nuclearda such as India and Pate j s a nd Those two countries teste: clear weapons earlier tbi and are developing ways ploy nuclear weapons on and missiles. d mot tions ol-rel, ollege se nev ps un n thes Icohc Corps discip ds do Ithou ted, b sibility he pr ps sta st wor age ro is bott t’s res n xt UNITY RALLY '9 Presented by the Hispanic Presidents* Council SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THURS.. OCT. 15TH 4:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 5:50 p.m. 6:10 p.m. 7:45 p.m. Ta Mere kicks off performance in the Rudder Fountain Area Unity Rally March begins from the comer of Houston St. & George Bush Drive to Rudder Fountain Area (site of rally) Maria Antoinetta Berriozabal, founding member of the National Hispana Leadership Institute in Washington D.C., will speak on "Culture: The Soul of Leadership" Performance by Ballet Folklorico Celestial Ta Mere kicks off another performance Wrap-up *Rain site: MSC Flagroom THIS IS THE EVENT OF ALL EVENTS THAT WILL CELEBRATE THE END OF HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH 1998. COME OUT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. UNITY RALLY has be lisquie eek ai (versity ming. dent, thew 5 > died f ting ap riggerei nosexu ny are i Unforti leing rr itical a; •pard’s the pa; tion. 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