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6 Monday, August 4, 2003 Senator says Perry is dividing, not By Natalie Gott THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Unlike President George W. Bush, who united people when he was Texas governor, his successor. Gov. Rick Perry, is divid ing Texans, the leader of the walkout by 11 Democratic senators said Sunday. “The difference was Bush was the great uniter. Perry and (U.S. House Majority Tom) DeLay are the great dividers,” said Sen. Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio, chairwoman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Van de Putte also said the current special legislative session, which Perry called last week, is dead. She said a redistricting bill could get approval during another legislative session but listed a group of conditions that would have to be met for it to get out of the Legislature. For instance, both the House and Senate would have to get quorums and Republicans in both chambers would have to agree on a map, she said. “There’s a lot of ifs there,” she said. Her comments came on the sixth day of the Democratic boycott of the Texas Senate in protest over congressional redistricting. The Texas congressional delegation is ruled 17-15 by the Democrats but Republicans, led by DeLay, are pushing for a new map that likely would give the GOP the majority. Van de Putte said as governor. Bush made a great effort to bring minorities into the Republican Party. She said Perry, on the other hand, was threaten ing to lock up in the Senate chamber the Hispanic and black senators so they would be forced to vote on a redistrict ing map that she said would disenfran chise minorities. “What kind of image is that?” Van de Putte said. “1 think the real danger here is not to Governor Perry. I think the real danger here is to the White House and the Republican efforts that would want to be so inclusive.” Perry spokeswoman Kathy Walt said Van de Putte’s allegations are ludicrous and that Perry does not have the author- The difference was Bush was the great uniter. Perry and DeLay are the great di viders. — Leticia Van de Putte Senator, D-San Antonio ity to lock senators in the chamber. Only the lieutenant governor can lock the senators into the chamber. “Her accusations are intended to obscure the fact that they ran away from their job and their responsibility,” Walt said. “They can’t begin to repre sent their constituents while they are in New Mexico.” Walt said Perry drew 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2002 and his poli cies on education, economic develop ment and other issues have brought more Hispanics to the Republican Party. Van de Putte acknowledged that she believed that presidential adviser Karl Rove has been involved in the redis tricting effort. “1 don’t know whose puppet strings are controlling which puppet at this point in the Republican Party,” she said. She also took a personal swipe at Perry. He’s “not the brightest porch light on the block,” Van de Putte said. But, “he really looks good in jeans." Walt said Van de Putte is stooping to personal attacks to try to turn the issue away from the fact that “they ran away from their responsibilities.” DeLay spokesman Jonathan Grella THE BATTALION uniting said Democrats will say and do any thing to avoid their constitutional responsibility, including name calling and fleeing out of state. “We’ll let them call names and ran wherever they see fit but the peopleo( Texas disagree with their tactics and want to see them fulfill their responsi bilities,” Grella said. Attempts to approve a redistricting bill failed during the regular legislalivt session and the first special session, Perry last week called lawmakers bad for a second special session to try again. The Democrats, however, fled in Albuquerque before he called the ses sion. Their absence has blocked a quo rum in the Senate, preventing the lass- makers who stayed in Austin from Id- ing up business in the chamber. The Democrats have pledged to stay out of Austin until the second 30-day special session is over at the endoftlie month. I Volume AS By Sa TH The Dep; Studies wil budget for year, as Tex respond to a ing coupled expenses. College Charles Joh studies was budget cut; Feel the burn RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION Senior electrical engineering major Turner Cress extends weight room. Beginning Aug. 27, the Rec will extend its upward while doing dips in the Student Recreation Center hours of operation from 6 a.m.-lO p.m. to 6 a.m.-midnight. FBI alters intelligence to fit espionage threat By Curt Anderson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The world wants what America has, from cut ting-edge computer software to sci entific research and sensitive defense technology, and nations and overseas companies are increasingly using espionage to get it. In fact, the FBI believes more for eign spies than ever are operating in the United States. Even as it concentrates on pre venting terrorism, the FBI is over hauling its counterintelligence efforts to blunt the threat. Agents are less focused on finding spies among diplomats and embassies — hall marks of the long Cold War with the Soviet Union — and more interested in espionage directed at corporations, research centers and universities. “Left unchecked, such a situation could greatly undermine U.S. nation al security and U.S. military and eco nomic advantage,” FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress recently. For instance, the FBI believes China has more than 3,000 “front” companies in the United States whose real purpose is to direct espi onage efforts. Many of the thousands of Chinese visitors, students and business people who come to i country each year also have a gov ernment intelligence task to perforai, authorities say. The FBI ranks China as the great est espionage threat to the Unitd States in the next 10 years to ISyeait “They figured out that what the; want is throughout the United States, not just embassies, not just con sulates,” David Szady, FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, sail in an interview with The Associated Press. “It’s a major effort.” China is not alone. Russia remaini an espionage power, and the United States also must be vigilant against adversaries such as Iran and Nortl Korea. Friendly countries such as Taiwan and India also pose a threat, There are 40,000 foreign diplo matic officials in the United States, some of whom are intelligence offi cers. Saudi Arabia alone has900offi- cials in this country. Modern espionage can range from finding out where an aerospace com pany produces gyroscopes for satel lites to socializing with a U.S, nuclear research scientist in hopesol gaining scraps of knowledge. In one recent case, adhesive maker Avery Denison estimated a $50 million loss after a spy sold company secretstoa Taiwanese conglomerate. £532 Student Counseling AUDIT SUBMISSIOIU: Aug. 11-Sept. 10, 2003 DELIVERY DATE: Nov. 6, 2003 ORDER SESSIOfUS: 1) Aug. 25-28 2) Sept. 1-4 3) Sept. 8-12 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT REQUIREMENTS: 1. 95 cumulative completed undergraduate credit hours 2. 60 undergraduate resident credit hours completed atTAMU, or degree posted in SIMS 3. 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University 4. Be in good standing with the University. (No blocks, etc.) GRADUATE STUDENT REQUIREMENTS: 1. Degree posted in SIMS or present an original letter of completion from the Office of Graduate Studies 2. 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