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Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Monday January 22,2001
■ The 43rd president enters the White
House with the GOP in control of both
the Senate and the House.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—George Walker Bush
is putting the family name back in the
White House as 43rd president of the
United States.
In the high-noon pageantry of the
transfer of power, George Herbert Walker
Bush stood proud witness to his son's inau
guration 12 years after his own.
And Bill Clinton, who defeated the
elder Bush, stood aside, spared the
prospect of post-presidential prosecution
by surrendering Ids law license and admit
ting false statements in a last-day deal over
the sex scandal that led to his impeach
ment
So ends two terms of Democratic rule,
and so returns a Republican, and a Bush, to
the White House.
Bush promised a “greatness of
America” inaugural address emphasizing
unity, and a brief one at 13 minutes. But he
said with his trademark grin that it might
take longer should there be interruptions
for applause.
Bush said he will speak and work for
people who don't think prosperity is part of
their lives, who may not trust the system of
justice, who “don’t feel America’s so great
for them.” Black voters opposed him 10 to
1, and some still dispute the legitimacy of
his victory.
The new President Bush is the first
Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower in
1953 to take office with GOP control of both
the House, narrowly, and the Senate, only
because of die tie-breaking vote of the new
vice president, Dick Cheney.
Even as Bush prepared to take die oath
of office, Clinton was still doing business
Saturday morning. “I pledged that I would
work until the last hour of die last day. Well,
here we are,” he said in his final weekly
radio address, recorded Friday.
A cold, rainy Inauguration Day brought
with itathreat of sleet and snow by the time
the parade stepped off behind the new
president and first lady Laura Bush. But
inauguration organizers said late Friday
they had no plans to move it inside.
Along the ceremonial mile from the
Capitol to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., there
was pomp and protest on an occasion of
history and sentiment, an emotional one
for the incoming Bush and the departing
Clinton.
It also was an inauguration with
unprecedented security steps, checkpoints
near the Capitol, 10 more along the
Pennsylvania Avenue parade route, to
check the bags and packages of thousands
upon thousands of spectators.
Protesters sued, calling it an effort to
suppress them, but a federal judge ruled
Friday that their rights were not being vio
lated.
The ritual of inauguration, the 54th,
was performed with a cast like none assem
bled before.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
administered the oath of office to the presi
dent whose hairbreadth election was
affirmed by the Supreme Court after a five
week struggle of recounts and challenges.
Former President Bush is the first father
of an incoming president to see his son take
office in 40 years, since Joseph P. Kennedy
watched John F. Kennedy inaugurated.
Only once before, when John Quincy
Adams traced his father's steps into the
White House 176 years ago, has the son of a
president become a president
There remain some who question the
legitimacy of Bush's victory. But the twice
elected Texas governor said repeatedly he
will be president for all Americans, those
who supported him and those who
opposed him.
He also said he hopes he can convince
black voters that he is working for them,
too, and merits minority support like that
he gained for his second term in Texas.
His secretary of state, Colin Powell, due
for confirmation by the Senate shortly after
the inauguration, is the first black
American chosen for that position, one of
two in a Bush Cabinet that includes three
women, two Asian Americans, one of them
a Democrat, and a Hispanic American.
After the ceremony, parade and the
eight black-tie inaugural balls - Bush said
he was brushing up his two-step with Laura
- the president planned an open house on
Sunday for about 3,000 people at the White
House.
Then the first work week, when Bush
will concentrate on Congress, meet with
Republicans, bipartisan congressional
leaders and newly elected members of
both parties. His first big request of
Congress will be for the education bill he
touted in his campaign
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President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush attend one of nine inaugural balk Saturday in
Washington, D.C
Study suggests athletes
more likely to binge drink
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—The stereo
type of hard-drinking college
jocks may have something to it A
study finds college athletes gener
ally outdrink nonathletes.
Alcohol-control education
programs don’t seem to make a
difference - athletes drank more
even though they were quicker to
notice messages against drinking,
the researchers said
An NCAA official, however,
countered that the Harvard
research team was making too
much of the drinking and too little
of the value of the alcohol-control
programs.
The study looked at question
naire responses from 12,777 col
lege students, including 2,172 ath
letes in 130 four-year colleges
around the nation in 1997.
Among men, 57 percent of
athletes reported at least one
binge drinking episode, defined
as five or more drinks in a row on
one or more occasions, in die past
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two weeks. In comparison, less
than 49 percent of nonathletes
drank that much.
Among women, 48 percent of
athletes and 40 percent of nonath
letes reported binge drinking,
defined for females as four
straight drinks in the same period.
Athletes overall were 50 per
cent more likely to say they usual
ly binged when they drank.
Athletes reported a signifi
cantly higher level of exposure to
alcohol education, but the expo
sure did not decrease their drink
ing.
Critics, however, think things
are not as bad as the report indi
cates.
The differences in drinking
behaviors between athletes and
nonathletes generally are modest,
said psychologist Kenneth Sher of
the University of Missouri,
Columbia. And the paper doesn't
indicate whether the athletes'
edge in drinking developed on
campus or arrived with them
from high school, he said.
Philippine president steps down
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANILA, Philippines —
President Joseph Estrada quit
Saturday and the country's vice
president replaced him in a wild
finish to the Philippines' worst
political crisis in more than a
decade.
The departure of the former
action film star came after tens of
thousands of protesters pushed
through police lines and marched
close to die presidential palace to
demand his resignation, and the
Supreme Court said he no longer
governed.
The sudden shift in power
came a day after Estrada’s govern
ment collapsed amid a corrup
tion scandal, fears of a coup and a
collapsed impeachment trial.
Many of his top military com
manders and political allies had
abandoned him
“It is now, as the good book
says, a time to heal and a time to
build,’’ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,
who had been his vice president,
told supporters after taking the
oath of office at the monument to
the 1986 "people power" revolu
tion that toppled late dictator
Ferdinand Marcos.
Anti-Estrada demonstrators
cheered wildly and waved flags
after officials announced Estrada
was out. Macapagal-Arroyo had
been calling herself the “new
commander in chief" since
Estrada's military leaders and
most of the Cabinet deserted him
*It is now, as the good
book says, a time to
heal and a time to
build."
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
new Philippine president
Friday.
Estrada issued a statement
saying he had “strong and serious
doubts about the legality and
constitutionality of her procla
mation as president” but that he
would give up his office to avoid
being an obstacle to the nation’s
healing process.
Ttying to hide their sadness by
smiling and waving to a group of
reporters, Estrada and his family
later left the Malacanang palace,
shaking hands with the remain
ing members of his Cabinet and
other palace employees.
Although Estrada had vowed
earlier to “live and die in our
country,” a diplomatic source
said he was believed to be prepar
ing to go to Australia.
The U.S. Embassy issued a
statement hoping for continued
good relations with the Philippine
government
“The United States is pleased
that the presidential crisis... has
been resolved without violence
and in accordance with demo
cratic and constitutional proce
dures,” the statement said.
In nearby Malaysia, some
3,000 protesters took inspiration
from the Philippines’ peaceful,
albeit boisterous, removal of
Estrada. Gathering Saturday, they
demanded that the country’s
longtime and authoritarian
Prime Minster Mahathir
Mohamad also step down.
Macapagal-Arroyo has
offered few hints about how she
would govern, though she said
tackling poverty and building
consensus would be priorities.
She said in a television inter
view Saturday that top soldiers
and police officers who aban
doned Estrada would likely get
their jobs back, adding she would
not be prejudiced against others
from the old administration when
she selects a Cabinet
The nation has been suffering
through political turmoil that
exploded in October with allega
tions that Estrada took gambling
kickbacks and skimmed money
from provincial tobacco taxes.
His highly charged opponents
and smaller groups of supporters
got into shoving matches early
Saturday near one roadblock,
where rocks and one small explo
sive were thrown. Police fired at
least one warning shofbut there
were no reports of injuries.
Protests swelled and on
Friday at least a quarter-million
people demanded his resignation
during a raucous rally at the site of
the “people power" revolt 15 years
earlier.
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Blackouts leave Californians in the dark
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
— Areas of Northern
California were blacked out
Sunday after demand for
electricity overwhelmed
power grid operators for
the third day in less than a
week.
The outages, affecting
up to 75,000 customers in
the Sacramento, Roseville,
Tlirlock and Modesto areas,
lasted about 20 minutes.
The Independent
System Operator - which
manages 80 percent of the
state’s electricity grid - ear
lier had declared a Stage 3
alert through Monday, an
unprecedented action on
tor
weekends when demand
usually eases.
Stage 3 alerts are
announced when reserves
dip below 1.5 percent and
allow the grid operators to
impose rolling blackouts to
cope with demand.
The blackouts ordered
Wednesday and Thursday
had affected many more
customers.
The alerts were
prompted by tight supplies
and power plants that were
idled for maintenance or
repairs.
The alerts were accom
panied by urgent requests
for Californians to con
serve energy.
“Apparently suppliers
*
need to see we’re in a Stage
3 because those resources
are needed in the (Pacific)
Northwest,” said ISO
spokeswoman Stephanie
McCorkle.
The ISO had hoped for
a reprieve from the emer
gency over the weekend,
when power needs gener
ally drop by 2,000
megawatts.
Blackouts imposed
Wednesday and Thursday
in northern and central
California darkened hun
dreds of thousands of
homes and businesses for
up to two hours. The state
avoided another round of
blackouts on Friday and
Saturday.
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The Associated Press
■ China
Counterfeit Viagra pills
being sold in Shanghai shops
BEIJING — Just six months
after the anti-impotence drug
Viagra was approved in China,
an estimated 90 percent of the
pills being sold in Shanghai are
fake, the official Xinhua News
Agency said Saturday.
The counterfeits perfectly
duplicate the blue diamond
shaped pills and their Chinese
“Wan Ai Ke” logo, but the report
didn’t say whether they offer the
same results or damage the
user’s health.
Shanghai health officials
inspected 197 sex shops and
drug stores in the last month
and found dozens of boxes of
pills with forged serial numbers.
Police arrested two people
for running a Shanghai factory
that produced 455,000 counter
feit Viagra tablets, the state-run
China Daily said Saturday. It
said the tablets contained some
of the same ingredients used in
the real drug.
■ Washington, D.C.
Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
sparks political concern
Abortion rights supporters
are finding themselves on tough
terrain for tomorrow's 28*h
anniversary of the landmark
Roe vs. Wade decision that
legalized abortion, as abortion
foes are energized by the sud
denly changed political land
scape.
Bill Clinton, the president
who helped the cause for keep
ing abortions legal, is gone,
replaced by anti-abortion
President Bush, who has nomi
nated an even more staunch
abortion opponent as attorney
general, John Ashcroft. -
“Certainly we can’t count on
the White House now,” said
Patricia Ireland, president of the
National Organization for
Women.
■ Illinois
Jackson speaks publidy,
thanks family for support
CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse
Jackson thanked his family and
supporters for standing by him
as he spoke publicly today for
the first time since acknowledg
ing he fathered a daughter dur
ing an extramarital affair.
But Jackson, speaking
briefly to worshippers who
packed Salem Baptist Church,
saved his most personal com
ments for his wife, Jackie.
“After 38 years and five chil
dren later, Jackie, you’re still
here,” Jackson said.
The civil rights leader said
he was grateful to supporters
who made it clear that they
want him to return to the helm
of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
soon and indicated he is ready
to resume his work.
■ Egypt
Palestinian and Israeli teams
begin peace negotiations
TABA — Israeli and
Palestinian teams began peace
negotiations at this Egyptian
resort Sunday but both sides
gave off signals that dampened
the already slim hopes for suc
cess.
In Israel, Prime Minister
Ehud Barak set lines he pledged
never to cross, and senior
Palestinian negotiator Saeb
Erekat said the Israeli stance
meant the “failure of these
negotiations before they begin.”
Palestinian negotiator Nabil
Shaath was not quite so pes
simistic about the talks, but he
stressed that the Palestinians
would not feel pressured by
Israel's looming election.
■ Washington, D.C.
High gasoline prices led
to decrease in sales last year
With prices high, American
motorists used 1 percent less
gasoline last year than the year
before, the first decline in
demand in nearly a decade, the
American Petroleum Institute
reported Friday.
The API, a trade group rep
resenting large oil companies,
said that the decline in gasoline
deliveries to retail outlets came
despite overall economic
growth during 1999 and contin
ued growth in consumer
income.
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