.Mp - ^ y ■?- ■ : ...., -#***.*, TAMU Thi Battalion ATION stio ■ 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 N aco debate divides lawmakers Assigning blame for raid splits politicians along party lines ICtlTn 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. Monday, Tuesday, Wed., Friday, Pick up an application at the meeting or drop by the Study Abroad Program Office. Study Abroad Program Office, 161 Bizzcll Hall West, 84S-0S44 Potatoes lead teens’ vegetables NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kids K '\ povemmr' i are n0t fat juSt because the y are * O JUlrmir'l'i knit h^r*aiico vhOSJV: •s for all but: withstood It: -eston Count- ti plans a ds orabilia. director Alice ne the storar le museum ions. seum alread. of its more 1 killed in E. coli outbreak Bacteria that sickened 26 traced to New York fair a ma es on the islanc ie, some o( lilt odd. nan contactedtl mate a pair of i she said herg s weam^mif College students fate openings fc ide direct mail ting job. Web. 1 : r growth. e marketing cam: c) a plus! ts, 7 days a weet nnected to the Ip couch potatoes, but because they stuff themselves with mountains of potatoes cooked the least healthy way, a re says. Potato chips and French 'fries make up more than one- Iquarter of the vegetable serv 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 [Pennington Biomedical Re- [search Institute. It is not surprising, consid- [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. s, 7 days a week , account details- 1 :s, 7 days a week- id evening HoUiS' inment. Web At ay, 9 August. following means RUSH Phi Beta Lambda Informational Rudder 501 Pool Social Yesterday’s Pot Luck Dinner Tuesday, Sept. 7 th 7-9 Professional dress Thursday, Sept. 9 th 7:30-9 Casual Dress Sunday, Sept. 12 th 7-9 C.S. 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