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(HbeGIitnusairflUJ lemocrat Continued from 1A Page 4A, Orangeburg, S.C., Thursday, August 18, 1994 Clinton they said most GOP demands were unrealistic. "We are not getting, as far as I can tell, a' mood of conciliation from the Republicans," Foley said. About 25 mayors, county officials and police chiefs including GOP Mayors Rudolph Giuliani of New York and Richard Riordan of Los Angeles prowled across Capitol Hill, lobbying lawmakers and holding news conferences in favor of the legislation. "The prevention aspect of this bill is very much like the law enforcement part of this bill it will reduce crime," Giuliani told at the White House, Republican leaders were putting together a list of their own demands that, they said, would make support for the bill bipartisan. All but 11 GOP lawmakers voted against the legislation last week, saying it contained mountains of wasteful spending and was too lenient on criminals.

House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, said he favored $3 billion to $4 billion in spending reductions, plus tougher sentencing requirements for armed felons and others. "The question is, do they want to get a crime bill?" Gingrich said. But while the White House and Democratic leaders were wooing moderate Republicans, 100,000 new police officers by 2000. It requires life sentences for some people convicted of three violent felonies, and extends the death penalty to more than 60 federal crimes, including fatal drive-by shootings. Clinton met with several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, 27 of whose 37 Democrats backed the legislation last week.

When the session ended, two members who oppose the measure because of its expansion of the death penalty Reps. Charles Rangel, and John Lewis, D-Ga. said they would relent and support bringing the legislation to the floor. "He was listening and selling his presiden- cy, the party, and the fact that we will not get a better bill than this," Rangel said. "I don't think anyone challenges that." Later, Rep.

Cleo Fields, another black caucus member, also said he would switch and vote to bring the bill to the floor. A capital punishment foe, Fields said the administration had readied procedures to ensure that the death penalty isn't levied disproportionately on minorities. "My personal convictions and concerns, however, no matter how deeply felt, should not hold hostage this anti-crime legislation by denying Congress the opportunity to debate this legislation," he said. A day after discussing the bill with Clinton Continued from Page 1A quiring convicted sexual offenders to report their addresses to authorities by letting the police notify neighborhoods of such a resident. Eliminating the measure's $10 million for a crime research center at Lamar University in the district of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks, D-Texas.

The bill also contains money for building new prisons and helping communities hire Tech Storm South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell surveys tornado damage to Lexington, S.C., from a helicopter Wednesday. Hundreds of residents in the town of about 3,300 people 10 miles west of Columbia began cleaning up Wednesday after a tornado spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl barreled through town Tuesday. (AP Photo) was not the way it was intended." National changes in the way actions are viewed in the country were behind the need for the new policy, Peck said. While there was "no thievery," people in many different organizations develop habits over the years "and in hindsight (they realize) it wasn't quite right," he said.

"That's the only intent of the of the policy, to make sure we don't have anything like this at all," he said. Owens said the employees "have the right to appear before the board if they want. It's no problem." O-C Tech President M. Rudy Groomes said Tuesday night that the board has discussed no specific incident with him. "Any comment they want to make about that, they'll have to make," he said.

Groomes said the policy essentially mirrors a State Board of Technical and Comprehensive Education ethics policy. One of the faculty and staff members who talked Wednesday with The Times and Democrat said the newspaper coverage is "not the big picture." The on Wednesday cited specific items addressed by the policy: borrowing school equipment, using supplies for personal use, making personal long-distance calls at government expense, using authority of position to coerce the performance of a student or employee, making personal copies on the college's copier, using a college vehicle for personal use, unauthorized use of vehicles and working on personal projects during working hours. As for pledging not to put copiers to personal use and such, "I can't begin to tell you how trite and insignificant that is when all this other has gone on." They should have called in the responsible person and reprimanded him. "They didn't need to reprimand 175 employees." Passing such a policy when no other school has one "automatically brings up a flag that something is wrong," she said in reference to the policy being a first for state technical colleges. "As a taxpayer I am appalled that this happens all the time." For those faculty and staff who refuse to sign the policy, supervisors at O-C Tech are to sign a witness statement certifying that they were presented with the policy.

Staff Writer Karl Burgdorf and Editor Lee Harter contributed to this report. Continued from Page 1 A The new policy reads, "No employee will be permitted to appropriate, use or otherwise divert college equipment, facilities, supplies or personnel resources for personal benefit." "A lot of us are finally glad things are being exposed," another instructor said. "The faculty is afraid to come forward because we fear for our job." Newspaper coverage indicated the ethics policy was well received by faculty. To the contrary, "We were very upset. They did not give us the chance to finish answering questions." "The faculty and staff are up in arms about what was in the paper," another faculty member said.

"They feel the area commission was not fair in what they did. They look like they are all being slapped on the hand for the car painting deal." "No I am not," going to sign the form, the faculty member said. Other faculty members likewise say they will not sign the form "and they are expressing that to the Area Commission members today," he said. A staff member said the policy amounts to penalizing everyone for what somebody did. "I won't sign it." "If I bring a ballpoint pin home from work, I can be fired," he said.

That's trivial beside what has gone on at the school, he said without being specific. Others, however, say they will sign. One instructor said, "I really don't have a problem with it. Personally, I don't know any reason it would be needed." She said state ethics legislation covers such practices. Dan Peck and Willie Owens, the area commissioners presenting the policy to the faculty on Tuesday, said they have not received calls about the policy.

"In fact, the meeting went well -pretty well, I believe," Peck said. He said he received questions of a general nature when he and Owens presented the policy. It is "not true at all, quite to the contrary," that the policy was aimed toward one individual for one incident, he said. Peck said it is unfortunate if some of the faculty took the new policy as a blanket indictment. "That Continued from Page 1 A through the business district and some residential neighborhoods, the weather service said.

Officials estimated at least 15 businesses and 100 homes were damaged or destroyed. Though state and local officials said damage would climb into tens of millions of dollars, no figure immediately was available. John Smith, director of emergency services for Orangeburg County, said no damage was reported around the county. Although Tuesday's storm has come and gone, Smith urged pond dam owners to continue monitoring their dams, particularly because more rain is in the weather forecast. He said he and other local officials also will be keeping a watchful eye on the level of the Edisto River in the coming days.

The western Orangeburg County town of Neeses was hit by the storm, but no structural damage or injuries were reported. The Orangeburg County Chapter of the American Red Cross opened a shelter Tuesday evening for mobile home owners concerned about their safety at Pinehill United Methodist Church on Highway 4, between Neeses and Orangeburg, but there were no shelter-seekers, said Red Cross Executive Director Cindy Smith. Thirty-five of the persons injured in Tuesday's storm were in Lexington and one was in Bamberg County. Terry Bacon, 27, a ward clerk at Bamberg County Memorial Hospital, who was trapped inside the shattered remnants of her trailer for 30 to 40 minutes, suffered a foot injury. Bamberg County Civil Defense Director Jeff Jowers said the trailer was upended and completely crushed when it landed 100 to 150 feet from its original location.

The trailer was located on a lot about 12 miles south of Bamberg, between Bamberg and Olar at U.S. Highway 301 South and Highway 64. A hospital spokesman said Bacon was listed in satisfactory condition Wednesday afternoon and is expected to be discharged Thursday. The only storm-related death was that of William M. Jones, 60, who was driving from his storm-damaged house to stay with his son when his car ran off a rain-slick-ened road and hit a tree at about 3 a.m.

Wednesday, Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said. National Guard military policemen were brought into downtown Lexington to help officials there patrol and to discourage looting. There had been no looting and no arrests for storm-related activities, Metts said. An emergency operations center was closed Wednesday. As people surveyed the damage Wednesday, they kept a sense of humor albeit dark humor.

At the Village Square Shopping Center, where Ms. Brady had her store, one of her customers' cars was buried in cinder blocks and roofing. "The customer said to me this morning she knew she shouldn't have parked there because it's a fire lane," Ms. Brady said. 1 KJ -r Sgt.

Ken Solomon of Timmonsville, S.C., a member of the S.C. National Guard, stands guard Wednesday, on a Lexington, S.C, street that was among the areas hit by Tuesday's tornado. (AP Photo) Pst! Pst! Pst! Hey, the Boss is away and these cats want to Play. South Carolina Electric Gas Co. crews had restored power to all but about 1,500 customers, spokesman Roger Schrum said.

An estimated 15,000 were without electricity Tuesday night. One of their key objectives had been to restore power to the Rikard Nursing Home, the largest in South Carolina with almost 400 patients. The electricity was back on by midafternoon, he said. Fred Boatwright, manager of Orangeburg's Department of Public Utilities, said there were no storm-related problems reported to DPU. After Gov.

Carroll Campbell surveyed the damage from the air with federal disaster officials, he remarked about how lucky the nursing home had been. "I could see from the air the tornado's path as it lead up to a nursing home and stopped," the governor said. "The path picked right back up on the other side like the funnel cloud had stopped, jumped over the nursing home, and kept right on going on the other side." Campbell said he will ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recommend that the town be declared a disaster area, even though 93 percent of the homes damaged in the storm are covered by insurance. "We will be probably borderline as to whether on the homes we can ask for a major disaster declaration because of the insurance," Campbell said. The disaster declaration decision will be made by President Clinton, based on a recommendation from FEMA, said Al Hahn, a public assistance officer with the agency.

The state is expected to qualify for a loan program operated by the Small Business Administration, Campbell said. On the ground, Campbell toured the severely damaged Lexington County Museum. Hundreds of state government records stored on microfilm in the museum were lost, he said. "We've lost a lot of history in this storm," Campbell said. "Not only the microfilm in the museum, but a lot of the houses that were destroyed had been here for a long time." At her 134-year-old house, where the storm uprooted a dozen trees and collapsed two upstairs rooms, Ruth Ward was worried more about her cat, Sweetie Pie, than about the wreckage.

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She stayed with a relative overnight but with morning's light was back looking for the cat. She was overjoyed when an unruffled Sweetie Pie finally walked in her back door. "It's looking a lot better this morning than it did last night," Metts said as he watch volunteers attempt to pull a metal trash bin out of a wall at Ropp's church. "Everybody's working really hard to make things run as smoothly as possible." Back over at the Village Square Shopping Center, James Compton watched other store owners salvage what they could. The National Guardsmen wouldn't let him inside Compton's Department Store because the roof was unstable, he said.

On Tuesday, the store's roof collapsed on him; his wife, Charlotte; and a friend. He crawled out to safety and alerted rescuers who dug the others out. The friend suffered only a broken arm but Compton said his wife was cut seriously enough to be hospitalized at Lexington Medical Center in fair condition. "My wife wanted to get out of the business anyway," Compton said, laughing. "I told her this morning in the hospital that I didn't know she was going to make those kinds of arrangements to get out." Flash flood watch ends COLUMBIA (AP) Runoff from heavy rains Tuesday is expected to cause some rivers to overflow their banks, but the National Weather Service has canceled a flash flood watch issued for most of South Carolina Up to 8-12 inches of rain had fallen in the mountains by 8 a.m.

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