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■ WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers split yes
terday over who should take the blame for foul-
ups in the Waco investigation, with Republicans
ath trapped demanding Attorney General Janet Reno resign
e above all s-wliile Democrats asked why Reno should be
protectionr held responsible for FBI mistakes,
no categon .■ Two Republican presidential candidates, Sen.
.uion' on cc: Oi rin Hatch, R-Utah, and businessman Steve
ijBrbes, said that if they were in the White House
drug policyii. they would fire Reno for her handling of Waco
Jackson said ajjad other Justice Department matters,
nan’s son« t But Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said he
had forced t. saw a double standard in Republican attacks on
trict position. R|no, long a target of GOP criticism, while no
ore is demanding the resignation of FBI direc
tion at Manh: tor Louis Freeh, whose organization is at the
lal Riverside! center of the latest controversy,
ionedinpassr. The FBI recently admitted combustible tear
nded or senu gas was used in the 1993 siege at the Branch Da-
neral of James vidian compound in Waco, reversing six years
o was dragge: of Justice and FBI denials that such devices were
uck by two: used.
;is in Jasper Reno, with backing from Freeh, has
promised an independent investigation into the
ed Bush for r contradiction. Both have stressed that the flam-
id not suppon..; ma ble canisters were shot at a storm shelter
away from the main building, and there is no
change in the conclusion that the Davidians set
tie fires that killed some 80 of their members.
I Michael McNulty, a filmmaker who has
• I questioned those conclusions, said on “Fox
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aco debate divides lawmakers
Assigning blame for raid splits politicians along party lines
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News Sunday” that he had new evidence fed
eral operatives were firing “long streams of au
tomatic weapons fire” at the back of the com
pound, preventing those inside from escaping
the fire.
Former FBI agent Richard Schwein, who was
at Waco, said that was “absolutely false,” that
“not one round was fired by an FBI agent dur
ing that tragic day.” Schwein, on Fox, also de
nied that military officers on the scene as ob
servers had any role in operations against David
Koresh and the Davidians.
“We have an incident
here in which Janet Reno
is being blamed for what
the FBI didn’t do.”
- U.S. REP. JOHN CONYERS
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
The New York Times reported yesterday that
the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command
was monitoring the situation virtually from the
start of the 51-day siege, and was briefing the
Defense secretary and other senior Defense of
ficials.
President Clinton, asked by reporters Satur
day if he had confidence in Reno and Freeh,
pointedly supported Reno but not Freeh. On
Freeh, he said there was not “any purpose to as
sign blame until the investigation is concluded.”
The leading Democrat on the House Judi
ciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers of Michi
gan, also noted on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
that “we have an incident here in which Janet
Reno is now being blamed for what the FBI
didn’t do.”
Reno, Schumer said on ABC’s “This Week,”
“has been an independent, down-the-middle
person who gets Democrats mad sometimes.
Republicans mad sometimes.”
But Republicans say the Waco case is only
the latest in which Reno has stiff-armed con
gressional inquiries or claimed she was not get
ting all the right facts. They have clashed over
her decision not to name an independent coun
sel to investigate Democratic campaign fund
raising, and her handling of alleged Chinese es
pionage at nuclear weapons labs.
There is “a long series of cases where the at
torney general seems to be always the last per
son to know,” Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said
on ABC.
Hatch, on NBC and CNN’s “Late Edition,”
said that while the Justice Department, which
has authority over the FBI, is “in a shambles”
because of poor management, Freeh is the “sin
gle best” FBI director he has seen.
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Potato chips and French
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ings eaten by children, and
nearly one-third of the veggies
eaten by teen-agers, according
to a survey compiled by
I Catherine Champagne of LSD’s
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[search Institute.
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[ering the number of people
[who jam mall food courts and
;; burger joints. Champagne,
|who calculated the information
|from USDA annual surveys for
1994-96, said.
“It just sort of confirmed
what I suspected — that for
some people the only way they
get vegetables might be in this
form,” she said. “And that’s re
ally sad.”
Champagne, an associate re
search professor at Pennington
and a registered dietitian, used
the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture’s Continuing Survey of
Food Intakes by Individuals.
That survey’s database trans
lates each kind of food into food
pyramid servings. For instance,
French fries are both vegetable
and fat. A superdeluxe pizza in
cludes bread, fat, cheese, meat,
and vegetables.
The USDA defines a serving
of vegetables as 1 cup of raw
leafy vegetables, a 1/2 cup of
other vegetables or 3/4 cup of
vegetable juice.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An outbreak of E. coli bacte
ria at a county fair is believed to have killed a 3-year-old
girl and sickened at least 23 other children and three
adults in northern New York.
State Health Department officials were still trying
to pinpoint the source of the bacteria yesterday. All the
victims had visited the Washington County Fair on its
last weekend, Aug. 28-29, department spokesperson
Kristine Smith said.
Twenty-seven fairgoers were hospitalized with E.
coli contamination, hospital officials said. Three-year-
old Rachel Aldrich of Clifton Park died Saturday at Al
bany Medical Center Hospital, spokesperson Richard
Puff said.
State Health Department officials were talking to
patients and their families during the weekend to find
a possible common source of the contamination, such
as a food or activity at the fairgrounds, but had few
leads. Smith said.
State inspectors also were checking three wells in
Greenwich, where the fair was held, about 35 miles
north of Albany.
E. coli bacteria can be transmitted through conta
minated meat, but Smith said not all of the victims ate
meat at the fair.
It also can be passed through exposure to an in
fected person or by ingesting tainted liquids.
Most strains of E. coli bacteria are harmless, but
some — like the one linked to the Washington Coun
ty Fair — can be deadly.
Symptoms include abdominal cramps, diarrhea
and fever.
Job market less than steady
despite low unemployment
WASHINGTON (AP) — With
unemployment at a 29-year low,
work is relatively easy to find this
Labor Day, but the U.S. job market
is hardly a placid place.
For workers, times are tumul
tuous, with a significant transition
under way in the mix of jobs avail
able, skills required and benefits of
fered. For some, it has meant op
portunity; for others frustration.
The manufacturing industry is
a dark spot in today’s bright econ
omy, losing 946,000 jobs in the
past decade. In contrast, the
booming construction industry,
which has added more than a mil
lion jobs since 1989, is rolling out
the red carpet for inexperienced
job seekers.
Overall, the U.S. economy gen
erated more than 21 million non
farm jobs between July 1989 and
July 1999, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The biggest job gains have
U.S. leads world in worker productivity
GENEVA (AP) — Americans
work the longest hours in the in
dustrialized world, overtaking the
Japanese, according to a United
Nations study released yesterday.
But the U.S. lead in productiv
ity is being whittled away by their
European and Japanese rivals,
who are working less while
Americans stay on the job more,
said the report by the Interna
tional Labor Organization.
Hard-working Americans run a
risk of burning out, said the ILO’s
Lawrence Jeff Johnson, co-author
of the 600-page “Key Indicators of
the Labor Market.” report. The re
port was based on figures covering
the years 1980-1997.
On average, U.S. workers
clocked up 1,966 hours at work in
the most recent year, the ILO study
said. In 1980, the average was
1,883 hours.
The Japanese were their nearest
rivals. They worked an average
1,889 hours in the most recent year
measured there, 1995.
been in the service sector, with
more than 12 million employees
added. There are also more than
4 million more Americans work
ing in retail and wholesale jobs.
Jobs in finance, insurance and
real estate have grown by nearly
1 million.
Job losses during the 10-year pe
riod have been confined mainly to
manufacturing and mining.
The Labor Department esti
mates that about three-quarters of
the jobs created since President
Clinton took office in 1993 pay
more than $11 an hour.
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