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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 20, 1997
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Adam Sandler
What's Your Name?
featuring:
The Lonesome Kicker
Listenin' To The Radio
Bad Boyfriend
Deftones Around The Fur
featuring:
Featureting: My Own Summe (Shove It) • The Bur
Outside And Drive (Far Away) • Around The Bur
My Own Summer (Shove it)
Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)
Around The Far
Hang up on Slamming
Slamming. By now, most everyone has heard the term - the deceptive practice in which a consumer's local or long-distance service is switched without their knowledge or permission. Chances are good that you or someone you know has been adversely affected by slamming.
The Federal Communications Commission recently reported that slamming is the No.1 telephone customer complaint, with the number of complaints tripling since 1994. The folks at Southwestern Bell
Michael Scott
know a thing or two about slamming. This year, we estimate that we will handle 500,000 slamming complaints — up more than 30 percent from last year.
But we aren't taking slamming sitting down. In June, Southwestern Bell Corporation was the first and only telecommunications company to formally petition the FCC to develop and implement rules that would strengthen laws and penalties against companies that repeatedly slam consumers and businesses.
In September, SBC proposed to the FCC a "three-strikes-and-you're-out" three-part penalty system to penalize telecommunications companies that repeatedly engage in slamming.
We pledge to go the distance to help our customers — and all the telephone customers across the country — combat the frustrations and costs of slamming.
We're protecting you against slamming
Our fight against slamming is just another way Southwestern Bell is striving to be your friendly neighborhood global communications company. For more information on slamming, call 1-800-585-SWBT to receive a free brochure called "Hang Up On Slamming," or visit http://www.swbell.com.
Your friendly neighborhood global communications company.
Southwestern Bell
Russian plan could prevent Middle East confrontation
Iraq cannot set inspection rules. Clinton says
Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov invited Albright and the foreign ministers of France and Britain to Geneva to detail a plan he worked out with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz for resolving the latest crisis in the Persian Gulf.
GENEVA — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright rushed to Geneva yesterday to review a Russian proposal that could end the standoff with Iraq.
The Associated Press
Primakov said, "A certain program has been worked out that allows us, we think, to avoid ... a
confrontation, to avoid the use of force and achieve a settlement."
State Department representative James P. Rubin said Albright hadn't been informed in advance about the Russian proposal. She cut short a trip to India to attend the Geneva meeting.
As Albright arrived in Cairo for a refueling stop, she told reporters, "Iraq must let the weapons inspectors get back to their vital work of preventing Iraq from building nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, and it must permit those inspections to proceed without interference or conditions."
By all accounts, the Iraqi overtures that attracted Moscow involve reducing the percentage of American inspectors in the United Nations weapons groups, committing the Security Council to declaring that the searches are unbiased and reaffirming that Iraqi cooperation would lead to a lifting of economic sanctions.
Earlier this week, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said that Iraq was permitted by the U.N. to sell some of its oil abroad with the proceeds used to import food and medicine, easing the sanctions' impact.
In Washington, President Clinton said that the United States wanted a peaceful solution to the three-week crisis but that Iraq could set no conditions for the inspectors.
Iraq charged that U.S. inspectors were spies. It has threatened to shoot down U.S. planes on surveillance flights, but two flights have been made without incident since the crisis began.
Saddam expelled Americans serving on U.N. teams of inspectors who were seeking to ensure that Iraq was not producing or stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. The U.N. responded by withdrawing all weapons inspectors from the country, leaving only a skeletal staff in place.
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