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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-
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staff "headquarters tents” on the
north and south sides of campus
during freshman check-in day,
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The tents will serve as the first
volunteer check-in point and as a lo
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questions about the check in vol
unteer effort.
The department will have a tent
on the north side of campus, facing
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other tent on the south side, facing
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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
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She said much of the misun
derstanding came from unde
served bad press about the de
partment after incidents involving
the Southwestern Black Student
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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
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Independent counsel David
Barrett’s prosecutors did not get
all they were asking for, however.
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
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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.
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