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Page 2 •Tuesday, July 27, 1999 EWS Military aid urged in crash search BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Washington’s top anti-drug official pushed for increased military aid yesterday to counter rebels in Colombia, where rescuers tried to reach what might be the wreckage of a U.S. spy plane lost on an anti narcotics mission. Barry McCaffrey said peace talks to end the nation’s 35-year conflict would only work if Colom bia’s security forces were strength ened against the threat of “narco guerrillas.” “The United States has paid in adequate attention to a serious and growing emergency,” he told re porters after meeting with Presi dent Andres Pastrana. McCaffrey also asked for more U.S. battle he licopters and training for Colom bian military and police units. The missing de Havilland RC-7 plane, packed with sophisticated radar and eavesdropping equip ment, apparently slammed into an uncharted mountain in bad weather, likely killing the five American soldiers and two Colombian air force officers on board, McCaffrey said. It was re ported missing Friday. Yesterday, officials at the El Paso Army base Fort Bliss, where the missing Americans have been sta tioned, told the Associated Press they knew the soldiers’ names but had been told by the Pentagon not to release them. The base set up a crisis center in a conference room to help the missing soldiers’ families, keeping them updated on the search and providing counseling services, base spokesperson Jean Offutt said. News in Brief Grad student given entomology award Judge admits tapes in Cisneros lawsuit Jarrad Prasifka was awarded the Perry L. Adkisson graduate assist- antship in integrated pest manage ment (IPM) at Texas A&M Univer sity. The assistantship sponsors graduate training in support of IPM principles. Candidates must have a record of outstanding scholarship within the Depart ment of Entomology and are ex pected to teach as teaching as sistants in the department. Prasifka, a doctoral student with in the department, is currently re searching biological control pro grams in cotton. WASHINGTON (AP) — Henry Cisneros’ own words may be used against him at his upcoming con spiracy trial, a federal judge said yesterday in a ruling that permits prosecutors to use 22 tape record ings secretly made by the former Housing secretary’s ex-mistress. U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin rejected the defense’s full- court press to throw out the recordings, which captured con versations where Cisneros and one-time para- Volunteers sought for residence life The Department of Residence Life is seeking volunteers to help staff "headquarters tents” on the north and south sides of campus during freshman check-in day, Aug. 25. The tents will serve as the first volunteer check-in point and as a lo cation for general assistance or questions about the check in vol unteer effort. The department will have a tent on the north side of campus, facing the lawn in front of Sbisa, and an other tent on the south side, facing the Quadrangle area, operating from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Contact the director of Resi dence Life by Friday if interested. CISNEROS mour Linda Jones discussed his “hush mon ey” payments to her. Sporkin’s rul ing had been ex pected, presaged by comments he made during a 13-day hearing on the tapes’ ad missibility. “Based on its assessment of the tapes, transcripts and the entire record made in this case, the court finds that the vast majority of the tapes contain reliable and accu rate representations of the con versations that occurred between [Jones] and Cisneros between April 1990 and December 1993,” the judge wrote, settling the last major issue remaining before Cis neros’ September trial on conspir acy and obstruction of justice charges. Diversity Continued from Page 1 She said much of the misun derstanding came from unde served bad press about the de partment after incidents involving the Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference. “The program is currently working with many people and or ganizations on campus such as Student Body President Will Hurd, the Office of Admissions Counsel ing and the Association of Former Students in hopes of developing a stronger link than ever before be tween the department and the stu dent body this upcoming fall,” she said. Sandra Medina, communica tions coordinator for the Depart ment of Multicultural Services and faculty sponsor for the Multicul tural Ambassadors program, said the program welcomes anyone who wants to find out more about diversity issues and wants to help facilitate diversity on campus. 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While Sporkin is allowing the use of 22 tapes in their entirety, he is permitting the government to use only snippets of four other tapes that prosecutors were press ing to enter into evidence, saying the four bear signs suggesting some passages were heavily edit ed. “Certain portions of these tapes contain noticeable breaks in the recording and flow of the conver sation that indicate obvious alter ation,” Sporkin wrote. During four days on the wit ness stand, Jones testified that she may have edited as many as 10 of the 88 tapes she recorded of her phone conversations with Cis neros and later turned over to fed eral investigators. She said she feared legal reper cussions if she did not scrub the recordings to delete passages where she threatened to expose her financial arrangement with Cisneros if the money flow stopped. She also said she re moved some sexually suggestive passages and those dealing with uninvolved parties. There was no immediate reac tion on the judge’s ruling from Barrett’s office or Cisneros’ team, both of which refrained from pub lic comment during the pre-trial hearing. “The program offers the stu dents the unique opportunity to develop public speaking skills and contacts that will benefit them lat er in life,” Medina said. Cyrus said the program has of fered many students involved the opportunity to meet many influ ential people and to actually make a difference on campus. “You hear a lot of people com plaining that there is not enough diversity on campus,” she said. “This lets you actually do some thing about it.” = ELCH1CO": Weekly Drink Specials! 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