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STARTS OCT. 16 AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU.
Page 10 • Thursday, October 15, 1998
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The long goodbye
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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.
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timism. Democrats speal
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trol over the election cat
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spend on advertising,tba
remain highly motivatec
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mocrats are retiring.
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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
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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.
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national security risk"
involves the potentialrel
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crets,” Baker wrote. “Somei
compromised information!!
in these file series involve!
sign information of special
to proliferants seeking
weaponize their nuclearda
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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
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CELEBRATE THE END OF HISPANIC HERITAGE
MONTH 1998. COME OUT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME.
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