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Professor, Performance Stttdies Program, Texas A&M University Sunday, April 16, 2000 8:00 P.M., Rudder Auditorium Tickets may be purchased at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234 Tickets cost: $20.00 adults, $5-00 students S’ Additional support provided by Texas AdrM University Department of Performance Studies, the Arts Council of Brazos Valle) Bma>< Bust ties Arts Alliance, Texas Commission on the TEXAS Arts, the Asttn Charitable Trusts and the Doak Foundation. •• *■« Latino policy unfair Museum wing opt WASHINGTON (AP) — Policy makers must address the health care dis parities affecting the I lispanic commu nity, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus said Thursday. Latinos represent a disproportionate share of the nation’s uninsured and are likelier to be hit by diabetes and other illnesses, the caucus said in a report is sued Thursday. The caucus called for improved Hispanic access to health care, more funding for organizations that do Lati no health care outreach, increased rep resentation in the health care profession and better data collection. “Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, and it is expected that by the year 2025, Latinos will constitute approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population,” said caucus Chairwoman Lucille Roybal- Allard, D-Calif. Hispanics account for 35 percent of the nation’s uninsured even though they comprise just II percent of the population. Nearly three-quarters of those uninsured Latinos live in just four states — California, Texas, New York and Florida. In Texas, which leads the percent age of uninsured residents, 45 percent of the state’s Hispanics say they had no health insurance, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention re ported last month. Part of the probllrn, said Rep. Giro Rodriguez, D-San Antonio, is that I lis panic working families “are concen trated in low-wage jobs and small firms that are least likely to offer health insurance.” Rodriguez said caucus members will introduce legislation that would provide incentives for businesses to provide health coverage for low-wage workers, expand the Children’s I lealth Insurance Program to include parents, and provide coverage for low-income legal immi grant women and children. The Louvre goes primitive Paris’s Louvre Museum opened a new wing Thursday, thathotsj very first collection of primitive art objects. Where to find the new wing .. Louvre Musei- 4 Carrousel Gardens Main v entrance New wing ... and what one might find there Source: Louvre Muse Russian communists against START II trea Highlights include this Mexican terra cotta sculpture. MOSCOW (AP) — Despite protests from hard-lin ers, Russia’s parliament began work Thursday on ap proving the long-stalled START II treaty, which would clear the way for huge cuts in the U.S. and Russian nu clear arsenals. The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, went into a closed session for briefings from Foreign Minis ter Igor Ivanov and Defense Ministry Igor Sergeyev. They urged lawmakers to pass the treaty when it comes up for a vote on Friday. START II would halve U.S. and Russian nuclear ar senals to about 3,000-3,500 warheads each by the end of2007. The Duma is expected to approve the treaty, which was ratified by the U.S. Senate in 19%. Centrist parties gained a majority in the Duma in elections in Decem ber, ending years of control by the Communists and their hard-line allies. “Many understand the need for ratification,” Sergeyev said after the session. “Communists w ill prob ably vote against, but there is no evidence or arguments to convince one that ratification would fail.” President Vladimir Putin, who won elections in March, has urged the Duma to approve START H. Putin has balanced his call to restore Russia as a great power w ith a pragmatic policy of preserving good relations with the West. The Communists have called the START II treaty a disgrace, warning it would weaken Russia and give the United States military superiority. But Russian supporters of START II say many Russ ian strategic missiles are past their service lifetime and will have to be scrapped soon anyway.’Short of every thing from new' weapons to uniforms, the Russian mil itary is in a shambles and the government cannot afford massive new military spending. BY JAS The <]/) ■;M junior E The government and centrist lawmaker-U HO met country‘s nuclear program should shift tofajl 1 smaller arsenal of modem weapons. su.N ft new Topol-M missile. ■ ^ “A few modem missiles, capable of through a missile-defense system in a relate would be a much moreeftectivedeterrent,” maker Andrei Kokoshin said. Ratifying the long-delayed treaty wouldrrl irritant in U.S.-Russian relations but wouldm! a growing dispute over Washington’s call loar# Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. ’ ■ Bashir Ran Washington uants to change the a s,ak ' 1 so n can build a limited iiiissile-ddaisesyMC' senvllu,|la ' " K ble inivalc attacks Iron)”'. ^P'^kd onto , lions" such as North Korea. 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