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Bush lambastes Congress,
calls for end to privileges
WASHINGTON — President Bush
on Thursday blasted Congress as a
“privileged class of rulers,” above the
laws it passes for others, and pressed
lawmakers to revoke their special
exemptions.
Seizing on the anti-Congress mood
that followed the recent Clarence
Thomas confirmation hearings in the
Senate, Bush declared that lawmak
ers’ practice of freeing themselves
from compliance with many laws
“shatters public confidence in gov
ernment.”
“I would wager that the American
people do not know that Congress has
exempted itself from the sexual har
assment laws private employers and
the executive branch must obey,” the
president said in a broad speech at
tacking congressional practices.
“The bruising hearings showed what
happens when political factions let
agendas overwhelm personal de
cency,” the president said.
With their “X-rated statements,”
the hearings made the Senate “more
like a burlesque show than a civics
class,” he told an audience of three
good-government groups — the
American Society for Public Admini
stration, the National Academy of
Public Administration and the Coun
cil for Excellence in Government.
He demanded that Congress ap
point a special counsel to find by Jan.
3 who leaked Anita Hill’s sexual
harassment accusations while the
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Senate was preparing to confirm
Thomas to serve on the Supreme Court
As Bush spoke, the Senate already
was moving toward a vote on a broader
special counsel investigation — passed
86-12 Thursday afternoon.
Bush also said Congress should set
a six-week time limit on confirming
his nominees to government posts.
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North, South Korea reach
outline for reconciliation
SEOUL, South Korea — Nortn
Korea, whose 1950 invasion of South
Korea started a war that has never
formally ended, agreed Thursday to
stop trying to overthrow its neighbor
and accepted a framework for seek
ing reconciliation.
Although specific language re
mained to be worked out, North Ko
rea also pledged to renounce terror
ism and to work toward uniting mil
lions of Koreans separated since the
Korean Peninsula was divided after
World War II.
Officials of both sides hailed the
agreement as historic and expressed
hope for more progress at the next
round of high-level talks in Seoul in
December. But differences between
the rivals are wide-ranging and mu
tuai distrust is ueep.
Both Koreas have been underpres
sure from their allies to defuse ten
sions on the heavily militarized pen
insula.
It was the second move toward
peace on long-standing Asian con
flicts in as many days. On Wednes
day, the four warring factions of
Cambodia signed a peace treaty that
is designed to end a 13-year-old civil
war and bring free elections under
U.N. supervision in 18 months.
The Korean agreement came in
talks held in North Korea’s capital,
Pyongyang, between the prime min
isters of the two Koreas, which have
been bitterly divided into Communist
North and capitalist South since 1945.
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draws
praise,
threats
PONTIAC, Mich. — Two
more deaths aided by a suicide
machine inventor known as “Dr.
Death” drew praise Thursday
from a right-to-die organization
and threats from officials to
revoke his license and charge
\ him in the deaths.
T>t. Jack. KevofVian, who in
1990 helped Alzheimer’s pa
tient Janet Adkins die by hook
ing her up to a suicide machine
he built, called authorities
Wednesday night to report an
other “physician-assisted sui
cide.”
Kevorkian directed police to
a cabin about 40 miles north of
Detroit There, they were met
by him and found the bodies of
two women, both connected to
devices apparently used to end
their lives.
Sherry Miller, 43, of Rosev
ille had suffered from multiple
sclerosis. Marjorie Wantz, 58,
of Sodus suffered from a pain
ful but non-terminal pelvic dis
ease.
Wantz received a lethal in
jection using a device similar to
the one Adkins used, while Miller
inhaled carbon monoxide
through a mask, said Geoffrey
Fieger, Kevorkian’s lawyer.
The suicide machine consists of two \rtals of chemical poisons and a
bottle of saline solution suspended over a metal box containing an
electric motor. This apparatus is connected to an intravenous drip
tube and needle which is inserted into the subjects vein.
© The subject presses a button which activates the flow of fluids.
©Saline solution is released acting as a neutral vehicle
for the other chemicals.
Thiopental is released, inducing unconsciousness.
Potassium chloride follows, causing the heart to stop.
White House,
GOP bargain
on civil rights
WASHINGTON — Republican
senators bargained with the White
House in private Thursday in the hope
of forging a unified position on a civil
rights bill. The Senate stalled for time
to await the outcome.
Negotiations toward a deal that
would avert a threatened veto by
President Bush heightened in inten
sity.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole
brought together White House coun
sel C. Boyden Gray and key GOP
senators, including Sen. John Dan
forth, R-Mo., the chief civil rights
sponsor.
One Republican source said a ten
tative agreement had been reached
between the White House and lead
ing GOP senators on a key provision
that has been in dispute for months.
The tentative deal could not be im
mediately confirmed.
It concerned a narrow but intense
argument over legal language setting
standards of defense that employers
could use against suits alleging unin
tentional discrimination, said the
source.
Such an agreement could repre
sent a breakthrough if embraced by
the majority Democrats and leading
GOP Senate sponsors. It apparently
would not resolve other outstanding
issues, such as damages for victims of
sexual harassment and sexual dis
crimination, and the question of cov
ering congressional employees.
Danforth spokesman Steve Hilton
said “some progress has been made,”
but that there was not a final agree
ment. He said other areas of the bill
also remain under discussion.
“All parties to the discussions (
understand that nothing is agreed to 1
until everything is agreed to,” Hilton
said.
Democrats weren’t involved in the
negotiations on the so-called “busi
ness necessity” defense for employ
ers, the source said.
The developments came after Gray,
the White House counsel, and his
assistant met for several hours with a
large group of GOP senators. They
later met with a smaller group of GOP
senators, including Dole and Dan
forth.
Only a day earlier, the White House
had renewed its attack on Danforlh’s
measure as “a quota bill.”
Danforth and other GOP support
ers had been seeking an agreement
that would avert a repeat of last year s
veto by Bush of a similar bill. Sup
porters in both parties focused efforts
on trying to cither find a bill that both
Bush and a majority of the Senate
could support, or a version that would
attract a two-thirds majority that could
override a Bush veto.
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Yugoslav forces pound
Croats at historic city
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia — Serb
dominated Yugoslav forces pounded
Croatian defenses around the Adri
atic jewel of Dubrovnik on Thursday
and captured a key resort just to the
south before a cease-fire in the area
was announced.
European Community observers
said federal army and Croatian de
fense officials agreed to the cease
fire in the Dubrovnik region, effec
tive early Thursday evening.
Fierce fighting was reportedly
continuing elsewhere in secessionist
Croatia. Radio Zagreb said two civil
ians were killed in clashes that ap
peared to signal the collapse of an
EC-negotiated truce for the republic
as a whole that went into effect Satur
day.
Croatia declared independence from
Yugoslavia along with Slovenia on
June 25, but Croatia’s ethnic Serb
minority wants no part of an inde
pendent Croatia. The federal army
has sided with the Serb rebels. More
than 1,000 people have died in the
fighting.
In the latest battles, Croatian de
fense officials said the federal army
resumed shelling of the eastern
Croatian stronghold of Vukovar.
In a no-man’s land outside Vukovar,
dozens of unburied corpses of both
Croats and Serbs lie on a dirt track
leading through cornfields, gnawed
on by stray dogs and hungry pigs.
Karlovac, 30 miles southwest of
Zagreb, came under fire from mul
tiple-barreled rocket launchers,
Croatian defense officials said, and
Zagreb radio reported fierce fighting
on the central front near Pakrac, 70
miles southeast of the Croat capital.
Shelling was reported in Osijek,
140 miles east of the Croatian capital,
and fighting was reported near the
strategic town of Sisak, directly south
of Zagreb, and near Vinkovci, a
Croatian town 10 miles west of
Vukovar.
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Dubrovnik, a walled city of
ornate marble architecture,
remains much as it was In the
15th century. The threatened city
Is of great historic significance
to Croatia. Here Is a brief history.
■ 7th century Dubrovnik
established
■ 1205-1358 Ruled by Venetians
■ 1358 Controlled by Hungarian
Croatian kingdom which allowed
Dubrovnik to evolve into a free
and independent state. In later
years Dubrovnik paid gold and
silver to Ottoman empire in
exchange for being left alone
■ 15th and 16th centuries
Republic of Dubrovnik reached
economic height thanks to ship
ping Industry
■ 1667 Severe earthquake and
changing shipping routes cause
downturn in economy
■ 1806 Sacked by Napoleon
■ 1808 Dubrovnik Republic
ceased to exist
■ 1815-1918 Administered by
the Austrian Empire
■ 1918 Included In the newly
formed Yugoslavia
ap