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Wednesday, July 3, 2002
Congress' Only Black Republican Will Not Seek Re-election
The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. - Rep. J.C. Watts
of Oklahoma, the only black
Republican in Congress, said Monday
that he will not seek a fifth term this fall,
setting up a wide-open race that could
help Democrats in their drive to regain
control of the House.
Watts, the fourth-ranking member of
the House GOP leadership, said he was
leaving to spend more time with his wife
and five children.
“It has been a wonderful ride. It has
been a wonderful journey. Of course,
the work of America is never done, but
I believe my work in the House of
Representatives at this time of my life is
Undercover Testers Get Weapons by Airport Security
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Fake guns,
bombs and other weapons got past secu
rity screeners almost one-fourth of the
time at 32 major airports last month, a
Transportation Security Administration
official said Monday.
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completed,” Watts
said.
Watts, 44, made
the announcement
in his hometown
of Norman, where
he was a star quar
terback for the
University of
Oklahoma foot
ball team. He said
he had no imme
diate plans other
than to finish his
book, “What
Color Is a
Conservative?”
U.S. Congressman
i.C. Watts
is the fourth ranking
Republican in the
House of
Representatives.
Watts is the second House
At three airports - Cincinnati, Las
Vegas and Jacksonville, Fla. - under
cover testers got the fake weapons past
security at least half the time, the official
said, speaking on condition of anonymi
ty.
The official said that the findings
were incomplete and that the testing
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Republican leader to announce his
retirement since December after the
departure of House Majority Leader
Dick Armey of Texas.
Democrats - who need to gain seven
seats this fall to win control of the House
- suggested a trend was going their way
for the midterm elections.
“House Republican leaders must
know something that the rest of the cau
cus doesn’t - that their chances for hold
ing the majority are slipping away faster
than the sand in an hourglass,” said
Jenny Backus of the House Democratic
Campaign Committee.
Carl Forti, spokesman for the
National Republican Congressional
Committee, said the GOP will retain its
period ended Monday.
In February, the administration,
rather than the airlines, began supervis
ing airport, checkpoints, but the screen
ers continue to work for private compa
nies. Federal employees are supposed to
replace them by Nov. 19.
Transportation Security Administration
spokeswoman Mari K. Eder said the
agency continues to test how well the
screeners find weapons and explosives to
help the agency improve security.
The test results were first reported
Monday by USA Today.
Currently, government employees
are screening passengers at only three
airports - Baltimore, Louisville, Ky.,
and Mobile, Ala. -but the security
agency said last week it will begin over
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majority.
“I think it says a lot about Republican
plans to expand the House majority that
two of the leaders feel comfortable in
retiring with the knowledge that their
seats will remain safely in Republican
hands,” he said.
Watts had told fellow Republicans he
was tired and needed to make more
money for his family.
He also occasionally complained that
he was not included enough in leader
ship decisions.
The congressman, a member of the
House Armed Services Committee,
recently expressed concern that
President Bush did not communicate
with him about the administration’s plan
hauling checkpoints at more than 130
other airports this month. That’s the first
step toward replacing the private screen
ers with an all-federal work force.
But progress toward hiring screeners
might be delayed unless Congress
approves a supplemental spending bill
that includes some $4 billion for the
agency, said Transportation Secretary
Norman Mineta.
The airport tests revealed that screen
ers found hidden simulated weapons or
explosives at least 90 percent of the time
in Miami, Newark, NJ., Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and Honolulu. They
missed the weapons 41 percent of the
time in Los Angeles.
Overall, the screeners failed to detect
prohibited items 24 percent of the time.
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to kill the Crusader artillery system. The
sll billion weapon was to be assembled
in Elgin and training conducted at Fort
Sill, in Watts’ district.
At his news conference, Watts deflect
ed questions about any discontent and
said he thinks the Crusader program
would be revived in some form.
Watts had a fast ride to the party’s
top echelon after his election among
(he Republicans’ conservative class of
1994.
He spoke during the GOP presiden
tial convention two years later and gave
the party’s response to the State of the
Union address in 1997.
A year later, he was named chairman
of the GOP conference.
HORACE WILLIAMS
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cil with Epting.
“The site is in the neighborhood, and
it is certainly a neighborhood concern,”
she said.
“I haven’t focused on it until recent
ly, but I think now is the time to focus
on it since UNC seems to be in a hurry
to develop that 900-acre property.”
Epting said he thinks the council can
put some pressure on the University to
solve the problem.
“I think our pressure will help the
University find the funds to clean it up,”
he said.
Epting said council members agreed
with the petition.
“I know for a fact from talking to
them that all the Town Council mem
bers join in this idea - the University
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SUBLETTING
From Page 1
Some apartment managers and
homeowners do not allow tenants to
sublease at all. Obviously, this policy
automatically eliminates any subletting
related complications.
At 82 Magnolia in Chapel Hill, ten
ants can sign a minimum six-month or
maximum 15-month lease but are strict
ly prohibited from subletting.
Others allow subletting but require
sublessors to sign leases of their own,
holding them responsible for the dura
tion of their stay.
Despite the perils of subletting, it
remains a popular choice among stu
dents.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
needs to clean this up now.”
This is not the first time UNC has
been called on to take responsibility and
clean up after itself.
In 2000, UNC had to clean up its
Mason Farm chemical site, which cost
the University about $6 million.
That cleanup has almost been com
pleted.
Reinhardt said the Horace Williams
site should now become a higher prior
ity.
Epting is confident that the site will
get cleaned up soon.
He said, “There is common ground
in agreement by everybody that this
thing has got to be cleaned up, and I
think we are going to help to get it
cleaned up in this generation, not in the
next generation.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
DELEGATES
From Page 1
UNC-CH delegates represent the most
students in the UNC system and there
fore the plurality of funding.
Hiller said he was “exceptionally
impressed” with all of the 24 applicants
for the voting positions. “We turned away
a lot of people who are very qualified, but
we need the right mix of people,” he said.
Last year there were eight applicants
for the positions.
Hiller said he thinks the increase in
interest is partially because this year’s
student government officers started
recruiting early and targeted groups that
are traditionally underrepresented by
student government and partly due to
the fact that many students are interest
ed in making changes to student gov
ernment at UNC-CH this year.
“We’re coming off a really frustrating
year,” Hiller said. “People were looking
for some kind of change - any kind of
change.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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