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State 4A Saturday, September 9, 2000, Longvlew Newt-Journal Bush to negotiate on Judge upholds motion to keep Bush in lawsuit debates 's out Tuesday WACO (AP) George W. Bush's campaign will meet with Al Gore's representatives and the presidential debate commission next week to "break this impasse" and negotiate terms for debates this fall, Bush's spokeswoman said Friday. The two candidates have been trading barbs on the subject for weeks. Recently Bush has been insisting on a schedule that would include only one commission-sponsored presidential debate and two other less-formal TV confrontations, while Gore has said he would consider other formats only after Bush agreed to the widely telecast commission debates. Bush now has told campaign chairman Don Evans to tell the commission Dietz on Friday explained that he was more familiar with Department of Public Safety rules now than he was when he made the original ruling and wanted the record to reflect that.

No trial date has been set in the case. Attorney David Kahne, "who represents the protesters, said he plans to meet with state officials soon to discuss a settlement. Bush spokeswoman Linda Edwards said Friday that the security policies regarding protesters at the mansion were made by the Department of Public Safety. Bush nor his office participated in creating those protestor policies, she said. he is ready "to discuss with them and with the Gore campaign a way to work out a plan so there will in fact be debates," said communications director Karen Hughes.

"He is taking the initiative to break this impasse." Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said in a statement, "The Bush campaign has accepted the CPD's invitation to meet. We are working to schedule a meeting with Bush and pore campaigns representatives next week." One possibility being discussed at the Austin headquarters is accepting' as many as two commission-sponsored debates while trying to secure a less formal non-commission session to start off the debate season. AUSTIN (AP) Gov. George W. Bush will remain in a lawsuit that accuses him of violating free speech rights of environmental protesters at the Governor's Mansion last year, a judge ruled Friday.

State District Judge John Dietz had issued the same order Aug. 30, but then told the government lawyers they could file a motion to reconsider. The lawsuit, filed in August 1999 against Bush and the Texas Department of Public Safety, alleged that the governor gave state troopers "unbridled discretion" to target protesters picketing in front of the mansion on a public sidewalk. AP photo Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W.

Bush exhorts Democrats to join him at the Marconi Communications factory Friday in Warrendale, Pa. ft Galveston marks anniversary of disaster "111 Love You Caring for Aging Loved Ones Six Week Seminar on Sundays Sept. 10 Oct. 15, 6-7 pm 1 Emotional Issues Making Proper Decisions Care Options Financial Considerations .0 3 Victims of surprise hurricane remembered GALVESTON (AP) The surprise hurricane that attacked Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900, reached its terrific crescendo shortly after nightfall.

About that time, 100 hundred years later, Galvestonians were set to gather Friday for a candlelight memorial in honor of the 6,000 to 10,000 who perished in the nation's deadliest natural disaster. As a steady drizzle fell throughout the day, evening ceremonies planned for the city's high school football stadium were being moved into the school's auditorium. Scaled-down events were planned since an overflow crowd was expected at the Ball High School auditorium, which only seats 1,200 people. Thunder from a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico rolled ominously Friday morning when the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word marked the site of St. Mary's Orphanage.

There, 90 children and 10 nuns died when the storm surge splintered two beachfront dormitories. The site is now marked by the memorial service will replace the usual crashing of football gear. Speakers will include U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who was born on this barrier island along the state's upper coast.

Galveston was the state's fourth-largest city in 1900, an important gulf port whose per-capita wealth was among the highest nationally. It would be years before oil would dominate the Texas economy; cotton reigned at the turn of the 19th century. Storms of various magnitudes had swept across the island before, but few here took hurricanes seriously. In fact, many actually believed that the Galveston was somehow immune to the kind of massive cyclone that obliterated Indianola down the coast in the 1886. That Saturday began with clouds and low-level tidal flooding that worsened by noon.

Winds accelerated to damaging levels as currents submerged the three-mile wide isle by mid-afternoon. Pounding waves already were tearing apart structures near the beach. Galveston felt the brunt after nightfall when the 15-foot storm surge and 150 mph winds decimated nearly 3,000 homes. AP photo Two stuffed teddy bears sit against a pole Friday in Galveston where a plaque marks the site where St. Mary's Orphanage was swept away during the Great Storm 1 00 years ago.

Lead by Eddie Gooch, Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist ALPINE CHURCH OF CHRIST 17-foot seawall that has. protected Galveston from the gulfs fury ever since. Among the speakers was a Missouri man whose father was one of the three orphan boys who survived the tempest. "He especially recalled holding on to his (4-year-old) brother," Robert Murney, 75, of Springfield, said. "The roof collapsed, and he was hit on the hand by a timber.

He had that scar on his hand all of his life. At that point, he lost his brother and never saw him again." In the half-hour ceremony during which 10 roses and 90 other flowers were laid at the historical monument along the seawall for the orphanage victims, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word sang the hymn "Queen of the with which nuns calmed the children during the disaster. A day of commemorations were to culminate at Kermit Courville Stadium, where a candlelight 610 East Loop 281 (one block east of Eastman Road) Call (903) 758-0161 for more information to pre-register Better Sleep On i Officials consider building one of state's largest lakes to quench thirst turn wuitin (Ari Lrrowm in worth Texas, wnere residents have historically had fewer water supply problems than in other regions, is prompting a call to build one of the state's biggest lakes. The proposed Marvin Nichols Lake, would sprawl across 62,000 years. It's almost too good to be true," John Jadrosich, a Trinity River Authority spokesman, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Friday's editions.

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