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==. news digest Bush tours south Florida, vows reimbursement HOMESTEAD, Fla. — President Bush took an emotional lour Tuesday of H urricanc Andrew ’ s worst ravages and cheered Florida officials by pledg ing 100 percent federal reimburse ment for eligible costs of the massive cleanup and rebuilding effort. He also announced that Home stead Air Force Base, which w'dftrippcd apart by the furious storm, will be rebuilt “to show our commitment to south Florida.” “We’re in litis for the long haul. We won’t leave until the job is done,” said Bush in the courtyard of Home stead Middle School, now serving as an emergency medical center. There were complaints last week from some Dade County, Fla., offi cials that Washington had been slow ' to respond. Bush canceled a weekend ' vacation and West Coast campaign trip to show Florida he cared—and to avoid the political fallout that could cost him the state’s 25 electoral voles. But he heard no recriminations, only thanks, from Andrew’s victims, Bush, his wife Barbara, and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney viewed the devastation, comforting those who suffered and applauding the efforts of the military and other rescue workers. “If it wasn’t for the federal govern ment getting involved here, we’d be in big trouble,” said Rick Pravc, 33, an electrician from Leisure City, Fla. The Bush party later flew from Florida to Louisiana for a look at the lesser disaster there from Andrew’s second U.S. landfall and wound up in Jcancrctlc, La. There, Bush visited a battered sugar cane farm — announcing he would not raise the sugar cane import quota despite crop damage — and a food distribution center where he shook hands with volunteers and people I ined up for free groceries. “I’m not impressed,” said one vol unlccr, Bryan Thompson, 31, of Lafayeuc, La. “The people in line out front probably appreciate the food more than seeing the president." The federal government nomtally pays 75 percent of the cost of rebuild ing the infrastructure in disaster ar eas. Bush last week said Washington would cover 90 percent in the path of destruction that Andrew cut through Florida. But now he promised 100 percent funding in the wake of the costliest disaster in U.S. history. Florida offi cials estimate the total damages as high as $20 billion. Asked iflhe government could pay for such an effort, Bush said, “It’s going to have to afford it.” It was Bush’s second trip to both slates since Andrew tore ashore eight days ago and left 250,000 Floridians without homes. His previous slop was in Miami, which missed the brunt of the storm. Homestead, 30 miles south of Mi ami, looks like it was carpet-bombed, from the twisted, skeletal hangars at the air base that entombed two F-16s and a C-130 cargo plane to the trailer park nearby reduced to splinters and debris. Latest indicators portray barely growing economy U.N. team begins work in Iraq MANAMA, Bahrain—Nuclear weapons experts wen t to work Tues day under tightened security in Baghdad on the first U.N. inspec tion mission since U.S.-led allies set up the “no-f!y”/oncin southern Iraq. A U.N. official, reached by sat ellite telephone in Baghdad, said there were “no problems” during the team’s full day of work. The official, who spoke on con dition of anonymity, said “a lot” of Iraqi security personnel accompa nied the team, but gave no specif ics. The 21-member team — which includes experts from the United States, France,Germany, Italy and Poland — set out from its Baghdad hotel early Tuesday without dis • closing its destination. The team returned at sunset. The mission has been conducted under unusually high security and secrecy. The United Nations placed 1 its workers on maximum alert after a bomb was found attached to the car of three U.N. guards in northern Iraq on Friday. U.S. and allied jets last Thurs day began patrolling the “no-fly” zone—the part of Iraq south of the 32nd parallel. Iraqi military air craft have been banned from the zone, which shelters Shiite Mus lims who have been under attack since trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein last year. Baghdad has declared creation of the zone an act of war and has pledged retaliation. Some Iraqi of ficials have hinted the retaliation could take the form of challenging the U.N. inspection teams or U.N. relief efforts. Team leader MaurizioZiffercro, an Italian official of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, has said he expects “a very quiet mission — and a fruitful one.” He also has tried to disassociate his U.N.-supervised hunt for nuclear weapons from the “no-fly” zone controversy. - Under the U.N. Security Coun cil resolution that set the terms of the Gulf War cease-fire, Iraq is prohibited from possessing or de veloping weapons of mass destruc tion. The inspection teams are to ensure that Iraq docs not retain nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, ballistic missiles, or the facilities to make them. Baghdad last month served no tice that it will prevent access to ministry buildings. The team that was last in Iraq did not challenge the Iraqis on that score. Ziffcrcro said he did not know if the U.S. Special’Commission, which supervises weapons destruc tion, would ask him to challenge the ministry ban. WASHINGTON — The government’s chief economic fore casting gauge signals little improve ment in the listless economy until at * least next year. The Commerce Department said Tuesday its Index of Leading Indica tors, designed to predict economic activity six to nine months in ad vance, edged up 0.1 percent in July after falling 0.3 percent in June. Despite the minor gain, that was hardly good news for President Bush’s re-election campaign. “The economy is kind of flounder ing,” said William Dunkclbcrg, dean of Temple University’s business school. “From the politician’s point of view, it’s the kiss of death.” In another report, the department said construction activity declined 0.6 percent in July, the second consecu tive drop and the worst since Decem ber. A modest upturn in government construction projects wasn’t enough - I lo offset decreases in residential and commercial construction. Economists sgid the reports por tray a sluggish economy, growing rather than shrinking, but loo weak lo meaningfully reduce an unemploy ment rate that jumped from 5.1 per cent in June 1990 to an eight-year high of 7.8 percent two years later. The Labor Department is sched uled on Friday to release the August rate. In advance, economists were predicting 7.6 percent,down from 7.7 percent in July. They foresee little further improvement through the rest of the year. “The economy is essentially dead. It’sbarclygrowing,ifataII,and there’s no sign we’re emerging from the stag nation,” said economist Lawrence Chimcrinc, a Philadelphia-based ad viser to DRI-McGraw Hill Inc. Before the election, only one more unemployment report is scheduled for release, on Oct. 2. .. "Those who don "t read good books have no advantage over those who can "t." -Mark Twain In today's competitive job market, employers are looking for people with more than just a good G.P.A., they want employees with up-to-date job skills. The Great Books Program is designed to develop and increase four basic skills that today's employers are looking for ASUN to oppose resolution From Staff Reports ROTC’s sexual discrimination policy re garding homosexuals will be the main topic at | n |^| the AS UN meeting tonight, j ASMN said Andrew Sigcrson, 1 president of the Associa tion of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska. Student leaders will de bate a bill calling for the Academic Senate at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln to change a resolution regarding the ROTC policy. The Academic Senate’s resolution urges the chancellor to eliminate academic credit for ROTC programs and withdraw faculty status from ROTC instructors until the program com plies with NU Board of Regents and UNL policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. _..... . The ROTC policies must be revised by Jan. 1,1993.according to the resolution. The ASUN bill would urge the Academic Senate to rescind this stance toward ROTC. “This is not the way to deal with a problem,” Sigerson said. Union Board to study access By Sarah Scalet Staff Reporter_ Accessibility of the University of Ncbraska Lincoln student unions to students with dis abilities is the focus of a new committee formed Uby the Union Board at its meeting Tuesday. Board member Bill Snyder, who will head the committee, said the Union Board had talked about im proving accessibility for the disabled as long as he had been a member. But Snyder said he wanted to get the ball rolling and find out specifically what improve ments needed to be made. The committee will report its findings to the Union Board OcL 13. In other business, board members voted to dissolve the Campus Activities and Programs advisory board. Board member Kevin Brown, who made the proposal, said he and CAP director Marilyn Bugcnhagcn agreed the board was no longer necessary. Because so many students are around the CAP office every day. Brown said, no need exists for a specific group of advisers. The name of the CAP office also has been changed to the Office for Student Involvement. • Reading comprehension • Critical-thinking • Oral language • Writing The Great Books Program is recommended for students of all majors and interests. 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