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Federal assistance urged
for Texas agriculturists
BY JEANETTE SIMPSON
The Battalion
For the past few months,
many parts of Texas have seen lit
tle rainfall, and weather forecast
ers say they see no relief in sight.
Data from the Palmer Drought
Severity Index indicates the Bra
zos Valley area has experienced
moderate drought conditions,
leading to lower-than-average
crop yields.
Wes Sims, Texas Farmers Union
president, said he asked the U.S.
Congress to provide desperately
needed disaster relief to Texas
farmers.
Sims said Texas will not receive
disaster assistance unless Con
gress passes legislation to change
the Federal Agriculture Improve
ment and Reform act (FAIR), a
seven-year farm policy effective
through 2002.
Sims said when Congress
passed the 1996 law, it eliminat
ed important disaster-relief pro
grams and fixed the marketing
loan rate at 1995 levels.
Because caps were placed on
marketing loans by the FAIR act,
farmers are receiving loans re
lated to the 1995 prices for cat
tle, cotton, soybeans and other
products.
Sims said the FAIR act ap
proved changes to farm laws,
which are critical during times of
disaster. FAIR eliminated emer
gency livestock feeding and oth
er programs now needed in
Texas because of severe drought
conditions.
“The 1996 farm law was based
on the false assumption that
farmers and ranchers could de
pend solely upon the internation
al market to receive a fair price
for their product,” Sims said.
A $7.3 billion farm-relief
package offered by U.S. Sen.
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was voted
down by Congress.
The proposal included funds
to cover both disaster and eco
nomic losses. Instead, the com
mittee adopted a $4 billion Re
publican plan.
The Farmers Union is calling
on Congress to reject the weak
legislation and send it back to
committee for improvements.
Sims said more assistance will
be needed to meet the needs of
farmers and ranchers in Texas.
“Many producers in Texas will
not make it through the year if
Congress doesn’t get down to
business and pass this legislation
now,” he said.
The union leader said the
USDA is doing all it can within
current laws to help farmers.
“Some people in Texas are
mistaken when they claim that
Secretary of Agriculture Dan
Glickman is not doing enough to
assist farmers and ranchers in
drought-stricken areas,” he said.
“It is Congress, not Agriculture
Secretary Glickman, that is re
sponsible for the lack of disaster
assistance in our state."
A&M OK forYl
BY ROLANDO GARCIA
The Battalion
Although survivalists are prepar
ing for a global meltdown if the
world’s computers crash on Jan. 1,
2000, life at Texas A&M will be busi
ness as usual, officials say.
Kim Reverman, an analyst with
Computer Information Services and
head of the Year 2000 Team, said the
University’s computer systems are
Y2K-compliant.
“The mission-critical systems
are ready, and so there’s just a lot
of little things that have to be
done," she said.
The compliant systems are pay
roll, administration, the library sys
tem, student computing centers, the
campus computer network, food
services, the University Police De
partment and utilities.
Work for other systems, such
as Aggie Bucks cardlocks at resi
dence halls, is in progress and
should be completed before the
new year, she said.
However, Reverman said there
may be some problems with Park
ing, Traffic and Transportation Ser
vices (PTTS). Self-pay stations in
parking garages are not Y2K-com-
pliant and do not recognize some of
the new dollar bills.
PTTS director Tom Williams said
the machines will be operational but
will not accept credit cards. He said
the department is in the process of
replacing the machines.
In a related problem, PTTS’s
hand-held ticket writers do not rec
ognize February 29, 2000. This day
exists only in leap years and will
make ticket-writing difficult.
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Student Loan Corporation
weren’t compliant, andwe'ir |. n t 0 f tl
vestigating,” Revemiansaid |
don ’t know if it is a seriouspq
She said while no majors
er malfunctions are expected
various departments are11-,p resu
contingency plans to deal wit
lems if they should arise.
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happen, and we wanttote|
to resolve them quickly
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Blobel wins
Nobel Prize
for medicine
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
(AP) — Dr. Guenter Blobel
of The Rockefeller Univer
sity in New York won the
Nobel Prize for medicine
today for protein research
that shed new light on dis
eases such as cystic fibro
sis and early development
of kidney stones.
Blobel, 63, a native of
Germany who became a
U.S. citizen in the 1980s,
was cited for discovering
proteins carry signals that
act as zip codes, helping
them find their correct lo
cations within the cell.
Some hereditary dis
eases are caused by er
rors in these signals and
the associated transport
mechanisms, the Nobel
Assembly said in an
nouncing the prize.
The work has helped
Shepard murder suspect goes on tri
NOBEL
Medicine • 1999
Winners since 1989
1999 Guenter Blobel, U.S.
Robert F. Furchpott Louis
J. Iqnarro and Fend Murad.
US.
1997 Stanley B Pruslner. U.S.
Peter C. Doherty. Australia,
and Roll M Zinkemagel.
Switzerland
Edward B Lewis and Eric
F. Wieschaus. U.S . and
Chrlatlane Nuesslein-
Volhard, Germany
Richard J. Roberts. Britain,
and Phillip A. Sharp, U.S.
Edwin G Krebs, U S., and
Edmond H. Fischer, U.S.
and Switzerland
Erwin Neher and Bert
Sakmann, Germany
1990 Joseph E Murray and
E. Donnall Thomas. U.S.
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A year after the
beating death of Matthew Shepard, the man ac
cused of instigating the attack chatted quietly
with his attorneys today as jury selection got
under way in his death-penalty trial.
Aaron McKinney smiled occasionally and
briefly looked at his notes as prosecutor Cal Re-
rucha outlined how a jury will be chosen.
Rerucha reminded prospective jurors they
must set aside passion and treat both sides
fairly.
McKinney’s father, William McKinney, along
with three other family members or friends, sat
behind the defendant.
Shepard, a gay college student, died a year
ago today after a beating that sparked national
outrage.
As McKinney’s trial got under way, small
groups of anti-gay protesters and people dressed
as angels demonstrated outside the courthouse.
Seventeen people wearing golden halos and
costumes made of white bedsheets stood silent
ly in a street near the courthouse. Romaine Pat
terson, 21, of State College, Pa., said her col
leagues wanted to send a message of love.
They faced a half-dozen protesters from
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The Rev. Fred Phelps, 69, of Topeka, Kar
his followers wanted “to insert a little sail
truth into this mad orgy.”
At midmorning, eight prospectivejuit'
been dismissed tor reasons such asd
duty, medical problems or job issues. U
51 prospects in today’s pool.
McKinney, 22, is charged with first-2
murder, kidnapping and aggravatedrobtf
convicted, he could be sentenced
His alleged co-conspirator, Russell Het^T
son, 22, received two life sentences after y
ing guilty in April to felony murdieT awBw X
napping.
Shepard, 21, was lured from a bar onOi \ ect
1998, driven to a remote prairie, tied to ai ^ evt
pistol-whipped into unconsciousness aii( VRu
to die on the freezing plains. He died five wide
later in a hospital. :t exan
McKinney, who said he had no ideaShe w regi
was gay and does not hate homosexuals Machi
pleaded innocent. n the ’
His trial date coincided with set sbeco
memorials commemorating the first anti p e vas
sary of the slaying. a seri
—srorist
J. Michael Bishop and
Harold E. Varmus, U.S.
scientists use cells in laboratories to churn out
drugs and has had an “immense impact” on
studies of the cell, the assembly said.
Blobel said he initially thought the call from
Stockholm telling him he had won was a prank.
“I’m very excited,” Blobel said at a news con
ference in New York, where he lives with his wife.
Blobel, a founder of Friends of Dresden, a
group that helps collect money for the German
city, said he would use the $960,000 he won to
help pay for the restoration of Dresden’s famed
Frauenkirche church, which was destroyed dur
ing World War II, as well as to fund restoration
of a Dresden synagogue.
Blobel was born in the town of Waltersdorf, Sile
sia, in present-day Poland, in 1936. His family
moved to Freiberg, in Germany’s eastern Saxony
state, after World War II.
San Francisco security guard kills neighbllX
he wanted to grab you. It was AI —* 1 ' m on ^ ec *
like he was drowning. He
looked like he was seeing a
ghost.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A
mentally ill security guard
marched upstairs and killed
three neighbors before taking
his own life, leaving a wound
ed 2-year-old girl sitting in her
high chair amid the bloodbath.
Lorenzo “Sol” Silva, 63, had
been friendly with the young
family who lived on the second
floor of the two-story home he
shared with his mother.
But recently his mental con
dition worsened, and he could
not sleep without his mother in
the room and a light on, his
brother, Silvestre Silva, said.
“He had been nervous for
years,” the brother said. “I saw
him last week — he looked like
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ies and the baby
crying.”
— Buen Liriors
murderer’s brother in law
Police said they do not know
what prompted the shooting.
Police said Silva finished the
graveyard shift at the San Fran
cisco airport and came home
early Sunday.
About l:30 p.m.
marched upstairs withe
gun — one of the
guns he kept in his apart
He fatally shot Noel ft
his 28-year-old wife,Jo$ Jssi ‘ in
and a friend, Ola Mai? J i ve l kl **
32, who lived with them aecher
The Riduals’ daughtf ‘ lom ^
sica, was wounded in Toda’
shoulder and was in faitfl 3v ' e t L
tion yesterday. on > s n
Downstairs, members* fe for <
Silva family heard thegur* ne inm
and went upstairs. nother
“I saw the four bodies Until
the baby crying” in her
chair, Silva’s brother-rt’
Buen Liriors, said. “There
blood all over.”
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