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Caspar Director, Center for International Business Studies Texas A&M University 7:00pm Monday February 22nd Room 110 Koldus For more information, or to inform us of your needs, call 845-8770 PROFITABLE NUMBER! 845-0569 THE BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS Page 6 • Monday, February 22, 1999 DeLay business dealings under scrutiny by lawyers Protests brim WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, the Re publican leader who led the dri ve in the House to impeach President Clinton for lying un der oath, now finds himself at the center of his own contro versy over truthfulness. The media spotlight that fo cused on DeLay as he kept up a steady stream of Clinton criti cism has turned into a glare re cently as reporters have probed discrepancies between state ments he made in a legal pro ceeding and those on financial disclosure forms he is required to file as a member of Congress. “Frankly, it’s my opinion he lied to me under oath,’’ said Gerald DeNisco, the Houston lawyer who questioned DeLay during a 1994 deposition in a lawsuit filed against the repre sentative by a business partner. The former pest extermina tor, who is viewed as the Re publican most Democrats love to hate now that Newt Gingrich has exited the national stage, accuses Democrats of orches trating the barrage of critical media coverage. “I am the most investigated man in America. They’re trying to bring me down,” DeLay, the No. 3 GOP-House leader, said earlier this month. The man who slammed Clinton for verbal gymnastics in dodging questions about Mon ica Lewinsky — and who re peatedly called on him to pro vide the facts — is not rushing to answer the volley of ques tions directed at him. “I’m the most investigated man in America. They’re trying to bring me down.” — Rep. Tom DeLay House majority whip Generally loquacious, the majority whip is brushing off inquiries regarding a lawsuit filed against him in 1994 by a business partner who claimed DeLay and a third partner were trying to cut him out of the pest control firm. “We have answers to all of that,” DeLay told a pair of Texas reporters in a brief hallway en counter earlier this month. “It ain’t worth talking about.” Aides have been equally tight-lipped since the contro versy, first reported by an alter native Houston weekly in 1995 and resurrected last month by The New Republic, flared. “These stories are being for warded by political enemies of Tom DeLay and we choose not to fight them out in the press,” said spokesperson Michael Scanlon. The roots of DeLay’s current troubles reach back to that 1994 deposition, taken 10 months before he ascended into the GOP leadership. DeLay, a part-owner of Albo Pest Control until 1997, testified that he had not been an officer of the company for two or three years. But on congressional fi nancial disclosure forms filed for several years preceding the deposition — and one filed three months after — he listed himself as chair of Albo’s board of directors. He dropped the ti tle on his 1995 report. DeNisco, the lawyer, said he believes DeLay was attempting to limit financial liability by denying he was a corporate of ficer. DeLay later retreated somewhat from his claim, say ing he could not remember when he had resigned. to gay wwfclSe ■ inh MESQUITE (AP) - Protest; Mesquite IndependentSchoolE \ a workshop to train counselotsh young gays and lesbians. Local ministers and otherClir^ atives opposed the Mesquite: counselors receiving suchtiaiiBjl shop, scheduled for Feb. ll.wasq ed speakers from OakLawnf vices and the Dallas Gay and! Gary Swisher, president of0i| munity Services, said the district’s: appointing. "This is an issue that many.r Swisher said. ’There need to be ii for them to turn to.” District spokesperson said Superintendent John Hod groups set to speak were too pod “This is still a priority for out j get training on this issue, but the i more neutral sources,” Cernoseb Morning News. The workshop waspanofaa the counseling staff attet • j academic scheduling and eating! teen counselors from Mesquite’s schools take part. "1 would not recommendh- .gtM’s Hollie 1 trained by a gay advocate.” B ay at the Agg vors a presentation that induce homosexuality is sinful, alo;.-; BY E based counseling to changepw entation. Dr. Ritch Savtn-William$,al ty professor of developmental chology who specializes in gayi counselors mainly should knoi i:,u.i'->ed lor beingcu of suicide and other selt-destm: while dropp 10-4 on the The Texas / ird tills week ew Mexico v Clinton calls for gun tracing program Albright finds t WASHINGTON The Clin ton ad ministra tion wants to bring more cities under a (AP) CLINTON program that traces guns used by juve nile criminals in light of a report that showed at least half the guns were bought illegally from licensed deal ers. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms re leased an analysis Sunday of its Youth Crime Gun In terdiction Initiative. The program traced 76,260 guns used in crimes by 18- to 24- year-olds in 27 cities over the past three years. President Clinton is ask ing Congress in his new budget proposal for money to pay for expanding the initiative to 10 more cities across the country. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms found 51 percent of the traced guns were pur chased from licensed deal ers by people acting as “straw” intermediaries for the real owners, and only 35 percent were stolen. The remainder came from pri vate sellers not required to obtain identification or sub ject their customers to background checks. In a statement, Clinton said the figures go a long way toward helping author ities find and punish those responsible for putting guns in the hands of the young. “With more police on the streets and tougher gun laws on the books, crime has dropped to its lowest level in a generation. But we must do more,” Clinton said. “Tracing crime guns to their source, and putting gun traffickers out of busi ness for good, will make our streets even safer.” That 25 percent of the guns moved quickly from sale to recovery by police indicates they were bought legally, then resold, Trea sury officials said. Semiau tomatic pistols were the most commonly recovered weapon in each city, mak ing up 52 percent of all trace requests. As a result of the traces, 397 people have been re ferred to state and federal courts over the past year for prosecution as gun traffick ers, the report said. “We can’t stop them from buying the guns, but as soon as they turn those guns over to felons, we can prosecute that,” said ATF director John Magaw. The report identified five types of semiautomatic pis tols that move rapidly from dealers to young offenders: the Lorcin 9 mm, the .40- caliber Smith & Wesson, the Bryco 9 mm, the Hi-Point 9 mm and the .40-caliber Clock. It said 11.3 percent of the offenders involved were un der 17 years old, and 32 percent were between 18 and 24. id loss with The womei 'day, losing ti id scheduled as cancelled The Aggies iishmg the U The womer ly with Aubu negotiations on fc Id "L i RAMBOU1LLET, France (AP)- Secretary of State Madeleine Al bright, making scant headway to ward a Kosovo peace settlement, said Sunday that if neither Serbs nor ethnic Albanians accept the six-nil'KHjgSuiuinv l tion plan, NATO cannot earn' t g to Auburn through on its threat to attack Serb J,sing pitcher targets. nits in seven ii With a new deadline set for Ties- The loss w day, Serb negotiators “arenoten- layden. the gaging at all” over the critical questhfading base s NATO peacekeepers would enforce t’ en arm after while the Kosovar Albanians muststi “That is a ed to sign on fully with the plan togiv iach Jo Evan autonomy in the Serb province, Albrr Q p ac t player "Some really earth-shaking decis gspot after made, which is why it is difficult,” Al id has been CNN after several hours of talkingst threat on the each side. “And these are really deci f batter, whi war and peace and life and death.” id. 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