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Clinton’s address focuses
things we worked on during the
school, crowd control techniques.”
Bob Wiatt, director of UPD,
said the mounted force was estab
lished two years ago, when UPD
officers approached him with the
idea. He said mounted patrol offi
cers serve on the force under their
own enlistment and provide their
own horses; UPD is not permitted
to purchase horses for the force.
Wiatt said the conference was
effective in training the officers,
and he will appoint them to serve
at University-related events • in
which they would excel over ve
hicle and bike patrol officers.
“There are numerous reasons
that a [university] would benefit
from a mounted patrol,” he said.
“I’m not hesitant to use them
wherever I think they can be of
value.”
Sechelski said the force has
served at events, including the
George Bush Presidential Library
dedication and annual Aggie Bon
fires, and the officers are looking
forward to becoming more in
volved in safety preservation.
“There are so many people [at
A&M] in positions of power who
don’t understand horses,” Sechel
ski said. “Our horses are very well
trained. We know their capabili
ties; we know their shortcom-
on new-programs spending
WASHINGTON (AP) — Before
a Congress torn over impeach
ment, President Clinton offered a
surprise plan
CLINTON
Tuesday to pro
tect the Social
Security and
Medicare pro
grams with mas
sive budget sur
pluses that
Republicans are
eyeing for tax
cuts.
On a day of high drama that
shifted from his trial in the Senate
to his State of the Union address,
Clinton urged spending billions of
dollars for new programs in child
care, education, crime-fighting, the
environment and the Pentagon.
He proposed $4.2 billion — a
70 percent increase — to reduce
the threat from Russia’s nuclear
arsenal and redirect the work of
Russian scientists from weapons
research to civilian fields.
T\vo special guests were invited
to Sit in the House chamber with
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
for the president’s speech: civil
rights pioneer Rosa Parks and base
ball slugger Sammy Sosa.
Clinton’s Social Security pro
posal sets up a monumental fight
over the how to protect the giant
pension program and deal with
GOP tax-cutting ambitions against
a background of $4 trillion in pro
jected surpluses over 15 years.
The president’s proposal —
which came under swift attack by
Republicans — would create new
401(k)-style retirement accounts
for workers and invest some of
Social Security’s cash reserves in
the stock market for the first time.
Moving from last year’s call to
“save Social Security first,” Clin
ton proposed transferring 62 per
cent of expected budget surplus
es over the next 15 years — $2.7
trillion — to the Social Security
account to keep the program sol
vent until 2055.
'Rventy-five percent of that
money would be invested by the
government in the stock market in
hopes of achieving higher returns.
Clinton’s plan also would re
serve 15 percent of the surplus —
$650 billion over 15 years — for
the ailing Medicare system. An
additional 11 percent of the sur
plus — $500 billion — would be
devoted to new government-sub
sidized retirement accounts, with
the Treasury matching the savings
of lower-income people.
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conference originated from the of
ficers’ desire to acquire additional
training, which would enable
them to execute their duties more
safely.
“We felt that we needed train
ing,” he said. “We’re accom
plished horse patrol and accom
plished peace officers. We just
weren’t sure how to put those two
together. ”
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held this past Wednesday, January 13, at the Capitol in Austin.
The Roadshow gave Texas A&M students and their faculty advisers
an opportunity to present 18 research projects to members of the Texas
Legislature.
“The exciting part of the experience was how the research projects in
corporate both the faculty and student interests into one event,” said
Reinemeyer. “Also, the Texas Legislature had the opportunity to meet
with some of its constituents and see what the University is doing.”
countable to the same standards as other U.S.
citizens.
“1 think he should step down from the office,
just as Nixon did,” Knocke said.
Amy Hinze, president of Aggie Democrats and
a sophomore political science major, said the
president has remained popular because he fo
cuses on the issues important to the American
people.
“We are disappointed in the president’s be
havior, but we support what he has done as a
president*’ Hinze said
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