THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Record number of people riding Amtrak
By Lemma Arnold
ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRIER
WASHINGTON, D.C. Amtrak regis
tered the most successful summer in its 2,•
year history, carrying more than 6.1 million
riders from June through August.
The railway reported yesterday that it
broke a 21-year-old monthly record in August
with 2,097,471 riders and set an all-time
monthly mark in ticket revenue with $108.4
make.
Those numbers followed a July in which
Amtrak registered 10-year highs in riders
and revenue
With one month left in the fiscal year,
Amtrak expects to break the all-time yearly
record of 22.2 million passengers, set in 1990.
olygamists pull hundreds of children from schoo
By Reboot GNete
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
COLORADO CITY, Ariz. Hundreds of
members of a polygamous Mormon splinter
group have pulled their children out of the
public schools along the Utah-Arizona state
line preparing, perhaps, for the end of the
world.
Only about 350 students have enrolled in
the four schools in the desert towns of Col
orado City and }Male, Utah, compared with
1,400 last year. Dozens of teachers belonging
to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints have also quit.
They acted at. the direction of Warren Jeffs,
who speaks on behalf of his aged father,
Rulon Jeffs, the church's prophet. In mid-
July, Warren Jeffs ordered followers to take
their children out of school and cut off contact
with former church members.
Netherlands' lawmakers approve gay marriage legislation
Lawmakers thumped their desks in Under the bill, gay couples can convert
approval when the vote passed 109-33 in the their current "registered same-sex partner
lower house, and some of the scores of wit- ships" to full-fledged marriages, complete
THE HAGUE, Netherlands The nesses in the packed public gallery applaud- with wider adoption rights and guidelines for
Netherlands lawmakers yesterday gave ed and embraced. divorce.
same-sex couples the right to marriage and The bill still needs approval by the upper However, they are barred from adopting
all the trappings, including adoption and house, considered a formality, and is expect- children overseas because of potential con
divorce approving legislation that gives ed to take effect next year. frontation with countries that don't allow
gays rights beyond those offered in any other Opponents warned the legislation will iso- gays to many.
country. late the Netherlands and said it threatens "We now have a choice," said Mark
The new law will bring little change to the Dutch values. Wagenbuur who came to The Hague to wit
daily lives of most gays in a country that has "We are going in the completely wrong ness the vote with his partner, Lei
long been at the vanguard of gay rights. But direction," said lawmaker Kees van der Lennaerts, and two other gay friends.
activists say it marks a bold step toward rec- Staaij of the Reformed Political Party. "We Wagenbuur, 34, and Lennaprts, 36, don't plan
(gazing the equality of gay and heterosexu- are eadin, an age-old tradition anchored in any adoptions.
al unions in the Netherlands. the Bible. " But the couple said they will formalize
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Americans are responding to our guarantee of guest
satisfaction, better service and competitive fares."
Amtrak officials attributed the numbers to guarantee of guest satisfaction, better ser
higher gas prices, monumental air travel vice and competitive fares," said Amtrak
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"Through these record-breaking numbers, Amtrak had expected 0.1 percent of its rid
we see that Americans are responding to our ers to register dissatisfaction with their tray-
Church members said they are taking
charge of their children's education and
schooling them at home, just like other par
ents across the country. Other people, partic
ularly former members, said the Jeffs' follow
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leaders say is at hand.
DeLoy Bateman, a former church member
and a science teacher at the Colorado City
high school, said church leaders are preach
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with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Around the twin communities, the End of
Days is rumored to be either a few days or a
few months away.
In a statement, the Jeffses said "The Fun
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el experience. In August, 0.5 percent of rid
ers did.
Of the nearly 2.1 million riders in August,
10,689 called the railway's toll-free number to
register a service complaint. Amtrak
responded with $934,430 in coupons. The
average coupon was for $B7.
Amtrak has consumed more than $22 bil
lion in government subsidies since Congress
formed it 1971 from a collection of failing pas
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It reports monthly revenues but not
expenses.
The railroad registered record revenue in
fiscal year 1999.
But it still lost $476 million.
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Amtrak will lose money again this year.
their long-standing relationship with a for
mal marriage. "Should I ask his father for his
hand or should he ask mine?" Wagenbuur
asked with a laugh.
The law puts the Dutch at the forefront of
the gay rights movement, a position held by
Denmark since that country gave official
sanction to gay marriages in 1989.
Danish gay couples enjoy the same rights
as heterosexuals except for the right to
adopt children. In May 1999, they won the
right to adopt their partner's children but
adoption from outside the marriage remains
forbidden.
Sweden also allows gays to register as
couples with most of the rights of marriage.
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Scientist's
release
prolonged
Judge James Parker gave
no reason for putting off
Wen Ho Lee's hearing.
By Indian! Beaks
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The expect
ed release of Wen Ho Lee was delayed
Monday as prosecutors and Lee's defense
team haggled over a plea deal that would
release the jailed Los Alamos nuclear sci
entist.
U.S. District Judge James Parker gave
no reason for putting off a scheduled court
hearing until today.
"I must regretfully say that we cannot
proceed with the hearing this afternoon,"
the judge said.
"There are some issues that may
require some amendment to the plea
agreement."
Lee's daughter, Alberta, left the packed
courtroom in tears and her mother,
Sylvia, appeared dazed.
Defense attorneys declined to comment
on the delay.
Justice Department officials in Wash
ington, D.C. also refused to comment.
Under the deal described Sunday by
government sources, Lee was expected to
drop allegations that he was targeted
because he is Chinese, claims included in
a lawsuit against the FBI and the U.S.
Departments of Energy and Justice.
His attorney in the case, Brian Sun,
said Monday that the lawsuit is "still
viable."
According to the sources, Lee had
agreed to plead guilty to only one of 59
counts accusing him of violating national
security.
His sentence was to be the nine months
he has already served in solitary confine
ment.
In exchange for his freedom, Lee was
expected to explain what he knows about
seven computer tapes he was accused of
downloading. Lee whose defense con
tended he was targeted only because he is
ethnic Chinese has insisted the tapes
were destroyed at the lab. His willingness
to explain in more detail what happened
was described as the turning point in 2-
month-old plea discussions.
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